Blue Movie: Viagra-Salesman Biopic
Glengarry Glen Ross it’s not.
What does sleeping late, lying to your bosses, and peddling Viagra to eager doctors get you? A book and a movie deal. Jamie Reidy’s tell-all, Hard Sell, about selling Viagra for Pfizer, got him fired when it came out in March. But writer Malcolm Gladwell recommended it to Charles Randolph (The Interpreter), who plans to add an antagonist and a love interest to give it a “Jerry Maguire vibe,” says Reidy. Two studios are bidding on it. “My parents are struggling with me being branded as a deceitful slacker,” he says. “But like I told my dad: I lied to my bosses for five years; I worked fifteen hours a week. Let’s face it, I was a slacker.”
—Jake Whitney