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Article: ELMORE LEONARD, HAPPY AT LAST
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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LAURENCE CHOLLET, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-22-1995
ELMORE LEONARD, HAPPY AT LAST
By LAURENCE CHOLLET, Staff Writer
Date: 10-22-1995, Sunday
Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT
Edition: All Editions -- Sunday
Biographical: ELMORE LEONARD
Over the years, Elmore Leonard has heard critics call his deftly
written crime books literary gold, then cringed as Hollywood turned them
into celluloid dross.
"The thing is, all my books are very cinematic, and they have great
dialogue, so everyone thinks all you got to do is film them and it's a
movie," Leonard says. "Then they go about boiling a 350-page book down
to a 120-page screenplay, they see how much they got to toss out. Then
...
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