

Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain), the late great mystery writer. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. A great, albeit somewhat depressing, read. While its in the style of a Spaghetti Western (paying particular homage to the 1966 film Django) and has the thematic drive associated with the 'revisionist' side of the genre, Tarantino calls it a 'Southern' because it is set in the Deep South rather than The Wild West. Looking back, I loved those days a time before the corner of Hollywood and Highland had morphed into a mega-plex, and when you had to track down a fax machine to get your sides if there wasn't time to go to the agent's office, because back then there was simply no such thing as having them sent to your cell phone. Candyland is one of the darkest, and deals with the worst aspects of human nature in a very realistic way. Django Unchained is a 2012 film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino (his seventh film overall). A communal kitchen in the basement guaranteed we all got to know one another sooner or later, and even when one of us couldn't afford his weekly rent and had to sleep in an antique Jag he'd bought for $200, out at the curb, we would still take food to him so no one ever went hungry.

Finding a boarding house in Hollywood, I think now that living in that reconverted mini-mansion gave me my first inspiration to create something like "Candyland" the cheap, three-story, rent-a-room-by-the-week place with the johns in the hall (much like the Yucca Arms, where Hunter resides) was full of aspiring actors, models, singers and comics. I first went to Los Angeles in the spring of 1996 to try and be a working actor.
