Hollywood has been in love with mobsters since the beginning of movies, but the other side of the equation—that mobsters are smitten with Hollywood—has seldom been considered. That is, until Get Shorty. It was novelist Elmore Leonard's inspired jest to set his 1990 crime novel in the balmy fish-bowl that is the movie industry. Into this tank he drops two species of sharks—the predatory hustlers of show business and the carnivores of crime—and watches the results (part mating dance, part struggle for survival) with an amused grin. It's no con-test. The Hollywood boys may flash pearlier teeth, but the hoods beat them at their own game. Reality bites deeper.
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