Books
February, 1991
One of the gutsiest moves ever made on a motion-picture screen is Woody Allen's use of that final, classic scene from Casablanca as a starting point for his own movie Play It Again, Sam. You feel that same sense of admiration for the audacity of the act when Robert B. Parker quotes liberally from Raymond Chandler's 1939 hard-boiled detective story The Big Sleep as a leitmotif to his new novel, Perchance to Dream (Putnam's).Parker, of course, invites comparison by writing this sequel to The Big S...
