serialdeviant.org(y) (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
(I thought this had been published, but it hadn’t. Ah well. Imagine it’s 23 November, you can do it.) Can I just say what an unexpected delight The House of the Mosque was. I do feel I’m at one remove from the author’s intentions in a translation, so I hope that the novel in its original [...]
Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
**** out of 5 You've probably already heard how crazy Werner Herzog's new Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is -- and it does quite often feel as if it were hopped up on crack as much as its...
LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
[books] Is James Ellroy The Best Judge Of His Own Novels? … James Ellroy on The Cold Six Thousand … ‘Ellroy was already there, sitting on a dais, dressed casually – khaki jumper with suede elbow pads, chinos and surprisingly fashionable shoes – more geography teacher on a field trip than “the demon dog, the [...]
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Sunday Papers: Observer: The Martin Beck crime series and the queen of crime http://bit.ly/8dkNBn TimesOnline: The conversation: James Ellroy http://bit.ly/7T7P1B - Author reads from his book and tells of his breakdown, divorce and drugs London Times Review: THE JUNIOR OFFICERS’ READING CLUB http://bit.ly/6L0M4b And what fighting in Afghanistan is all about - pretty grim. The Age on The Cornwell...
Blank Mag (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The celebrated crime writer reveals that after his last book led to a breakdown, drugs and divorce, this time he has his demons in check Some illuminating pre-interview James Ellroy research shows: “America’s greatest living crime writer” (some would root for Elmore Leonard) feigning joyful masturbation for the benefit of the Playboy Channel outside the [...]
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I want to find the guy who invented sex and ask him what he's working on now- Joke quoted by James Ellroy in the Times The Church is like a swimming pool, most of the noise comes from the shallow end- Theologian W.H. Vanstone quoted in the Guardian Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. -Woody Allen, quoted in the Independent. It is...
Malcolm Redfellow revivus (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The excellence of Richard J. Evans There's a small pile of unread fiction beside Malcolm's desk. Another on his bedside table. In the usual run of things, Nine Dragons, the 14th Harry Bosch, would be a day's non-work. Robert Harris's Lustrum , Cicero 2 , would be not much longer. James Ellroy's Blood's a Rover , completing the Underworld USA trilogy, might demand a bit longer. All of those have been...
First Offenders (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As far as I know, we'll be taking the next week off in order to stuff our faces and grit our teeth through all the "togetherness" with family, etc. But then will be back after that to line you all...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It’s been a terrific year for Stuart Neville. Superb reviews of his debut novel, THE TWELVE (aka THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST); interviewing James Ellroy at the Belfast Waterfront; and last weekend – in case you missed it – a lovely write up from Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times , in which TGOB was the lead review. All of which is very nice indeed, but then Stuart is a very nice bloke...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Even though Terminator Salvation was a lackluster installment in that franchise, no fault could be placed on Sam Worthington who, in my opinion, showed up Christian Bale on screen. And with the starring role in Avatar later this year, he's quickly becoming one of the most demanded actors in Hollywood. And we can add another project to his roster as Mania reports Worthington has signed on for an adaptation...
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
(with apologies to James Ellroy) 'New Moon' posters perniciously proliferate. Heart-throb head shots hang from hoardings. Brooding bloodsuckers emblazon bus stops. The emo undead encroach on commercial breaks, inveigle the internet, gaze glassy-eyed from glossy magazines. I'm implicity ignoring and tenaciously tuning out the abject adverts. I'm soft-pedalling on Stephanie Meyer's sell-out saga and...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
If you're making a big budget action or genre picture these days, one of the first names to attach seems to be Sam Worthington. That's what working with Cameron and being in a Terminator movie will do for a guy. And, despite the highly forgettable nature of Terminator: Salvation, I liked Worthington well enough in the film. Not as much as I enjoyed Anton Yelchin, but no big deal. But I still have a...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is there a movie this guy won't be in?
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The film is based on Rick Remender's comic from Radical Publishing.
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Continuing the James Ellroy theme of talented people being obsessed, here's writer Cormac McCarthy in a rare interview with the WSJ: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to...
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bestshill | 18/09/2009
Photograph scholars and collectors are beginning to pay attention to the "working joe" press photographers who filled magazines and newspapers with images for years. One of the most interesting is Mell Kilpatrick, a crime-beat reporter who even had a camera mounted on the dashboard of his automobile for nighttime pictures of accident scences. Like Weegee, his photos are often brutal and violent. They
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