Dana King's Blog Posts Tagged 'leonard' (3)

Where Do Ideas Come From?

I saw Robert B. Parker at a book signing many years ago. He told a story of being on one of those morning wake-up shows all television stations have, sharing a spot with Elmore Leonard. They were sitting in the Green Room, passing the time, and agreed the question they least liked answering was, “Where do you get your ideas?”

Ten minutes later, on camera, the helmet-haired blonde hostess’s first question was to Parker: “Where do you get your…

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Added by Dana King on October 3, 2013 at 1:05am — 4 Comments

Why Movies Suck

(Also posted at One Bite at a Time)



Here's a tidbit from the Trivia page of IMDB's entry for the movie Get Shorty:



MGM didn't want to extensively use Elmore Leonard-inspired dialogue in the

film, and pushed Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank to make many passages

more generic than the book's, but once John Travolta signed on to… Continue

Added by Dana King on August 18, 2010 at 11:26am — 1 Comment

Good Reads for July

(Also posted in One Bite at a Time.)



Swag, Elmore Leonard - John McFetridge cites this book almost as often as Toronto is colder than Miami. Since John is mistaken about such things even less frequently than that, I finally got around to reading it, and he's right again. Classic Leonard, with two criminals who aren't as smart as they think they are. The dialog is spot on, and the story is a little more tightly plotted… Continue

Added by Dana King on August 2, 2009 at 4:47am — No Comments

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