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Whether Letterman rises or falls, he is guaranteed his own chapter in the Holy Book of Partisan Grievance, that august tome through which, with every new controversy, culture warriors feverishly flip for examples of the other side's hypocrisy. You wanted Imus fired for what he said! Well, you defended Limbaugh for his drug use! What about Bill Clinton! What about Newt Gingrich! Dan Rather! Mel Gibson! On and on, back through time, like warring ethnic clans tracing the righteousness of their spite to payback for the reprisal for an atrocity in the 13th century...
...Damned United is based on an extraordinary 2006 book by British novelist David Peace, an account from inside Clough's head of the 44 days in 1974 when he managed Leeds United, a bunch of talented thugs who were then the best club in England, while embroiled in a fierce rivalry with their former manager Don Revie (Colm Meaney) and smarting from a bitter quarrel with his best friend Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall). Sheen, 40, has just the pedigree for the part. In his youth, he was a talented-enough soccer player to be offered a trial by the London...
Strauss believes a good memoir starts with the most interesting point that's not obvious. "If I were doing the Palin book, you know it's going to have the nomination and the campaign, so I'd just start somewhere else entirely, like if she beat up a girl who talked dirt about her in school," he said. After choosing the shocking mullet beginning, we decided that our book, Rogue Journalist: An Even More American Life, would have the following chapters: 1) "Childhood Trauma," 2) "Turning Point That Changed My Life," 3) "Rise Against the Odds," 4) "Celebrity Name-Dropping...
...Strauss typed and edited what I was saying into complete sentences, strumming my pain with his fingers, I lay on a couch by his pool watching chickens walk in and out of the house - a result of Strauss's survivalist training, which he also wrote a book about. And he wrote the definitive pickup book, The Game, so his very hot young girlfriend Ghita walked around in tiny white boy shorts, acting as our proofreader. It was like working at a publishing company on the Boogie Nights set. (See TIME's videos featuring Joel Stein...
Just seven hours after we started, I wrote a dedication - "To my son, Laszlo. Don't do most of this. Especially marrying your mom" - and we sent the book to Strauss's amazing designer, Todd Gallopo, who laid it out in two hours. Finished, Strauss looked at me, excited but worried. Every time he's finished an autobiography, the author has freaked out and tried to stop it from coming out. One of them actually told the publisher he'd commit suicide if it was published. I, however, was already wondering how to get mine translated into more languages...