"The Apartment" to the Rescue

I'm a long-time fan of the 1960 movie "The Apartment" starring Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray and Jack Lemmon. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and
I.A.L. Diamond, it's a wonderful comedy with a bite.

Yesterday, when I posted "Movie and Book References Help Define Your Characters" on my Writer's Notebook Blog, I focused on my use of "Farewell, My Lovely," to help me illustrate the old-fashioned noir protagonist in my recent novel "Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire."

There'...