Do you like old radio? I do. I love to listen to what was entertainment before Philo T. Farnsworth turned on his brain and invented the television.
I was letting my computer randomize songs and one of these old shows came on. It happened to be “The Fat Man” from 1946. This character was one of Daishell Hammett’s creations. If you don’t know, Daishell Hammett pretty much created the hard boiled detective noir genre. The Maltese Falcon, and Sam Spade were his, as were many other entries in Black Mask Magazine and several old radio shows. If you like Dead Med Don’t Wear Plaid, think Daishell Hammett.
Listening to this show, I realized how far entertainment has come whether for good or bad. In today’s world, there is so much visual and so many things that can be done with special effects that the writing does not have to be very descriptive in
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