CNN anchor/correspondent Alisyn Camerota‘s memoir “Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing and Searching for Home,” is being developed for film and TV from Tiwary Entertainment Group, the producers behind Broadway musicals like Alanis Morisette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.”
The memoir explores Camerota’s teenage years in the 1980s music scenes and gritty clubs of the Jersey Shore and New York City. She shares stories of her backstage shenanigans with punk bands like the Ramones, and trying to get herself into the world of her favorite local band, Shrapnel.
“Combat Love” also details Camerota’s fragmented relationship with her mother. She left home at the age of 16, and in the memoir retraces her path toward becoming a TV reporter.
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Camerota has been in journalism for three decades, and has earned two Emmys (for coverage of the death of George Floyd and arrest of Roger Stone), as well as the Edward R. Murrow Award for her breaking news coverage of Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico. She also has been awarded a duPont-Columbia Award for her coverage of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
The project will be developed by Vivek J. Tiwary, founder of TEG+ and Jack Leslie, the company’s co-president of film and television.
“The moment I first met Vivek and Jack, I knew we shared a musical mind-meld and that I could trust my deeply personal life story in their capable hands,” Camerota said in a press release. “They understand the intoxicating power of music – and how it can be electrifying and dangerous and life saving all at once. I feel very lucky to be part of their creative vision.”
Camerota is represented by Marc Gerald of Europa Content and Mary Pender of UTA. TEG+ is represented by Lawrence Kopeikin of Kopeikin Law. Combat Love is published by Rare Bird Lit.
