Learn this name: Marja-Lewis Ryan
Maybe you’ve got your ear very close to the ground of LGBTQ creative endeavors. Maybe you’re one of her brunch pals. Otherwise it wouldn’t be out of the question if you didn’t know Marja-Lewis Ryan. But this is the era of creators like Lena Waithe and Bryan Fuller becoming fanned over names due to the quality of their output, and Ryan has a lot of irons in the fire right now. Her queer drama, The Four-Faced Liar, won the Outstanding First Narrative Feature award from Los Angeles’ LGBTQ film festival Outfest. She also wrote and directed 6 Balloons, starring Abbi Jacobson and Dave Franco, streaming now on Netflix. She’s been tapped as showrunner for the Showtime reboot of The L Word. And now she’s signed a deal for an Amazon TV series called College, about six university roommates who, according to the official log line, “hook up, mess up, and grow up.” Co-produced by Transparent’s Jill Soloway and Channing Tatum (with whom Ryan is also working on a remake of Splash), it should keep Ryan busy for those remaining hours of the day when she might otherwise sleep or eat. Go catch up on this talented woman’s body of work because right now it looks like it’s not going to slow down for dawdlers.
It’s time to ‘Mess with Roy Cohn’
Was there ever a more damaged and destructive gay villain in modern political history than the late Roy Cohn? In the 1950s he got his feet wet as an assistant to anti-Communist life-wrecker Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee. Then in the ’80s he was Donald Trump’s lawyer, a fairly consistently evil power broker, and a vicious public homophobe even though he was himself a closeted gay man with AIDS. Now Matt Tyrnauer, the documentary filmmaker responsible for Valentino: The Last Emperor, this summer’s theatrically released doc Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, as well as A&E’s forthcoming Studio 54, is hard at work on Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn. The film will cover what amounts to the lasting effects of Cohn, how his political tactics and deeply polarizing actions set the stage for the ascendance of maniacal conservatives like the current U.S. President, whom he mentored decades ago. So it won’t be exactly an uplifting story, but one we need to remember and guard against allowing to happen again.
Romeo San Vicente hasn’t given up hope.
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2018/08/02/hollywood-news-marja-lewis-ryan-dont-mess-with-roy-cohn/
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