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What a coincidence! I'm actually reading Peter Lefcourt's The Dreyfus Affair right now (I'm about a third of the way through), and today I see over at DH that Brokeback's success has got the wheels turning on a movie adaptation of Dreyfus again, after its gay subject matter had been scaring off studios for years.
Here's DH's concise description of the novel's plot: "The novel concerns a married all-star shortstop who, in the heat of a pennant race, falls in love with his team's second baseman. As the double play combination goes public, scandal ensues."
Honestly, the book's... okay. So far. I do still have a bunch more to read, and I am sticking with it. It could make for a fun movie, though, as long as they don't amp up its somewhat-hackneyed silliness. It's sort of a gay Bull Durham, one might say, if one felt the need to conflate two completely different works with each other. Which, apparently, I do.
What a coincidence! I'm actually reading Peter Lefcourt's The Dreyfus Affair right now (I'm about a third of the way through), and today I see over at DH that Brokeback's success has got the wheels turning on a movie adaptation of Dreyfus again, after its gay subject matter had been scaring off studios for years.
Here's DH's concise description of the novel's plot: "The novel concerns a married all-star shortstop who, in the heat of a pennant race, falls in love with his team's second baseman. As the double play combination goes public, scandal ensues."
Honestly, the book's... okay. So far. I do still have a bunch more to read, and I am sticking with it. It could make for a fun movie, though, as long as they don't amp up its somewhat-hackneyed silliness. It's sort of a gay Bull Durham, one might say, if one felt the need to conflate two completely different works with each other. Which, apparently, I do.
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