After taking the last decade off to let its controversy die down, “A Million Little Pieces” is back: in movie form. That’s right, Oprah Winfrey’s favorite punching bag has returned after a long layoff, hoping that the patina of its fabricated “True Story” claim has faded with time. James Frey made a lot of waves in 2006 when the juicier bits of his memoir could not be substantiated, leading to his admission that many of the particulars had just been invented out of whole cloth.

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TORONTO – Do you remember James Frey’s 2003 novel “A Million Little Pieces”? The best-selling memoir that turned out not to actually be one? When pressed about it on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2005, Frey claimed his 2003 novel was a factual account of his life as an addict and time in rehab. After an investigation by The Smoking Gun was released three months later it turned out much of it was not.

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