A database of news and information about people with disabilities and disability issues...
Copyright statement: Unless otherwise stated, all posts on this blog continue to be the property of the original author/publication/Web site, which can be found via the link at the beginning of each post.
Moviehole reports that Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of upcoming romantic comedy "I Love You Too." He joins "Chuck" star Yvonne Strahovski, Australian supermodel Megan Gale and Brendan Cowell.
The film will focus on two men – one is a postal worker and the other a “gifted” dwarf, played by Cowell and Dinklage, respectively – who are out to win their dream women, Gale and Strahovski, respectively. Written by comedian Peter Helliar, the film is set to start shooting in Australia the week of May 4 with Daina Reid as director.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From Screenhead.com:
