AfterElton Briefs: Rupert Everett talks the party circuit, T.R. hits Paris, and more!

What is abercrombie selling in that shot?  Briefs? i know it's not pillow cases.

And, am I the only one in the world who couldn't give two bowel movements about Heigl and her activities?  Yes, T.R. is just adorable.  He couldn't be any cuter.  But why is Katherine so exciting for people?

Eh, who knows?  I'm just asleep here...

The gays of AI doesn't need to go out and say they're gay for us to enjoy the show. It's even better if they stay on long in the competition, or who knows, maybe even win. That's an even bigger positive exposure we can get than by just coasting along as a gay man and getting votes based on that fact. Cheer up! Don't have to look a gift horse in the mouth now do we.

Then again I watch AI because I have the hots for David Hernandez. Anything else doesn't really matter to me :)

"What's French for "cute enough to spread on a croissant?"

^ this is as close as i got --> joli s'étendre sur le pain

as Heigl is becoming a major star who seems to only be closer to her gay best friend while Everett has turned into a bitter old queen without any reason. Maybe it was all the bad plastic surgery that he underwent to try to try to remain youthful, the apparent belief that his sexual orientation is the only reason he's not a massive superstar, or maybe that simply some twink turned him down at one of these sex/drug filled events that he so used to love.

I can't stand the the site of Everett anymore, but he is gay and AE is here cover even the annoying ones, to a point. I've love to see porm provocateur and general sour-loser Michael Lucas do a gay version of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, with Everett playing the Baby Jane role and Lucas tackling Blanche. Oh the possibilities..... Bitterness is not attractive and hopefully Everett can reel it in as he was so great in .... well you know the movie. I am not going to market it for him until he chills.

Okay, granted, this article from The Onion (from 7 years ago) is a parody, but only barely to completely honest...

Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years

I was so hoping T.R. did what most of us want, that he had bitch slapped Paris Hilton.  No such luck. 

A guy can dream, can't he?

I've been tempted to get an account here before, but now I finally got one so I could thank you for acknowledging James Wilby's birthday here. Maurice is one of my favorite movies ever - I run a LiveJournal community for it and I've watched it around twenty times (and read the book maybe eight times).

I didn't know there was a LiveJournal for Maurice. That's been one of my favorite movies since I was about 12.

Happy Birthday to James Wilby! If you're interested in his work, he also turned in a great performance as (gay) poet Siegfried Sassoon in the movie Regeneration, aka Behind the Lines.

it was Rupert Graves for me! *swoon*

And thier kiss in the boat house is still one of the most beautiful I've seen. Glistening lips!

The Torchwood Sock Puppets were hilarious. "You canna have an episode of Torchwood without gay innuendo", which is true! 

I want to be a hero like Captain Jack Harkness, kicking butt and snogging anything with a pulse! Besides, then I get a sexy receptionist of my very own.

and the final segment, when Maurice fully embraces Alec into his arms. They share that amazing kiss and Alec says into his ear:

"Now, we shall never be parted."

I swooned like the naive 16 year-old surburban straight girl that I was way back when. I also realized that I was very intrigued by anything that dealt with the expression of sex, love and affection between two men. I mean, I discoved this Gordon Merrick trash novel by the time I was 12 years of age (A Measure of Madness) in my local drugstore.

The novel, which went unpublished for decades, was considered revolutionary given the period it was written in that Maurice and Alec have a happy ending rather than suffering tragedy as a consequence of their homosexuality.  While that may seem odd now, for a long time it was an expected part of any (rare) depiction of homosexuality that the homosexual needed to be punished in the end for their transgression.  It was a great book and a very great movie.