Author and journalist Toby Young isn't too impressed with the Hollywood treatment of his novel How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, reports the Independent. The director, Robert B Weide, claims Young wasn't barred from the set, but Young tells a different story. "It was all very unfair. You know there is a saying in Hollywood that being a writer is like being a husband in a maternity ward. I wasn't even the husband - more like the husband's best friend. No consultation at all ..."
Update: Responding to this morning's story in the Indy, Toby Young tells Monkey:
I've never spoken to anyone on Pandora about the film - and I've certainly never said what I'm quoted as saying to anyone else. I suspect they've taken something I've often said about the How to Lose Friends - namely, that I don't blame the director for not wanting me hanging around the set - and truncated it to make it sound like I'm disowning the film. It may well be an innocent mistake, but the fact is I absolutely love the film - which is why I've been promoting it so tirelessly, as Media Monkey pointed out.
