New York magazine’s Alex French talks to Mara Reinstein and Joey Bartolomeo, Us Weekly staffers and authors of Brad & Jen: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Golden Couple, due out today:
How did you write so quickly?
M.R.: I still don’t know.
J.B.: We looked like we’d been on some bizarre drug binge.
M.R.: Bob Wallace, the head of Wenner Books, said it had to be 40,000 words, which I didn’t really understand–all I knew was that an Us Weekly cover story is, like, 1,300 words, so I knew it would be a lot.
J.B.: We had eleven chapters, and the editor said, “You need more.” We had to get creative. There was a chapter on the month of December and one on their style.
We’d say we hate them, but they look like the kind of girls who never got used to not having braces.
Also — we wouldn’t mind getting invited to book parties that hand out wallets as party favors.