Filmmaker Cleverly Wrangles Footage for JT LeRoy Documentary
Marjorie Sturm's look-back is set to debut theatrically on the west coast.
It’s been a long while since we covered the topic of literary huckster JT LeRoy. But no doubt the theatrical debut later this month of Marjorie Sturm’s documentary The Cult of JT LeRoy will renew interest in the exploits of this one-time Brooklyn-based faux sensation.
As the Bay Area-based Sturm tells the San Francisco Chronicle, she turned the tables on JT-slash-Laura–Albert a few years ago in our fair city to gain some critical more recent footage:
Albert cut off contact with Sturm in 2003, but Cult manages to include fresh footage filmed during her 2010 New York City bookstore appearance.
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