{"id":1131,"date":"2009-03-27T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/03\/chasing-women-with-james-ellroy.html"},"modified":"2009-03-27T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T23:21:00","slug":"chasing-women-with-james-ellroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/03\/chasing-women-with-james-ellroy.html","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Women with James Ellroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sc5PBKr6evI\/AAAAAAAAALs\/AdjfeR8mwYA\/s1600-h\/cover-april-lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sc5PBKr6evI\/AAAAAAAAALs\/AdjfeR8mwYA\/s320\/cover-april-lg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sc1wpuaOvxI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/WZH047X7MCo\/s1600-h\/ellroy.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sc1wpuaOvxI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/WZH047X7MCo\/s400\/ellroy.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OVER the last year or so i&#8217;ve been lucky enough to hang out with james ellroy, self-proclaimed demon dog of american crime fiction, including a bizarre\/memorable dinner at taylor&#8217;s steakhose at which the author insisted i bring along some good looking women.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>because he always seems to be on camera &#8212; barking like a dog, offering off-color anecdotes and ethnic jokes, and generally acting out &#8212; it was intriguing to follow him last week when an actual camera crew was on him.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ellroy was walking around LA&#8217;s old-money hancock park neighborhood &#8212; his teenage &#8216;hood &#8212; for a video doc playboy will post on its website&#8230; the video, like his new memoir\/essay in playboy, gets at how the murder of his mother sent him on a tailspin and shaped his relationships with women. (the &#8220;relationships&#8221; in the hancock park chapter mostly involved stealing underwear and watching girls undress through windows.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-james-ellroy28-2009mar28,0,5471879.story\">read all about<\/a> it in my latest LATIMES piece. and it&#8217;s playboy&#8217;s april issue you want.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i remember moving to LA in 1997, the summer before the film &#8220;LA confidential&#8221; came out&#8230; everyone i knew &#8212; film people, music people, book people &#8212; was talking about the movie and how good it was. that sent me and a lot of other people into a fascination with the mad dog&#8217;s work.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/apr\/06\/entertainment\/ca-ellroy6\">here<\/a> is a piece i wrote last year about the weird inability of hollywood to match LA Conf with another good adaptation. ellroy&#8217;s next novel is due this fall.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i welcome comments, especially, from anyone who&#8217;s read the playboy stuff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVER the last year or so i&#8217;ve been lucky enough to hang out with james ellroy, self-proclaimed demon dog of american crime fiction, including a bizarre\/memorable dinner at taylor&#8217;s steakhose at which the author insisted i bring along some good looking women. because he always seems to be on camera &#8212; barking like a dog, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,194,30,134,372],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-ellroy","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-noir","10":"category-playboy","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}