Almost Blue

Flirting with this disaster became me

It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost Blue

(Costello)

Chet Baker

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Fred Lyon

Dreaming Darkly

          As neon lights buzzed and classic cars rumbled, more than 200 background players - sailors, pachucos, lady shoppers - crowded the sidewalk, wandering in and out of practical stores, setting up for what the script described as a "continued melee".

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Penny Dreadful ; California Dreaming Darkly

Alexis Soloski

New York Times

2020

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John Logan-creator Penny Dreadful

Phillip Cheung

     https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/arts/television/penny-dreadful-city-of-angels.html

Real Easy

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Floyd Mayweather Jnr

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Ken Auster

Big Lonely City #147

Toni Schneiders

Duro Jankevic

FC Grundlach

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Henry Grant

Ida Wyman

Jose Yalenti

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Roger Schall

John Vachon

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Vivian Maier

William Witt

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Kees Scherer

Went Quickly Away

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

1939

              https://longreads.com/2015/11/05/looking-for-raymond-chandlers-los-angeles/

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #56

True Confessions

The Set Up

Goodfellas

Black Book (Reign of Terror)

Glengarry Glen Ross

Double Indemnity

Vertigo

A Game of Pool (Twilight Zone)

Carol

Lady from Shanghai

The Guilty (2018)

Dark Ballads

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Blue Note Records

Highsmith

A Woman of Mystery

Alexander Roman

2009

     https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/09/twisted-brilliance-patricia-highsmith-at-100

Marcia Gay Harden

Millers Crossing

Fallen Angels (Good Housekeeping)

Mystic River

Parkland

American Gun

Mosaic Noir #149

Knife in the Water

House of Games

Third Man

Bitter Moon

Odd Man Out

Wild Things

Asphalt Jungle

Le Samourai