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Friday, September 15, 2006 12:00 AM

"The Black Dahlia"

Brian De Palma fails to breathe life into James Ellroy's tale of a notoriously grisly murder.

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  • Friday, September 15, 2006 06:41 AM

    Glass Houses, Part II

    Anyone who uses "considerably" twice in successive sentences isn't in the best position to pass judgement on Ellroy's prose style. Or anyone's.

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