2:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Life’s not exactly what you’d call a bitch for James Ellroy, Los Angeles crime novelist extraordinaire and co-screenwriter (for the first time) of next week’s Keanu Reeves/Forest Whitaker cop thriller
Street Kings. Nevertheless, as evinced by
today’s LA Times profile, the new film is one of the few Ellroy projects — after one hit (
LA Confidential) and a succession of misfires (
The Black Dahlia) and lost causes (White Jazz) — for which anyone has sustained any hopes coming out of the gate.
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