Hard-Boiled

Tatum: “I didn’t go to any college, but I know what makes a good story because, before I ever worked on a paper, I sold ’em on a street corner. You know the first thing I found out? Bad news sells best because good news is no news.” 

Lorraine: “I’ve met some hard-boiled eggs in my time, but you . . . you’re 20 minutes.”

—Kirk Douglas (1916-2020), playing journalist Charles Tatum in “Ace in the Hole” (aka “The Big Carnival”), screenplay by Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman (1951).

• Editorial Comment: I am Spartacus.

• NBC Obit: “Kirk Douglas, legendary Hollywood tough guy, dead at 103.”

• WaPost Obit: “Kirk Douglas, whose masculine energy powered scores of film roles, dies at 103.”

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