{"id":891,"date":"2011-01-18T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/01\/james-ellroys-la-city-of-demons.html"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T18:29:00","slug":"james-ellroys-la-city-of-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/01\/james-ellroys-la-city-of-demons.html","title":{"rendered":""James Ellroy’s LA: City of Demons""},"content":{"rendered":"
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CRIME novelist James Ellroy is hosting a new television show<\/a> that goes up Wednesday night. He’s both perfect for this — who’s written about crime in the Southland better than Ellroy? (All due respect to Ross Macdonald, Robert Crais, and a few others.) But his manic intensity also makes him a strange fit for television — he can be a bit too much onscreen.<\/p>\n

The show looks at both classic LA murders — the Black Dahlia, Ellroy’s mother’s slaying — as well as more recent stuff. Much of it it familiar to Angelenos.\u00a0The busload of TV journalists I rode through town with on a chartered bus — Ellroy ranted and raved up front — were mostly spellbound by the mad dog. Here<\/a> is my full story.<\/p>\n

Some highlights from the tour:<\/p>\n

“I am nothing if not a right-wing, LAPD apologist.”<\/p>\n

“The twin influences on my childhood were Confidential and the Lutheran church.”<\/p>\n

Finally, on the Ronnie Chasen murder:<\/p>\n

“Somebody will rat somebody out for it… It will be an astonishingly prosaic revelation. It will be a head-scratcher until then…. And life will go on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CRIME novelist James Ellroy is hosting a new television show that goes up Wednesday night. He’s both perfect for this — who’s written about crime in the Southland better than Ellroy? (All due respect to Ross Macdonald, Robert Crais, and a few others.) But his manic intensity also makes him a strange fit for television […]<\/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":[194,34,30,134,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ellroy","7":"category-literary","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-noir","10":"category-television","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}