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Deep Inside Hollywood First you need Hulu. Then you need to catch up on Shrill, the wonderfully hilarious sitcom based on essayist Lindy West’s book of the same name. The first season is six addictive episodes about a woman (the captivating and perfectly cast Aidy Bryant from SNL) who writes for an alternative weekly newspaper, and who navigates misogyny, fat-phobia, sneering col-leagues, editors who don’t believe in her talent, and cruel Twitter trolls, battling all of it with her wits. John Cameron Mitch-ell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) co-stars as Bryant’s smug, gay and impossibly difficult boss, and transgender comic Patti Harrison steals every scene she’s in with an absurdist presence that has to be experienced rather than explained. Now that we’ve sold you on it, here comes a second season dropping at the end of January. Plan your life around a weekend afternoon binge-watch and thank us later. An American Pickle is a real movie that’s happening It’s the story of Rip Van Winkle, but also An American Tail, with twin effects in the manner of The Parent Trap/Dead Ringers, and some queer casting thrown in for good measure. It’s An American Pickle and it stars Seth Rogen as an immigrant named Herschel Greenbaum, struggling along in the year 1918. Then he falls into a vat of pickles and gets brined for 100 years. When removed he is perfectly preserved, hasn’t aged a bit, and finds that he has a great grandson (also played by Rogen) who helps him figure out 2019 Brooklyn. In other words, more absurdity from Rogen, his producing partner Evan Goldberg, and writer Simon Rich. As for that queer casting, we get the film debut of YouTube star and Ellen regular Kalen Allen, as well as Broad City’s beleaguered brother Eliot Glazer. It’s all been in development for a while but the film is meant to finally hit screens sometime in 2020. Cue the hit ’80s James Ingram/ Linda Ronstadt song “Somewhere Out There.”
entire cast of pansexual contestants, it struck a chord with young queer American viewers. Someone at the network clearly took notice, and now the network’s “classic” dating show, Singled Out – you remember, it ran for a few years in the ’90s with Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy – is back on the schedule with the same premise, making people pick lov-ers from a group of strangers. This time around they’ll be hooking up all genders and sexual orientations, with contestants linked to their dating pool via social media, and this will play out across a new season of 20 short-form episodes. Keke Palmer (Hustlers) and queer stand-up comic Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside) will shepherd the players, and the epi-sodes will be hosted on the new streaming platform Quibi. We’re excited about this because it’ll be an antidote to the awkward, boring, heterosexual world of The Bachelor/Bachelorette. More queers making out with queers on TV, please. Romeo San Vicente is still waiting for another season of that bizarre gay bachelor show Finding Prince Charming.
Diane Lane turns Mama Grizzly in Let Him Go He’s not really a household name, but you’ve probably seen at least a couple of gay filmmaker Thomas Bezucha’s movies. He’s the man responsible for the beloved Christmas family comedy-drama The Family Stone, as well as Big Eden a charmingly sweet gay indie fairy tale of small-town life. Now he has a thriller on the way called Let Him Go. It stars Kevin Cost-ner as a retired sheriff and Diane Lane as his wife, who have lost their adult son. When it turns out that their grandson is in the hands of a dangerous off-the-grid family in the Dakotas, they leave their Montana ranch to rescue the boy and do a little ass-kicking. We’re big fans of renegade parents who go full Rambo when their children are kidnapped – think Halle Berry in that one with all the minivan chases – so we can say with absolute assurance that we’re ready to enjoy Diane Lane get wild with some bad guys and teach them a few lessons about rage-momming. Singled Out comes back queer When MTV aired its latest season of Are You The One? and expanded the dating game show’s parameters to include an
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BOOK REVIEW Dust to dust. That’s supposedly what we all become again when we exit, stage left: we are made of dust, and we’ll just be a pile of it when we die. But is that all, or can we hope to live on as a line in a page somewhere? As in the new book “Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving” by Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg will someone remember? Nothing lasts forever. If you’re old enough to read that, you’re old enough to know its truth: everything and everybody ends eventually, and some leave without fanfare. We might not even see them go because, as Mo Rocca muses, “not everyone has gotten the sendoff they were due...” That set-thingsright need for closure launched Rocca’s “Mobituary,” which is “an appreciation for someone [or some thing] who didn’t get the love she or he deserved the first time around.” > “Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving” by Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg c.2019, Simon & Schuster
Take, for instance, “the long s,” which looks something like a small F and which can be found in the Declaration of Independence. It ceased to be used in late 1803, and is gone but not forgotten. Women don’t wear hobble skirts anymore, and men don’t wear codpieces; doctors don’t believe phrenology helps to diagnose your obsession with cats; encyclopedias won’t help a young author-to-be who thinks he’s gay; and you can no longer visit Prussia because it hasn’t existed since early 1947. But things don’t just disappear. People do, too.
work. Few people know who Moses Fleetwood Walker is; and even in today’s political climate, Billy Carter’s name is rarely mentioned. Reputations can die ignominously, TV shows get canceled, and careers fade away (or sometimes end with a President’s life). Complacency can die, as can grace. But sometimes, just when we think life is filled with nothing but death, demise, and unpleasantry, it can return on the tops of champagne bubbles… The first thing – perhaps even the only thing – you need to know is that “Mobituaries” is absolutely delightful. Promise yourself two minutes with this book, and you’ll close its covers a half-hour later. Dip in for a little nostalgia (when did station wagons depart, anyhow?). Step back in time to witness the acts of people who made big impacts but are now largely forgotten. See how celebrities can eclipse other celebs, even in death. Like with a bag of potato chips, watch yourself reach into this book for another handful because authors Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg don’t wade in too deeply; instead, they give readers just enough to whet appetites but not so much that we get full. And as with any feast, literary or otherwise, you can nibble without thinking you must have a helping of everything. Rattle around and you’ll find that “Mobituaries” is gently humorous, kindly inclusive, and plain fun to read. Have it nearby and you’ll know that this book won’t collect dust.
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