Robert Downey Jr. can’t handle the truth written on paper–or at least he prefers not do so at 2006 prices now that Iron Man was hit. The AP reports that the actor has returned his advance to Harper after having signed to provide a “candid look at the highs and lows of his life and career.” The wire notes that spokeseperson Britney Ross of Rogers & Cowan “declined to say why Downey wouldn’t be writing the book.”AP
New Releases/Forthcoming
Candidates as Comics?
IDW Publishing has announced they will issue two comic-book biographies of the major presidential candidates in early October, along with a trade paperback “flip-book” with both comics in one edition.
Full Version of Solzhenitsyn's First Circle in English
Harper has announced that next year they will issue “an uncut edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s THE FIRST CIRCLE a highly praised and controversial novel published 40 years ago and heavily edited because of its story of a Soviet prison camp,” the AP reports. A shortened version had been published in English in 1968 “despite objections by the author, who believed his work was being exploited for profit, and by scholars who feared that the book’s release could jeopardize his safety.”AP