ABC TV have just released the first look of what will probably be the most important LGBT TV series of 2017. ‘When We Rise’ tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with Stonewall in 1969 and chronicling the personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and … Continue reading
Preferring not to read the original books that are adapted to into movies or TV shows we went into the BBC/Netflix treatment of Vikram Seth’s bestseller A Suitable Boy totally cold. We knew that the story, that award-winning Welsh writer Andrew Davies developed into a six part series ,was about an Indian mother trying … Continue reading
It would be A Very English Scandal if Hugh Grant used to be the ex-lover of every one’s favorite openly gay actor Ben Wishaw. BUT this is fiction and although it is based on real life, it’s not their story but that of the ‘straight’ married Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe. He was charged with … Continue reading
The political scandal of the 1970’s when Jeremy Thorpe the Leader of British Political Party went on trial for planning to kill his younger lover Norman Scott seems relatively tame compared to the outrageous shenanigans of today’s politicians. However, at the time, it threatened the very existence of the Liberal Party that Thorpe had successfully transformed into … Continue reading
Will it be 3rd time lucky for Halston? One of the most successful fashion designers who was such a phenomenon in the 197Os has so far been so badly served by two less-than-adequate. First Ultrasuede : In Search of Halston in 2013 and then in 2019 Frédéric Tcheng disappointing and rather clumsy Halston. … Continue reading