On the way back to Atlanta they are in a terrible car accident. He is arrested in Michigan trying to run drugs across the border when the charges are dropped, Barbara hurries to get him.

Her lover, Wolf, is a suicidal, drug-addicted patient she had treated in her job as a social worker. In a complicated story of which the young Abbott knew almost nothing, Barbara, perhaps pushed by Steve’s regular relationships with other men, entered into a relationship of her own. They married and soon had a daughter, Alysia. His declaration of his bisexuality didn’t get in the way of their relationship, at least not at first. Steve Abbott met Barbara Binder when both were graduate students in Atlanta in the late 60s. Can’t say for sure how it will stay with me, but I’m guessing most of it will vanish as thoroughly as the sometimes gritty, sometimes gossamer world it depicts. But I didn’t like it as much as some people I know. Talent Agency.I enjoyed Alysia Abbott’s memoir of growing up with an openly gay father in 1970s and 80s San Francisco, racing through it in a couple of evenings. Murphy is represented by WME and Sugar23.ĭougherty is represented by Models Inc. Lambert is represented by CAA.įern is represented by CAA and 3Arts. Nicole Shipley, Roman Coppola, Michael Musante, Laure Sudreau, Alysia Abbott, Jeff Sobrato, Jesse Ozeri, Sasha Shapiro, Anton Lessine, Gale Harold, Rebecca Gang, Susie Landau, Elena Baranova, Brooks Price, Eileen Spitalny, Karen Salveson, Mike Spitalny, Ryan Hamilton, Gary Hamilton and Ying Ye are executive producing.Īrclight Films is handling worldwide sales, while ICM is taking part in securing a domestic sale.ĭavis is represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment. Veteran fashion and commercial photographer Durham penned the feature, which he directed and produced along with Coppola, Megan Carlson, Siena Oberman, Greg Lauritano and Laure Sudreau. Geena Davis, Adam Lambert, Cody Fern, Bella Murphy and newcomer Nessa Dougherty round out the cast for the movie adaptation. Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy Star in ‘Fairyland’ Adaptation for American ZoetropeĬoda star Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy have nabbed lead roles in producer Sofia Coppola’s Fairyland adaptation for American Zoetrope, with director Andrew Durham having just wrapped production on his debut feature.Ĭoppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father - widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott - amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.

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