SD enterprise: September 2022

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A Hilarious Conversation with the Men Who Made <em>Bros</em>

A Hilarious Conversation with the Men Who Made Bros

Bros begins with Billy Eichner's character, Bobby, mocking a Hollywood exec's outrageous invitation to make a big-studio gay rom-com that appeals to straight men. "Am I gonna get buttf***ed by Jason Momoa while we're both worrying about a volcano?" Bobby asks, his caustic delivery effectively cutting the startled exec down to size. It's the kind of nightmare scenario that the forty-three-year-old Eichner, an openly gay actor for more than two decades, feared he might be in when Nick Stoller, who has directed dude-friendly rom-coms like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Neighbors and is notably straight, approached him about making a big-studio gay rom-com. "There's something about being queer in Hollywood," Eichner says from a well-appointed hotel room during an early-summer Zoom call. "It turns you into a fighter." But Stoller and coproducer Judd Apatow didn't want Eichner to warp or water down his vision for anyone.

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Inside Country Music's Most Ambitious, Oddball Album of the Year

No one actually knows where the cabin is. Singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde, feeling the buzz of inspiration, decided that she wanted to convene some of her favorite collaborators for a writing retreat. Her friend Nicolette Hayford, who performs as Pillbox Patti, was tasked with finding a location—but two years later, the best she can offer up is that it was somewhere on Kentucky Lake, about two hours outside of Nashville. McBryde just claims to have no idea. "It's like we fell into a vortex," says Hayford. "I've looked for it again, and I can't find it."

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