Roger Avary pioneers jail-tweeting.
Until recently, Roger Avary was a respected if controversial writer/director, best known for "Rules Of Attraction" (easily the best of the Bret Easton Ellis adaptations) and for breaking up with video store-days friend Quentin Tarantino over accusations he was shafted on credit for the "Pulp Fiction" screenplay (he only got a story credit). On the geek side, Avary worked on "Silent Hill," "Beowulf" and a proposed upcoming adaptation of the "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" video game. None of which seemed to matter after Avary got drunk, crashed his car into a telephone pole and killed one of his passengers. Avary began his one-year sentence on October 25; on the 29th, his Twitter feed began producing some truly frightening screenplay-style updates, seemingly from inside jail: "The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement. The windows are designed so as to not let too much light in." "Night falls,...
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