Today’s the day James Frey cleans up his language and chats with Oprah and her friends about A Million Little Pieces. Or, as Page Six put it, “to plug his book.” (I don’t exactly know that the book really needs any more plugging once it got Oprah’s approval, but this may be a semantic distinction of little import.) But while his television star is rising, the Sixers say his film stock is taking a behind-the-scenes beating: “We’re told director Laurence Dunmore left the project in frustration a few months ago, and Frey himself is steamed that his script has been revised so many times by writer Kip Williams that it no longer resembles his acclaimed book.”
The Book Standard has described Dunmore as attached to the project twice this month, but maybe Page Six has an inside track to Hollywood a publishing newsmagazine lacks. So I tried calling producer Brad Grey’s office late Tuesday afternoon, so late that the woman who answered the phone couldn’t find anyone authorized to comment. And the IMDb page hasn’t been updated in over a year, so that’s no help…