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The title refers to the scandal magazine Confidential, which is fictionalized as Hush-Hush. It also deals with the real "Bloody Christmas" scandal. The three protagonists are LAPD officers. Edmund Exley, the son of prestigious detective Preston Exley, is a "straight arrow" who informs on other officers in a police brutality scandal.
L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland is based on James Ellroy 's 1990 novel , the third book in his L.A. Quartet series.
Known as the father of modern animation, Ray Dieterling is one of the main supporting characters in L.A. Confidential. Friend of Preston Exley and later Inez Soto, Dieterling created characters similar to Walt Disney's. Dierterling's characters like Moochie Mouse and Danny Duck are similar to Disney's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, respectively.
Guy Pearce, second from right, pictured with James Cromwell and Russell Crowe, said Kevin Spacey, right, got "handsy" while filming "L.A. Confidential" in 1997.
Guy Pearce said encounters with "L.A. Confidential" co-star Kevin Spacey "got ugly" on set, ... played Jack Vincennes in the 1997 cop drama opposite Russell Crowe's Bud White and Pearce's Ed Exley ...
A new documentary celebrates the L.A. session musicians behind classic tracks by Carole King, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Warren Zevon and countless more.
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).
Pearce received international attention for his break-out roles in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), Ed Exley in Curtis Hanson's crime noir L.A. Confidential (1997) and a man suffering short-term memory loss in Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento (2000).