Damn! Oprah is one angry woman! She is actually making me feel a little sorry for James Frey! He's a stuttering fool in the face of a madwoman scorned. If he doesn't hit the bottle and the pipe after this, he's cured! Though he bugs the crap outta me, I have to give him credit for showing up. Yikes! I hope if you missed it, you've TIVO'ed!
UPDATE: Maureen Dowd asks that Frey (along with his boney lying ass) be ejected from the Kingdom of Oprah.
I have heard from third-party sources that he is mostly concerned this backlash will hurt his movie deal.
Eesh!
His whole, whipped-puppy demeanor seemed like such fake pennance. He is precisely the guy who laughs all the way to the bank. Gag.
Oprah, on the other hand, conducted herself like it was the Nuremberg Trials.
Posted by: Jules | January 26, 2006 at 05:24 PM
Perhaps he should try out one of those 12-step meetings he has no use for. I don't really care if a writer lies, I just couldn't stand his whole macho bullshit insistence on what he was saying was "the real truth." You can tell that it's been a loooong time since anybody screwed Oprah over. Damn, she was mad!
Posted by: judes | January 26, 2006 at 05:38 PM
if this guy were in aa, this could not possibly have happened. if i ever saw a drunk in need of a meeting it's this guy.
Posted by: la_depressionada | January 27, 2006 at 12:10 AM
I've had so much fun ragging on James Frey I swear I think I'm going to miss him when he's swallowed into obscurity and becomes a sound byte 5 years from now when VH1 produces "We Love the 00's"
Posted by: Spyro | January 27, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Jerry Stahl's feature in the recent LA Weekly on the Frey matter is pretty funny.
Posted by: miss amy | February 03, 2006 at 05:44 PM