The Amazing ROAD Series: Pop Culture for the Sake of Pop Culture

Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby

I’ve made no secret of the fact that my Mike Taylor/Tony Solantro novels are very much influenced by the movies. The classic films of the ’30s and ’40s, mostly. That said, no other films influenced the style of my book series more than the Road comedies starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and the girl forever associated with the sarong, Dorothy Lamour.
These things were an industry phenomena, not only because they raked in the bucks like no previous musical-comedy series, but for the very nature of what they were — ’40s pop culture for the sake of being ’40s pop culture, quite unashamedly not pretending to be anything else. A reviewer once likened Hope and [...]

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