A Brooklyn mystery series visits LA
Brooklyn BookBeat
Nelson George is an author, filmmaker and lifelong Brooklyn resident. In 1974, he saw Roman Polanski’s masterpiece “Chinatown” in a Times Square movie theater. He says of the experience:
“The golden sunlight, the dubious characters, and the sense that corruption thrived just below Los Angeles’ glamorous surface hit me hard. When I finally reached the City of Angels in 1981, I found it hard to separate the cinematic LA from the real one. I soon realized that director Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne had tapped into something elemental about the balance of physical beauty and beastly behavior.”