What do Clarence Darrow, Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and James Ellroy have in common?The answer is ‘Compulsion’, the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin based on the infamous murder case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who in 1924 killed a 14 year old boy named Bobby Franks simply for the
Behold ‘James Ellroy’s Feast Of Death’, a fascinating documentary about Ellroy’s search for the person who murdered his mother in late 1950s Los Angeles, an event that he’s written an entire book about and that obviously shapes his identity in so many ways. Ellroy hired an LAPD detective to re-investigate
For those of you wondering why I didn’t post a Three Stooges short this weekend (or for those of you who wonder why I post Three Stooges shorts at all) let me explain. I began a re-reading of James Ellroy’s ‘The Big Nowhere’ on Saturday morning and more or less