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It's been nearly a year since Pamela Des Barres published "I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie," a candid-and surprisingly appealing-memoir of her stint as rock's groupie princess. (Her bedroom resume included Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Don Johnson and-ahem-many more.)
The book inspired fan mail from the current generation of backstage-trippers ("they'd send photos of them with the guys in Bon Jovi," she said) and a hate note ("from the head of the Snow White Fan Club who was mad because I said she was my idol") but no legal threats from former conquests.
Now Des Barres has more good news about the book that's due out this week in paperback. She's sold the movie rights to the book to an unlikely producer-actress Ally Sheedy, who's best known for her perky roles in "Short Circuit" and "Maid to Order" (though she played a brooding high schooler in "The Breakfast Club").
"A friend gave me Pamela's book to read and I just couldn't put it down," Sheedy explained. "I was so fascinated by the wild atmosphere of that time, probably because I missed it. I was born in 1962,...