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Jerry Stahl - I, Fatty
Why Fatty Arbuckle? I love stories of ruin, and this seemed like a world-class festival of public shame and humiliation. Having done a little research myself. On some level the book is about Hollywood, but on another I’m just trying to get in touch with my inner Fatty. You mean the shock of recognition? I’m so over writing about myself — so, of course, I try to find this alien subject and end up relating to him more than anything I’ve written about myself. Here’s a guy whose behavior basically does not change, but everything he was loved for on Monday is utterly reviled by the public on Tuesday. The idea of him being chased by cute little bathing beauties one day renders him the next, like, Porky Pig on crack. That’s what I really loved about him. Court TV's "Crime Library" site has an overview of the Fatty Arbuckle case.
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Jerry Stahl's new novel, I, Fatty, is a fictionalized first-person memoir of Fatty Arbuckle, the superstar movie comedian arrested in 1921 for allegedly raping and killing a minor starlet at a weekend-long hotel room party. (He was eventually acquitted and almost certainly innocent, but the negative publicity ended his onscreen career.) The New Yorker calls it ironically