Rum Punch: A Novel

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Leonard had his first success in 1951 when Argosy published the short story "Trail of the Apaches." [5] :29 During the 1950s and early 1960s, he continued writing Westerns, publishing more than 30 short stories. He wrote his first novel, The Bounty Hunters, in 1953 and followed this with four other novels. His western novels had already begun to show his fondness for culturally diverse outsiders and underdogs. He often developed his characters through dialogue, each defined by means of their speech. For many of his stories he favored Arizona and New Mexico settings. [6] Five of his westerns were turned into major movies before 1972: The Tall T ( Randolph Scott), 3:10 to Yuma ( Glenn Ford), Hombre ( Paul Newman), Valdez Is Coming ( Burt Lancaster), and Joe Kidd ( Clint Eastwood). Produced by MGM Television, the Original Series is a Dark Comedy Slated to Start Production Fall 2016 McClurg, Jocelyn and Carol Memmott (August 20, 2013). "Author Elmore Leonard dies at 87". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved May 21, 2019.

Ells, Kevin (January 31, 2011). "Elmore Leonard Jr.". Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (published August 21, 2013). Archived from the original on August 22, 2013 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale. Rule: Avoid using exclamation points (in other words, Leonard is telling us to let the action itself communicate power and excitement).King, Stephen (February 1, 2007). "The Tao of Steve". Entertainment Weekly (published August 8, 2003). Archived from the original on March 15, 2011 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. Elmore Leonard wrote some of the classic crime novels of the twentieth century. Notably inspired by Higgins’s THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, (1972), Leonard was an adept dialogue writer and master of the tight scene. I’ll use Leonard’s character Raylan Givens, one of his great characters, to exemplify his use of the Western inside the body of crime fiction. Rum Punch is classic Elmore Leonard. The characters are a beehive of activity, each of them trying to manipulate life to their advantage and bringing themselves to points of decision. And the decisions they make are filled with a wonderfully realistic mix of amazement, surprise, and understanding. The key, he said, was to know when to stop. Wise advice from the man who wrote a book called “10 Rules of Writing.” Elmore Leonard, writer of sharp, colorful crime stories, dead at 87 - CNN.com". CNN. Archived from the original on February 1, 2019 . Retrieved August 25, 2013.

But Leonard kept his advertising job until 1961, rising at 5 a.m. to write before heading off to work. Despite his output – and more movies, including “Hombre” with Paul Newman – he said he didn’t find his style until reading George V. Higgins’ classic 1970 crime novel, “The Friends of Eddie Coyle.” Higgins’ book, which was turned into a 1973 movie, was almost all dialogue, much of it profane. Rzepka, Charles (2013). Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p.21. ISBN 9781421410159. The cast includes: Randolph Scott, Felicia Farr, Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Paul Newman, Martin Ritt, Ryan O’Neal, Burt Lancaster, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Menahem Golan, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta, Danny Devito, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Deniro, James Woods, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton and Dennis Farina. He married Beverly Clare Cline in 1949, and they had five children together—two daughters and three sons [17]—before divorcing in 1977. His second marriage in 1979, to Joan Leanne Lancaster (aka Joan Shepard), ended with her death in 1993. Later that same year, he married Christine Kent and they divorced in 2012. [18] [19] Leonard spent the last years of his life with his family in Oakland County, Michigan. He suffered a stroke on July 29, 2013. Initial reports stated that he was recovering, [20] but on August 20, 2013, Leonard passed away at his home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills of stroke complications. [21] He was 87 years old. [18] [19] One of Leonard's grandchildren is Alex Leonard, the drummer in the Detroit band Protomartyr. [22] Style [ edit ] Quentin Tarantino has optioned the right to adapt Leonard's novel Forty Lashes Less One (1972). [39] Television [ edit ]

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NEW YORK—( BUSINESS WIRE)—Premium TV network EPIX® announced today it will go into production on Get Shorty from MGM Television. Created and executive produced by Davey Holmes (“Shameless,” “In Treatment,” “Damages”), the one hour drama series is a reimagining of Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times best-selling novel of the same name. Production on the series is anticipated to begin this fall and air summer 2017. The plots feature clever twists; the narrative style is so spare it reads like haiku. The simple beauty of it all can put a bullet through your heart. From 'Get Shorty' to 'Glitz:'10000000002 USC acquires collections of crime novelist Elmore Leonard". October 15, 2014. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014.

Elmore Leonard's Papers (and Hawaiian Shirts) Go to University of South Carolina". October 16, 2014. Archived from the original on May 11, 2015 . Retrieved November 27, 2014. Lipez, Zachary (December 23, 2015). "Second Impressions of Protomartyr". Vice. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved July 18, 2019. Leonard in turn had a very strong influence on a generation of crime writers that followed him. His obituary in USA Today named George Pelecanos, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Laura Lippman. [32] Awards and honors [ edit ] Cast grandioso, tutto perfetto: la mia palma va a Robert De Niro che interpreta un Louis Gara dall’incerto QI in modo semplice ma magistrale.Elmore Leonard archive goes to South Carolina". October 15, 2014. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved November 27, 2014. Robert Forster/Max Cherry con Quentin Tarantino. Forster veterano dello schermo, piccolo e grande, ha avuto qui la sua prima (e unica) grande occasione. Secondo me vinta in pieno.

For 33 years, Gregg Sutter was author Elmore Leonard’s loyal researcher and assistant (“Elmore’s Legs” - The New Yorker), gathering the reference material and rich visual descriptions that made you feel like you were right there inside Elmore’s stories and their film adaptations. In 1992, Leonard played himself in a script he wrote and, with actor Paul Lazar dramatizing a scene from the novel Swag, appeared in a humorous television short about his writing process which aired on the Byline Showtime series on Showtime Networks. Max pointed the stun gun at a window, pushed in the plunger and saw a plane of glass explode. (pg. 87)

a b "Elmore Leonard > About the Author". Random House. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. Sounding innocent saying it that way, naïve, nice-looking airline stewardess sitting across the room on her white sofa. Except she had the two guns resting on cushions to either side of her, little guns to look at but nothing naïve about them. (pg. 88)