Update on Stevie

About half the people finding their way to this site in the last week have been looking for one of three things: amazing variations on "gimp porn", more information about the talented writer, lawyer and crip activist Harriet McBryde Johnson, and an update on Stevie, the subject of Steve James' 2003 documentary film. With a little google research, I can satisfy your curiosity on the latter.

For a recap on why Stevie was a film of interest for this blog, check out my review of last August.

For the update on Stevie Fletcher, the man featured in the film, check out the sidebar here. You'll have to scroll down quite a ways. Among the revelations of a 2005 interview with the man who directed Stevie is this:

Have you talked to Stevie lately?
We went down in December to visit him in prison, and we're gonna go before Sundance. He's doin' okay. I think for being in prison he's doing fine, but he is gonna serve his entire 10-year sentence--just as I say at the end of the film, it's still true that he has not been an ideal prisoner. And I still have not been able to show him the film.

Go read the rest.