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++ Furious Love, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s in-depth chronicle of the late Elizabeth Taylor’s passionate, volatile love affair and two marriages to Richard Burton, has been optioned by Paramount Pictures as a future directing project for Martin Scorsese, Deadline reports. Taylor and Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, setting off a worldwide media frenzy and perhaps the modern day obsession with celebrity couplings. Vanity Fair ran a lengthy excerpt of Furious Love as a cover story last summer.
++ That couldn’t have been required reading at Brown! Emma Watson was photographed reading A Third Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul, prompting Cassandra Jardine of The Telegraph to ponder the ever-strong appeal of self-help books.
++ According to a press release, Simon & Schuster will publish Pearl Jam Twenty, an “intimate, unprecedented, and lavishly illustrated self-portrait of one of the world’s most influential and successful bands” in celebration of Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary and in conjunction with Cameron Crowe’s documentary of the same name. The release date for the book is Sept. 13, 2011.
++ It’s an open non-secret in Hollywood and New York publishing that most novels by celebrities are co-written by a ghostwriter — even when the celebrity vehemently denies it, and even when it’s not made clear to readers. The New York Times probes a few recent celebrity-credited novels to see if the starlets really did do the dirty work.
++ The Moby Book Trailer Awards will take place tonight to name the best and worst book trailers of the year. Check out the finalists — in the still developing art of book trailers, it’s a lot easier (and more fun!) to point out the bad than the good.
++ The Tiger Parent as a superhero — or supervillain? Gene Yang and Thien Pham team up on Level Up, a graphic novel about an Asian American college student whose father pressures him to be a doctor. Yang’s previous graphic novel American Born Chinese was a National Book Award finalist for Young People’s Literature in 2006.
“Furious Love” is a surprisingly good bio. Looking forward to a film adaptation, especially if Scorsese directs. I don’t hate Angelina at all, but I already see people screaming for her to be cast, and I just don’t see it. There has to be someone better suited to play Elizabeth Taylor. I know this is a sorta out there suggestion, but I could see Russell Crowe as Burton.
Russell Crowe would be a great choice. I had thought of Clive Owen.
I do NOT like Angelia Jolie for this; maybe Catherine Zeta Jones.
Will be interesting to see who gets cast as Burton and Taylor. No one today comes close to matching their charisma, screen presence and intensity. I almost feel like anyone in these roles will feel like made for tv talent trying to fill those giant shoes.
There was a TV movie made a couple of years ago about Elizabeth Taylor starring Sherri Fynn, I think that was her name. She was very good in that film. Why make this film, the story is well documented, just look at `Who`s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?` NO ANGELINA!
Filming this is going to be tricky. Elizabeth had become such a beloved figure in Hollywood circles and if they do anything to show her in a negative light I feel there would be a big backlash for the entertainment community. Remember how Hollywood reacted to the Joan Crawford, “Mommie Dearest” film. Faye Dunaway did a camp performance and it bombed.
Why not Chris Brown and Rihanna? They’ve got a similar history and the soundtrack would be boffo.
Or Tiger and Elin, Sandra and Jesse, even the Edwards. The list goes on
Emma reading that book is so random! Funny and endearing, but mostly random.
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