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James Ellroy's American Tabloid

De: James Ellroy
Narrado por: Brian Cox, Alessandro Nivola, Maya Hawke, Shea Whigham, Elliott Gould, Bobby Cannavale, full cast
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Please note: This content is for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and themes. Discretion is advised.

In 1995, James Ellroy’s novel American Tabloid shocked the world with its gritty reimagining of the events leading up to the JFK assassination. Now, an all-star cast brings Ellroy’s masterwork to life in this gripping new audio adaptation.

Hollywood luminaries including Brian Cox (Succession), Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark), Elliott Gould (Ocean’s Eleven), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Bobby Cannavale (The Irishman), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Giovani Ribisi (Lucky Pete) and Matt Dillon (There’s Something About Mary) lend their talents to this salacious thriller narrated by Ellroy himself.

The high-low tale tracks the machinations of real power brokers, like Jimmy Hoffa, John F. and Bobby Kennedy, and J. Edgar Hoover, as well as the fictionalized footmen who did their dirty work behind the scenes. Weaving true events into his sordid story, Ellroy creates a portrait of midcentury America that’s as recognizable as it is shocking.

Take a trip beyond the gloss of the Kennedy presidency into the backroom deals and unsavory characters that really made things happen. Follow along with characters like Big Pete Bondurant, a violent associate of both Howard Hughes and Jimmy Hoffa who will go to any lengths to insulate his employers from repercussions, and Kemper Boyd, an FBI agent tasked with going undercover in the Kennedy political operation.

Ellroy invites a whole new generation to leave their historical preconceptions at the door—to lift up the rock and see what’s living underneath.

Available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

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About the Creator

James Ellroy is widely regarded as the great living American crime writer. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet— The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy— American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. American Tabloid was TIME Magazine’s Novel of the Year for 1995 and is included on the BBC’s list of the hundred greatest works of American fiction. Ellroy was the 2022 recipient of the L.A. Times’ Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime excellence in writing about the American West. His latest novel—already a bestseller—is The Enchanters.

Brian Cox
Alessandro Nivola
Maya Hawke
Shea Whigham
Elliott Gould
Bobby Cannavale

About the Performer

Brian Cox is an Emmy, Olivier, and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, best known for the HBO hit series Succession, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Cox is also the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Goering in Nuremberg (2000), and has appeared in numerous films, including The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Boxer, Rushmore, Super Troopers, The Ring, 25th Hour, Troy, Red Eye, Zodiac, The Escapist, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Coriolanus, Manhunter, Churchill, and The Bourne trilogy, to name a few. His upcoming films include Little Wing, The Parenting, and The Electric State. Cox is also a veteran of the London stage, having won two Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his performances in Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Rat in the Skull for the Royal Court. His New York theater credits include St. Nicholas, which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actor as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations. Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor's Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. In 2004, he was honored at the BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award, and at the 2004 Great Scot Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Empire magazine awarded him the Empire Icon Award for his film achievements in 2006, and the UK Film Council named him one of the Top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood in 2007. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander.

About the Performer

Alessandro Nivola is an award-winning actor and producer. On Broadway, he received Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for his performance opposite Bradley Cooper in The Elephant Man and a Drama Desk Award nomination for A Month in the Country. For Sebastian Lelio’s film Disobedience, he won the 2018 British Independent Film Award (BIFA) and was nominated for a London Critics Circle Award and a UK National Film Award. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon and won a SAG and Critics Choice Award for David O.Russell’s American Hustle. He won the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Best Actor Award and the Achievement in Acting Award at the 2009 Provincetown International Film Festival.
Nivola will next be seen starring in J.C. Chandor’s Marvel feature Kraven the Hunter and opposite Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s feature The Brutalist. He also co-stars with André Holland in the upcoming Apple+ limited series The Big Cigar, directed by Don Cheadle.
He most recently played Dickie Moltisanti, the lead role in the Warner Bros. Sopranos prequel feature The Many Saints of Newark. He was also part of the all-star ensemble which included Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and Robert De Niro, in David O. Russell’s film Amsterdam.
On stage, he also received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for his performance in The Winslow Boy on Broadway, starred off-Broadway in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind directed by Ethan Hawke, and starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of As You Like It.
Nivola and his wife Emily Mortimer set up the film and television production company King Bee Productions in 2014. He produced two seasons of HBO’s Doll & Em and produced the feature film To Dust starring Géza Rohrig ( Son of Saul) and Matthew Broderick, which won both the Audience Award and the Best First Feature Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a 2020 Film Independent Spirit Award.
Alessandro grew up in rural Vermont and graduated from Yale University with a BA in English. He lives in New York.

About the Performer

Maya Hawke is an actor, musician, and producer. She stars in and produced Ethan Hawke’s biographical film of Flannery O’Connor, Wildcat, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Hawke’s portrayal of the wildly zealous author continues to earn her major accolades.
Hawke was recently heard in the Audio Up and Audible podcast series The Playboy Interviews. The series re-creates iconic interviews from articles published by Playboy magazine. Hawke voiced editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown. She also voiced the lead role of Sarah Weddington, who at 26 is the youngest woman to ever argue a case in the Supreme Court, in iHeartPodcast’s Supreme: The Battle For Roe.
Hawke debuted her sophomore album, Moss, on September 23, 2022. Following a successful release of two independent singles in August 2019, Hawke released her debut album, Blush, in August 2020 with Mom+Pop. She is currently recording her third album.
Hawke has been named one of Variety’s "Ten Actors to Watch in 2019," and was included in Variety’s 2022 New Power of New York list, the 2023 Young Hollywood Impact Report, and the 2023 TIME100 Next list.

About the Performer

With a box office of almost $5 billion, Shea Whigham has proven himself to be one of the most talented actors of his generation, having worked with legendary film directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Oliver Stone, David O. Russell, and Robert Rodriguez, as well as Hollywood's next generation of auteur filmmakers, including Adam Wingard, Damien Chazelle, and Jeff Nichols.
Whigham is back as Pete Strickland in season 2 of HBO’s Emmy-nominated adaptation of Perry Mason. The show marked Whigham’s return to HBO after a memorable run on the much lauded, critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire, for which he won a SAG Award for his role as Eli Thompson.
Whigham joined Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 7 and will return in Mission: Impossible 8, and will star opposite Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie in the feature Eileen based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s bestseller.
Whigham was most recently seen in Starz’s Gaslit, reteaming with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. He received a 2023 Critics Choice nomination as well as a Satellite Award nomination for his portrayal of the ruthless and larger-than-life G. Gordon Liddy, the leader of Nixon’s bumbling White House Plumbers.
On the small screen, Whigham has also been seen in Amazon’s Modern Love, Bravo’s Dirty John opposite Connie Britton and Eric Bana, and the Paramount TV miniseries Waco opposite Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch. Other notable television credits include HBO's Vice Principals, FX’s Fargo season 3, Cary Fukunaga's True Detective, Marvel's Agent Carter, Graham Yost's FX drama Justified, and Netflix's Narcos.
Other recent films include Lionsgate’s The Quarry, Vertical Entertainment’s Small Engine Repair, The Gateway, South of Heaven, Netflix’s Vampires vs. the Bronx, the Academy Award-winning Joker opposite Joaquin Phoenix, the Academy Award-nominated Vice opposite Amy Adams and Christian Bale, Samuel Goldwyn Films’ To the Stars, Damien Chazelle’s First Man opposite Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, Columbia Pictures’ Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Warner Brothers’ hit Kong: Skull Island, Netflix's comic book adaptation Death Note, Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale opposite Chris Hemsworth, and the Sundance films Catcher Was a Spy with Paul Rudd and High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.

About the Performer

Elliott Gould is a prolific American actor and producer who began his acting career on Broadway.
His portrayal of Trapper John in Robert Altman‘s feature film MASH earned him a Golden Globe nomination and landed him on the cover of TIME Magazine, which called him a "star for an uptight age."
He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; his other memorable roles include Philip Marlowe in Altman's The Long Goodbye, and he was the first American actor to work with renowned director Ingmar Bergman when he starred in The Touch. He has since appeared in noteworthy roles in numerous feature films, including Contagion, American History X, Bugsy, Meet Ruby Sparks, A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, The Lady Vanishes, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark, and portrayed Reuben Tishkoff in the popular trilogy of Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen.
On television, a new generation became enthusiastic fans when Mr. Gould appeared as Jack Geller, Ross and Monica’s father, on the wildly popular sitcom Friends. He appeared as Legal Siegel in the critically acclaimed Netflix hit The Lincoln Lawyer. His other TV work includes roles in Ray Donovan, the sitcom Mulaney, Doubt, 9JKL, Grace and Frankie, and The Kominsky Method. He is part of an elite club, having the distinction of having hosted Saturday Night Live six times.
Gould produced several films, including Woody Allen’s Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask and Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders, and is in development on several new projects.

About the Performer

Bobby's films include The Irishman, Blonde, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Ant-Man, Danny Collins, Annie, Chef, Blue Jasmine, WinWin and The Station Agent. Television credits include The Watcher, Bupkis, Nine Perfect Strangers, Homecoming, Angie Tribeca, Mr. Robot, Master of None, Vinyl, Boardwalk Empire (Emmy Award, SAG nomination), Nurse Jackie and Will & Grace (Emmy Award). Cannavale's stage credits include Medea (BAM), The Hairy Ape, HurlyBurly, Lifespan of a Fact, The Big Knife, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Motherf**ker with the Hat and Mauritius.

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James Ellroy’s complex noir epics are incomparable, and this one is arguably his masterpiece.

This audio production features superb voice performances by a big cast of actors, plus a sprinkling of sound effects to help bring things to life.

The tricky bit is Ellroy himself reading the narration. Once I got into it, I came to love his noir growl and idiosyncratic cadences, but I understand why many reviews don’t take to it. Check out the sample and keep in mind that you are hearing the man himself.

A great novel and a unique audio production

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The Audible Original production of "American Tabloid" takes an already enthralling novel and turns it into an audio-drama that plunges the listener into a world of intrigue, deceit, and labyrinthine schemes. The dialogue crackles, the story grabs you by the throat and never lets go, and the performances (with one VERY notable exception) are pitch-perfect from top to bottom. In "American Tabloid", Ellroy shows us America as a powderkeg waiting for a spark to ignite it and immolate the world with it. An insidious and pernicious CIA has its tentacles in every strata of society, a communist country lies 50 miles off America's shores, the mafia is at the height of it's influence, and the Kennedy family has its hands on the reins of power. It's a world where alliances are made with villains, plans within plans have the diremost consequences, and absolutely nobody is innocent. Of all the Ellroy novels that Audible could've adapted, I'm glad they chose "American Tabloid".
That said, there is one caveat: the narrator, James Ellroy himself, is so baffilingly unsuited to read his own material. I've never heard an author who has such an off-putting take on his own prose. It's guttural, harsh, and so strangely read it's almost comical. A story this taut, tense, and engrossing really needed a better narrator to articulate it. Caveat aside, the rest of the performances, to a one, are perfectly delivered. Audible scrounged up a "Murderer's Row" of talent to perform the dialogue and each and every actor has a surprising grasp on their respective characters and personalities. Particular acclaim should go to Allesandro Nivola, William Forsythe, and Shea Whigham as the leads. The stellar cast, immersive sound-design, tightly-paced and exquisitely written story all serve to deliver an utterly addicting Cold War pot-boiler that simmers from word one and builds and builds until its explosive conclusion...

And I could NOT stop listening.

If you enjoyed James Ellroy's "American Tabloid" as much as I did and are looking for similar titles please check out Ellroy's other works like "L.A. Confidential", "The Black Dahlia", and "The Enchanters". I also can't recommend Don Dellilo's "Libra" enough, as well as "Winter Kills" by Richard Condon.

"America Was Never Innocent"

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Great production that hopefully reflects Ellroy's vision. Or he's doing it for the money. Anyway enjoyed the actors and this format.

Loved the performance/production

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Every voice actor did an incredible job with this project! good example of how important casting talent is for audiobooks. Except the narrator. The narrator....phew. I'll admit after awhile he grew on me, but I wasn't sure I'd get through the first chapter.

It's like....He. Stops. And starts sentences so they sound weereeeird. HE RANDOMLY YELLS!! Like a cracker jack diamond seahorse! When you think.....you got IT?! He says some random slang phrases. Cause why not? ITS HIS BOOK!! And sometimes.....books ....neeeeed soooooooound. Touchdown baby.

Anyway the narrator's style can be kinda annoying, especially for a fairly complicated story with a TON of characters. Still ABSOLUTELY worth a listen! I'd recommend trying to white knuckle through a couple chapters and see if you can get use to it.

I realize it's the author, but that narrator...

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American Tabloid is an American classic. This classic “radio play” style adaptation makes it pop through your headphones. Any Ellroy fan should run, not walk, to listen - and when you’re done send a thank you to Jimmy Jellinek for making it happen.

Great Adaptation of a Classic

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whoever directed this narrator did a great disservice to this book. if this book wasn't so long I would have taken this performance for a joke. otherwise very fun

wtf with this narrator?

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This is a great story line with the cast, Brain Cox did a fascinating job reading this. And with his voice and the way he read it and the music and sound affects made you think you were actually in that era. it was wild on on the different spin of the story. i loved this book.

Highly recommend

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An already amazing book from James Ellroy really comes alive with the actors and performances.

A fantastic performance.

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This is full-cast production, and most of the voice actors are quite good.
However, the primary voice—that of the narrator—sounds as if someone had asked an AI generator to create the snidest, most sarcastic adolescent monotone it had, and then used it throughout the book,

This book is about infighting among FBI and CIA agents in the 1950s and early 60s, and contains several scenes of disturbingly imaginative violence. Hearing murders and mutilations described by what sounds like an autistic teenager attempting to be

Terrific, except for the narrator.

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The best thing I have listened to this year, this dramatized hard boiled crime novel has unparalleled dramatic sweep and intensity. While it ends abruptly I hope they do a second installment, voiced by an ensemble cast of fantastic character actors.

Wild Gonzo Crime Drama

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