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The &#;Eat, Pray, Love&#; phenomenon
When the film Four Weddings and a Funeral came out in , I was irritated by the film’s ‘token’ inclusion of a deaf character and two lgbtq+ men. A lesbian friend was less judgemental. She was just thrilled that a mainstream production featured a gay relationship.
Reading Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-seller, and seeing the film adaptation starring Julia Roberts, I consider I know how my acquaintance felt. The ideas are flawed, but to see Buddhism portrayed positively in popular culture is a delight.
The story – if you don’t know it &#; is of a thirty-something girl, unsatisfied with her affluent Modern York life, who goes travelling for a year in hunt of self-fulfilment. Her quest is successful: she stuffs herself with pizza and pasta in Italy, experiences a spiritual epiphany at an ashram in India and meets the love of her life in Indonesia. Then she writes a best selling manual about the whole adventure and earns a small fortune. I came, I saw, I conquered.
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'Eat Pray Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert mourns death of partner Rayya Elias
Two years after taking her homosexual relationship public, Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert is mourning the death of her partner, Rayya Elias.
"I would tell you to rest in accord, but I know that you always found accord boring," she wrote overnight Thursday on Instagram. "May you rest in excitement. I will always devotion you."
Elias, 57, a fellow creator, songwriter and short filmmaker, was diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer in , prompting Gilbert, now 48, to realize the depth of her feelings for her best friend of 15 years. That summer, she divorced her husband of 12 years, Jose Nunes (portrayed by Javier Bardem in the film adaptation of Eat Pray Love) to be with Elias.
"Death — or the prospect of death — has a way of clearing away everything that is not concrete, and in that room of stark and utter realness," Gilbert wrote in a Facebook post. "I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya. And I possess no more time for denying that truth."
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'Eat Pray Love' storyteller Elizabeth Gilbert reveals lesbian love
It's been a momentous summer for Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert — worthy of a sequel to that memoir, in fact.
In prior July, she announced she was divorcing her second husband, whom she met at the finish of the book; he was played by Javier Bardem in the movie adaptation.
On Wednesday, she went public with even bigger news: She's in love with Rayya Elias, her top friend of 15 years, whom she has frequently mentioned on her social media accounts.
"For those of you who are doing the math here, and who are wondering if this situation is why my marriage came to an end this spring, the straightforward answer is yes," she said in a Facebook upload published Wednesday. "This summer has been an essential period of silence, healing, and incubation for us. I own needed that second, and I've been grateful to acquire it. But summer is over. I have work to do in the world — operate that I can't put off anymore."
Elizabeth Gilbert splits from man she met at end of 'Eat Pray Love'
Need a break? Participate the USA TODAY Daily Crossword PuzzlGlee is all Ryan Murphy must be feeling these days. Already on flame from his gay-worshipped TV megahit, the year-old director's second feature, "Eat Pray Love," adapted from the wildly popular memoir and out Aug. 13, is soul-searching summer movie bait relishing in delicious dishes (not just James Franco), picturesque landscapes and Julia Roberts. The actress plays the book's author, Elizabeth Gilbert, as she leaves her frazzled life behind for a globetrotting jaunt, some solitude and a good plate of pasta.
Go figure, then, that Murphy – who made his film debut in with "Running with Scissors" while cutting through TV, before he created "Glee," with "Nip/Tuck" – is nibbling on some strawberries from somewhere just as exotic: the Bardessono hotel tucked away in the quaint Napa Valley, Calif. There, during our one-on-one chat, he dishes on his connection to "Eat Pray Love," how other queer people might relate to the movie and his plans for gaying up Season 2 of "Glee," regardless of what the world thinks.
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