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Ct Lit Fest Event

  Join me for a reading followed by coverstation with Real Art Ways executive director, Will K. Wilkins.   Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm.     To attend the series, or a single event, please register via Crowdcast, here.    ...

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The Truth Within the Story: I Know This Much Is True

The cast of I Know This Much Is True, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr., and CNN New Day’s Alisyn Camerota discuss the impact mental illness has had on their lives. Based on the 1998 bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance, this limited series follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, played by Mark Ruffalo. A family saga, it tells a story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. Subscribe to HBO on YouTube: https://goo.gl/wtFYd7 Official Site of I Know This Much Is True on HBO: https://itsh.bo/IKTMIT-series Watch Now Get HBO: https://itsh.bo/ways-to-get  ...

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I Know This Much Is True

HBO limited series to premiere May 10th   Based on the 1998 bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, adapted and directed by Derek Cianfrance.  This limited series follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers, played by Mark Ruffalo.  A family saga, it tells a story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century...

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HBO’s I Know this Much is True to premiere this spring!

The six-episode limited series, based on my novel of the same name, is set to run this spring. Via movie magic, Mark Ruffalo plays both Dominick Birdsey and his mentally troubled identical twin, Thomas. At the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, writer/director Derek Cianfrance and star Mark Ruffalo discuss the challenges of filming this series. Dr. Patel (The Good Wife’s Archie Punjabi) counsels Dominick about how to negotiate the challenges of being his afflicted brother’s keeper. Psychiatric social worker Lisa Sheffer (Rosie O’Donnell) updates Dominck about his twin’s condition. Dominick (Mark Ruffalo) and Dessa, the ex-wife he still loves (Kathryn Hahn) meet outside the hospital where Thomas has been admitted after an act of self-mutilation.. Dominick’s mother Connie (Melissa Leo) gives him a suitcase. Inside is a document that holds clues about the family’s past....

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