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unusual facts about Jim Thompson



Book store shoplifting

In 2008, Constant gave this list, which he called "pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books": Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, and Burroughs, along with "any graphic novel".

Cathy Haase

Her first important film role in the United States was that of the stripper Danny Lee in the independedent film production The Kill-Off (1989), based on the Jim Thompson novel.

Coup de Torchon

Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier.

The Divine Horsemen

Desjardins re-worked several old songs by The Flesh Eaters, notably "Poison Arrow", and exercised his literary side by namechecking Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, Donald Goines, James Ellroy, Harry Crews, Ambrose Bierce and James Joyce amongst others on the track "What Is Red" from the "Snake Handler" lp.

The Oakridge School

Oakridge partners with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), founded by coach and author Jim Thompson in 1998, to transform the culture of youth and high school sports so that every student-athlete can have a positive, character-building experience.


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Kent Invicta

The record attendance was 2,107 against St. Helens on 6 November 1983, by which time the club was bankrupt and the reins were taken over by Jim Thompson, the chairman of the soccer club.