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Brazil Nuts

Via Sticky (NSFW): Made in Brazil never disappoints—they're never kidding around when they post pictures of guys. More like this here (NSFW).

WIN IT! The W.E. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack!

Enter to win the W.E. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring Madonna's brand-new track "Masterpiece," winner of the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and containing the original score by Abel Korzeniowski, plus a W.E. mini-poster!

I've got 5 soundtracks to give away. All you need to do to enter is comment this post with your favorite Madonna movie song of all time and why; I'll pick 5 of you at random to win on February 3 at 5PM EST.

The soundtrack is available everywhere today.

More info on the film, which will be getting a post a day on this blog this week...

The Weinstein Company presents the Academy Award-nominated W.E.

A film by Madonna.

In Select Theaters February 3. Check your local listings.

W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determiend women—Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson—separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally's research, including several visits to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally's journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D'Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.

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Ends Of The World X 1

A reader from El Paso, Texass, sends me this "End of the World," seen dangling off of an EMT. (The lady he arrived to rescue was "A-okay," so don't worry.) I mean, if I'd had a heart attack and this showed up, I think it'd probably finish me off.

A Singing Justin Of Our Very Own

As out singer Justin Utley recalls in the above introductory video, he's "gone through a hell of a lot of shit in a very small amount of time." Raised a Mormon, he endured ex-gay therapy and came out the other end still gay and determined to speak his mind and be himself.

Utley's music is folky with a protest vibe. Check him out here, and buy his song "Stand for Something" by clicking here.

And if you think he's kinda cute, you haven't seen the half of it—keep reading for at least the top half of it...

Built Like A Brick Arthouse

Would you have sex with Jean Dujardin? A picture of him in his swimsuit is here (site is NSFW). We all know I would.

Ghost Of A Chance

I covered Ghost: The Musical's "Ghost Light Sessions," but there is pro video up now (after the jump)...

The Deep Blue See

Via Sticky (NSFW): Paulo Rocha hits—and in my book is a hit—at the beach, where he is awful fun to look at in his royal blue suit. More here.

Killing Joke: "hahaha a hate crime lol"

 

If you think you know all you need to know about the infamous Tyler Clementi suicide case, think again. The New Yorker has an exhaustively researched story that deeply profiles accused tormenter Dharun Ravi that at once humanizes the guy and reveals the extent of his douchebaggery. In private communications leading up to Clementi's death, he displayed knee-jerk homophobic reactions but also bemoaned the fact that his new rommate was uncool and unwealth. "Dude I hate poor people," he IMed a friend. Dude, as young as you are and as much as I don't believe you are 100% the cause of Clementi's death, I don't think I can muster much sympathy for whatever becomes of you.

Breaking "News"

Via Joe.My.God.: Funnier than their latest movie by far, Miss Piggy leaves hoof marks all over FOX "News" in this clip from a hilarious, spontaneous (?) exchange at a press conference...

Underwhere? Underhere

Metrosource NY's February/March 2012 edition offers a feature on underwear that's worth delving into. More after the jump...

"Sorry I'm Late"—How I FINALLY Met Madonna

Yes, this is me with Madonna's chair

I met Madonna.

When I type that, it has the cutesy bluntness of "we bought a zoo." But even wilder than purchasing a zoo, I did finally get to meet a woman who has inspired me for three decades.

By "meet," I don't mean in the magazine coverline sense, I mean I met-met her—like, shook her hand, was introduced, sat knee-to-knee with her and conversed.

And frighteningly, it almost never happened.

WIN IT! Tickets To See Nick Jonas In How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

I've got TWO PAIRS of tickets to see Nick Jonas in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! All you have to do to enter is comment this post with your favorite musical-comedy star of all time with an explanation of why he or she is your #1 pick. I'll choose 2 of you at random to win one week from today at 5PM EST. Good luck!

My thoughts on this production from when it opened are here.

Read on for more details on this contest and to find out how to get discounted tickets today...

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Carnaval Cruising

A few more images from "Carnaval" by Maycon Silveira after the jump, and still more here...

The SAG Awards: Point By Point

* This show is never as fun as the others, but it feels far less belabored than the Oscars.

* Would've been a nice touch to have had Misty Rowe and Theresa Russell introduce Michelle Williams.

* Glad Christopher Plummer won! Where did he get that posh accent, coming from frickin' Canada? I hope his win and Octavia Spencer's win—as expected as they were—won't cause Oscar voters to decide to change things up. I don't mind disagreement between the shows, but I hate when it feels like wins at the other shows that come first turn into surprise losses at the Oscars. The Oscars should be definitive, not reactive.

* I love 30 Rock and love Alec Baldwin on it, but it's a scandal that Steve Carell didn't get it—ever!—for one of the most memorable (and interestingly textured) TV characters in history.

* Betty White is amazing and an instution, but she was not the year's best lead actress on a comedy. In fact, she wasn't even the best actress on Hot in Cleveland! She earned the award with the silent "I won?" acting once she was announced.

* Modern Family is probably the best cast, so I was on board with that. 30 Rock's a better show, but those MF mfers are all so equally great and 30 Rock is top-heavy.

* Surprised Maggie Smith couldn't best Kate Winslet, but I did love Kate in Mildred Pierce.

First Peek At "GMAYL"

On the right, Madonna 2012 (love the hair, cross and, well, all of it) from her "Give Me All Your Luvin'" video. On the right, her inspiration piece: Madonna 1985, wailing along to "Gambler."

Check out DrownedMadonna.com for more, more, more! The video snippet looks HOTTTTT. I love that Madonna's not a cheerleader in it.

Full video at FOX.

She Doesn't Look A Day Over A Century!

Sometimes Google ads shoot themselves in the foot, as in this case (from a list of the world's longest-living people)!

We Close Our Eyes

Brandon K. Thorp over at Towleroad is covering the unbelievable blindness of Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee), who in an interview with Michelangelo Signorile said he believes AIDS originated with homosexuals, specifically with a gay man (so-called Patient Zero Gaetan Dugas) having sex with a monkey. And other stupid shit, like believing that And the Band Played On's Randy Shilts was "appalled" by unsanitary gay-sex practices and thinking it's "virtually impossible" (!) to get HIV from heterosexual sex. Um, tell Africa that. Um, tell the huge number of heterosexuals who got it that way that. (Also, does a guy putting his dick in a woman's butt not count as heterosexual? Just curious.)

Madonna Prepares To Give Us All Her Luvin'

"Fuck—you!" [Smiles with satisfaction]

Via MadonnaTribe: Absolutely love the official art for "Give Me All Your Luvin'," which has a lot of energy and style. Love the treatment of the title on Madonna's top. (Fritz thinks that because presenting a person in triptych has occurred before, that makes this somewhat unoriginal. I think Madonna's triptych has a unique, demanding vibe and don't believe it's important for a single cover to be 100% unrecognizable as anything that's ever been done.)

Thought of this cover because of its resemblance to the third pic above

Madonna's triptych "Give It 2 Me" came out June 4, 2008, before Whitney or Mariah's (dramatically different anyway) covers

Any other single covers on which Madonna appears thrice? Oh, yeah! 

Even more in love with the info that "Give Me All Your Luvin'" will be released on February 3 and that iTunes will have an exclusive pre-order of an 18-track deluxe edition of MDNA (including a remix of one song) from February 3—February 6 for just $9.99. Starting February 3, go here for the offer.

Genderfuck, Yeah!

Matthew Duffy's "Man Out of U" (I wonder if it's a four-year college or...?) is saturated with Madonna references, shows off some killer shades complete with pornstache and has plenty of skin courtesy of Ronnie Kroell...

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Common Threading The Needle

A modern coming-out story, complete with cameras, that nonetheless will feel warmly familiar and which smacks only of sincerity...

Ladyfinger

Valentine's Gay

With thanks to Andy: Ah, to be barely legal and in love. This "fashion film" by Robert-John is from Vrag Magazine (Vancouver) for its February issue. It's like Valentine's Day meets James Bidgood...

Pot To Kiss In

Via Sticky (NSFW): Marijuana couture is so not my thing, but when Marlon Texeira wears it...well, pass the potato chips. More of him here.

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Shit (The Real) Madonna Says

Lots of people want this trend to go away, yet people keep watching—just like Madonna! Madonna is immortal, and looking through these 100+ snippets of her saying stuff only reinforces that she is the alpha and the omega and other "Beast Within"-type, Queen-of-the-Universe stuff...

His Ticket Out

Sadly, Robert Hegyes—Juan Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter—died at the age of 60 following a heart attack. I remember knowing he had not been broke for a long while. It's good to know he participated in that recent WBK reunion. Hopefully, that brought him a little fun.

Fruit Of The Bloom

Via Sticky (NSFW): Sexy model Christopher Bloom strips to his skivvies here.

The Homosexual Gourmand

Josh Bowman is adorable on the cover of and inside Entertainment Weekly (January 27, 2012)...and Nick Wechsler ain't half bad either:

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Signs Of The Times

Barre None

Pure Barre Beverly Hills has launching a weekly "Boys to the Barre" class, the only of its kind in the country teaching pure barre to an all-male clientele. According to a press release, choreographer Shawn White attended. And yes, I'm aware the photos look like I might have taken the surreptitiously myself, but I swear they are hand-outs.

 

The classes are taught by Blake Richard Tuesdays at 7:45PM at Pure Barre Beverly Hills.

Comin' And Goin'

Those are Steven Gerrard's best sides. Much more of him here (NSFW, but W is overrated).

(Presumably) Uncut Video

Mario Lopez gives the performance of his life, removing his clothes to show off his Rated M underwear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Video after the jump...

Good Christian

Pornstar Jake Andrews (not the original one!) is the latest Andrew Christian model, showing nearly everything in the video after the jump (and even more in this video right cheer)...

Off The GRID

Imagine being this mom and hearing the beliefs of some of her fellow parents

In a school district where a half dozen kids have committed suicide within the past two years, the system's anti-gay policies (don't ever talk about it) were not harsh enough for a cabal of "conservative" "Christian" (both terms used loosely) parents—they're calling for the school to teach about the existence of ex-gay and ex-transgender reparative therapy and also about the terrors of GRID. Yes, GRID. That's the first term ever used, along with "gay cancer," for AIDS 30 years ago.

If these were my parents advocating for these things, they would be my ex-parents. Read about it here.

I Will Be Your Mother Figure, Put Your Tiny Hand In Mine

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OK! (February 6, 2012) somehow got Madonna's dancer-boyfriend Brahim Zaibat to speak. In the piece, he says he was never a big fan of hers—"It is not the kind of music I [prioritize] in my iPod. But like everyone else, I knew her hit songs." (I wonder what word he said in place of "prioritize?")

About his womanizing past, Zaibat says:

"When I was younger, I had a number of female conquests. The dance helped me a lot. I am a dancer first. I have not yet shown the world the extent of my talent."

I figure Madonna would agree.

My Buddy, My Buddy

From Entertainment Weekly (January 27, 2012): Joe Manganiello and Matt Bomer are not only Magic Mike co-stars, they're college buddies! Who knew? I love it; it just increases the odds they've accidentally seen each other naked at some point.

In the purposefully-naked department, Bomer says of filming the stripper-themed Magic Mike:

"If you ever want to build an ensemble between a cast of dudes, put them in a thong together and it's like, instant band of brothers."

I second that. More male casts should try it.

More pictures of the buds after the jump...

The Homosexual Gourmand

Above, Star (February 6, 2012) gifts us with Chris Hemsworth sans shirt. Below, more of the stud is seen in In Touch (February 6, 2012):

The same issue has Jason Lewis and (truther kook, but...) Daniel Sunjata for your viewing pleasure:

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What About Bob?

The Biggest Loser's Bob Harper covers Men's Fitness (March 2012). More where that came from...

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Can We Talk, Whore?

Via Towleroad: Joan Rivers goes for Chelsea Handler's throat (or was she aiming that high?) in responding to Handler's suggestion that Rivers fuck off...

Lages Nothin' But A Number

Via Sticky (NSFW): Made in Brazil invites Mateus Lages to do some exclusive poses.

America's Most Wanted

Max George, frontman

The boy band The Wanted is currently giving the U.S. a dose of their new song "Glad You Came" and a few others from their catalogue of U.K. hits on a gay club tour:

January 26—Roscoe's, Chicago, IL; January 27—Saloon, Minneapolis, MN; February 3—Krave, Las Vegas, NV; February 4—Cherry Pop @ Ultra Suede, West Hollywood, CA

Keep reading to see a video diary of what they've been up to in general...

Bonjour, Indianapolis!

Via Pud Whacker's Madonna Scrapbook: Video of Madonna enticing French fans to win tickets to see her at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis...

Engaged! Steve [Starchild] & The Night

Steve Starchild's "Marry the Night" is an interesting proposal...

I'm In

I thought President Obama's State of the Union was persuasive and uplifting. I find it hard to swallow that things are going so terribly now compared to when he took office—they're not. They're on the upswing. And more than even what he said, it's what he's done, as documented in this video (via Joe):

Keep Feelin' Fascination

With thanks to Curtis: For photographer Steven Siegel, New York City has been his Helga Testorf. His portraits of the city (and let's face it, it's more a person than a city) are pretty spectacular, and he's sharing some here.

His '80s work could be polarizing, as he addresses on his Flickr. Love his observation:

"Some older people are nostalgic for 'the good old days.' For example, they remember the Times Square of the '80s… And what they remember is not so much the danger but the grittiness and (for lack of a better word) the authenticity. Yes, there was sleaze, but there were also video arcades, cheap movies, restaurants, and weird places...Others’ reactions to these same photos could not be more different. If they’re over a certain age, they remember the high crime, the twin crises of AIDS and crack, the racial tension, the lurid tabloid headlines about the latest street crime. They say: It was a nightmare, and thank God it’s over. Of course, both views are right."