Status Updates From Blue City (Colección Los Ex...

This seems to have almost nothing in common with the 1980s movie version starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy. Which is fine with me. I thought the character relationships - who knows who, and from when - would be at least slightly similar…but no. Now, it has been a while since I watched it (I have it on disc, for Sheedy Infatuation Nostalgia Night Every Ten Years Or So), but they changed a lot, says my memory!

A good start. Obviously I'm immersed in the 1940s, where the 1980s film version (of some obscurity) modernized everything. I remember the solution to the whodunit, in the film...so unless this is one of those very rare instances where they actually change who the killer is - and I don't like that sort of move - I can't be surprised. But Ross MacDonald novels offer more than just a final reveal. Style, for starts.

"What's going to happen to that box of Ross Macdonald paperbacks?" - "We're gonna put them out on the floor at $5 each." - "Oh, you know what price you're going with, already? Can I look through the box now...or do you need to--" - "Of course! Go ahead." ----- "These four are in the best shape, I will take these, if I may." Oila-vay! I liked these covers when they first came out, and am happy to have a few.

Right, so, Ally Sheedy was a huge early celebrity crush for me. Now the legal drinking age here is 18 years old, and I didn’t drink booze till age 24. BUT. I did go to my first Restricted movie, like, a day after turning the required 18 for that…because Ally Sheedy was in the 1986 film release of the film version of Blue City. The rest, as they say, was more Claire Forlani. Fickle me. Excited to read this, finally!