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Scoop On Ellis' New Book

Via an anonomyous email tipster who seems credible. The descriptions below are taken from 3 different emails:

Okay...here's a morsel to wet your appetite....we haven't heard the last of Patrick Bateman. And this book...it is somewhat autobiographical.

He does include many aspects of his family's life...especially his father. I do not know the title as of yet, but thats only because I have not asked. The release date is about a year away...I have been told October of next year. More about the book....and of course, as is my wont, a tad cryptic...the "Author" is in the book.

... is about the author of American Psycho, who's family is being terrorized by a man who is copying the murders of Patrick Bateman. Easton, being the author, uses his own family history in the book....

The first thing I thought to myself upon reading that final paragraph was - he wrote himself into his own book, quite like in Adaptation.

Got questions? Email me or post them here in the comments and perhaps our tipster will be generous enough to answer them.

Reader Review of 'The Frog King' Screenplay

This was actually sent to me in early July. At the time, I'd never heard anything about The Frog King, but its sure relevant now:

I thought i'd share my thoughts after reading it. It sucked. Not that Ellis did a bad job structuring the story or writing dialogue or doing anything a writer adapting a script does, but the story and presumably the book, are stupid. The man character is the most unsympathatic idiot. He's a drunk, sleeping with the woman that owns his company to get ahead, cheats on his girlfriend, etc. The only likeable character is the girl he meets who is overly idealized and 2D.

people describe it as Bright Lights Big City meets High Fidelity, except that both the protagonists in those stories were decent guys and were only slightly pathetic. Joshua Jackson(dawson's creek) is attached to play the lead, which i see fitting since I dont like him or the character.

Cast of Glamorama Revealed!?

Could this be the actual cast of Glamorama? There's alot of names I've seen mentioned before, but its not exactly on a credible site (though they do link to this site - and the poster seems legit), so I'll just hold off on judgement. The main page to the mini-site is here. [link sent in by Lux]

Ellis' Screenplay for 'The Frog King' Gets Picked Up

I didn't even know BEE had been working on this, but apparently Ellis wrote a screenplay to Adam Davies debut novel The Frog King. From the Amazon description of the book:

Harry Driscoll, raised in privilege and Ivy League-educated, is a peon at a prestigious New York publishing house--in fact, the house is called Prestige--and he hates it: hates the menial labor, hates the intellectual pretension, hates the political jockeying necessary to advancement. Driscoll is terrific on the disappointment peculiar to the overeducated and underemployed: "All those years of schooling (Yes I speak Old English!) and resumé building. (Yes I interned on Capitol Hill!) didn't pertain at all to the life that was waiting for me."

If anybody has read The Frog King, I'd be interested in what you all thought of it.