just asking...

What successful blonde "chick-lit" author is in fact another JT Leroy? "Her" wildly successful 2003 faux roman à clef and its not-as-successful 2005 follow-up were in fact penned by...he's gonna kill me...Academy Award–winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. Yesterday Natalie Hershlag and I went shopping for an original Q*bert machine to give good old "Lauren" as a congratulatory gift when the movie adaptation comes out: he's a huge Q*bert fan, and Natalie thought we could probably pick up one at the place where she just bought Dig-Dug and Popeye a little while back. Sure enough, they had one, but we ended up losing it to Ricky Gervais, who got there five minutes before we did. He was real nice about it, though, and he suggested that both of us audition for his new live-action Q*bert television show. I know! It sounds like a terrible idea, but this is Ricky Gervais, and The Office is a contemporary classic—and apparently he's in negotiation with Daily Show stars Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart to play Q*bert and Coily, respectively, so it could be pretty amazing. Auditions are Thursday...I may or may not go, but Natalie is psyched and kept saying, "I am Wrong-Way"—I don't remember which one Wrong-Way is, but I'm pretty sure she's off on this one... So I called Philip up to tell him about it (leaving out the circumstances, of course, because the gift's supposed to be a surprise), and he tells me Gervais is a Mormon. Is that possible? Do they have Mormons in England? I guess they must have some...