In 2008, Thomas even published a book, Bleak Hotel: The Hollywood Saga of The White Hotel, detailing the many failed attempts over 25 years by many notable filmmakers to adapt his literary beast for the screen. Monjack and Murphy joined a long line of filmmakers who attempted to bring The White Hotel to the screen. At its best, it’s a disturbing entanglement of delirious smut and devastating horror. A six-part postmodern mash-up of poetry, prose, and letters ostensibly about an opera singer who turns to Sigmund Freud for treatment of psychosomatic pain and visions that would foretell her own demise during the Holocaust, The White Hotel fuses intense erotic fantasy with historical catastrophe. Thomas’ novel The White Hotel has, over the last three decades, earned a reputation as one of the great unadaptable works of modern literature. It would have been a minor miracle if they had. Take, for instance, this quote from : “In addition to The White Hotel and Clueless, the Atlanta-born Murphy costarred in 8 Mile with Eminem, and Girl, Interrupted…In May of 2007, she married her White Hotel director, Simon Monjack.” The problem: Monjack and Murphy never actually made The White Hotel. County coroner is expected to perform an autopsy today), one suggestion popping up in tabloid stories about the actress is more specious than others. Though very little about the circumstances surrounding the unexpected death of Brittany Murphy can be verified at this point (the L.A. Brittany Murphy with her husband, Simon Monjack.
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