Leroy redux: upcoming film 'based on a true story'?
Perhaps the people most unhappy about the uncovering of the J.T. Leroy hoax -- an event which has reached sufficient infamy as to no longer require a referential hyperlink, just as you don't have to hyperlink a general reference to 9/11, the 2000 Florida recount, or other infamous events -- is the company which is about to release a film based on the "Leroy" novel 'The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things' -- and hey, wasn't that title, in retrospect, really just a cry for help?
That WWD article says Palm Pictures is the film's distributor, but I can't find any reference to the film on their website, though the film does have its own site (somewhat NSFW graphic there); there "MUSE Productions" is listed as the producer. There the film appears on its annoying Flash-created website.
Well, this is all going to be an excellent test of the dictum "There is no such thing as bad publicity." Though they might want to change the poster's tagline BASED ON A TRUE STORY. As BlackBook says, "How about 'based on a complete and utter lie?'"
BlackBook, JT Leroy, Muse productions, Palm Pictures, hoaxes
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