Gar Anthony Haywood

69, Male

Los Angeles

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
City of Angels
About Me:
Novelist, screenwriter, graphics designer, model car builder, husband, daddy, daddy again, ex-husband, single daddy, husband again, daddy again, daddy again for the last damn time.
I Am A:
Writer
Website:
http://www.garanthonyhaywood.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Martin Cruz Smith, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Adam Hall, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Chinatown, Point Blank, Black Rain, Aliens, Casablanca, The Big Sleep, Hickey and Boggs, Tombstone

Comment Wall:

  • Paul Guyot

    "Gar Anthony Haywood doesn't have any friends on this social network yet."

    That's because he's surly.

    Mar 14, 2007

  • Jon Jordan

    Gar is not surly, he's discretionary, though he does lool mildly annoyed doesn't he....

    Mar 14, 2007

  • Paul Guyot

    Gar seems more annoyed than before he got here.

    Mar 15, 2007

  • David J. Montgomery

    I'll be damned... Jerry Edgar's on Crimespace!

    Mar 16, 2007

  • Dick Lochte

    Weren't you Harry Bosch's partner in the old days?

    Okay, Gar. I'm with you on all the other movies, especially Hickey and Boggs. But Black Rain? Jesus!

    Mar 27, 2007

  • Gar Anthony Haywood

    Dick:
    What was not to like about Black Rain? It's the best Bruckheimer/Simpson movie ever made---because neither Bruckheimer nor Simpson had anything to do with it!

    Mar 27, 2007

  • Mark Terry

    Black Rain? You mean with Andy Garcia and Michael Douglas? In which Michael Douglas plays ... wait for it ... a troubled cop. Now wait a minute. Was that Basic Instincts? No, that was Sharon Stone, not Andy Garcia. I never get those two confused, do you?

    Mar 28, 2007

  • Gar Anthony Haywood

    BLACK RAIN, if I'm not mistaken, actually marked Douglas's first (and IMO, best) attempt at the "troubled cop" role he eventually ran into the ground. For those who've never seen BR, I'd recommend you not prejudge it based upon the sorry cop movies Douglas went on to make later. Hokey? Yeah, no doubt. And not terribly credible? Ditto. But the film was shot like something out of this world and it moves like a freight train. It's an action film---what else can you ask for?

    May 8, 2007

  • joe miller

    Gar,
    I understand the sentiment...some want sit away from me on a plane and others believe that next to me is the safest place onboard...

    Jul 4, 2008

  • Robin Burcell

    Hi Gar,
    Nice to see your smiling face on here. And I agree. Black Rain was a great movie. (Have we ever agreed on anything before?) ;-)

    Aug 10, 2008