The Golden Suicides

Connoisseur of kitsch, and the most talented writer of our times, Bret Easton Ellis is writing a screenplay with Gus van Sant, the helmsman of 2008's Milk, tentatively titled, 'The Golden Suicides' or 'The East Village Suicides'. It's based on the dual suicide of the inseparable couple, Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, which was masterfully transcribed to print by Nancy Jo Sales for Vanity Fair's January 2008 publication. Bizarrely, the article is currently the magazine's most popular article online. I recall reading the article when it was published nearly two years ago. Normally, I'm not one to enjoy personality prose or the public veneration of a private tragedy, but something about this story resonates rather poignantly with me and, it would appear, with many others. Sales calls it "a kind of modern Romeo and Juliet story", but that's somewhat modest. She's accurate, however, in labelling Ellis "a great chronicler of the modern macabre", so we're left with our appetites well and truly wetted. First, do yourself a favor; print the article and read it during your favorite hour of the day.