Making a documentary about the 20th (and 21st) century's most notorious recluse is rife with both hazards and rewards for filmmaker Shane Salerno, whose "Salinger" has to make do without a single video or audio clip of its titular subject — not because of rights restrictions, but because they apparently don't exist. That's an awfully big hole to compensate for, but then again, as anyone who ever enjoyed "The Usual Suspects" could tell you, having a central figure whom everyone talks about but hardly anyone has ever seen can make for a pretty compelling mystery yarn. The documentary and its accompanying 700-page book were withheld not just from the public but even from most press until Monday's world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, even though the film hits theaters this Friday. The withholding was presumably to create shock and awe with the climactic revelation that all the writing J.D. Salinger was working on since he stopped publishing in the mid-'60s will finally be...
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