BOOK NEWS
Richard Belzer – author and character
Richard Belzer has a story to tell you – about a guy named Richard Belzer.
The 62-year-old actor-comedian has signed with Simon & Schuster to write two mystery books featuring himself as a TV performer caught in his own plot.
“It is with great enthusiasm that I will bring the world of show business, celebrity worship, sly social commentary and even ‘cameos’ by real celebrities into my literary adventures,” Belzer said.
The first book, “I Am Not a Cop,” will be published in fall 2008. | The Associated Press
Goldman’s own tell-all
“Did It” just might become “Confessions of a Double Murderer.”
That’s the title the family of murder victim Ronald Goldman was hoping to adopt for the O.J. Simpson never-published hypothetical tell-all – and it could happen, now that the Goldmans own the rights to the scuttled manuscript.
The Goldmans, who sued Simpson last year, accusing him of setting up a bogus corporation to hide his book proceeds from them, acquired the rights to “If I Did It” as part of a settlement reached with the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee who is in charge of Simpson’s Florida- based company, Lorraine Brooke Associates. | www.eonline.com
FIRST LINE
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey, $24.99
Normally I wear a czarist army greatcoat – the kind that sometimes get called a paletot – with pockets sewn in for my tin whistle, my notebook, a dagger, and a chalice. Today I’d gone for a green tuxedo with a fake wilting flower in the buttonhole, pink patent-leather shoes, and a painted-on mustache in the style of Groucho Marx. From Bunhill Fields in the east, I rode out across London – the place of my strength. I have to admit, though, that ‘strong’ wasn’t exactly how I was feeling; when you look like a pistachio-ice-cream sundae, it’s no easy thing to hang tough.”
AUDIO BESTSELLERS
Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
2. The Overlook, by Michael Connelly
3. 6th Target, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
4. The Good Guy, by Dean Koontz
5. Invisible Prey, by John Sandford
Nonfiction
1. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
2. The Secret: Universal Mind Meditation, by Kelly Howell
3. The Law of Attraction, by Esther and Jerry Hicks
4. The Reagan Diaries, by Ronald Reagan
5. The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
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