Bret Easton Ellis
Since achieving overnight fame at age 21 with his debut, Less Than Zero, Ellis has been one of America's most talked-about novelists—and possibly its most reviled.
Is The New Bret Easton Ellis Movie About Judith Regan?
"Frog King," Adam Davies' 2002 debut novel—a roman a clef about book publishing—didn't make much of a splash when it first hit bookstores. But in 2004, Intermedia optioned Bret Easton Ellis's adaptation of the book, with Asif Kapadia to direct. Now, the script is floating around town, and people are noticing the…
Has Bret Easton Ellis Tired Of His Latest Lit Boy Toy?
USA Today has anointed The Tourists author Jeff Hobbs' as the winner in the battle of 80s brat pack protégés, saying that his book is "more impressive and ambitious" than Dana Vachon's Mergers and Acquisitions. Um, sure! Maybe in the same way that Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl was more impressive…
The Journalist's Kid and the Publisher
Every publisher who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, their tendencies to nepotism, their "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" deals and publishing them without…
Bret Easton Ellis Showtime Soap To Feature Way More Drug Versimilitude Than 'Weeds'
We are wholeheartedly fucking psyched for a B.E.E.-penned "horror-tinged" soap to make its way to our TV screens. Called "The Canyons" ("a reference to Los Angeles but also a 'metaphor for the chasm people have in relating to each other'"), the series will center around a young New York magazine editor who follows a…
Homoerotically Disturbed Author Cancels Book Tour
It's late Wednesday afternoon and we're sitting at our computer and there's an email from this flack, this publishing hardbody named Sloane Crosley, and scrawled in blood it says that Bret Easton Ellis, who's always wearing that grey Dior Homme suit from the Spring '05, is cancelling the tour for the paperback…
Remainders: Jann Wenner Is Ashamed of You
• With only 50 out of 367 employees contributing, Jann Wenner's hurricane relief fundraising drive hasn't had the sort of response he'd "hoped for." Well, Jann, your employees haven't had the sort of salaries they'd hoped for. [Jossip]
• More on the Bellis front: Bret Easton Ellis thinks Katie Couric is a bitch and…
Bret Easton Ellis Shocks the Ladies
Bellis demonstrates a popular method for pleasuring his female fans.
Sometimes, there are no words, no punchlines, no trademark "snark" to describe an image. Seeing Bret Easton Ellis flash the shocker would most certainly be one of those times.
Bret Easton Ellis Has Changed, He Swears
The Today show got genuinely compelling for a moment this morning, as Lunar Park author and creepy-fantastic contemporary lit legend Bret Easton Ellis sat down with Katie Couric's legs for a brief interview. Couric, being a concerned, motherly type, naturally asked Ellis about the graphic violence and exaggerated…
Radar vs. Uday Hussein
Flak Mag's "Rejected" column compares the newly-launched Radar magazine to Uday Hussein. Kevin Baker notes: "Radar's stable of writers includes Candace Bushnell and Bret Easton Ellis, among others," while "Uday's personal zoo housed lion, two cheetahs, five cubs, and a young bear." What? You don't see the obvious…
More SARS
It's SARS Day at the Observer, apparently. (At Gawker, two = trend.) More celebs are asked about SARS:
· Writer Bret Easton Ellis: "Is it on 25th Street?"
· Paris Review founding editor, George Plimpton: "I m certainly going to turn away from anybody coughing, I know that...And there go all the doorknobs. Irving…
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