Dec
24
2012
Not a big fan of toreadors, but José Maria Manzanares is certainly adorable on and in Spanish Vanity Fair (Noviembre 2012).
46 posts categorized "VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE"
Dec
21
2012
Dec
07
2012
None of these stockings are stuffed
BIG GULP: Andrew Christian's R-rated Christmas card.
Gay couples in WA begin getting licenses to wed.
Judd Apatow's Vanity Fair covers do suck.
PICTURE THIS: KIIS-FM Jingle Ball portraits.
Israel's first gay divorce.
Mormons warming up to gays?
Starbucks, JCP ignore anti-gay protests.
DILDO BAGGAGE: Gay couple humiliated in court, too.
Wealthy gays OK with tax hikes for the rich.
He should be the Hunk of the Day every day.
Anti-gay Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) can't read.
This is not an Onion headline:
Fate-so!
Dec
06
2012
Being mistaken for a man now rankles this breast-cancer survivor
Tig Notaro has a moving two-page spread in the Vanity Fair (January 2013) comedy issue guest-edited by Judd Apatow, in which she discusses how her annus horribilis led to her instantly legendary stand-up routine in which she revealed her cancer diagnosis. Coming off of a life-threatening intestinal illness and her mother's sudden death, Notaro was diagnosed with cancer in both breasts. Deciding to confront it onstage was not an easy decision since she was never known as a personal-issues comic.
"I saw people grabbing their own faces in fear. Other people were knee-slapping. Everyone was processing it in their own time...The big picture of my story is that you never know what's coming around the corner. I need ot sit down, take a deep breath, and connect with where I feel there's humor these days...I could push a stool around Conan's stage for the rest of my life, but some of my other jokes...I just don't think I connect with them anymore."
Be sure to read the whole piece in the magazine or, when it's available, online.
Dec
05
2012
Disabled? Rebublicans couldn't care less.
Republicans thumb noses at wheelchair-bound Bob Dole.
Scorching-hot cub calendar for charity.
Hillary Clinton is totally running in '16. C'mon.
Is Kate Middleton a gay icon? C'mon.
Anderson Cooper went blind for 36 hours.
Mike Diamond sweats Ben Cohen's jock.
Handicapping Supreme Court Justice deaths.
Trade association NRECA selects homophobic head.
Even more Jayson Blair.
Dutch treat blackface as jolly Christmas tradition.
Newest Vanity Fair cover looks funny "ha-ha."
Paris Hilton's a DJ...wait, what did she used to be?
Boybands ready to scratch each other's eyes out.
Madonna's touring must-haves.
Top sugar daddy misconceptions. (Wait, aren't any of 'em bottoms?)
I wouldn't say no. I'm unemployed!
Oct
03
2012
Sep
12
2012
Norman Jean Roy for Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (October 2012) offers a first look at Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in character as Liberace and Scott Thorson in Behind the Candelabra. Not bad! Matt especially passes the giggle test.
Dec
06
2011
Kurt Andersen has a great piece in Vanity Fair (January 2012) called "You Say You Want a Devolution?" whose premise is that popular culture, over the past 20 years, has not kept up with technology or science, simply repeating itself.
Gaga haters will love that she is shown alongside Madonna (above)—and in the same issue sporting a Gaga cover!—but the article isn't so much about Gaga as a recycler as it is about how in the 20th Century, massive pop cultural shifts came every 20 years or so, but for the past 20 years, our music and fashion and architecture and more have remained comparatively static.
Worth a read; I'll link it when it's online.
Nov
14
2011
The Winklevoss Twins are looking good in Vanity Fair (December 2011). More after the jump...
Nov
06
2011
Prove it!
As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.
Of whom are you more jealous?
Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.
xoxo Matt
The pocket pool championships were intense this year
BOY CULTURE
FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.
Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich
BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.
I was left "Reeling" by the experience
FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.
No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner
RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.
MY ART
Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean
GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.
Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away
"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.
DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.
The shirtless one
LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.
Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end
ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.
ME
Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life
BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.
Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered
LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.
Be Italian
CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.
ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.
Life is short...and meaningful
PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.
Lots more...
