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Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Slog tipper Marc informs us that apparently Oprah Winfrey apologized to James Frey for...something.
Frey said Winfrey called him last fall to tell him "I felt I owe you an apology," and she explained that her lambasting of him sprang from her sense of feeling betrayed, according to the Vanity Fair report."It was a nice surprise to hear from her, and I really appreciated the call and the sentiment," he told Vanity Fair.
Angela DePaul, a spokeswoman for Winfrey confirmed that the chat show host had called to apologize.
Frey has also added a section to the paperback release of his novel Bright Shiny Morning in which a Freylike character gets a call from an Oprahlike character who is apologizing for a lambasting:
"They talked for almost an hour. What she told him directly contradicted all of her public statements. She told him a story about her life before she was famous, about some mistakes she made. She told him a story about a book she wrote, and about what was in it, and about why she decided to halt the publication of it, and who helped her make the decision. He taped everything," Frey writes, concluding enigmatically that "someday he might tell his side of it. Someday he might play the tapes. Someday."
I am so fucking tired of James Frey.
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The investigative report that the Stranger did of his 2004 visit to Seattle is still one of my favorite Stranger pieces ever. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…
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You and [what should be] everyone else. Every piece of news with his name on it makes my blood boil.
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Kinda makes me wonder, should the burden of due diligence rest on the shoulders of the reviewer at all? You can't exactly trust their publisher, they're in the business of selling books. Oprah sits in a very powerful position in the publishing world, as does the New Yorker and Amazon editors, which all heaped praise on the work. Does it only matter if they get caught? More importantly, would this guy suck even if it was all true?
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can you post your personal feelings about pointless bullshit on a different blog and stop ruining this one.
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Maybe you should have told us who the hell this James Frey guy is in the first place with a link to that Stranger aticle Mr. Book Worm.
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Is it just me or is including non-fiction in his fiction more slimy feeling than his fictional non-fiction?
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Can someone please take away Paul's drugs until he settles down? He's getting a bit overexcited these days.
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