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L.A. Confidential

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L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by James Ellroy, and the third of his L.A. Quartet series. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Amber Smith

Amber Lee Smith (born March 2, 1971) is an American actress and former model.

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Anthony Brancato

Anthony Brancato (July 18, 1914 – August 6, 1951) was a Kansas City, Missouri criminal who served as a freelance gunman to various Mafia and syndicate organizations.

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Aqualillies

Aqualillies is a professional synchronised swimming/dance company founded in 2008 and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been

"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" is episode 2 of season 2 in the television show Angel.

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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1968, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Barney Stinson

Barnabas "Barney" Stinson is a fictional character portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris and created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother.

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Beatrice Borromeo

Donna Beatrice Borromeo (born 18 August 1985 in Innichen) is a member of the ancient aristocratic House of Borromeo, and she is well known in the Italian news media as a television personality.

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Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Hollywood

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church (officially: The Church of the Blessed Sacrament) is a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles located on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood, California.

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Bloody Christmas (1951)

Bloody Christmas was the name given to the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951.

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Bodil Award for Best American Film

The Bodil Award for Best American Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Filmedarbejderforeningen).

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Brad Goreski

Brad Goreski (born August 15, 1977) is a celebrity fashion stylist and television personality.

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Brittny Gastineau

Brittny Gastineau (born November 11, 1982) is an American model, socialite, and reality television personality.

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Bunker Hill, Los Angeles

Bunker Hill is a historic prominence that traditionally separated Downtown Los Angeles from the rest of the city to the west before the hill was tunneled through at Second Street in 1924.

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City of Angels (1976 TV series)

City of Angels is a 1976 television series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins, who had previously worked together on The Rockford Files.

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Cohen crime family

The Cohen crime syndicate, or the Siegel crime syndicate, was an Italian-American Mafia / Jewish Mafia crime family created by New York Jewish American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in the early 1930s.

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Confidential (magazine)

Confidential was a magazine published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953 and then bi-monthly until it ceased publication in 1978.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Curtis Hanson

Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay is an award given by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.

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Deaths in November 2007

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.

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Deutscher Krimi Preis

The Deutscher Krimi Preis, or the German Crime Fiction Award, is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction.

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Diego Berdakin

Diego Berdakin is a Los Angeles-based Internet entrepreneur and University of Southern California professor.

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Distinguished Young Women

Distinguished Young Women, formerly known as America's Junior Miss, is a national non-profit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to high school senior girls.

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Dudley (given name)

Dudley is a masculine given name.

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Exley

Exley may refer to.

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Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)

Fairfax High School (officially Fairfax Senior High School) is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, California, near the border of West Hollywood in the Fairfax District.

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Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

The Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay is an award given by the Florida Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievementes in filmmaking.

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Fred Otash

Fred Otash (January 7, 1922 – October 5, 1992) was a Hollywood police officer, private investigator, and author.

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Gangster Squad (LAPD)

The Gangster Squad (later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID)) was a special unit created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1946 to keep the East Coast Mafia and organized crime elements out of Los Angeles.

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Gary Epper

Gary Alan Epper (December 31, 1944 - December 1, 2007 in Los Angeles, California) was an American stunt performer, coordinator and occasional actor.

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Gene Wolande

Gene Wolande (born September 3, 1956) is an American character actor, writer, and director who has appeared in many mainstream film and television projects.

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Gloria Stuart

Gloria Frances Stuart (born Gloria Stewart; July 4, 1910 – September 26, 2010) was an American film and stage actress, visual artist, and activist.

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Jack Whalen

Jack Whalen (May 11, 1918 – December 2, 1959), also called Jack O'Hara and "The Enforcer," was a criminal and freelance contract killer and bookie, who worked for the Los Angeles crime family, although he also was associated with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the Shannon brothers (Joe, Izzy, Moe, and Max) and Mickey Cohen during the 1940s and 1950s.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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Jin Yamanoi

is a Japanese voice actor.

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Johnny Stompanato

John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958), was a former United States Marine who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and the Cohen crime family.

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L.A. Confidential (film)

L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson.

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L.A. Quartet

The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles.

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Lana Turner

Lana Turner (born Julia Jean Turner; February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress who worked in film, television, theater, and radio.

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Lincoln Heights Jail

Lincoln Heights Jail is a reportedly haunted former jail building in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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List of 1997 box office number-one films in Australia

This is a list of films which placed number-one at the weekend box office in Australia during 1997.

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List of American novelists

This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each.

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List of awards and nominations received by Sigourney Weaver

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actress Sigourney Weaver.

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List of Female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories

This list of Female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories details women who have won or been nominated for awards in non-gender specific categories.

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List of fiction works made into feature films (K–R)

This is a list of fiction works that have been made into feature films.

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List of fictional magazines

This is a list of fictional magazines.

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List of Hollywood novels

This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e. fiction about the American film and television industry and associated culture.

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List of Italian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Italian Academy Award winners and nominees.

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List of Loyola Marymount University people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

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List of Middlebury College alumni

The following is a list of notable Middlebury College alumni, including both graduates and attendees.

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List of people from Missouri

The following are people who were either born/raised or have lived for a significant period of time in Missouri.

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List of Phi Beta Kappa members by year of admission

This is a list of notable members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society who have Wikipedia biographies.

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List of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes episodes

Cover of first BD/DVD volume featuring (from left to right) Sherlock Shellingford, Nero Yuzurizaki, Cordelia Glauca and Hercule Barton. Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is a Japanese anime series produced by J.C. Staff, based on the media franchise created by Bushiroad.

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Los Angeles in popular culture

This article aims to compile various depictions of Los Angeles in popular culture.

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Lovell House

The Lovell House or Lovell Health House is an International style modernist residence designed and built by Richard Neutra between 1927 and 1929.

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Malcolm Goodwin

Malcolm Goodwin (born November 28, 1982) is an American actor from Brooklyn, New York.

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Malcolm McNab

Malcolm Boyd McNab is a trumpeter and player of other brass instruments, and a Los Angeles-based session musician who has performed on nearly 2000 film and television soundtracks.

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Marilyn Monroe in popular culture

Marilyn Monroe's life and persona have been used in film, television, music, the arts, and by other celebrities.

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Mark Morgan (producer)

Mark Paul Morgan is an American film producer who has been a producer and executive producer on films including The Twilight Saga film series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and the Agent Cody Banks films.

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Michael McCleery

Michael McCleery (born August 18, 1959) is an American film actor.

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Mickey Cohen

Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family.

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film director of the year.

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay is one the annual film awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

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Online Film Critics Society Discontinued Awards

Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Paolo Seganti

Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1965 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy), is an Italian actor and model, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera As the World Turns.

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Peter Kovál

Peter Kovál, usually spelled Koval, is a professional photographer and artist.

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Pomona, California

Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Producers Library Service

Producers Library Service is a provider of stock footage and photographs for professional film and TV productions.

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Reynolds (surname)

Reynolds is a surname in the English language.

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Ron Rifkin

Ron Rifkin (born October 31, 1939) is an American actor.

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Sally Insul

Sally Insul (October 3, 1916 – August 4, 2008) was an American actress who appeared in over fifty different television and film roles during her career.

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San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a film award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

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Sarah Jones (screen actress)

Sarah Jones (born July 17, 1983) is an American actress.

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Sean McNabb

Sean McNabb (born September 24, 1965) is an American actor, musician/bassist and singer.

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SoundStorm (company)

SoundStorm was an independent audio post-production and sound editorial company based in Burbank, California.

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Spade Cooley

Donnell Clyde Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969), better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality.

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Steven R. Kutcher

Steven R. Kutcher (born January 9, 1944) is an American entomologist who has worked for decades as a "wrangler" of insects and other arthropods in some of the highest-grossing productions and with some of the most famous people in the entertainment industry.

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The Big Nowhere

The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles.

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The Black Dahlia (film)

The Black Dahlia is a 2006 French-American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Josh Friedman.

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The Black Dahlia (novel)

The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy.

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Tommy Cole

Tommy Cole (born December 20, 1941) is an American make-up artist, actor, and singer who appeared as a Mouseketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club television series.

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Trio (TV network)

Trio (stylized as TR!O) was an American cable and satellite television network.

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Underworld USA Trilogy

The Underworld USA Trilogy is the collective name given to three novels by American crime author James Ellroy: American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).

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White Jazz

White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy.

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William H. Parker (police officer)

William Henry Parker III (June 21, 1905 – July 16, 1966) was the police chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and has been called "Los Angeles' greatest and most controversial chief of police".

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1990 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.

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51st Bodil Awards

The 51st Bodil Awards ceremony was held in 1998 in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1997.

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70th Academy Awards

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential

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