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The Homosexual Gourmand

Sporto Danilo Gallinari from Italian Vanity Fair (14 Maggio 2008) reveals basketballs pumped to regulation standards:

Finally, we see the other bicep-boy of whom Mario Lopez is allegedly so jealous. I actually prefer him to Mario, but I don't think he's got anything on him arm-wise:

For the cameras, Eduardo Yanez, Pablo Montero and Jorge Salinas romp in their undies in TV Notas (Mayo 20, 2008). What a swimmin' hole:

A twofer from OK! (May 26, 2008)—Sex & The City star Jason Lewis looks like a stylized portrait:

And...the other (along with Penn Badgley and Ben Barnes) is after the jump...

Boogie Fights

Mark Wahlberg is featured on the cover of Men's Health (June 2008). It's interesting to me that his cover line is, "C'mon, man, take a swing!" and that he's photographed in a boxing ring given his propensity for beating people up:

Iron Weed

Former druggie Robert Downey Jr. looks hewn of iron himself in Italian Vanity Fair (7 Maggio 2008)...maybe it's the gaunt appearance caused by whatever he did to get into top shape for the box-office-topping superhero joint:

One more, squatting, after the jump...

Strapping Jocks

Fencer Aldo Montano is the hot coverguy on Italian Men's Health (Maggio 2008):

He also poses with fellow athletes Andrew Howe Besozzi and Filippo Magnini:

The same issue offers these hot jocks:

Fernando's Hide

Forty-two-year-old Mexican sun-worshiper Fernando Colunga looks like a polished brass totem in TV y Novelas (Mayo 6, 2008)...he's a bit much without going over:

Two more after el jump...

Fine Dandy

Terry Tsiolis captures Hayden Christensen for Man About Town (spring-summer 2008) at his fine-and-dandiest:

More after the jump...

...Who Need People

The marrying kind.

The May 19, 2008, edition of People almost got left behind in the grocery store—I hate to contribute to Mariah Carey's blatantly sham marriage and she's on the cover—but I did find some good stuff in there. I've been semi-oblivious to Brothers & Sisters, but did catch the sweet proposal between Matthew Rhys and Luke MacFarlane. I can only imagine what this kind of thing on TV does for youngsters who are realizing they may also be gay. All I remember having was An Early Frost, which was a whole lot of good news wrapped in a whole lot of bad.

I also thought the Mother's Day-themed Dierks Bentley pic was adorable:

A face a mother and everyone else could love.

I would only see Mamma Mia! if it were free and slid into my sked easily, but I'm dying to see Julie & Julia, a comedy coming in 2009 that stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child:

Now she's cookin'.

Finally, if Mariah—so famously controlling of which side of her face is photographed—was the person who sold these images of her wedding to People, you'd think she would sooner die than release this one. She looks pretty great lately, but in this shot she looks like something out of The Dark Crystal or a sea monkey:

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Gettin' Pussy

From the Edicion USA of TV Notas (Mayo 13, 2008), this is a person—a man—who has used tattooing and surgery and piercing to make himself into a catman. This might be the most nightmarish visage I've seen yet, even if it makes Jocelyne Wildenstein raise her tail.

The Homosexual Gourmand

From OK! (May 19, 2008) and Life & Style (May 19, 2008), Robert Buckley reveals why he is fast becoming the new Matthew "McConaughey, where's my shirt?":

Speaking of OK!, their "Man Candy" is farmerboy Matt Neustadt of Farmer Wants A Wife, a show that I think is a steaming pile of manure. And despite his nice bod (is it possible to have meth face in the country?), does anyone else think this promo shot implies that the women are his livestock?:

Superhot toreador Cayetano Rivera Ordonez gets a pass for working in an inexcusable profession on account of his killer ass and well, everything else. He appears in a spread in Italian Vanity Fair (7 Maggio, 2008) alongside Penelope Cruz:

More men after the jump...

In Fashion

Artist Roberto Gonzales Fernandez and photographer Camilla Akrans collaborated on "Imagery Inspired By Works Of Art Shown Together To Find A Context In Which Fashion Tells A True Story," from Man About Town (spring-summer 2008):

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