In some ways, their portrayals are more fleshed out than those of Laura and Beth, played by Marin Ireland and Autumn Dornfeld, respectively. While Beebo and Jack could very easily come off as overly familiar, one-dimensional characters, Anna Foss Wilson and David Greenspan (yes, that David Greenspan) give these two depth and subtleties only hinted at in the script. Both women's voyages of self-discovery turn out very differently than they pictured. She finally goes to New York to find her, but nine years have passed. Her marriage is crumbling, and she can only think of Laura. Laura stumbles through one bad relationship after another, then finally discovers safe harbor with Jack, her gay best friend. She discovers the Village's underground gay subculture which is personified by the über-butch Beebo Brinker who feasts on innocent younglesbians. Laura moves to New York to nurse her wounds. Their smoking hot college love affair ends abruptly when Beth got married. I can say, however, that it's a highly enjoyable departure from lesbian stereotypes and filled with interestingly complex characters.Ĭhronicles is the relationship between Laura and Beth. I'm not familiar with her books, so I can't say how accurate an adaptation The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. Her pulp novels which defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation were set in an earlier, seedier Greenwich Village and are now largely unknown outside of lesbian literary circles. Ann Bannon became known as the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her landmark novels of the 1950s and 1960s.
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