
Based on the book by Lee Israel, the movie is about Lee Israel— A down and out writer in New York City in 1991. Unable to pay her bills, Lee stumbles upon an old letter in a book from a famous person. When the buyer tells her she’d get more money for a better letter, Lee starts embellishing, then out-right created letters from famous people in their voice.
Melissa McCarthy does a great turn as Lee, as does Richard E. Grant as her sidekick, Jack. Jane Curtain also has a small role as Lee’s agent.
I like the movie a lot (maybe because it’s about a writer), but mostly because it’s a small world, a small story, but it’s full of detail. It isn’t just about how Lee steals the fame and cons people with the letters, it’s also about the struggle of writers. Maybe I’m biased, but the movie hit home for me.
I give Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8 out of 10 keggers. Check it out at your local arthouse movie theater, bros.









If your birthday is this week: You friends pool their money and buy you an escort and she makes you an awesome cake.
Aries: You’ll discover that eating an entire pie by yourself is really awesome, but frowned upon in the middle of the supermarket.
Taurus: You will be mailed another coupon anger management classes and beat the shit out of your mailman.
Gemini: This week, the sperm bank pays you the gross interest on your deposit.
Lemini: The voices in your head give you very sound financial advice.
Cancer: While playing Pokemon Go, you’ll look up and realize that you’ve walked onto a minefield and you missed the Dragonite.
Leo: Your invention of the car toilet will not be approved by the patent office.
Virgo: The stars say, the caterer at your Intervention will be terrible this year.
Libra: You won’t stand by while an old lady is mugged, you run so the mugger doesn’t move on to you.
Scorpio: You poly-relationship party is kicked out of the venue for having too many people in it.
Sagittarius: Facebook will start sending you junk mail about not being on the Internet so much.
Capricorn: You will brush your teeth with a non-toothpaste, tube substance twice this week.
Aquarius: The cop that pulls you over writes you a fine for that fart you laid while he was talking.
Pisces: You bookie sends a lovely greeting card along with his threat this week.
How do you make money as a screenwriter? Well, with any creative endeavor, you can’t be ALL about the money. We’re talking low budget here. What scripts are more likely to sell? What three genres are distributors looking for?
Addanac City
A Dog’s Life
Adriana Game Over
Ahoy Earth
Art of Webcomics
Bad Oranges
Bad Pudding

Beta Male
Between the Realms
Black Tail and Marz
Bunny Wiggins
Capes and Babes
Cat and Cat Comics
Center Lane
Champion City Comics
City Folk, The Webcomic
Company Man
Convenience Store Diet
Corpse Run Comics

Crooked Frame Comics
Crunchy Bunches
Dairy Boy Comics
Damn Heroes
Destroyed by Robots
Dodgy Comics
Doug Lefler
Druid City
Fart Related Comics
Fatherhood. Badly Doodled
The Flavor Razor
Frownland
The Funnicks
Game Cupid
Games Finder
Game Period
Gerbil with a Jetpack
Giving the Devil Her Due
H.I.T.
The Hero Business
Hit Girlz
I, Mummy
Java Jaguar
Ker-Bop
Kick Man

Krrobar.com
LaSalle’s Legacy
Legacy Control
Modest Medusa
Murdercake
Mythdirection
Ninja and Pirate
The Other End
OutwitTrade
Plan C
QWERTYvsDvorak
Robot Friday
Romantically Apocalyptic
SCAPULA
Skitter
Skroode
Sluggy Freelance
Sparkshooter
Spirits of Suburbia
StocktonCon
SuperBud
Tangent Artists
Teaspoon Comics
The Devil’s Panties
The Dreamcatcher
The System
The Tales of Lev
Validation

Vinnie the Vampire
Waystone
Wayward Raven
Winter of Discontent
Woo Hooligan!
Yesterday’s Popcorn
Zombie Boy Comics
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