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NOIR CITY, the acclaimed magazine of the Film Noir Foundation, now available in print!Issue #36 salutes 100 years of Veronica Lake. To mark the noir icon's centenary, Lynsey Ford considers Lake's film career and her private life, "astragic and convoluted as any film noir plot."Als in this issue: Farran Smith Nehme on the neo-noir world of "theFrench Hitchcock,"filmmaker Claude Chabrol Brent Calderwood surveys the slippery history of masseurs and masseuses in film noir Steve Kronenberg hears the siren song of
Gale Sondergaard Jim Thomsen profiles artist and "Drier's Seat"singer Paul Roberts Bob Sassone discovers the charms of the classic yuletide-set noir Cover Up Eddie Muller offers a heartfelt memorial to novelist Jim Nisbet an interview with Mickey Spillane's biographer Max Allan Collins and Nora Fiore compares the book and film versions of Out of the Past. Plus book reviews, film reviews, and more.