Gay readers led the world in embracing the teenaged author of a slender novel titled Sarah in 2000. JT LeRoy was a street-dwelling, heroin-addicted, HIV-infected, gender-bent prostitute, abused and ...
The festival also announced a period drama with Chris Pine as its opening night film. By Mekado Murphy “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” has excerpts from phone calls a hoaxer secretly recorded while ...
Nobody comes out clean in Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The JT LeRoy Story, with the exception, maybe, of Zwan-era Billy Corgan. In the documentary, Laura Albert stares at the camera and tells the gripping ...
Now that Laura Albert has been found guilty of fraud for duping a film company with her JT LeRoy persona, the stage would seem to be set for another class action lawsuit like the one that forced ...
I’ve crossed paths with the person known as JT Leroy (pictured right in Toronto last year, photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE) briefly on a few occasions at film festivals: Cannes, Toronto, AFI ...
Though key events in the real-life and very public saga of literary sensation JT Leroy happened 10 to 15 years ago, the subject remains a sore one for many who played a part in LeRoy's complex and ...
How much can we ever know about JT LeRoy? How much do we still want to know? At least enough that local filmmaker Marjorie Sturm's documentary, which had its West Coast premiere at IndieFest last ...
In the early 2000s, a damaged 15-year-old street kid named JT LeRoy took the literary world by storm, publishing sexually charged, avant-garde and heart-wrenching books that describe his traumatic ...
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