" On the phone, he lies to one of his disgruntled clients, jazz-club owner Joe Robard (Joseph Leon), insisting with sweet-talk that he purposefully asked Hunsecker towithholdan item until he could give it a "fine, fat paragraph.Marriott stated that he had just recently required the services of a private investigator, and had randomly picked Marlowe, to accompany him as a bodyguard that evening for $100 dollars, to a "rather secluded canyon just above the beach colony.He applies as a hack in a taxi company to drive the taxi night shift, because he is an insomniac: "I can""t sleep nights" and he finds nothing meaningful to do during the days." In her bedroom (under a Charles Manson poster), Laurie again awoke from a nightmare - one that mirrored Michael""s.A common wizard""s defence charm that repelled a Boggart was "Riddikulus" spoken while thinking of something very funny: "You need to force it to assume a shape you find truly amusing.