Male rejoinder to 'Eat, Pray, Love'
NEW YORK -- Warner Bros. has acquired rights to the book "Drink, Play, F@#K," the provocatively titled comedic male retort to the femme-centric best-seller "Eat, Pray, Love."
The soon-to-be-published "Play," by comedy writer Andrew Gottlieb, tells the fictional story of Bob Sullivan, a piece who, seeking solace later on his wife leaves him, goes on a bender in Ireland, takes a gambling jaunt to Las Vegas and a embarks on a sex-tourism trip to Thailand. Grove Press is scheduled to write the tome early succeeding year.
Gottlieb is a funniness writer wHO helped make "Z Rock," the satiric IFC series loosely based on the lives of rock stars that the network will debut this month.
Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" -- which is non officially connected to "Play" -- centers on the author's call for to find peace through various modes of living after she endures a painful split up. Gilbert takes a more delicate route in her hour of need, seeking culinary consolation in Italy, spiritual comfort in India and a romantic hiatus in Indonesia.
Gilbert's memoir, the paperback reading of which has sabbatum on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, is organism developed by Plan B at Paramount, with Julia Roberts attached to star.
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