Double cross (dressed): JT Leroy gets meta movie treatment

You’ve read the book about the cross-dressing teen prostitute from West Virginia?

Check.

You’ve heard about the movie based on the book about the cross-dressing teen prostitute from West Virginia?

Check.

But are you ready for the movie about the book and the movie about the cross-dressing teen prostitute from West Virginia and, of course, the lies they both told?

My old pal Ian Mohr at Variety‘s Gotham office has a piece today about the latest JT Leroy fracas: With a bigscreen adaptation of “Leroy’s” “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things,” from Asia Argento opening next week, Ian reports that The Weintstein Company is now preparing another film – about the LeRoy hoax – based on articles by The New York Times‘ Warren St. John.

Full disclosure: We plan to make a movie about the making of that movie. Who wouldn’t?

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