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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

NOVEMBER GOES NOIR ~ AT THE BIJOU ... Here Comes Rat-a-tat Rhatigan!

WELCOME TO

NOVEMBER

GOES NOIR

AT THE BIJOU, FOLKS

Absolutely*Kate asked our current

leading lady for a splendiferous lead in to

AT THE BIJOU's next memorable AUTHOR OF NOIR.

With no ado to you, here's more Morrigan, JULIE MORRIGAN, celebrated in our NOIRvember Double*Feature,

WISH UPON A STAR and its genesis, STAR

BIJOU NOIR AUTHOR
JULIE MORRIGAN, LOOKING
AS STUNNING AS
THE EFFECT OF HER WORDS

Thank you Ms Dietrich, and may I say you top off a tux right nicely.

CHRIS RAT-A-TAT RHATIGAN

Chris is no stranger to those of us who frequent the dark alleys and shadowy corners of Internetland. As well as his blog, Death By Killing, Chris has dark, stylish and twisted stories at Yellow Mama, A Twist of Noir, Pulp Metal Magazine and Shotgun Honey, to mention but a few. He is also (with Nigel Bird) co-contributing editor of Pulp Ink, a collection of twenty-four of the maddest, baddest, finest crime shorts you’ll ever read.

And besides all that, Chris is a generous soul who both reviews and promotes the work of other writers.

So without further ado,

give the lighting man the cue,

swish wide the red velvet curtains

and bestow a warm BIJOU welcome

on Chris Rat-a-tat Rhatigan!

STARBOARD IS OUR NOIR

I'd like our audience to know Ms Morrigan set aside busy editor jeans to spiff up to what hangs front and center in her burgeoning closet, her favourite frock, the 1950's snow white taffeta. Notice the rhinestones Jools stitched up on both bodice and straps.

My moxie pal Mae reminded me, "I used to be snow white . . . but I drifted."

Marlena? Hell, she wears whatever she wants. Who's gonna tell that broad what to do? I'm just overjoyed at the stars joining our shows . . . as NOVEMBER GOES NOIR, AT THE BIJOU.

"Shhhhhhh, here comes

Rat-a-tat Rhatigan!"

NOVEMBER goes NOIR, AT THE BIJOU ~ YOU ONLY DEFECT ONCE ~ Chris Rat-a-tat Rhatigan BIJOU DEBUT!

YOU ONLY DEFECT ONCE

~ By Chris Rhatigan

The cop said: "We have enough on you for petty larceny. You tell us about Anthony, we'll take that into consideration."

Otis sipped the shitty coffee. Other than that, he kept his mouth shut.

He got five years for burglary.

The day he was released, Anthony called him. Said he had been convinced Otis would rat him out.

Said he could make it up to him -- job he needed Otis on with a big payoff.

They met and Anthony opened his arms.

"No hard feelings, right bro?"

Otis took a gun from his jacket. Shot him til the gun went click.

another DEBUT ~ AT THE BIJOU

Absolutely*Kate: That's another reason I dubbed him Rat-a-tat Rhatigan. Chris can gun 100 words to shoot a gazillion places, and damn -- I really like the guy. Doesn't everyone love Chris?

International dapper NOIR
Author, NIGEL BIRD

Author Nigel Bird: Kate?

Absolutely*Kate: Yes, sage Nige?

Nigel Bird: Would you mind

if I took over the show? Seems everyone's getting in the act AT THE BIJOU. Great things you're doing here - I'm really very impressed. I hope you already knew.

Absolutely*Kate: This is why we call it "show-stopping", on our side of the pond, good sir. Do proceed, and thanks. Authors taking Authors the higher is so what it's all about.

Chris Rhatigan.

Soon as I saw Death By Killing I knew I liked the guy.

Straight and to the point and bigging up short-stories in a way that they deserve with reviews and recommendations to send me all over the web.

So we got to know each other.

Wasn’t long until he was leading me astray into the world of peer-editing over at Crimefic-Writers. He didn’t tell me how he managed to get such a great bunch together, and I don’t need to know.

Next he took over working at All Due Respect. It’s a perfect home.

Pulp Ink kind of evolved. I suspect neither Chris nor I had the confidence to go it alone, so we did it together. The man’s incredible. Yes, indeed.

He was like a surfer, gliding over the tops of difficulties that arose and keeping a cool, level head when the storm-clouds grew. If I were in the trenches of some crazy war, I’d ask him to come along and take my side.

The man has eagle eyes. Can spot a mistake from 100 yards. Sees an error in point of view from a mile off.

He’s got a super sense of smell. Could sniff out an unnecessary line or word in a French cheese-maker’s.

There’s a brain in the man the size of the Mekon’s, only it’s squashed in to allow him to keep his good looks.

By rights, with a brain like that, there shouldn’t be any room for any other vital organs, but you should see what he’s got under the hood. A heart the size of a buffalo for starters.

It’s like that ‘When God was giving out...’ unfairnessness that happens.

Worse, he combines the two to produce some of the finest writing you’ll come across – unfair from a man of such tender years – and he can put something down to fit any genre you ask him about.

Absolutely*Kate: That I know Nigel.

I asked for NOIR and he slip'slid this gem

quick as a gunner on a spree under my door in the night.

No witnesses, all tough guy star quality. But Chris, has heart, right? Everybody loves Rat-a-tat Rhatigan.

CLICK LINK in text to the right
Better yet ~ BUY THE BOOK!

Apart from romance. That he leaves for real life. He got married in the summer, a low key bond of love (and still managed to get Pulp Ink out on time!).

Talking of love, I do love the guy. He’s a model to follow, yet they broke the mould (damn the mould-carriers).

It’s not long until he finishes his studies. Joins my own noble profession of teaching. Maybe he’ll disappear for a while with his good wife, Thailand maybe, or Vietnam. Do a bit of educating there.

One thing I know. If Chris Rhatigan were teaching my kids, I’d be doing cartwheels and jumping-jacks.

Rat-a-tat, Rat-a-tat. The Fred Astaire of the keyboard. Listen:

Rat-a-tat

I heard it Nigel.

I heard it Kate, absolutely.

I'm still listening Chris.

Best BIJOU regards.

NOIRtorious AUTHORS
Every other day that's
NOIRvember

Yeah, youse guys. I heard it too.

November

Goes NOIR

AT THE BIJOU

Be there

or be square Bub.

Talkin to you too, Toots.

Curtain

rises on:

C L I C K show LINKS below:

LOVE STRUCK TROUBLE

By ~ KEVIN MICHAELS

DETECTING MALICIOUS MURDER

and ALL A BROAD

Debut ~ GRAHAM SMITH

WISH UPON A STAR and STAR

By ~ JULIE MORRIGAN

BIJOU cup o'Joe

JOSEPH GRANT

BIJOU DEBUT!

AJ HAYES

ABSOLUTELY*KATE, BOGEY & PALLY PRODUCTIONS

"NOVEMBER GOES NOIR, AT THE BIJOU"

Special BIJOU Thanks to lasting stars Marlena Dietrich and Fred Astaire.

AT THE BIJOU salute to rising stars, Julie Morrigan and Nigel Bird.

BIJOU Wardrobe: Ms Morrigan by DorotheaVintage / Mr Bird by EverlastingTux

"NOIRVEMBER" term coined & minted

by the trendy Harry B Sanderford

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THE TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME? Really? So, how many have YOU seen? Huh?

1. The Godfather - (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) (Marlon Brando, Al Pacino)

2. Citizen Kane - (1941, Orson Welles) (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton)

3. Casablanca - (1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)

4. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable)

5. Seven Samurai - (1959, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune)

6. Wizard of Oz - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger)

7. On the Waterfront - (1954, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Carl Malden, Rod Steiger)

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)

9. Rules Of The Game - (1939, Jean Renoir) (Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor)

10. The Godfather Part II - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro)

11. Lawrence of Arabia - (1962, David Lean) (Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn)

12. It's A Wonderful Life - (1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed)

13. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg) (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley)

14. To Kill A Mockingbird - (1962, Robert Mulligan) (Gregory Peck, Mary Badham)

15. Raging Bull - (1980, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci)

16. Star Wars - (1977, George Lucas) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness)

17. La Strada - (1954, Federico Fellini) (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn)

18. Psycho - (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) (Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh)

19. Sunset Boulevard - (1950, Billy Wilder) (Gloria Swanson, William Holden)

20. La Dolce Vita - (1960, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee)

21. Wild Strawberries - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson)

22. Singin' in the Rain - (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)

23. Diabolique - (1954, Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot)

24. Dr. Strangelove - (1964, Stanley Kubrick) (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)

25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - (1939, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Claude Rains)

26. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall)

27. Once Upon a Time in the West - (1968, Sergio Leone) (Henry Fonda,Charles Bronson)

28. The Leopard - (1963, Luchino Visconti) (Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale)

29. Ikiru - (1952, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko)

30. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - (1966, Sergio Leone) (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef)

31. Vertigo - (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Kim Novak)

32. Fantasia - (1940, Walt Disney) (Philadelpia Symphony Orchestra, Walt Disney)

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (1975, Milos Forman) (Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher)

34. Some Like it Hot - (1959, Billy Wilder) (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe)

35. Peeping Tom - (1960, Michael Powell) (Karl Heinz Bohm, Morira Shearer)

36. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968, Stanley Kubrick) (Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain)

37. Empire Strikes Back - (1980, Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

38. The Graduate - (1967, Mike Nichols) (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross)

39. Andrei Rublev - (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Anatoli Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov)

40. The African Queen - (1951, John Huston) (Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)

41. Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

42. All About Eve - (1950, Joseph L Mankiewicz) (Bette Davis, Anne Baxter)

43. The Grapes of Wrath - (1940, John Ford) (Henry Fonda, John Carradine)

44. 8 1/2 - (1939, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale)

45. North by Northwest - (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint)

46. Jaws - (1975, Steven Spielberg) (Roy Schieder, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)

47. The Maltese Falcon - (1941, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor)

48. A Clockwork Orange - (1971, Stanley Kubrick) (Malcolm McDowell, Patrick McGee)

49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - (1982, Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace)

50. Taxi Driver - (1976, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster)

51. City Lights - (1931, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill)

52. A Streetcar Named Desire - (1951, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh)

53. Tokyo Story - (1953, Yasujiro Ozu) (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura)

54. The World of Apu - (1959, Satyajit Ray) (Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore)

55. It Happened One Night - (1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)

56. Rear Window - (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Grace Kelly)

57. Life of Oharu - (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune)

58. Sunrise - (1927, F.W. Murnau) (George OÂ�Brien, Janet Gaynor)

59. The Gold Rush - (1925, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray)

60. Ugestu Monogatari - (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori)

61. Aparajito - (1957, Satyajit Ray) (Kali Bannerjee, Kanu Banerji)

62. Rashamon - (1951, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo)

63. The Seventh Seal - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot)

64. Battleship Potemkin - (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) (Vladimir Barsky, Alexander Antonov)

65. Pather Panchali - (1955, Satyajit Ray) (Subir Banerji, Karuna Bannerjee)

66. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Otto Wernicke)

67. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino) (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken)

68. High Noon - (1952, Fred Zinnemann) (Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly)

69. The Silence of the Lambs - (1991, Jonathan Demme) (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)

70. Rocky - (1976, John G. Avildsen) (Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire)

71. Bonnie and Clyde - (1967, Arthur Penn) (Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway)

72. The Treasure of Sierra Madre - (1948, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston)

73. Double Indemnity - (1944, Billy Wilder) (Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray)

74. The Philadelphia Story - (1940, George Cukor) (Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart)

75. Doctor Zhivago - (1965, David Lean) (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie)

76. The Birth of a Nation - (1915, D.W. Griffith) (Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh)

77. Amadeus - (1984, Milos Forman) (F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce)

78. Passion of Joan of Arc - (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Renee Maria Falconetti, Antonin Artaud)

79. Pulp Fiction - (1994, Quentin Tarantino) (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman)

80. Duck Soup - (1933, Leon McCarey) (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx)

81. Rebel Without a Cause - (1955, Nicholas Ray) (James Dean, Natalie Wood)

82. Ben-Hur - (1959, William Wyler) (Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd)

83. Raiders of the Lost Ark - (1981, Steven Spielberg) (Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman)

84. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)

85. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)

86. Aguirre, Wrath of God - (1972, Werner Herzog) (Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera)

87. The Bicycle Thief - (1948, Vittorio De Sica) (Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell)

88. Sansho the Bailiff - (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuya Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa)

89. Modern Times - (1936, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard)

90. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)

91. King Kong - (1933, Merian C. Cooper) (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong)

92. Cinema Paradisio - (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore) (Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio)

93. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)

94. The Children of Paradise - (1945, Marcel Carne) (Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault)

95. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (1972, Luis Bunuel) (Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig)

96. Annie Hall - (1977, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)

97. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - (2003, Peter Jackson) (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin)

98. Cries and Whispers - (1972, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Liz Ullmann)

99. Yojimbo - (1961, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai)

100. City of God - (2002, Fernando Meirelles) (Jonathan Haagensen, Alexandre Rodrigues)

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