Saturday, June 3, 2006

Pellicano's Book



Get a Clue!

One of our favorite wannabe private dicks, Anthony Pellicano, "The Dectectve to the Stars", has a book deal. (Can't wait for Abramoff's book deal...or Libby's...or DeLay's...but the best will be Emily Miller's - the jilted financee of Michael Scanlon, Abramoff's convicted former partner in the SunCruz deal).

"Anthony Pellicano, our favorite imprisoned thug private investigator, already has a deal in place to publish his novel. Beverly Hills bookmeister Michael Viner, the prez of Phoenix Books, tells me, "We'd long ago made a deal. There's been a draft but it's far from complete. We've put it off until after the present problems." Viner describes the draft as a roman à clef, with a P.I. as the central character. Any stuff about wiretapping in it? "As I recall, there was a slight reference to it," Viner says, "but I don't want to get into that."" here