Reina Hardy
Playwright, mostly.
Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie).
My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024!
hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-darcy
Are my reps on Bluesky yet?
More at www.reinahardy.com
- I need recs for Arthurian movies and books, fiction, non fiction, w/e, particularly focused on the character of Lancelot.
- If you are a creative, not having your own website is a big own goal.
- Reposted by Reina Hardybrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
- Harold Pinter AND David Mamet both tried to write scripts for the 1998 Lolita? Gang.
- Did you read “Lolita” in high school? Under what circumstances? How was it presented to you? What did you think? Please repost for more responses, I’m trying to see something.
- Reposted by Reina Hardyin case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- Reposted by Reina HardyYesterday, nearing the end of a magical library fellowship, I called up The Rules of Civility, a conduct book written originally in French but very popular in Restoration England. Curiously someone has written “A Tanner” in the right-hand margin…
- I have heard of around four or five cases where “Lolita” was used as a tool for English teachers to seduce underage students. If you know of any others, please let me know via reply or dm. Trying to see how widespread this is.
- HIM : It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributary emotion from me. ME: Babe it's just a musical.
- I am able to prove via an unbreakable chain of syllogisms that F. Scott Fitzgerald was literally in love with Regina George. No further questions at this time.
- Just trying to make a series of successful gestures.
- Reposted by Reina Hardy“Let them eat cake”— Entertainers wearing dog masks and Rococo-era 18th-century European aristocratic court costumes danced for Mar-a-Lago guests at a party this weekend
- We're not saying "incel" and "slut" anymore, we're going back to "masher" and "speed."
- F. Scott I apologize for razzing you about “This Side of Paradise.” I just read “The Rich Boy” and said “goddamn” out loud in the diner.
- Reposted by Reina Hardydoomscrolling trying to reel me in like
- update: going to the Yale club ended in comical misadventure. I blame u f scott
- The trouble with writing a book about 11 different shitty boyfriends of Western Literature is that it's hard for me to switch hyper fixations fast enough.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald is making me stay up late to go to the Yale Club, an experience shared by many of his friends.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald never had to write a word on a machine that could stream porn or order alcohol. If you gave him a laptop he'd have been dead within a week.
- Reposted by Reina HardyLaura and I have been talking about Shakespeare for two decades, so I'm biased, but I honestly believe that this is one of the best essays ever written on Measure for Measure.
- Behold the coldest sentence I have ever read in a wikipedia article.
- I really disliked "This Side of Paradise," but it does have one useful line: "Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."
- This Amazon series "Z: the Beginning of Everything" is doing Scott dirty. Nancy Milford won a lot more Zelda partisans by being even-handed.
- Is Fitzgerald to blame for generation discourse? Or did we have it before him?
- Has anyone broken down all of Fitzgerald’s short stories by identity of probable muse? I’d like to see an infographic.
- TRIUMPH! I have recovered my college email archives oh no I still have to write the book
- I am trying to recover some crucial old emails for a book. Should I contact my worst ex, or figure out how to open a PST file w/o an MS office subscription? (like for ex, repost for tech support)
- Reposted by Reina HardyPlease enjoy this extremely vintage, extremely niche Onion article Justin just found saved in his college files
- Heck yeah I run a major Hollywood studio in the 1930s.
- I have saved everything except the two or three emails that I really really need.
- historical cute baby footage
- Reposted by Reina Hardywhen i said i was "like Shakespeare," i didn't mean in the sense of talented writer; I meant I was a sloppy middle-aged man with bad hair
- When I said I was "like Shakespeare" I didn't mean in the sense of dramatic genius but in the sense of being very sloppy about chronology
- On FULL TILT trying to recover this old hotmail account
- Beware the generation discourse. It can make your career but then you’ll be stuck with it as you get old.
- Who is the Bad Art Spouse? (Like for Scott, repost for Zelda)
- Reposted by Reina HardyAnd to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday
- short Christmas stories, free online, as collected by Electric Literature. (I wrote one of them!) You know you need them: electricliterature.com/our-favorite...
- Has anyone ever successfully gotten back inside a decades-old hotmail account? TIPS?
- Reading "The Beautiful and the Damned" and wait, is there a "Zelda Fitzgerald was autistic " discourse?
- Happy 250th to Jane Austen, a woman I have never met who has made my life vastly and measurably better. My own contribution to the Janeite empire can be purchased here, or streamed via Hallmark+. www.amazon.com/Paging-Mr-Da...
- I feel like I'm going crazy. My little silicone popcorn air popper makes my microwave quit working almost every time. WHY. HOW CAN IT KNOW
- My dislike of "This Side of Paradise" is intensifying. This made Fitzgerald's fortunes? Apologies to Zelda but I would not have married him for this.
- In @Masqueradenyc there are five Phantoms for every performance, but the premise is that the Phantom is putting on a show about his life, which implies the existence of a Sixth Phantom who has hired the other five. Troubling.
- Baby has a favorite planet (Jupiter)
- I am so behind on Christmas cards. I am spinning up Hallmark plus and LOCKING THE HECK IN
- The best part of the 1974 Robert Redford Great Gatsby is the title sequence. If I was an aspiring filmmaker I would have imprinted on that so hard.
- Curse you, not a wintry mix. I'm barely holding on as it is.
- Reposted by Reina Hardylmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now
- It's probably a sign of deep neurosis to look back on your college poetry and think it's pretty good actually.
- A new substack in which I pit Hamnet vs Shakespeare in Love and get mad at a French movie. reinahardy.substack.com/p/are-wives-...
- Tom Buchanan is from Lake Forest (screams in Chicagoan)
- I’ll be eating Gatsby for Christmas
- Are any of you pediatricians?
- Do you know that I teach a scriptwriting course online through Interlochen Arts Center? The courses make great clutter-free gifts, and I have a code for $50 off: CYBER2025 www.interlochen.org/online/progr...
- Tell me a story about your favorite packaged snack food
- I'm a golden goddamn god
