![]() ![]() “Managers weren’t reporting the real box-office figures. ![]() “Everyone was ripping off everyone else,” he said, explaining that in those days theaters were an all-cash business. ![]() He was hired by the owners to keep an eye on the help. But except for the 42nd Street megaplexes, he pointed out, there were no Times Square movie theaters anymore, and they were where he used to ply his trade. Winslow helped write the screenplay) based on his 2010 novel of the same name. “They used to crunch under your shoes like clamshells,” he recalled.Īn especially startling development was a nearly block-long sign at 49th and Broadway advertising “Savages,” the new Oliver Stone movie (for which Mr. No prostitutes, no porn palaces, no crack vials underfoot. Winslow - who now divides his time between Solana Beach, Calif., and a ranch near the old mining town of Julian - took a walking tour of his old turf, marveling at how much it has changed. Eventually he worked his way up to high-profile arson cases in California (the background for his 1999 novel “California Fire and Life”), but he got his start in Times Square in the late ’70s, when, he likes to say, “the whole place was a glittering river of theft.” For years he was a private investigator, and he used to read writers like Chandler, Hammett and Elmore Leonard while sitting in his car on stakeouts. Don Winslow, whose book “The Kings of Cool” just came out, is a rarity among writers of crime fiction: He doesn’t just make it up. ![]()
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