Brooklyn gay basher could get 25 years behind bars. Victim Dwan Prince, who allegedly made a flirtatious remark that instigated the attack, remains in and out of a coma.

The New Yorker pans Stephen Daldry/Elton John collaboration on Billy Elliot musical: “When a story gets at something elemental in the dream life of its audience—here it’s the longing to discover your desire and to seize your destiny—narrative vulgarities are often overlooked. This, it seems to me, explains how a show with a mawkish, melodramatic book, and without a single memorable melody or lyric, could have worked its way so deeply into the public imagination.” No doubt we’ll all still cry anyway.

Brokeback Mountain will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September.