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Roselli was a man that was everywhere and anywhere. Enigmatic, charismatic and with a flair for the dramatic, if he wasn’t real, James Ellroy would have invented him. He was a nomadic gangster in the early 1920’s, racketeering, bootlegging and gambling his way across New York, Massachusetts and Chicago before settling in the Windy City ...
John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli (born Filippo Sacco; July 4, 1905 – August 7, 1976), sometimes spelled Rosselli, was a mobster for the Chicago Outfit who helped that organization exert influence over Hollywood and the Las Vegas Strip.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, [ 2 ] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A ...
Feb 25, 2012 · As Ellroy explained in an interview with Craig McDonald, when changing his name he chose the name James from the pseudonym ‘James Brady’ which his father had used. ‘It’s just a simple name that goes well with “Ellroy.”’. Lee Earle Ellroy officially ceased to exist.
May 31, 2013 · However, Ellroy was withholding information from his two mentors: ‘Of course neither Otto nor I knew that James’s previous agent had had seventeen rejections on this novel. But we had done a lot of work on the book.’
James Ellroy — Demon Dog of American Letters — goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.
From the bloody years of bootlegging in the Twenties as the last protégé of Al Capone to the modern era of organized crime, the mob’s “Man in Hollywood,” introduced big-time crime to the movie industry. It was “Rosselli” with a double s and sometimes “Roselli” with just the one.
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