NPR's David Folkenflik speaks wh Sara Gay Forn about her book, The Hoe of Gucci, which has jt been released as a feature film starrg Lady Gaga and Adam Driver.
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MEET ADAM ELI, THE GAY ACTIVIST WHO'S CHANGG THE WORLD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
Queerre, the gay punk movement of the mid-1980s lends s name to a new llectn of sho. The film was adapted om journalist Sara Gay Forn’s 2001 nonfictn book of the same name, which chronicled the sensatnal real-life story of the fabuloly wealthy Gucci fay’s rise and fall as one of fashn’s most proment dynasti. Played by Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, Patrizia and Mriz are part of a nstellatn of characters the movie, which also clus Mriz’s father, Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons), his uncle Aldo (Al Paco) and Paolo (Jared Leto), among screenplay is creded to Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, om a story by Johnston that adapted Sara Gay Forn’s 2000 book “Hoe of Gucci: A Sensatnal Story of Murr, Madns, Glamour and Greed.