Walter Kirn: He's not this happy anymore

Walter Kirn wrote the book that was the basis for one of the year’s most celebrated movies, Up in Air, which starred George Clooney and netted six Oscar nominations … but Kirn hasn’t been invited to the Oscar ceremony and he’s pissed off. What to do? Yes, it’s time for another episode of Twitter rage.

According to a New York Post Page Six report, Kirn “took to Twitter to bitterly complain that he wasn’t invited,” writing on his Twitter page “Caution to writers: Don’t expect that because you write a novel that becomes an Oscar-nominated film that you’ll be invited to the Oscars …. Novelists are like oil in H’wood: they drill us, pipeline us, pump us and then burn us.”

But “Mr. Kirn is not alone,” observes a report on the New York Times Carpetbagger blog. Thomas Cobb, author of the book that was the basis for another of the year’s most heralded films, the Jeff Bridges movie Crazy Heart wasn’t invited either.