Motherless Brooklyn's producers on the film's respect for Tourette Syndrome
Ed Norton’s latest, Motherless Brooklyn, is about a mid-century detective with a tic. Lionel Essrog sprung from the mind of author Jonathan Lethem, and made his debut in the novel Motherless Brooklyn over 20 years ago. As head of a seedy detective agency, Essrog’s brain is firing faster than his mouth, leading to…