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We spent yesterday in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre - saw a double feature of The African Queen and Beat the Devil, a lesser-known Huston film starring Bogart. The upstairs neighbor describes it as a "film noir, crime, screwball comedy" which is about right. A bit hard to follow, because of the different accents (Italian, Arabic, Peter Lorre) and the old print.
It's almost always enjoyable to sit up in the balcony and watch old films.

The exact quote

From Glory Road, by Robert A. Heinlein:
"The truth is, I've got a monkey on my back, a habit worse than marijuana though not as expensive as heroin... The fact is I am a compulsive reader. I'll read the ads in an old Paris-Match that has been used to wrap herring before I'll do without."

Worse than marijuana, huh? I dunno, all the films from that era (1963) clearly show that one puff of Mary Jane turns you into a crazed serial killer.