“Spoiler Alert” premieres December 2 in select theaters, with a nationwide rollout on December 16. “Bros” premiered at 2022 TIFF, with IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio calling the feature a “ gay version of our ’90s rom-coms when the genre was at its best.” Billy Eichner wrote and stars in the film opposite Luke MacFarlane. “Spoiler Alert” premieres after fellow queer rom-com “Bros” makes history as the first big-budget studio all-queer rom-com ever. “Spoiler Alert” additionally features Grammy nominated singer James Bay’s new song “One Life.”įollowing Parsons’ Emmy-winning turn in sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” the actor starred in Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” and “The Boys in the Band.” Parsons has also appeared in “Big Bang Theory” spin-off “Young Sheldon.” Parsons previously executive-produced short-form comedy series “Special.” Spoiler Alert comes to Peacock on Friday, February 3, 2023, where it will join an ever-growing library of great movies that also includes the exclusive streaming home of Academy Award hopeful. Lead star Parsons, director Showalter, Todd Spiewak, Alison Mo Massey, and Jordana Mollick produce. ‘You Can Live Forever’ Review: Earnest Jehovah’s Witness Lesbian Drama Has Few SurprisesĪuthor and TVLine founder Ausiello serves as an executive producer, along with Eric Norsoph and Jason Sokoloff.
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This is a book about a girl who has an autistic brother. Very few, and that’s an important point to raise. There are very few attempts to humanize David. That alone isn’t the problem: growing up, I would have loved to see more families like mine represented, and not just because of me and my disabilities. This is a book written by an author who has an autistic child, but is not autistic herself, and admits that the inspiration for writing the book was her non-autistic daughter. This is a book for youth who have siblings with disabilities, or maybe friends, cousins, other people in their lives. And that’s the part of the book that scares me. Trying to connect with the new kids but just never getting it right. I remember being her age, the oldest sibling, trying to fit in at school and not being able to. There was a small of me that wanted to connect with Catherine. As readers, we follow Catherine during her summer vacation, as she gets to know Jason better, misses her best friend who is away for the entire break, and attempts to find a new friend in the girl who just moved next door. While both David’s autism and Jason’s use of a wheelchair are frequently mentioned and remain important to the plot, Jason’s specific disability is never brought up. David routinely has to go to occupational therapy, which is how Catherine knows Jason, who is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair. Rules is narrated by twelve-year-old Catherine, who does not have a disability herself but has a younger autistic brother, David. However, his thickly accented English isn't really suited for a book about vampires in small-town South Carolina. I'd actually listen to another book narrated by Chiquito Crasto-he has a very pleasant voice and speaking style (although he doesn't vary that style at all, so scenes of intense action are read at the same measured pace). There also aren't any breaks between scenes, which can be momentarily confusing. There are a few instances of repeated sentences. The production is particularly amateurish-at times you can hear background noise, thumps, etc. By far the worst part of this audiobook is the production and narration. The small-town setting lent a certain isolated atmosphere to the story. The characters are recognizable, if not particularly well fleshed-out. There aren't any real surprises here, nor any deep scares, but the story kept my interest. It was a serviceable, if dated and undistinguished thriller, perfect for people who want a "Salem's Lot"-type book, but who have already read Robert McCammon's "They Thirst" and others of the like. "How Dear the Dawn" did exactly what I expected it to: it provided me a couple days' entertainment while I did household chores & yardwork. We've got plenty of time." It was the first weekend in December. I have religious, secular, serious, humorous, for family, friends, strangers, the works." Next to them he had a notebook with names and addresses. "C'mon, Wills, we're going to write out our Christmas cards." Theo gestured to the boxes of cards he'd placed on the coffee table in the living room. Soon we'd be spending our first Christmas together. At the thought of the former rentboy who had given up the profession because I'd asked him, my cock twitched. That was how long I had been living with Theo Bascopolis. Six months, twenty-three days, twelve hours, thirty-nine minutes and. I raised the razor to my face, then paused and stared at myself in the mirror. This is for Tim and Jake, for Athea, for Trackrat (who told me of trouser rock-age), and most especially for Gail, whose suggestion started me thinking. : Thanks to Tim Mead and Wolfsbride for their suggestions. Wills is singing (I'm Gettin') Nuttin' For Christmas. DiNois sings at the Christmas party is Santa Baby. This link will take you to the Cherished Teddies site: They do have the sweetest faces. Notes: This wasn't the Christmas story I'd hoped to post, but since that one will spoil for future Mann of My Dreams, this will have to do. In her spare time, she is a bit of an illustration nerd, loves to roller skate, read, and toy with writing. She looks for inspiration everywhere and often finds it in bookstores and thrift stores, looking in vintage children’s books and animation, and even in a garden or two. She hasn’t met a craft she doesn’t love-sewing is one of her favorite hobbies. She works both digitally and traditionally, often combining the two. Lynn Gaines has been making art for years and is still in love with making it! Born and raised in Ohio, she currently works for American Greetings, but also loves making art for children’s books and kids-related products. A native of Cleveland, she lives in Chicago with her husband and two highly energetic children. She believes that one of the greatest lessons we can pass on to our kids is that differences are for celebrating, and that we have more in common than we ever imagined. She loves using the written word to honor a child’s imagination and is on a mission to help adults tap into the wonder they felt as children. Clothilde Ewing started her work life as a lifeguard, but she has spent most of her career telling people’s stories as a journalist (CBS News), television producer ( The Oprah Winfrey Show), and communications professional. He is the son of Lynn (Swapinski) and Gordon Jurek. Raised in Proctor, Minnesota, Jurek is of part Polish descent. Jurek has followed a vegetarian diet since 1997, and a vegan diet since 1999. In 2010, at the 24-Hour World Championships in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, Jurek won a silver medal behind Shingo Inoue and set a new US record for distance run in 24 hours with 165.7 miles (an average pace of 8 minutes and 42 seconds per mile). Throughout his running career, Jurek was one of the most dominant ultramarathon runners in the world, winning the Hardrock Hundred (2007), the Badwater Ultramarathon (2005, 2006), the Spartathlon (2006, 2007, 2008), and the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run (1999–2005). Scott Gordon Jurek (born October 26, 1973) is an American ultramarathoner, author, and public speaker. Jurek in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado (2014) Publication history Volume 1 (1941–1949) After Rebirth's conclusion, writer Geoff Johns began a fourth volume of Green Lantern from 2005 to 2011, and a fifth volume which started immediately after, this time initially showcasing both Hal Jordan and Sinestro as Green Lanterns. This third volume ended publication in 2004, when the miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth brought Hal Jordan back as a heroic character and made him the protagonist once again. When sales began slipping in the early 1990s, DC Comics instituted a controversial editorial mandate that turned Jordan into the supervillain Parallax and created a new protagonist named Kyle Rayner. The first series featuring Hal Jordan was cancelled at issue #224, but was restarted with a third volume and a new #1 issue in June 1990. When the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, was introduced, the character starred in a new volume of Green Lantern starting in 1960.Īlthough Green Lantern is considered a mainstay in the DC Comics stable, the series has been cancelled and rebooted several times. After 38 issues, that series was cancelled in 1949. The character's first incarnation, Alan Scott, appeared in All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), and was later spun off into the first volume of Green Lantern in 1941. Green Lantern is an ongoing American comic-book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the same name. Golden Age Green Lantern Archives Volume 1 Toklas, is newly available in a paperback edition. The award-winning “Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice” (Yale University Press, 2007, $13) by Janet Malcolm, about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Matt Rothschild’s memoir “Dumbfounded” (Crown, 2008, $23.95) bears the telling subtitle “Big Money. Patrick Johnson, Professor and Chair, Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, gives “voice to a population rarely acknowledged in Southern history” via a series of fascinating interviews. Subtitled “an oral history,” “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” (The University of North Carolina Press, 2008, $35) by E. This is especially true when it comes to non-fiction works. It’s been another banner year for LGBT titles, and the choices for the fall season are abundant. If you’re a reader, or if there are readers on your gift list, then you are in luck as there are plenty of books with which to fill up your autumn hours, or to give as presents. Or, maybe you’re in the mood to get some holiday shopping out of the way. The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are getting chillier and you’re probably thinking of ways to make good use of all that time you’ll be spending indoors. That's not a small deal in an age of mass distraction and multiple streaming services in every household. What's remarkable about Garnhum is that everywhere he goes, he has an uncanny knack - in a digital-first popular culture - for finding the secret recipe to get bums in seats, whether in Calgary or London. If you throw in the 11 seasons that Garnhum spent running Theatre Calgary, that's a lot of plays programmed, nurtured, developed and produced, thousands of artists hired, and plenty of laughter and tears shed trying to convince people in the 21st century that there's a reason to go to see a play tonight. The poignant part was that it was Garnhum's last season announcement for the Grand, where he's stepping away after seven years on the job. The 55-year-old writer and director did what he's been doing for the better part of two decades – he announced a new season of shows for The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, his hometown where he's been the artistic director since 2017. Last week was pretty notable for former Theatre Calgary artistic director Dennis Garnhum. ( )Īs many told me, the second books in the Deviations series tends to be a little more “public” than the previous one, but that is not necessarily a bad point. This will certainly be on the re-read list. Their love for each other is yet on the side of new but seems to be boundless. Tobias and Noah are fast becoming one of my favorite romantic couples. This is the kind of book which makes most of those unexpected situations believable and realistic. If an author can cause a reader to believe in the characters and their reactions in a situation which is unfamiliar then the author has done a really good job. The authors depicted feelings and reactions which are very believable in a situation which most readers have never experienced, or wish to experience, yet are still curious. I was pleasantly surprised at how "ordinarily and delightfully human" these two guys were portrayed to be. Dominants are not always strictly dominant and submissives are not always only submissive. Where the first book of the series was not focused so much on submission but more on two people meeting, getting to know each other and getting accustomed to one another's needs and expectations, This, the second book, dwells deeper on the nature of their relationship. I absolutely love these 2 main characters, Tobias, a veterinarian and Noah, a police officer. The book nor the series, nor the subject is for everybody. |