Podcast appearances and mentions of Jeff Feuerzeig

Crack some eggs and punch that beef, it's time for Rocky! Sports month (Sports-pril?) begins with John G. Avildsen's 1976 cultural phenomenon about the little Philadelphian that could.. kinda. We discuss the real life inspiration behind Rocky, Chuck Wepner, the insanity of throwing out a Thanksgiving turkey, the mathematics of an iconic score and the legend Sylvester Stallone has created around himself. Also: Swirlies, bocce ball, weak legs and the great Talia Shire. Check it out! Listen to our interview with director Jeff Feuerzeig here on YouTube Listen to director Jeff Feuerzeig discuss Chuck Wepner on the Past Our Prime Podcast Check out the insane video where Sylvester Stallone meets Rocky Balboa here on YouTube Ad-free versions of all of our episodes are available on our Patreon When you sign up you also get access to our bonus shows, Discord server, decoder ring, shout out on the show AND you get to vote on monthly episodes and themes. That's a lot for only $5 a month! For more info and to sign up visit us on Patreon You can also give a Movie Friends subscription here: Gift a Movie Friends Subscription! Visit our website Send us an email! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Fill out our listener survey

We have music from Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips. Tom chats with them Dean's new album, Galaxie 500 and Britta's vocals in Gem & The Holograms! Plus, filmmaker Alex Braverman talks about his new Andy Kaufman documentary, Thank You Very Much! Mike has "Mr. Etiquette" cards! Plus, friend of the show Jeff Feuerzeig stops by! SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON! WEEKLY BONUS EPISODES & VIDEO EPISODES! https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life FOLLOW THE BEST SHOW: https://twitter.com/bestshow4life https://instagram.com/bestshow4life https://tiktok.com/@bestshow4life https://www.youtube.com/bestshow4life THE BEST SHOW IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://thebestshow.net https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-best-show HEARD IT ON THE BEST SHOW PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XIpICdeecaBIC2kBLUpKL?si=07ccc339d9d84267 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After beating Joe Frazier and George Foreman in two of the biggest fights in boxing history, Muhammad Ali was looking for an easy win over somebody. Enter Chuck Wepner... This would be a walk in the park for the champ before he could move on to bigger things. Chuck had other plans. After knocking Ali down in the 9th round Wepner told his trainer Al Braverman to start the car... "We're going to the bank, " he said. "We're millionaires." To which Braverman told his fighter, "You better turn around. He's getting up and he looks pissed off." For the remainder of the fight, Ali battered the challenger, opening up cuts above both of Wepner's eyes. But Wepner kept coming, and kept coming, and never stopped until 19 seconds left in the 15th round when Ali sent him to the canvas... and even then, Wepner got back up, but the fight was stopped. He had given everything he had and then some and his courageous fight caught the attention of everyone... most notably a young Sylvester Stallone who would use this Wepner fight against Ali to write a screenplay about a fighter getting the opportunity of a lifetime, and coming this close to becoming the heavyweight champion of the world. We know him as Rocky Balboa. But another filmmaker also was interested in the story of Chuck Wepner. Enter Jeff Feuerzeig, who wasn't as interested in Rocky Balboa, but rather... The Bayonne Bleeder, Wepner. So Feuerzeig set out to tell the story of Wepner in an ESPN 30-for-30 documentary called 'The Real Rocky" and then followed that up by writing the screenplay for a feature film titled, "Chuck" starring Liev Schreiber. Nobody knows the story of Chuck Wepner better than Feuerzeig and he joins us this week on the 50-year anniversary of when this unheralded fighter got into the ring with the most famous boxer of all-time, and stood toe-to-toe with the great Ali for 15 rounds. Feuerzeig tells how he first heard of Chuck as an 11-year old kid and the fight Wepner had against Sonny Liston that was the bloodiest battle one could imagine. The Sundance Award winning director for The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Feuerzeig tells the story of how over 30 years after the Ali fight, he was able to tell the story of the Real Rocky on ESPN's signature 30-for-30 series and how the ensuing court battle of the former marine Wepner, vs the Hollywood icon, Stallone was more a matter of honor and recognition than anything else. March 24, 1975 had Chuck Wepner on the cover of Sports Illustrated... the day he and Ali battled in Cleveland, Ohio for all the world to see... Wepner's 15 minutes of fame, turned into 15 rounds of theatre... and Jeff Feuerzeig tells the story better than anyone and shares it with us on the Past Our Prime podcast. Listen, download, review... all that good stuff... wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie (released for fun on Chris' birthday), we are joined by director Jeff Feuerzeig (The Devil And Daniel Johnston, AUTHOR: The JT LeRoy Story, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King) to discuss a very mysterious, litigious, and glorious documentary KISS IN CADILLAC, MICHIGAN 1975! We get to discuss Jeff's origin story with Kiss, his childhood insights into their albums, how a high school assistant football coach got Kiss, at the height of their KISS ALIVE exploding fame, to come to his town to celebrate Kiss and play a show in their gymnasium, being kids in 1975 trying to recreate their dangerous stage show, the complicated legal battles surrounding the rights to this incredible film, the mystery of who actually made the documentary, the power and mythology of Kiss on pre-teens in the 70s, Creem and Circus magazine, Jeff gives his deep cut must-see documentary list, our love for Paul Stanley stage banter, how Jeff accidentally discovered this documentary, Ace Frehley's laugh being the greatest thing ever recorded in human history (and how the other members of Kiss hated it), Jeff's rabbit hole search to find the film after it had been stripped off the internet, the controversial figure The Gooch and the Kiss Army's thoughts on him, the loophole in the Digital Millenium Copyright act, Kiss making their own version of the documentary with ESPN and how it pales in comparison, bootleg records, Springsteen Vs. The Grateful Dead, KISS=Keep It Simple Stupid, the Sex Pistols reunion tour, WFMU, a Ramones hologram tour, and more!So shout it out loud with us on this bonus episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!And remember you can always celebrate my age by supporting the show over at Patreon.com/revolutionspermovie (you can even gift the show now!). Thanks again everyone...JEFF FEUERZEIG: https://www.jefffeuerzeig.com/REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.com ARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we talk to the director Jeff Feuerzeig (The Devil And Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King, Author: The JT LeRoy Story) about one of his favorite music documentaries, the 1965 Rolling Stones Tour film, CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, a film missing until 2012. We discussed how Jeff creates his legendary projects, what makes this rarely-seen Stones doc so essential and overlooked, the era of rock band managers being household names, loving “Maraca” Mick Jagger, Pennebaker's Dylan film Don't Look Back, the sweet spot of 65-66 Rolling Stones and the riots they are causing at their Ireland live shows, psychedelic soup, Bowie & Kubrick, Spacemen 3, Bo Diddley covers, controlling the image of The Stones, The Who, The Monks, the mystery behind the disappearance and discovery of this lost film, rock n' roll bladder control, cinema verite, and Jeff shares a few other surprises!So let's rush the stage for a piece of Brian Jones' hair on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!JEFF FEUEREZEIG:https://www.jefffeuerzeig.com/CHARLIE IS MY DARLING:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSgcFXy_-eBXSO9flKlERJB8AmIfgkf1xRevolutions Per Movie:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.New episodes of Revolutions Per Movies are released every Thursday, and if you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support the show is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie, where you can get weekly bonus episodes and exclusive goods sent to you just for joining.Socials:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTheme by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comArtwork by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeff Feuerzeig is an award winning director of non-fiction films. His 2005 film The Devil and Daniel Johnston was named 'The Best Music Documentary of the 21st Century' by IndieWire. His work covers jazz musicians, boxing heroes and musicians that you've never heard of, but should be obsessed with.  His latest film Author: The JT Leroy Story is equal parts bizarre and familiar, a tale told through interviews, archival footage and audio tapes and animating the subjects doodles, which give us the experience of living side by side with the subject, instead of peering in at them.  Seth sat down with Jeff to talk punk influences, being Robin Hood and taking big risks to tell stories that are worth telling. Check out Jeff's website for all of his work and what he is doing http://www.jefffeuerzeig.com/ Twitter @moviefriendspod Instagram @MovieFriendsPodcast Youtube Youtube.com/MovieFriendsPodcast Website https://www.moviefriendspodcast.com/ Send us an E-mail at MovieFriendsPodcast@Gmail.com tell us what you think and it may end up on the show! Wouldn't that be cool? Head over to our website at MovieFriendsPodcast.com and consider supporting our Patreon. Come on, you don't need that $5, but you do need our undying love and friendship!

Today's episode is about "The Devil and Daniel Johnston", a 2005 doc about the musician, outsider artist, and revered cult figure Daniel Johnston, directed by Jeff Feuerzeig. The movie was selected by our guest Noah Bond, who plays drums with many excellent bands including Cut Worms, Bonnie Doon, Sylvie, and Anna St. Louis. Daniel Johnston was an illustrator, filmmaker, and a musician who wrote and recorded countless beautiful songs, most of which were captured on a home cassette deck accompanied only by his rudimentary piano and guitar. Daniel was a troubled soul. He suffered from bipolar disorder and was hospitalized multiple times. The film focuses on his upbringing, featuring deeply revealing interviews with his family, as well as the outpouring of art that followed his brief college friendship with fellow artist Laurie Allen, who unknowingly became Daniel's muse. Eventually Daniel found a measure of fame for his music and art thanks to the attention he received from supporters such as Kurt Cobain.  Daniel's life wasn't easy on him or the people around him. The film is a remarkable tribute to him and an enormous accomplishment. Rock Docs is a Treble Media Podcast hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts   Twitter: @RockDocsPod   Instagram: @RockDocsPod   Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt  

The Jokermen welcome documentarian Jeff Feuerzeig to the show to discuss Moe's sophomore masterpiece Life In Exile After Abdication, the (d)evolution of the "indie" descriptor, and much more. SUBSCRIBE TO JOKERMEN ON PATREON NEW MERCH AVAILABLE ON JOKERMEN.SHOP CHECK OUT THE NEW JOKERMEN SUBSTACK SUBSCRIBE TO NEVER ENDING STORIES ON PATREON FOLLOW JOKERMEN ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE

Tom asks the callers to MAKE HIM LAUGH! The saga continues from MIKE IN BAYBRIDGE! Plus, Director JEFF FEUERZEIG calls Tom on the real deal behind Jersey's infamous gas pumping policy!

A BEST SHOW EVENT! NIGHT OF 1000 LITTLE STEVENS! Callers attempt their best Steven Van Zandt impressions for Tom! TIM HEIDECKER talks the new season of ON CINEMA! JEFF FEUERZEIG calls in with a Little Steven story! THE BEST SHOW BOOK CLUB is launched! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT FROM A BEST SHOW?! 

This week we are privileged to have the great Gregory Thornbury, author of Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music and some terrific essays as well, notably this one on QAnon, to talk with us about The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Jeff Feuerzeig’s 2005 documentary about the late, supernaturally gifted, near-unknown singer-songwriter whose struggles with bipolar disorder kept him out of the public eye even as he amassed a following of similarly talented people. Also, demons.Demonology is something we talk about a little on the podcast when we watch The Exorcist or Hereditary; here we get a lot more intense about it, and Greg shares some of his own observations and experiences and I just want to say I’m really grateful to him for being so open and honest with us and with all of you. We hope you dig this one. Also if you’re just in it for good music, you’ve come to the right place, and you can listen to new, happy, funky, countrified stuff from Greg’s amazing daughter Kate Thornbury on Spotify, too. Greg was kind enough to supply the image for this week’s episode, drawn by Johnston himself for a showing of his art that Greg moderated, and is used with our thanks and permission.Our theme song is Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5’s Muskrat Ramble, made freely available by the Boston Public Library and audio engineering shop George Blood, LP through the Internet Archive. The Devil and Daniel Johnston is copyright 2005 Sony Pictures Classics. Brief audio excerpts are used herein for purposes of review. All other material is copyright 2021 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson.This is a free episode! We’d love it if you subscribed! This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at yammpod.substack.com/subscribe

Paco and George have been interviewing documentary directors for over five years! We play some interesting clips from these super fun and interesting talks.Ep 137 -Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini director and producer of Feels Good ManEp 4 - Jodi Wille director of The Source FamilyEp 160 - Jeff Feuerzeig director of The Devil and Daniel JohnstonEp 93 - Brent Hodge director of Freaks and GeeksEp 102 - Brett Morgen director of The Kid Stays In the Picture Listen to all our past director interviewsFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

On this week's episode we are celebrating the recent audiobook release for Sarah by JT LeRoy. We were joined in conversation with five of the people responsible for this project. I want to send a huge 'thank you' to Laura Albert, Winsome Brown, Nicole Gagne, Jayme Mattler, and Bryan Barney for taking the time to talk with me about this wonderful project. -------------------------------------------------------- This week's guests include:  LAURA ALBERT has won international acclaim for her fiction. Writing as JT LeRoy, she is the author of the best-selling novels Sarah and The  Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and the novella Harold's End. Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, reissued by HarperCollins, have also been released as audiobooks by Blackstone Publishing. Laura  Albert is the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig's feature documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story and Lynn Hershman Leeson's film The Ballad of JT LeRoy. http://lauraalbert.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Winsome Brown is an Obie-award winning performer whose solo theater work has been seen at La MaMa, The Performing Garage, and the Edinburgh Fringe, and has received accolades from The New York Times, the Scotsman and many more.  Recent film and TV work includes Supergirl, Elementary, and the upcoming News of the World with Tom Hanks.   http://winsomebrown.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicole V. Gagné is a writer and editor who works with Laura Albert. She is the co-author of Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers, and the author of Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music,  Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers, and The Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, now in its second edition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jayme Mattler directed the audiobook for Sarah. https://www.jaymemattler.com/  ----------------------------------------------------- Bryan Barney produced the audiobook for Blackstone Publishing.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Kyler Bingham is the host of the Salt Lake Dirt Podcast. www.saltlakedirt.com

Very excited to have the director of some of our favorite docs, and a huge influence on the kinds of docs we love - Jeff Feuerzeig made HALF JAPANESE: THE BAND THAT WOULD BE KING (1994), THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (2005), THE REAL ROCKY (2011), AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY (2016), as well as writing and producing many others.He is at work on a documentary about The Legendary Stardust CowboyFollow Jeff on:Twitter: @FeuerzeigJeffInstagram: @jfdinmusicFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

Paco and George talk upcoming documentaries, their upcoming interview with Jeff Feuerzeig, "Stickergate", Queen's Gambit, and whatever has been on our watchlists.Alex Winter's Frank Zappa doc is available Thanksgiving weekendHBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper releases Nov 25thThe Lady and the DaleJudd Apatow's George Carlin docThe Perfect Weapon available on HBO nowFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Jeff Feuerzeig the director of “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, to discuss the late singer-songwriter and Austin, Texas legend, the line between genius and madness, the lo-fi movement and the making of one of the all-time great rock documentaries.

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Jeff Feuerzeig the director of “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, to discuss the late singer-songwriter and Austin, Texas legend, the line between genius and madness, the lo-fi movement and the making of one of the all-time great rock documentaries.This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Jeff Feuerzeig the director of “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, to discuss the late singer-songwriter and Austin, Texas legend, the line between genius and madness, the lo-fi movement and the making of one of the all-time great rock documentaries.

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Jeff Feuerzeig the director of “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, to discuss the late singer-songwriter and Austin, Texas legend, the line between genius and madness, the lo-fi movement and the making of one of the all-time great rock documentaries. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Gary Lippman received a law degree from Northwestern University and has worked with New York's Innocence Project. Lippman's play Paradox Lost ran off Broadway for a month in 2001 and his writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, VICE, Fodors, and more. Having lived in Illinois, Florida, California, and France, Lippman can now be found in what used to be called "Fun City" with his imaginary French bulldog, his very real Hungarian wife, and a whenever-he's-inclined-to-visit adult son. Laura Albert has won international acclaim for her fiction. Writing as JT LeRoy, she is the author of the best-selling novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and the novella Harold's End. She is the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig's feature documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story and Lynn Hershman Leeson's film The Ballad of JT LeRoy. She has written for The New York Times, The Forward, The London Times, Spin, Man About Town, Vogue, Film Comment, Interview, L'Équipe Sport&Style, Filmmaker, I-D, and others – more recently, the cover article for Man About Town and her reflections on fashion for VESTOJ. A writer for the HBO series "Deadwood," she also wrote the original script for Gus Van Sant's Elephant and was the film's Associate Producer. She has written the short films Radiance for Drew Lightfoot and ContentMode, and Dreams of Levitation and Warfare of Pageantry for Sharif Hamza and Nowness. www.LauraAlbert.org

Nate and Justin Bankston finish our appreciation of Tales from the Tour Bus season one with an interview with Jeff Feuerzeig, the writer & producer of the Johnny Paycheck, George Jones and Tammy Wynette episdoes.

George talked to Tyler Hubby about the work he did with Jeff Feuerzeig on The Devil and Daniel Johnston, which coincides with our Episode 69 with Kip Uhlhorn and Daniel's current tour (where his backing band changes from city to city and includes Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Doug Martsch of Built To Spill). Listen to this in addition to Episode 69 for some rounded out information. Since we recorded these interviews, The New York Times also reported on the recent death of Johnston's father Bill.George also met up with Tyler Hubby to discuss his recently completed documentary Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present. That interview will be posted at a later date.

Sup Doc kicks off the jams w ROCKTOBER a month long line-up of music docs and great guests. We hit the stage with The Devil and Daniel Johnston with our guest, musician Kip Uhlhorn!The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2005 documentary film about the noted American musician Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was directed by Jeff Feuerzeig, edited by Tyler Hubby, and produced by Henry S. Rosenthal.Kip Uhlhorn formed Cloudland Canyon in 2002. The first Cloudland Canyon release, Requiems Der Natur, 2002-2004 was released by Tee Pee in 2006. Cloudland Canyon quickly set about releasing a number of other releases and touring that same year, most notably a single track collaboration 12”/LP entitled Exterminating Angel with Chicago musician Lichens in 2007 on Holy Mountain.In 2007, the band was signed to Kranky and released their first proper album Silver Tongued Sisyphus. In 2008, the band released another collaborative 12” with Mythical Beast on Not Not Fun, as well as their second full length, Lie in Light on Kranky. The latter was chosen as one of top 25 albums of the year 2008 by the Magnet magazine. Cloudland Canyon subsequently moved to Holy Mountain, where the band began their own imprint of Holy Mountain (Intercoastal Artists) for 2010’s album Fin Eaves, which has become their best-received work to date, landing on numerous year-end lists. They went on tour with the Flaming Lips (whom Uhlhorn has collaborated extensively with) as well as with Interpol and Bear in Heaven. Members of the Arcade Fire even name checked the band.Uhlhorn has also played in several other successful groups and bands during this time, including King Khan & the Shrines, Panthers (Dim Mak, Vice), Pharaohs (100% Silk, Stone's Throw, Intercoastal Artists), Eden Express (Holy Mountain), and Tav Falco's Panther Burns He has also played guitar live and on albums by Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, including Chatham's Crimson Grail, which was staged at Lincoln Center. Cloudland Canyon’s ranks have included close friend Jerry Fuchs (also drummer for !!!, LCD Soundsystem, Maserati, Turing Machine, Moby) who died in 2009. Most recently, memphis drummer Ross Johnson (Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Alex Chilton) has joined the band.

New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! In this episode, we hear film director Jeff Feuerzeig and a call from Ron McCallister!

P1 Kultur reser i tiden till 2002 då den kultförklarade författaren JT LeRoy var på Sverigebesök och lurade alla journalister, men inte bara dem utan även Madonna, Courtney Love och Bono. Hela den litterära världen och världsartisterna hade tagit den HIV-smittade späde JT LeRoy till sitt hjärta.Hans självupplevda berättelse "Sarah" handlade om hans uppväxt som truckerhora, hur han redan som barn, utklädd till flicka, tvingats prostituera sig i en tillvaro fylld av övergrepp och vuxensvek.Men det visade sig att JT LeRoy inte fanns.Böckerna var skrivna av Laura Albert. Och den person som rest land och rike och gett nervösa intervjuer om sitt förflutna, spelades i själva verket av en kvinna. Nämligen Savannah Knoop, halvsyster till Laura Alberts dåvarande partner.Historien återberättas i dokumentärfilmen "Author - the JT Leroy story", regisserad av Jeff Feuerzeig, som nu får svensk Video-On-Demand-premiär.P1 Kulturs Roger Wilson, som själv intervjuade Savannah Knoop när det begav sig och härom veckan ringde upp den riktiga författaren Laura Albert, tar hjälp av Emma Gray Munthe och Marcus Lindeen för att reda ut den snåriga historien om JT LeRoy.

On January 9, 2006 the New York Times sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked "it boy" wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn't actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40­-year-­old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert. Director Jeff Feuerzeig’s AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY takes us down the infinitely fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert - ­like a Cyrano de Bergerac on steroids - breathed not only words, but life, into her avatar for a decade. Albert's epic and entertaining account plunges us into a glittery world of rock shows, fashion events, and the Cannes red carpet where LeRoy becomes a mysterious sensation. As she recounts this astonishing odyssey, Albert also reveals the intricate web spun by irrepressible creative forces within her. Her extended and layered JT LeRoy performance still infuriates many; but for Albert, channeling her brilliant fiction through another identity was the only possible path to self­-expression. Director Jeff Feuerzeig join us for a lively conversation on how Laura’s life, her traumas and innate brilliance made JT Leroy such a hugely fascinating saga, on and off the screen. For news and updates go to: jtleroydocumentary.com Author: JT Leroy Story Distributor Magnolia Pictures

Recorded at midnight - with the assistance of coffee and whiskey (not together, separately) we talk about the crazy documentary 'Author: The JT LeRoy Story' directed by Jeff Feuerzeig - the new Taran Killam comedy 'Brother Nature' and the indie weirdo flick 'White Girl' directed by Elizabeth Wood. It's a wild and varied one sponsored by exhaustion.  Enjoy! 

Episode 29 of One Week Only! This week, our key film is "Other People," the Opening Night film at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It's the story of a struggling writer who moves back home to care for his cancer-stricken Mom, and it balances a delicate tone of sharp, hilarious character humor and heartbreaking family drama. Written & Directed by Chris Kelly and starring Jesse Plemons & Molly Shannon, it is now in theatres & on VOD, from Vertical Entertainment. Another film this week is the fascinating documentary "Author: The JT Leroy Story," and we have an interview with director Jeff Feuerzeig about getting to interview the real JT Leroy, Laura Albert, and dealing with the legal challenges surrounding a major literary hoax. Our other films this week are the Polish horror film "Demon" by Marcin Wrona; religious comedy "The Apostate" by Frederico Veiroj; inspiring documentary "Landfill Harmonic" about the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, by Brad Allgood & Graham Townsley; and Tunisian drama "As I Open My Eyes," set on the eve of the Arab Spring, by Leyla Bouzid. Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.imcompetech.com

Whether you know the story of JT LeRoy or not, you certainly haven't heard an episode of WTF like this. First, Marc talks with filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig about documenting the rise and fall of literary phenom JT LeRoy, a celebrated young man who was later revealed to be the creation of Laura Albert. Then Laura joins Marc in the garage to explain what gave birth to her infamous alter ego and to provide some insight into her life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Director JEFF FEUERZEIG swings by the studio to talk about his new film: AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY and MORE! RON MCCALLISTER talks about his family business! AT BEST SHOW returns on the subject of: STAR WARS FAST FOOD! Plus, GARY THE SQUIRREL and so much more!

On EP 24 Paco and George talk with filmmaker Marjorie Sturm about her documentary The Cult of JT LeRoy. We talk about JT Leroy's first two novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and we get into hero worship, cons, Rachel Dolezal, improvisation, filmmaking and much more. Authorized and unauthorized, The Cult of JT Leroy received two Jury Awards for Best Feature Documentary (SF IndieFest and Oslo/Fusion International) in 2015 and played at top-tier festivals around the world. Ethically charged, controversial, and confusing, JT’s life and death sprang open a Pandora’s box of powerful questions about literature and culture, identity and celebrity, and the reality of the society we live in. Fraud? Art? Sociopathy? Complicity? The Cult of JT Leroy is a testament to this bizarre and elaborate story that has captured the attention of the world’s media and perplexes to this day.Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy was a literary persona created in 1994 by American writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was supposedly born October 31, 1980 in West Virginia. His backstory was one of prostitution, drug addiction, and vagrancy in California. After his first novel Sarah was published, "LeRoy" started making public appearances. A January 2006 article in The New York Times declared that the person acting as LeRoy in public was Albert's sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop. Knoop wrote her own memoir of the experience called Girl Boy Girl. An Albert-endorsed documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, premiered at Sundance 2016.Marjorie Sturm is an award-winning filmmaker whose films span a broad perspective: narrative, documentary, and experimental. She was an interviewer, cinematographer, and Bay Area media wrangler for the 99%-Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film which premiered at Sundance in 2013. She received the Grand Festival Award at Berkeley Video and Film Festival for her short narrative "Smoke the Pipe Dream." Sturm has created social activism videos for Consumers Union and worked as a social worker with the mentally ill homeless in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Sturm studied Psychology at the University of Michigan, and received her MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She is the younger sibling of the graphic novelist James Sturm and the painter/photographer Ilona Sturm. Sturm lives in San Francisco with composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante and their two children.(the list of writers recommended by Michelle Tea can be found here at The Bold Italic)Follow us on:Twitter: @supdocpdocastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

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