Even though they may have different beliefs about different things that - at the core they have a sense of honor and a sense of brotherhood. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. And so I went in and the judge saw me and she knew, you know, the guy that had done this and she said, you picked on that little bitty boy? And I think social issues and political issues, without beating people over the head, have always been a part of my work in the more so-called serious books I've written as well as the Hap and Leonard series and what have you. LANSDALE: Well, you - well, you fried them was very common, but they also can cook them in stew. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that'll make a man run his car off the road. Get them right and you have grabbed your viewer's attention in seconds, get it wrong and you end up spending the first half of the episode trying to make up for it. And then, you know, I began to see - huh, everybody's just the same - there's some real jackasses out there of all colors and there's some really nice people, too. Still, re-reading a Hap and Leonard story is still better than reading most anything else! Before we get to that, though, we need to talk about the actual (fictional) Hap and Leonard. Get the Crime Reads BriefThank you for subscribing! There was a house on a hill above ours, and it was covered in flowers.
The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more trouble they see. In fact, their last movie – Cold in July – was also the adaptation of a Joe R. Lansdale book. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score. He is heterosexual and liberal and lives in east Texas.
Leonard Pine is the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop. He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. And when we would go to Gladewater, I would check out a bunch of books on my library card. It's only about five pages but it will stay with you. Are Mindfulness and Yoga the Luxuries of a Privileged Class? DAVIES: And they've done all kinds odd jobs together, some of it is as private investigators, right? SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC). Read all the books in this series and I am sure that you will find Hap and Leonard totally unforgettable and captivating. Bantam's Summer Spectacular.
DAVIES: Well, describe one of those cousins for us. DAVIES: Well, just to clarify, you actually - you didn't actually get into the theater. You are there to be in the moment. She loved nonfiction in particular, but she was always getting books somewhere and bringing them home, and I read anything I could get my hands on because it was like I was born to it. Black, gay, and outrageously unconventional, Leonard is in deep trouble, and his old pal, Hap Collins, is the only one willing to believe his innocence. In East Texas thriller author Joe R. Lansdale's Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard, the book's protagonists stumble upon a half-nude woman bleeding to death near Caddo Lake — a bayou bordering Louisiana and the Lone Star State. The story line personalities of these two make for some well written and well delivered dialogue between the two individuals. And - but I began to meet more black people as I grew older as a teenager and as I went into my 20s and so on. From the Edgar-winning author of "The Bottoms" comes a funny, violent, testosterone-laden, and satisfying new novel. I spoke to Joe R. Lansdale about his life and career and his new Hap and Leonard novel "Honky Tonk Samurai.
The bond between the two is key. In the case of Hap and Leonard, I came at it ass about-face. Reading) There we sat, me reflecting on these things and holding in a wheat bread fart out of courtesy, when Leonard said, what the hell? Somehow, though, the grisliest aspect of the scene is the mound of fire ants she's managed to fall on while fleeing her captors. I watched "Hopalong Cassidy. " Now Hollywood, about The Thicket... Hap and Leonard Seasons 1 (Savage Season) and 2 (Mucho Mojo) are available on Amazon Prime now. Leonard is such an interesting character. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. The Elephant of Surprise by Joe R. Lansdale. I mean, those must've been some good stories to hear. Hoodoo Harry – Another Hap and Leonard novella, you can now find it in the Born For Trouble short story collection. Going back a bit, I mean, your dad was a mechanic.
I mean, it didn't sound like you were work-shopping and that kind of thing. Who the hell are you, the man said to Leonard. We lived in Mount Enterprise. Also new from Joe R Lansdale is Rusty Puppy, the new Hap and Leonard novel. Vanilla Ride – Leonard is asked to rescue a teenage girl from a drug dealer. You know, you're a great storyteller, a professional storyteller. They're raised the way I was raised.
But I've also had a number of those things during the late '60s, early '70s, where just the sight of somebody with long hair led to all kinds of yells and whistle and threats. It's not without it, but I've been able to have enough control that I don't feel like I'm giving up much. Turns out, however, that the law needs a favor and if Hap and Leonard can do the deed they'll be free roam. His best friend is Leonard Pine, who is black, gay and conservative and was a Vietnam War hero.
What inspired your imagination as a kid? His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Four (very) short stories about Leonard Pine, he o…. Why don't they back off from the situations they get themselves into? And that's what we did. The image of a red devil's head painted on a tree is just the beginning-a little research turns up a slew of murders with that same fiendish signature. With his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, Joe R. Lansdale serves up a bubbling cauldron of murder and mayhem that only he could Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. And then when Martin Luther King came along and started speaking and saying what he had to say in such an extraordinary manner, I was deeply moved and from that point on I was very much a proponent of civil rights.
His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror. " I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR. And not all that's bad, but some of it is because it's just ego, you know, and it's just machoism. Hap wants to call the police. Can you answer for them as the author? It stars James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams, and it premieres next Wednesday. Leonard was already out of the car by this time and crossing the street. And if things aren't weird enough, Leonard has taken to wearing a deestalker cap... Will this be the case that finally sends Hap over the edge? 'But lucky for you I think a lot of that stuff is nonsense. But this character, not only Hap, who tells the story, but Leonard to me is the - is equal importance to the stories, and so he just kind of developed out of that and, like I said, the people I knew and all the people I'd worked with, done martial arts with, so that's where he comes from.
LANSDALE: A little bit. LANSDALE: Well, I would say that I - of many times, when my hair was really, really long, I had a guy that was much bigger than me that decided at work where I was working that he was going to hurt me. DAVIES: Where does Leonard come from?
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