Fame is Deceitful Above All Things
I was never that swept up by J.T. LeRoy fever. I read Sarah, and I thought it was a bit overdone, and I was supsicious. I didn’t even know anything about the rumors already circulating at the time, I just knew that kids who have been gutter rats probably don’t say things like “eyes the color of wasabi.”
That being said, when we, the American people, finally got confirmation that J.T. LeRoy was a total fake, I fell in love, not with “LeRoy” or “his” writing, but with Laura Albert and Geoffrey Knoop, who were the brains behind the outfit. I love a good hoax, and I love that someone understood the making of fame so well as to be able to garner fame for a person who doesn’t even exist.
In any case, I caught Asia Argento’s adaptation of LeRoy/Albert’s second novel, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. You can read my review of the mediocre, but interesting film right here, and the film’s official site is pretty informative and has a timeline of the whole scam.