Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Author Joe Klein caused a sensation back in 1996 when he published Primary Colors, his roman-a-clef novel of the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign under an anonymous moniker.
The book set off a frenzy as detectives and journalists tried to figure out the true identity of the author, and which events in the novel actually played true to life.By 1998, the media had unmasked Klien, though that didn’t diminish the hype for the film adaptation, directed by cinema legend Mike Nichols.