Exactly—Leonard's books are MADE to be movies.

I continue to be mystified by how hard it seems to be to make a good movie out of an Elmore Leonard novel. For every success (Out of Sight , Get Shorty, Jackie Brown) there seem to be a fistful of miscues (pretty much all the rest).  Dutch writes vivid characters & terrific dialog—pretty much all of his books read…

Seriously.  Where's the love for the Twin Cities?

Me too.

She's hot pretty much all the time, even when they plain her up a little like on ER.  I mean, http://i2.listal.com/image/… , for gosh's sakes!

Hey!  I used to live on the Columbia Pike in Silver Spring!  We're practically twins!

I with you, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus . I mean, if they're coming as far west as Chicago, how hard is it to come out to the Twin Cities?

Again: What are you talking about?  THIS article is NOT about Stalin, not even about Communist Russia, & nobody is disputing the monstrous things Stalin did. It's about the US government's ridiculous over-reaction to "un-American activities" here in America.  And if you mean that they weren't punished all that bad for…

What the hell? I don't understand this comment.  @avclub-5f9fb170811d8e55bc9aa2abee3e4876:disqus didn't remotely state a preference for Stalin. And how does a few Hollywood commies equate to Stalin in any way? What did they do that was so bad? Whose lives did they ruin?  With her "expert" testimony to the HUAC, Rand…

I'm not sure which is worse, that a United States Congressional Committee would consider Ayn Rand an authoritative expert on ANYthing, that Rand would be idiotic enough to suggest that nobody in the Soviet Union smiled, ever, or that such a statement would be taken seriously.  But worse than all three of those put…

*slaps @avclub-754537075c5105c55477db49c94d584f:disqus *
*twice*

Do I remember it? Man, I couldn't forget it if I tried.

Thus ensuring that I will never watch it. EVER.

Anything involving dummies just freaks me the fuck out.  God, I'm getting goosebumps just typing this. *shudders*

I have seen a lot of these, but it's been a REALLY long time since I've watched any episode of the show. Probably should do something about that….

SPOILER ALERT!

He doesn't have a lean and hungry look, that's for sure.

They have the added benefit of being pretty short, so they're quick reads.

Wow—three hours?  What's that in Danzigs?

I haven't seen it for years, but I remember it being quite good, especially Damon, since Ripley was a real departure for him.  Been thinking for a while that I need to see it again some time.  I've only read the first Ripley novel, but I really liked it.  Been meaning to check out the others some time.  I sure do have…