59 posts categorized "RYAN MURPHY"
Streep & Corden as Broadway babies toasting another failure. (Images via Netflix)
Ryan Murphy adapted Broadway's semi-hit musical The Prom for Netflix with the best of intentions — he said, at a post-screening Zoom Q&A Sunday, that he was moved by the idea of bringing an LGBTQ-positive message to a massive, global platform.
Unfortunately, he chose a creaky vehicle, one that asks us to consider that homophobes might not be sooo bad, except for their homophobia (imagine that message being delivered on race?), and then chooses the wrong actor to hammer the message home.
ABOVE: You must be this tall to ride this ride.
"I'm so excited to invite you all to THE PROM."@promnetflix pic.twitter.com/qClVjKs3yS
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) October 22, 2020
I disliked this saccharine musical, and I think adding Ryan Murphy (which makes it feel like a Glee reboot) and miscast big names like Nicole Kidman and James Corden (Streep will be fun) to the mix isn't going to change my mind, but ... The Prom is pro-LGBTQ and therefore not my enemy so here you go!
The boys nail some tough issues in this short talk. (Image via Tamron Hall)
Zachary Quinto, Charlie Carver and Robin de Jesús visited Tamron Hall — Tamron is killing it with her show, BTW — to talk about some of big changes for LGBTQ people since the time that the play on which their new Netflix movie The Boys in the Band was written:
ABOVE: Nothing wrong with that.
Mr. Man's intrepid reporter thinks if you are not currently crushing on David Corenswet, then you are surely missing out on some seriously sexy eye candy ...
ABOVE: Screw Gone with the Wind, I'm a Wizard of Oz man myself!