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Corrected Cast Info For Glamorama Movie

IMDB finally corrected the casting information for Roger Avary's adaptation of Glamorama to film. For quite a while now, they've been showing a handful of castmembers - including Robert Blake (currently standing trial for murder) - even though nobody has been cast for the movie yet. Oh, and yes, I know the casting info is blank - thats why its correct. :)

Foreign Cover Art: Day 31

Venezuelan version of Glamorama.

Foreign Cover Art: Day 30

Belgian version of American Psycho.

Index Magazine Interview Added

I added an 2001 Index Magazine interview with Bret Easton Ellis to the growing list on the left side of this site. Its a bit different than most interviews because it doesn't focus on a particular book, but rather gets into his childhood, his home, his college days, and Ellis also mentions his current project:

I’m working on an autobiographical novel. I wanted to write it between American Psycho and Glamorama, but at that time I didn’t feel ready to deal with my life in such an up-front way. I guess I’m ready now — or at least I’m compelled enough to give it a shot.

Confirming The New Novel Rumors

This certainly didn't take very long to confirm. Not 2 hours after I posted about the conflicting new Ellis novel rumors, Levi emails me a link (Thanks!) to an October 2002 interview in which Bret Easton Ellis confirms that he's currently working on an autobiographical novel: Specifically, Ellis said his upcoming novel:

"...is a very long, involved novel about a marriage and my family. It’s very autobiographical. And it has no gay content. "

Foreign Cover Art: Day 29

Japanese version of The Rules of Attraction.

Source Of New Novel Rumors

I've been getting a bit of email, and there has been a good bit of chatter on the net in general about Bret Easton Ellis' next novel. There has been nothing official announced, and really no projects have been discussed in specifics.

That said, there are rumors of a project - something autobiographical. Near as I can tell, that rumor is derived from a sentence in a 1999 BookPage interview with Ellis shortly after he had written Glamorama. Here's the passage in question:

A novel set in Washington and "tangentially related to politics" is in the planning stages, but it is a memoir addressing his late adolescence and the (sort of) halcyon days at Bennington that seems to most interest him right now.

So there's the source. It could be a memoir type project, or it could be a political novel set in Washington. The reality is that it'll probably be something entirely different - afterall, those 2 projects were what interested BEE over 4 years ago, so don't hold your breath.

Speaking of new novels - Douglas Coupland's latest book was released this week. Its entitled Hey Nostradamus!, and looks to be full of classic Coupland goodness. If you've never read a Coupland novel, you are definately missing out - All Families Are Psychotic would be a good place to start. He's definately a quirky storyteller.

With Fame Comes Fear Of Flying

Rush and Molloy have an article in the NY Daily News about celebrities who are white knuckle flyers. Suprisingly, the name of Bret Easton Ellis pops up ... with a quote about his fear as well.

Author Bret Easton Ellis got over his anxiety, but it took a plunge to do it. "When I was a sudden big success with my first novel [Less Than Zero], I got this terrible fear of flying out of nowhere," Ellis said. "My anxiety got so bad I would actually get off the plane on the runway and take the train to L.A."

Peace of mind came when "my subsequent novels did not sell as well. Each year it has gotten easier to fly," he said.