Actually, I was wrong about the Stark adaptation. Godard
film, "Bande a
Part" or Band of Outsiders (Tarantino named his company after
the film) was
based on a novel by D.B. Hitchens, Fool's Gold, which I am
not familiar
with. It's a great film however. Available from Hen's Tooth
video.
Of the Thompson novels made into films:
Coup de Torchon
Killer Inside me (Stacy Keech stars)
Grifters
Getaway(2 versions)
Also an apparently good one based on The Blow out, or is it
The Big Blow
Out?
Those are the ones I can think of.
>------------------------------
>: Has anyone read Herron's biography "Willeford"? Is
it recomended?
>
>There's been some talk on the list - check the
February 1998 archives.
>I'd recommend it, certainly, but there are better
books about
>Willeford to be written. Herron heisenbergs all over
the book, which
>I found off-putting. I think generally people thought
it was a lot
>better than nothing.
>
Thanks Bill. I looked in the Feb 98 archive. Didn't see any
reference
>: I'd like to read some of Willeford's short stories.
Is there any
>: source for these?
>
>Dennis McMillan (publisher of _Willeford_) still has
_Everybody's
>Metamorphosis_ in print, I think, and you may be able
to scrounge up a
>copy of _The Machine in Ward Eleven_ for not too much
if you look
>around. Those are the only easy sources I
know.
>
Thanks for the tip
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