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In the overdue 1980s Jon Ronson was the key pad player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Strap. Frank wore a huge fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true id. This became the main topic of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then everything went wrong.Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank, motivated by his time in this great and bizarre group. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, unhappy times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully weird to ever make it in the mainstream. It instructs the true storyline behind the fictionalized movie.Jon Ronson can be an award-winning writer and documentary machine. He is the author of four best retailers, Them: Activities with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test and Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, and two choices, Out of the normal: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. He lives in London and New York City.
