Shaun and Paul from Janice Dickinson (Photo: Brook Pifer)
In a continued effort to bring you all that is important in the world of gay entertainment and ensure that you are being spoon-fed images of gorgeous, commoditized manflesh, we present the newly-minted AfterElton Briefs. Following the usual assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
- We wrote about tonight's episode of 30 Days yesterday, focusing on the show's exploration of a conservative religious woman who lives with a gay couple and their kids. GLAAD has criticized the episode for the way that false anti-gay information is presented in it uncorrected.
- For hardcore Torchwoodies: the show's official magazine (from Titan, who specializes in this kind of thing) came out last week and it covers everything from Ianto's rise to prominence to the fashions of Captain Jack.
George Carlin
- The Independent has released its annual Pink List of the UK's most influential gays and lesbians, and it's filled to the brim with our faves, ranging from Sir Ian McKellen to Russell T Davies to Derren Brown.
- A reader kindly pointed out that comic legend George Carlin, who passed away over the weekend from heart failure at age 71, played Nick Nolte's gay neighbor in The Prince of Tides (directed, of course, by Barbra Streisand). Here's an interesting interview with Carlin from the time about how he approached the role: "I've always admired gay humor," he said. "It's bittersweet, bitchy, to-the-point and honest. So that was already in me somewhere." (t/y Booker Guy!)
- And just because it's close to my heart, today marks the 38th anniversary of the release of the colossally bizarre and pretty much disastrous (and therefore totally awesome) film adaptation of Gore Vidal's gender-bending masterwork Myra Breckinridge.
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on Tue, 2008-06-24 15:34.
Torchwood
Topless
I read that article! I liked that kissing John Barrowman is nothing, but having to be shirtless next to a shirtless John makes him insecure about his physique XD
(But friends who went to The Rift quoted him as saying that he'd do the whole show naked, just so long as they keep him. Perhaps some manner of fabric-eating alien needs to invade Cardiff.)
Myra Breckinridge!
Ah, yes, one of the first movies that I'd classify as a "Hot Mess"...
It features Rex Reed trying to "act" - he has a sex change, which turns him into Raquel Welch...
You get very early peeks at 70s icons Tom Selleck and Farrah Fawcett...
You see Mae West vamping it up in her late 70s (in front of cameras with lenses smeared with more vaseline than a power bottom at a Meat Rack orgy)...
And, to top it off (so to speak,) Raquel Welch straps on a dildo and does a confused straight guy from behind, riding him cowboy-style.
This one is definitely worth at least one viewing, preferably with a group of friends ready and eager to snark away!
"It hurt me more than it did him"
afhickman
"It takes a village (to make Village People)"
Raquel Welch and John Huston have never been better than in "Myra Breckenridge." I also thought the movie was underrated, largely because it had the gall to poke fun at Hollywood icons like Shirley Temple. If the rumors at the time are to be believed, Mae West all but single-handedly destroyed Sarne's "artistic" vision by demanding top billing over Raquel and writing her own dialogue. As it turned out, there were two movies: the one with Welch was terrific satire, the one with West, dated trash. I say this as a big Mae West fan. Both "Myra" and its sequel, "Myron" deserve to be properly filmed; they remain two of Gore Vidal's best books.
Q from a non-Janice watcher
Which one is Shaun and which one is Paul?