One Step Closer to Adapting Entire Novels on YouTube

By Neal 

This clip has been sanitized by the producers, but people walking past your computer might be a little curious about that string of bleeps towards the end…

Television actresses Autumn Reeser and April Bowlby do a scene from Celebutantes, a forthcoming Hollywood novel from Amanda Goldberg and Ruthanna Hopper, under the direction of McG. How’d so much expensive talent get roped into a two-minute promotional video for a debut novel? Well, in McG’s case, it might have something to do with the fact that Goldberg’s father is Leonard Goldberg, producer of both Charlie’s Angels movies…

According to the Entertainment Weekly “Pop Watch” blog, three more shorts are on the way, with Mike Vogel and Wilson Cruz. As celebrity-studded marketing gimmicks for pop novels go, I have to admit, this is a hell of a lot better than that godawful rap video for The Manny last summer.