Will the movie ever
get made?
In a November 2010 New York Times and International Herald Tribune interview, Al Pacino is asked if, at this point in his career, he gets better parts in television than in films.
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AL PACINO: Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. I had a Salvador Dalí role I liked, but the movie didn't get done.
The movie that didn't get done is, of course, Dalí & I: The Surreal Story, based on my 2008 memoir.
To be continued, hopefully ... According to IMDb, the International Movie Data base, Dalí & I: The Surreal Story is still in development and is listed as such on Pacino's web page as well.
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Available again
The History Press, the UK's largest specialist history publisher, is reprinting my Arthur Moeller van den Bruck biography The Man Who Invented the Third Reich, due in April 2010. Here's the
new paperback book jacket.
"Moeller van den Bruck emerges here as a brilliant, tortured, and strangely sympathetic character unable to cope with the political demons he helped to unleash."---Jay Freeman, Booklist, USA
"Brilliantly tantalizing, puzzling and revealing, yet dangerous."---Amazon
To order from Amazon.com, CLICK HERE...
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Still available: "Dali & I: The Surreal Story" by Stan Lauryssens
Thomas Dunne Books/St.Martin's Press
An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art
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Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dali. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and businessmen looking to launder their black market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some very shady sources. And he soon discovered that the shadiest source of all was Dali himself. The more successful Stan became, the closer he got to Dali's inner circle, until he found himself living next door to the aging artist.
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There, while Stan hid from Interpol's detectives, he learned more about Dali's secret history, the studio of artists who produced his work, and the money-making machine that kept Dali's extravagant lifestyle afloat long after his creativity became to flounder.
Dali & I offers a behind-the-scenes view of the commerce and conspiracy that can go hand-in-hand in the art world, written by a man who has been to the top only to discover it was no different than the bottom.
STAN LAURYSSENS was an art dealer specializing in works by Salvador Dali for over a decade. After spending time in prison for the sale of bogus Dali's, he turned to writing
crime fiction. He won Belgium's Hercule Poirot Award in 2002 for best crime fiction of the year. He divides his time between Antwerp and London.
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press also publishes Dan Brown, Arnaldur Indridason, Desmond Morris, Wilbur Smith and Michael Palin.
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"Crass, callous, sordid and cynical—thus, utterly true to the spirit of Dalí and a certain bestseller."
---Kirkus Review
"I read this book in one day. Fascinating, shocking, and a lot of fun. Hope to see the film soon."
---Amazon.com
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"It feels as a smooth fluid story. You do not even realize you are reading a crime novel. What Stan Lauryssens sets out to do, he does superbly well."
---Library Thing
Book reviews and other literary stuff
"A Belgian boy with easy morals and a smooth tongue, Lauryssens worked his way up from writing invented celebrity interviews to selling fake prints by Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dalí to swindling greedy suckers out of vast sums of money for fake or nonexistent works by Dalí."
---The Boston Globe
"Dalí & I " is so good. Stan Lauryssens is an excellent story teller.
---Scene4.com
"I LOVED IT! Finally ... a good, satisfying read ...My verdict? A MUST READ!"
---HookedonBookz.com
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"Sensational stuff. Fantastic"
(The Daily Telegraph)
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Readers' reviews on the Amazon page have been amazing so far.
"I read this book in one day. Fascinating. Shocking."
"Very interesting. Hope to see the film soon."
"My advice: read this book, it's a lot of fun."
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“The art market is a dark circus of hope and deceit. Lauryssens provides us with an intimate portrait of Dalí, its mustachioed ringmaster: as eccentric as he is ingenious, as manipulative as he is fascinating.”---Noah Charney, author of The Art Thief
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“A highly readable blend of memoir and picaresque, Stan Lauryssens’s book explores the differences between the genuine and the bogus, not only in the business of art, but more important, in human relationships.”
---James Sexton, editor of Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley
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Dali and I: The Surreal Story by Stan Lauryssens
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Nero Books, Melbourne, 2008, 292pp, $27.95. ISBN 9781863952316.
By JEFFREY BROWN, Solicitor
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Stan Lauryssens is not an artist. He is not even an art expert. Despite the title, Dali and I is not concerned with the surrealist movement, nor is it a serious attempt to understand its most famous son, Salvador Dali. Dali and I is a book about money, and a very entertaining one at that.
» Click here and read the Australian review ...
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Tantor Unabridged Audiobooks
Tantor Media (US) acquired USCP Audio rights for CD and MP3: "Publishers Weekly named Tantor Media the number one fastest-growing independent publisher. Tantor has a dedicated library department, and releases over twenty new titles each month, including classics, award-winners, and bestsellers."
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Coming soon:A CURRY
AT NIGHT AND SEX ON SUNDAY
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Some time ago, Jackie McGlone interviewed me about my Dalí book for the Glasgow Herald Magazine. I told her about my life in London, in an Indian family, plunging head over heels in the fantasy world of the Kamasutra, the oldest seks Bible in the world. Write about it, Jackie told me. Well, I did. The book’s coming out in a couple of weeks. Title: A Curry At Night And Sex On Sunday. An excerpt is now published in Ché magazine, in the January issue, with this hilarious Charel Cambré illustration—he’s the foremost Belgian cartoonist.
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 Out in Dutch, January 2012
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I kissed the burning lips of the yoni between her legs, tickling her, caressing her and slowly touching her toes, pressing the ends of her nails, biting, kissing, scratching her private parts, arousing her physically. I placed my hard, fearless lingam in between her nipples in what Kama Sutra calls the lataveshtitakam or creeper embrace, as depicted in the wall-mounted stone sculptures of the Sun Temple in Konarak, and the wheel of love started turning passionately and amorously and I rubbed her yoni with my lingam until it was moist and quivering and got so deep into her, DEEP DEEP DEEPER, turning around in her yoni, breathing hard, churning, moving up and down frequently,
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rocking slightly, it felt as though I was forever buried in chocolate mousse and she lifted herself off the bed, biting my neck, clawing my back, hissing, crooning in ecstasy, cooing, whimpering, gasping, moaning and groaning and grunting like a pig, Oh—Ah, Oh—Ah! and I twirled her around on the end of my yoni and went right into the womb and she gave a little groan of pain and pleasure and a wild, tortured spasm came over her face and she twitched and fluttered and BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! she came, she came again and again and again, like an accordion collapsing in a bag of milk as Henry Miller said in his Sexus trilogy all those longing years ago and her mouth grew bigger and wider and her eyes were turning over and her cry sounded like an enormous thunderclap although the night sky was cloudless and dark blue like a police uniform until finally she shuddered and lay dead still. “Oh mother, oh my God,” she groaned, rolling her eyes, her legs twitching a little, her cheeks streaked with tears, “oh my God, this never never never happened to me before.”
It hoped it would never stop. I hoped the night was never going to end.
“You’re wonderful,” she said and squeezed me warmly.
“We’ll get some sleep now,” I said.
“It is delightful to wake up and know we’re still together,” she said.
Cas-san-dra. Cas. San. Dra.
“Hold me tight,” she said.
“I love you,” I said.
“I love you too.”
“I love you, Cassandra.”
“Ahh, say it, say it.”
“I love you,” I said.
“I love you,” she said.
“I love you,” I said.
“I love you, I love you, I love you.”
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Ma vie criminelle avec Salvador Dalí
par Stan Lauryssens
Editions de l'Archipel, € 19,95
Un magazine britannique pour investisseurs a calculé que la cote de Salvador Dalí a progressé de 25,94 % entre 1970 et 1980. Et ça n’est qu’un début. Quand il mourra, les prix exploseront. » Cette phrase, Stan Lauryssens l’a répétée pendant des années.
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Marchand d’art improvisé, le voici recherché par Interpol dans les palaces de New York et Paris.Car les toiles qu’il vend sont fausses, ou ne sont pas à vendre. De fraudes en cavale, Stan l’escroc finit par s’établir en Catalogne, près de l’antre où Dalí s’étiole depuis la mort de Gala. C’est là que les proches du moribond l’aident à percer l’ultime secret ... Même sa moustache est un postiche!
Stan Lauryssens, né en 1946 à Anvers, a achevé dans une prison espagnole sa carrière de courtier d’art spécialiste de Dalí. Depuis, il s’est fait connaître comme auteur de polars, lauréat du prix Hercule-Poirot pour Neige noire (2002). Son récit, déjà traduit dans 25 pays, est en cours d’adaptation à Hollywood, Al Pacino étant pressenti pour le rôle de Dalí.
Because of its distinctly "erotic" book jacket, Ma vie criminelle avec Salvador Dalí won't be for sale in Quebec and most of the French-speaking part of Canada.
"C'est génial!"---Bfm
"Un livre fan-tas-tique!"---"Face à Face" RTL
« Un récit fantastique, dans tous les sens du terme. »
The Daily Telegraph
« Cruel, cynique, sordide – et cependant parfaitement fidèle à l’esprit de Dalí. »
Kirkus Review
» Stan en forme dans "face à Face" à RTL-TV ....
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Now available worldwide: "Dalí Y Yo: Una historia surreal" in Spanish and "Dalí e Eu: Uma história surreal" in Portuguese
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Fireworks even before publication: XL Semanal, the Sunday magazine with the highly popular ABC newspaper from Madrid (weekly print run: 2 million) publishes a 6 (six!) page interview "de puta madre" in which I am compared to "a European kind of Tom Ripley".
» Some highlights from the interview, in Spanish:
"Estafar a multimillonarios es algo totalmente adictivo."
"Vendí la Santa cena de Dalí por un millón de dolares. El magnate aceptó que, aunque estaba en un museo, el cuadro era suyo."
"Compraban sin conocer la obra. Ni siquiera les gustaban las pintuas de Dalí. Sólo se trataba de blanquear dinero."
Read here the interview, buy the book and... enjoy!
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Cillian Murphy is "Stan" in Dali & I: The Surreal Story
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cillian Murphy will be "Stan" (that's me, folks) in the upcoming Dali & I: The Surreal Story.
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Cillian Murphy is Irish of course, lives in London, was norminated for a Golden Globe Award and plays the villain in Batman Begins (opposite Katie Holmes). He is also in Cold Mountain (Nicole Kidman) and The Girl With the Pearl Earring (Scarlett Johansson). His starring role as an Irish revolutionary helped The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach) win the 2006 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cillian Murphy Joins Al Pacino in 'Dali & I'
Cinematical - Santa Monica,CA,USA
The good parts keep coming for Cillian Murphy. The Hollywood Reporter tells us he will officially be starring opposite Al Pacino in the film adaptation of ...
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Cillian Murphy Joins Dali & I
ComingSoon.net - USA
Dali (Pacino) also developed a mentor-protege relationship with a young art dealer named Stan Lauryssens, who will be played by Murphy. The part of Gala, ...
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Cillian Murphy Stars in Dali & I: The Surreal Story
MovieWeb - USA
Pacino will be playing Dali, who develops a mentor-protege relationship with the young artist Stan Lauryssens (Murphy). Dali & I: The Surreal Story will ...
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A revealing book about Dalí and his world ...
Foreign rights are handled by the Lennart Sane Agency. All requests and inquiries should be directed to Philip Sane at philip.sane@lennartsaneagency.com.
Foreign rights already sold to Russia (AST Publishers), Taiwan (PROPHET PRESS, the Eurasian Publishing Group), Czechia and Slovakia (FRAGMENT), Greece (PSICHOGIOS), Belgium and the Netherlands (MANTEAU/STANDAARD), Serbia (MEDIA II), Finland (Johnny Kniga Publishing), Portugal (Editora PRESENCA), Romania (POLIROM Editura), Turkey (APRIL Publishing), Hungary (PÉCSI DIREKT KFT. ALEXANDRA KIADÓJA), Brazil (EDIOURO Publicações), China (THINKINGDOM MEDIA GROUP), Poland (BERTELSMANN MEDIA), Japan (ASPECT Publishing), France (ÉDITIONS DE L'ARCHIPEL), Spain (EDICIONES B), Korea (Random House Korea, Inc), Australia and New Zealand (BLACK Inc. BOOKS, an imprint of Schwartz Publishing/Penguin Books Australia), UK--United Kingdom (MAINSTREAM Publishing), Denmark (POLITIKENS FORLAG) and Germany (SEELIGER VERLAG).
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/St. MARTIN'S PRESS (New York) acquired World English Rights. In the words of Peter Joseph, Associate Editor: "I do believe that this book can find success in the realm of Hoax, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Catch Me If You Can. But with or without the film, I think that Stan’s written a revealing book about Dali and his world that I’d love the chance to publish a champion."
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Booklist is the review journal of the American Library Association and the magazine the New York Times calls "an acquisitions bible for public and school librarians nationwide." Here's what Booklist writes about Dalí & I: The Surreal Story: "Salvador Dalí’s surreal images—melting clocks, weird landscapes, women as fleshy bureaus with drawers open—sold like crazy, but most of the paintings, drawings, and prints, including those hanging in the world’s best museums, are fakes.
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Also in Danish, from Politiken
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 In Hungarian, from Alexandra
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Stan Lauryssens, an award-winning European crime writer, boldly confesses his role in spreading the plague of phony Dalís in a jaw-dropping chronicle of jet-set swindling matched by an X-rated portrait-in-glimpses of one of the freakiest of art celebrities. As if the story of Lauryssens’ leap from working in a Belgian cheese factory to amassing a fortune hustling works by Dalí and hiding from Interpol in the only house in sight of Dalí’s Catalan holdfast isn’t tantalizing enough, he also enters the inner circle of Dalí intimates and collects bizarre, grotesque tales of voyeuristic Dalí’s
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“sex circuses”; the voraciousness of his sex-addicted, money-mad wife, Gala; and the truth about who created Dalí’s late works and the “McDalí” carnival of fraud. It’s all terribly decadent, hard to believe, and enormously diverting. No wonder a movie starring Al Pacino and Cillian Murphy is in the works." --Donna Seaman
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