Detroit Strip Clubs: FX brings Leonard lawman to life
March 17, 2010 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe series grew out of an Elmore Leonard short story, “Fire in the Hole,” and puts Givens in Kentucky, where he grew up and vowed never to return.
Justified is hardly the first attempt to render the dialogue of Leonard, the author of dozens of novels over the past 50 years, suitable for the small screen. But though some of the films made from his novels –Out of Sight, Get Shorty and Jackie Brown — have found critical and commercial success, television has not always been so kind to the Leonard oeuvre.
Such network efforts as Karen Cisco and Maximum Bob tanked, in part because Leonard’s characters tend to do and say things that don’t fly with network standards. On FX, thanks to basic cable’s less restrictive policies, the people in Justified cuss and sleep around, the former stripper really does have a heart of gold, and the neo-Nazi is charming and loquacious.
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