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The New York Film Critics Circle also voted L.A. Confidential the year's best film in addition to ranking Hanson best director, and his and Brian Helgeland's best screenplay. [47] The Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review also voted L.A. Confidential the year's best film.
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 .
Hanson was born in Reno, Nevada, and grew up in Los Angeles. [1] He was the son of Beverly June Curtis, a real estate agent, and Wilbur Hale "Bill" Hanson, a teacher. [2] [3] [4] Hanson dropped out of high school, finding work as a freelance photographer and editor for Cinema magazine.
Mickey Cohen was a real-life gangster active in Los Angeles, but his exploits in Ellroy's novels are mostly fictional. Cohen has a large supporting role in The Big Nowhere which includes his relations with Buzz Meeks, who was one of the protagonists of The Big Nowhere. He is portrayed briefly by Paul Guilfoyle in the L.A. Confidential film ...
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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, [2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
What's with "L. A. Confidential"? The book cover and film title clearly list the name "L.A." without a space, as is the proper way of representing the city nickname. --Chancemichaels 20:18, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Chancemichaels . Agreed. The title is what the title is, and that trumps the naming conventions. I've moved both book and film articles back.--