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    Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style...
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  • Blood's a Rover (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    novel by American author James Ellroy. It follows American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand as the final volume of Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy. A...
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  • Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in 2014, it is the first novel in the second L.A. Quartet...
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    America (1984), syndicalist James Conway O'Donnell's character, played by Treat Williams, is inspired by Hoffa. Author James Ellroy features a fictional historical...
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  • L.A. Confidential (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    neo-noir novel by American writer James Ellroy, the third of his L.A. Quartet series. It is dedicated to Mary Doherty Ellroy. The epigraph is "A glory that...
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  • The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the first sequel to American Tabloid in the Underworld USA Trilogy and continues...
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  • L.A. Confidential (film) (category Films based on works by James Ellroy)
    Curtis Hanson. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland is based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his L.A. Quartet series...
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  • historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy. It is the second novel in Ellroy's "Second L.A. Quartet", in reference to the first "L...
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  • Dark Blue (film) (category Films with screenplays by James Ellroy)
    written by David Ayer, based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading up to the Rodney King trial verdict...
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  • The Black Dahlia (novel) (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Its subject is the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California...
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  • White Jazz (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    novel by James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential. James Ellroy dedicated...
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  • Street Kings (category Films with screenplays by James Ellroy)
    Common and The Game. The initial screenplay drafts were written by James Ellroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman. The film was released...
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  • actor James Woods in two films: the prison-guard drama Fast-Walking (1982) with actress Kay Lenz, and the thriller Cop (1988), based on a James Ellroy novel...
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    Goldstein, Patrick (February 19, 1995). "Welcome to Sleaze 101 : When James Ellroy starts explaining the Kennedy assassination, watch out". Los Angeles...
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  • The Black Dahlia (film) (category Films based on works by James Ellroy)
    written by Josh Friedman, based on the 1987 novel of the same name by James Ellroy, in turn inspired by the widely sensationalized murder of Elizabeth Short...
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  • April 2001). "Lunch and tea with James Ellroy". The Barcelona Review. Stephen Capen (17 January 1997). "James Ellroy Interview". Worldguide Interviews...
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    India. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award...
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    stand-up comedy routine. Redd Foxx appears as a minor character in the 2009 James Ellroy novel Blood's a Rover. He gives a bawdy eulogy at the wake of Scotty...
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    for Dolarhyde's behavior, trauma in his youth, was too mechanistic. James Ellroy has described Red Dragon as 'the best pure thriller I've ever read' and...
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  • Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    Hopkins Trilogy consists of the three crime fiction novels written by James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (1984), Because the Night (1984) and Suicide Hill...
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  • Blood on the Moon (novel) (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    Blood on the Moon (1984) is a crime novel by James Ellroy. It is the first installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. It was followed by Because the Night...
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    comedy film featuring Bill Murray Brown's Requiem, a 1981 crime novel by James Ellroy, who worked as a caddie while writing his first books The Legend of Bagger...
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  • American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy that chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22...
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  • The Big Nowhere (category Novels by James Ellroy)
    The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s...
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  • 2013-06-10. "FX, James Ellroy Developing Drama Based on Famed Detective Fred Otash", by Lesley Goldberg, April 22, 2013. Ellroy, James (2021), Widespread...
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    original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2021. James Ellroy (2012). Conversations with James Ellroy. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-61703-103-8...
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    non-fiction. Among the most famous fictional accounts of Short's death is James Ellroy's 1987 novel The Black Dahlia, which, in addition to the murder, explored...
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  • My Dark Places (book) (category Books by James Ellroy)
    writer James Ellroy. Ellroy's mother Geneva was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified. The book is Ellroy's account...
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  • Cop (film) (category Films based on works by James Ellroy)
    by James B. Harris, starring James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren and Charles Durning. It is based on the 1984 book Blood on the Moon, by James Ellroy. Harris...
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    14, 2020. Pedersen, Erik (February 16, 2017). "Jared Leto To Direct James Ellroy Thriller '77' For Paramount". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February...
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