{"id":1187,"date":"2005-08-25T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/25\/remember-true-identity\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:47:10","slug":"remember-true-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/25\/remember-true-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember True Identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, the 1991 film where British comedian Lenny Henry played a black man who, in order to evade mob hitmen, runs for his life disguised as a white man. After that, well, Henry&#8217;s had a huge career in the United Kingdom. But his narration of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s new novel, <I>Anansi Boys<\/I>, may give him a second shot at American stardom&#8230;cult stardom, to be sure, but that&#8217;s nothing to be sneezed at. (Just look at all the hoopla earlier this week when people thought Courtney Love was having Alan Partridge&#8217;s baby&#8230;). Gaiman&#8217;s just posted Henry&#8217;s reading of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/track-one-of-fifty-six.asp\">the opening scenes<\/A> on his blog. Now, if the <I>next<\/I> book could be read by Harry Enfield, please?<\/p>\n<p>And I realize it&#8217;s a bit of a leap from the comedy <I>True Identity<\/I> to seriously true identities, but I&#8217;m impressed with the recently discovered (by me, anyway) <A href=\"http:\/\/www.myhusbandbetty.com\/\"><I>(En)Gender<\/I><\/A>, a blog run by Helen Boyd, author of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1560255153\"><I>My Husband Betty<\/I><\/A>. It&#8217;s well-written and lays out an informative mix of queer and trans issues with personal perspective and well-chosen interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, the 1991 film where British comedian Lenny Henry played a black man who, in order to evade mob hitmen, runs for his life disguised as a white man. After that, well, Henry&#8217;s had a huge career in the United Kingdom. But his narration of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s new novel, Anansi Boys, may give him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}