That’s according to a tweet by Anson Mount – the leading man of the show, so an official enough source for me. The show runs on AMC and series 3 will premiere on Saturday, 3rd August 2013.

What’s Hell on Wheels about?

“Blood will be spilled. Lives will be lost. Men will be ruined.”
Ok, obviously neither a comedy nor a romcom. Snatched from IMDB:

Cullen Bohannan, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of a band of Union soldiers, the killers of his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this undertaking connected the prospering east with the still wild west. Written by cc ardbeg

While I still haven’t given up hope for him to become the next Doctor (just you wait!), this sounds like the perfect environment for Western fan Damian! Plus he’s great in that genre; just look at Hatfields & McCoys, though, strictly speaking, that wasn’t a Western, but there were hats and horses, so there.

AMC has put up a helpful page for Hell on Wheels noobs like me:

New to the show? Here’s all you need to catch up.

More news as it comes; for now, congratulations to Damian on getting casted, and congratulations to the casting director on casting him. It’s always nice to hear of people with an impeccable taste…

Edit: good news for us on this side of the pond! I’ve just been informed that “Hell on Wheels” was picked up by ITV4. Rejoice, old world!


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Norman René (1951 - May 24, 1996) was an American theatre and film director and film producer who frequently collaborated with playwright Craig Lucas.

René was born in Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied psychology for a year at Johns Hopkins University before transferring to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue acting. While there, he realized he was better suited for directing, and during three summer breaks he ran the repertory Red Barn Theater in Pittsburgh.

After graduating in 1974, René moved to New York City. Three years later he teamed with three Carnegie Mellon alumni to found the off-off-Broadway Production Company, where he served as artistic director and directed and/or supervised productions such as The Guardsman and Blues in the Night. The company included Julie Hagerty, Judith Ivey, Treat Williams, Mark Linn-Baker, and John Glover.

René met Craig Lucas in 1979. Their first collaboration was Marry Me a Little in 1981. The two wrote a script incorporating songs that had been written for but discarded from Stephen Sondheim musicals, and René also directed. They followed this with the plays Missing Persons (1981) and Blue Window (1984); Three Postcards (1987), an original music by Lucas and Craig Carnelia; and another play, Reckless (1988). In 1990 they joined forces for what would prove to be their biggest commercial and critical success, Prelude to a Kiss, for which René won the Obie Award for Best Director. Prelude later transferred to Broadway, where he had directed Precious Sons by George Furth in 1986.

René was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play, for Reckless and Prelude.

René directed an episode of American Playhouse in 1987, and made his feature film directorial debut with Longtime Companion, scripted by Lucas, in 1990. For his work on that film, he won the Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for the Critics Award at the Deauville Film Festival. He co-produced and directed the 1992 screen adaptation of Prelude with Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan and directed the 1995 film version of Reckless with Mia Farrow and Mary-Louise Parker.

René died of complications from AIDS in New York City. He is survived by his long-term boyfriend, Kevin McKenna.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Ren%C3%A9

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Juan Antonio (4 May 1945, Mexico City - 24 May 1990, Toronto, Doctors Hospital, age 45) was an accomplished dancer and occasional choreographer, closely associated with the work of Louis Falco. (Picture: Juan Antonio in Louis Falco's Kate's Rag. Photo: Francette Levieux)

He trained at the American Ballet Theatre School in New York and at the American Ballet Center before debuting with Nuevo Teatro de la Danza Mexico at age 18. At 19 he joined the Ballet Clasico de Mexico and went on to guest with such troupes as the Limon Dance Company and Netherlands Dance Theater, and with the companies of Pearl Lang, Anna Sokolow, Carmen de Lavallade, and Glen Tetley.

He co-founded the Falco Company with Louis Falco in 1967 and became associate artistic director and choreographer of the company until the company disbanded in 1983. He also choreographed for the Ballet Nacional de Espana and later moved to Toronto to take the position of balletmaster and co-director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.

In 1985 he co-founded the Toronto-based company Confidanse, with Fanny Ghorayeb. The company performed in his honor August 1990 and officially folded in 1991.

Obituaries indicate that Antonio was survived by his companion, Charles Desjardins, his mother, Ophelia, of Mexico City, and his father Juan Antonio Jimenez, of Spain. According to Fanny Ghorayeb, Desjardins died in February 1998 at 35.

Per Alan Sener, Falco biographer, Desjardins was the executor of Antonio's estate. (Ghorayeb explains that Antonio did not have an official will, but his wishes were that the possessions go to Desjardins and the work to Ghorayeb.) After Antonio's death, Desjardins placed all of Antonio's material in a trunk. When Desjardins died, Fanny Ghorayeb called Sener, and they went through the material together, with the help of the executor of Desjardins's estate. Ghorayeb kept all material related to Confidanse, and Sener kept all materials pre-Canada, in his collection at the University of Iowa.

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Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to The Virginia Quarterly Review.

Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 25 and catapulted him to literary celebrity. He followed it with a second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), and two short-story collections. In 2000, Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a critically acclaimed novel that John Leonard, in a 2007 review of a later novel, called Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 (see: 2001 in literature).

His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 to enthusiastic reviews and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of that same year. Chabon's most recent novel, Telegraph Avenue, published in 2012 and billed as "a twenty-first century Middlemarch", concerns the tangled lives of two families in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the year 2004.

His work is characterized by complex language, the frequent use of metaphor along with recurring themes, including nostalgia, divorce, abandonment, fatherhood, and most notably issues of Jewish identity. He often includes gay, bisexual, and Jewish characters in his work. Since the late 1990s, Chabon has written in an increasingly diverse series of styles for varied outlets; he is a notable defender of the merits of genre fiction and plot-driven fiction, and, along with novels, he has published screenplays, children's books, comics, and newspaper serials.

In 1987, Chabon married the poet Lollie Groth. After the publication of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, he was mistakenly featured in a Newsweek article on up-and-coming gay writers (Pittsburgh's protagonist has liaisons with people of both sexes.) The New York Times later reported that "in some ways, [Chabon] was happy" for the magazine's error, and quoted him as saying, "I feel very lucky about all of that. It really opened up a new readership to me, and a very loyal one." In a 2002 interview, Chabon added, "If Mysteries of Pittsburgh is about anything in terms of human sexuality and identity, it's that people can't be put into categories all that easily." In "On The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", an essay he wrote for the New York Review of Books in 2005, Chabon remarked on the autobiographical events that helped inspire his first novel: "I had slept with one man whom I loved, and learned to love another man so much that it would never have occurred to me to want to sleep with him."

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The kid I wanted to find in college, played by Tobey Maguire in the film version of Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. Who couldn’t fall in love with a chronic lying, gay, rich, talented depressing fiction writer? --Blair Mastbaum

For whatever reason, I didn’t do much reading (at least not for pleasure) in high school or college. But the summer that I graduated from Wayne State, I found a copy of Chabon’s debut, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, in a bin at B. Dalton Booksellers for something like $1.98. I totally judged the book by its cover and took a chance on this is one. As they say, “it changed my life.” I have read this book more times than I can count, and passed it along or recommended to just as many people. When the movie adaptation came out in 2008, I actually did not rush out to see it. Unlike so many others where I’ve almost enjoyed the film more, or didn’t care that “liberties” had been taken, when I learned that the gay character of Arthur Lecomte had been completely excised from this movie adaptation by the writer-director of Dodgeball (!), I literally launched a boycott online urging fans of the novel NOT to go and see it. Shame on Michael Chabon for allowing such a thing to happen to the story that put him on the literary map! I could go on, but… --Frank Anthony Polito

I forget exactly why I picked up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon initially, but I wasn’t fifty pages in before I was preparing to shelve it next to American Gods as a favorite novel—and this was before I knew one of the main characters was gay. Somehow I managed to go into this story so cold that I discovered Sammy’s orientation right along with him, which is a gift I’ll always cherish. (I realize I’ve just ruined it for anyone reading this who didn’t know. Ah. Sorry!) But the Sammy’s sexual journey is just one facet of the novel. It’s set in the period around the second World War, and overall it is a story of loss and change and growth. Not growing up, exactly. Just growth. Growth of a country, of the comic book industry, of men, of families. Loss of innocence, loss of love, of life. There are missed opportunities and opportunities made out of sorrow. The book is just so big I don’t know how to describe it. It’s a rich tapestry of lives and character and hope built out of great loss. It’s also flat-out a wonderful novel about men. --Heidi Cullinan

The characters in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon are so real, so touching, and so heartbreaking. I get all verklempt just thinking about it. --Astrid Amara

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I asked to all the authors joining the GayRomLit convention in Atlanta in October (http://gayromlit.com/grl-authors) a personal favor, a special Ebook Giveaway: twice a week I will post 1 book from each author, and among those who will leave a comment, I will draw a winner. Very easy and very fast ;-) I will send a PM to the winner, so remember to not leave anonymous comments!

Today author is Brita Addams: Born in Upstate New York, Brita Addams has made her home in the sultry south for many years. Brita's home is a happy place, where she lives with her real-life hero, her husband, and a fat cat named Stormee. She writes, for the most part, erotic historical romance, both het and m/m, which is an ideal fit, given her love of British and American history. Setting the tone for each historical is important. Research plays an indispensible part in the writing of any historical work, romance or otherwise. A great deal of reading and study goes into each work, to give the story the authenticity it deserves. As a reader, Brita prefers historical works, romances and otherwise. She believes herself born in the wrong century, though she says she would find it difficult to live without air conditioning. Brita and her husband love to travel, particularly cruises and long road trips. They completed a Civil War battlefield tour a couple of years ago, and have visited many places involved in the American Revolutionary War. A bit of trivia – Brita pronounces her name, Bree-ta, like the woman's name, and oddly, not like the famous water filter.
Website: http://www.britaaddams.com
Most recent title: Tarnished Gold
Publishers: Dreamspinner Press, Noble Romance Publishing, Riptide Publishing

For Men Like Us by Brita Addams
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (September 11, 2012)
Amazon Kindle: For Men Like Us

After Preston Meacham’s lover dies trying to lend him aid at Salamanca, hopelessness becomes his only way of life. Despite his best efforts at starting again, he has no pride left, which leads him to sell himself for a pittance at a molly house. The mindless sex affords him his only respite from the horrors he witnessed.

The Napoleonic War left Benedict Wilmot haunted by the acts he was forced to commit and the torture he endured at the hands of a superior, a man who used the threat of a gruesome death to force Ben to do his bidding. Even sleep gives Ben no reprieve, for he can’t escape the destruction he caused.

When their paths cross, Ben feels an overwhelming need to protect Preston from his dangerous profession. As he explains, “The streets are dangerous for men like us.”

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They're in Norman, OK at the OU dorms where the tornado victims are taking refuge and plan to go to the funerals of seven children who were killed in the tragedy. Go kick their asses, folks.

PREVIEW:




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• Wed, 18:13: Damn allergies are kicking my ass tonight! #frustrated
• Wed, 18:19: RT @AgentM: The folks at @welovefinetees grouped all their rad #SHIELD & Phil Coulson tees together: http://t.co/YRfRSJEOZS Neat!
• Thu, 05:11: @Nogwai1 Why yes, yes you do! #HotBrit
• Thu, 05:19: RT @SciencePorn: If your timeline has been boring today, here is a picture of a rock. http://t.co/NZn6wMQ5k7
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• Thu, 06:43: One useless man is a disgrace. Two are called a law firm & three or more become a Congress -John Adams (@GeorgeTakei) http://t.co/xJWybvupvH
• Thu, 07:17: Looks like something out of Harry Potter! RT @Earth_Pics Krzywy Domek (Crooked House) in Sopot, Poland http://t.co/yFmQiXz4p4
• Thu, 07:34: I have come to realize that I love #owls. http://t.co/OVhX03E5SR
• Thu, 07:54: RT @anglophenia: Internet grinds to halt as Benedict Cumberbatch shower scene (as seen on Conan) becomes widely available: http://t.co/8SOL…
• Thu, 08:03: I'm beginning to suspect I'm becoming a victim to peer pressure. #Hannibal http://t.co/eZteSvuHbR

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In June 2009, I joined the Referrals Program with different online sellers; this allows me to see where the people goes to browse after leaving my Journal. It is still a surprise month after month, people tend to be interested on the most different topics and objects (many more than only books)

Some books were meteors, only 1 month in the list, some others appeared month after month. I decided to post the yearly Top List so that you can better understand the trend, and of course, find out a title that maybe you missed in the past year. Congrats to all the authors, I'd love to post all of them, but it would be really a HUGE list; to allow a better browsing I divided it in Fiction and Non Fiction (i.e. essays, memories, art books and movies).

Yearly Top List - Fiction

1) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Referrals Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEJHRA/?tag=elimyrevandra-20
2) Atom Heart John Beloved by Luke Hartwell
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3-tie) Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
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Fireman's Carry (Carry Me) by Charlie Richards
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5) Ethan, Who Loved Carter by Ryan Loveless
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6) Hot Head by Damon Suede
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7) HERO by Perry Moore
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8) What He Wants by Kate Aaron
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9) Something Like Summer by Jay Bell
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10) Tailor Made by James Brock
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Yearly Top List - Non-Fiction

1) Inside the Vortex by Justin Hernandez
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2) Naked by Dylan Rosser
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3) The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser
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4) Private Moments, Bel Ami by Howard Roffman
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5) Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle by David Leddick
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6) Manly by Dale Lazarov
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7) Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard
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8-tie) Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire by Johnny Townsend
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The Boys of Bel Ami by Howard Roffman
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10) A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
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