a character asks Chili Palmer, the unflappable Miami shylock turned Hollywood movie producer in Be Cool, Elmore Leonard's colorful ... contract doing Spice Girls covers for an erstwhile pimp.

When it came to books, Elmore Leonard was the king of cool. Who wouldn’t want to be ... before ending up on the cover of Time magazine and in American Express ads. There was nothing that could ...

"FRANK CONNOR/KRT Screenwriter Elmore Leonard, known for writing numerous Westerns, crime novels and films such as "Get Shorty," "Be Cool" and "3:10 to Yuma," died Tuesday morning at home ...

Elmore Leonard, who died today at 87 after ... The protagonist of Leonard’s 1999 book Be Cool, a sequel to Get Shorty, was trying to get into music management. While researching the story ...

Crime writer Elmore ... Leonard with a lifetime achievement in November 2012. He penned 45 novels during his lifetime. Many of his books – notably "Out of Sight," "Get Shorty" and "Be Cool ...