Cellucci to write book about stint in Canada
Paul Cellucci was never one to bite his tongue, and now the former U.S. ambassador to Canada is getting ready to tell his story in a new book.Cellucci has signed a deal with Toronto publisher Key Porter Books to publish Unquiet Diplomacy, due out in September.
A first draft is already in, the publisher said Monday.
I'd like to take a moment to address all those out there who typically purchase birthday and Christmas gifts for me.
Don't even think about it.
Unquiet Diplomacy? I believe that's the most diplomatic utterance ever to be associated with Cellucci. I'm sure he wanted to go with his first choice Shaddup and Bend Over, You Frozen Wusses!, but that definitely would have been a harder sell.
I look forward to scrounging the remainder bins for this thing.
Hey, wouldn't it be fun to think of other titles for Cellucci's book?
Guess Mr. Frum must have managed to find an extra couple of hours sometime last Sunday afternoon to put the ghost into that sprawling epic.
I sure do hope that oh-so scary sabre rattling visit to Prince George last year makes it into the book because that will be a rivetting read.
Rivetting, I tell you.
Did you get that?
Rivetting!
First draft in already? Guess we know what he spent his last year doing instead of his job!
Not that "whining, accusing, and insulting" really takes that much time out of a person's day....
Delicious irony in Cellucci's having to seek out a Canadian publisher, since almost no one in the U.S. would know or care anything about the life he's been leading up here the last few years.
And I say that as someone who works in Canadian publishing and is proud of it -- but I'll bet that Mr Cellucci isn't.
That's too bad. I would have been willing to start buying you Christmas and birthday presents just for the opportunity to give you a copy of this.
*ahem* Don't you have a wedding coming up, Kevin? This would make great honeymoon reading.
Nice try, but the wedding will be a year after this is published. Whereas I think this site woudn't be complete without a series of scathing reviews of the book.
A shoe-in to make the New York Times list of best selling fiction.
And I thought your last post was humourous - that article was a gold mine. I think my favourite part was,
"Porter wouldn't say how much Cellucci is being paid, but added that cash is not the driving force behind the book.
"He's writing it because he wants the story told."
Seriously, 'he wants the story told'? Is there some part of the story we don't know? The inner anguish he felt about being a lapdog for Persident Bush? How he overcame his initial reluctance to turn a normally diplomatic position into just another partisan soapbox? How happy he was when he realized his political connections could land him a plum private sector lobbying job?
It almost makes me think the book could be worse than it's title, but they've set the bar high.
I can see the opening lines of the 'story' now, "It was my first day at the American Embassy and the roar of the din from the madding crowd was deafening. It was unquiet. Too unquiet."
And the sequel....don't forget the sequel...sure to include tales of Frank Stronach's favorite Dandies that hang-out along the backstretch at Pimlico....
Rivetting I tell you.
Absolutely Rivetting!
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Rumour has it, however, that there is a pre-sequptual agreement that makes it clear, in no uncertain terms as far as future-shill work for Big Frank and/or Ahhhhnuld is concerned, that there is to be absolutely no juicy Belinda gossip whatsoever.
The Mulroney kids, however?
Well, that's apparently an entirely different case of sublimated celebrity lust altogether.
Please, never put the phrases "sublimated celebrity lust" and "the Mulroney kids" in that kind of proximity again.
I beg of you, please.
hmmmm....you might be right there Kevin.
Think perhaps I was over compensating for my ridiculous ranting on the thread below.
Actually, it might make perversely amusing reading. But only if I can get it in the bargain bin.