So I was checking out Chuck Palahniuk's (author of Fight Club for you simpletons who don't read books) website to see if his new book had come out and I found out that they're making one of my favorite Palahniuk books, CHOKE, into a movie starring Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, and Kelly MacDonald, that hot Scottish chick from Trainspotting. I'm fucking psyched!!! If you haven't read this book yet, for the love of god read it before the movie comes out in 2008. Here's a little subplot of the book / soon to be movie:
Victor Mancini (Rockwell) is a medical-school dropout who has devised an ingenious scam to pay elder care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.
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Why don't you just blow Palahniuk and get it over with already?
I don't know how I feel about this being made into a movie...we will see. Why does Hollywood have to take things that are fine and perfect as they are and try to ruin them?
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