Category: A League of Their Own
Open Post: Hosted By The Baseball Legend Who Helped Inspire “A League Of Their Own” Coming Out At Age 95
The new Amazon series A League of Their Own premiered last night at the Tribeca Festival (although it doesn’t hit Amazon Prime until August 12), and Maybelle “Mae” Blair, a player on the All American Girls Professional Baseball League that the story is based on, joined the cast onstage for a panel Q&A. 95-year-old Mae, also known as “All The Way Mae”, applauded the new series for featuring a queer relationship between Carson (Abbi Jacobson) and Greta (D’Arcy Carden). And then she made a big announcement: she’s gay, and she’s finally coming out publicly after hiding for “75, 85 years.” Sorry, Holland Taylor, there’s a new hottest gayelle-cougar in town!
There’s Plenty Of Crying In TV: The “League Of Their Own” Is Being Turned Into A Series
Because ideas for original television programming are as dead as travel agencies, The Hollywood Reporter has informed us that Amazon Studios is making Penny Marshall’s 1992 “ladies play baseball while the fellas are off to war” flick A League Of Their Own into a tv series. Broad City’s Abbi Jacobsen and Mozart in the Jungle’s Will Graham will be executive-producing it. If they can get this hot piece (who WASN’T Geena Davis in elder person make-up) to reprise her role as “old Geena Davis,” I’m in. Continue reading