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'Street Kings'

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You can always count on James Ellroy for a night of feel-bad entertainment. In novels like "White Jazz" and "American Tabloid," his prose is blunt and brutal; the film adaptations of his books, like "L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia," mix the tough dialogue of old gangster flicks with modern, bloody action. The common threads are pervasive pessimism and cheerless violence.

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