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Oprah defends James Frey on Larry King Live
by Joel Keller, posted Jan 11th 2006 10:31PM
Just finished watching Larry King
Live, who had the first interview with author James Frey since the controversy over the truthfulness (or
"truthiness," as Colbert would say) of some of the facts in his memoir A Million Little Pieces.
During the interview, Frey kept responding to Larry's queries over The Smoking Gun's exposé -- it revealed
that some of the book's details about his criminal past were highly exaggerated -- by saying that it was a very
small part of a huge book. People are not concentrating on the meat of the book, said Frey, which takes place in a
rehab clinic. Frey went on to explain that memoirs generally have embellishments, composite characters, and time
compressions, and that it's a subjective story about the author's life, so it's hard to judge it on the facts.TV Squad Hot Topics
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