Get Shorty

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His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. But Get Shorty gets nothing as right as it does the childlike love most of the people in the movie business have for movies themselves. Bo soon offers the locker money to Harry as an investment and tells him to send Chili to get the money.

Get Shorty,” as one of Elmore’s best efforts, would be an excellent choice, for you to acquaint yourself with his work. Get Shorty is a heck of a lot of fun and I’m glad that I decided to get it when I saw it on my local Waterstones shelf because it’s not often that they have anything by Leonard. Chili grasped the opportunity to phase himself “out of the shylock business” instead fancied becoming a movie producer. when I got to the locker scene at the airport, because it's tricky what happens in it, but I got it, I understood it, I admired it.The airline awarded Fay a three-hundred thousand dollar settlement, which Leo disappeared with, most likely to Las Vegas, his dream travel destination. Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. Chili retrieves the jacket by punching Ray in the face which leads, a dozen years later, to (stay with me) Chili investigating the faked death of a Miami dry cleaner, which brings Chili to Las Vegas not long before he shows up in the study of a B-movie Hollywood actress named Karen Flores to threaten a deadbeat producer, Harry Zimm, who leads him into the movie business, where he attempts to leave loan-sharking behind and become a producer – along with Harry and Karen – of the film Mr Lovejoy.

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he’s retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob.

When someone asks Chili who the protagonist is, Chili is shocked that it’s not apparent that the loan shark is the good guy because to him it’s obvious that he’s the hero of this story. Justified, the hit series from FX, is based on Leonard’s character Raylan Givens, who appears in Riding the Rap, Pronto, Raylan and the short story “Fire in the Hole”. Along the way Chili meets some low level movie types and decides the movie life might be the go for him. And yet, underneath all that cool was a moral vision all the more powerful for its refusal to overwhelm the narrative.

Ray Barboni, after learning about Leo's money from his wife, comes to Los Angeles looking for the money Chili collected from Leo, only to find the key to the locker from the failed drug deal in one of Chili's pockets. While there Chili decides he likes the movie business and tells one of his borrowers Harry that they are now partners in Harry’s coming movie.

Here we are mid-lock down and I thought why not since my days are a mixture of working from home, reading or watch the TV. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood – and to a true story that would make a great movie.