Thursday, June 17, 2010
Dutch Landscape -Elmore Leonard got Hollywood
Written by (The Magazine of WGA, West)
by Tom Nolan
portraits by Andy Sacks
A real treat for readers, The Summer 2010 issue of Written By has a fine feature on Elmore’s career in Hollywood by Tom Nolan with portraits by Andy Sacks. Tom, who has an extensive writing career, is also an actor, who played the part of Lloyd in The Moonshine War, which Elmore wrote and adapted. Andy Sacks shot Elmore’s 1985 Newsweek cover.
Included with the Nolan piece is the publication of Elmore’s powerful non-fiction piece, Impressions of Murder. In 1978, Elmore followed the Detroit Felony Homicide Squad 7 around for months and wrote a seminal feature for The Detroit News that reads like his fiction and spawned his most famous Detroit cop novel, City Primeval - High Noon in Detroit in 1980.
You can Read the piece online here
