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Since December 2003 This site is an official Asia Argento website. However, I'm not Asia Argento herself. Do not send fanmail because Asia won't receive it. I am not receiving any financial gain from the website. No copyright infringement intended. Special thanks goes out to my three special collaborators and contributors: Audrey (from France), Beatrice (from Italy) and Stef.
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J T Leroy finds happy ending in Cannes - May 16th 2004By Joelle Diderich CANNES, France (Reuters) - At the age of 14, cult American author J.T. Leroy was a street prostitute, high on drugs and fast heading for self-destruction. Ten years later, he is friends with stars like Madonna and Diane Keaton and giving interviews at the Cannes film festival for the movie adaptation of his critically acclaimed short story collection "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things". The film, screening on the sidelines of the main competition, features cameos by heavy-hitters including Winona Ryder, Peter Fonda and shock rocker Marilyn Manson. But don't expect to see it at your local cineplex anytime soon. Directed by Italian actress Asia Argento, last seen in the blockbuster "XXX", the film deals with hardcore subjects that few Hollywood studios dare to touch and was produced on a small independent budget. It documents Leroy's peripatetic childhood between his drug-addicted mother and fanatically religious grandparents. The author began to write at the urging of a therapist treating him for disorders stemming from his rape and abuse as a child, when his prostitute mother would sometimes dress him as a girl and pass him off as her sister. Leroy, who wears a blonde wig and oversized sunglasses that bring to mind pop artist Andy Warhol, said seeing the events on screen was a further step in distancing himself from the past. "I always used to wish that I could put a tube from my head to somebody else's head and they could see and feel what I saw so that I wouldn't be alone. We've reached something of that sort," he told a news conference. "I had this very emotional and cathartic experience from seeing the last cut of the movie," the androgynous author said in his barely audible Southern twang. For Argento, making the film became something of a personal mission. Having read the book, she contacted Leroy who immediately suggested she adapt it for the cinema. The 28-year-old actress also gives a bravura performance as Sarah, the volatile mother who nourishes a love-hate relationship with her son. With her peroxide hair and punk rock attitude, she is a dead ringer for Courtney Love. Argento, daughter of legendary horror movie director Dario Argento, previously directed the autobiographical "Scarlet Diva" and said she relished telling somebody else's story this time around. Her main concern was to remain faithful to the book. "For me it was important not to demonise any of these characters but to understand that they didn't know any better," she said.
"He's not the saint and the adults the monsters. That's very important because life is like that. Not everything is black and white. It's not horror or comedy, it's a mixture of everything."
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