Neil Patrick Harris Plays Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and More
By Susan H. Gordon
The elusive Edward Snowden is the subject of a new graphic life tale. Beyond: Edward Snowden, which is written by Marvel Comics' Valerie D'Orazio and narrated by Dan Lauer, will include scenes from Snowden’s infamous first meeting with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald and from D’Orazio’s own research into the life of one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers. The book is published by Bluewater Productions as part of a new series of “stories about the secret and suppressed, the stories ‘They’ don't want you to know.” [via The Guardian]
Neil Patrick Harris wants you to help him tell the story of his life. His memoir Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography will follow a choose-your-own-adventure format for a book that stars the reader instead, albeit one who’s guided by Harris’s own life. It’s avant-garde autobiography at its finest: “Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a guest stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” Look for it this October. [via TIME]
Jennifer Lopez is adding writer to her long list of entertainer credits. Due out next October via Penguin Group imprint Celebra, her autobiography True Love will be her first time on paper -- and include personal photographs and tidbits of advice to readers. Lopez is touting her project as a particularly intimate one: “Writing [this book] has been a deeply cathartic, personal and vulnerable experience. I recognized that if it could touch even just one person then it would honestly become one of the most fulfilling endeavors of my life." Another reason to read her words: part of the money you spend on her book will be donated to The Lopez Family Foundation. [via Huffington Post]
Two noteworthy personas, cinematic mogul Robert Redford and late televangelist Oral Roberts, will come together soon. Redford is in talks to take on the role of Roberts in a biopic on the preacher’s disciple Carlton Pearson, who famously publically denied the existence of the keystone of Roberts’s ministry -- the concept of a God-created Hell -- and promptly lost more than ninety percent of his congregation. “Come Sunday” will be directed by “Silence of the Lambs” head Jonathan Demme; Pearson will be played by Jeffrey Wright. [via The Hollywood Reporter]