Monday, February 27, 2006

Spike Lee

Filmography

http://imdb.com/name/nm0000490/

(Spike Lee's latest movie stars this man.)

Interviews

http://www.well-rounded.com/movies/reviews/spike_intv.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/02/25/spike_lee_25th_hour_interview.shtml

 

Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee

 

Reviews of His Better Films

Clockers

Crooklyn

Do the Right Thing

Malcolm X

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The Davinci Code (Again)

Is the Roman Catholic Church up to it's old hijinks again? I smell a conspiracy!!!

Reading this makes me feel only contempt for the British Book Awards. If people read more they would know that A) all of the good ideas in this book were ripped off and definitely not new. B) Dan Brown can't write.

Over a $100 million for a piece of third-rate hackery that reads like a dentist's self-published hobby-novel. The world is doomed.

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Clive Owen

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Uncivil Seasons, A Great American Novel

Michael Malone, like so many smart, academically-gifted novelists, is good only for one shot. Caleb Carr comes to mind. If you have read any of the novels after that first blinding flash of talent, you will know what I mean. Uncivil Seasons is a fantastic American novel. In and of itself worthy of being given all of the kudos given to the all the works of the vastly over-rated Michael Chabon. Malone's subsequent work, however, like Carr's, is pathetic, with the general feel of something forced and fraudulent.

Uncivil Seasons is about a murder in a small North Carolina city. It's a Southern epic written in the format of a murder mystery. Malone constructs sentences like no other contemporary American writer, little tornadoes of wit and learning that demand to be read twice, they are that good. His characters are vivid and jump from the pages and speak their words to you, scenes are acted out before you. The whole novel is so precisely, lucidly written that reading it is like watching the movie adaptation of it.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

White America's Buffoon is Dead

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Don Knotts what the white America's Amos and Andy, Chesterfield, and somebody from within the race to look down on, pretty much only because of how he looked . Jerry Lewis saw it and moved out of that kind of comedy, becoming an asshole in the process (even if he does help those kids).

What Don Knotts did all his career is capitalize on how the rest of the world sees him: weak and stupid. The dumb-jock part of us laughs at people who don't look as good as we do, aren't as tough, aren't as competent. It's how we feel better about our own cowardice. It's what made clowns funny to cruder people, and what makes slapstick funny.

It's the Roman-Arena part of us.

Of Jerry Lewis and Don Knotts, Knotts did the smarter thing. He stayed in the game, and rode what he had till he didn't look that much different from other old people and therefore wasn't as funny anymore. The thing is, we all kind of look the same in the end.

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Stallone, WTF?

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I was just about to enter puberty when the sequel to First Blood came out. Rambo 2. I cannot remember ever wanting to see a movie more. I would watch through television commercial breaks hopeful of the opportunity to see a trailer. I remember staring at the screen rapt and frozen as they played the clip from the movie.I read reviews in magazines, and newspapers, delighted in anything good said about the movie. Watched any behind the scenes specials that came on and anything to do with Sylvester Stallone or his life. Indeed, to be young is to be stupid.

Rambo II, when I finally did get to see it a couple of years after it came out, was the first unedited grown up movie I had ever seen. I had nothing to compare it to except the musicals my mother made me watch with her (I remember more of My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music than any grown heterosexual man should), therefore I enjoyed it greatly.

I saw Rambo III a few days ago, or parts of it, anyway. Now I wonder how Sylvester Stallone ever became a successful actor let alone male icon of the 1980s. The best I can say for him is that he is a slightly better actor than Jean-Claude Van Damme. He, also, is quite odd-looking, nothing like what I would consider leading-man material. He does act, unlike the Van Dammes and the Seagals and the Norrises, he doesn't act well, but he does try. I am not sure if this effort is a good or a bad thing. When honest effort results in failure it is pathetic and laughable.

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Book-to-Movie

The very best book-to-screen adaptation is, and I suspect, always will be Lonesome Dove.Perfect casting through and through, holding exactly to the book. I would put To Kill a Mockingbird a little way behind this.

It's virtually impossible to compress a novel into a 120 minute screenplay without losing a lot, even when the book's writer does it himself. If you do it the wrong way you end up with a Cliff's Notes version, an idiot's highlight reel that is of no value to anyone who actually read the story.

The very best way is to cut the interior monologue and stick to scenes at actually take place in present of the story. You ask your readers for casting choices, who do they see playing this character?

What authors don't realize is that once a story is published, the don't own it anymore, the people who have read it and love it do.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

More movies that haven't been released yet...

More movies on their way down Hollywood's poop-chute (or should I say "poop-shoot", little filming pun for you there, thank me for the hearty chuckle later). See previous post for the first lot.

Drew Barrymore in Music and Lyrics. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play a song-lyricist and a performer who fall in love. Need I say that this is listed as a "romantic-comedy"? Probably directed by Nora Ephron or Meathead. So cute I could puke.

Nicholas Cage stars in Wicker Man, another Hollywood attempt to fuck up a classic. A sheriff investigates the disappearance of a young girl on a small island and finds dark pagan goings-on. It could be that this is to appease Catholics afraid of all the good press pagans will get as a result of the DaVinci Code.

Russell Crowe will star in A Good Year as an Englishman who inherits a property in France only to find that an American is also claiming it as hers. Ah, yes, those evil Americans can't keep their hands of other people's shit. There will likely be some political undertones, and lots of Yankee-bashing in this one.

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Soon to be Released

None of the the movies below have been released yet, they are all in varied stages of post-production (test-marketing and second-thoughts). I have not seen any of them, but sometimes all you need is a 2 sentence synopsis to make up your mind.

Bruce Willis will star in a project named The Astronaut Farmer. It's about a retired astronaut who tries to build a rocket in his backyard.

This is the kind of insincere, "heartfelt Americana" that gives real Americana a bad name. Rocket of Dreams would me my choice for the title.

Owen Wilson will star in You, Me, and Dupree about a best man who overstays his welcome as an unwanted houseguest. Doesn't this sound just a little bit like the Wedding Crashers genre to you?

Brad Pitt stars in the assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I want to see this one. Like most westerns it reads well in summary, possibly different in execution, but this should be pretty hard to fuck up so I'll say right now that it's worth watching.

Hilary Swank stars in The Reaping. In this one she plays a Christian missionary who loses her faith after her family is killed. It sounds depressing enough that she might get another Oscar nomination. Technorati

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

A Drink Before War By Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before War was Dennis Lehane's first novel, but it doesn't read like an attempt. It's clever and detailed, and honest, even if it's not original. It's your typical Philip Marlowe/Sam Spade detective novel, same format (PI gets hired to find something, and runs into varied, violent mishaps along the way) but written so well that you don't care. The crime genre will always be unoriginal, because crime will always be unoriginal for the most part, it's pretty much all stealing, drugs, or killing, isn't it? There isn't that much to say that has not been said, so we are left with the skill of writing. The telling of the story is what matters.
Think Robert Crais, only smart and serious as well as smartass. Lehane's Kenzie isn't that different from Elvis Cole, or Archie Goodwin, for that matter, but he's more real. Cole or Goodwin wouldn't actually say "nigger" for instance. Kenzie isn't a racist, but he has flashes of temper and makes mistakes, like a human. This novel manages to be funny without being "light", it manages to be violent while saying something with the violence. It's simultaneously cute and tough.
 

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Alicia Silverstone - With Then/Now Pics



Known pimarily for her role in Clueless, Alicia Silverstone made her name as the poor man's Drew Barrymore, even if she was nowhere near as cute. She had the same kind of innocent, or semi-innocent charm, and was not unpleasant to look at. Her appeal was mainly with teenaged girls, unlike Ms Barrymore, who managed to be a sex-symbol as well as an airhead role-model. She is the exact female equivalent of Brendan Fraser in that both are short on talent, but both have a kind of appealing childlikeness to them (they appear together in this film), albeit one that grows thin as they show their respective ages.

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Alicia Silverstone wiki entry.

Interesting:
"Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. Because of this, she requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. When she starred in the stage version of The Graduate, she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show."

"Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to Monty Silverstone, a British-born Jewish real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant who converted to Judaism upon marrying Silverstone's father. "

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Blast From the Past



Hollywood has always cannibalized itself, this is nothing new, even if something is not labelled as a "remake, it probably is. At least some other movie at some other time had a similar story. Again, none of this is new (it's done in all art-forms, you say you were "influenced"), but it bears re-stating since occasionally these cannibalisms are clever and somewhat interesting. Blast From the past is one such instance. What it really is is a re-hashing/reversal of the first Back to the Future movie. The "Marty McFly" character played by Brendan Fraser finds himself out of place in the modern world (well, 1999) just as Michael J. Fox's character found himself out of place in fifties.

Christopher Walken, as the dad who locks himself and his pregnant wife in a nuclear bunker at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, is slightly less twitchy than normal, but still handles the part enthusiastically. Sissy Spacek gives the best, smartest performance of the movie, as the slightly scatterbrained mom. Brendan Fraser plays his part the same way he plays all his comedic parts: with no real thought. He plays comedy like an actor who wants other roles but has been thoroughly typecast. Alicia Silverstone, who has also been typecast, is slightly more game.

The overall effect is still nice enough. It makes you laugh and it makes you want to keep watching, so yes, I recommend it. Fraser can't dance worth shit, but the sequence is still entertaining. This movie has a really good soundtrack, good enough to make it onto my favorite soundtracks list, but unfortunately, most of the good songs weren't included on the official compilation cd, you will have to download them yourself.

Back To the Future



The Back to the Future movies were/are really popular only with the relatively smart. Geeks. While there are enough quick cuts, slapstick and action to satisfy the lower brows, they don't get how clever the movies are. Well, the latter two, anyway.

The first of the set was a teen movie, no question, not particularly bright and it doesn't age as well as the other two. It's ok, the Delorean was a cute idea, and Michael J. Fox is the only person who could have played Marty McFly (teen frustration and air-headedness personified), so yes, the casting was good. Christopher Lloyd, as always was thorough and intense and very funny as Doc Brown, even when the script doesn't give him anything funny. It's sweet and nostalgic for those of us who saw it as children in the eighties. Note: In 1999 the BTTF formula was reversed and tried as Blast From the Past with Brendan Fraser who was being thrown into the innocent-grown-up-child roles left vacant by Fox. In Blast From the Past Fraser plays (essentially) a man who grew up in the early fifties/sixties transported to the nineties. Excellent score.

Back to the Future 2, however, is where director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale come into their own. More on that here.

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Back to the Future 2



The first Back the the Future was a teen movie, but the second was for grown ups. Layering it over the original, was a stroke of genius, both in the idea and in the execution, and all three movies are excellent science fiction to boot! Back to the Future 2 was slightly darker than either of the other two, but had more punch as well. Robert Zemeckis knows how to direct adrenaline-powered comic action like nobody else. He has all the subtlety and judgment of Spielberg with little bit more of a sense of humor. Thomas F. Wilson came into his role as Movie-Bully Icon. Didn't ever let a critic tell you that a one-dimensional character can't be played well. Biff, the white-trash high-school sadist has absolutely nothing redeeming about his character, and yet he almost steals this movie from Fox. Doc Brown's quirks and twitches are enhanced from the first movie and make him even more hilarious to watch ("Great Scott!").

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The Back to the Future movies were/are really popular only with the relatively smart. Geeks. While there are enough quick cuts, slapstick and action to satisfy the lower brows, they don't get how clever the movies are. Well, the latter two, anyway.

The first of the set was a teen movie, no question, not particularly bright and it doesn't age as well as the other two. It's ok, the Delorean was a cute idea, and Michael J. Fox is the only person who could have played Marty McFly (teen frustration and air-headedness personified), so yes, the casting was good. Christopher Lloyd, as always was thorough and intense and very funny as Doc Brown, even when the script doesn't give him anything funny. It's sweet and nostalgic for those of us who saw it as children in the eighties. Note: In 1999 the BTTF formula was reversed and tried as Blast From the Past with Brendan Fraser who was being thrown into the innocent-grown-up-child roles left vacant by Fox. In Blast From the Past Fraser plays (essentially) a man who grew up in the early fifties/sixties transported to the nineties. Excellent score.

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Monday, February 20, 2006

Pagan Babies By Elmore Leonard

Plot summary:
Father Terry Dunn returns to Detroit from Rwanda where he had a church and where he witnessed the genocide of Tutsis by Hutus. He hooks up with an ex-con who used to be a private investigator for his lawyer-brother, and who wants revenge for being wronged by her ex-boyfriend.

Elmore Leonard's Pagan Babies is unlike his usual work in that I finished it and was disappointed. His main character was more than the usual cocky asshole protagonist that appears in all of his books. This character struck me a a genuinely bad person, not just a guy playing the angles. Maybe it was the whole bizarre Rwanda aspect to the story, or, perhaps, in part, it was how the relationship between Terry Dunn and Debbie worked out that left the bad taste in my mouth, but mostly it was Dunn himself.

Being a cynic myself, I like that Leonard's books don't have the usual morals. The fact that the heroes are borderline sociopaths makes for unexpected twists, and there are many in this book, just nobody to like.

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Complete Angelina Jolie Resource

Angelina Jolie's Internet Movie Database page
Askmen.com resource on Angeline Jolie
Angelina Jolie Wallpaper
Angelina Jolie Gallery (SFW)

From Wiki entry:
"Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. She is also the sister of James Haven. In a 2004 article in Vogue she stated that her mother is from Chicago. At the Premiere Magazine "Women in Hollywood" Awards she said her mom was born in a bowling alley and has stated that because of her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie's grandparents were French Canadian. Her paternal grandfather was from Czechoslovakia. Her mother also studied with Lee Strasberg. She is of Czech, French Canadian, English, and Iroquois descent. As a teenager, Jolie dreamed of becoming a funeral director.[1] She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies."

Angelina Jolie News
Long-ass article on Jolie's relationships
Another Jolie Gallery (NSFW)
Still Another Jolie Gallery



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Brokeback Mountain gets 4 British Academy Awards

Saturday, February 18, 2006

King Kong and the Theories

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I've heard all kinds of theories about this movie, it's thought to be racist, for instance. Possibly (with the islanders, not the monkey), but I don't see it. This blogger thinks it's about gay marriage (he could be joking). Again, I don't see it. It could be tract on the righteousness of bestiality, or a normal person's love for retarded people, but I doubt it. You could formulate a 9/11 theory with the tall buildings and planes and people sceaming, but it would be a stretch.There is nothing notable about this latest version of King Kong at all, except for the opulence of the production. If you watch a lot of movies that's the first thing to get your attention with these Hollywood blockbusters: production values. It's striking to see big pictures and really good special effects.

Peter Jackson hits the high notes, he gives us a quick version of early 20th century New York night-life and some good dinosaur-ape fights. He gives us the super-cute, super-vulnerable Naomi Watts to look at, and a few chuckles to make us feel "entertained", but there's not much to the movie beyond that. King Kong is all budget and pretty colors.

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Grossness and Brokeback

The comments at the bottom of this article on Brokeback Mountain have me confused. They are so way over the top that I have a suspicion that they were put their by anti-homsexuals to discredit the gay community. There is nothing at all wrong with what Bill Wundram wrote, and yet he is being flamed for not feeling comfortable with the sight of two guys kissing. The fact is that if you are a straight man then the idea (let alone actually seeing it) Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal kissing is disgusting. If these comments were to betaken seriously you would get the idea that being heterosexual and having heterosexual tastes is something that should be apologized for. The ridiculous sense of outrage at a relatively mild anecdote is almost comical.

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Ice Cube Sells Out

"Cube’s music was so affecting because it relentlessly questioned the sacred American themes of equality, opportunity, and progress. His most significant tracks were those that graphically detailed the manifold ways in which American society has failed to deliver on its oft-referenced ideals, particularly where young African-American men are concerned."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=511342
 
This article reminds us that everybody, and I mean everybody, has their price. Artists (even though I don't that anybody would have regarded Ice Cube as such) live to sell out. The shift from badass to Cosby has been gradual enough that we barely noticed, so that Ice Cube still has credibility in some circles, even if he shouldn't, really. He now has an image to uphold. The man who made Amerikkka's Most Wanted now has to be kid-friendly. It amounts to a bribing of radical leaders, it's as if Malcolm X or David Duke sold out to the highest bidder and started doing Pepsi commercials. Like or not America needs radical voices, on all sides, it's what makes America America. It's what separates the USA from the rest of the world.
 
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Denise Richards Neve Campbell in Wild Things 2



"Denise Richards and Neve Campbell are set to re-team for yet another steamy romp in the newest installment of hit film Wild Things, according to a published report."

Wow. This is like a comedy skit about Hollywood has-beens. The first one was ok, but nothing more, this is just about making a little money and reviving dormant careers. Neve is hot, but apparantly a bitch in real life, ergo I no longer like her. Just so you know.

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Halle Berry Celebrates Black History Month

I was trying to remember exactly why I never liked her...

http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/?p=842

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Aeon Flux

 
Google Aeon Flux and you will find a few links that take you to sites about  the movie, a few to sites about the MTV show, but mostly you will find usernames. There are a lot of people who have "Aeonflux" as their username. I mean a lot.
 
This tells you how lame and unimaginative the fans of this character are. This tells you how lame and unimaginative a character this "Aeon Flux" girl is. This tells you how lame and unimaginative the movie is. For the tedious herds of sheep that think this is cool I strongly suggest that you read a book. I know, all those little words on the page there are so many of them! But you will find that it  actually exposes to new things, maybe a few original ideas, it might even get you to think(!).
The fact is that this movie was made by people who think that they are being clever and original.  You can see their little imaginations working hard at their "new ideas". You can see how smart they think they are being. Of course, there is nothing new here, post-apocalyptic societies and cloning are only interesting sci-fi concepts if you are a  semi-literate 12 year-old girl. The violence is PG-13 at best, the acting minor, and Charlize Theron is showing her age. Were you to have taken an AK-47 and mowed down a line of theater-goers queueing to see this movie humanity would not have suffered for it.  
 
Below is a selection of works from the man the "new ideas" in this movie were stolen from:
 
 
Charlize Theron .... Aeon Flux
Marton Csokas .... Trevor Goodchild
Jonny Lee Miller .... Oren Goodchild
Sophie Okonedo .... Sithandra
Frances McDormand .... Handler
Pete Postlethwaite .... Keeper
Amelia Warner .... Una Flux
Caroline Chikezie .... Freya
Nikolai Kinski .... Claudius
Paterson Joseph .... Giroux
Yangzom Brauen .... Inari
Aoibheann O'Hara .... Scientist
Thomas Huber .... Scientist
Weijian Liu .... Scientist
Maverick Queck .... Chemist (as Maverick Quek)

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Al Pacino for the Money

                                                             
Another wild, overbearing performance from Mr Pacino. McConaughey is an ex-quarterback with a bad knee who takes a job with Pacino's sports betting service. Think Wall Street, at least that's what Two for the Money is trying hard to be. It doesn't even manage to be Cocktail. More mentor/grasshopper Hollywood crap. Karate Kid, only with gambling. Rene Russo looking even more equine than ever. The script is boring, does nothing new, nothing shocking, nothing interesting. Performances are average, average for Pacino being, of course, that he has to bellow everything. It's like he's not even trying to restrain himself or to think about the role anymore, he just yells and makes these random, scary faces that may or may not have to do with what he's saying.  I was thinking that this might just be a jaded actor in old-age, but even in the Godfather movies he was overbearing. Think of Don Corleone sitting down and crossing his legs, adjusting himself so as not to wrinkle his suit. Even that was theatrically intense.
 
Al Pacino .... Walter Abrams
Matthew McConaughey .... Brandon Lang
Rene Russo .... Toni Morrow
Armand Assante .... Novian
Jeremy Piven .... Jerry
Jaime King .... Alexandria
Kevin Chapman .... Southie
Ralph Garman .... Reggie
Gedde Watanabe .... Milton
Carly Pope .... Tammy
Charles Carroll .... Chuck
Gerard Plunkett .... Herbie
Craig Veroni .... Amir
James Kirk .... Denny
 
 

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Elmore Leonard on How to Write Good

Elmore Leonard
"These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules. Still, you might look them over."
 
That's from this page where Elmore Leonard tells you about good writing. The problem is that Elmore Leonard, while often brilliant, is also seriously inconsistent. He also has a strong tendency to rehash and recycle. Mr Paradise draws heavily from Out of Sight, for instance. This recycling is opposite of remaining "invisible". It's as if he has to remind you that he wrote that too, and that, and that...
 
"Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the weather, you don’t want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people."
 
What kind of airhead/asshole reader does this? I've never leafed ahead in a book. I've walked away from some (meaning at the time to come back), but never leafed ahead. What would be the point? If youcare about the story and the characters enough to want to know what happens to them, why not just keeping plodding?
 
"Never use a verb other than 'said' to carry dialogue."

Yelled? Screamed? Yes, that can be part of dialogue too IMO.
 
"Keep your exclamation points under control."

True!
 
 
Elmore Leonard Filmography:
  • Tishomingo Blues (2005) (pre-production) (novel)
  • Killshot (2006) (post-production) (novel)

  • Be Cool (2005) (novel)
  • The Big Bounce (2004) (novel)
  • "Karen Sisco" (characters)
        - Blown Away (2003) TV Episode (story)

  • "Maximum Bob" (1998) TV Series (novel)
  • Out of Sight (1998) (novel)
  • Jackie Brown (1997) (novel Rum Punch)
  • Gold Coast (1997) (TV) (novel)
    ... aka Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast
  • Pronto (1997) (TV) (book)
  • Touch (1997/I) (novel)
  • Last Stand at Saber River (1997) (TV) (novel)
  • Get Shorty (1995) (novel)
  • Split Images (1992) (TV) (novel)
  • Border Shootout (1990) (novel)

  • Desperado: Badlands Justice (1989) (TV) (creator)
  • Cat Chaser (1989) (novel) (screenplay)
  • Law at Randado (1989) (TV) (book)
  • Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989) (TV) (creator)
  • Glitz (1988) (TV) (novel)
  • The Rosary Murders (1987)
  • Desperado (1987) (TV) (written by)
  • 52 Pick-Up (1986) (novel)
  • Stick (1985) (novel)
  • The Ambassador (1984) (novel 52 Pick-Up)
    ... aka Peacemaker
  • High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980) (TV)
    ... aka High Noon, Part II (USA: video title)
    ... aka The Return of Will Kane (USA: video title)

  • Mr. Majestyk (1974) (written by)
  • Joe Kidd (1972) (written by)
    ... aka Joe Kidd (USA)
  • Valdez Is Coming (1971) (novel)
  • The Moonshine War (1970) (also novel)

  • The Big Bounce (1969) (novel)
  • Hombre (1967) (novel)

  • 3:10 to Yuma (1957) (story)
  • The Tall T (1957) (story)
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    Black Actresses Before and After Air-brushing

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    Halle looks like one of the hookers around here in that untouched one. Seriously average, which is what I have always said. You know, I could do better than her if I was rich and handsome. 
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    Viveca looks like she's been hitting the pipe a little hard lately. Or maybe it's just the weight-loss thing, she was always more healthy looking when she had some ass on her.
     
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    Apart from the weed-eyes, she looks pretty much the same. She is one of those cute, but oddly non-sexual black women (like Queen Latifah). I'll bet we hear that she's a lesbian sometime in the future, both her and Latifah.
     
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    Tom Cruise Flips Out Again

    The Mission Impossible star dangled off a nine-foot-high balcony at the concert, according to the new issue of In Touch Weekly. He then complained All these people are making me crazy. It’s too much!’ and, as onlookers gasped in disbelief he climbed up cables to get away from the crowds. The account adds details to a report that first appeared in the New York Post."
     
    Here's my own conspiracy theory: Tom Cruise has discovered dark goings on at the Church of Scientology and is acting to discredit the religion. He can't do so openly for fear of being assassinated, so he has decided to sacrifice his image, and thus his career to bring down the church. Good?