February 6, 2023
Birch Bay, Washington
I want to wish author and film critic/historian David Thomson an early (February 18) HAPPY BIRTHDAY. (Turns out we are the same age, and David is just eight months my senior.)
I would also like to take the opportunity to thank and reprint his New York Times Book Review of Black Dahlia Avenger (Arcade 2003). David was my very first review of the hardback edition which remains one of my all-time favorite reviews.
David Thomson, recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 24 – May 8, 2014
Excerpt from below NYT Book Review (May 18, 2003):
...” George Hodel, I think, is fit company for some of noir’s most civilized villains–like Waldo Lydecket in “Laura,” Harry Lime in “The Third Man” or even Noah Cross in “Chinatown,” the man who (thanks to the screenwriter, Robert Towne) warned us, “Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they’re capable of anything.” And what had Cross done? Raped his daughter, and his city, and lived into old age.”
Below is a great radio interview with David and his amazing Wikipedia bio.
CBC Radio. June 19, 2015 David Thomson, film critic extraordinaire
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