The Rap Sheet: We Can Dig It!

Monday, July 09, 2012

We Can Dig It!

Actor Richard Roundtree, who starred as ass-kicking New York City private eye John Shaft in three feature films as well as a short-lived TV series, turns 70 years old today.

READ MORE: “The Rap Sheet: Man of Muscle, Ice and Anger--Shaft!” by J. Kingston Pierce (Kirkus Reviews).

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“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