I wonder if Halston, the upcoming Netflix limited series starring Ewan McGregor about the late It American fashion designer of the ’70s, will succeed with me where Halston, the 2019 documentary about Roy Halston, did not. The doc, which I attempted to watch early days of the pandemic, was too heavy, too familiar. Perhaps, a […]
Tag: Ryan Murphy
It’s the Little Bit of Magic in It…
I guess. Oh, proms. What is a prom, anyway? What is a prom in this culture or that culture or in that one. I know that for me, looking back on it, the concept was muddled; no one meaningfully explained it or gave a proper raison d’être for the event. I feel like the French […]
Streaming Queens
Leave it to Ryan Murphy to make this happen (and to make it happen right). Because the times have changed, hunty. Yes, they have. A not a moment too soon. More than 50 years after the late Mart Crowley’s 1968 Off-Broadway play, The Boys In the Band, became an unexpected smash hit for unapologetically putting […]
She Was That
Before One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, there was Ratched. Mildred Ratched. What, did you think Nurse was her name? From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Netflix’s upcoming Ratched is a suspenseful drama that doubles as the origin story of the notorious asylum nurse known as Nurse Ratched, a character first embodied at the movies […]
Everybody Comes to…
Y’ know: They wanna make it in the neighborhood. Coming soon to Netflix, just in time for summer, is Hollywood, the new “Ryan Murphy” show (his longtime collaborators, Ian Brennan and Alexis Martin Woodall, are also involved, as is Janet Mock from FX’s Pose). Described as a love letter to a day gone by, Hollywood […]