According to Variety, Eric Dane's posthumous memoir My Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments reveals that he and Josh Duhamel nearly came to blows on the Las Vegas set when Duhamel pulled a neck-injured Dane by the tie, twice, during a fight scene, and nobody called cut. Later in the book, Dane apologizes: "Josh, I was wrong. I should've walked away. I'm sorry dude."
A man dies in February, and by November the estate has the final months packaged, titled, and shipping. The posthumous product turns out to be a fistfight with a living leading man that aired on camera with the whole cast watching, plus a confession for it on the back page. Two products. One purchase.
The line that sells the paperback is "Fire rips through my neck," and that is the problem. A herniated disc becomes the most quotable moment in a show that has been off the air for nearly twenty years. The accident was the original sin, and the estate now owns both the sin and the confession, priced together in one binding.
Duhamel has apologized for getting "caught up in the moment," which is what you say when your name has become a selling point in someone else's book. The tie, the disc, take three, the apology, the memoir, the interview circuit: the feud now has a longer shelf life than the show that housed it.
YOUR TURN: The book sold you a fistfight and an apology in the same sitting. Which one did you pay for?
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