[RightWhale]

Did they ever get that business about Billy the Kid straightened out?

[Thebaddog]

Where does he keep his money?

[buccaneer81]

Sorry, Steve McQueen died in 1980.

[BradyLS]

Fortune came with the publication of "Papillon", after which he bankrolled a flop film -- The Queen of Diamonds with Claudia Cardinale -- moved to Spain, wrote the follow-up "Banco", and died of throat cancer in 1973.

I ask you: how could a movie starring Claudia Cardinale POSSIBLY flop??? No, Charrier's story does not add up...

[muawiyah]

Well, whatever ~ what I'd like to know and maybe this guy can tell us is where they got the idea for the "butt plug"?

That was really farsighted ~ eventually we are going to carry all our electronic gear in there, of course, but how could these guys figure all that out so long ago.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump for later reference.

[sinanju]

"Fortune came with the publication of "Papillon", after which he bankrolled a flop film -- The Queen of Diamonds with Claudia Cardinale -- moved to Spain, wrote the follow-up "Banco", and died of throat cancer in 1973."

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I read "Banco" years after "Papillon". "Banco" was his all own and in it (through flashbacks) he basically admits he was an awful, self-destructive juvenile delinquent and a low-life crook who was lucky to live long enough to mature sufficiently to go straight. Essentially, the murder was the only crime of which he claimed to be innocent.