Bernard Boursicot is the French diplomat who, in the early 1980s, preferred that the world view him as a fool rather than a homosexual. That’s my personal take on the true-crime espionage story that led David Henry Hwang to write his 1988 play, “M. Butterfly.” Subsequently, journalist Joyce Wadler wrote a nonfiction book about the case, titled “Liaison,” as well as a New York magazine article, “The True Story of M. Butterfly,” published in 1993. Wadler went into very graphic detail about how the male Peking Opera singer Shi Pei Pu deceived Boursicot into believing that he was really female...
- 10/27/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...
- 9/22/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
If you're going to write a snarky story criticizing Kim Kardashian's butt, it's probably best not to make an ass of yourself and use fake quotes! New York Times writer Joyce Wadler must have missed that memo, because in an article titled "Fear of Kim Kardashian's Derrière" published Friday, she included portions of a fictitious Kanye West interview from the satirical site The Daily Courant. Someone at the Nyt noticed Ms. Wadler had been duped, and on Saturday, a new version of the story (sans fake quotes) was published. The issue was addressed in an editors' note, which read: "An earlier version of this column was published in error. That version included what purported...
- 11/24/2014
- E! Online
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The Most (and Least) Oscar-Bait-y Movies Ever, According to Science” — Science! Joshua Keating at Slate profiles a new social study that boldly claims When A Stranger Calls was not made to impress Oscar voters, but they’re clearly wrong about Hotel For Dogs “12 Years a Slave is a masterpiece — try not to hold that against it” — Nicholas Barber at The Guardian’s Film Blog implores people not to be daunted by greatness. Or Oscar-bait-y-ness. “Shots From the Canon #16: Los Angeles Plays Itself” — In their ongoing series, Robert Greene at Nonfics offers a company town injected into its own product as a new classic. “Carson, Set Up the Universal Remote” — Why do Americans love Downton Abbey? Joyce Wadler shares her butlerized fantasy.
- 1/16/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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