· Comedian Richard Pryor doesn't seem too amenable to plans by former NYT film critic Elvis Mitchell to write a book about him. Pryor's book on himself, co-written with Jennifer Lee Pryor (his 6th and 8th wife), is hitting the publishers now. [NYP]
· Poor Dominick Dunne — the Vanity Fair writer's source-payment pseudo-scandal just won't die. (He's just not as teflon as his scandal-proof boss Graydon Carter, evidently.) Martha Jane Shelton says Dunne paid her to make shit up: he points to her and makes the universal sign for crazy. [WaPo]
· NYT public editor Dan Okrent is gunning for the paper's over-reliance on anonymous sources. It turns out that people unwilling to speak on the record might have agendas! Horror. [NYT]