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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."

Bosom Buddy?

I don't remember a time when I didn't love Holland Taylor. I don't even have to be able to stand her current project (Two and a Half Men) to continue at least a like affair with her. In The Advocate (February 2012), she's asked if anyone's ever asked her about rumors she's a lesbian or bi:

"No, I don't think anybody would ever do that. And I would only say that I'm of an age where there's not much I haven't done in my life."

Hm. It's not really about what you've done so much as what you are, but I do think that she's of an age (69—which has possibilities!) where simply allowing that much is a statement.

Reality LGBTV

Here's your chance to be Mr. Gay World USA and a reality TV star—all at once!

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Gross Out!

Model Nick Gross is anything but as he models for Gregg Homme in these behind-the-scenes photos recently released by the company that specializes in "outrageous underwear." Keep reading and prepare to be outraged...

Herein Lie The Snubs

"Shit! He got robbed."

I was knee-deep in Madonna recapping this morning when the Oscar nominations were announced—some real surprises in there, including only two nominees for song (suck it, Elton John), a full five nominees for animated feature (but no Gnomeo & Juliet, so...maybe David Furnish & Elton John can 69-suck it!), no recognition for Bill Cunningham New York, no Leo DiCaprio (yet STILL no space for Michael Fassbender) and quite a few more.

Here is what I heard from the ultimate Oscars expert, Nathaniel from The Film Experience Blog:

The Queen's Speech: Attending Madonna's Movie Premiere

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Madonna gets teary thanking her late mom

I was invited to cover the red carpet for Madonna's W.E. premiere at the Ziegfeld earlier tonight. Then I was uninvited. (Space.) Then I was re-invited. I wound up getting to go, and it was a blast of epic proportions. There was a very light turn-out of fans in the cold rain, but the press was packed into a long tent leading into the theater. I was placed two slots from the bitter end, which turned out to be a nice position because anyone who did the red carpet had to pass us to get inside.

I've had front row before but A-1...I'd be riding her dress train!

I made friends with a woman covering for Pink Is the New Blog, but she was whisked away ("first, they came for...") to a spot in the lobby so I wound up bonding with Matt from Hard Candy Music. As I told him, we were probably the lowest men on the totem pole so as such would be lucky to sniff Madonna's stardust as she breezed by. Which meant anything else would be a cause for joyous celebration. We also chit-chatted with a sexy, dark-haired (they have those there?) Swede named Pablo (they have those there, too?) who shoots for Vogue. He was much nicer than you'd expect for a Vogue shooter, and him saying, "One shot for Vogue?" had the effect of a brick wall, stopping nearly every celeb who breezed by. (Patti Smith was not impressed, but I was fucking impressed that Patti Smith walked past me, let alone that she was attending a movie by Madonna.)

The carpet got off to a slow start, but the tip sheet was insane! Check out all the names: 

Some of these people didn't do press or didn't show

The first star on the carpet seemed to be one of the film's two male leads, dreamy James D'Arcy, who looks even better with a shaved head that he does with his foppish blond Edward 'do.

Julia Stiles is miles of smiles—for Vogue

Ewan told this reporter the answer to her question was HIS business

Andrew McCarthy was born to run

Patti Smith— love to know her opinion of her fellow Downtown doyenne

It's Diane von Furstenberg, y'all!

"Mine is even younger than yours, dahhhling!" With Calvin Klein!

 Guy Oseary said "too stressed!" when I asked if I could quiz him

Spartacus sexpot Lucy Lawless with Liam McIntyre; she unceremoniously plopped her coat on the carpet to pose. She was fab!

Big, unaffiliated stars slipped past most of the press, namely Ewan McGregor (who was at one point attached to do this film), Julia Stiles (who was having absolutely none of any press except for a shot for Vogue), Andrew McCarthy (who gamely answered my question about a fantasy Madonna collaboration: "A duet, of course!"), a stunning Lucy Lawless with equally stunning Liam McIntyre (she gave me a great answer, he sort of avoided making eye contact rather than give us a "no") and then still others who I only saw fleetingingly like Diane von Furstenberg, Guy Oseary (Madonna's manager said he was too stressed to answer my question), Donna Karan, Calvin Klein (big kiss for and from Madonna and some conspiratorial chatting amongst them, perhaps about hot young guys!), Lady Bunny (I was impressed, too), Zac Posen, Ivanka Trump (pretty, actually) Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez (hotness) and several people even I didn't recognize. (Not Z-listers, more like fashion A-listers.)

Full W.E. Report Tuesday Morning...

But yep, I was there. Lots to report!

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Madonna Is Forever

Finally, a really smart article about Madonna in 2012. I think Lady Gaga deserves more respect than the writer is willing ot grant her, but otherwise—magnifique. And he's right that once someone has done it, the second time never has as much of an impact as the first.

P.S. The amazing score to W.E., by Abel Korzeniowski, is released digitally by Interscope on January 31. It includes Madonna's embarrassing, desperate and narcissistic (snark) song "Masterpiece."

Really Sellin' That Number

Discounted tickets on Broadway shows are available here, with more info here and here.

Australian Open For Business

Andy Murray shows that leaving something to the imagination is overrated. More of the week's hottest athletes here.

Wet Wet Wet

2wink Australia introduces the line Aussie Defence AUS12 starring fitness model Lee Stram. In the following video, he gets wet. You may, too...

After Dark Special #21

Lush Simon MacCorkindale was touted as a fresh face in the March 1979 issue, and damn he looked good in them jeans. Poor Simon passed away much too young in 2010 after struggling with colon cancer.

Bette Davis inspects Simon in Death on the Nile (1978)

Keep reading to see another hunk of the moment from over 30 years ago...

Bend It Like Fassbender

Via Sticky (NSFW): It's not surprising that this group chose Michael Fassbender as actor of the year, though I'm not sure how his brilliant Shame performance furthered the particular kind of visibility they seek to reward.

GLAAD You Came

The  U.K.'s most Wanted

U.K. boy band The Wanted—they're all of age and are the "bad boys" of the music scene, known for their partying—are in NYC as part of a whirlwind U.S. promo tour. They played a sold-out Irving Plaza show to the expected screaming teenage girls, but they also made a 1 a.m. stop at Splash, performing infectious hits like "All Time Low" and "Glad You Came".

Max is my favorite

The last U.S. boy band I can recall doing direct gay promo was The Backstreet Boys.

The Wanted at Splash after the jump...

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RUN!

"Run!" is what any self-respecting lady should do when she sees Newt Gingrich coming. But in this case, I mean: I'm glad Newt Gingrich decided to run for president. He's really fucking up the field and the Republican primary is now going to drag on into the spring (and maybe to a—gulp!—contested convention?). Check out his unfavorability over time, above, from DailyKos. Gee, South Carolinians on the right seem to love 'em some hypocrites, but the rest of the country? Not so much.

"I Can't Believe I Ate The Whooole Thing"

Iraqi male model Domo devours a bacon cheeseburger while you watch. That's what's happening in the following Warholian video by Erwin Alberty, who promises a new model—and a new meal—each week...

Race You To The Bottom

I hadn't been following the Web series Old Dogs & New Tricks, but this episode got some laughs out of me, especially the segment with Thom Bierdz and the battle for bottoming...

Ale-Ale-Jandro, Ale-Ale-Jandro

Via Sticky (NSFW): Click here (NSFW) for more than two dozen shots of superhot, supergifted Alejandro Salgueiro.

Shipp Of Drools

John Wesley Shipp (seen recently, above) turns 57 today. One of the all-time cutest pinups, he is best known today for his stint as Dawson's dad, his time as The Flash and his soap career.

After the jump, more smokin'-hot pix of Shipp...

Les Derrières du Monde: Parisian Ends Of The World, Part 4

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Just Another Snowy Day In NYC...

...nothing out of the ordinary to see!

Endless Love—A Preview Of Ghost: The Musical

Levy & Fleeshman: Scary hot!

I was invited this week to The Ghost Light Sessions, a cocktail hour and presentation at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre designed to give critics a sneak peek at Ghost: The Musical, which begins previews March 15 and opens April 23. I wasn't exactly champing at the bit to see it—I've never even felt the urge to see the movie! (I was in college, so I spent my money on things like the University of Chicago's Hitchcock retrospective.) But from what I saw, it looks like this production will be haunting that venue for a long time to come.

Stewart & Ballard

I was in the front mezzanine, and watched as the musical's collaborators—Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame, Glen Ballard, the movie's Oscar-winning writer Bruce Joel Rubin, director Matthew Warchus—took turns talking about how they conjured up this creation. They seemed dead serious that this is not a cheesy Broadway version of the cheesy movie; rather, it's its own entity. They did all seem to have entered into this in the right spirit.

The highlight was seeing most of the cast perform a bit. Richard Fleeshman, a soap and singing star (he opened for Elton John—hopefully not in that way!) from the U.K., is absolutely adorable and has presence, though his vocals were a bit ethereal, at least that night. He has great chemistry with Caissie Levy, who's got pipes to spare and reminded me of a young Bette Midler singing "With  You." In the famous Whoopi Goldberg role ("You in danger, girl!") is Da'Vine Joy Randolph. I found the song she sang a bit pat ("I'm Outta Here") but there's no denying her voice and star quality.

You're Soaking In It

Via Sticky (NSFW) and Notizie Gay Tumblr: Following is a minute-long mind-break showing cute guys being drenched, soaked and socked with various substances...