SUMMARY:The second volume of "The L.A. Quartet," — Ellroy's fictional alternative history of the City of Angels circa the 1940s and '50s was adapted for film by venerable crime fiction novelist James Crumley, who inspired a generation of crime writers (including Dennis Lehane George Pelecanos and Michael Connelly) with his watershed novel, The Last Good Kiss.Crumley told Woody Haut, in an interview for Haut's book, Hearbreak and Vine, that he wrote a script for Ellroy's novel that, echoing its title, "Came to nothing." Crumley said the script remains in limbo because of "leftwing politics, I'd guess, either the lack or the inclusion, I don't exactly remember."