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Documentary on author Hubert Selby Jr. to make U.S. debut
Tuesday June 17, 2003LOS ANGELES (AP) Author Hubert Selby Jr., whose ``Last Exit To Brooklyn'' and ``Requiem For A Dream,'' brought him from the written page to the movie screen now gets his own life story on film.
``A Couple Of Things About Hubert Selby Jr.,'' chronicles the 75-year-old's history of addiction and surgeries due to lung disease, his stint as a teenager in the Navy, growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and his writing. The documentary is making its U.S. debut at the New Filmmakers of Los Angeles moviemakers' forum on Wednesday in Hollywood.
Selby is set to read from his works, which also include ``Song Of The Silent Snow,'' and ``The Room.''
When the documentary was shown in Europe, the self-effacing Selby said it was exciting and enjoyable.
``The people were so terrific and the reception so enthusiastic,'' Selby said in a news release Tuesday. ``After the people down in the breakfast room at my hotel saw me, I got extra croissants, so that was kinda nice.''
Selby appears as a laughing prison guard in the final minutes of the dark, 2000 drug drama, ``Requiem,'' for which he adapted his novel into a screenplay.
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