My early exposure to Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective stories came through the TV series 'Mike Hammer', where Stacy Keach was the ninth actor out of eleven—at least so far—to play the part. I was disappointed when that show got taken off the air because he’d been incarcerated for smuggling cocaine, but I continued to look for his performances in movies. This led me to appreciate his roles in 'The Ninth Configu…