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October 11, 2006 — Michael Cidoni from the AP reports "For Augusten Burroughs, it was real-life Hollywood ending: the world premiere of the film version of his life story, "Running With Scissors."

"It's amazing," Burroughs told AP Television, as he glanced down the arrivals line and saw the film's stars posing for photos and speaking with the press. "These are all the people I have admired for many years and here they are in the movie of my life. It's completely surreal. I feel like I'll wake up tomorrow and I will be back in my little room, 14 years old, writing in my journal."

Based on Burroughs' best-selling 2002 memoir, the film, written and directed by TV's "Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy, tracks the author's turbulent young life in the 1970s. Like the book, which Burroughs has described as only loosely based on his life, the film shows the boy saddled with a chilly, alcoholic father and a deluded, drug-addicted mother who eventually granted custody of her son to an eccentric, perhaps insane, psychiatrist.

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