Via Mr. Man:
We can't wrap our minds around the fact that both Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells show their penises in the new Netflix movie The Boys in the Band ...
ABOVE: So contemporary, no?
BELOW: Keep reading for a gay star is born, Corey Johnson drops out, Ron Paul nearly drops dead and more ...
Through a glass, darkly (Image via Netflix)
I wonder if any play has ever been adapted to film with better intentions than Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968) was for Netflix by director Joe Mantello and über producer Ryan Murphy.
The chief creatives and the entire cast are gay and, as demonstrated in interviews since their take on the controversial classic became a Broadway smash in 2018 — as well as during a press-only Zoom Q&A two nights ago — possess clear-eyed appreciation for both the source material and its recently deceased author, with whom the men became close in the last years of his life.
And yet, while this newest Boys isn't exactly a stain on the play's legacy, it is a surprising and clear swing and miss.
ABOVE: Something tells me they'll tolerate it.
ABOVE: Nothing wrong with that.
ABOVE: ... and I'll be your server today.
ABOVE: Sixty-one degrees of Kevin Bacon.
BELOW: Garrett goodness, Trump's taxes, Harlem gay bar attacked and more ...
