Talk:Bang the Drum Slowly

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Recommending novel and film as separate articles. - Alan Smithee 05:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The last paragraph of this article is slightly incorrect as The Godfather was made a year earlier. The film Pacino abandoned, and in which DeNiro was cast in his place was The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.

(Anishta77 16:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC))[reply]

WikiProject class rating[edit]

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 04:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I took out part about "Brian's Song".[edit]

What does this book have to do with "Brian's Song"? Absolutely nothing. Which is why I edited it out. Slater79 (talk) 05:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New York Mammoths[edit]

I am sure the Mammoths are based on the Giants, not the Yankees... the name is a synonym, and Mark Harris was a Giants fan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.163.152.98 (talk) 23:53, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

bang ≠ beat[edit]

so why is it called "bang the drum slowly", if it's named after the quote "BEAT the drum slowly"??

author could have just as well gone with that. 2601:19C:527F:A660:9BC:2F16:7C0D:386C (talk) 09:08, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


i rag nobody[edit]

is this an example of the book's "ungrammar", or was this really a transitive verb back then?

in modern NYese, one needs to insert an "on": "i rag on...".

also, to rag on is pretty lighthearted/jovial. not full-on bullying, as is implied here. 2601:19C:527F:A660:9BC:2F16:7C0D:386C (talk) 09:08, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]