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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

FREY UPDATE

ABC reports:


James Frey, whose best-selling memoir about substance abuse, "A Million Little Pieces," has come under intense scrutiny for alleged fabrications, has agreed to give his first interview since the controversy broke a few days ago.


He will appear Wednesday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."


To get us in the mood for tomorrow's interview, here's part of a transcript of an interview King recently did with the author of another privilege-debauchery-salvation memoir (this one legit), Christopher Lawford Kennedy:

LAWFORD: Yes, I had such an amazing time doing this. I would recommend -- Emerson said that all of us have one great book in us and I'm not sure this is great but I -- it was a joy to do.

KING: The "New York Post" reported that your stepmother, your father's wife when he passed away, is very angry at this book. Is that your knowledge as well?

LAWFORD: Which stepmother would that be?

KING: Patricia Seton Lawford Stewart.

LAWFORD: Oh, right. Well my -- you know at the end of his life...

KING: How many stepmothers do you have?

LAWFORD: There were -- there were three I think. My mom -- my dad married three other women besides my mother, Mary Rowen who was a wonderful woman and another woman named Debbie who I liked.

At the end of my father's life he was so debilitated that, you know, he -- he was forced to do some things that probably he wouldn't have done if he had been healthy.

KING: Like?

LAWFORD: Like get married.