FX Networks is developing a period television drama based on James Ellroy's 2012 novella Shakedown. (More about the book, below.)
The storyline is centered on a fictionalized version of a real person, Fred Otash, an investigator with Hollywood Research Incorporated, which provided information to the 1950s tabloid Confidential.
In addition to featuring Otash in last year's novella, Ellroy also included the character in two of his "Underworld USA" trilogy of novels: The Cold Six Thousand (2001) and Blood's a Rover (2009).
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Shakedown
James Ellroy
Meet Freddy Otash: corrupt cop turned sleaze hustler, extortionist, pimp, and an actual historical figure who made the 1950s magazine "Confidential" the go-to source for the sins of the rich and famous. In his prime, Freddy raised hell, and in this short novella he finds himself in purgatory — literally — waiting for a transfer. Will he make it to heaven, or is his fate trending south?
Promised redemption if he confesses, Freddy writes a tell-all peopled by Hollywood greats like Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and Gary Cooper (to name a few), who are up to all sorts of wrong. Threesomes, foursomes, men's room misadventures — anything goes in this licentious world.
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