The James Franco directed/James Franco starring Zeroville was originally filmed in 2014 but got pushed back when its distribution company went bankrupt. The nutso comedy, based on the 2007 novel by the same name, also stars Megan Fox, Seth Rogen, and the always brilliant Jackie … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Loved You, So I Drew These Tides of Men into My Hands & Wrote My Will Across the Sky in Stars.” –T.E Lawrence, on His Arab Lover
Lawrence in the 1920s, via YouTube It is rather astounding to consider the films I have missed, even as a lifelong film fan, even after four years of university Film History and Film Theory classes, even after sharing more than half my life with someone who possibly loves … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Edna Ferber
1924, Photograph via YouTube August 15, 1885- Edna Ferber: "A closed mind is a dying mind." I have enjoyed a long crazy obsession for The Algonquin Round Table, a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Members of "The Vicious Circle," as … [Read more...]
Entertainment Weekly Excerpts Ross Matthews’ New Book “Name Drop” (and WE Excerpt Entertainment Weekly!)
Wowlebrity Ross Matthews has a new book, Name Drop, which comes out Feb. 4, 2020, and is [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Radclyffe Hall
Photo by Troubridge, Wikimedia Commons August 12, 1880– Radclyffe Hall: "For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it’s up to you to have the courage to make good." Outside of Rita Mae … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Make a Difference About Something Other Than Yourselves.” – Toni Morrison (R.I.P.)
Photo: public domain We lost Toni Morrison this week. If you don't know Morrison or her work, and you really should, she was the only African American writer and one of the few women to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech Morrison emphasized … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: “Mary Poppins” Writer, P.L. Travers
Travers via Wikimedia Commons August 9, 1899 - Pamela Lyndon Travers “Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?” P.L. Travers was the Australian creator of the quintessentially English nanny Mary Poppins. The story of Travers is more familiar now … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Writer, James Baldwin
Photograph from James Baldwin Archive, NY Public Library August 2, 1924– James Baldwin: "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law." The very first "gay" book I read was James Baldwin's beautiful, … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: British Writer, E.F. Benson
July 23 1867 - Edward Frederic Benson: He Deceived Me By Telling The Truth. He was an English writer and archaeologist. Writing as E.F. Benson, he is a literary figure from a forgotten age who still retains a cult following for his charmingly sharp-eyed novels. His books … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Reinaldo Arenas
July 16, 1943 - Reinaldo Arenas: I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living In his memoir Before Night Falls (1992), Reinaldo Arenas writes of growing up poor in … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 65
- Next Page »
