I'm not a big fan of this show. I don't really like Peter Lawford and I'm not fussed on Hammett's Thin Man either, the book or films, I just don't think it comes close to his best work but I got wind of a beatnik episode so I tracked it down and it's not bad. There's a pretty good scene with some great dialog in a greenwich village coffee house with an enormous espresso machine. Character actor Paul Richards stars as Freddy Dee, a smart alec-y beatnik who may or may not be involved in some murders that just happened. He recites some hip poetry and there follows some mis-guided conversation about the beat generation. That's about the best of it. I will feature some of the dialog in the next Dreamsville Show Podcast so stay tuned. In the meantime, here's some screens.
Nick, Nora and Asta the dog.
"Two coffees, plain and black."
"There is no now. There is no now.
Anyhow.
The time is double zero, nought, nothing. The clock is a delusion measuring the illusion of now. There is no now.
Tomorrow rushes backward to yesterday and today is a treadmill into the past where at long last we are at home with Nineveh and Tyr and the glory that was Rome.
To be born is to fall into an open grave, so why be a slave to breath when death is the livin' end of everyone.
There's only one thing you can trust.
Today is fleeting but the past will last and dust is a must but there is no now.
Anyhow."
"Hello Freddy, real cool company. Man, what a drag. You're not so bad though. You're...approximate."
"Arf Arf!"
"You know that cat is in a real crazy orbit, I mean he is way out and loopin'"
