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WHITE JAZZ

CAST, George Clooney;
EXEC PROD, Patrick Choi, Kendall Morgan-Rhodes, Bo Hyde;
PROD, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Clark Peterson, Michelle Grace, Diane Nabatoff;
DIR, Joe Carnahan;
SCR, James Ellroy, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Christopher Cleveland.

Shoot Dates: Approximately January 15, 2008 (in Los Angeles).


STORY
The film is about Dave Klein, a vice cop senseing he's being set up by the police commissioner, he sets out to expose a decades-old network of corruption engineered by the LAPD in late 1950s Los Angeles.

Breakdowns

Boyce Bradley
30-37. Bradley is Chief of Detectives, Lt. Klein's superior, "Smartest man in town. And one of the richest." Reptilian in the extreme, manipulative and self-serving, he turns Klein into his personal stooge. Pumped on his own power, clearly pleased with his cunning strategy, he thinks he's got Klein acting as his personal gopher. Bradley is in for a rude awakeneing when he learns that Klein has got him over a barrel - that he's finally been beaten. Lead;

Fritz Koeing
50s, German born, a former US Spymaster. He is the Head of the LAPD's Intelligence Division. Open, with a big laugh and a "great white grin," considered by Klein to be "the best inspector" on the force, he turns out to be a corrupt and greedy cop, with eye for human frailty. He'll be damned if the slums and hot spots for human vice (which he runs and from which he profits) will be turned into stadiums. He's perfectly willing to kill
to preserve the status quo. Lead;

Pete Bondurant
40-45, big and intimidating, living with Klein's sister. Pete is a one-time LA Sheriff, "bounced when he beat-dead a prisoner who spit at him." He nows
works for Howard Huges as a full-time muscle. A man who does pretty much anything for the right price, he's hired by Klein to help frame and degrade a public figure. Later, he sets Klein up with one of Hughes' men, saddened but compliant when he must pummel Klein within an inch of his life. Lead;

Geoffrey Milteer
Late 20s, a small, effete blond man. He is one of Howard Hughes' lapdog lawyers. Humorless and prissy, he explains to Klein that he's being hired to destroy a certain actress who has violated her contract by acting a Z-grade horror movie. Lead;

Welles Noonan
Early 40s, a U.S. Attorney, an "Ivy League Crimefighter". He's "launching a big boxing probe as a way to begin prying into everything else crooked and
corrupt in LA." He's keeping a close eye on Klein, determined to nail him on numerous counts. Vicious, hard-edged, he wants to mess with Klein's head, get him to trust him;

Captain Dan Wilhite
Early 40s, head of the LAPD Narcotics Division. He's a "Michigan Catholic poisoned by 25 years in this desert. Recently divorced despite seven kids with his ex." Roiling over with bile and a sneering attitude, he's angry to see Lt. Klein investigating his case, made even angrier when he learns that Bradley had ordered him to the crime scene. We later learn that he had sent Klein on a wild goose chase, all in an effort to cover his own ass. We also discover that he is the so-called Peeper who's getting his jollies watching a drug pusher's young daughter strip for him;

Lester Lake
African-American, a "one-time velvet-voiced crooner," he is the owner of a black jazz club, whose "dabble in the dope trade cost him a set of slashed vocal cords." High on reefer, he tells Klein that the elusive Tommy Magdalena (son of a big-time drug pusher) had stopped by and cleaned out his safe;

Mickey Cohen
62, a washed up gangster. He's a one-time LA crime kingpin and West Coast mob heavy who "now trawls for loose change." He's seen cooking on the set of a Z-grade movie, slinging hash for the extras;

Meg
Klein's sister. Pete's lover. Meg is a hardened yet still sultry woman, with a dry sense of humor. She and Klein share an easy banter;

Mortant Diskant
50. A public figure, running for City Council, a supporter of the migrant farm workers. He is forced to back down from the campaign. Kidnapped and photographed in a compromising situation by Klein, he has no choice but to give up his political aspirations;

George Ainge
30s, a creepy, thuggish type, with lots of jail house tattoos. He's an old friend of Glenda's, the guy who's supposed to help stage a kidnapping. Convinced Klein has been hired by Glenda to retrieve a murder weapon, he crosses the line when he calls Glenda a whore. Klein is about to take him out when Stemmons intervenes;

Tom Bethune
Late 20s-Early 30s. One of the city's young turks, running for an important City Council seat, Tom Bethune is smarmy, greedy and corrupt, joined at the hip to Bradley;

Director Sid Frizell
This very fey man, first seen fingering a snuff-box, he is the director of the low-rent horror movie starring Glenda Bledsoe. He believes the staged
kidnapping will provide terrific publicity;

Sanderline Johnson
20s-30s. A professional boxer and now a subpoenaed Federal witness, with the the mind of grade-schooler and a history of mental illness, Sanderline sidelines as a legbreaker for the Mob. About to testify in court, oblivious to the danger he's in, he is pushed to his death of Klein who tries to make the whole thing look like a suicide;

Reuben Ruiz
20s. A muscled middle-weight boxer. He's a wise-ass, confused as to why he's being arrested;

Biddie
She is an old biddie in a threadbare bathroom, with dyed orange hair and a "burnt butter grin". Clearly crazy, she tells the police what she saw on
the night Hector Magdalena disappeared;

Officer
This well-built police officer from the Wilshire Station interviews the Biddie;

Rock Rockwell
This buff looking actor is starring opposite Glenda in a Z-rated picture. He doesn't like the kidnapping scam, fearful that his body will fall apart if he's out of action for too long;

Tommy Magdalena
20s. He is the elusive son of missing drug dealer, Hector Magdelena. He tries to flee from Klein, later gunned down as Klein tries to get him to cough up the name of his dad's killer;

Ring Announcer
This fight announcer explains to the disappointed crowd that Rock-a-Bye Ruiz will not be fighting this evening;

Bob Galladet
Another of the city's young turks. He is the District Attorney, not the smartest man in town. He's in tight with Bradley;

Quiff
A young law student who doesn't want it known that he's gay, he agrees to be photographed in a compromising position with Morton Diskant;

Madge Magdalena
50, an old matriarch, "hanging by the thinnest thread,". She is the wife of a drug dealer. 50+, with dyed blonde bouffant hair, she cries while
downing belts of wine after learning that her husband has disappeared, probably murdered;

Lucile Magdalena
20s, with big bedroom eyes, wearing a top two sizes too small. She is the indifferent daughter of the missing / murdered drug dealer. We later learn of her twisted relationship with the much older Dan Wilhite;

Bartender
This massive bartender with hands the size of catcher's mitts is Sanderline Johnson's second cousin. He gives Klein a warning about not using his gun hand to lift his drink. Obviously, he knows that Klein killed Sanderline;

Reporter #1 & #3
These reporters are eager to get a statement from Tom Bethune after he wins the City Council seat;

Werewolf
This actor is playing a werewolf in the horror film starring Glenda Bledsoe;

Secretary
She is Bradley's secretary, disapproving of Klein's informal tone;

Reporter #2
This reporter challenges Bradley when he mentions the potentially damning information concerning surprise witnesses who will appear before
the Federal Grand jury;

Six Pack
This well-built, squeaky clean officer asks Klein about what's causing the terrible smell inside the trunk of his car.

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