Emilio Estevez's new film, 'The Public,' looks at the role of libraries on the front lines of the homelessness crisis. Estevez wrote, directed and stars, and he says libraries are more important than ever, in more ways than most people can imagine.
Libraries – long the world's repositories of knowledge and books trying to find new roles in the Information Age – these days are having a bit of a moment.became the unlikely film adaptation Orlean looks at the 1986 arson of the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Branch that burned half a million books and damaged another million.
Estevez said his love affair with L.A.'s libraries started in the late 1990s, when he regularly visited the magnificently rebuilt Central Branch, researching what becameabout the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Estevez wrote, directed and starred in that 2006 film too. Estevez rattles off alarming homelessness statistics, like the estimated 56,000 homeless on Los Angeles streets each night, or the fact that an estimated 11 percent of California State University system students have no fixed address, couch surfing or otherwise making do for shelter as they pursue a degree.
"Oftentimes in Hollywood films, there are two ways portrayed," Estevez said."There's the Noble Poor who can never do wrong. The other side, there are a lot of stories that are painful and heartbreaking but there's also a lot of humor. Our challenge was humanizing them. They’re just like the rest of us, because theyEstevez said he ran into Orlean at the Central Branch, researching her book.
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