Beastly facts! I don't think Cook need worry—Wilsey may have had an extra-crappy childhood, but he's a happy man these days (and it probably didn't take him seventeen years to write Oh the Glory, good as it is). Oh well, she has decent taste. And she's from the Midwest, so she has at least one get-out-of-jail-free card, as far as I'm concerned. From Lloyd Grove in the Daily News:

Unlike most celebs, "Into the West" star Rachael Leigh Cook doesn't mind admitting an error.

The 25-year-old Cook recently raved to Us Weekly about Sean Wilsey's new memoir, "Oh the Glory of It All."

But after she mistakenly said the book was about "growing up in upper class society [in] New York," she phoned Lowdown and owned up.

"I've totally botched it, and I just feel stupid," Cook sighed, noting that the book actually describes life in San Francisco and Italy, not New York. "It's about socialites, and when I think socialites, I think New York. I feel badly for the writer, who puts himself out there, and spent half his life working on it. It's monstrous!"

She went on: "At press junkets, they always ask what the movie is about, and I'll start somewhere in the middle and then try to communicate the moral. And then it turns into a complete mess."

Maybe Cook's refreshing candor comes from growing up in Minneapolis. And it turns out that she has some interesting summer reading suggestions.

"I like stories about people who are messed up or have messed-up lives," she said. "People like Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris. I just started 'Diary,' by Chuck Palahniuk. He wrote 'Fight Club.' His narrative is really interesting - he'll really comment on things around a situation as a way of commenting on a person's character.

"I read a heartbreaking book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife' [by Audrey Niffenegger]. You wouldn't think you could blend a love story with a seemingly accurate portrayal of time travel. It makes you want to sit back and appreciate your life."