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By Matthew Kassel 3/29 3:48pm

Michael Malice Will Write an Autobiography of Kim Jong-il

Michael Malice, the celebrity ghost writer, recently raised more than $30,000 on Kickstarter to write an autobiography of Kim Jong-il.

Mr. Malice never met Mr. Kim, who died in 2011, but he has traveled to North Korea, where he got a bunch of books about the dictator for research purposes. The title of Read More

By Andrew Sarris 8/11/03 12:00am

Harvey Pekar’s Land of the Losers-Burps at Hollywood’s Heros

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s American Splendor , based on Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner’s autobiographical comic books and produced by Ted Hope, has excited and exhilarated me as no other American film this year. Perhaps it’s because I never imagined that I’d be raving about a movie based on a comic book-even one Read More

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