Category: Gene Hackman
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Leonard’s Page Turners Also Lit Up the Screen
Novelist Elmore Leonard created characters that were violent, frightening and hilarious, often all at the same time. The larger than life personalities in his books frequently made their way to the big screen. I’m mainly thinking about his gangsters, including Chili Palmer and Ray “Bones” Barboni (“Get Shorty”), and Ordell Robbie (“Jackie Brown”) to name…