Arts, Briefly: ‘Pulp Fiction’ Writer Is Sent to Jail
Was Roger Avary, below, a screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction,” moved from a prison work furlough program to a county jail in California because he was tweeting about his prison experience? Depends on whom you ask. Mr. Avary, who shared an Academy Award in 1995 with Quentin Tarantino for “Pulp Fiction,” was sentenced in September to one year in prison after pleading guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. In October posts began appearing on Mr. Avary’s Twitter account in which he described his jail setting (“The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement,” he wrote) and details of his furlough program. On Friday, The Ventura County Star reported, Mr. Avary was taken off the work furlough program, owing to what Capt. Ross Bonfiglio of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department called a “security-related” issue. “I wouldn’t doubt that it had something to do with those tweets,” Captain Bonfiglio told The Star. But on Monday he told The Associated Press that Mr. Avary’s Twitter posts had not played a major role in Mr. Avary’s incarceration.
