Getting Back to LA

LOS ANGELES, CA  APRIL 14, 2003

It's good to be back in LA for the first time since the 1998 Rose Bowl.  

 

Jess and I stayed in West Hollywood for a couple nights and think we saw Pam Anderson at a club one evening.

 

During the week I had a chance to see old buddy Jeff Archipley who lives in Venice.  Arch just finished his first film script and has several others in process.

 

Arch is also doing a little acting, and while we were at dinner he actually got called in for a screen test for a top secret TV ad (Arch was given the codename for the project and no one was told what they were auditioning for). 

 

In other news, Arch's friend and former neighbor, James Frey (pronounced Fry), released his first book, A Million Little Pieces, and is currently on a nationwide promotional tour.  Here is some info about the book, or click here to view more info and a few reviews from Amazon.com

 

The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox.

 

 

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