{"id":4771,"date":"2013-08-20T19:35:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T02:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2013-08-21T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T02:38:23","slug":"elmore-leonard-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/20\/elmore-leonard-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmore Leonard Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/elmore-leonard-dies-at-87-609580\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Elmore Leonard Dies at 87<\/h1>\n<p><strong>by Hilary Lewis, Andy Lewis, Duane Byrge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2013\/08\/elmore_leonard.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elmore Leonard,\u00a0<\/strong>considered by many to be the greatest crime writer of modern times, has died due to complications of a stroke. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote 45 novels, many of which were adapted for movies or TV over the years.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent TV hit was the FX series\u00a0<em>Justified<\/em>, starring\u00a0<strong>Timothy\u00a0Olyphant<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0Raylan\u00a0Givens, which was based on his short story &#8220;Fire in the Hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Films based on his work included\u00a0<em>Hombre<\/em>,\u00a0<em>52 Pick-Up<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Out of Sight<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Get Shorty<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0Jackie Brown<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The film version of Leonard&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Switch<\/em>, starring\u00a0<strong>Jennifer Aniston, Mos Def, Tim Robbins<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0Isla Fisher<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. At the time of his death, he was at work on another novel, which was set in the world of competitive bull riding.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/elmore-leonard-dies-at-87-609580\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter Elmore Leonard Dies at 87 by Hilary Lewis, Andy Lewis, Duane Byrge Elmore Leonard,\u00a0considered by many to be the greatest crime writer of modern times, has died due to complications of a stroke. He was 87. He wrote 45 novels, many of which were adapted for movies or TV over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}