Lena Dunham Screens Hilary Knight Documentary

“So in love with Hilary the man,” tweeted Lena Dunham recently, and she wasn’t talking about any of the actors on her HBO series. No, the object of her affection is 88 years old and doesn’t have a Twitter account — he doesn’t even have a cell phone. He is Hilary Knight, the illustrator of the beloved Eloise children’s books, and now the subject of “It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise,” a documentary coproduced by Dunham that airs on HBO next week. At a screening at The Plaza on Monday, the two of them, the international TV star and the revered cult figure, were shooting the breeze and posing for cameras like two lifelong friends, never mind their age difference. Their unlikely friendship dates back to Dunham’s teens. When she was 17, she got Knight’s creation, the stringy-haired, pot-bellied Eloise, tattooed on her back. “I remember looking at a Riot Grrrl ’zine in the late Nineties, and seeing a picture of Eloise in there,” she said. “She does have this really punky, feminist quality and I think that’s something so many women and men are attracted to in the book.” Then years later, when Knight heard about the gesture, he

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