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The Cheap Detective

August 6, 2010 by admin  
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Movie DVDMost fans of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink comedies like The Naked Gun and Hot Shots probably think the genre started with Airplane!, but Neil Simon’s The Cheap Detective came two years earlier. It’s a camp parody of Humphrey Bogart’s 1940s detective flicks (particularly The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep), with a big dose of Casablanca thrown in for good measure. There’s no point in describing the plot–it’s little more than a series of cameos by just about every actor working in t

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Neil Diamond is one of a rare breed. As a songwriter, his music has been covered successfully by artists as diverse as the Monkees, Deep Purple, UB40, and Smash Mouth. But Diamond used that three-chord alchemy to build an unparalleled career as a performer as well. The 38 tracks on these two discs address those interlocking legacies in the most comprehensive manner yet, gathering his material from Bang! Records (including such pop staples as “Solitary Man,” “Cherry, Cherry,” “Kentucky Woman,” “R

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