{"id":603746,"date":"2026-09-02T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:46:14","slug":"a-literary-assassination-how-life-of-m-sparked-a-hollywood-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603746\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A literary assassination&#8217;: How Life of M sparked a Hollywood scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">The plot thickened when further details of the book emerged. We learned Life of M features two main protagonists \u2013 a nameless (and genderless) writer and a famous movie actress, M. &#8220;A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography,&#8221; begins the book. &#8220;She liked the idea. &#8220;Much later in the book, M is unhappy, telling the writer: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the way you portray me\u2026 Actually, it&#8217;s hurtful.&#8221; But is this whole set-up pure fiction, or did an exchange like this really take place between Cusk and Portman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plot thickened when further details of the book emerged. We learned Life of M features two main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-603746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}