Riley Keough, Elvis’s granddaughter, at Tribeca Film Festival last year.

Back in the dog days of August 2010, Citizen X posted a long-hot-summer lament on this site called “A ‘lesbian-themed werewolf romance’ .. what will they think of next, etc??”

His lament began with: “It may just be the summer heat that does not seem to be going away this year – or my all too advancing age.  But the news that “Riley Keough, the 21-year-old granddaughter of Elvis Presley” has “replaced Olivia Thirlby as Jack in ‘Jack and Diane,’ a lesbian-themed werewolf romance … due to be released next year” has come very close to blowing my mind.”

We have now informed the Citizen that: “The long-awaited lesbian-themed werewolf flick ‘Jack and Diane’ is finally getting its premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 18 — 29.” He has demurred from writing further on the matter, but generously invited us to bring those interested up to date.

So … to start with, the Tribeca Film Festival was “ founded  in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff … to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan” (especially after September 11, 2001).

Riley Keough (right) and her Jack and Diana co-star, Juno Temple.

As best we can make out, the 2012  Festival website is somewhat evasive in its synopsis of the finally completed “Jack and Diane” flick: “Tomboy Jack (Riley Keough) and bubbly Diane (Juno Temple) fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe, their budding love is tested. Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray …  brings his unique vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love.”

Riley’s Grandma and Grandpa ... on holiday in Hawaii (USA), birthplace of President Obama, May 28, 1968.

No mention here, that is to say (as in the plot summary originally quoted by Citizen X), that “Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.”

Just in case it’s the “lesbian-themed” side of all this that makes you wonder if it would be safe to take your 90-year-old grandmother to New York for the premiere of “Jack and Diane,” you may be reassured to hear that Gillian Anderson – now on her third major heterosexual relationship and the mother of three children – has also just confessed that: “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school” (and subsequently “had additional flings with other women”).

It is apparently also true that co-star Juno Temple, talking “of her scene in ‘Jack and Diane,’ where she kisses fellow actress Riley Keough … says, ‘I had a lot of fun making out with her. It’s not that I am specifically going out of my way to choose those roles. But if one comes along and I feel good about it? F*** yeah, I’m gonna do it!’”

Riley and Alex ... Shopping in LA – March 12, 2012.

On the other hand, the latest news we can find on Elvis’s granddaughter herself reports that: “Alex Pettyfer–who will soon star in the stripper flick ‘Magic Mike’ – is getting very serious with costar-turned-girlfriend Riley Keough … So how serious are they? Marrying serious: ‘I’m very happy in my personal life. Let’s leave it at that,’ Pettyfer tweeted following the Us Weekly report claiming he’s engaged to his sexy ‘Magic Mike’ costar.”

Beyond this report, we have no idea just what the “stripper flick ‘Magic Mike’” is about. Or just who Alex Pettyfer is, and whether Elvis would approve of him, etc.

We have, however, asked Citizen X if he is planning to fly to Lower Manhattan for the premiere of “Jack and Diane” at the Tribeca Festival next month. And he just pointed to the last sentence of his original article on the subject, on August 13, 2010: “I can hardly wait …”!  (And if you still haven’t had enough, try our latest Zzzzzzzzzzzzz update for insomniacs, and/or “David Letterman – Martin Short Sings For Mitt” : tweeted this afternoon by President Obama himself … well someone who looks like him … maybe?)