Throughout its first six episodes, Fellow Travelers has toggled between the story of two red-hot lovers — Hawk (Matt Bomer) and Tim (Jonathan Bailey) — and the backdrop of political and social repression against which their romance has been set. That repression set the boundaries for Hawk and Tim's relationship, what it could be and what it couldn't. Now, with the series jumping ahead in time from the Lavender Scare of the '50s to the White Night riots in 1978, the gay rights movement has also leaped forward. Pride parades were putting the cause of gay liberation in the American public's face as sure as a cream pie in front of Anita Bryant’s.
- 12/11/2023
- by Joe Reid
- Primetimer
TV giant Norman Lear, who died Dec. 5 at 101, leaves behind arguably the single most valuable body of work ever committed to the medium. On seminal series like All in the Family, Maude and The Jeffersons, Lear dared to tackle issues then considered unthinkable sitcom fodder — rape, abortion, homosexuality, racism, alcoholism — with a genius’ eye and ear for capturing their moral complexities while poking at the foibles of the American working class. These six episodes, however, stand out among the rest for having actively moved the needle on public opinion — and in doing so elevated Lear’s work from mere entertainment to timeless agitprop art.
1. All in the Family — Season 8 — “Cousin Liz” — Original Air Date: Oct. 9, 1977
Lear’s magnum opus, All in the Family, tackled the most hot-button issues throughout its nine seasons, from rape to racism to the war in Vietnam. But one particularly resounding episode was “Cousin Liz,” in...
1. All in the Family — Season 8 — “Cousin Liz” — Original Air Date: Oct. 9, 1977
Lear’s magnum opus, All in the Family, tackled the most hot-button issues throughout its nine seasons, from rape to racism to the war in Vietnam. But one particularly resounding episode was “Cousin Liz,” in...
- 12/7/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nicole Newnham’s The Disappearance of Shere Hite is so packed with ideas, timelines, and input from various participants that a documentary twice as long would have been justified. Such is the significance of Shere Hite’s life and writings in the 1970s and ’80s on the subject of sex, particularly women’s bodies and how they typically achieve orgasm.
Hite’s 1976 book The Hite Report has become an all-time bestseller, in large part due to the controversy it sparked following its publication. While the film’s title initially suggests a mystery, Newnham’s remarkable use of archival footage, especially of Hite being ceaselessly berated on talk shows, composes such a clear and coherent portrait of her eventual exile from American culture that the film becomes a furious indictment of an openly repressive society.
While Newnham takes a mostly linear approach to explaining the trajectory of Hite’s research and fame,...
Hite’s 1976 book The Hite Report has become an all-time bestseller, in large part due to the controversy it sparked following its publication. While the film’s title initially suggests a mystery, Newnham’s remarkable use of archival footage, especially of Hite being ceaselessly berated on talk shows, composes such a clear and coherent portrait of her eventual exile from American culture that the film becomes a furious indictment of an openly repressive society.
While Newnham takes a mostly linear approach to explaining the trajectory of Hite’s research and fame,...
- 11/10/2023
- by Clayton Dillard
- Slant Magazine
Samuels Library has been lending books to the residents of rural Warren County, Virginia, for more than 200 years. But today, it’s continued existence is threatened by a small band of locals upset over the fact that it carries some titles with LGBTQ themes — or as the group calls them, books featuring “lesbian junk,” “homoerotic passages,” “sodomidical [sic] couples,” “witchcraft” as well as one volume considered objectionable because its protagonist “has an identity based on obesity.” Those complaints are drawn from the more than 800 removal requests filed by Clean Up Samuels,...
- 9/23/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
“Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York” was in many ways always a story for today.
A call to arms as much as it is a queer history lesson and true crime docuseries, “Last Call” wrapped its four-episode run on HBO and Max on Sunday, and with it reminded viewers why its story of a 1990s serial killer who preyed on gay male New Yorkers at neighborhood piano bars is one that can inspire action now.
Published in tandem with the HBO limited series on July 12, a New York City Anti-Violence Project report titled “Under Attack: 2022 LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces National Needs Assessment” found a continued uptick in anti-lgbtq violence and harassment in 2022. It is the first comprehensive survey directly asking LGBTQ organizations about the hate they experienced and what they need to prevent it.
“Political rhetoric absolutely has a direct impact on anti-queer violence. It’s one...
A call to arms as much as it is a queer history lesson and true crime docuseries, “Last Call” wrapped its four-episode run on HBO and Max on Sunday, and with it reminded viewers why its story of a 1990s serial killer who preyed on gay male New Yorkers at neighborhood piano bars is one that can inspire action now.
Published in tandem with the HBO limited series on July 12, a New York City Anti-Violence Project report titled “Under Attack: 2022 LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces National Needs Assessment” found a continued uptick in anti-lgbtq violence and harassment in 2022. It is the first comprehensive survey directly asking LGBTQ organizations about the hate they experienced and what they need to prevent it.
“Political rhetoric absolutely has a direct impact on anti-queer violence. It’s one...
- 8/1/2023
- by Benjamin Lindsay
- The Wrap
It can be so easy, in a serial killer story, to lose sight of all but the nastiest details. Understandably so: The murders are of course shocking, the details sensational, the killer inherently bizarre and the race to find them urgent. But amid all that horrified leering, the lives destroyed can get erased a second time. They’re turned into sidenotes and details, objects to be acted upon rather than worthy subjects in their own right.
The triumph of HBO’s Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York is how deftly it flips that balance. It’s a rare true-crime docuseries whose attention is turned not toward death but toward life — that cares more about who the victims were, the people who cherished them, the communities that embraced them and the histories that claimed them, than about how they were snuffed out. This line of inquiry yields...
The triumph of HBO’s Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York is how deftly it flips that balance. It’s a rare true-crime docuseries whose attention is turned not toward death but toward life — that cares more about who the victims were, the people who cherished them, the communities that embraced them and the histories that claimed them, than about how they were snuffed out. This line of inquiry yields...
- 7/7/2023
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While Call of Duty and its free-to-play battle royale spin-off Warzone have remained some of the most popular games on Twitch and other streaming platforms, a recent series of protests involving streamers Nickmercs, TimTheTatman, and others have raised questions about the future of Call of Duty streaming and some of that scene’s biggest names.
While this situation is ongoing, here is what you need to know about the recent calls to boycott Call of Duty over controversial streamer statements related to the LGBTQ community.
Why Streamers Are Boycotting Warzone and Call of Duty
On May 31, the Call of Duty team added special character bundles to Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 which were based on two popular streamers: Nickmercs and TimTheTatman. While Call of Duty has historically featured character skins and other cosmetics based on real-life figures (such as NBA star Kevin Durant), the series typically does not feature content based on streamers.
While this situation is ongoing, here is what you need to know about the recent calls to boycott Call of Duty over controversial streamer statements related to the LGBTQ community.
Why Streamers Are Boycotting Warzone and Call of Duty
On May 31, the Call of Duty team added special character bundles to Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 which were based on two popular streamers: Nickmercs and TimTheTatman. While Call of Duty has historically featured character skins and other cosmetics based on real-life figures (such as NBA star Kevin Durant), the series typically does not feature content based on streamers.
- 6/14/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
If you’ve heard a shambolic percussion rattle echo across the Great Plains recently, do not be alarmed. Those are merely the desultory remains of Anita Bryant whirlybirding against the lead-lined insides of her rococo vampire coffin at the ushering in of yet another Pride Month. But the annual month-long celebration of queerness isn’t just about cynically rolling one’s eyes at the newly-refreshed-and-rainbow-ized corporate logos sprouting up on social media. As good-guy ally and country-rock troubadour Jason Isbell tweeted last week: “Pride. Victory of the human spirit and the only antidote to the poison of shame.” Or, in other words: slay all day.
This month’s Fiscal Spotlight column is looking at three short narrative projects about complicated, fractured or otherwise incomplete gay relationships–sex of course being an inextricable element of the drama dynamics. Here we have stories of fractured relationships on the tentative road to recovery,...
This month’s Fiscal Spotlight column is looking at three short narrative projects about complicated, fractured or otherwise incomplete gay relationships–sex of course being an inextricable element of the drama dynamics. Here we have stories of fractured relationships on the tentative road to recovery,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Matt Warren
- Film Independent News & More
Told from the perspective of a young girl raised by her single gay father to be a woman who is “strong and tolerant and not afraid of this world,” Fairyland reveals the intensely personal nature of its origins in Alysia Abbott’s 2013 memoir at every step of the characters’ complicated evolution together. Like that sometimes strained relationship, this debut feature from photographer Andrew Durham often feels stuck, but eventually reaches its destination with clear-eyed compassion and an emotionally powerful reconciliation. Those qualities are captured with enormous sensitivity in the lead performances of Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy.
With a producing team led by Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, this is a bittersweet drama about unconventional parenting and alternative families that will resonate loudest with LGBTQ audiences. But its surge of final-act feeling will speak to any audience that has ever experienced the startling reckoning that comes with grief.
The film...
With a producing team led by Sofia Coppola for American Zoetrope, this is a bittersweet drama about unconventional parenting and alternative families that will resonate loudest with LGBTQ audiences. But its surge of final-act feeling will speak to any audience that has ever experienced the startling reckoning that comes with grief.
The film...
- 1/27/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Despite its title, there is very little mystery to Nicole Newnham’s straightforward but consistently compelling documentary, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite.” Indeed, although the name suggests a potentially-enticing enigma, it takes us down another path entirely.
The story of Shere Hite is very much of a piece with others we’ve seen recently, on subjects both as disparate and — in the way they were treated by press and public — similar as Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, Janet Jackson, and Britney Spears. In a decade, someone will undoubtedly make a comparable film exploring whether Meghan Markle’s current attempts to reclaim her narrative were more successful than those of her predecessors.
You may only dimly recognize it today, but from the late 1970s through the late 1980s, Hite’s was a household name. The film brushes (too) swiftly past her early childhood, beginning in earnest when she arrives in New York as a Columbia grad student.
The story of Shere Hite is very much of a piece with others we’ve seen recently, on subjects both as disparate and — in the way they were treated by press and public — similar as Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, Janet Jackson, and Britney Spears. In a decade, someone will undoubtedly make a comparable film exploring whether Meghan Markle’s current attempts to reclaim her narrative were more successful than those of her predecessors.
You may only dimly recognize it today, but from the late 1970s through the late 1980s, Hite’s was a household name. The film brushes (too) swiftly past her early childhood, beginning in earnest when she arrives in New York as a Columbia grad student.
- 1/20/2023
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Ralph Carmichael, a prolific composer and arranger of film and TV scores whose writing or arranging credits include I Love Lucy, Bonanza, My Mother the Car, the sci-fi classic The Blob and some of the most beloved and enduring Christmas recordings ever made, died Monday in Camarillo, Calif. He was 94.
His death was announced by family spokesperson Jim Pedersen. A cause was not specified.
A pioneering figure in contemporary Christian music, Carmichael began a long career in television and film in the early 1950s when he headed the music department of his alma mater, the Southern California Bible College, and his school band was featured on the local Los Angeles TV program Campus Christian Hour. The show won an Emmy Award in 1951.
Around the same time, he began writing incidental music charts for I Love Lucy, a role he’d also fill on December Bride, Bonanza and The Frankie Lane Show,...
His death was announced by family spokesperson Jim Pedersen. A cause was not specified.
A pioneering figure in contemporary Christian music, Carmichael began a long career in television and film in the early 1950s when he headed the music department of his alma mater, the Southern California Bible College, and his school band was featured on the local Los Angeles TV program Campus Christian Hour. The show won an Emmy Award in 1951.
Around the same time, he began writing incidental music charts for I Love Lucy, a role he’d also fill on December Bride, Bonanza and The Frankie Lane Show,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“The story has many elements of filmmaking and storytelling that matches with my timeline as a filmmaker about race, about gender, about sexuality, about, you know, being on the margins,” says Cheryl Dunye about the “Lovecraft Country” episode “Strange Case,” which she directed. This season she also helmed an episode of the FX documentary series “Pride,” about the fight for LGBT rights throughout the 20th century. Watch our exclusive video interview with Dunye above.
Marginalization is a major theme in “Lovecraft Country,” which explores anti-Black racism in 1950s America through the lens of supernatural horror. And Dunye’s episode was an especially unique exploration of that subject, following Ruby (Wunmi Musaku) after magic gives her the opportunity to experience the world as a white woman. Those fantasy elements “allowed me to elevate the storytelling” and “allowed me to put another layer on the messages that I wanted to already speak.
Marginalization is a major theme in “Lovecraft Country,” which explores anti-Black racism in 1950s America through the lens of supernatural horror. And Dunye’s episode was an especially unique exploration of that subject, following Ruby (Wunmi Musaku) after magic gives her the opportunity to experience the world as a white woman. Those fantasy elements “allowed me to elevate the storytelling” and “allowed me to put another layer on the messages that I wanted to already speak.
- 5/18/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Welcome to this week’s All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the fallout from All Out and it’s…a whore-house on fire from the rump rash? There were several good matches on All Out, but the bad (three 0 matches and Matt Hardy’s injury debacle) just brought the show down to some-thing I just couldn’t rate well at all. If you disagree, then I won’t hold it against you. For a lot of people, All Out was a huge hit, but to me, it was just shit. Well, I’m walking into this hoping that this show is good so I can give it a good review, so…
Match #1: Jurassic Express def. The Lucha Bros. The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Jungle Boy charged in and took down Rey Fenix with a springboard arm drag.
Match #1: Jurassic Express def. The Lucha Bros. The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Jungle Boy charged in and took down Rey Fenix with a springboard arm drag.
- 9/10/2020
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven,” the disco-fied 1976 reinvention of the composer’s most famous symphony, seems like an unusual choice for the theme of “Mrs. America,” FX’s Cate Blanchett-starring series on the history of the 1970s women’s movement as seen from the perspective of its fervent opponent, arch-conservative Phyllis Schlafly. The song dates from late in the show’s chronology, its glitzy groove seems at odds with many of the characters, and most of all, it’s an instrumental.
But for the show’s music supervisor, Mary Ramos — who has worked on dozens of films and television shows, most prominently on several Quentin Tarantino films, including last year’s Oscar-winning “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” as well as Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” — it’s a perfect choice.
“It represents both sides of the story,” she says. “Phyllis and her conservative friends listen to...
But for the show’s music supervisor, Mary Ramos — who has worked on dozens of films and television shows, most prominently on several Quentin Tarantino films, including last year’s Oscar-winning “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” as well as Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” — it’s a perfect choice.
“It represents both sides of the story,” she says. “Phyllis and her conservative friends listen to...
- 5/27/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Mrs America, the Cate Blanchett-fronted drama about the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and the unexpected backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly, was supposed to exist in a world where Hillary Clinton was President of the United States of America.
Stacey Sher, the producer behind Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich, had seen a PBS documentary about the women’s movement in the 1970s in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election and was interested in making a drama series from the point of view of Schlafly, the beauty queen-turned-conservative crusader.
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Sher, who spoke to Deadline about the FX on Hulu drama...
Stacey Sher, the producer behind Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich, had seen a PBS documentary about the women’s movement in the 1970s in the run-up to the 2016 Presidential election and was interested in making a drama series from the point of view of Schlafly, the beauty queen-turned-conservative crusader.
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Sher, who spoke to Deadline about the FX on Hulu drama...
- 4/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Demi Lovato, who was announced this week as a performer at the Grammy Awards, will sing the National Anthem a week later as part of Super Bowl Liv pregame festivities at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Sunday, February 2, the NFL and the Fox network announced today.
The pregame show, including the National Anthem, will be broadcast live worldwide.
Lovato will join a prestigious line up of Super Bowl National Anthem performers that includes Gladys Knight, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Luke Bryan, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Joel, P!Nk, Jordin Sparks, Idina Menzel, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Neil Diamond.
In addition, on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (Nad), Christine Sun Kim, internationally renowned sound artist and performer, will sign the National Anthem in American Sign Language.
The appearance, combined with the Grammy performance, marks a big return for Lovato, who has been recovering from...
The pregame show, including the National Anthem, will be broadcast live worldwide.
Lovato will join a prestigious line up of Super Bowl National Anthem performers that includes Gladys Knight, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Luke Bryan, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Jennifer Hudson, Billy Joel, P!Nk, Jordin Sparks, Idina Menzel, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Neil Diamond.
In addition, on behalf of the National Association of the Deaf (Nad), Christine Sun Kim, internationally renowned sound artist and performer, will sign the National Anthem in American Sign Language.
The appearance, combined with the Grammy performance, marks a big return for Lovato, who has been recovering from...
- 1/16/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Filmed over one continuous 1977 day at Pride parades across San Francisco, Chicago, New York, San Diego and other metropolises, Arthur Bressan Jr.’s Gay USA is a tapestry of anecdotes, embraces, misconceptions and confused onlookers. It not only captures the optimism and palpable ecstasy of the Lgbt attendees of Pride ‘77, but uses the homophobic agenda of Anita Bryant in Dade County, Floridato provide political context as to why these happy men, women and non-binary folks galavanting along Castro Street and Greenwich Village still had very much at stake. Many of Bressan’s films outlined the political reality of being gay […]...
- 6/25/2019
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Filmed over one continuous 1977 day at Pride parades across San Francisco, Chicago, New York, San Diego and other metropolises, Arthur Bressan Jr.’s Gay USA is a tapestry of anecdotes, embraces, misconceptions and confused onlookers. It not only captures the optimism and palpable ecstasy of the Lgbt attendees of Pride ‘77, but uses the homophobic agenda of Anita Bryant in Dade County, Floridato provide political context as to why these happy men, women and non-binary folks galavanting along Castro Street and Greenwich Village still had very much at stake. Many of Bressan’s films outlined the political reality of being gay […]...
- 6/25/2019
- by Natalia Keogan
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Arthur Bressan, Jr.Queer cinema in America is not without a sense of loss. In trying to bridge a period of censorship and queer coding (whether in compliance to censors or deliberately transmitting some kind of film language that reads queer without explicitly stating so) to New Queer Cinema and post-New Queer Cinema of today, there is an acceptance and resignation that what pervades a considerable period of queer cinema history is absence, something missing. It is the what could have been: art that was not made because it could not be made, as those who would have were dead. The lost lives and lost potential of HIV/AIDS among artists in the 1980s eidolically looms over queer cinema. But there was still art being made and artists to celebrate. Predating the AIDS epidemic, there was the post-Stonewall art, art of queer liberation that was highly political, a lot of...
- 6/23/2019
- MUBI
Actors Ashley Judd and Neil Patrick Harris have been roped in for a biopic on anti-gay activist Anita Bryant.
Titled Anita, the film will be on the life of Bryant, the and singer who campaigned against local anti-discrimination ordinances in Florida, inadvertently igniting the gay rights movement.
Chad Hodge will write and direct, while Howard Rosenman and Darren Star will produce the project, reports variety.com.
Bryant was a singer and spokesperson for orange juice and the Florida Citrus Commission. She fronted a campaign in the late 1970s called 'Save Our Children' that advocated against rules prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, tanking her career in the process.
While researching the history, Hodge spent significant time with Bryant in her Oklahoma home, and that element is recounted in the movie. Harris plays Hodge as he meets Bryant, who is played by Judd.
"As a gay man and a...
Titled Anita, the film will be on the life of Bryant, the and singer who campaigned against local anti-discrimination ordinances in Florida, inadvertently igniting the gay rights movement.
Chad Hodge will write and direct, while Howard Rosenman and Darren Star will produce the project, reports variety.com.
Bryant was a singer and spokesperson for orange juice and the Florida Citrus Commission. She fronted a campaign in the late 1970s called 'Save Our Children' that advocated against rules prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, tanking her career in the process.
While researching the history, Hodge spent significant time with Bryant in her Oklahoma home, and that element is recounted in the movie. Harris plays Hodge as he meets Bryant, who is played by Judd.
"As a gay man and a...
- 5/17/2019
- GlamSham
Ashley Judd and Neil Patrick Harris will star in “Anita,” a long-gestating biopic of Anita Bryant, the TV pitchwoman and singer who campaigned against local anti-discrimination ordinances in Florida, inadvertently igniting the gay rights movement.
Chad Hodge, creator of TNT series “Good Behavior,” will write and direct, and Howard Rosenman (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Darren Star (“Sex and the City”) produce. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films Intl. has boarded sales and is at Cannes with the project.
Bryant was a singer and spokesperson for orange juice and the Florida Citrus Commission. She fronted a campaign in the late 1970s called Save Our Children that advocated against rules prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, tanking her career in the process. While researching the history, Hodge spent significant time with Bryant in her Oklahoma home, and that element is recounted in the movie. Harris plays Hodge as he meets Bryant,...
Chad Hodge, creator of TNT series “Good Behavior,” will write and direct, and Howard Rosenman (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Darren Star (“Sex and the City”) produce. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films Intl. has boarded sales and is at Cannes with the project.
Bryant was a singer and spokesperson for orange juice and the Florida Citrus Commission. She fronted a campaign in the late 1970s called Save Our Children that advocated against rules prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, tanking her career in the process. While researching the history, Hodge spent significant time with Bryant in her Oklahoma home, and that element is recounted in the movie. Harris plays Hodge as he meets Bryant,...
- 5/16/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
TV Creator and showrunner Chad Hodge has signed an overall deal with Tomorrow Studios.
Hodge and his Storyland Inc. banner will create new series for the studio under the deal, along with supervising development and executive producing series with other writers.
Hodge is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the TNT series “Good Behavior” starring Michelle Dockery. He serves as executive producer alongside Tomorrow Studios’ CEO Marty Adelstein and Tomorrow Studios’ president Becky Clements.
“Chad combines being an amazing writer and the consummate showrunner with being a great person,” said Adelstein. “After working together on ‘Good Behavior,’ extending our relationship to an overall deal was essential as I couldn’t imagine him doing future projects with anyone else. He makes the very difficult task of running shows look easy and his taste in material is unsurpassed. We couldn’t be more excited about working with Chad.”
Prior to “Good Behavior,...
Hodge and his Storyland Inc. banner will create new series for the studio under the deal, along with supervising development and executive producing series with other writers.
Hodge is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the TNT series “Good Behavior” starring Michelle Dockery. He serves as executive producer alongside Tomorrow Studios’ CEO Marty Adelstein and Tomorrow Studios’ president Becky Clements.
“Chad combines being an amazing writer and the consummate showrunner with being a great person,” said Adelstein. “After working together on ‘Good Behavior,’ extending our relationship to an overall deal was essential as I couldn’t imagine him doing future projects with anyone else. He makes the very difficult task of running shows look easy and his taste in material is unsurpassed. We couldn’t be more excited about working with Chad.”
Prior to “Good Behavior,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Good Behavior creator and showrunner Chad Hodge has signed an overall deal with Tomorrow Studios, Marty Adelstein’s studio partnership with ITV Studios, which produces the TNT drama series starring Michelle Dockery. Under the pact, Hodge and will create new series for the studio via his Storyland banner, along with supervising development and executive producing series with other writers.
Hodge executive produces Good Behavior alongside Adelstein and Tomorrow Studios’ President Becky Clements. The series, for which Hodge received a WGA Award nomination for best episodic drama, wrapped its second season in December 2017. TNT has not yet made a decision on the show’s fate beyond that, though TNT and TBS president Kevin Reilly told Deadline in May that the network is trying “to properly bring it to a conclusion” with a final installment for the cult favorite. I hear there had been conversations with other platforms about possibly taking in...
Hodge executive produces Good Behavior alongside Adelstein and Tomorrow Studios’ President Becky Clements. The series, for which Hodge received a WGA Award nomination for best episodic drama, wrapped its second season in December 2017. TNT has not yet made a decision on the show’s fate beyond that, though TNT and TBS president Kevin Reilly told Deadline in May that the network is trying “to properly bring it to a conclusion” with a final installment for the cult favorite. I hear there had been conversations with other platforms about possibly taking in...
- 8/22/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, the teen hospital romance “Five Five Apart” gets a release date, Lawrence Kasdan will direct an Anita Bryant movie, and James Ivory joins an Italian film.
Release Date
CBS Films and Lionsgate have set a March 22 release for romance-drama “Five Feet Apart,” starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse.
The duo is portraying cystic fibrosis patients in the same hospital, where strict rules dictate that they must stay five feet apart at all times. As the connection intensifies, so does their willingness to defy the rules that govern every moment of their lives. Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, and Moises Arias also star.
Justin Baldoni is directing from a script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Producers are Cathy Schulman, whose credits include best picture winner “Crash” and “The Foreigner,” and Baldoni.
“Five Feet Apart” is the first title to...
Release Date
CBS Films and Lionsgate have set a March 22 release for romance-drama “Five Feet Apart,” starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse.
The duo is portraying cystic fibrosis patients in the same hospital, where strict rules dictate that they must stay five feet apart at all times. As the connection intensifies, so does their willingness to defy the rules that govern every moment of their lives. Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, and Moises Arias also star.
Justin Baldoni is directing from a script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Producers are Cathy Schulman, whose credits include best picture winner “Crash” and “The Foreigner,” and Baldoni.
“Five Feet Apart” is the first title to...
- 5/31/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Now that his work in a galaxy far, far away is done, Lawrence Kasdan has set his sights on a more Earthbound project, this one for Amazon Studios.
Kasdan will write and direct a movie based on the life of Anita Bryant — the beauty queen turned musician turned gay rights opponent — for the streamer.
Bryant started her career as the second runner-up in the Miss America beauty pageant and rose to fame with songs like "Paper Roses." She would go on to sing at Super Bowls and at the graveside of former President Lyndon B. Johnson,...
Kasdan will write and direct a movie based on the life of Anita Bryant — the beauty queen turned musician turned gay rights opponent — for the streamer.
Bryant started her career as the second runner-up in the Miss America beauty pageant and rose to fame with songs like "Paper Roses." She would go on to sing at Super Bowls and at the graveside of former President Lyndon B. Johnson,...
- 5/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Now that his work in a galaxy far, far away is done, Lawrence Kasdan has set his sights on a more Earthbound project, this one for Amazon Studios.
Kasdan will write and direct a movie based on the life of Anita Bryant — the beauty queen turned musician turned gay rights opponent — for the streamer.
Bryant started her career as the second runner-up in the Miss America beauty pageant and rose to fame with songs like "Paper Roses." She would go on to sing at Super Bowls and at the graveside of former President Lyndon B. Johnson,...
Kasdan will write and direct a movie based on the life of Anita Bryant — the beauty queen turned musician turned gay rights opponent — for the streamer.
Bryant started her career as the second runner-up in the Miss America beauty pageant and rose to fame with songs like "Paper Roses." She would go on to sing at Super Bowls and at the graveside of former President Lyndon B. Johnson,...
- 5/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mubi is continuing its partnership with Dok Leipzig to showcase highlights from their tribute Visual Electrics. The Cinema of Jay Rosenblatt in this year’s 60th festival edition. Mubi's retrospective is showing November 3, 2017 - March 4, 2018 in most countries around the world.It is a common and justified rhetorical device to begin an article on the retrospective of a filmmaker with an impression, a little observation or the description of a scene. However, being confronted with the work of San Francisco-based found footage worker Jay Rosenblatt the idea of a single, autonomous moment vanishes behind multicolored layers of streaming emotions. Just a few days after the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film I find it enormously hard to remember a single scene. As the filmmaker said himself during one of the Q&A sessions in Leipzig, “They [the films] all kind of blend together.” Well, they do and in this one might find the personal,...
- 11/17/2017
- MUBI
Kevin Spacey’s sexuality has long been “an open secret” in Hollywood — a phrase that took on elevated meaning in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Now, the reverberations of that news story have led to another one with Spacey at its center. With the allegations that Spacey sexually assaulted “Star Trek” actor Anthony Rapp in the ’80s while he was underage, Spacey made the jarring decision to simultaneously apologize for his actions and come out. Needless to say, that decision came as quite a shock to many in the Lgbtq community, paired with a feeling of betrayal by a man who wasn’t doing much good for them in the first place.
While everyone has a right to come out in their own time, Spacey somehow found the worst possible time to do it, besmirching an entire community and threatening to drag the progress for Lgbtq identity in...
While everyone has a right to come out in their own time, Spacey somehow found the worst possible time to do it, besmirching an entire community and threatening to drag the progress for Lgbtq identity in...
- 10/30/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
While Miss America hasn’t bred any headline-stealing celebrities recently, beauty pageants were once a place where future stars got their start. Oprah was Miss Black Tennessee; Halle Berry was Miss Ohio. Vanessa Williams made it all the way to the top, nabbing the Miss America title in 1984.
With Miss America’s 88th annual pageant airing Sunday on ABC at 9 p.m. Et, EW took a look at the most famous Oscar winners and television icons who once won crowns and sashes:
Cloris Leachman
Leachman represented Chicago in 1946’s Miss America pageant and, though she didn’t win the ultimate crown,...
With Miss America’s 88th annual pageant airing Sunday on ABC at 9 p.m. Et, EW took a look at the most famous Oscar winners and television icons who once won crowns and sashes:
Cloris Leachman
Leachman represented Chicago in 1946’s Miss America pageant and, though she didn’t win the ultimate crown,...
- 9/14/2014
- by Ariana Bacle
- EW.com - PopWatch
Doctor Strange finds a director, Joel Osteen doesn’t want views on homosexuality to sidetrack his message, Aaron Schock can’t keep his shirt on
Pennsylvania Rep and all around hunk Brian Sims has no problem being known as the openly gay representative, because soon it won’t matter. “It doesn’t bother me that people label me as the ‘gay elected representative of Pennsylvania. In 50 years, it won’t be an issue anymore. Looking at the current trend in the American opinion, we’ll have a gay president in 10 years.” Perhaps you, Mr. Sims?
TVLine has some typically vague spoilers about the premiere of Teen Wolf. Read them and be confused, but also remember your grain of salt.
Florida Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has denied the petition of three anti-gay groups including the infamous Florida Family Association to intervene in the marriage equality case there. And her reasoning is golden,...
Pennsylvania Rep and all around hunk Brian Sims has no problem being known as the openly gay representative, because soon it won’t matter. “It doesn’t bother me that people label me as the ‘gay elected representative of Pennsylvania. In 50 years, it won’t be an issue anymore. Looking at the current trend in the American opinion, we’ll have a gay president in 10 years.” Perhaps you, Mr. Sims?
TVLine has some typically vague spoilers about the premiere of Teen Wolf. Read them and be confused, but also remember your grain of salt.
Florida Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has denied the petition of three anti-gay groups including the infamous Florida Family Association to intervene in the marriage equality case there. And her reasoning is golden,...
- 6/4/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
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Birthday shoutouts go to James Purefoy (above, with Kevin McKidd), who is 50, Arianne Zucker is 40, and the faboo Suzi Quatro is 64.
White Collar boss talks show’s final season — and Matt Bomer‘s role in the finale
Here’s a list of “outdated” gay terms. Sorry, but I’m still going to use “Coming Out.”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich‘s Stonewall, which will also include, I’m happy to say, Ron Perlman.
Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey is back to talk about gay men and body image. This one isn’t nearly as snarkable as his previous self-help vids.
The Drama Desk Awards were handed out last night, and Neil Patrick Harris was a winner, along with such favorites as Bryan Cranston, Audra McDonald and Celia Keenan-Bolger
Adore Delano is in for a shock in “I Adore You.”
Ryan Lewis is adorable. But not many...
Birthday shoutouts go to James Purefoy (above, with Kevin McKidd), who is 50, Arianne Zucker is 40, and the faboo Suzi Quatro is 64.
White Collar boss talks show’s final season — and Matt Bomer‘s role in the finale
Here’s a list of “outdated” gay terms. Sorry, but I’m still going to use “Coming Out.”
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich‘s Stonewall, which will also include, I’m happy to say, Ron Perlman.
Psychotherapist Matthew Dempsey is back to talk about gay men and body image. This one isn’t nearly as snarkable as his previous self-help vids.
The Drama Desk Awards were handed out last night, and Neil Patrick Harris was a winner, along with such favorites as Bryan Cranston, Audra McDonald and Celia Keenan-Bolger
Adore Delano is in for a shock in “I Adore You.”
Ryan Lewis is adorable. But not many...
- 6/3/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
In the runup to the premiere of The Normal Heart on HBO, Ryan Murphy has released The Fight Continues, a short film about how homosexuality was treated in the years prior to the time of The Normal Heart. A time when gay people we’re arrested, pilloried on the news, in medical journals, called sick and labeled security risks.
And yet with Stonewall we began an uprising that has lead us to the marriage equality victories of today. We marched, we hit Anita Bryant in the face with a pie, and we died. We died in huge numbers as the “gay cancer” overtook our newly empowered community. But we remained steadfast, and we demanded answers from politicians who wouldn’t even look us in the eye.
We survived. We thrived.
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And yet with Stonewall we began an uprising that has lead us to the marriage equality victories of today. We marched, we hit Anita Bryant in the face with a pie, and we died. We died in huge numbers as the “gay cancer” overtook our newly empowered community. But we remained steadfast, and we demanded answers from politicians who wouldn’t even look us in the eye.
We survived. We thrived.
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- 5/21/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
From beauty queen Anita Bryant to the AIDS crisis to finally passing Lgbt rights ordinance 21 years later, the gay rights movement in Miami-Dade has been a colorful battle. The Day It Snowed In Miami documents the struggle for equality in what is generally viewed as a gay friendly destination, but has a history of being anything but.
The film had the formal premiere in Miami Beach last week, and will air on PBS later this year.
Check out the trailer below…
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The film had the formal premiere in Miami Beach last week, and will air on PBS later this year.
Check out the trailer below…
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- 3/14/2014
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Survivor: Blood and Water did that thing I hate the most on Wednesday: It forced another hot person to haul his stuff into the darkness, but not in a sexy Herb Ritts way. We’re down another stud, and that leaves us with one impenetrable question: Is Tyson simply the undisputed dictator of this operation? Think about that important essay question as I explore five other salient thoughts I had during the episode.
1. Remember that time Tyson quoted Harvey Milk?
I find myself wanting to hate Tyson because his overconfidence is mostly unwarranted, but the bony bastard really gives fantastic quote (like last week’s “I hid the immunity idol in my crotch where no one would suspect a bulge” brilliance; Dangerfield levels of self-deprecation occurring there). This week is no exception. Following last week’s tribal council where Hayden used spare witchcraft from Big Brother to trick Katie...
1. Remember that time Tyson quoted Harvey Milk?
I find myself wanting to hate Tyson because his overconfidence is mostly unwarranted, but the bony bastard really gives fantastic quote (like last week’s “I hid the immunity idol in my crotch where no one would suspect a bulge” brilliance; Dangerfield levels of self-deprecation occurring there). This week is no exception. Following last week’s tribal council where Hayden used spare witchcraft from Big Brother to trick Katie...
- 12/12/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
After helming documentaries like "The Celluloid Closet" and the Academy Award-winning "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk," the directing duo, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, have already earned their rightful place among some of the best filmmakers and documentarians in film history.
In recent years Friedman and Epstein have branched out to directing feature films such as "Howl," with James Franco, and now "Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried.
"Lovelace" tells the story of Linda Lovelace, a woman who unexpectedly becomes a worldwide celebrity for starring in the highest-grossing pornography film of all time, "Deep Throat."
While Friedman and Epstein are known for work that concentrates on gay subject matter, "Lovelace" is about the straight porn world and what Lovelace does to escape the spotlight that is thrust upon her.
The Huffington Post recently spoke with Friedman and Epstein about making the film, why they chose Lovelace's story and some of their upcoming projects,...
In recent years Friedman and Epstein have branched out to directing feature films such as "Howl," with James Franco, and now "Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried.
"Lovelace" tells the story of Linda Lovelace, a woman who unexpectedly becomes a worldwide celebrity for starring in the highest-grossing pornography film of all time, "Deep Throat."
While Friedman and Epstein are known for work that concentrates on gay subject matter, "Lovelace" is about the straight porn world and what Lovelace does to escape the spotlight that is thrust upon her.
The Huffington Post recently spoke with Friedman and Epstein about making the film, why they chose Lovelace's story and some of their upcoming projects,...
- 8/9/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Celebrating the end of another exciting exhibition of the hottest upcoming flicks, Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman attended the Closing Ceremony of the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday (May 26).
The "Kill Bill" star chose a strapless shiny long, flowing gown as she smiled on the red carpet, while the Cannes jury member showed off a white strapless form-fitting frock with cute curly hair held up off her neck.
Recently, the 43-year-old American actress nabbed an exciting new role. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will direct a film about anti-gay activist Anita Bryant.
In the film, the former celebrity singer allows a gay screenwriter into her home and is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida while destroying her show biz career in the process.
The "Kill Bill" star chose a strapless shiny long, flowing gown as she smiled on the red carpet, while the Cannes jury member showed off a white strapless form-fitting frock with cute curly hair held up off her neck.
Recently, the 43-year-old American actress nabbed an exciting new role. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will direct a film about anti-gay activist Anita Bryant.
In the film, the former celebrity singer allows a gay screenwriter into her home and is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida while destroying her show biz career in the process.
- 5/26/2013
- GossipCenter
• Emily Blunt (Looper) is reportedly in talks to join the ever-growing ensemble cast of Disney’s Into the Woods to play the role of the Baker’s (James Corden) wife. The main cast also currently includes Meryl Streep (The Witch) and Johnny Depp (The Wolf). Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are both in talks for two prince roles. Blunt recently appeared with Colin Firth in Arthur Newman and can be seen next with Tom Cruise in Doug Liman’s All You Need Is Kill (out June 4). [Variety]
• Blunt’s Looper co-star Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play a hitman racing...
• Blunt’s Looper co-star Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play a hitman racing...
- 5/18/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Anita: Uma Thurman will take on the challenge of playing Anita Bryant, a beauty pageant winner turned pop singer turned spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission turned outspoken critic of gay rights. The movie, titled Anita, will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the team who recently made a biopic about the controversial adult film star Linda Lovelance. [The Hollywood Reporter] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II - The Green Destiny: Michelle Yeoh is set to return in the sequel to Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning martial arts picture. Based on Silver Vase, Iron Knight, another book in a series by Crouching Tiger author Wang Dulu, the movie will also star Donnie Yen; the legendary Yuen Woo Ping (fight choreographer for The Matrix) will direct. Production is...
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- 5/17/2013
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Anita: Uma Thurman will take on the challenge of playing Anita Bryant, a beauty pageant winner turned pop singer turned spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission turned outspoken critic of gay rights. The movie, titled Anita, will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the team who recently made a bio-pic about the controversial adult film star Linda Lovelance. [The Hollywood Reporter] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II - The Green Destiny: Michelle Yeoh is set to return in the sequel to Ang Lee's Academy Award-winning martial arts picture. Based on Silver Vase, Iron Knight, another book in a series by Crouching Tiger author Wang Dulu, the movie will also star Donnie Yen; the legendary Yuen Woo Ping (fight choreographer for The Matrix) will direct. Production is...
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- 5/17/2013
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
It.s often said that there are no good parts for actresses as they age. But 43-year-old Uma Thurman is blowing holes through that theory, picking up a pair of provocative projects in the past few months. She.ll appear as part of the ensemble in Lars von Trier.s sure-to-be scandalous Nymphomaniac. And after that, Thurman will take a stab at controversial activist Anita Bryant for a planned biopic. Deadline reports that Thurman.s film, Anita, is being shopped around the Cannes Film Festival as we speak. Bryant was a one-time singer and a Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner who made headlines later in her life by adhering to her strong, anti-homosexual Christian beliefs and fighting in public to repeal an act in Florida that prevented discrimination against sexuality when hiring for open jobs. She succeeded in repealing the act, though it damaged her career and social life. You...
- 5/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Flicks and Bits cool fan-made posters for X-Men Days of Future Past
Playbill is Jewel up for the part of Cinderella in Into the Woods? I am always rooting for thirtysomething and forthy something ladies on up (as everyone knows) but isn't she at least 15 years too old for this part?
Cinema Blend Emily Blunt will play the very plum role of the Bakers Wife -- does anyone know if she can sing?
Le Noir Auteur on Angelina Jolie's recent op-ed
Tom & Lorenzo Julianne Moore's photospread in Madame Figaro
Variety well this is unexpected... Uma Thurman to play Anita Bryant in a biopic about the famous orange-juice peddling homophobe
Allure Zoe Saldana naked for Allure. And also revealing her weight for some reason
THR the assembled cast of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac photographed... It's almost like a less cozy messier Vanity Fair cover
In Contention The Bling Ring reviewed from Cannes
Broadway.
Playbill is Jewel up for the part of Cinderella in Into the Woods? I am always rooting for thirtysomething and forthy something ladies on up (as everyone knows) but isn't she at least 15 years too old for this part?
Cinema Blend Emily Blunt will play the very plum role of the Bakers Wife -- does anyone know if she can sing?
Le Noir Auteur on Angelina Jolie's recent op-ed
Tom & Lorenzo Julianne Moore's photospread in Madame Figaro
Variety well this is unexpected... Uma Thurman to play Anita Bryant in a biopic about the famous orange-juice peddling homophobe
Allure Zoe Saldana naked for Allure. And also revealing her weight for some reason
THR the assembled cast of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac photographed... It's almost like a less cozy messier Vanity Fair cover
In Contention The Bling Ring reviewed from Cannes
Broadway.
- 5/16/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Uma Thurman is back! This time as an anti-gay activist in the upcoming biopic Anita, which comes from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Sounds familiar? Sure it does, Thurman jumps in to play a former celebrity singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant in the whole thing. That should be interesting… So, at this moment we know that Epstein and Friedman will direct the biopic from a script written by Chad Hodge, which will reportedly revolve around: …a former celebrity singer and orange juice spokeswoman, who, when she allows a gay screenwriter into her home, is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay...
- 5/16/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
No, your proverbial chain ain’t being yanked. You indeed heard correctly. Flying straight out of Cannes comes this latest spot of casting news. From the man behind the gushy flimflam that is Sex And The City, comes a film…of an entirely different ouvre. Based on a true story, Anita tells the tale of real life anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, and now has hot tamale Uma Thurman confirmed to star.
The devout Christian singer spent most of her life peddling anti-gay bigotry to all and sundry. Quite the driven and determined woman, Bryant successfully campaigned to repeal a gay rights bill in Florida. She had a ton of Top 40 hits, no doubt crammed full of backwards rhetoric whittling on about the demonic proclivities of gays. Needless to say, her staunch homophobia cost her the career she worked her whole life to attain. Aw…boo hoo. This also caused her...
The devout Christian singer spent most of her life peddling anti-gay bigotry to all and sundry. Quite the driven and determined woman, Bryant successfully campaigned to repeal a gay rights bill in Florida. She had a ton of Top 40 hits, no doubt crammed full of backwards rhetoric whittling on about the demonic proclivities of gays. Needless to say, her staunch homophobia cost her the career she worked her whole life to attain. Aw…boo hoo. This also caused her...
- 5/16/2013
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Tags: Amber HeardAutobahnmarriage equalityGrey's AnatomySara RamirezJessica CapshawDrinking BuddiesAnna KendrickOlivia WildeIMDbUma Thurman
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Megan Fox, Melanie Lynskey, Tori Spelling, Tracey Gold, Janet Jackson, Debra Winger and out actress Michelle Wolff!
Actress Megan Fox at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Last night, Grey’s Anatomy star Jessica Capshaw tweeted a double entendre. Or maybe it was just a single entendre.
Goodnight, y'all... #thestormiscoming#thestormisalmosthere
— Jessica Capshaw (@JessicaCapshaw) May 16, 2013
Capshaw's counterpart, Sara Ramirez, did some finale teasing of her own:
Are you ready for tonight’s Ga finale?
The CW is still plowing ahead with their Wonder Woman prequel Amazon. The network has hired writer Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) to redevelop the script. CW president Mark Pedowitz confirmed, “We're waiting for the script to come in; we haven't seen it yet. We are preparing to pilot it off-cycle should the script...
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Megan Fox, Melanie Lynskey, Tori Spelling, Tracey Gold, Janet Jackson, Debra Winger and out actress Michelle Wolff!
Actress Megan Fox at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Last night, Grey’s Anatomy star Jessica Capshaw tweeted a double entendre. Or maybe it was just a single entendre.
Goodnight, y'all... #thestormiscoming#thestormisalmosthere
— Jessica Capshaw (@JessicaCapshaw) May 16, 2013
Capshaw's counterpart, Sara Ramirez, did some finale teasing of her own:
Are you ready for tonight’s Ga finale?
The CW is still plowing ahead with their Wonder Woman prequel Amazon. The network has hired writer Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) to redevelop the script. CW president Mark Pedowitz confirmed, “We're waiting for the script to come in; we haven't seen it yet. We are preparing to pilot it off-cycle should the script...
- 5/16/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
Uma, Anita; Anita, Uma. As reported by THR and other trade outlets, Uma Thurman has been cast as outspoken anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in the upcoming film "Anita."
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the duo behind the biopics "Howl" (about Allen Ginsberg) and "Lovelace" (about porn star Linda Lovelace), will direct the film from a script by Chad Hodge. "Anita" has been in development since 2010, when it was an HBO movie that Darren Star ("Sex and the City") was set to direct.
"I pitched it to HBO in early 2010 and then spent the first six months of the year doing nothing but research," Hodge told The Back Lot back in 2011. "The research culminated with meeting Anita for three days in Oklahoma." According to that 2011 interview with Hodge, his script will focus on Bryant's notorious 1977 anti-gay campaign and whether Bryant still feels the same way. In addition to being a political activist,...
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the duo behind the biopics "Howl" (about Allen Ginsberg) and "Lovelace" (about porn star Linda Lovelace), will direct the film from a script by Chad Hodge. "Anita" has been in development since 2010, when it was an HBO movie that Darren Star ("Sex and the City") was set to direct.
"I pitched it to HBO in early 2010 and then spent the first six months of the year doing nothing but research," Hodge told The Back Lot back in 2011. "The research culminated with meeting Anita for three days in Oklahoma." According to that 2011 interview with Hodge, his script will focus on Bryant's notorious 1977 anti-gay campaign and whether Bryant still feels the same way. In addition to being a political activist,...
- 5/16/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
Uma Thurman is set to play anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in the biopic "Anita".
The story follows the singer and orange juice spokeswoman who, after allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader.
Bryant successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and destroyed her show biz career in the process.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ("The Times of Harvey Milk") helm from a screenplay by Chad Hodge ("The Playboy Club"). "Sex And the City" creator Darren Star, Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman will produce.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows the singer and orange juice spokeswoman who, after allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader.
Bryant successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and destroyed her show biz career in the process.
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ("The Times of Harvey Milk") helm from a screenplay by Chad Hodge ("The Playboy Club"). "Sex And the City" creator Darren Star, Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman will produce.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/16/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Uma Thurman is set to star as anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in Anita, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman from a screenplay by Chad Hodge. The film follows Bryant, a former celebrity singer and orange juice spokeswoman, who, when she allows a gay screenwriter into her home, is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and destroyed her show biz career in the process. UTA Independent Film Group and Wme are co-representing domestic rights, and are shopping the project to financiers in
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- 5/16/2013
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Breaking: Uma Thurman will star as controversial Anita Bryant in Anita, produced by Sex And the City creator Darren Star, Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will direct from a screenplay by Chad Hodge. Those filmmakers, who most recently helmed Lovelace, won Oscars for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt and The Times Of Harvey Milk. The film will be shopped here at Cannes. It follows the singer and orange juice spokeswoman who, after allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, confronts her past and her politics which included successfully campaigning to overturn a gay rights law in Florida. Thurman next stars in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, and the next film by the directors is The Battle Of AmFAR, which HBO broadcasts in December. UTA Independent and Wme are co-repping domestic.
- 5/16/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Director Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Anita has cast Uma Thurman of Lars von Trier's upcoming Nymphomaniac where she'll star as the anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, reports Deadline. Sex And the City creator Darren Star, Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman produce the film which follows the singer who, after she allows a gay scribe into her house, confronts her past as an anti-gay crusader campaigning to overturn a gay rights law in Florida, and crashing her career in doing so.
- 5/16/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Hope you're still enjoying the bundle of joy that is Logo's Wednesday night Bewitched block. Obviously Elizabeth Montgomery and Agnes Moorehead are treasures, but never overlook the deeply funny, unendingly wicked, quite obviously gay Paul Lynde. He never publicly came out, but the fact is, his penchant for racy punchlines and hammy crudity was relatable specifically to gay viewers the world over. He is irreplaceable. Here are ten elite-level facts that all great Paul Lynde fans should cherish.
1. We love him in Bye, Bye Birdie, but don't forget his even funnier cameo in Son of Flubber.
In just a few short lines, he establishes that he's funnier than Fred MacMurray ever was.
2. He graduated as part of one of Northwestern's most esteemed drama classes with Cloris Leachman and Patricia Neal
Lynde, a vaunted stage actor at Northwestern, graduated in 1944 along with his peers Patricia Neal (the Oscar-winner for Hud), Charlotte Rae...
1. We love him in Bye, Bye Birdie, but don't forget his even funnier cameo in Son of Flubber.
In just a few short lines, he establishes that he's funnier than Fred MacMurray ever was.
2. He graduated as part of one of Northwestern's most esteemed drama classes with Cloris Leachman and Patricia Neal
Lynde, a vaunted stage actor at Northwestern, graduated in 1944 along with his peers Patricia Neal (the Oscar-winner for Hud), Charlotte Rae...
- 11/15/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
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