The Rap Sheet: A Master of the Teleprompter

Saturday, July 19, 2008

A Master of the Teleprompter

Earlier this month, I plugged an episode of the nostalgic Web radio show Talking Television with Dave White that focused on the career and partially concealed real life of actor Raymond Burr, known best for his portrayals of lawyer Perry Mason and San Francisco police detective Robert T. Ironside. That show, which featured Michael Seth Starr, author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr, is now available on the KSAV.org Web site. You can listen here.

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QUOTABLE CRIME

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity