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Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, writer, and media personality who left The Detroit News in October 2010 after two years and joined Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK Ch. 2 to do on-air journalism.
LeDuff is of Louisiana Creole and Ojibway descent, and was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. His parents' marriage ended in divorce, and he has a deceased sister and stepbrother. His father served in the U.S. Navy. LeDuff has four surviving siblings. He has lived in many cities around the country and the world. Before joining The New York Times, LeDuff worked as a schoolteacher and carpenter in Michigan and a cannery hand in Alaska. He has also worked as a baker in Denmark.
LeDuff currently lives with his wife in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He considers himself a political independent, and is a practicing Roman Catholic. LeDuff is also a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe of Michigan.
LeDuff's writing influences include Hop On Pop, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Treasure Island, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Carver, Joseph Mitchell, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, and Raymond Chandler. Among writers in the newspaper business who influenced him, LeDuff lists Mike Royko, Jimmy Breslin, and Pete Hamill.
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After establishing himself as one of the world's best safe-crackers, Nelson decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However, when his brother is targeted after going into debt with an organized crime ring, Nelson finds himself pulled back into the life he left behind for one last big job. Luckily, he has a little help in the form of fellow top-notch crook Art.
Keywords: ambiguous-ending, ambulance, bank-robbery, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, beating, black-dress, brother-brother-relationship, burned-alive, c4-explosives
They had the perfect plan. Just one thing was missing - Trust.
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An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter Scale splits California into an island with a perpetual dustcloud hanging over it. The survivors of the terrible ordeal have started to come together in the shape of Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) an air force captain, and other fractions of the military, including Sarah McBride and Lucky Simcoe, and have situated themselves in a warfare junkyard, holding weaponry from forgotten conflicts. They are searching for food, fuel and fellow survivors, and a possible path into the next world, while also dodging a violent plague that causes the skin to boil.
Keywords: action-hero, army, barbecue, bare-chested-male, battle, battlefield, blood, blood-splatter, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brawl
Welcome to the island of California.
After the final earthquake... welcome to the island of California.
The future depends on one man.
Nick Preston: Something's not right. Something shifted.::Lucky Simcoe: Shifted? Now you're spooking me, Captain.
State Trooper: Want a peanut?
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The Liberal Kansas area is in trouble. The town is without a Marshal and the nearby farmers are unable to grow crops due to the summer drought and trail riders that run cattle over their land. Bat Masterson arrives to bring law and order and his Deputy accidently finds a variety of wheat that will withstand the drought. But the farmers are giving up and leaving and Bat must convince tham to stay. He wants them to continue farming and also help round up the local gang of outlaws.
Keywords: ambition, bar-shootout, based-on-book, based-on-novel, bat-masterson, cattleman, dance-hall-singer, dancehall-girl, deputy, drought
Billy Burns: You think you got some pretty tough fellas over there in Dodge City. I guess you ain't never heard of Dry Gulch Curly have you? You see, old Brandyhead Jones, he was a United States Marshal, too. He done all the hanging over in our neighborhood. And this Dry Gulch I'm telling you about -- he was so tough that when Old Brandyhead hung him, his trigger finger kept jerking for two hours after he was dead.
Marshal Bat Masterson: What do you want, Carmody?::Carmody: [Smiling] Look here, Bat. These citizens here have elected me spokesman...::Marshal Bat Masterson: Listen here, fella, there's only two kind of people I allow to call me Bat: good friends and people I like. You don't belong in either group. [Carmody stops smiling] Now, whatta yuh wanna say?
Allen Harper: [Trying to read his fiancee's letter, which is all crumpled] Billy, you've got this thing so messed up I can't read it.::Billy Burns: Would you like to know what it says?::Allen Harper: Oh, you've been readin' it!::Billy Burns: Oh, you and me ain't got no secrets from each other, do we?::Allen Harper: Well, I hadn't planned on sharing my girl with you.::Billy Burns: Mebbe not after you're married, eh? She wants you to go ridin' with 'er. I've got Red all saddled up ready to go!::Allen Harper: Well, why didn't you say so? I've got to get dressed.::Billy Burns: [as Allen is putting on a tie] No, no, no! Not that one!::Billy Burns: [Handing him another tie] There you are!::Allen Harper: [Looking at the die with distaste] Why, that's too loud!::Billy Burns: It's the one she give yuh fer yer birthday, ain't it? You ain't even wore it once. A woman don't shy a leetle might of color when she's bein' sparked.::Allen Harper: Whatta you know about women?::Billy Burns: Who me? Why I've had women from Arkansas to Zanzibar. No matter what they're thinkin' I'm jeest a jackrabbit hop ahead of 'em!
Carmody: [Walking up to Msterson] Look here, my friend, you're taking quite a load on your shoulders.::Marshal Bat Masterson: Who are you?::Carmody: I run the Oriental over there, and we take care of our own troubles here in Liberal.::Marshal Bat Masterson: You don't do a very good of it. If I hadn't to happen along, you'd have to hang this man for murder.::Carmody: You talk like a peace officer.::Marshal Bat Masterson: Every citizen is a peace officer when the peace is violated. This is a free country by statute.::Carmody: Statutes haven't reached this part of Kansas yet. You've plenty to learn, my friend. Among other things, I'll inform you that no cowboy will ever hang in Liberal. [the crowd rumbles in agreement]::Marshal Bat Masterson: Liberal is the county seat. According to law it's where killers hang when convicted.::Carmody: Let's put it this way... if they're convicted, they hang. I'd advise you to get acquainted with our town.::Marshal Bat Masterson: I've been doin' a little along that line, but I'm grateful for the suggetion. I'll try to learn more.::Carmody: Good start would be to introduce yourself.::Marshal Bat Masterson: Oh, didn't I? - Social error. The name's William Bartley Masterson, United States Marshal.::Carmody: [Clearly alarned] Bat Masterson?::Marshal Bat Masterson: Yes.
Billy Burns: [Pulling a wounded Larkin down from his horse] Come on, get out of there! Deputy Burns is talkin'! Larkins, you're gonna get thirty days for that killin' and then we're gonna hang yuh! [the townsfolk laugh]
Allen Harper: [as they watch cowboys riding out of town] I hope that's the last of them.::Billy Burns: Well, it ain't. I'm bettin' before you know it, this town'll be hotter'n a two dollar pistol on the Fourth of July.
Lance Larkin: [from his jail cell] Hey, Masterson. You didn't think you were gonna stop my friends from gettin' me outta here, did yuh?::Marshal Bat Masterson: [determined] If they do, you'll go out feet first with a bullet right between the eyes and not in the back like you gave McKeon.
Marshal Bat Masterson: You see, Masterson, with you on our side of the fence, we've got nothing to worry about. [Cutaway to a humming Carmody nodding to Larkin outside the door hiding in a balcony] So there it is, Masterson. you play along with me, and in a year you'll be a rich man. You can throw that badge away, and live like a king.::Marshal Bat Masterson: Look, Maury, I wouldn't make a deal with you if it was endorsed by the President himself. We're on different sides of the street, and I'll stay on mine.
Billy Burns: [to the men Masterson has locked up in jail] You fellers ain't gonna be lonesome in there very long. Before Bat Masterson gets through with this town, this jail will be more populous than a hound dog with the fleas.
Marshal Bat Masterson: Listen, Carmody, some day you're gonna make it necessary to kill you.
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Thrown out of her home after her husband discovers her infidelity, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on revealing her degraded status to her husband and the son she left behind. The son, unaware of her identity, becomes her defense attorney.
Keywords: alcoholic, based-on-play, blackmail, buenos-aires-argentina, cafe, cardsharp, courtroom, deception, fistfight, fugitive