Comments on: “Illegal”

By: mr waggish

mr waggish — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:26:13 +0000

On the subject of quotes…

“Why is ‘doom’ in quotation marks? Is this some sort of ironic doom?”

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Pinkwater — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:14:47 +0000

There’s a real Daniel Pinkwater?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:01:28 +0000

I assume that wasn’t the real Daniel Pinkwater who signed in as Daniel Pinkwater. (But I can always dream.)

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:51:12 +0000

‘Walking Spanish’ is being forced to walk. He’s being forcibly walked down the hall to the electric chair. Tom Waits uses the phrase: “Even Jesus wanted just a little more time/When he was walking Spanish down the hall.”

Daniel Pinkwater loves me!

Glad to be of assistance, Jacob.

By: Drake

Drake — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:47:01 +0000

With a name like ‘Angel’ (or ‘’Angel’‘), it seems appropriate that the name transcend use.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:43:27 +0000

As my URL might indicate, Pinkwater is a favorite. It ought to be a crime* that Norb is no longer available in any sort of collected form.

Sorry, “It ought to be ‘Illegal’!”

By: Daniel Pinkwater

Daniel Pinkwater — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:37:59 +0000

Daniel Pinkwater loves you too.

By: Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:05:28 +0000

Just a few days ago I was struggling to remember [childhood favorite] Pinkwater’s name—and even the wonders of google and wikipedia are of limited help when you can’t remember the precise title of any work either. I eventually remembered enough words of one book to get the result. Should have occurred to me that John would know exactly who I was talking about; should have just e-mailed him.

By: Rich B.

Rich B. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:15:24 +0000

It turns out he was wrongly convicted, but not before he was walking Spanish down the hall, if you know what I mean.

Actually, I have no idea what you mean. My best internal slang translators tell me that he was either raped by another inmate, was executed in the electric chair, or else became a gay flamenco dancer.

By: Hermenauta

Hermenauta — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:15:57 +0000

I´m apalled to learn that when young Dr. Bones was Jude Law.

By: JSE

JSE — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:00:46 +0000

Not enough Pinkwater in this post. Has any Pinkwater book ever been filmed?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:15:01 +0000

There’s also the difficulties generated by the tagline:

‘a blonde called ‘Angel’’

Does that mean that, if we want to mention rather than use her name, it would be ‘’Angel’‘?

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:13:14 +0000

You are right, Roger. The post is somewhat misleading. But I hope not to an “illegal” degree.

Yep, you are right about Mansfield’s accent and character.

By: Drake

Drake — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:12:34 +0000

To quote Holbo, the film should be referred to as “”“Illegal”“”.

By: roger

roger — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:07:35 +0000

I just saw that film myself. You skipped the bizarre, apparently sexless marriage of the D.A.’s two assistants, who both seem to have the hots for Robinson. And really, the gangster moll is not testifying at the same trial at which Eddie R. drinks the poison. I know, gotta compress the plot, but not to the point of incomprehensibility.

Still, the high moment was Jayne Mansfield’s accent, which suggests she went to slut prep school, where you learn piano, bosom, and lounging on the sofa. Mansfield’s character made straight As!