Billy Eichner on Bros and Joyce Carol Oates on Blonde
One of the first queer rom-coms released in cinemas by a major studio, \u201cBros\u201d is making movie history. But the film\u2019s co-writer and star, the comedian Billy Eichner, tells David Remnick that the milestone has taken too long to achieve. \u201cCulture and society at large, for the vast majority of human existence, [did] not want to talk about the private lives of gay people and L.G.B.T.Q. people,\u201d he says.\nPlus, the\xa0staff writer Katy Waldman talks with the prolific novelist Joyce Carol Oates about the new film adaptation of her novel \u201cBlonde,\u201d which premi\xe8res on Netflix this week. Directed by Andrew Dominick, it\u2019s a fictionalized account of the life of Marilyn Monroe. Oates tells Waldman that she enjoyed the production but found it \u201cextremely emotionally exhausting\u201d and \u201cnot for the faint of heart.\u201d