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August 26, 2005
American boss: Bret Easton Ellis
In LA Weekly, Brendan Bernhard profiles LA novelist and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis, who talks about his new book, "Lunar Park," and jokes about writers' vanity: “I remember I was talking to my assistant pretty much every other day from L.A.... And he’d gotten a galley of the book, so I asked him, ‘So what do you think?’ He’d started it, and he sent me some e-mails saying, ‘I’m loving this book. I think it’s your best book, I really love it.’ And then the e-mails stopped. And we had a couple of conversations, and he didn’t bring the book up anymore. And I said, ‘Lookit, Cole, what’s going on? Did you like the book or not?’ And he said, ‘I really loved it up to a certain point, and then I thought it began to totally fall apart, and then it came in for a save at the end and it kind of all worked.’ And then I got furious, and I said, ‘I don’t pay you for your f-cking opinions. Shut up! Why did you tell me that? You’re fired!’ ”
Posted by pride at August 26, 2005 11:25 AM
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