Is anyone in the outsiders gay

Turning ‘The Outsiders’ Into a Musical Was a Mistake (Review)

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Remember The Outsiders? Most gay men and straight women over forty will. This is partly because Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie featured all of the matinee hunks of the eighties: Steal Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze.

Another reason? S.E. Hinton’s young individual novel of the alike name has been required reading in high schools around the country since it was released in 1967. Its popularity has soared over the last few years. BBC News has classified it as one of the highest 100 most influential novels of all time.

So why shouldn’t it be turned into a musical? Broadway has a full season of literary adaptations currently underway. The creative teams of The Notebook, Rain for Elephants, and The Great Gatsby have all drawn inspiration from their best-selling book counterparts, and each have high hopes for Tony nominations. In the case of The Outsiders, however, the modern Broadway musical treatment is not the best way to serve the story.

According to a recent New York Times article, “The idea to musicalize

This has been an intriguing start to the Fresh Year. We are counting down the days to when our world turns into The Plot Against Americaby Philip Roth while resolving to fight against fake news, hatred, and double standards. Also last October, S.E. Hinton, beloved writer of The Outsidersand one of the pioneers for Young Adult Fiction, took offense at the interpretation that Ponyboy and Johnny, her two main characters, were gay. Normally a story like this, wouldn’t have a sequel, but this one does. According to Twitter and multiple news sources, last week she got shirty with people asking for more LGBT charactersin her novels. S.E. Hinton, fond Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and Christopher Paolini, represents who I wanted to be as a teenager. I wanted to have a novel that would lead to a book deal. I craved her tight narrative. She wrote a handful of novels and brief stories, before fading from the public eye. For the most part her Twitter feed shows ordinary sense. This feels dissonant, the controversy and her feed. While authors aren’t necessarily nice, Hinton seemed it up to these points. We can’t just dismiss her deleted Twitter rant or condemn it. It requires a fu
By Steve Weddle

This week, S.E. Hinton was asked on Twitterwhether she'd intended for two characters in her novel, The Outsiders, to be gay.

I spent years in academia, arguing that the white whale was Jesus, that Holden Cauliflower was a communist, that Nathaniel Hawthorne was readable. Heck, five years ago at this very site, I wrote a thing about "what the storyteller meant."

And I've seen many, many, many authors gain beaten about on Twitter for saying things about their own writing. One sci-fi author caused trouble when he said he didn't think he was very good writing women's voices. Another best-selling composer was in the middle of trouble when he was asked why he, a white guy, didn't write more about race in his novels. The author said, well, you know, I don't own many black friends. And so on and so on. You could allocate days reading the results of "author twitter controversy."

Which brings us back to Hinton.

As a white, cisgen middle-class dude, I had plenty of people to identify with in books. At times, it seems to me that nearly all of the books in the stores, on the shelves, being reviewed are books written by people like me about people like me. While I was writing this p
As I sit watching the Patroits play and my future ex-husband Rob Gronkowski makes yet another touchdown, I think, if only he "played on our team." Of course, he's a human being and he seems pretty vertical, but I can dream.
It's a little different when you read a book. When you get to know a character and there's only 192 pages to get to comprehend a character and how he relates to other characters. Really? Only 192 pages to figure out back story, present feelings, and hopes for the future of every unattached character.
So when we are left with filling in the blanks about characters, we improvise, imagine, and dream.
Great catch GRONK! Sorry for that brush with reality for a moment.
When we fill in those blanks and become relaxed with what we possess build for them, for their "real" lives in our heads, their relationships and feelings with and for others in those brief pages, we don't like when something dilutes or scars that imagery.
If you want to preserve those non-fictional lives you have built for your fictional heroes and heroines, when you get the chance to ask the author, you should seize a pol
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