Loren Singer, author of The Parallax View, died Saturday at the age of 86. Loren Singer, whose 1970 conspiracy thriller, “The Parallax View,” later made into a movie starring Warren Beatty, was one of the first novels to offer a politically paranoid vision of the United States as a country controlled by ruthless technocrats, died on Saturday in Valhalla, N.Y.Mr. Singer, who picked up a few pointers on covert operations while training with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, seized on the political assassinations of the 1960s as a starting point for “The Parallax View.” The main character, a newspaper reporter played by Mr. Beatty in the film, witnesses a presidential assassination and soon discovers that nearly all other witnesses to the event have been hunted down and killed.
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I remember seeing the Parallax View when it first came out. It was one of the first to have the US run by a shadowy group against which no one could win. It also had an ambiguous ending. Needless to say, I have not forgotten it.
ReplyDeleteI never read the novel, but I did see the movie, and it was top-notch. I believe it was also one of Jim Davis' last movie roles.
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