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  • Guns and Roses

    05/06/2018 11:34:59 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 2 replies
    MOTUS A.D. ^ | 5-6-18 | MOTUS
    Along with everyone else I was betting on Justify to win the run for the roses.  And win he did, by an impressive two and a half lengths – in the mud no less! This was only his 4th race and he’s won all of them.In the stretch, with nobody breathing down his neckAlthough the truth is whether you win by a length or by a nose, it’s still a win. Just ask Donald Trump.The real reason I was hoping this Kentucky bred beauty would win is so I could speculate if he was named after the Justified TV series...
  • Author Elmore Leonard Dead at 87

    08/20/2013 1:11:44 PM PDT · by WayneS · 10 replies
    NewsMax ^ | 08/20/2013 | reuters
    Author Elmore Leonard, whose ear for gritty, realistic dialogue helped bring dozens of hard-bitten crooks, cops and cowboys to life in nearly 50 novels, died on Tuesday several weeks after a stroke. He was 87. link: http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/obit-elmore-leonard/2013/08/20/id/521297?promo_code=13E39-1&utm_source=13E39Boston_Herald&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
  • Elmore Leonard: Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle

    08/20/2013 11:10:53 AM PDT · by EveningStar · 20 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 16, 2001 | Elmore Leonard
    WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules. Still, you might look them over.
  • Crime novelist Elmore Leonard dies at 87

    08/20/2013 7:58:06 AM PDT · by Perdogg · 14 replies
    LA Times ^ | August 20, 2013, 7:33 a.m.
    Elmore Leonard, one of America's best known crime novelists, died Tuesday morning due to complications from a stroke, according to Leonard's Facebook page and his longtime researcher at the Detroit News, Gregg Sutter Leonard, 87, was working on his 46th novel at the time of his death.
  • Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87

    08/20/2013 7:49:37 AM PDT · by Borges · 13 replies
    NYT ^ | 8/20/2013 | MARILYN STASIO
    Elmore Leonard, the prolific crime novelist whose louche characters, deadpan dialogue and immaculate prose style in novels like “Get Shorty,” “Freaky Deaky,” “Glitz” and “La Brava” secured his status as a modern master of American genre writing, died Tuesday at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87. His death was announced on his Web site. To his admiring peers,Mr. Leonard did not merely validate the popular crime thriller; he stripped the form of its worn-out affectations, reinventing it for a new generation and elevating it to a higher literary shelf.
  • Elmore Leonard recovering after a stroke

    08/07/2013 5:04:48 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 8 replies
    LAT ^ | Aug 6, 2013 | Elisabeth Donnelly
    Crime writer Elmore Leonard is recovering from a stroke in an undisclosed Detroit-area hospital. "It happened a week ago, last Monday [July 29]," his longtime researcher, Gregg Sutter, told the Detroit News. "He's doing better every day, and the family is guardedly optimistic."