Alan Berliner is a filmmaker and an insomniac. He says he does his best work and feels most alive late at night. His new film, Wide Awake, is part-insomnia diary and part-therapy session. It airs this week on HBO. Kurt Andersen drops in on Berliner at his studio in the middle of the night.
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Alan Berliner
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Fantastic interview. Love you, Alan! You were one of the main influences for me to get back into acting later ...
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Really difficult to convey this as a "sound story" and it was done beautifully. Really compelling.
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I am the only cured diabetic that I have heard of. I had a double transplant in 2002 (kidney, pancreas.)
It is so weird to get the jealous, evil-eye from the diabetics I meet at work (Costco, cashier.)
A lot people are suffering from the disease. And here I am, like Lazarus, walking among the dying...
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