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Mar 17, 2009 · Maximum Bob. A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert “Maximum Bob” Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death—by alligator, if necessary. Maximum Bob is a delightfully dark classic ...
Maximum Bob is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from August 4 until September 15, 1998.[2] Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel of the same name.[3][4] The series centered on Bob Gibbs (played by Bridges), an ultra right-wing judge known for giving the maximum sentence to defendants. Other characters included the judge's psychic ...
Jun 1, 1992 · Maximum Bob is something of an oddity for me, in that, on one hand, it is classic Leonard narrative style, that flowing, loose, close-to-character's inner workings stuff George V. Higgins kicked off and Leonard refined.
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A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife. The sheriff is a widower who ballroom dances.
Aug 20, 2022 · Lost or forgotten TV. Maximum Bob from Elmore Leonard and Barry Sonnefeld, Starring Beau Bridges
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"Maximum Bob" is the story of a crackpot cracker judge in Palm Beach County, Florida, who resembles the actor Harry Dean Stanton and who acts like the Hanging Magistrate, Roy Bean. He is saddled with a space-cadet wife named Leanne, who comes complete with a second personality, a 12-year-old black girl named Wanda Grace, with a Butterfly ...
Maximum Bob is a delightfully dark classic thriller from "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever" (New York Times Book Review), and any listener who loved getting gleefully lost in the criminal mayhem of Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, The Hot Kid, or any number of the inimitable Leonard's numerous crime fiction masterworks ...
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