A week out from his hitting Chris Rock, 'Bad Boys 4' and 'Fast and Loose' have reportedly stalled.
By the morning after The Slap, it was apparent: the reverberations were going to be coursing through Hollywood for some time to come. And not just in the form of essays and statements. Last Friday, Will Smith made an announcement that he was resigning from the Academy. And now, as the incident is officially one week in the rearview, Smith is starting to see tangible repercussions following his actions at the Academy Awards—as in, ones that are going to hurt his bottom line. Smith's upcoming Netflix film Fast and Loose has reportedly slowed production. The film, which had already lost its director prior to Smith's altercation, was supposedly reprioritized following the Oscars. (It's not hard to imagine that it would be ramped up in priority had the evening passed without Smith's outburst.) Smith was set to star in the film, which told "the story of a crime boss who loses his memory after an attack." Take half off excellent workout gear, casual clothes, and more. It should always be light-outerwear season. Whenever I see a list of "best" LGBTQ books, I always find the usual suspects: James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, E. M. Forster, Audre Lorde, Christopher Isherwood. That is to say, such lists regularly name the late giants, the great and gone. Give them their due respect, of course; they have paved the literary road for so many of us queer writers working today. But what of the living legends who walk among us, or the legends-in-the-making we're keen to lift up? To celebrate the brilliance and diversity of contemporary queer literature, here's a very small sampling of must-read queer books by living queer authors at various stages of their careers. These books cover a range of literary forms, and their authors a breadth of genders and queer identities. Because who has the time for rubber boots in warm weather? When he was 11 or 12 years old, Chris Offutt stumbled upon a family secret while snooping in his dad's office. He found the pages of a manuscript, which wasn't a surprise—his father was a successful science-fiction writer. Except these pages didn't bear his name, Andy Offutt, but listed John Cleve as the writer. And John Cleve, Chris recalled, was the author of the p*rn novels his dad had stored away in the attic. That's when it hit him. |
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