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Article: Just sticking to the facts; Ruthless: like David Carr, Al Pacino as Scarface went through life "heedlessly mowing down all sorts of people at every turn".
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life.
His Own by David Carr (Simon & Schuster, ?14.99
A LOT OF addiction and misery memoirs have now been exposed as outright fakes. Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones, for example, purported to tell the first-hand story of a mixed-race girl growing up among drug dealers and gang members in Los Angeles. It was a complete fabrication.
James Frey won fame with a ridiculously overwritten memoir of addiction and gruelling recovery, A Million Little Pieces. After Oprah Winfrey challenged him on her show, he had to admit that much of it was untrue.
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