![]() ![]() “He went out and greased all the bellmen, and he went in there and hot-wired specific rooms and suites at all the high-line L.A. Today’s blowhard bloggers and their tattle texts? Pussyfooting punks all.”Įllroy clearly admires the real-life Otash for his craft. “ Our gobs of gossip were repugnantly real. “Confidential presaged the infantile internet,” Freddy says in the novel. “I don’t want to get distracted by the internet,” he says.Īs for Freddy, he’s never happier than when he’s bugging a phone. When he wants to send an email, he writes his message out in longhand, faxes it to his assistant and has her send it out. Except Ellroy still doesn’t own a computer. It’s hard not to wonder what kind of juice Freddy, let alone Ellroy, might squeeze out of the internet, with its hyperactive prose, frenzied conspiracy gossip and questionable facts. Three new books - “Dream State,” “Hollywood Eden” and “Rock Me on the Water,” examine savvy pop-culture myth-making by and about the Golden State. You might have found some of this style in the old Confidential but not taken to this extreme: “So, succumb to the seditious soul of a scandal-rag scoundrel - because wicked words on paper are pop-pop-popping your way.”īooks How California’s culture industry manufactured the California dream His scandal cocktail of choice, meanwhile, consists of equal parts sex (the more subversive the better), celebrity and communism (which he sniffs out like a bloodhound).Īnd he narrates it all in relentless staccato alliteration, language that seems to get high on itself. He mixes handfuls of Dexedrine with gargles of Old Crow bourbon. The Otash of “Widespread Panic,” on the loose in the ‘50s, certainly doesn’t seem like a guy with a chance to make it to heaven. I require no verification, and then I go mad fictionally.”ĭoes he ever feel pangs of guilt, like the confessing Otash, over the objects of his slander? I work off of rumor and innuendo, speculation. “I just need a basic chronological framework. “Absolute fact interests me, moves me, not one whit,” he says. Just don’t ask him what’s real and what isn’t. Which is an amazing conceit for a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old boy. And somehow, nobody knows about it but me. “Now, as an older man, what I can tell you with some accuracy is that in the wake of my mother’s death, I sensed there was another world out there,” he says. In a sense, he’s running his own fictional scandal sheet, one book at a time. ![]() Lastly: thanks to our Russian correspondent Ash and his Russian boy-source Regulus who confirmed the whole beaver thing for us.Ellroy says it’s all part of his shadow history of Los Angeles, an urban underbelly inspired by the killing of his mother when he was 10. In Head to Headlines we argue the toss (pun intended) about the legality and morality of pumping in public. Why? Drugs! We’re all for experimentation, but there’s a limit. We also have news stories! A man guilty of *blank* destruction causes a fuss in the shopping centre, while his wife waves a *blank* and they run through *blank* while *blanking*. Longer is always better, right?Ĭhris has PSVR, Phil tries to eat himself to death and Bret’s as merry as Jack. It’s not the penultimate episode, because we’re going to make this season longer. Hello and welcome to Don’t Lose Your Headline! ![]()
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