catching up/DeLillo, Chandler, Hammett

[David Casseres]

I've enjoyed Elroys books, but then I was never looking for literary
merit there.  As you say, we are after all talking about the LAPD
here.  Anyone who lived in LA in the fifties can feel the resonances.

By the way, I believe Elroy's mother was murdered in a way reminiscent
of the Blue Dahlia murder.

On 8/28/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 28, 2006, at 8:14 PM, rich wrote:
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> elroy was invented by robert crumb--donkey-dicking his way thru ghastly
> murder scenes, stroking himself, high on speed, in inumerable LA flophouses
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> white jazz is just way too funny but we are talking about the LAPD here;
> actually looking fwd to black dahlia film--of course, there's True
> Confessions and LA Confidential--duval and crowe respectively are great
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> see the doc on ellroy--he appeared un announced at the theater in NYC I saw
> it in w/ a friend when it came out
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> ellroy is a barker, nothing else
> but he does know seedy LA pretty well
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> In the Black Dahlia I thought he got post-war L.A. down quite well. Made a
> few minor technical slips now and then like  having the Herald Express
> newspaper coming out in morning.
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> He was born in '47, the year  of the famous murder.
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> A grisly question asked at the time was, who made Elizabeth Short.
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> On 8/27/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> > On Aug 26, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Scott Badger wrote:
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> > > ...Elizabeth Short's nick-name, Black Dahlia, refers to The Blue
> > > Dahlia, a 1946 movie written by Raymond Chandler...
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> > Also, Veronica Lake, star of The Blue Dahlia, figures in L.A.
> > Confidential. (the movie version at least)
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> > Everything connects. :-)
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> > > Fwiw, I vote Chandler.
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> > > They make good movies. "Black Dahlia" is about to premier.
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> > > Arts, Briefly; Films in Venice
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> > > Five American films will be in competition at the Venice
> > > International Film Festival from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9. Now in its
> > > 63rd year, the festival is opening with the premiere of Brian De
> > > Palma's ''Black Dahlia,'' an adaptation of James Ellroy's novel
> > > about the murder of a young Hollywood actress. It stars Josh
> > > Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson, below, who was a jury member in 2004.
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