Hotties Reading 284bis : Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard 

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Prolific crime novelist Elmore Leonard died Tuesday, aug 20, at the age of 87. Leonard was known for crisp dialogue and memorable villains.

« The bad guys are the fun guys, he said in a 1983 interview. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. »

Many of Leonard's books and short stories were adapted to films. Those books include Get Shorty, The Big Bounce and Rum Punch, which became the Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. His short story "Fire in the Hole" was the basis for the FX TV series Justified. [Fresh Air, NPR.org]

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[Gashade]

On comprend ce qu'il dit sur les "bad guys" quand on voit 52 Pick-up de Frankenheimer qui contient les trois salopards les plus terrifiants, cocasses et singuliers de l'histoire du polar (E.L. scénario et roman), à tel point que l'intérêt pour le héros s'effrite en leur faveur et que la mémoire ne retient que les trois affreux (pourtant, Ann-Margret)...).