Talk:Richard Condon/Draft: Difference between revisions

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
imported>Hayford Peirce
imported>Hayford Peirce
Line 6: Line 6:


"Throughout his life, Mr. Condon displayed a wry, even diabolical streak. He often named his characters after real people. For example, the characters in Raymond Shaw's infantry squad in "The Manchurian Candidate" were named for people associated with the Phil Silvers television show, "You'll Never Get Rich." His longest-running character, Dr. Weiler, was named after A. H. Weiler, a former film critic for The Times. In various Condon novels, Dr. Weiler turns up as an obstetrician, a cardiologist, a psychiatrist and the royal physician." [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 02:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
"Throughout his life, Mr. Condon displayed a wry, even diabolical streak. He often named his characters after real people. For example, the characters in Raymond Shaw's infantry squad in "The Manchurian Candidate" were named for people associated with the Phil Silvers television show, "You'll Never Get Rich." His longest-running character, Dr. Weiler, was named after A. H. Weiler, a former film critic for The Times. In various Condon novels, Dr. Weiler turns up as an obstetrician, a cardiologist, a psychiatrist and the royal physician." [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 02:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
== references to the Condon cult ==
* as late as the 1969 NYT review of Mile High at http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F0081EFB3A5910738DDDA80B94D0405B898AF1D3
* even later, in 1974, in NYT review of Winter Kills at http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0B17FD3A5F107A93C4AB178ED85F408785F9
* The Detroit Free Press for Any God Will Do at http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/details/198370-Any+God+Will+Do, a secondary source

Revision as of 13:26, 30 April 2010

This article has a Citable Version.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
To learn how to update the categories for this article, see here. To update categories, edit the metadata template.
 Definition (1915 – 1996) A prolific and popular American political novelist whose satiric works were generally presented in the form of thrillers or semi-thrillers. [d] [e]
Checklist and Archives
 Workgroup categories Literature and Politics [Categories OK]
 Subgroup category:  American Literature
 Talk Archive none  English language variant American English

Small change to fix categories. Chris Day 19:36, 28 August 2008 (CDT)

Names in his books

"Throughout his life, Mr. Condon displayed a wry, even diabolical streak. He often named his characters after real people. For example, the characters in Raymond Shaw's infantry squad in "The Manchurian Candidate" were named for people associated with the Phil Silvers television show, "You'll Never Get Rich." His longest-running character, Dr. Weiler, was named after A. H. Weiler, a former film critic for The Times. In various Condon novels, Dr. Weiler turns up as an obstetrician, a cardiologist, a psychiatrist and the royal physician." Hayford Peirce 02:29, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

references to the Condon cult