Oprah Winfrey endorsed "A Million Little Pieces" as "gut-wrenching," "raw" and "real." Well, as Meat Loaf used to croon so convincingly, two out of three ain't bad. Porterhouse plays a brief, dramatic role in "My Friend Leonard," the popular sequel to James Frey's memoir, "A Million Little Pieces." Frey has lately taken some heat from reports that he'd made up portions of both books. He shooed them away when he saw me approach. Porterhouse was knocking back smoothies with a bevy of beauties in a corner booth. I hesitated before confronting him, a million little options swirling through my brain. Close your eyes, forget about the yuppies tearing into salads and inhaling soy shakes, and you can almost hear the hiss of butane and smell the scent of crack, like bittersweet peppermint gasoline, drifting through the room. The trendy lettuce-and-sprouts place where we met was once a drug den. WASHINGTON - I found Porterhouse in the back of a health-food joint in a rehabbed neighborhood with a sordid past.
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