"The Maltese Falcon (novel) The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine ""Black Mask"" beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade (who also appeared later in some lesser-known short stories), was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of"
"for his two-part script for TV's ""The Untouchables"". He was the recipient of three Peabody Awards. William Spier William Hannan Spier (October 16, 1906 – May 30, 1973) was an American writer, producer, and director for television and radio. He is best known for his radio work, notably ""Suspense"" and ""The Adventures of Sam Spade"". Born in New York City to a Jewish father and a Presbyterian mother, Spier began his career on the editorial staff of ""Musical America"" magazine, eventually becoming its chief critic. He was married to Mary Scanlan, with whom he had three children: Peter (deceased), Greta,"
"William Spier William Hannan Spier (October 16, 1906 – May 30, 1973) was an American writer, producer, and director for television and radio. He is best known for his radio work, notably ""Suspense"" and ""The Adventures of Sam Spade"". Born in New York City to a Jewish father and a Presbyterian mother, Spier began his career on the editorial staff of ""Musical America"" magazine, eventually becoming its chief critic. He was married to Mary Scanlan, with whom he had three children: Peter (deceased), Greta, and Margaret. He was later married to Kay Thompson from 1942–47, and to June Havoc from"
"Sam and Twitch Sam Burke and Maximilian ""Twitch"" Williams are two fictional NYPD homicide detectives, created by Todd McFarlane. Sam and Twitch were originally featured in McFarlane's hit comic series ""Spawn"". Due to their popularity, they were later given their own title in 1999, called ""Sam and Twitch"". In their self-titled series, the duo were the protagonists in a dark and gritty New York City. The fictional universe of ""Sam and Twitch"" is somewhat different from average comics in which costumed heroes are not the norm. Detective Sam Burke is often seen as the brawn of the group. Sam is"
"Simple Rules"" (2004–2005). In animation, he voiced Kuzco in the 2000 film ""The Emperor's New Groove"" and its direct-to-video sequel, ""Kronk's New Groove"" and the red panda Aliur in ""Snowflake, the White Gorilla"". His comedic style, in both his stand-up material and acting roles, relies heavily on sarcasm and self-deprecation. Spade was born in Birmingham, Michigan to Judith J. (née Meek), a writer and magazine editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales representative. His brothers are Bryan and Andy Spade; Andy Spade is an entrepreneur who, together with his late wife Kate Spade, co-founded the designer brand Kate Spade New"
"detectives, most notably his detached demeanor, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. Spade was a new character created specifically by Hammett for ""The Maltese Falcon""; he had not appeared in any of Hammett's previous stories. Hammett says about him: Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not—or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague—want to be"
"New York Times"", John J. O'Connor wrote, ""For the 1930's, Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade, the private eye. With Jack. the Philadelphia lawyer, Mr. Sayles, the film maker and writer (""Matewan"", ""Eight Men Out""), gets a crystal-clear bead on the 1990s"". In his review for the ""Los Angeles Times"", Don Shirley wrote, ""Sayles scores points for making Shannon less than a shining white knight and for creating a gallery of interesting and sometimes amusing subsidiary characters,"" but felt that ""Some of those characters, however, are developed more predictably than we might expect from Sayles"". Shannon's Deal Shannon's Deal is an"
"Kate Spade Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan (December 24, 1962 – June 5, 2018), known professionally as Kate Spade and Kate Valentine, was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York. After working in the accessories department at the fashion magazine ""Mademoiselle"", Brosnahan and her husband, Andy Spade, identified a market for quality stylish handbags, and founded Kate Spade New York in 1993. The handbags Spade designed and produced quickly found popularity, owing to their sophistication and affordability, and have been described as a symbol of New York"
"elements of the story changed. Warner Bros. had been prevented by the Hays Office censors from re-releasing the 1931 version due to its ""lewd"" content. Though largely compliant with the Production Code, Huston's 1941 remake did contain some innuendo: when the police implicate Spade in his partner's murder, Spade asks Detective Polhaus, ""What's your boyfriend gettin' at, Tom?"" Reportedly, Humphrey Bogart was not the first choice to play Sam Spade. Producer Hal B. Wallis initially offered the role to George Raft, who rejected it because he did not want to work with an inexperienced director, choosing instead to make ""Manpower"","
"by Dashiell Hammett, commissioned by Darryl Zanuck at Warner Bros. for ""another original Sam Spade story,"" following the first film adaption of Hammett's ""The Maltese Falcon"". Hammett's commission for that treatment was for ""motion picture production...featuring the actor, William Powell."" Zanuck rejected the treatment, explaining that ""The finished story [had] none of qualifications of ""Maltese Falcon"", although the same character was in both stories."" Rights to the treatment reverted to Hammett, who reworked it, re-titling it ""On the Make"" and renaming the detective character Gene Richmond. After further re-work, and another change of the detective's name (to T. N. Thompson),"
"of ""Case Files"" starts much later in their lives and revisits one of their old nemesis. Sam and Twitch Sam Burke and Maximilian ""Twitch"" Williams are two fictional NYPD homicide detectives, created by Todd McFarlane. Sam and Twitch were originally featured in McFarlane's hit comic series ""Spawn"". Due to their popularity, they were later given their own title in 1999, called ""Sam and Twitch"". In their self-titled series, the duo were the protagonists in a dark and gritty New York City. The fictional universe of ""Sam and Twitch"" is somewhat different from average comics in which costumed heroes are not"
"James Spader James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying eccentric characters in films such as the drama ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989), the action science fiction film ""Stargate"" (1994), the controversial psychological thriller ""Crash"" (1996), and the erotic romance ""Secretary"" (2002). His best-known television roles are those of attorney Alan Shore in ""The Practice"" and its spin-off ""Boston Legal"" (for which he won three Emmy Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary ""The Office"". He currently stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond ""Red"" Reddington in the NBC crime drama ""The Blacklist"","
"Henri Spade Henri Spade (16 July 1921 - 12 November 2008) was a French journalist, television producer and novelist. He co-produced ""La joie de vivre"", the first entertainment program on French television, in the 1950s. He directed and produced television films. He was ""a pioneer of French television"". Henri Spade was born on July 16, 1921 in Paris, France. He graduated from the University of Paris and the University of Strasbourg, where he studied the Humanities and the Law. During World War II, he joined the Free French Forces in Spain. Spade began his career as a journalist in Paris"
"previous detectives, notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, unflinching, sometimes ruthless, determination to achieve his own form of justice, and a complete lack of sentimentality. ‘Sam’ Spade is a private detective in San Francisco, in partnership with Miles Archer. The beautiful ""Miss Wonderly"" hires them to follow Floyd Thursby, who has run off with her sister. Archer takes the first stint but is found shot dead that night. Thursby is also killed later and Spade is a suspect. The next morning, Spade coolly tells his office secretary, Effie Perine, to have the office door repainted to read simply"
"an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client. From the 1940s onward, the character became closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Spade in the third and best-known film version of ""The Maltese Falcon"". Though Bogart's slight frame, dark features and no-nonsense depiction contrasted with Hammett's vision of Spade (blond, well-built and mischievous), his sardonic portrayal was well-received, and is generally"
"children of divorced parents, became an inspiration for later work. They are distantly related to famed architect Moshe Safdie. The Safdie brothers are of Syrian-Jewish ancestry, and were raised in the Jewish faith. In 2007, Partners & Spade co-founder Andy Spade commissioned Josh Safdie to create a short film to promote Kate Spade Handbags. Together, Josh and Benny and their cohort submitted instead a feature-length script, which they began shooting with Spade's support. Co-writer Eleonore Hendricks stars as a lonely kleptomaniac whose childlike charms and curiosity nevertheless leave her estranged from her fellow city dwellers. From purses to bags of"
"shell, without any human feelings whatsoever"". In the penultimate chapter of ""The Dain Curse"", a female client, whose life the Op has saved three times, while also curing her of morphine addiction, says to him: The Op is one of the first major hardboiled detectives later developed in such characters as Hammett's own Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer and others. The Continental Op made his debut in an October 1923 issue of ""Black Mask"", making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp magazines of"
"died of AIDS complications on May 13, 1996. David Spada David Spada (December 5, 1961 – May 13, 1996) was a jewelry designer in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, and the creator and marketer of Freedom Rings. Spada was born in New Britain, Connecticut and grew up in Berlin, Connecticut. He attended Parsons School of Design in New York City, graduating around 1982. He began making jewelry as a student, and his works were recognized as early as 1984, when a piece made from orange rubber tubing was highlighted in the ""New York Times"". Spada became especially"
"of his sister-in-law Kate Spade, a fashion designer. Spade resides in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2017, his house was burglarized. David Spade David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on ""Saturday Night Live"", then began a successful acting career in both film and television. He also starred or co-starred in the films ""Tommy Boy"", ""Black Sheep"", ""Joe Dirt"", """", ""Grown Ups"", and ""Grown Ups 2"", among others. He has been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running"
"Samantha Spade Special Agent Samantha ""Sam"" Spade is a fictional character portrayed by actress Poppy Montgomery on the CBS television drama ""Without a Trace"". Samantha is a Special Agent in the New York City FBI missing persons case squad led by Special Agent Jack Malone. She was raised in a poor, troubled home in the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin and as a result is particularly empathetic to kids in troubled situations. She was very unhappy as a teenager and tried to run away when she was sixteen, but was stopped by her mother and a policeman. She had a short-lived"
"David Spada David Spada (December 5, 1961 – May 13, 1996) was a jewelry designer in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s, and the creator and marketer of Freedom Rings. Spada was born in New Britain, Connecticut and grew up in Berlin, Connecticut. He attended Parsons School of Design in New York City, graduating around 1982. He began making jewelry as a student, and his works were recognized as early as 1984, when a piece made from orange rubber tubing was highlighted in the ""New York Times"". Spada became especially known for his work in colored anodized aluminum,"
"Andy Spade Andrew Spade is an American entrepreneur. He founded the fashion brand Kate Spade New York with his wife, Kate Spade, as well the design company Partners & Spade. Spade was born in Michigan, the middle child in a family of three brothers. His family moved to Arizona when he was nine. He attended Arizona State University, where he met his future wife Kate Brosnahan. During college, he and a friend founded the advertising firm Spade & Hannawell, which was named one of Arizona's Top 10 New Companies in 1987. Spade was married to designer Kate Spade from 1994"
"by appearing as Spade on the first episode of the new series with what Dunning called ""a vocal telegram, wishing the new hero well."" Private investigator Charlie Wild had his headquarters in New York City. Leon Morse wrote in a review in the trade publication ""Billboard"" that the program had ""tough talk, vivid similies, a hard-guy hero and fantastic descriptions of females."" George Petrie played Wild in the NBC episodes. Kevin O'Morrison replaced Petrie when the program went to CBS, and John McQuade replaced O'Morrison on March 25, 1951. Peter Hobbs portrayed McCoy, Wild's assistant. The producers were Edwin Marshall"
"III called ""Garfield Fantasies"" the most unusual of the ""Garfield"" DVD collections, adding ""Babes and Bullets"" ""ain't exactly ""Sin City"" here, but this amusing caper is one of the best of the bunch."" Author Mitzi M. Brunsdale described Sam Spayed as one of the ""strange spinoffs"" of the Sam Spade character, created by Dashiell Hammett in the novel ""The Maltese Falcon"". ""Turner Classic Movies"" identified Sam Spayed particularly as a parody of 1940s film detectives and Humphrey Bogart, who starred as Spade in the 1941 film version of ""The Maltese Falcon"". Garfield's Babes and Bullets Garfield's Babes and Bullets is"
"1948 until his death in 1973. His radio career began in 1929, when he produced and directed ""The Atwater Kent Hour"", an hour-long Sunday night presentation of Metropolitan Opera artists. Spier was chief of the writers' department and director of development at CBS in 1940, when he was co-producer of ""Suspense"" and ""Duffy's Tavern"". In 1947, he won a Mystery Writers of America award for ""The Adventures of Sam Spade"". A 1949 magazine article said Spier ""is generally rated radio's top-notch creator of suspense-type dramas."" In 1952, Spier introduced TV's first 90-minute show, ""Omnibus"", for CBS. In 1953, he produced"
"the complete ""Mike Hammer"" comic strip, with a special introduction by Max Collins. Mike Hammer Michael Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book ""I, the Jury"". In 1946, Spillane, an established comic-book writer, worked with illustrator Mike Roy to create the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he reworked the story as the novel ""I, the Jury"", converting Mike Danger to Mike Hammer and supporting character Holly to Velda. While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and"
"leadership, 26 Kate Spade stores were opened in North America and Japan. In 2008, he established Partners & Spade, a storefront and studio on Lafayette Street in the NoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan. In 2013, he launched a collection of loungewear, Sleepy Jones, with Anthony Sperduti and Chad Buri. Along with launching Partners & Spade, he produced feature films with Red Bucket Films and is conceiving and publishing books through HarperCollins. On June 5, 2018; Spade’s spouse Kate was found deceased in her New York apartment by one of her housekeepers. Her manner of death was ruled a suicide due"
"University of Missouri, Kansas City. Also in 2017, she was named one of the Most Creative People in Business by ""Fast Company"". Kate Spade Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan (December 24, 1962 – June 5, 2018), known professionally as Kate Spade and Kate Valentine, was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York. After working in the accessories department at the fashion magazine ""Mademoiselle"", Brosnahan and her husband, Andy Spade, identified a market for quality stylish handbags, and founded Kate Spade New York in 1993. The handbags Spade"
"Mike Hammer Michael Hammer is a fictional hard boiled detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book ""I, the Jury"". In 1946, Spillane, an established comic-book writer, worked with illustrator Mike Roy to create the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he reworked the story as the novel ""I, the Jury"", converting Mike Danger to Mike Hammer and supporting character Holly to Velda. While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal"
"William Spade William Spade (born September 12, 1962) is an American criminal defense attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His clients have included Corey Kemp, the former Treasurer of the City of Philadelphia, who was prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice for honest services fraud, Julius Murray, a private social worker, charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly, who was allegedly starved to death by her mother, Andrea Kelly, and Kevin Felder, who was charged with capital murder in the shooting death of five-year-old Casha'e Rivers, but ultimately cleared. Spade was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He"
"names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe. His first two stories, ""Blackmailers Don't Shoot"" and ""Smart-Aleck Kill"" (with a detective named Mallory), were never altered in print but did join the others as Marlowe cases for the television series ""Philip Marlowe, Private Eye"". Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in ""Black Mask"" magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative and philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to"
"received positively by audiences. The movies and series were produced under the guidance of Executive Producer Jay Bernstein, who acquired the television rights from his close friend Mickey Spillane for one dollar. The show follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focusses on the murder of someone the protagonist was close to, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge. Keach was familiar with the tough and insensitive novelized version of Hammer and worked to make his"
"David Spade David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on ""Saturday Night Live"", then began a successful acting career in both film and television. He also starred or co-starred in the films ""Tommy Boy"", ""Black Sheep"", ""Joe Dirt"", """", ""Grown Ups"", and ""Grown Ups 2"", among others. He has been part of an ensemble cast of two long-running sitcoms: ""Just Shoot Me!"" (1997–2003) and ""Rules of Engagement"" (2007–2013). Additionally, he starred as C. J. Barnes in the sitcom ""8"