# Two FLF details *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 11 Dec 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jerry Friedman *11 Dec 2002, 19:02* I carelessly deleted a post that mentioned Linda Loring. She's a character in at least two of Raymond Chandler's novels--Philip Marlowe is in love with her. Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in _The Big Sleep_ and _Farewell, My Lovely_, but Linda Loring isn't in those movies. The IMDB appears to search only for real people, not characters. Also, Unnamed City has a TV station called WROM (in Stubbs' questioning of Mrs. Baker). The only TV station by that name that I could find is or more likely was in Rome, Georgia--which can't be the setting of FLF, at least in our universe. Maybe a reference to a Rome that's more important to Wolfe? ``` Jerry Friedman ``` --- ### James Wynn *11 Dec 2002, 19:48 · follows Jerry Friedman* Actually IMDB **will** search for characters (just enter Philip Marlowe and you'll see it is true). It appears no movie (listed there) used the character or at least the name "Linda Loring". -- Crush -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Friedman [mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:03 PM To: urth at urth.net Subject: (urth) Two FLF details I carelessly deleted a post that mentioned Linda Loring. She's a character in at least two of Raymond Chandler's novels--Philip Marlowe is in love with her. Robert Mitchum played Marlowe in _The Big Sleep_ and _Farewell, My Lovely_, but Linda Loring isn't in those movies. The IMDB appears to search only for real people, not characters. Also, Unnamed City has a TV station called WROM (in Stubbs' questioning of Mrs. Baker). The only TV station by that name that I could find is or more likely was in Rome, Georgia--which can't be the setting of FLF, at least in our universe. Maybe a reference to a Rome that's more important to Wolfe? ``` Jerry Friedman ``` ---