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A Guy's Guy.(The Mike Hammer Collection)
The Mike Hammer Collection, 2 vols., by Mickey Spillane, Vol. 1: I, the Jury, My Gun Is Quick, Vengeance Is Mine (New American Library, 513 pp., $15), and Vol. 2: One Lonely Night, The Big Kill, Kiss Me, Deadly (517 pp., $15).
You remember Mickey Spillane, right? No? Not to worry-it's an age thing. If you were born before 1960, his name will definitely ring a bell. He wrote six of the biggest-selling detective novels of the 20th century, and Mike Hammer, their private-eye hero, was for a time all but synonymous with the genre. The books spawned two TV series and several movies of widely varying quality, among them Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me, Deadly (1955), now ...
- Keach, `Mike Hammer' return // Drug arrest interrupted series
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Daniel Ruth April 18, 1986 700+ words
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) Mike Hammer Stacy Keach Joanna Lake Lauren Hutton Directed...detective show "The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," airing from 8 to 10 over CBS, WBBM-Channel...
- Producer fine-tunes `Mike Hammer'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Jerry Buck March 31, 1987 700+ words
LOS ANGELES Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's tough-guy...show to an earlier hour. "The New Mike Hammer" has been moved back to Saturdays...rarely collecting a fee. "The New Mike Hammer," which originally was "Mickey...
- `Mike Hammer' smells the roses // Actor Stacy Keach returns
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Daniel Ruth April 17, 1986 700+ words
...The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," airing from 8 to 10 p.m. on WBBM...resiliency and a one-man crusade by "Mike Hammer" producer Jay Bernstein, who lobbied...that it made him a better actor and Mike Hammer a better character. "It's a grounding...
- Mike Hammer.(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch May 1, 2009 700+ words
Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane Blackstone Audiobooks...detective is the late Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, a two-fisted guy who never goes...all the actors who have portrayed the Mike Hammer character in film or television, none...
- CBS' new Mike Hammer flashier, less violent gumshoe
- Newspaper article from: La Prensa de San Antonio Pete Bucci December 2, 1994 700+ words
...San Antonio 12-02-1994 CBS' new Mike Hammer flashier, less violent gumshoe. CBS...Die With Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery, a movie debuting Tuesday...really into creating kind of a different Mike Hammer and let it take us wherever it took...
- DARREN MCGAVIN\ '50S MIKE HAMMER BECAME '70S 'NIGHT STALKER' ON TV.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) February 27, 2006 700+ words
...TV series, including the syndicated "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" (1957-'59), "Riverboat," co-starring with Burt...The X-Files." CAPTION(S): Photo Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer, the first of his five starring television series.
- Keach 'Hammer'-ing away. (Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer television program)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable Littleton, Cynthia February 3, 1997 700+ words
...Stacy Keach is returning to series TV this fall as detective Mike Hammer. MG/Perin has cleared its new weekly first-run drama...52% of the country, Stations on board for the new-model Mike Hammer include most outlets in the Partner Stations Network consortium...
- JOHN STANG II, MODEL FOR COP MIKE HAMMER.(NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) January 13, 1996 700+ words
...ASSOCIATED PRESS John A. Stang II, a retired policeman whom Mickey Spillane credits as the model for his hard-bitten detective Mike Hammer, died Sunday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 72. Stang was a police officer in Newburgh, N.Y., when he met Spillane in...
