The narrator of L.A. author Jeff Weiss’s “ Waiting for Britney Spears ” happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It was August 1998, the last Friday of summer school at Venice High, and the narrator is wandering the halls when he notices a propped-open gym door, only to find that a music video is being filmed inside. He talks his way into being an extra in what would become the video for Spears’ “…Baby One More Time,” one of the most enduring pop songs of the 1990s.

It was a crazy coincidence, and even crazier is the fact that it actually happened. … Or did it?

The subtitle of Weiss’ book is “A True Story … Allegedly,” and he acknowledges that the book is a mixture of nonfiction and fiction. It tells the story of the narrator’s years as a tabloid spy in L.A., trying to u

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