I didn't even know it existed, but apparently a 3rd Fight Club (again a comic) is in the works, so I guess it sold? (and here I thought I paid some sort of attention to comic book releases…)

There were several tv sequels to Levin's other best known work, The Stepford Wives, but as he didn't get around to writing a book sequel, I guess it doesn't count.

Ugh I STILL need to read Two Hearts—keep forgetting to track it down.

2010 is tricky too, because as I recall it follows the first film more than the first novel (of course the first novel was written with the film, so…)

Don't forget there was the 2003 Endless Nights anthology from Gaiman. Which makes the gap smaller (I'm assuming you're talking about Sandman: Overture :P not Nocturne…)

I'd never heard of it either—and am curious. Reading about Webb on Wiki (and I hadn't even thought of him since reading The Graduate as a teen), the second novel isn't all as surprising: "The Webbs removed their children from school so that they could tutor them at home. This was an illegal act in California at the…

I'm not a big fan of later Ellis, but I was very impressed with Imperial Bedrooms (expecting to hate it, when I heard about how meta, even by his standards, it was). I'm surprised I never even heard of a Fight Club 2 but… yech.

I can think of some… "sorta" sequels. For example Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories combined Mr Norris combines Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939)—but some of the characters are revisited in his 1962 novel Down There on a Visit. I'm drawing a blank, but I think there are other similar…

I think by the 90s Levin was pretty worn out. I never read Son of Rosemary, but did read Sliver which, while not as awful as the Sharon Stone Basic Instinct followup movie might have you believe, is… not good.

As a Canadian I will assume you did a typically American thing and are including us in that statement (though I think we may be more evolved) ;)

I still call it that :P As long as they keep the Great Movie Ride I will continue to :P

Agreed.

I agree with you—while the slate of movies from the mid 70s to the mid 90s (and a bit past) coming out of Hollywood which were blockbusters that revolved around sex in various degrees, were often pretty bad, and rarely dealt with gay sex except for perhaps a lesbian scene squarely aimed at straight men, many of these…

I guess? I am a "mature student" getting my phd —at 35. So I teach a few undergrad classes, and my social group of friends is fairly varried I think—the people you describe still seem to be very much on the fringe of the gay scene (and a quick ;look at Grindr or Scruff, which are both filled with guys trying to…

It must have been a huge hit there—I have friends from Sask who have some weird attachment to Harvey's which hasn't been in Regina or Saskatoon (so I've been told) for some time :P

Right (although it is nice that cable shows with gay characters don't seem to ignore the sex aspect anymore—even if it might not get as much attention as the straight stuff). Again, one just has to look at Rudnick's two gay comedies—Jeffrey, a small film marketed exclusively towards gays whose major theme is sex—and…

I dunno, I still see the prevalence among gay men, anyway, as being an insistance on acting cisgendered (god I hate that term), "straight acting" or even playing up that.

Maybe in Quebec for the French release (though I never heard that) but it certainly wasn't in the rest of Canada.

Yeah but not when it comes to gay stuff. Obviously. I mean even big mainstream Broadway hits that weren't exactly blatant with their gay stuff—like Williams or even Tea and Sympathy—had to be censored or else (ie with Cat) completely reconceived thematically to get made in Hollywood.

Brokeback certainly was seen as a novelty by the studios. A bit like some successful female based movies in the past (though this at least seems to be changing) the takeaway for Hollywood seemed to be that it was the exception that proved the rule (and of course it wasn't even made by one of the big studios).