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My worst moment: ‘Fire Island’ star Margaret Cho on wearing all white and experiencing a truly crappy situation

The Hulu romantic comedy “Fire Island” takes Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and puts a modern gay spin on it, both fizzy and incisive about classism and racism. Margaret Cho co-stars in a role that is part den mother, part provider of vacation housing.

Chicago Tribune

Behind the scenes of "Fire Island"

Director Andrew Ahn on the performance of queerness, finding power in race and capturing "beautiful beings" on film

Salon

Alison Bechdel has spoken: Leave 'Fire Island' alone

The stars of "Fire Island" appear to be taking pride in the "F-" that the new film scored on the Bechdel test.

Los Angeles Times

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How the queer summer rom-com 'Fire Island' found new meaning in 'Pride and Prejudice'

Jennifer Ehle. Keira Knightley. And now, Joel Kim Booster: Into the pantheon of "Pride and Prejudice" adaptations, queer rom-com "Fire Island" has arrived to give Jane Austenites a summer to remember — and the next great Elizabeth Bennet.

Los Angeles Times

As screenwriter and star of Hulu’s ‘Fire Island,’ Joel Kim Booster puts the Pride in ‘Pride and Prejudice’

CHICAGO — The romantic comedy “Fire Island” is a very gay, very horny, very charming riff on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” set on present-day Fire Island in New York. There is banter aplenty, a lot of it dirty. Both sweet and filled with spiky humor, it comes from screenwriter…

Chicago Tribune

Review: 'Fire Island' is a witty, gay take on Jane Austen

The quick-witted "Fire Island" is like Jane Austen, if the 19th-century writer's novels contained more booty shorts and recreational drugs.

Tribune News Service

Fire Island review: A sweet, queer romcom that takes aim at Jane Austen’s ‘hetero nonsense’

Joel Kim Booster’s breezy reimagining places ‘Pride & Prejudice’ in the context of contemporary gay culture

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'Fire Island' review: This gay rom-com offers a shallow dip into the ocean that is modern queer culture

It's important for there to be bad queer rom-coms, because there are plenty of bad straight rom-coms. Every quote-unquote "gay movie" does not have to be "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" or "Call Me By Your Name."

Tribune News Service

What to stream: Start summer, Pride Month off with trip to 'Fire Island'

Arriving Friday on Hulu is “Fire Island,” the perfect sexy, smart rom-com to kick off the summer season, and the LGBTQ Pride Month of June. “Fire Island” is a queer rom based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” which writer and star Joel Kim Booster adapted to the gay vacation…

Tribune News Service

Afternoon Edition: May 27, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

New this week: 'Interceptor,' Post Malone and 'Fire Island'

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Post Malone and Drive-By Truckers, “Fast & Furious” alum Elsa Pataky leading her own action picture with “Interceptor,” and PBS’ “National Memorial Day Concert” returning live after years of taped presentations because of COVID-19

The Independent UK

Joel Kim Booster, a former Chicago comedian, updates Jane Austen in ‘Fire Island’

Transplanting ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to the LGBTQ beach destination allows actor-writer to explore how ‘people communicate across class lines.’

Chicago Sun-Times

Parties and booze abound in 'Fire Island,' Hulu's gay take on 'Pride and Prejudice'

"Pride and Prejudice" is being remade again — this time as the queer rom-com "Fire Island," a feature-length film from Searchlight Pictures.

Los Angeles Times

Disney Debuts Trailer For LGBTQ Rom-Com 'Fire Island'

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is getting an early jump on June’s Pride Month celebrations by dropping the trailer for “Fire Island,” an LGBTQ rom-com scheduled to premiere June 3 on Hulu.

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