Podcasts about Hammett

n this episode, Gary Holt, one of thrash metal's most influential guitarists, joins the show to discuss his new book, Exodus' upcoming album, and his time with Slayer. Holt shares insane tour stories, the inspiration behind his book, and what fans can expect from the latest Exodus release.Holt joined Exodus in 1981, shortly after the band was formed by drummer Tom Hunting and guitarist Kirk Hammett (who later left to join Metallica). Taking over lead guitar duties after Hammett's departure, Holt became the band's primary songwriter and creative leader, helping Exodus forge a path as one of the most aggressive and unrelenting forces in thrash metal. Albums like Bonded by Blood, Fabulous Disaster, and Tempo of the Damned solidified Exodus as a cornerstone of the genre.In 2011, Holt was asked to step in for Slayer's Jeff Hanneman, initially as a temporary replacement but eventually becoming a full-time touring guitarist. He remained with Slayer until their final tour in 2019& currennt reunion onr offs, playing a key role in maintaining the band's brutal live energy and contributing to their final studio album, Repentless. Balancing two of thrash metal's most legendary bands, Holt's influence on the genre is undeniable.In this conversation, Holt reflects on his decades in thrash, the relentless energy of playing with Slayer, and the legacy of Exodus. He also teases massive upcoming tours and hints at more projects beyond music.For fans of thrash metal history, behind-the-scenes stories, and legendary musicianship, this episode is a must-listen!

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Una de las más famosas novelas de Hammett.

Seguimos con Poisonville, de Hammett.

El corrupto ambiente de Personville, novela negra, un clasico de Hammett.

Nebraska in January to cook BBQ? It doesn't sound like a dream scenario - especially after blowing out a trailer tire early during a projected 11-hour drive. But everything came up paradise for Buddy Hammett of Shiggin' Ain't Easy BBQ from Westland, Mich., who captured Grand Championship honors at the SVJ Winter Rub in Omaha. On Episode 290 of the Tailgate Guys BBQ Podcast, we visit with Buddy about his sixth career Grand Championship, what he overcame to achieve it and his BBQ journey since it began six years ago. We also take a trip to The Grill Guys of Missouri where Skyler Spartan tells us what's happening this week at the outstanding BBQ supply store in Republic. Meanwhile, co-hosts Lyndal and Steve celebrate warmer temps with upcoming cooking plans and look ahead to how they plan to watch the Super Bowl (hint: nothing personal, but you won't be receiving an invitation to their viewing parties). A big thanks to our show sponsors and marketing partners. Please support them: Blues Hog #blueshognation Royal Oak Charcoal #charcoalofchampions  The Butcher Shoppe #alwayshandpicked  The Grill Guys of Missouri #grillguys417 Marty "Sign Man" Prather  Domino's #pizza Remember, you can find us on your favorite #podcast platform by searching Tailgate Guys BBQ - where all 290 editions are archived. Have a great week! #SmokeEmIfYouGotEm

Episode 401: Rockmore Returns! Bower attempts to name the 4 career-defining songs - prior to their "BLACK" Album - of the thrash metal Godz: METALLICA! Which tracks make the carving and who gets left off…

Our 55th episode features a very interesting and relevant conversation with Lisa Hammett, CPQC, on Burnout and how it manifests in our work and lives. Thanks, Lisa!

Adventures of the Federated Tec, Season 2, Episode 10: Who Killed Bob Teal? In this exciting second-season finale, our hero gets an assignment that hits too close to home: Find the person who murdered another Federated operative, young Bob Teal. The Tec, along with San Francisco Police Detective George Dean, soon starts sniffing out the trail of the most obvious suspect...but our nameless protagonist eventually begins to wonder if maybe they're after the wrong guy.  Adapted by Pete Lutz from the story of the same name, originally published in the November, 1924 issue of True Detective magazine. Produced and directed by Pete Lutz. Mixing and mastering by 63audio, Corpus Christi, Texas. Our cast consisted of the following Narada Radio Company players: Darren Rockhold as THE ANNOUNCER Pete Lutz as THE TEC Joe Stofko as THE OLD MAN Frank Guglielmelli as OGBURN Ian Federgreen as BOB TEAL John Bell as DETECTIVE DEAN Rhiannon McAfee as MAE LANDIS Geri Elliff as THE LANDLADY  Jeff Moon as WHITACRE The theme, and some incidental music, were composed and performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt.  FEDERATED TEC FANS! We're happy to report that a third season is in the works. Scripts have been written for 11 episodes so far, with a likely four more to go. Each season gets longer than the previous one, because Hammett's stories, for the most part, kept getting longer, better, and more detailed, as his writing skills improved. As a huge fan of Hammett for more than 40 years, I have no desire to condense these longer tales, preferring instead to split them, as you saw in S2, into multi-episode dramas -- S2 alone had three longer stories split into two-parters, for example. Well, S3 will have both two- and three-part story arcs, full of the Hammett hard-boiled style, full of intrigue, and full of the unusual characters he was famous for. You won't wanna miss it! Here's the line-up for Season Three -- and just for simplicity's sake, we'll be shortening our series title to The Federated Tec: 1. Mike, Alec, or Rufus? 2-3. The Whosis Kid 4-5. The Scorched Face 6-8. Corkscrew 9-11. The Daiwan of Chinatown (orig. title Dead Yellow Women) 12-14. The Gutting of Couffignal 15. The Creeping Siamese COMING SOON FROM 63AUDIO!

Adventures of the Federated Tec, Season 2, Episode 10: Who Killed Bob Teal? In this exciting second-season finale, our hero gets an assignment that hits too close to home: Find the person who murdered another Federated operative, young Bob Teal. The Tec, along with San Francisco Police Detective George Dean, soon starts sniffing out the trail of the most obvious suspect...but our nameless protagonist eventually begins to wonder if maybe they're after the wrong guy.  Adapted by Pete Lutz from the story of the same name, originally published in the November, 1924 issue of True Detective magazine. Produced and directed by Pete Lutz. Mixing and mastering by 63audio, Corpus Christi, Texas. Our cast consisted of the following Narada Radio Company players: Darren Rockhold as THE ANNOUNCER Pete Lutz as THE TEC Joe Stofko as THE OLD MAN Frank Guglielmelli as OGBURN Ian Federgreen as BOB TEAL John Bell as DETECTIVE DEAN Rhiannon McAfee as MAE LANDIS Geri Elliff as THE LANDLADY  Jeff Moon as WHITACRE The theme, and some incidental music, were composed and performed by Dr. Ross Bernhardt.  FEDERATED TEC FANS! We're happy to report that a third season is in the works. Scripts have been written for 11 episodes so far, with a likely four more to go. Each season gets longer than the previous one, because Hammett's stories, for the most part, kept getting longer, better, and more detailed, as his writing skills improved. As a huge fan of Hammett for more than 40 years, I have no desire to condense these longer tales, preferring instead to split them, as you saw in S2, into multi-episode dramas -- S2 alone had three longer stories split into two-parters, for example. Well, S3 will have both two- and three-part story arcs, full of the Hammett hard-boiled style, full of intrigue, and full of the unusual characters he was famous for. You won't wanna miss it! Here's the line-up for Season Three -- and just for simplicity's sake, we'll be shortening our series title to The Federated Tec: 1. Mike, Alec, or Rufus? 2-3. The Whosis Kid 4-5. The Scorched Face 6-8. Corkscrew 9-11. The Daiwan of Chinatown (orig. title Dead Yellow Women) 12-14. The Gutting of Couffignal 15. The Creeping Siamese COMING SOON FROM 63AUDIO!

THIN tells the story of The Thin Man series - its creators and stars, as well as the intriguing melting pot of cultural influences that led to one of the most beloved film series of all time. In the first episode, meet the creator of the stories - Dashiell Hammett - and the surprising, sometimes dark set of experiences that led to him becoming one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. As Raymond Chandler described him: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it..." THIN: Part 2 is coming EXCLUSIVELY to patrons in December! To hear it simply sign up at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret and enjoy a holiday season devoted to the best in Old Hollywood storytelling! The Secret History Of Hollywood will now be arriving with you far more frequently! Hear the chapters of these epic stories as they're produced, by becoming a Co-Producer at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret You'll get access to the complete Secret History of Hollywood catalogue, including The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock, The Game Is Afoot, A Universe Of Horrors, Bullets And Blood, and much more... Queens Of Cinema Series 1, plus instant access to Series 2, which has just begun with the two-part story of Ida Lupino! An ALL-NEW Classic Movie Library, designed from scratch - a whole new experience created to allow you to get the best out of Old Hollywood, including trailers, deeper information, and even curated playlists of films! Small Tales - short fiction with a sinister edge... Bonus review shows! Blueprints - a bitesize version of The Secret History Of Hollywood - extra chapters that help to further enhance the stories you've already heard! The Seventh Heaven Radio Hour - a bi-weekly music show in which I present the best in Golden Age music as well as the film scores that became legend Sign up now at Patreon or go to https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Joining me this month is special guest actor Jack Hammett who starred in the role of Brandon in Theatre Clwyds adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's ROPE which I saw earlier this year. As listeners may know by now, ROPE is a firm Hitchcock favourite of mine and therefore I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Jack! In the first part of the podcast, we get underneath the charming, controlled and pristine exterior of Brandon, as Jack shares details of how he brought the character life in performance, including his research, preparation and readings of the role. In the second part of our discussion, Jack shares his exclusive thoughts and initial responses to Hitchcock's ROPE which he watched for the first time ahead of our discussion. To get such fresh and new takes on ROPE was such a treat for me indeed and I am so pleased to bring you this episode of Talking Hitchcock!    Where to find Talking Hitchcock and Links to Rebecca's Work Find Talking Hitchcock on X @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email me on talkinghitchpod@gmail.com Read Rebecca's editorial for FANGORIA to mark ROPE's 75th anniversary-Cat And Mouse: Who Is The Real Villain Of Hitchcock's ROPE? Find Out More and Access Talks from HITCH CON 23 including Rebecca's talk ‘Rooting for Rupert-How Hitchcock Complicates Our Responses to the Hero/Anti-Hero of ROPE' here-  HitchCon 23 Home — HitchCon International Alfred Hitchcock Conference Find Rebecca and her work on X and Instagram @PendlePumpkin   Links to Jack and his work X: JackHammet Instagram: Jack_Hammet   Find out More About Theatre Clwyd Home | Theatr Clwyd References     Rope-play- Patrick Hamilton Rope-film -(1948) dir Alfred Hitchcock   Rope -play-(2024) dir Francesca Goodridge at Theatre Clwyd       Music used from Trailer for Rope at Theatre Clwyd

Durch das heutige Programm führen ein Banause und ein Bastard, und zwar Lee und Dennis. Die einschläfernde Hälfte der Bewegtbildbanausen ist somit nicht am Start, und die Chance dass ihr diesen Podcast zuende hören werdet, steht ganz gut. Chr...chr...chr...

This month's book: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska StevensThe collection of poetry that Eve referred to and didn't end up writing about (yet) is Eating Bread and Honey by Pattiann Rogers Happy PoemsTrillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmide, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan EagleOur email: somethingweread@gmail.com (send us questions!) Our instagram: somethingwereadpodNext month's book: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Closing poem: “October” by Robert Frost Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leslie ran for president of Branch 2502 in 2016 and lost by a razor thin margin. Before and after, she has been a tireless supporter of her carriers, and she has been a mentor for Michael and me in our run for office, and as stewards. In this episode, she'll share her insights into the process, the role of branch officers, and a handful of other topics.This episode was recorded in my back yard, so there's no echo. We had to crank the microphone up so we could hear Leslie, and it worked. She sounds great. But there's also aircraft noise, and distractions from Annie. Listen and enjoy.

A thank you, not getting terrified, a memorable Jason, a weird interview, children of Donovan,  a stellar remake, a tortured Jack, the interesting Peter Greene, a nice little horror anthology, the bloated Bezos, a touch of Tati, a groovy French song, considering cats, a beloved dog, saying goodbye, an unforgettable phone call, breaking down, and you aren't my destiny. Stuff mentioned: Road Games (1981), Terrifier 3 (2024), Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), The Hangover (2009), The Hangover Part II (2011), The Hangover Part III (2013), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Sunset Beach (1997-1999), The Young and the Restless (1973-present), Lycan (1977-1978), Crispin Glover on Late Night with David Letterman (1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm2CbuTdTtE), River's Edge (1987), Say Anything (1989), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), Donovan "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (1968), Zodiac (2007), Donovan "Season of the Witch" (1966), To Die For (1995), The Blob (1988), The Blob (1958), Warning Sign (1985), Eraserhead (1977), Hammett (1982), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), Meatballs 4 (1992), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Mask (1994), Pulp Fiction (1994), Peter Greene Breaks up Street Fight (TMZ https://www.tmz.com/watch/actor-peter-greene-breaks-up-street-fight-tmz-live-0-g20936fu), Campfire Tales (1997), F. Scott Fitzgerald The Rich Boy (1926), The Falling Star (2023), Mon Oncle (1958), Birds on a Wire "Dernière Chance" (2024), Birds on a Wire "Dernière Chance-Alt. Version" (2024), Birds on a Wire "Dernière Chance-Instrumental" (2024), Bird on a Wire (1990), Aaron Neville "Bird on a Wire" (1990), Leonard Cohen "Bird on the Wire" (1969), Patti Smith Horses (1975), Pavements (2024), Pavement "Extradition" (1995), and Pavement Wowee Zowee (1995).

God Has A Reason

Pat and Ben break down another loss, talk ULM's remarkable turnaround and matchup against Southern Miss with the voice of the Warhawks Mike Hammett, and more. This episode is brought to you by Big Gold Nation (southernmiss.rivals.com) - thanks for listening!

durée : 00:57:11 - Samedi fiction - par : Blandine Masson - Lors d'une enquête de routine dans Turk Street à San Francisco, l'agent Continental Op est invité par un couple de personnes âgées à entrer prendre un thé. Mais alors qu'il se félicite de cet accueil si chaleureux, un homme armé surgit dans le salon.

durée : 00:57:11 - Samedi fiction - par : Blandine Masson - Lors d'une enquête de routine dans Turk Street à San Francisco, l'agent Continental Op est invité par un couple de personnes âgées à entrer prendre un thé. Mais alors qu'il se félicite de cet accueil si chaleureux, un homme armé surgit dans le salon.

On the afternoon of June 24, 2023, 41-year-old Lawrence Hammett was transferred from Montrose Regional Health to Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado. Approximately two hours later, a staff member attempted to call Lawrence back, but he was gone. No one knew that Lawrence had been transferred to a hospital roughly two and a half hours away, and they began to notice that they stopped seeing him around town. Weeks passed without word, and Lawrence's loved ones began comparing notes. No one had heard from him. They searched around Montrose, but there was no trace of Lawrence there. Eventually, Lawrence's sister contacted the Montrose Police Department to file a missing persons report, and they told her that he had been in the hospital and was transferred to Durango. This news moved their search more than 100 miles away, and by that time, the camera footage from June 24 was long gone. They didn't have any clues to point them in the direction that Lawrence may have gone or if he had left with someone.More than a year later, Lawrence's loved ones are still picking up the pieces, searching for any information that could help bring the puzzle of what happened to him into focus. If you have any information about Lawrence Hammett's disappearance, please call the Durango Police Department at 970-375-4700.If you are in the area and want to help, Lawrence's loved ones are planning a search party in Durango on Oct 5, 2024. You can find more information on the Bring Lawrence Home Facebook page.If you have a missing loved one that you would like to have featured on the show, please fill out our case submission form.Follow The Vanished on social media at:FacebookInstagramTwitterPatreonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

J.T. of TFON talked UC vs Pitt with Panther Lair Jim Hammett of Rivals ahead of Saturday's matchup at Nippert Stadium --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jesse-smith51/support

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher on Columbo, Sherlock Holmes, favorite mysteries and more!LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Jeffrey Hatcher Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.hatcher.3/The Good Liar (Trailer): https://youtu.be/ljKzFGpPHhwMr. Holmes (Trailer): https://youtu.be/0G1lIBgk4PAStage Beauty (Trailer): https://youtu.be/-uc6xEBfdD0Columbo Clips from “Ashes to Ashes”Clip One: https://youtu.be/OCKECiaFsMQClip Two: https://youtu.be/BbO9SDz9FEcClip Three: https://youtu.be/GlNDAVAwMCIEli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastTRANSCRIPTJohn: Can you remember your very first mystery, a movie, book, TV show, play, a mystery that really captured your imagination? Jeffrey: You know, I was thinking about this, and what came to mind was a Disney movie called Emile and the Detectives from 1964. So, I would have been six or seven years old. It's based on a series of German books by Eric Kastner about a young man named Emile and his group of friends who think of themselves as detectives. So, I remember that—I know that might've been the first film. And obviously it's not a play because, you know, little kids don't tend to go to stage thrillers or mysteries and, “Daddy, please take me to Sleuth.But there was a show called Burke's Law that I really loved. Gene Barry played Captain Amos Burke of the Homicide Division in Los Angeles, and he was very rich. That was the bit. The bit was that Captain Burke drove around in a gorgeous Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, and he had a chauffeur. And every mystery was structured classically as a whodunit.In fact, I think every title of every episode was “Who Killed Cock Robin?” “Who Killed Johnny Friendly?” that kind of thing. And they would have a cast of well-known Hollywood actors, so they were all of equal status. Because I always think that's one of the easiest ways to guess the killer is if it's like: Unknown Guy, Unknown Guy, Derek Jacobi, Unknown Guy, Unknown Guy. It's always going to be Derek Jacobi. John: Yeah, it's true. I remember that show. He was really cool. Jim: Well, now I'm going to have to look that up.Jeffrey: It had a great score, and he would gather all of the suspects, you know, at the end of the thing. I think my favorite was when he caught Paul Lynde as a murderer. And, of course, Paul Lynde, you know, kept it very low key when he was dragged off. He did his Alice Ghostly impersonation as he was taken away.John: They did have very similar vocal patterns, those two.Jeffrey: Yep. They're kind of the exact same person. Jim: I never saw them together. John: You might have on Bewitched. Jim: You're probably right.Jeffrey: Well, I might be wrong about this, either Alice Ghostly or Charlotte Ray went to school with Paul Lynde. And Charlotte Ray has that same sound too. You know, kind of warbly thing. Yes. I think they all went to Northwestern in the late 40s and early 50s. So maybe that was a way that they taught actors back then. John: They learned it all from Marion Horne, who had the very same warble in her voice. So, as you got a little older, were there other mysteries that you were attracted to?Jeffrey: Yeah. Luckily, my parents were very liberal about letting me see things that other people probably shouldn't have. I remember late in elementary school, fifth grade or so, I was reading Casino Royale. And one of the teachers said, “Well, you know, most kids, we wouldn't want to have read this, but it's okay if you do.”And I thought, what's that? And I'm so not dangerous; other kids are, well they would be affected oddly by James Bond? But yeah, I, I love spy stuff. You know, The Man from Uncle and The Wild Wild West, all those kind of things. I love James Bond. And very quickly I started reading the major mysteries. I think probably the first big book that I remember, the first novel, was The Hound of the Baskervilles. That's probably an entrance point for a lot of kids. So that's what comes in mind immediately. Jim: I certainly revisit that on—if not yearly basis, at least every few years I will reread The Hound of the Baskervilles. Love that story. That's good. Do you have, Jeffrey, favorite mystery fiction writers?Jeffrey: Oh, sure. But none of them are, you know, bizarre Japanese, Santa Domingo kind of writers that people always pull out of their back pockets to prove how cool they are. I mean, they're the usual suspects. Conan Doyle and Christie and Chandler and Hammett, you know, all of those. John Dickson Carr, all the locked room mysteries, that kind of thing. I can't say that I go very far off in one direction or another to pick up somebody who's completely bizarre. But if you go all the way back, I love reading Wilkie Collins.I've adapted at least one Wilkie Collins, and they read beautifully. You know, terrifically put together, and they've got a lot of blood and thunder to them. I think he called them sensation novels as opposed to mysteries, but they always have some mystery element. And he was, you know, a close friend of Charles Dickens and Dickens said that there were some things that Collins taught him about construction. In those days, they would write their novels in installments for magazines. So, you know, the desire or the need, frankly, to create a cliffhanger at the end of every episode or every chapter seems to have been born then from a capitalist instinct. John: Jeff, I know you studied acting. What inspired the move into playwriting?Jeffrey: I don't think I was a very good actor. I was the kind of actor who always played older, middle aged or older characters in college and high school, like Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler, those kind of people. My dream back in those days was to play Dr. Dysart in Equus and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. So, I mean, that was my target. And then I moved to New York, and I auditioned for things and casting directors would say, “Well, you know, we actually do have 50 year old actors in New York and we don't need to put white gunk in their hair or anything like that. So, why don't you play your own age, 22 or 23?” And I was not very good at playing 22 or 23. But I'd always done some writing, and a friend of mine, Graham Slayton, who was out at the Playwrights Center here, and we'd gone to college together. He encouraged me to write a play, you know, write one act, and then write a full length. So, I always say this, I think most people go into the theater to be an actor, you know, probably 98%, and then bit by bit, we, you know, we peel off. We either leave the profession completely or we become directors, designers, writers, what have you. So, I don't think it's unnatural what I did. It's very rare to be like a Tom Stoppard who never wanted to act. It's a lot more normal to find the Harold Pinter who, you know, acted a lot in regional theaters in England before he wrote The Caretaker.Jim: Fascinating. Can we talk about Columbo?Jeffrey: Oh, yes, please. Jim: This is where I am so tickled pink for this conversation, because I was a huge and am a huge Peter Falk Columbo fan. I went back and watched the episode Ashes To Ashes, with Patrick McGowan that you created. Tell us how that came about. Jeffrey: I too was a huge fan of Columbo in the 70s. I remember for most of its run, it was on Sunday nights. It was part of that murder mystery wheel with things like Hec Ramsey and McCloud, right? But Columbo was the best of those, obviously. Everything, from the structure—the inverted mystery—to thw guest star of the week. Sometimes it was somebody very big and exciting, like Donald Pleasence or Ruth Gordon, but often it was slightly TV stars on the skids.John: Jack Cassidy, Jim: I was just going to say Jack Cassidy.Jeffrey: But at any rate, yeah, I loved it. I loved it. I remembered in high school, a friend and I doing a parody of Columbo where he played Columbo and I played the murderer of the week. And so many years later, when they rebooted the show in the nineties, my father died and I spent a lot of time at the funeral home with the funeral director. And having nothing to say to the funeral director one day, I said, “Have you got the good stories?”And he told me all these great stories about, you know, bodies that weren't really in the casket and what you can't cremate, et cetera. So, I suddenly had this idea of a Hollywood funeral director to the stars. And, via my agent, I knew Dan Luria, the actor. He's a close friend or was a close friend of Peter's. And so, he was able to take this one-page idea and show it to Peter. And then, one day, I get a phone call and it's, “Uh, hello Jeff, this is Peter Falk calling. I want to talk to you about your idea.” And they flew me out there. It was great fun, because Falk really ran the show. He was the executive producer at that point. He always kind of ran the show. I think he only wrote one episode, the one with Faye Dunaway, but he liked the idea.I spent a lot of time with him, I'd go to his house where he would do his drawings back in the studio and all that. But what he said he liked about it was he liked a new setting, they always liked a murderer and a setting that was special, with clues that are connected to, say, the murderer's profession. So, the Donald Pleasant one about the wine connoisseur and all the clues are about wine. Or the Dick Van Dyke one, where he's a photographer and most of the clues are about photography. So, he really liked that. And he said, “You gotta have that first clue and you gotta have the pop at the end.”So, and we worked on the treatment and then I wrote the screenplay. And then he asked McGoohan if he would do it, and McGoohan said, “Well, if I can direct it too.” And, you know, I've adored McGoohan from, you know, Secret Agent and The Prisoner. I mean, I'd say The Prisoner is like one of my favorite television shows ever. So, the idea that the two of them were going to work together on that script was just, you know, it was incredible. John: Were you able to be there during production at all? Jeffrey: No, I went out there about four times to write, because it took like a year or so. It was a kind of laborious process with ABC and all that, but I didn't go out during the shooting.Occasionally, this was, you know, the days of faxes, I'd get a phone call: “Can you redo something here?” And then I'd fax it out. So, I never met McGoohan. I would only fax with him. But they built this whole Hollywood crematorium thing on the set. And Falk was saying at one point, “I'm getting pushback from Universal that we've got to do all this stuff. We've got to build everything.” And I was saying, “Well, you know, 60 percent of the script takes place there. If you're going to try to find a funeral home like it, you're going to have all that hassle.” And eventually they made the point that, yeah, to build this is going to cost less than searching around Hollywood for the right crematorium, And it had a great cast, you know, it had Richard Libertini and Sally Kellerman, and Rue McClanahan was our murder victim.Jim: I'll tell you every scene that Peter Falk and Mr. McGoohan had together. They looked to me as an actor, like they were having a blast being on together. Jeffrey: They really loved each other. They first met when McGoohan did that episode, By Dawn's Early Light, where he played the head of the military school. It's a terrific episode. It was a great performance. And although their acting styles are completely different, You know, Falk much more, you know, fifties, methody, shambolic. And McGoohan very, you know, his voice cracking, you know, and very affected and brittle. But they really loved each other and they liked to throw each other curveballs.There are things in the, in the show that are ad libs that they throw. There's one bit, I think it's hilarious. It's when Columbo tells the murderer that basically knows he did it, but he doesn't have a way to nail him. And, McGoohan is saying, “So then I suppose you have no case, do you?” And Falk says, “Ah, no, sir, I don't.” And he walks right off camera, you know, like down a hallway. And McGoohan stares off and says, “Have you gone?” And none of that was scripted. Peter just walks off set. And if you watch the episode, they had to dub in McGoohan saying, “Have you gone,” because the crew was laughing at the fact that Peter just strolled away. So McGoohan adlibs that and then they had to cover it later to make sure the sound wasn't screwed up. Jim: Fantastic. John: Kudos to you for that script, because every piece is there. Every clue is there. Everything pays off. It's just it is so tight, and it has that pop at the end that he wanted. It's really an excellent, excellent mystery.Jim: And a terrific closing line. Terrific closing line. Jeffrey: Yeah, that I did right. That was not an ad lib. Jim: It's a fantastic moment. And he, Peter Falk, looks just almost right at the camera and delivers that line as if it's, Hey, check this line out. It was great. Enjoyed every minute of it. Can we, um, can I ask some questions about Sherlock Holmes now?Jeffrey: Oh, yes. Jim: So, I enjoyed immensely Holmes and Watson that I saw a couple summers ago at Park Square. I was completely riveted and had no, absolutely no idea how it was going to pay off or who was who or what. And when it became clear, it was so much fun for me as an audience member. So I know that you have done a number of Holmes adaptations.There's Larry Millet, a St. Paul writer here and I know you adapted him, but as far as I can tell this one, pillar to post was all you. This wasn't an adaptation. You created this out of whole cloth. Am I right on that? Jeffrey: Yes. The, the idea came from doing the Larry Millet one, actually, because Steve Hendrickson was playing Holmes. And on opening night—the day of opening night—he had an aortic aneurysm, which they had to repair. And so, he wasn't able to do the show. And Peter Moore, the director, he went in and played Holmes for a couple of performances. And then I played Holmes for like three performances until Steve could get back. But in the interim, we've sat around saying, “All right, who can we get to play the role for like a week?” And we thought about all of the usual suspects, by which I mean, tall, ascetic looking actors. And everybody was booked, everybody was busy. Nobody could do it. So that's why Peter did it, and then I did it.But it struck me in thinking about casting Holmes, that there are a bunch of actors that you would say, you are a Holmes type. You are Sherlock Holmes. And it suddenly struck me, okay, back in the day, if Holmes were real, if he died—if he'd gone over to the falls of Reichenbach—people probably showed up and say, “Well, I'm Sherlock Holmes.”So, I thought, well, let's take that idea of casting Holmes to its logical conclusion: That a couple of people would come forward and say, “I'm Sherlock Holmes,” and then we'd wrap it together into another mystery. And we're sitting around—Bob Davis was playing Watson. And I said, “So, maybe, they're all in a hospital and Watson has to come to figure out which is which. And Bob said, “Oh, of course, Watson's gonna know which one is Holmes.”And that's what immediately gave me the idea for the twist at the end, why Watson wouldn't know which one was Holmes. So, I'm very grateful whenever an idea comes quickly like that, but it depends on Steve getting sick usually. Jim: Well, I thoroughly enjoyed it. If it's ever staged again anywhere, I will go. There was so much lovely about that show, just in terms of it being a mystery. And I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. I don't want to give too much away in case people are seeing this at some point, but when it starts to be revealed—when Pierce's character starts talking about the reviews that he got in, in the West End—I I almost wet myself with laughter. It was so perfectly delivered and well written. I had just a great time at the theater that night. Jeffrey: It's one of those things where, well, you know how it is. You get an idea for something, and you pray to God that nobody else has done it. And I couldn't think of anybody having done this bit. I mean, some people have joked and said, it's kind of To Tell the Truth, isn't it? Because you have three people who come on and say, “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” “I'm Sherlock Holmes.” Now surely somebody has done this before, but Nobody had. Jim: Well, it's wonderful. John: It's all in the timing. So, what is the, what's the hardest part about adapting Holmes to this stage?Jeffrey: Well, I suppose from a purist point of view‑by which I mean people like the Baker Street Irregulars and other organizations like that, the Norwegian Explorers here in Minnesota‑is can you fit your own‑they always call them pastiches, even if they're not comic‑can you fit your own Holmes pastiche into the canon?People spend a lot of time working out exactly where Holmes and Watson were on any given day between 1878 and 1930. So, one of the nice things about Holmes and Watson was, okay, so we're going to make it take place during the three-year interregnum when Holmes is pretending to be dead. And it works if you fit Holmes and Watson in between The Final Problem and The Adventure of the Empty House, it works. And that's hard to do. I would say, I mean, I really love Larry Millett's book and all that, but I'm sure it doesn't fit, so to speak. But that's up to you to care. If you're not a purist, you can fiddle around any old way you like. But I think it's kind of great to, to, to have the, the BSI types, the Baker Street Irregular types say, “Yes, this clicked into place.”Jim: So that's the most difficult thing. What's the easiest part?Jeffrey: Well, I think it's frankly the language, the dialogue. Somebody pointed out that Holmes is the most dramatically depicted character in history. More than Robin Hood, more than Jesus Christ. There are more actor versions of Holmes than any other fictional character.We've been surrounded by Holmes speak. Either if we've read the books or seen the movies or seen any of the plays for over 140 years. Right. So, in a way, if you're like me, you kind of absorb that language by osmosis. So, for some reason, it's very easy for me to click into the way I think Holmes talks. That very cerebral, very fast, sometimes complicated syntax. That I find probably the easiest part. Working out the plots, you want them to be Holmesian. You don't want them to be plots from, you know, don't want the case to be solved in a way that Sam Spade would, or Philip Marlowe would. And that takes a little bit of work. But for whatever reason, it's the actor in you, it's saying, all right, if you have to ad lib or improv your way of Sherlock Holmes this afternoon, you know, you'd be able to do it, right? I mean, he really has permeated our culture, no matter who the actor is.Jim: Speaking of great actors that have played Sherlock Holmes, you adapted a movie that Ian McKellen played, and I just watched it recently in preparation for this interview.Having not seen it before, I was riveted by it. His performance is terrific and heartbreaking at the same time. Can we talk about that? How did you come to that project? And just give us everything.Jeffrey: Well, it's based on a book called A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullen, and it's about a very old Sherlock Holmes in Surrey, tending to his bees, as people in Holmesland know that he retired to do. And it involves a couple of cases, one in Japan and one about 20 years earlier in his life that he's trying to remember. And it also has to do with his relationship with his housekeeper and the housekeeper's son. The book was given to me by Anne Carey, the producer, and I worked on it probably off and on for about five years.A lot of time was spent talking about casting, because you had to have somebody play very old. I remember I went to meet with Ralph Fiennes once because we thought, well, Ralph Fiennes could play him at his own age,‑then probably his forties‑and with makeup in the nineties.And Ralph said‑Ralph was in another film that I'd done‑and he said, “Oh, I don't wear all that makeup. That's just far too much.” And I said, “Well, you did in Harry Potter and The English Patient, you kind of looked like a melted candle.” And he said, “Yes, and I don't want to do that again.” So, we always had a very short list of actors, probably like six actors in the whole world And McKellen was one of them and we waited for him to become available And yeah, he was terrific. I'll tell you one funny story: One day, he had a lot of prosthetics, not a lot, but enough. He wanted to build up his cheekbones and his nose a bit. He wanted a bit, he thought his own nose was a bit too potatoish. So, he wanted a more Roman nose. So, he was taking a nap one day between takes. And they brought him in, said, “Ian, it's time for you to do the, this scene,” and he'd been sleeping, I guess, on one side, and his fake cheek and his nose had moved up his face. But he hadn't looked in the mirror, and he didn't know. So he came on and said, “Very well, I'm all ready to go.” And it was like Quasimodo.It's like 5:52 and they're supposed to stop shooting at six. And there was a mad panic of, Fix Ian's face! Get that cheekbone back where it's supposed to be! Knock that nose into place! A six o'clock, we go into overtime!” But it was very funny that he hadn't noticed it. You kind of think you'd feel if your own nose or cheekbone had been crushed, but of course it was a makeup. So, he didn't feel anything. Jim: This is just the, uh, the actor fan boy in me. I'm an enormous fan of his work straight across the board. Did you have much interaction with him and what kind of fella is he just in general?Jeffrey: He's a hoot. Bill Condon, the director, said, “Ian is kind of methody. So, when you see him on set, he'll be very decorous, you know, he'll be kind of like Sherlock Holmes.” And it was true, he goes, “Oh, Jeffrey Hatcher, it's very good to meet you.” And he was kind of slow talking, all that. Ian was like 72 then, so he wasn't that old. But then when it was all over, they were doing all those--remember those ice Dumps, where people dump a tub of ice on you? You have these challenges? A the end of shooting, they had this challenge, and Ian comes out in short shorts, and a bunch of ballet dancers surrounds him. And he's like, “Alright, everyone, let's do the ice challenge.” And, he turned into this bright dancer. He's kind of a gay poster boy, you know, ever since he was one of the most famous coming out of the last 20 some years. So, you know, he was suddenly bright and splashy and, you know, all that old stuff dropped away. He has all of his headgear at his house and his townhouse. He had a party for us at the end of shooting. And so, there's a Gandalf's weird hat and there's Magneto's helmet, you know, along with top hats and things like that. And they're all kind of lined up there. And then people in the crew would say, can I take a picture of you as Gandalf? “Well, why, of course,” and he does all that stuff. So no, he's wonderful. Jim: You do a very good impression as well. That was great. Now, how did you come to the project, The Good Liar, which again, I watched in preparation for this and was mesmerized by the whole thing, especially the mystery part of it, the ending, it was brilliant.How did you come to that project?Jeffrey: Well, again, it was a book and Warner Brothers had the rights to it. And because Bill and I had worked on Mr. Holmes--Bill Condon--Bill was attached to direct. And so I went in to talk about how to adapt it.This is kind of odd. It's again based in McKellen. In the meeting room at Warner Brothers, there was a life size version of Ian as Gandalf done in Legos. So, it was always, it'll be Ian McKellen and somebody in The Good Liar. Ian as the con man. And that one kind of moved very quickly, because something changed in Bill Condon's schedule. Then they asked Helen Mirren, and she said yes very quickly.And it's a very interesting book, but it had to be condensed rather a lot. There's a lot of flashbacks and going back and forth in time. And we all decided that the main story had to be about this one con that had a weird connection to the past. So, a lot of that kind of adaptation work is deciding what not to include, so you can't really be completely faithful to a book that way. But I do take the point with certain books. When my son was young, he'd go to a Harry Potter movie, and he'd get all pissed off. Pissed off because he'd say Dobby the Elf did a lot more in the book.But if it's a book that's not quite so well-known—The Good Liar isn't a terribly well-known book, nor was A Slight Trick of the Mind--you're able to have a lot more room to play. Jim: It's a very twisty story. Now that you're talking about the book, I'll probably have to go get the book and read it just for comparison. But what I saw on the screen, how did you keep it--because it was very clear at the end--it hits you like a freight train when it all sort of unravels and you start seeing all of these things. How did you keep that so clear for an audience? Because I'll admit, I'm not a huge mystery guy, and I'm not the brightest human, and yet I was able to follow that story completely.Jeffrey: Well, again, I think it's mostly about cutting things, I'm sure. And there are various versions of the script where there are a lot of other details. There's probably too much of one thing or another. And then of course, you know, you get in the editing room and you lose a couple of scenes too. These kinds of things are very tricky. I'm not sure that we were entirely successful in doing it, because you say, which is more important, surprise or suspense? Hitchcock used to have that line about, suspense is knowing there's a bomb under the table. And you watch the characters gather at the table. As opposed to simply having a bomb blow up and you didn't know about it.So, we often went back and forth about Should we reveal that the Helen Mirren character knows that Ian's character is doing something bad? Or do we try to keep it a secret until the end? But do you risk the audience getting ahead of you? I don't mind if the audience is slightly ahead. You know, it's that feeling you get in the theater where there's a reveal and you hear a couple of people say, “Oh, I knew it and they guessed it may be a minute before. But you don't want to get to the point where the audience is, you know, 20 minutes or a half an hour ahead of you.Jim: I certainly was not, I was not in any way. It unfolded perfectly for me in terms of it being a mystery and how it paid off. And Helen Mirren was brilliant. In fact, for a long time during it, I thought they were dueling con men, the way it was set up in the beginning where they were both entering their information and altering facts about themselves.I thought, “Oh, well, they're both con men and, and now we're going to see who is the better con man in the end.” And so. when it paid off. In a way different sort of way, it was terrific for me. Absolutely. Jeffrey: Well, and I thank you. But in a way, they were both con men. Jim: Yes, yes. But she wasn't a professional con man.Jeffrey: She wasn't just out to steal the money from him. She was out for something else. She was out for vengeance. Jim: Yes. Very good. Very, if you haven't seen it, The Good Liar folks, don't wait. I got it on Amazon prime and so can you.Jeffrey: I watched them do a scene, I was over there for about five days during the shooting.And watching the two of them work together was just unbelievable. The textures, the tones, the little lifts of the eyebrow, the shading on one word versus another. Just wonderful, wonderful stuff. Jim: Yeah. I will say I am a huge Marvel Cinematic Universe fan along with my son. We came to those together and I'm a big fan of that sort of movie. So I was delighted by this, because it was such a taut story. And I was involved in every second of what was going on and couldn't quite tell who the good guys were and who the bad guys were and how is this going to work and who's working with who?And it was great. And in my head, I was comparing my love for that sort of big blow it up with rayguns story to this very cerebral, internal. And I loved it, I guess is what I'm saying. And, I am, I think, as close to middle America as you're going to find in terms of a moviegoer. And I thought it was just dynamite. Jeffrey: It was very successful during the pandemic--so many things were when people were streaming--but it was weirdly successful when it hit Amazon or Netflix or whatever it was. And, I think you don't have to be British to understand two elderly people trying to find a relationship. And then it turns out that they both have reasons to hate and kill each other. But nonetheless, there is still a relationship there. So, I pictured a lot of lonely people watching The Good Liar and saying, “Yeah, I'd hang out with Ian McKellen, even if he did steal all my money.” John: Well, speaking of movies, I am occasionally handed notes here while we're live on the air from my wife. And she wants you to just say something about the adaptation you did of your play, Stage Beauty, and what that process was like and how, how that process went.Jeffrey: That was terrific because, primarily Richard Eyre--the director who used to run the National Theater and all that--because he's a theater man and the play's about theater. I love working with Bill Condon and I've loved working with Lassa Hallstrom and other people, but Richard was the first person to direct a film of any of my stuff. And he would call me up and say, “Well, we're thinking of offering it to Claire Danes.” or we're thinking…And usually you just hear later, Oh, somebody else got this role. But the relationship was more like a theater director and a playwright. I was there on set for rehearsals and all that.Which I haven't in the others. No, it was a wonderful experience, but I think primarily because the, the culture of theater saturated the process of making it and the process of rehearsing it and—again--his level of respect. It's different in Hollywood, everybody's very polite, they know they can fire you and you know, they can fire you and they're going to have somebody else write the dialogue if you're not going to do it, or if you don't do it well enough. In the theater, we just don't do that. It's a different world, a different culture, different kind of contracts too. But Richard really made that wonderful. And again, the cast that he put together: Billy Crudup and Claire and Rupert Everett and Edward Fox and Richard Griffiths. I remember one day when I was about to fly home, I told Richard Griffiths what a fan Evan-- my son, Evan--was of him in the Harry Potter movie. And he made his wife drive an hour to come to Shepperton with a photograph of him as Mr. Dursley that he could autograph for my son. John: Well, speaking of stage and adaptations, before we go into our lightning round here, you did two recent adaptations of existing thrillers--not necessarily mysteries, but thrillers--one of which Hitchcock made into a movie, which are Dial M for Murder and Wait Until Dark. And I'm just wondering what was that process for you? Why changes need to be made? And what kind of changes did you make?Jeffrey: Well, in both cases, I think you could argue that no, changes don't need to be made. They're wildly successful plays by Frederick Knott, and they've been successful for, you know, alternately 70 or 60 years.But in both cases, I got a call from a director or an artistic director saying, “We'd like to do it, but we'd like to change this or that.” And I'm a huge fan of Frederick Knott. He put things together beautifully. The intricacies of Dial M for Murder, you don't want to screw around with. And there are things in Wait Until Dark having to do just with the way he describes the set, you don't want to change anything or else the rather famous ending won't work. But in both cases, the women are probably not the most well drawn characters that he ever came up with. And Wait Until Dark, oddly, they're in a Greenwich Village apartment, but it always feels like they're really in Westchester or in Terre Haute, Indiana. It doesn't feel like you're in Greenwich Village in the 60s, especially not in the movie version with Audrey Hepburn. So, the director, Matt Shackman, said, why don't we throw it back into the 40s and see if we can have fun with that. And so it played out: The whole war and noir setting allowed me to play around with who the main character was. And I know this is a cliche to say, well, you know, can we find more agency for female characters in old plays or old films? But in a sense, it's true, because if you're going to ask an actress to play blind for two hours a night for a couple of months, it can't just be, I'm a blind victim. And I got lucky and killed the guy. You've got a somewhat better dialogue and maybe some other twists and turns. nSo that's what we did with Wait Until Dark. And then at The Old Globe, Barry Edelstein said, “well, you did Wait Until Dark. What about Dial? And I said, “Well, I don't think we can update it, because nothing will work. You know, the phones, the keys. And he said, “No, I'll keep it, keep it in the fifties. But what else could you What else could you do with the lover?”And he suggested--so I credit Barry on this--why don't you turn the lover played by Robert Cummings in the movie into a woman and make it a lesbian relationship? And that really opened all sorts of doors. It made the relationship scarier, something that you really want to keep a secret, 1953. And I was luckily able to find a couple of other plot twists that didn't interfere with any of Knott's original plot.So, in both cases, I think it's like you go into a watch. And the watch works great, but you want the watch to have a different appearance and a different feel when you put it on and tick a little differently. John: We've kept you for a way long time. So, let's do this as a speed round. And I know that these questions are the sorts that will change from day to day for some people, but I thought each of us could talk about our favorite mysteries in four different mediums. So, Jeff, your favorite mystery novel”Jeffrey: And Then There Were None. That's an easy one for me. John: That is. Jim, do you have one?Jim: Yeah, yeah, I don't read a lot of mysteries. I really enjoyed a Stephen King book called Mr. Mercedes, which was a cat and mouse game, and I enjoyed that quite a bit. That's only top of mind because I finished it recently.John: That counts. Jim: Does it? John: Yeah. That'll count. Jim: You're going to find that I am so middle America in my answers. John: That's okay. Mine is--I'm going to cheat a little bit and do a short story--which the original Don't Look Now that Daphne du Murier wrote, because as a mystery, it ties itself up. Like I said earlier, I like stuff that ties up right at the end. And it literally is in the last two or three sentences of that short story where everything falls into place. Jeff, your favorite mystery play? I can be one of yours if you want. Jeffrey: It's a battle between Sleuth or Dial M for Murder. Maybe Sleuth because I always wanted to be in it, but it's probably Dial M. But it's also followed up very quickly by Death Trap, which is a great comedy-mystery-thriller. It's kind of a post-modern, Meta play, but it's a play about the play you're watching. John: Excellent choices. My choice is Sleuth. You did have a chance to be in Sleuth because when I directed it, you're the first person I asked. But your schedule wouldn't let you do it. But you would have been a fantastic Andrew Wyke. I'm sorry our timing didn't work on that. Jeffrey: And you got a terrific Andrew in Julian Bailey, but if you wanted to do it again, I'm available. John: Jim, you hear that? Jim: I did hear that. Yes, I did hear that. John: Jim, do you have a favorite mystery play?Jim: You know, it's gonna sound like I'm sucking up, but I don't see a lot of mystery plays. There was a version of Gaslight that I saw with Jim Stoll as the lead. And he was terrific.But I so thoroughly enjoyed Holmes and Watson and would love the opportunity to see that a second time. I saw it so late in the run and it was so sold out that there was no coming back at that point to see it again. But I would love to see it a second time and think to myself, well, now that you know what you know, is it all there? Because my belief is it is all there. John: Yeah. Okay. Jeff, your favorite TV mystery?Jeffrey: Oh, Columbo. That's easy. Columbo.John: I'm gonna go with Poker Face, just because the pace on Poker Face is so much faster than Columbo, even though it's clearly based on Columbo. Jim, a favorite TV mystery?Jim: The Rockford Files, hands down. John: Fair enough. Fair enough. All right. Last question all around. Jeff, your favorite mystery movie? Jeffrey: Laura. Jim: Ah, good one. John: I'm going to go with The Last of Sheila. If you haven't seen The Last of Sheila, it's a terrific mystery directed by Herbert Ross, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Fun little Stephen Sondheim trivia. The character of Andrew Wyke and his house were based on Stephen Sondheim. Jeffrey: Sondheim's townhouse has been for sale recently. I don't know if somebody bought it, but for a cool seven point something million, you're going to get it. John: All right. Let's maybe pool our money. Jim, your favorite mystery movie.Jim: I'm walking into the lion's den here with this one. Jeffrey, I hope this is okay, but I really enjoyed the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies. And I revisit the second one in that series on a fairly regular basis, The Game of Shadows. I thought I enjoyed that a lot. Your thoughts on those movies quickly? Jeffrey: My only feeling about those is that I felt they were trying a little too hard not to do some of the traditional stuff. I got it, you know, like no deer stalker, that kind of thing. But I thought it was just trying a tad too hard to be You know, everybody's very good at Kung Fu, that kind of thing.Jim: Yes. And it's Sherlock Holmes as a superhero, which, uh, appeals to me. Jeffrey: I know the producer of those, and I know Guy Ritchie a little bit. And, I know they're still trying to get out a third one. Jim: Well, I hope they do. I really hope they do. Cause I enjoyed that version of Sherlock Holmes quite a bit. I thought it was funny and all of the clues were there and it paid off in the end as a mystery, but fun all along the road.Jeffrey: And the main thing they got right was the Holmes and Watson relationship, which, you know, as anybody will tell you, you can get a lot of things wrong, but get that right and you're more than two thirds there.

Dashiell Hammett's nameless detective, known originally as "The Continental Op", is back with a special two-part adventure! In in part one of "The Golden Horseshoe", the Federated Tec is sent to Tijuana, Mexico, to find a wayward husband. He has a swell time south of the border, but upon his return, he finds a house full of murder! Hammett's stories are adapted by Pete Lutz and star the Narada Radio Company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dashiell Hammett's nameless detective, known originally as "The Continental Op", is back with a special two-part adventure! In in part one of "The Golden Horseshoe", the Federated Tec is sent to Tijuana, Mexico, to find a wayward husband. He has a swell time south of the border, but upon his return, he finds a house full of murder! Hammett's stories are adapted by Pete Lutz and star the Narada Radio Company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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John Hammett (professor at Southeastern Seminary) and Phil Newton (long-time pastor of Southwoods Baptist Church) go a few rounds with Mark Dever on ecclesiology including the role of elders in the local church. Listen and learn!For more articles, books, and podcasts, please visit 9marks.org

Roberto Barbolini"Il detective difettoso"Ritorno al futuro per il romanzo poliziescoBibliotheka Edizioniwww.bibliotheka.itFin dalle sue origini il romanzo giallo ha potuto contare, oltre che su fedelissimi lettori, su ammiratori d'eccezione, critici e scrittori - da Eliot a Gadda, da Yates a Brecht - che ne hanno svelato la logica simulatoria con la letteratura alta o ne hanno utilizzato la formula.Campo privilegiato di analisi critica per semiologi e formalisti, il romanzo poliziesco sembrerebbe oggi non poter riservare più sorprese.Ripercorrendo tendenze e miti del giallo, dalle origini in Poe fino alle commistioni del thriller con la grande letteratura, questo saggio propone alcuni quesiti intriganti. Dopo l'era dei detectives olimpici alla Holmes e di quelli "avvelenati", gli eroi metropolitani alla Sam Sade, è forse giunta l'ora di parlare del “detective difettoso”?Recuperando – contro gli incanti e i trucchi logici del giallo classico – le trappole di una “linea gotica” del poliziesco (da Chesterton a Dickson Carr), e mescolandole con la magistrale lezione di Hammett, si può individuare una possibile nuova strada per un genere letterario da molti ancora molto amato e da troppi dato prematuramente per morto.Roberto BarboliniE' un narratore che predilige il comico, il visionario e il fantastico.Ha lavorato con Giovanni Arpino al Giornale di Indro Montanelli, è stato redattore e critico teatrale di Panorama, si è occupato di gialli e di poesia erotica.Attualmente collabora al QN-Quotidiano nazionale e a Tuttolibri.Ha pubblicato numerosi romanzi, saggi e raccolte di racconti, tra cui La strada fantasma (1991, vincitore del premio Dessì), Il punteggio di Vienna (1995), Piccola città bastardo posto (1998), Stephen King contro il Gruppo 63 (1999), Ricette di famiglia (2011), L'uovo di colombo (2014), Vampiri conosciuti di persona (2017) Il maiale e lo sciamano (2020).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Episode 2815 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature Army SSG Hammett L. Bowen Jr.and his Congressional Medal of Honor award. Information about him included in this episode comes Wikipedia and a story about him titled: In Ocala, Remembering … Continue reading →

On this episode, Tim sits down with Charles Hammett, local business owner and CEO of Hammett Technologies.  We go way in depth to discuss how we can protect ourselves, our kids and our elder parents from online scams and fraud.  With so many scams out there, this episode is a "must" watch!  Please subscribe to the TMA Connection wherever you download your podcasts or watch on YouTube by searching the TMA Connection. Leave a comment. Share the episode. Help us to help others!

 "Crooked Souls" is an early short story by Dashiell Hammett, the master of hard-boiled detective fiction. First published in 1923 under the title "The Gatewood Caper," this tale introduces us to the unnamed Continental Op as he investigates a seemingly straightforward kidnapping case that quickly unravels into a web of family secrets, deceit, and twisted motives. Set against the backdrop of a prosperous lumber company and featuring a cast of morally complex characters, "Crooked Souls" showcases Hammett's signature style: gritty realism, sharp dialogue, and a keen eye for the darker side of human nature. The Narrator This week's guest narrator is MIchael Rutland. Michael was a professional journalist and photographer for several years, before earning a CELTA and moving to China to teach. He did so for nearly a decade before moving home to Austin, Texas, to earn a master's degree from Harvard and focus on his writing. He has recently registered with ACX for recording audiobooks, and has won several contracts to produce both fiction and non-fiction. He can be reached at oldsoulexplorer@gmail.com. The Author Born Samuel Dashiell Hammett in 1894, this American author rose to fame as a pioneer of hard-boiled detective fiction. After leaving school at fourteen and working various jobs, he became a Pinkerton detective, an experience that would deeply inform his writing. Hammett's gritty realism and unflinching portrayal of violence and corruption revolutionized the genre, establishing him as a literary icon. His most famous works include The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, featuring iconic characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles. Despite his success, Hammett's writing career was relatively short, and he spent his later years embroiled in political controversy and facing health issues. However, his legacy as a master of crime fiction remains undisputed.   If you enjoy classic detective stories with a hard-boiled edge, be sure to subscribe to The Classic Detective Stories Podcast and explore our library of captivating tales from the golden age of mystery and suspense. Leave a Review: We value your feedback! If you enjoy our podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and share the joy of classic detective stories. Thank you for listening!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THIN tells the story of The Thin Man series - its creators and stars, as well as the intriguing melting pot of cultural influences that led to one of the most beloved film series of all time. In the first episode, meet the creator of the stories - Dashiell Hammett - and the surprising, sometimes dark set of experiences that led to him becoming one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. As Raymond Chandler described him: "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it..." The Secret History Of Hollywood will now be arriving with you far more frequently! Hear the chapters of these epic stories as they're produced, by becoming a Co-Producer at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret You'll get access to the complete Secret History of Hollywood catalogue, including THIN: The Thin Man Story, The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock, The Game Is Afoot, Bullets And Blood, and much more... Sign up now at Patreon or go to https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This weeks show is from the archive and features Vic Hammett, at the Town Hall Buckingham. Visit organistencores.co.uk to listen to the show & find out more.

Live from the compound, it's the Austin boys! Reminder please rate the show if you have a minute to spare. Kanode Knows is supported by: BURN SLOW https://burnslow.co/ DANS COMP https://www.danscomp.com/ use code Kanode UNITY RIDE SHOP https://www.unityrideshop.com/ Want to be featured on the show? Send an email to KanodeKnows@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kanodeknows/support

Today we welcome Taylor Hammett to the Podcast. Taylor has spent most of his adult life designing, starting, and leading various ministries for churches. He has a passion for equipping and mobilizing people for everyday mission right where they live. Most recently He become the Lead Church Planter and Pastor for North End Collective, a church with a vision of creating communities that live on mission together for the good of our city. Taylor and his wife, Tori, have two daughters and have lived in Peachtree Corners since 2014.Taylor loves to cycle and Tori loves to run. One day they hope to make dreams come true and compete in a couples duathlon.Check out:www.kingdomdreamsinitiative.comLaunch Local

Are you stressed, burned out, and feeling unhealthy? Do you find yourself wishing for more hours in the day and turning to food for comfort, only to end up feeling worse? This episode is for you. Our guest, Lisa Hammett, shares her powerful journey from the depths of corporate burnout to becoming a successful Wellness Coach. Tune in to discover how she transformed her life, lost 65 pounds, and now help leaders manage stress, prevent burnout, and achieve their health and wellness goals through Positive Intelligence mental fitness.

[originally published on Patreon Nov 7, 2022] Today's the second of two episodes on the hardboiled novelist Dashiell Hammett. Today I discuss several Hammett's wartime experiences, his tuberculosis, the tail end of his private detective career, and his writing career. Hammett went to Hollywood and became a committed communist, and was targeted by McCarthy and HUAC. Fundamentally, though, we can learn much from Hammett. Songs: I'm No Communist by Lulu Belle & Scotty When I'm Gone by Phil Ochs

[originally published on Patreon Nov 1, 2022] Today's the first of two episodes on the hardboiled novelist Dashiell Hammett. Today I go through the first half of Hammett's life, including his early life and family history, his time as a Pinkerton operative, and what being a Pinkerton op entailed. I discuss the Mining Wars and tell the story of Frank Little, an IWW organizer. I finish the episode with a discussion of the novel, Red Harvest.  Note: the Hammett episodes are, I believe, the last episodes with annoying sound quality issues, for which I apologize. Songs: There is Power in a Union by Utah Phillips The Ballad of Frank Little by Dusty the Kid

"Discover the history and significant impact of small businesses on the national economy, as well as inspiring tales of resilience, innovation, and entrepreneurship from prominent business owners. President John F. Kennedy first officiated the celebration of small businesses in the first week of May, acknowledging their significant contribution to job creation and economic activity. Highlighting the journey from humble beginnings to market dominance, these storytelling podcasts depict a vivid picture of courageous entrepreneurs who dared to challenge convention, turn risks into opportunities, and reshape the dynamics of their respective industries. Brace yourself for heartwarming stories from Deanna Wallin, founder of Naples Soap Company; Billy Eklund of Eklund's Farm Machinery; and Heidi West from Lifestyles of Saratoga. Witness how these entrepreneurs weathered business storms, revitalized family ventures, and maintained strong community ties through ethical values and sustainable practices. Also, glean knowledge and experience from admired retail entrepreneurs: Tony Drocton, CEO, Hammett; Tammy Ketterman, CEO, Ketterman's Jewelers; and Brian Trevilla, author of 'Leading in Retail.' Through an invaluable exchange of insights, lessons, and mentors, discover the true essence of small businesses symbolizing hope, opportunity, and prosperity for all. In the end, let us toast the indomitable spirit of small businesses worldwide for nurturing dreams, creating jobs, and invigorating the economy. Join us in celebrating their journey towards success.

The Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life. And arguably, the closest Oregon has ever come to a real-life femme fatale worthy of Hammett's pen was in early 1880s Portland, in what today is known as the Tenderloin — in the person of a gorgeous, hard-eyed 28-year-old brunette who called herself Carrie Bradley. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1882) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1909e.carrie-bradley-femme-fatale-1of2-567.html)

“Jon and Jim” with Jon Schaeffer and Jim Russell is live on San Diego Sports 760weekdays from 3 - 6 p.m. The hosts of the Wrap-Up Show can now be heard daily with a show that's tailored for today's San Diego sports fans focusing primarily on Padres baseba

“Jon and Jim” with Jon Schaeffer and Jim Russell is live on San Diego Sports 760weekdays from 3 - 6 p.m. The hosts of the Wrap-Up Show can now be heard daily with a show that's tailored for today's San Diego sports fans focusing primarily on Padres baseba

My top noirs are Double Indemnity and Out Of The Past, in that order, but Falcon is special. Right out of the hard-boiled school of writing, the character of the unstoppable but human private detective as a noir mainstay, one of the more fatale of the femmes in the genre, the moody lighting and framing, the inevitability of the conclusion of a twisted scheme. Hey, all it lacks is a voice-over and flashbacks! Oh well. Falcon launched from one-time Pinkerton agent Dash Hammett's typewriter in 1930. Run as a serial in the classic Black Mask pulp magazine, it was later published as a detective novel by Knopf. Hammett was often a denizen of San Francisco, setting the novel there and taking his given first name, Sam, for the name of his protagonist, Sam Spade. Hammett is often contrasted with a hard-boiled, slightly later contemporary, Raymond Chandler, whose own detective Phillip Marlowe was set irrevocably in LA. Chandler was more of a florid descriptor of the LA scene, while Hammett's prose was exceedingly spare, with little of the setting of San Fran or deep details of the background of the story revealed. However, this made Hammett's work perfect for a screenplay. Website and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comIG: @thosewonderfulpeopleTwitter: @FilmsInTheDark

When Francis Ford Coppola hired German auteur Wim Wenders to direct his first American film, little did he suspect the difficulty that film would have getting to screens.  The movie was Hammett, a fictionalized account of the mystery writer Dasheill Hammett's second career as a private investigator.  In real life, Hammett stuck to penning noirs but in Wenders' film he's enlisted to solve the disappearance of a San Francisco woman.  The film was entirely reshot on sound stages after Orion Pictures expressed dissatisfaction with Wenders expansive shot-on-location first edit.  It stars Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Lydia Lei and Elisha Cook Jr. Dan and Vicky discuss the much maligned film along with plenty of recently seen including El Conde, Madam Web, The Color Purple, Nyad, Rustin, The Zone of Interest, Imaginary, and the Dune films. Check us out on all our socials:  hotdatepod.com FB:  Hot Date Podcast Twitter: @HotDate726 Insta:  hotdatepod

Guest narrator is Brendan Sullivan Brendan is an illustrator, artist, and graphic designer from Florida who dabbles in audio storytelling. He's worked across several industries, from themed attractions to product lines to architecture, and he has a love for using creative color palettes, interesting compositions, and whimsical shapes. He's admittedly rather fond of oddities and monsters, and will gladly take a detour to study history's more strange and intriguing paths. He has a a website where people can see work and get in touch, which is sullivanartco.com. He is on Instagram as @sullivanartco. In his 1944 essay, "The Simple Art of Murder," Raymond Chandler discused the type of crime fiction he and his idol, Dashiell Hammett, had been writing for the previous twenty years: ". . . there are still quite a few people around who say that Hammett did not write detective stories at all, merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets with a perfunctory mystery element dropped in like the olive in a martini." Arguably, by the time Chandler published "I'll Be Waiting" in 1939, he had pretty much tossed away the olive. Raymond Chandler, born on July 23, 1888, in Chicago, Illinois, was a British-American novelist and screenwriter who left an indelible mark on the hardboiled detective fiction genre. Spending much of his early life in England, Chandler had a diverse career that included stints in the British Civil Service and the Canadian Army during World War I. It wasn't until he was 44 that he turned to fiction writing. His breakthrough came with the publication of "The Big Sleep" in 1939, introducing the iconic private detective Philip Marlowe. Chandler's gritty realism, sharp dialogue, and keen insight into human nature defined his writing, making him a prominent figure in 20th-century literature. Beyond novels like "The Big Sleep" and "The Long Goodbye," Chandler also made significant contributions to Hollywood as a screenwriter. "I'll Be Waiting" is a compelling short story by Raymond Chandler, first published in 1939. Set in a fictional Latin American city, the narrative follows Tony Reseck, a former cop turned night manager at a hotel. The story revolves around Reseck's involvement with a troubled couple, Eloise and Floyd Thursby. Eloise seeks refuge from her abusive husband, and Reseck, despite his cynical exterior, becomes entangled in their complex relationship. Chandler's signature noir style shines through in this tale, with sharp dialogue, a mysterious atmosphere, and a cynical view of human nature, showcasing his mastery of the short story format. "I'll Be Waiting" holds a significant place in the realm of noir hardboiled detective fiction. Chandler's storytelling in this narrative reflects the core elements of the genre – a morally ambiguous protagonist, a gritty urban setting, and a plot laced with suspense and intrigue. The story exemplifies Chandler's ability to navigate the complexities of human relationships within a dark and shadowy backdrop. As a master of the genre, Chandler's influence extends beyond his novels, leaving an enduring legacy in both literature and film, shaping the conventions of noir storytelling for generations to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa Hammett, a Transformational and Tedx Speaker, Author, and Positive Intelligence PQ Certified Coach, specializes in mindset, mental fitness, and wellness. With a mission to assist leaders and healthcare organizations, she focuses on fostering work/life balance for heightened productivity, profitability, and overall wellbeing. In this episode, Lisa shares her journey from burnout to a thriving life, emphasizing self-awareness, self-compassion, and the pursuit of happiness. Drawing on personal experiences, Lisa and Mary explore the early warning signs of burnout and practical tips to combat it. The episode underscores the importance of seeking help and support, emphasizing that burnout is not a life sentence but a path to growth. Join them in erasing burnout, discovering self-awareness, and embracing a fully alive life. Connect with Lisa here.

Guest narrator: Caspar Stockhuyzen. Caspar says: Casper Stokhuyzen (pronunciation at your discretion) and link to the audio drama I am currently starring in (Leaving Corvat). https://open.spotify.com/show/2l0YaWqlom0DbGQ44haICu?si=e5f3c355058440c8  I have also worked on The Deca Tapes https://open.spotify.com/show/6S8iYgJibdA6xkVQnVVo7b?si=8104a08ddad44848 and live in Amsterdam. I also recently did a cameo in a Dracula retelling called Re:Dracula. Carroll John Daly, born on September 14, 1889, in Yonkers, New York, carved an essential niche in detective fiction as a pioneering figure in the hardboiled crime genre. His early life was marked by versatility; attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and engaging in roles such as usher, projectionist, and actor. Notably, he ventured into entrepreneurship, opening the first movie theater in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Unlike contemporaries like Dashiell Hammett, who drew from real-life detective work, Daly's journey into the hardboiled genre was unique. He lived a quiet life in White Plains, New York, until the age of 33 when his first crime story was published. Despite his reserved demeanor, Daly's literary creations, characterized by gritty narratives and tough protagonists, laid the foundation for the hardboiled genre. Carroll John Daly's seminal contribution to detective fiction is epitomized in "The False Burton Combs," a groundbreaking crime story published in Black Mask magazine in December 1922. While Daly may not be lauded solely for the quality of his writing, his distinction lies in being the first to amalgamate the defining elements of the dark, violent hardboiled story. The narrative precedes the works of iconic figures like Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane, influencing an entire generation of crime writers. Daly's popularity in his time was unparalleled; the mention of his name on a magazine cover alone could boost sales significantly. In a Black Mask readers' poll, Daly even surpassed Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner in popularity. Today, his writing may be viewed as a nostalgic blend of quaint and camp, but it's essential to recognize Daly's pivotal departure from mainstream detective fiction, drawing inspiration from the Wild West rather than Victorian-era mysteries. Carroll John Daly, often considered the progenitor of hardboiled crime fiction, left an indelible mark on the genre. While his writing may be seen today as a bridge between quaint and camp, Daly's significance lies in being the first to blend all the defining elements of the dark, violent hardboiled story. His popularity during his time was unparalleled, influencing not only contemporaries like Hammett but shaping the trajectory of dozens of writers who followed. By rejecting mainstream detective fiction conventions of his era, Daly drew inspiration from Westerns, featuring tough, urban heroes reminiscent of gunslingers. Creating the first hard-boiled story, "The False Burton Combs," Daly, along with Hammett, established the rules of the hardboiled genre that future writers would adhere to or break, setting the stage for a transformative era in detective fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's epidsode of You Can Overcome Anything! Podcast Show, CesarRespino.com brings to you a special guest by the name of Lisa Hammett.She is a Success and Certified Mental Fitness Coach, the best selling author of From Burnout to Best Life, and a TEDx and Motivational Speaker. She helps Executives move past burnout to a happy, healthy, fulfilled life.Lisa Hammett's message to you is:Pay attention to the warning signs. They will not go away and should not be ignored. Burnout is preventable. Unfortunately it will destroy your life if not managed.To Connect with Lisa Hammet go to:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisahammett/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChGQY8WAdQsQnGIFRIloEbAhttps://www.facebook.com/healthylivinglisahammetthttps://www.instagram.com/lisa.hammett/https://twitter.com/lisahammettTo Connect with CesarRespino go to:

Amanda Hammett is the CEO of Core Elevation, a company dedicated to helping high-performance leaders achieve even greater results and working with Inc. 5,000 corporations to strategize attracting, retaining, and engaging top-level talent. She is also the host of the Next Generation Rockstars Podcast (aka Millennial Rockstars), where she proves her nickname as the ‘Millennial Translator' by interviewing millennial business prodigies on the secrets of their success and the motivations that focus them. Amanda currently serves on the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce board while also serving for the past ten years as Corporate Board President of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Georgia (HOBY). With a BA in History & Political Science from Agnes Scott College, she is a consultant and trainer who has delivered over 800 keynote speeches to the millennials corporate America needs to connect with. In today's episode, Amanda joins us to discuss recruiting millennials and Generation Z and what problems she has observed with modern recruitment techniques for this demographic. She reveals her Millennial Translator moniker's origin and why businesses began to queue up for her help in connecting them with their younger workforce. Amanda takes a psychological look at the millennial employee and why they rebel against the Boomer Generation's work-life values before them. She also warns the companies who are quick to make statements of intent; be that for social change, better employment practice, or other morally guided declarations. She explains that millennials do their homework on their possible future employees and empty promises can come back to haunt a brand in the most damaging of ways. “What makes millennials different is their size. They are the biggest generation to come through since boomers and (are) even larger than boomers AND their willingness to speak up – their willingness to say ‘This isn't for me.'” – Amanda Hammett   This week on Breaking Barriers: Why you need to lose the negative preconceptions about millennials How millennials have a different work-life ambition to the Boomer Generation before them Why companies struggle to retain millennial talent How Boomer employers don't account for the speed of change in technology and culture and the communication changes that are needed to accompany this The importance of deadlines and enforcing accountability with your millennial employee Why taking the time to explain your businesses processes will save you in millennial productivity How millennials will hold your company to account for your business practice promises` Connect with Amanda Hammett: Next Generation Rockstars Podcast Core Elevation's Website Core Elevation on LinkedIn Amanda Hammett's Website Amanda Hammett on LinkedIn Connect with Hire Ground: Hire Ground's Website Hire Ground on LinkedIn Hire Ground on Facebook Hire Ground on Twitter Cloe Guidry-Reed on LinkedIn Adam Moore on LinkedIn This podcast is brought to you by Hire Ground Hire Ground is a technology company whose mission is to bridge the wealth gap through access to procurement opportunities. Hire Ground is making the enterprise ecosystem more viable, profitable, and competitive by clearing the path for minority led, women led LGBT led, and veteran led small businesses to contribute to the global economy as suppliers to enterprise organizations. For more information on getting started please visit us @ hireground.io today!