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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
Before the film's theatrical release, Lana Tisdel sued the film's producers, claiming that the film depicted her as "lazy, white trash and a skanky snake" [114] and that her family and friends had come to see her as "a lesbian who did nothing to stop a murder". [115] Tisdel settled her lawsuit against Fox Searchlight for an undisclosed sum.
Boys Don’t Cry: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny as Brandon Teena and Lana Tisdel (Getty) Swank has said words to this effect in several interviews over the years, always in a manner that ...
Updated August 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM. Judge Kenneth King listens during a probable cause hearing in Detroit in 2015. The family of a Michigan teenager on Wednesday sued the judge who ordered her ...
e. This is a partial list of lawsuits involving Tesla, Inc, the American automotive and energy company, since 2008; as of August 2023, Tesla is party to over 1,750 lawsuits, [1] and as of September 2021, it is party to 200 in China alone. [2] A significant number of the cases notably derive from the actions of the company's CEO, Elon Musk, who ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance sought on Monday to convince a federal appeals court to block a U.S. law that would ban the short video app used by ...
[42] [43] Sevigny played Lana Tisdel, a young woman who fell in love with Teena, initially unaware of the fact that he was a transgender man and continued the relationship after learning about his gender identity. [44] Boys Don't Cry received high praise from critics, and was a moderate box-office success. [45]