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L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced, and co-written by 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. The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of ...
L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by American writer James Ellroy, the third of his L.A. Quartet series. [1] [2] It is dedicated to Mary Doherty Ellroy. The epigraph is "A glory that costs everything and means nothing"— Steve Erickson .
v. t. e. Bloody Christmas was the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951. The attacks left five Mexican American and two white young men with broken bones and ruptured organs, and were properly investigated only after lobbying from the Mexican American community.
A new documentary celebrates the L.A. session musicians behind classic tracks by Carole King, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Warren Zevon and countless more.
Actor shares memories of making the Oscar-winning neo-noir classic, which turns 25 this month.
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. [1] [2] [3] They are: (1987) The Black Dahlia. (1988) The Big Nowhere. (1990) L.A. Confidential. (1992) White Jazz. Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses".
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Confidential. (magazine) Confidential was an American magazine considered a pioneer in scandal, gossip and exposé journalism. Founded by Robert Harrison, it was published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953 and then bi-monthly until it ceased publication in 1978.