Created by Woody Allen Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg (1935--) I was sitting in my office, cleaning the debris out of my thirty-eight and wondering where my next case was coming from... KAISER LUPOWITZ is the gumshoe in a couple of Woody Allen's apparently affectionate parodies/tributes of/to the hardboiled private eye tale. Yes, that Woody … Continue reading Kaiser Lupowitz
Tag: The New Yorker
My Scrapbook: “It’s about my wife. I need you to find out what she thinks I did wrong.”
My Scrapbook "It's about my wife. I need you to find out what she thinks I did wrong." By Jon Adams (The New Yorker) Private eyes are so ubitquious in pop culture by now that they pop up everywhere; a well-established meme that almost everyone instantly recognizes, and thus a frequent inclusion in humor. Here, … Continue reading My Scrapbook: “It’s about my wife. I need you to find out what she thinks I did wrong.”
My Scrapbook: “Why, thanks. You’re looking very film-noir-ish tonight yourself.”
My Scrapbook "Why, thanks. You're looking very film-noir-ish tonight yourself." By Mort Gerberg (The New Yorker) The term "film noir" has become so pretentious, so compromised, so misunderstood and so misappropriated, used to sell everything from perfume and jewelry to yogurt and Yoyos, and its definition so sloppily applied to novels, films and television to … Continue reading My Scrapbook: “Why, thanks. You’re looking very film-noir-ish tonight yourself.”
Donald J. Trump, Private Eye
Created by River Clegg "It was late, folks, let me tell you. The kind of late where I knew only trouble could find me. It was late like you've never seen. And rainy. So rainy. So I'm sitting in my office, and in walks this dame. A solid nine. Ten if I'm being generous." -- … Continue reading Donald J. Trump, Private Eye