James Ellroy goes full Ellroy in a conversation with Michael Connelly at the Festival of Books, riffing on the movie 'L.A. Confidential' and cancel culture.
, Ellroy received the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, and Connelly kicked off the discussion by asking Ellroy how he felt about it. “It was the most significant and pertinent award I’ve ever received,” Ellroy told the crowd at USC’s Bovard Auditorium., a real-life Los Angeles Police officer, private eye, Hollywood fixer and head goon for Confidential magazine through 1950s Hollywood. Ellroy researched the book more than 30 years ago with Otash himself.
For Ellroy, the old saying of “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” does not apply. Ellroy talked at great length about his love for all things Los Angeles, especially the LAPD, and his hate for the late Raymond Chandler, James Dean, cancel culture, the film adaption of “L.A. Confidential” and his complete disinterest in literature that isn’t about crime or that’s written outside of America.“People love the movie ‘L.A. Confidential,’” Ellroy said.
Ellroy continued that he didn’t care about St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s and that, for him, “it’s gotta be Los Angeles, it’s gotta be about my love for the Los Angeles Police Department.” When an audience member asked Ellroy what he thought of cancel culture, the “Black Dahlia” author quipped, “I think it’s a bunch of [crap]. I think you can’t let fear run your life. I think censorship is permeating, soul destroying and polluting our country.”
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