The golden boys

The topic is no good news, but the collaboration sure is: director Gus Van Sant (Milk, Paranoid Park, Elephant, Good Will Hunting, etc) is pairing up with literary Brat Pack king of 80's coolness and depravity, Bret Easton Ellis, to adapt The Golden Suicides, a Vanity Fair piece on the doomed love story of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. The outrageous artist couple committed back-to-back suicides in 2007, shocking the press and the New York art world. Van Sant and Ellis could be producing a movie about linoleum tiling, for all I care, and I'd elbow my way into a first screening.