Imagin-action

So my friend Sara came up with this concept called 'Imagin-action', after watching re-enactments on 'True Hollywood Story'. She said that instead of re-creating what actually happened, they should redo things as they possibly could have happened, and dubbed it 'Imagin-action'.

Whenever I hear about Frey, I think of that term. While I don't have any problem with someone mixing truth and fantasy for literary pursuits, trying to pass it off as purely non-fiction isn't cool.

Creative types always take something that exists, and re-intrepret with a new voice. This is the basis of all arts. The cavemen who decided to scrawl on the walls of their French cave, took what they saw, and created their own visual version of it. Art is intrepretation. While I see why Oprah and others are upset, they need to look at the bigger picture.

James Frey Acknowledges Fabrications

NEW YORK (AP) - Is James Frey's ``My Friend Leonard,'' the sequel to his discredited ``A Million Little Pieces,'' fact or fiction? In an author's note to the paperback edition, which has just come out, Frey says it's some of both.

``To call this book pure nonfiction would be inaccurate,'' the author writes. ``It is a combination of fact and fiction, real and imagined events.''

Frey has acknowledged that major sections of ``A Million Little Pieces,'' his million-selling memoir of addiction and recovery that Oprah Winfrey endorsed, then ridiculed, were fabricated. Some of the revelations, first reported by the investigative Web site The Smoking Gun, also raised doubts about ``My Friend Leonard.''

Frey now acknowledges that ``significant'' parts of ``My Friend Leonard,'' a best-selling story about his friendship with a gangster, were also invented.

In ``A Million Little Pieces,'' Frey writes of a three-month jail term that he later acknowledged never serving. ``My Friend Leonard'' begins with the author behind bars, getting hit in the head by a ``three hundred pound man named Porterhouse.''