Talk:James Ellroy

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[edit] Death penalty

I've seen him at Q&A, where he claimed to support the death penalty. What is the evidense that he opposes it?

Here. You were right; he's changed his mind.   Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Also, the article claims his vegetarianism is at odds with his conservatism. You can't get much more right-wing than Hitler. How should this be edited? I'm stuck.24.131.12.228 18:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alcohol?

Just watched a television special wtih Mr. Ellroy. The show was done during a dinner party of LAPD investigators. Dring the dinner conversation he speaks of drinking liquor and can be seen sipping, what appears to be, red wine. Just wondering where the information that Mr. Ellroy is an abstainer originated? Niloc.

[edit] "Astonished"?

It says he was astonished by the "L.A. Confidential" movie adaptation. Is that the good type of astonishment or the bad? 24.60.22.251

Ellroy has traditionally been a little coy about the film. On the L.A. Confidential DVD, he praises it, but in a way that acknowledges that it doesn't reflect the entirety of the novel. In other interviews, he's declined to comment on the film. I'm not sure we can get "astonished," but maybe he's discussed it more fully somewhere I haven't seen? 81.107.37.204 15:53, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

In a recent BBC Arena documentary, Ellroy characterizes L.A. Confidential as both "a wonderful movie" and "a salutary adaptation of my wonderful novel". If I had to guess, I'd say Ellroy would be more definitive in his enthusiasm for the picture if it had been based on someone else's book.TomSutpen 14:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I sat in on an interview with Ellroy during the L.A. Confidential media tour. He didn't say "astonished" during that interview, but he did seem very impressed by the adaptation and said that the book had been translated to the screen about as well as he could have ever imagined. 5 May, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.92.241.80 (talk) 17:18, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recurring characters wiki

I've toyed with the idea of adding a wiki entry for recurring characters in Ellroy novels, especially the L.A. quartet, but i'm not as knowledgeable as others... anybody care to start it up? Fullmetaljacuzzi 19:19, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

A Recurring characters Wiki wouldn't be bad, but now that I think of it, there are more characters from the temporal world dotted throughout his novels (J. Edgar Hoover, Dick Contino, Spade Cooley, Howard Hughes, etc.) than there are Ed Exleys, Pete Bondurants and Dudley Smiths. Perhaps the non-fictional can be included with the fictional. TomSutpen (talk) 06:43, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

"These old grannies come up to me and say `Oh, you wrote L.A. Confidential, what a wonderful movie that was'. Kim Basinger' was so beautiful in that film, is she nice in real life?' I say, 'Yeah, she's all right', and then granny says, `Is Kevin Spacey really gay?'

I saw a documentary about him once. Pretty sure he ended this by asking the lady whether she had read his book. When she said no, he said "so what the fuck good are you to me?"

Charming man. Chinksimon 15:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

I've placed a POV tag on the article. The opening paragraph reads very POV to me in the description of his writing style. It needs to be toned down and cited with published descriptions of his style. Wildhartlivie (talk) 07:48, 7 January 2008 (UTC)