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ENTERTAINMENTARTS
&The Palm Beach Post
JSUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 13, 2005
PalmBeachPost.com
Star Trek: Enterprisebound for a black hole.Kevin D. Thompson,
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Theres a mini-boom under way in theSouth Florida classical music
biz that hark-ens back to the glorious 70s, when money
was easy and every town rushed to grow itsown orchestra.
In Palm Beach Countyalone, new start-up quartets,chamber
ensembles, orches-tras and choruses dot the
map.Mention a philharmonic
nowadays and you could bereferring to any of four newgroups: the
Boca Raton Phil-harmonic Symphonia, theDelray Beach
Philharmonic
Pops, the Boynton Beach-based New Phil-harmonic Orchestra, or
the Miami Philhar-
See McDANIEL, 4J >
Musicalurban
sprawl?
SharonMcDaniel
Why classical music isgrowing in south county
By SCOTT EYMANPalm Beach Post Books Editor
As is so often the case, RaymondChandler said it best, and with
a becom-ing generosity: Dashiell Hammett didover and over again
what only the best
writers can ever do at all. He wrotescenes that seemed never to
have been
written before.Hammetts ouevre is thin but lasting:
five novels published in six years (RedHarvest, The Maltese
Falcon, The DainCurse, The Glass Key, The Thin Man) andsix dozen
short stories.
The Maltese Falcon, celebrating its75th anniversary this month,
isnt Ham-
metts best book that would be RedHarvest. But its his most
influential,and, because of the Humphrey Bogartfilm, his most
famous.
Its the story of private detectiveSam Spade and his encounters
with a
trio of hard-boiled thieves searching fora jeweled statue of a
black bird. It maybe one of the most imitatednovels of the 20th
century the template for every story in-
volving a tough, wisecrackingprivate eye entangled with
adevious, alluring woman, andnow-stock characters like thedoll-face
secretary and the
THE MAN, THE MYSTERY
Its the 75th anniversary ofThe Maltese Falcon. Why are we
stillreading the hard-boiled creator of modern detective
fiction?
Aces of Spade
Some choice observations fromdetective Sam Spade in TheMaltese
Falcon.
On authority: Its a long while since I burst out crying
becausepolicemen didnt like me.
On a conniving woman: Youre good. Youre very good. Its chiefly
youreyes, I think, and that throb you get into your voice when you
say thingslike, Be generous, Mr. Spade.
On handling a villain: When youre slapped, youll take it and
like it.
On self-respect: When a mans partner is killed, hes supposed to
dosomething about it. It doesnt matter what you thought of him. He
wasyour partner and youre supposed to do something about it.
Humphrey Bogart playsSam Spade in the movieThe Maltese
Falcon.
See HAMMETT, 9J >
The Maltese Falcon
How I attended the Sundance FilmFestival, saw lots of stars
(from adistance) and almost ruined the
filming of an HBO series.
Hey, thatsSteve Buscemi!
AndKevin
Costner!
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
See SUNDANCE, 8J >
By MARGARET McKENZIEPalm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sundance. Just saying the name of thefamous Utah
independent-film festival sum-
mons images of Elijah Wood hanging with hisBrat Pack posse,
Paris Hilton whining overher $10,000 goody bag, film crews
trollingMain Street, and gorgeous snowcappedpeaks in the
background. If only it was reallylike that.
Guess what? It is!A recent impromptu journey to Park City
with my long-ago-film-school-graduate sisterwas an
eye-opener.
And believe me, you had to keep youreyes open: Look, theres Jay
Mohr. Is thatKevin Costner hiding under that FBI cap?Could it be
Robert Redford, or a stunt double,holding forth from a table at
Starbucks?
Whats that film crew doing? Whos she?Whos he?
M A X F I E L D P A R R I S H
The popular artist of Americana is unveiled in a Palm Beach
exhibition, which includes this colorful mural created
for the Long Island home of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Gary
Schwans review, 7J.
These large panels from a mural commissioned in 1912 for a Long
Island mansion are the centerpiece of an engaging exhibition of the
works of Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966).
