Based on a true story, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” follows the exploits of Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a Jewish lesbian writer who bolsters her failing writing career by forging and selling rare literary letters with the help of a foppish drifter named Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant). Incidentally, but not insignificantly, it’s also the story of a friendship between an acerbic lesbian and a witty gay man — a unique synergy and the unsung bedrock of the queer community that is rarely, if ever, portrayed onscreen, and certainly not with this authenticity.
It’s the kind of non-sexual relationship between a man and a woman Hollywood just doesn’t do, and it wouldn’t have happened if “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” was pure fiction. The people these characters are based on were queer in real life, so no executive could (or was less likely to) say, “Why do...
It’s the kind of non-sexual relationship between a man and a woman Hollywood just doesn’t do, and it wouldn’t have happened if “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” was pure fiction. The people these characters are based on were queer in real life, so no executive could (or was less likely to) say, “Why do...
- 11/16/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Fans of the UK show “Great British Bake Off” were left outraged on Tuesday as judge Prue Leith accidentally tweeted who the winner was hours before the final aired. Leith, 77, took to her profile to tweet the name of the contestant who won, before she quickly realised her mistake and deleted it. Steven Carter-Bailey, […]...
- 10/31/2017
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
A young drifter couple pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to the first-degree murders of a Canadian backpacker and a tantric yoga teacher in California, People confirms.
Morrison “Haze” Lampley, the 24-year-old triggerman, admitted to fatally shooting 23-year-old Audrey Carey in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in October 2015 and then, two days later, killing Steven Carter, 67.
Lampley will be sentenced to 100 years to life. Lampley’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Lila Alligood, will receive a 50-year sentence. (Authorities say she did not fire the gun.)
“This plea agreement puts finality in the tragic losses that were endured,” the Marin County District Attorney’s...
Morrison “Haze” Lampley, the 24-year-old triggerman, admitted to fatally shooting 23-year-old Audrey Carey in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in October 2015 and then, two days later, killing Steven Carter, 67.
Lampley will be sentenced to 100 years to life. Lampley’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Lila Alligood, will receive a 50-year sentence. (Authorities say she did not fire the gun.)
“This plea agreement puts finality in the tragic losses that were endured,” the Marin County District Attorney’s...
- 2/8/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
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