The memoir of ageless rocker Patti Smith will soon become a film -- with a screenplay by Jon Logan, the writer of The Gladiator and Sweeney Todd, and an actor wish list by Smith herself that has included Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson. Smith has collaborated with Logan, leaving us confident that this particular tale of New York City’s 1970s punk rock scene will remain genuinely personal and nostalgia-free. [via Entertainment Weekly]

Larry “Ratso” Sloman, Howard Stern's collaborator on his "Private Parts" memoir, has teamed up with Mike Tyson to write the former boxing champ’s life story. It’s due out next summer, on schedule to make this rags-to-riches-to-vegan celebrity- and felony-filled tale one of next year’s best beach reads. [via USA Today]

If you’re a member of the Secret Service who’s spending the night with an escort, make sure you pay up. Earlier this year in Cartagena, Colombia, an agent working for U.S. president Barack Obama hired an escort, then balked on the payment, earning himself first a loud quarrel, then a full-blown international scandal. Dania Suarez, the agent Arthur Huntington’s feisty hire, is now writing a memoir covering her twenty-five years so far, up to and including the night she spent with the subsequently fired Huntington. [via The New York Daily News]

When film director Roman Polanski was arrested for drugging and raping a then-thirteen-year-old Samantha Geimer, a judge ordered him to undergo three months of psychiatric evaluation, after which the he promptly fled to Europe, where he remains to this day. Simon and Schuster has acquired Geimer’s story, which she will write for release in fall 2013. Geimer’s story -- tentatively titled “The Girl: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski” -- is likely to treat Polanski more kindly than most would like: Even after suing him in 1988, she remained supportive of his 2003 Oscar win. [via The L.A. Times]

As far as stereotypes go, the French have had a love affair with infidelity for as long as they’ve been French. Valérie Trierweiler, the domestic partner of French president François Hollande, is the subject of a new biography that lays out her, and Hollande’s, many indiscretions, to a far less accepting public than usual. Some blame Trierweiler’s relentless self-promoting for the uncharacteristically judgmental reception her story’s received, while others proclaim a new French attitude toward marriage the culprit. We say we can’t wait for the English version, so we can read her story for ourselves. [via The Guardian]