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James Ellroy's Problem is That He's Too Good For Scarlett Johansson

STV ยท 04/04/08 11:00AM

Life's not exactly what you'd call a bitch for James Ellroy, Los Angeles crime novelist extraordinaire and co-screenwriter (for the first time) of next week's Keanu Reeves/Forest Whitaker cop thriller Street Kings. Nevertheless, as evinced by today's LA Times profile, the new film is one of the few Ellroy projects โ€” after one hit (LA Confidential) and a succession of misfires (The Black Dahlia) and lost causes (White Jazz) โ€” for which anyone has sustained any hopes coming out of the gate.