"Everything" meaning minor beefs -- drunk and disorderly,
vagrancy, etc. I don't know if he was arrested for "panty
sniffing," but I'm fairly sure he did all that petty stuff. I
don't believe Jan had a reason to lie about it, either.
I wonder why you have such a hard-on for Ellroy. I have own
my opinions about his novels -- I'm very partial to his old
work, which, in my opinion, peaked with "The Black Dahlia."
I've reread "Clandestine," (my favorite) many times. However,
I literally cannot wade through any of his fiction since,
finding it suffers from his ambitions to try to further his
reach, and expand (and implode) the genre.
Sure, Ellroy's marketed himself in a particular way. God
bless him for finding success with extreme material in a
difficult business. But anyone who's read "My Dark Places"
knows that much of it is a persona -- that he exploited the
memory of his mother, his personal demons, and inverted his
own self-loathing in pursuit of fame and recognition.
Like his work (and him) or not, you can't deny his talent or
originality.
david
Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>
> birdlives wrote:
>
> > The writer of the "My Dark Places" script said
that she saw
> > his rap sheet, and everything was on
there...
>
> Was the rap sheet part of his press kit? How
convenient.
>
> Still... Jan Oxenburg's hardly an impartial witness,
considering
> Ellroy's alleged past is frequently used as a
marketing tool, and
> would be doubly so for that book.
>
>
>
> Kevin
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