"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher's Weekly interview. "But if you called it a commitment...
Spenser, the private eye from Robert B. Parker's novels, returns in A&E's "Small Vices," a two-hour movie scripted by Parker and based on the 24th novel of his detective series. The movie, premiering Sunday at 8 p.m., stars Joe Mantegna as the street-smart...
Robert B. Parker, Boston's brand of Raymond Chandler, is hoping that the latest television incarnation of his macho but mannerly private eye Spenser is the one that sticks. The first installment in what Parker hopes will be a new Spenser movie franchise debuts...
