SOURCE: "Leonard Cocks a Snook at Hollywood," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 29, 1990, p. 9.
In the following review, Champlin offers a favorable assessment of Get Shorty.
Long before he earned his present eminence for his swift and sharp-tongued contemporary mysteries, Elmore Leonard knew Hollywood and Hollywood knew him, initially as a writer of Westerns. Among the movies based on his novels were The Moonshine War and Mr. Majestyk (both of which he also scripted), the Martin Ritt/Paul Newman Hombre, Valdez Is Coming and 3:10 to Yuma.
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