![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The positive imaged gay family value rom/com/musical is based on an autobiography of Harvey Fierstein. It’s set in the 1970s, before the AIDS epidemic. Tony Award-winning actor and playwright in 1983 Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the insufferable gay Jewish drag queen Arnold Beckoff, It’s a solid film adaptation of the smash Broadway play. “ A pleasant and sincere straightforward gay love story that is captivating and tender even if soppy in spots. (director: Paul Bogart screenwriter: Harvey Fierstein/from the play by Harvey Fierstein cinematographer: Mikael Saloman editor: Nicholas Smith music: Peter Matz cast: Harvey Fierstein (Arnold Beckoff), Anne Bancroft (Ma), Matthew Broderick (Alan Simon), Charles Pierce (Bertha Venation), Brian Kerwin (Ed Reese), Lorry Goldman (Phil Beckoff), Edgar Small (Jacob Beckoff), Ken Page (Murray), Karen Young (Laurel ), Axel Vera (Marina Del Rey), Eddie Castrodad (David) Runtime: 117 MPAA Rating: R producer: Howard Gottfried New Line Cinema 1988) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, she moved to London and began writing full-time. Career Īfter graduating from law school in 1997, she moved to Manhattan and worked in the litigation department of Winston & Strawn. She then attended law school at the University of Virginia. Giffin earned her undergraduate degree at Wake Forest University, where she double-majored in history and English and also served as manager of the basketball team. She attended Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), where she was a member of a creative writing club and served as editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. Early life Įmily Giffin was born on March 20, 1972. Her notable works include Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only. University of Virginia School of Law ( J.D.)Įmily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. ![]() ![]() ![]() This situation advances with each film, showing the world in a worsening state, but each film is independent of its predecessor. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another and their only continuation is the theme of the epidemic of the living dead. Labeled " Trilogy of the Dead" until Land of the Dead, each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. ![]() Romero went on to direct five additional Dead films, while Russo branched into literary territory, writing Return of the Living Dead, which was later loosely adapted into a film of the same name and would have its own franchise, and Escape of the Living Dead. This would be the first film in the series not directed by George Romero, who died on July 16, 2017.Īfter Night of the Living Dead 's initial success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should head, and since the film was in the public domain, each were able to do what they liked with the continuity of their projects. ![]() The latest installment of the series, Survival of the Dead, was released in 2009, with a sequel, Twilight of the Dead, in development. The franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. Romero beginning with the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, directed by Romero and cowritten with John A. ![]() Night of the Living Dead is a zombie horror media franchise created by George A. ![]() ![]() But this was a modern gay experience, and I was hesitant to read something so much closer to home. I had seen the title, probably from Googling ‘gay novels’ on lonesome adolescent evenings. I was 17 when a friend suggested I read Holding the Man, written in 1995 by Timothy Conigrave. Like me, these men struggled to reconcile their public heterosexual image with that of their private lustful desires. Of their many meanings and stories, I could only really appreciate their portrayal of closeted gay men. While these books reflected my own angst-ridden, introspective teen years, they only seemed to offer antiquated portraits of homosexuality, as their social and political landscape had long since passed. ![]() ![]() These might include Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) or James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). ![]() There are many books we queers hold sacred.įor many of us they are mementos of our troubled and tormented adolescence. ![]() ![]() Coe (Author of Cracking the Maya Code): People threw their hands up and said, “Nobody is ever going to crack this script. What secrets did they hold? Were they pictures and symbols or in fact true writings expressing an ancient language? For centuries the hieroglyphs confounded explorers. They were carved on monuments and objects, painted on pottery, and written in bark paper books. Their cities were full of strange inscriptions, fantastic twisting forms called hieroglyphs. They revealed a civilization of stunning achievements created in isolation from Europe and Asia. In the jungles of southern Mexico in Central America, the ancient ruins of the Maya posed such a mystery. But if they could would they comprehend who we were? All that is left to speak for us are the written words we have carved in stone. The travelers cannot make sense of our mysterious script. ![]() Our books have perished in some unknown catastrophe. ![]() Narrator: Imagine explorers arriving to find our cities deserted. ![]() Here is Cracking the Mayan Code transcribed. ![]() ![]() I suppose I thought hobos and all that had gone out with the Depression back in the 1930s. ![]() I liked the sound of it because I had yet to read a book about a railroad detective. Blood on the Tracks is the first of the three I've read. ![]() Since I'd read four of the books and liked and/or loved them, I thought I'd get my hands on the other three. I recently came across a list of seven mysteries featuring working dogs. ![]() We always have, and we have always given them too little in return. If there's one thing this hard-hitting, compelling mystery brought home to me once more, it's the fact that we ask too much of our two- and four-legged soldiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the final twist comes as a bit of a shock. The reader is given an inkling to the fact that something is not quite right. However, we know something is not quite right when Brian who was so excited about the baby has been out of the country for so long and Diane seems to find it so difficult to get hold of him. Diane is now the most devoted mother possible. ![]() The timing isn’t right she has just been promoted, Brian’s job involves traveling but he is determined to make it work despite Diane’s reservations.ĭiane goes into labour when Brian is out of the country and gives birth to little Grace. However, she gets pregnant and Brian is over the moon. Her family’s past had made her and her sister decide against having kids of their own. Even more so for her, when we learn that Diane was always apprehensive about having children. We first meet Diane as a new mother fretting about leaving her baby with the nanny for the first time.Īs with most new mums, it is a harrowing time for her. Diane and Brian are a very much in love couple. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The special court set up in Salem allowed the use of "spectral evidence": testimony from victims of a vision that they had of the person who was tormenting them. But when England revoked Massachusetts's charter in 1685, it threw the judicial system into disarray. In previous witch trials, judges had imposed high standards of proof which resulted in a majority of the accused being acquitted. What was unique about the Salem witch trials was the number of people who were accused and convicted. During the seventeenth century, some 32 people were executed for witchcraft in the American colonies. In the half century before the Salem trials, more than 80 people were put on trial for witchcraft in Massachusetts and Connecticut alone. Constitution, a Philadelphia mob killed an accused witch. As late as 1787, outside of Independence Hall where the framers were drafting the U.S. In continental Europe, where witch hunts were much more common than in America, thousands of people were executed, often isolated and impoverished older women who were regarded as a drain on community resources. ![]() Most people in the early modern world believed in the existence of witches who gained supernatural power by signing a pact with Satan. The Salem witch trials were not a unique event. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. ![]() Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.īut some things never change. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.įour hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he’s always been a rule taker, and women are one area he acts a fool. ![]() Coming home goes against everything he should do. Nathan Ryder isn’t the same man who hightailed his bike out of Green Valley eighteen years ago. But when her past stands before her looking sexier than ever with silver scruff and a smirky dimple, she’s giving her inner goddess a second listen. She believes everything happens for a reason, and the universe spoke about him. Naomi Winters will be forty-soon-ish-and she’s only been with one man. ![]() When a silver fox biker encounters a quirky, small-town librarian, these opposites might have more in common than one suspects and a long overdue second chance at love. Now is your chance to experience this small town second-chance standalone set in the Penny Reid Universe! Dunbar, Author, is ZERO PENNIES for just a short while. LOVE IN DUE TIME, book #1 in the Green Valley Library series from L.B. ![]() |