The best rapper in the world is white
Len Deighton had his good ones tooā¦to go along with some brilliant war books, like Fighter, Bomber, Goodbye Mickey Mouse and Blitzkrieg. A couple are novels, a couple non-fiction to go along with his penchant for French cookery.
Iām right into the wartime/Cold War stuff recently. Just read A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson, who also wrote the FalcĆ³n novels set in Seville.
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All true but almost nothing is as white as the style of country that C Pride engaged in.
Speaking of unusual musical race cross-overs, is there any genre whiter than punk/hard core? No one must have told Bad Brainsā¦
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Len Deightonās āSamsonā series (game, set, match; hook, line, sinker; faith, hope, charity) are terrific, and I love them. But they are more pulp fiction than le Carreās work.
I also like Deightonās Winter - which gave a background to the Samson series.
Bomber was excellent too.
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I hope you donāt mean Eminem?
He hasnāt released a decent album for almost two decades.
Heās talking about Vanilla Ice of courseā¦
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I agree that thereās likely to be another. He was very prolific and Iām sure he was pounding the keyboard till the day he keeled over. There are writers who have to force themselves to write, and others who canāt stop themselves. Le CarrĆ© was one of the latter.
Personally I thought his novels went down a notch after the Wall fell, and having gone down that notch settled into a gradual decline. You mentioned A Legacy of Spies. I thought it was very disappointing. Basically the whole thing was a retelling of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold which added precisely zero to the original. Iāve read Agents Running in the Field and had forgotten it the day after I finished it. The Night Manager was good, but an unimaginably wealthy international arms dealer is not exactly a difficult target.
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Fair point, heās still got street cred.
Yes, sorry should have used past tense. At the time he was the best rapper. Was also the same time the best golfer was black
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Tinker Tailor and Smileyās People are available on Amazon Prime.
The film quality is showing its age, but I suppose weāre lucky they kept it. The BBC dumped or copied over heaps of video of stuff from the sixties and seventies like The Frost Report, Monty Python preceders, The Likely Lads, Z Cars, Not Only But Also.
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Weāve got the DVDs. They are still great. Smileyās People is actually better than I remembered it. I watched it not long ago. And Alec Guinness was born to be Smiley, despite being far too tall and not fat enough. Gary Oldman in that ā ā ā ā ā ā movie was a travesty.
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Guinness did self-effacing beautifully. And the movie just had to have a gay character, didnāt it?
Not many current actors self-efface as well. Tom Hanks is pretty good at it. All the Hanks-haters can kiss my derriĆØre.
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Yeah no one self-effaces like Tom Hanks self-effaces.
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Iāve never seen that. Thanks for posting.
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Gerard Houllier, the French coach who won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup treble with Liverpool, has died aged 73.
Black, Disco, Cowboys. Ticks all the boxes.
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Thatās great @GRR. I have not seen it before either. Deserves to be posted in another thread also for more to see.
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Actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 75.
A statement on Bullochās website said he died peacefully in a London hospital on Thursday local time following health complications, including several years living with Parkinsonās disease.