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?

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?