Roger Boylan

"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!

@throughmywindo2 Likely. Not sure.

@BoylanRoger Honda 750 four....?

Françoise Hardy on a Honda.

@RambleOnTexas Now, that's the way to do it!

@BoylanRoger I used to pick out a car, then not tell the wife, but just "accidentally" drive by the dealership and see if she noticed the car. If she did, we'd stop and touch the leather and sit behind the wheel. If she liked it, I'd act like it was her choice, so let's buy it for you!

A 1980 Ferrari 400i GT. One of the Scuderia's home runs.

@RambleOnTexas I bid on a 400GT like this at a car auction in New Braunfels. For about a minute, I was this close to being a Ferrari owner, then reality, and the guys with big wallets, took over. Just as well: my wife would have killed me.

@BoylanRoger That's a beautiful color and especially with the tan unborn-kid leather upholstery! IDK really know what leather they used, but it IS exotic.

@williamcooknews @OldieMagazine Really good obit, William. You highlight Deighton's appeal: his down-to-earthness and honest character. Completely the opposite of Fleming and Le Carré.

"I was never tempted to write 'serious' literature. This is not because I think that serious literature is too serious. It's because I think most serious literature is not serious at all." RIP #LenDeighton, master of spies. Me for ⁦@OldieMagazine⁩ theoldie.co.uk/blog/rip-len-d…

@elie_foube16925 Yes, that's exactly what I said. Beum!

@BoylanRoger What did you say? Beum???

Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) holding a "beum" in Blake Edwards' "Revenge of the Pink Panther," 1978.

@gabridli Very apt.

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

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The No. 12 tram in Geneva starting its journey in Carouge and heading for the end of the line in Moillesulaz, stopping at my old school on the way.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and his parents.

The Glacier Express from Chur to Zermatt at Göschenen, Uri canton, Switzerland.

Francis Ford Coppola directing a scene from "Apocalypse Now" in the Philippines, 1979.

Greta Scacchi.

Marcel Duchamp, originator of Conceptual art, at a chessboard.

Ingrid Pitt, Richard Burton and Mary Ure in "Where Eagles Dare," 1968.

Madison Avenue, New York, 1950s.

The Nabokovs at work: Vladimir dictating, Véra typing.

The arthritic and wheelchair-bound Renoir still painting, 1914.