― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Let's start a flame war about whether this is film noir or not. (It isn't, of course, despite what everyone says.)
Still, the film looks beautiful and will probably make me read the book. I was never an Ellroy fan. Dunno why really. At the time it just seemed so... unfriendly towards women. *sigh*
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200511150827.asp
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeesh.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The idea that he might be a racist (or a fascist, or whatever) doesn't surprise me in the least. His worldview seems entirely based on cynical misanthropy, delusional self-aggrandizement, a desire to offend people, and a near-paranoid distrust of everything that isn't James Ellroy.
No matter. His best work is beyond reproach.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― franny (frannyglass), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Funny interview video for his new novel.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Thursday, 17 September 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Still out there: http://m.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/james-ellroy
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
he also said, in no uncertain terms, that as of december 1st he'll never again discuss his mother's death or the black dahlia in public or in interviews or in his own work again.
― gear (gear)
or maybe not
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 21 February 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
He sounds like an asshole from that interview (im sure a lot of it is down to being provocative), but anyone who writes "American Tabloid" gets a free pass from me.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 21 February 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
He's always sounded like that
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 February 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
did anyone here read perfidia? i think it's definitely a top-five work of his, probably #5 (after blood's a rover, american tabloid, L.A. confidential and my dark places)
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
New interview with Ellroy on the debut of his podcast (he's living in Denver now). Intrigued by the full-out audio version of American Tabloid, but dunno if I can take 12+ hours of his voice jackhammering into my head.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/10/james-ellroy-alcoholics-anonymous-hollywood-death-trip-interview
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 11 July 2022 07:30 (one year ago) link
i just picked up the new one, The Enchanters, from the library — hoping its a good read
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 06:37 (three months ago) link