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Article: De Palma, Ellroy unite to tell story of grisly Black Dahlia murder.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2006
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Byline: Glenn Lovell
Brian De Palma and James Ellroy. A match hatched in Pulp Fiction Heaven. Or maybe someplace south of there.
It was inevitable that De Palma, the Maestro of Mayhem known for the deliriously demented "Scarface" and "Body Double," would eventually throw in with Ellroy, best-selling author of "L.A. Confidential" and "American Tabloid."
And the story that brought these singular talents together? The grisly Black Dahlia murder case, still unsolved after almost 60 years.
"Why were we meant to collaborate? In a word, obsession," says Ellroy, 58, author of "The Black Dahlia," which, after two decades of false starts, has ...