Get Shorty

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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. Despite the shortcomings I felt the book had, it will be one I remember, if for nothing else, for the fantastic characters, of which I only mentioned Chili but just about all of them were iconic. This clutter – banal junk that Harry babbles on about, fictional movie scenes discussed, characters talking about or imagining alternate realities of what might have happened – made the book an uneven read for me. As cool as Chili Palmer, Raylan Givens, Ernest Stickley Jr or Vincent Mora – to name just a few of the laconic badasses who took centre stage at one time or another in his novels. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Get Shorty is an old neon sign with five stars, the one in the middle blinking and threatening to leave two stars at any time. And maybe it’s Elmore Leonard’s love letter, at the close of a deliriously productive creative decade, to writing itself. Chili Palmer is a small time loan shark in Miami who once got into a beef with another gangster, Ray Barboni, who has held a grudge against him. Get Shorty,” as one of Elmore’s best efforts, would be an excellent choice, for you to acquaint yourself with his work.Thinking about his life, he feels that he has a great idea for movie and sets out to get it done, the Chilli way. Chili senses something wrong, signs out a nearby locker as a test and is taken for questioning by DEA agents. Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his “friends” have a bad habit of dying there.

Ray Bones, but his real-life adventure is just prelude to the point, which is getting a movie made from it. It's great, well worth reading to get more at the motives, but I was disappointed because some of my favorite scenes were "missing" (rather the movie added them. The coat incident earns Chili a visit from Bones, who takes a couple of shots at him before Chili creases the dumbbell's skull with a bullet from his . Bones" helps himself to a coat in a coatroom which not only belongs to Chili and contains Chili's car keys but was a gift from his wife, Debbie. Heading the group is a Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer who winds up in Hollywood while chasing down a guy who owes him money and who has done a great disappearing act.

After his crew boss became Ray Bones, a mobster who he’s had a longstanding strife with, Chili was sent to recover money owed by Leo the drycleaner, who had skipped town for Las Vegas.

To be born in a celluloid age is to be born with one’s myths arrayed all around one, as easy to touch as one’s own skin (which the myths often become). Chili said to him, 'I guess I better tell you about my coat getting ripped off and this guy named Ray Bones I shot one time and wants to pay me back. Chili discusses office politics with his bookkeeping partner Tommy Carlo, who drives Chili to visit Bones and pleads with him not to say anything. Hurting people who don't pay shouldn't be necessary when all you have to do is look at them with that certain look.And this story of a small-time hood trying to break into the movie business as a producer is no exception. Without so much description of their personas as actual lines of dialogue that exposes them richly, Leonard pretty much knew this one had Hollywood adaptation written all over it.

She gave him an ultimatum - get out of the business - so he lied and said he had when they moved to Florida from Brooklyn. Discussing the possible casting for the movie they hope to make, Harry Zimm tells Chili:0 “If I could get Gene Hackman, say, we’d be in preproduction as I speak. The first ever illustrated edition, with an introduction by Patti Smith, is a must-have for fans of the genre. During his life Elmore Leonard was long associated with the movie industry and had some serious run-ins with the moguls of the industry.Chili - the too-cool-for-anyone-but-nice-guy ex-mobster, Leo - the pathetic loser dry-cleaner, Karen - the hot, smart, cynical actress, Bo Catlett - the mean, delusional, drug-dealing Hollywood-player-wanna-be. Chili has an idea for a movie based on his experiences as a shylock, and a major star likes the story.