{"id":526437,"date":"2010-04-13T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ecaa7248970b"},"modified":"2010-04-13T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T21:29:20","slug":"the-many-faces-of-l-a-s-ultimate-private-eye-who-is-your-favorite-marlowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526437","title":{"rendered":"The many faces of L.A.&#8217;s ultimate private eye: Who is your favorite Marlowe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"cufon cufon-canvas\" style=\"WIDTH: 69px; HEIGHT: 18px\"><span class=\"cufon-alt\"><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec6f4bc2970b-pi\" style=\"WIDTH: 599px; HEIGHT: 503px\" usemap=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/#marlowe\"><\/img><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philip Marlowe is one of L.A.&#8217;s legendary fictional detectives. <\/p>\n<p>In The Times&#8217; magazine, screenwriter Carol Wolper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimesmagazine.com\/2010\/04\/the-big-score.html\">writes about her efforts<\/a> to create for television a 2010 Marlowe that Raymond Chandler would recognize. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Many have tried to bring this character to the big and small screen, but success has been elusive,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Yet the desire for another shot never goes away. Marlowe is like that person you keep trying to break up with because you know it won\u2019t work out, but you can\u2019t get her (or him) out of your mind.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She concluded: &quot;Maybe a 2010 Marlowe isn\u2019t Caucasian. Or if so, maybe he\u2019s not a complete loner. Maybe he has a pal. Maybe that pal is even female. As blasphemous as that may sound to die-hard noirists, maybe we can worship at the altar of Chandler without being a slave to the past.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Check out her story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimesmagazine.com\/2010\/04\/the-big-score.html\">here<\/a>, which offers video samples of different actors portraying the private eye (Bogart, Gould, Mitchum, Garner). You can also vote on your favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Marlowe is one of L.A.&#8217;s legendary fictional detectives. In The Times&#8217; magazine, screenwriter Carol Wolper writes about her efforts to create for television a 2010 Marlowe that Raymond Chandler would recognize. &quot;Many have tried to bring this character to the big and small screen, but success has been elusive,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Yet the desire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}