1. What Happened To James Frey
2. A Million Little Pieces Fraud
3. James Frey A Million Little Pieces Oprah

There's baking soda and vinegar, gasoline and a match, acid and eyeballs and Oprah and James Frey. Or wait — should we scratch that last pair off the list? Has the notorious and telegenic feud between the two cooled? According to an article in Vanity Fair, which has been confirmed by Oprah's folks, the talk-show host recently reached out to the best-selling author she annihilated on live TV a few years ago for fibbing in his memoir.

'We invited him back on the show' last spring, says Oprah's spokeswoman, Angela dePaul, but the reunion didn't work out for reasons she declined to divulge. A few months later, the Chatelaine of Chicago herself picked up the phone and called Frey to apologize for the public whupping she handed him in 2006, when it was revealed that his 2003 addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces, had some not-so-little lies in it, like the fact that he spent only a few hours in police custody rather than the three months in jail he described in his book. Oops. (See the top 10 fiction books of 2008.)

Oprah, who had taken the memoir to heart back when she thought it was nonfiction, promoted it to best-sellerdom through her book club and went so far as to call Larry King Live to defend Frey during a show questioning the veracity of A Million Little Pieces. After The Smoking Gun did some digging that fatally undermined the author's already unsteady wall of credibility, Oprah invited him back on her show and got all high school principal on him. 'That's a lie. It's not an idea, James. That's a lie,” was one of her precision, squirm-inducing lines — all delivered on live TV and drunk in by viewers like the sweet nectar of schadenfreude. (See the top 10 TV feuds.)

But A Million Little Pieces refuses to fit any mold of drug literature. Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is - including a judge, a mobster, a. A Million Little Pieces. It is the allegedly true but probably not story of a Man who smokes a lot of crack and huffs gas and drinks and drinks and drinks until he is so.

• 'A Million Little Fibers' is the fifth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 144th episode of the series overall, it was first broadcast on Comedy Central in the United States on April 19, 2006. No regular characters appear in the episode. The episode focuses on Towelie and parodies the controversy over the book A Million Little Pieces, an infamous novelistic.
• In 2006, Oprah chose James Frey's memoir 'A Little Million Pieces' as an Oprah's Book Club selection. Three months later, reports exposed parts of his book a.

Why would Frey and his acclaimed editor Nan Talese agree to be on such a show? Talese, a longtime titan in the publishing industry, later said she and Frey were duped, that they had been told they would be on the show as part of a panel discussion on 'Truth in America.' When they arrived at the studio, they found they were the only panelists. Oprah's folks say no duping took place. In any case, it all made for the most spectacular media-élite street brawl since that crazy guy pretended to be Howard Hughes' biographer.

And now, apparently, it's over. In Oprah's phone call to Frey last year, she told him that she'd been meditating and suddenly realized that part of her reaction to his mendacity stemmed from her personally feeling duped and betrayed. She said, in what might be a first for any entertainment mogul, 'I feel I owe you an apology.'

Frey, who told TIME he was 'very surprised' to get the call, had gone on to write another book, a novel titled Bright Shiny Morning, which received mixed but not universally awful reviews (including a good one from TIME) and which came out in paperback on May 12. The paperback has some passages that were not in the original, including those about a guy who has tapes of phone calls with a talk-show host who has given him a hard time, which has led to speculation that Frey has audiotapes of Oprah. ('The book is fiction,' was all Frey had to say on the subject.)

But as bad as Oprah's public shaming was at the time, it pales in comparison to what has happened to Frey since then — in July his 11-day-old son Leo died of a genetic neuromuscular disorder.

'The last three years have been surreal and difficult and at times uncomfortable and at times terrible,' says Frey. 'But at this point, I'm cool with all of it, at peace with all of it. Wwe raw game free download for android. The priorities now are taking care of my family and producing the best work of my life.'

If only one of these former feudsters had a syndicated TV show so that the making up could be as public as the breaking up! Oh. Wait. Would Frey ever go back on Oprah's show? He isn't completely ruling it out. 'Both parties would have to be comfortable about why I was coming on,' he says, 'and what I was talking about.' And now, Oprah, will you continue to play nice? 'The show has wrapped for the season,' says dePaul, 'and there are no plans to invite him again at this time.'

'A Million Little Fibers' is the fifth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 144th episode of the series overall, it was first broadcast on Comedy Central in the United States on April 19, 2006. No regular characters appear in the episode. The episode focuses on Towelie and parodies the controversy over the book A Million Little Pieces, an infamous novelistic memoir by James Frey that was lauded by Oprah Winfrey on her talk show until it was revealed to be largely fabricated.^[1]

The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. It was intended as season ten's 'bank episode', meaning it was partially produced in advance to allow for time off during the actual production run. However, the episode practically had to be scrapped, as it required more time than was allowed to be finished. The original plot of the episode parodied the television series Intervention. The episode received a mixed to negative critical reception.

Plot[edit]

Having lost a job because he was high, Towelie decides to write his memoirs, but a publisher turns him down as uninteresting and irrelevant to the public because Towelie is a towel. He then submits the manuscript again, under the guise of a human author called Steven McTowelie, and he is accepted. Having been invited to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah Winfrey loves and promotes his book. Meanwhile, Oprah's vagina, Minge, is depressed that the overworked Oprah never pays attention to him any more. Gary, her anus, conspires with Minge to get Oprah fired. As Minge realizes that Towelie is not a person, they call Geraldo Rivera and give him the information. Subsequently, Towelie is interviewed on Larry King Live, during which Rivera reveals that the author of the book is a towel.

Mobs congregate to protest wildly; Oprah invites Towelie back on the show, saying that he can explain that he wanted to make the book more relevant and easily understandable. However, she erupts in anger and calls on the audience to lynch Towelie. As she brought the audience onto her side, Minge and Gary's plan is foiled. Just as Oprah and the crowd prepare to lynch Towelie, Minge tears through Oprah's pants with a revolver. Taking hostages, he guns down a police officer and begins making demands. Towelie, using his inherent flatness, manages to free the hostages, as police open fire on Oprah, leading to the death of Gary. Distraught at his death, Minge blames Oprah for not spending time with them before turning the gun on himself and commits suicide. Oprah survives, but is still taken away to the hospital to be treated. Towelie is forgiven by everyone else and is hailed as a hero. Towelie apologizes for lying and learns that he should not get high to come up with ideas - he should come up with ideas first, and then get high as a reward.

Production[edit]

According to series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, this episode was originally this season's 'bank episode', meaning that it is partially animated before the start of the actual production run, which allows the staff to have one or two days off during the run. It was intended to be a spoof of the television series Intervention, with the people of South Park trying to get Towelie into rehab. About halfway into production, they decided the state of the episode, which consisted of about ten minutes of actual episode, was not good enough and needed more work than they could achieve, so they started from scratch. The finished show was completed in far less time than usual, thanks mostly to them having already taken a two-day break. The intervention storyline was dropped and later used in the season fourteen episode, 'Crippled Summer'. The story involving Oprah had always been in the episode.^[2]

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Parker and Stone also discussed the 'hat on top of a hat' scenario to describe the 'weirdness' of the episode's two stories, saying that when one wears two hats, one on top of the other, they 'just end up looking like an idiot' (weirdness on top of weirdness replacing the hats). In hindsight, Parker and Stone felt that the two storylines used in this episode should have been split up into two separate episodes. The title of the episode and some elements of the plot are both a reference to the James Frey book A Million Little Pieces.^[2]

Reception[edit]

In his review, Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode a score of three out of 10, mostly criticizing the way the two stories worked together, saying they would have worked better in separate episodes.^[3]

Parker and Stone consider the episode one of their worst, with Parker saying, 'That did not turn out well. I had higher hopes for that. If we were going to have Oprah's butthole and vagina and the gun and everything, it should have been in a show with the boys, not the towel.' Stone called the episode, 'weird on top of weird with weird in the middle. I'd erase that one. I think you could take that show and split it into two different shows. But putting it together, it just feels like, 'What the fuck is this crap? Why am I watching this? I tuned in to watch South Park. I did not tune in to watch Oprah's vagina talk to her butthole and a towel.'^[4]

A Million Little Pieces Fraud

Home release[edit]

'A Million Little Fibers', along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park's tenth season, was released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on August 21, 2007. The set includes brief audio commentaries by series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for each episode.^[5]

References[edit]

1. ^'James Frey and the A Million Little Pieces Controversy'. Retrieved July 30, 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
2. ^ ^abParker, Trey; Stone, Matt (2006). 'South Park season ten DVD commentary for the episode 'A Million Little Fibers'' (DVD). Comedy Central.
3. ^Goldman, Eric (April 20, 2006). 'South Park: A Million Little Fibers Review'. IGN. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2021.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
4. ^Stone, Matt; Parker, Trey (October 11, 2011). ''South Park': Matt Stone and Trey Parker Name Their 15 Best Episodes (and 53 Worst)'. Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 20, 2020. Retrieved March 21, 2016.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
5. ^Iverson, Dan (November 22, 2006). 'South Park: The Complete Tenth Season DVD Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 30, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

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External links[edit]

• 'A Million Little Fibers' Full episode at South Park Studios
• 'A Million Little Fibers' Episode guide at South Park Studios
• 'A Million Little Fibers' at IMDb
• ‹The templateTV.com episode is being considered for deletion.›'A Million Little Fibers' at TV.com