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Kudos to Cheyenne Jackson for allowing us free entry into his summer fun-time (via) -- I feel like I'm practically there! Of course it helps if you open that image up, make it very large on your computer screen, and then press your nose against it. Just don't let your co-workers see you -- they might have questions. Anyway it's Tuesday morning which is probably the worst morning of all the mornings (yes it's somehow even worse than Monday) so those buns are a real ray of sunshine today. Thank you, Cheyenne. Hit the jump for more gratuity from Mr. Jackson if yo nasty...

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Twas a Cheyenne-stravaganza on Cheyenne Jackson's Instagram this weekend as he strutted around Fire Island in nothing but a white speedo and a smile -- the actor-singer-beefcake was in town to do one of his singing gigs but he made sure to put on another show from the beach. One we didn't have to be there among the dunes to enjoy thanks to his phone camera. Although I admit I am sad I was not there among the dunes time time. As much as I loathe the beach. I'd make this sacrifice. Anyway no need to click on over to his account and sort through things for the good bits because I'm giving you nothing but the good bits after the jump...

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Cheyenne Jackson wishes you and yours a good Monday.

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(via) Does it sometimes strike you how lucky we are to have openly gay celebrity men in the world now? Specifically ones who look like Cheyenne Jackson? Specifically Cheyenne Jackson? It strikes me sometimes. Specifically times like right now. Specifically right now. I mean JFC. Aaaanyway -- eyes down here, y'all -- hello! I'm back. Sort of. I'll be back this afternoon. I have a screening this morning -- yes that's right, I am back from a film festival and going immediately to a movie screening. That's because I'm a fucking professional. A professional what I don't know -- a leerer? I am leering right now, I tell you what. I'm not even looking at what I am typing, that picture of Cheyenne is too distracting. So enjoy it! Enjoy it for these couple of hours until I insist on posting new things, new things much less interesting, moving it down the page. It can't be helped!

Cheyenne Jackson Six Times

The ever handsome Cheyenne Jackson is heating up the cover of this month's issue of The Advocate, and inside talking about being a dad... but, like, a literal one. Not the kind of "dad" I would ask him to be if I ever met him in a dark alleyway one night. Unfortunately. Anyway the photo-shoot thankfully leans into what I am talking about at least! Hit the jump for the whole thing...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

 Today I'd rather be...

... poolside with Cheyenne.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Knock Knock (2015)

Bel: It's like destiny that we were meant to meet.

Do you believe in destiny, Evan?

Evan: I'm an architect, so obviously I believe in things

happening by your own design.

Bel: Well... I do. I don't think people just pick randomly.

I think that, if we are here together, it's because there's

something we have to learn from each other.

A happy 50th birthday to Eli Roth today! Listen, I don't miss the Aughts era of "Bro Horror" anymore than any sane person would, but I still maintain that Eli Roth's early films -- meaning the original Cabin Fever and the Hostel movies -- were smarter about the xenophobia and sexism that they've been bluntly labeled with as of late. I still think those movies were sending up our shitty American instincts more than they were being a straightforward indulgence of them. That said I'll admit I haven't watched them in a decade, so maybe a re-watch would disabuse me of my romantic notions towards them? But he still made Knock Knock in 2015 and that movie's feminist as hell, and presaged the #MeToo movement pretty smartly. Plus Cate Blanchett loves working with him -- she's re-teaming with Eli for his Borderlands video-game adaptation next, alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Haley Bennett and Gena Gershon and Cheyenne Jackson and Edgar Ramirez! (Not to mention it was co-written by the dude who made the phenom Chernobyl series!) Oh my! So who are you to question Queen Cate? In summation...

Good Morning, Gratuitous Cheyenne Jackson

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One week ago I shared with you a thrill, a greatly gratuitous photo-shoot of the actor Jonathan Tucker by the photographer Tony Duran. Duran has gifted us with so much, stretching most memorably back to that "Chris Evans is a truck-stop hooker" photoshoot we all, no matter the year we were born, came of age looking upon -- that Tucker one was just the latest. Until...

... I scrolled down on Duran's website and found this here absolutely astounding photo-shoot of actor Cheyenne Jackson. It's another one for the history books, Tony! You always know it's good when I can't figure out which pictures to start with, and which ones -- and there are a couple dozen more -- to put right on after the jump...

I Can See Cheyenne For Miles

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All of the great Cheyenne Jackson photoshoots - see here and see here and see here but most especially see right here - have had one thing in common and that thing is his legs.  His great big gorgeous gams. And so this brand new one for Attitude (via) as you see there above and there below has immediately situated itself among the greats. (Just as I dream to one day situate myself between, well, you know.) Hit the jump for seven more... 

The Lunatics Are Running The... Everywhere

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I told myself I wasn't going to watch the teaser trailer for the new season of American Horror Story (subtitled Cult) as soon as I read the description of what the season is about - Sarah Paulson is playing a lesbian who loses her mind when Donald Trump wins the presidency - because what more does one need from life than that tagline? That is enough. There doesn't really even need to be a show. Anyway then I saw a gif of...

... Evan Peters humping Fox News and my will broke, 

as my erotic fever took hold, and I watched it. 

And oh ho my god...

... it was full of shelves!

Shelves!
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And more shelves! I would appear between this and Darren Cross' itty bitty red speedo bikini that Ryan Murphy has decided to personally wish me, and me alone, well in life. I wish you the same, Ryan. As I do every eyar I hope this is the best AHS season ever! Watch:

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AHS Cult premieres on September 5th!

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Good Morning, World

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A happy 42nd birthday to Cheyenne Jackson today - here's a picture swiped from his Instagram of him going full DILF, jogging shirtless with a twin stroller. I know some of you are into the whole "hot guy with babies" thing but it's not really my deal - I just think they look tired and are probably covered in puke. But to each their own! Cheyenne's back on AHS this season right? Here's to hoping there's more gay than there has been lately and that Ryan Murphy's not getting all his gay jollies off with that Versace thing.

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Say Good Night, Hotel

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That picture of Evan Peters & Charles Melton hanging out (heh) on the set of last night's American Horror Story finale has got me rewriting the entire episode now - dirty, dirty thoughts mixing together a little of this from Evan and a little of this from Chuck - but I actually thought, all things concerned, it was a pretty good finale as far as AHS finales go.

Same goes for the entire season - it was far more focused than years previous, and it was awfully easy to luxuriate in that set and the music and the sleazy disco vibe. I don't think it ever hit the crazy heights of what the show's possible of, but twas solid. (Now if the question is 'Would I have given Lady Gaga an acting award,' and over Kirsten Dunst at that, well you'd be hearing another story.)  

What did you guys think?

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Good Morning, Horror Hotel

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Sorry we're getting a late start this morning, I have been here slaving away for you all this time, making the terrible traumatic sacrifice of wasting away my hours staring at all of the butts that were on American Horror Story: Hotel last night - Finn Wittrock, Cheyenne Jackson, Wes Bentley, hell they even carted in some male model (anybody know his name?) to join the butt party --  seriously, what a martyr I am! I expect sainthood, you monsters. Anyway I'm not going to say much and I'm going to throw all of these after the jump because some of you might not have watched the episode yet, it is less than 24 hours old. If you haven't watched it yet, put on your 3D Butt Glasses because butts be popping...

I Am Link

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--- Lady's Boys - The hot similar looking dudes of American Horror Story: Hotel are fully aware that they all look similar, thank you very much. (Thanks Mac) It's seemed like a silly non-story to me because clearly it was intentional; look at those twin children Lady Gaga breeds! Clearly she's into types. She's like Bert from Sesame Street with his closet full of the same outfit. (Bad analogy actually since Lady Gaga changes outfits per scene, but whatever.) Anyway I did appreciate Cheyenne Jackson's comment on the twin thing:

"There are worse things than to be compared to Matt Bomer."

--- From Gods To Men - Bryan Fuller has poked his head up out of the writing room for his upcoming adaptation of American Gods to talk to Crave about both that project and where it stands and the just announced reboot of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories that he is doing for NBC. Sounds like Spielberg is much more involved than it seemed when the project was announced - he recruited Bryan personally to make the thing because he loved Hannibal! In other Bryan Fuller News, Bryan was asked recently what his dream reboot would be and he said he's love to bring the British spy series The Avengers back from the dead. (thanks Mac)
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--- Daemon Lover - This is hopefully good news, fingers crossed: the BBC is planning on making a television series out of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books! You might recall the movie The Golden Compass with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and Eva Green (who really all were ace casting) flopping violently back in 2007 - they made some good choices but they neutered the story for audience approval and ended up erasing why the story matters in the first place. So let's hope the BBC learned from that, and stick to Pullman's hardcore anti-religious guns because there's a hell of a story to be told here.
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--- And Speaking of Nic, apparently Nicole Kidman is in talks to play "a high-ranking Amazonian Warrior" in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie starring Gal Gadot, spinning off from the Batman v Superman of next summer. People are theorizing that this means she'll be playing Diana's mother Hyppolyta, who is the Queen of the Amazons. Listen I love Nicole but she usually makes reeeeally bad choices when it comes to mainstream movies so I'm not sure whether I'm excited about this or not.
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--- Scrubbed Clean - The Playlist got their greedy mitts on the first picture from Park Chan-wook's upcoming film called The Handmaid, which returns him to Korea after making Stoker here in the States. The movie is an adaptation of an English-language book called Fingersmith (it was turned into a BBC miniseries in 2005) but he's switched locations; now it "is set during the Japanese rule of Korea and follows a handmaid who employs the services of an heiress, con man and pickpocket." See our previous post here. No word on a release yet though.
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--- Just Shoot Me - The first pictures of James Franco and friends in the upcoming Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 have been released, see them over here - I can't recall whether I knew Josh Duhamel was in this show or not but hells yeah. And also Sarah Gadon! And Cherry Jones! And Chris Cooper! Did I just forget this thing had assembled such a stellar cast or what? Maybe somebody went back in time and erased my memory. Anyway I really liked this book, which is about a dude going back in time to stop JFK from being assassinated; did anybody else read it? The series will premiere on President's Day (so clever you guys!), February 15th 2016.
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--- Forever Filthy - I think John Waters has been given like five interviews a week lately and I've posted links to all of them, but we should be happy he won't shut up dammit! Happy as snapping clams. He chatted with Michael Musto in the new issue of The Advocate and while he refuses to take Musto's bait on the trans issue he did offer up this bit of hilarity about Divine:

"He didn’t want to be a woman. He wanted to pass as a monster."

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--- Herky Jerky - This will take forever because stop-motion always take forever but it's still pretty cool news for like ten years from now -- Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and everything good stop-motion-animated ever, is teaming up with comedians Key and Peele (!!!) to make an animated movie called Wendell and Wild, which is about "two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two goth teen acolytes." I will watch that!
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... on the American Horror Story set.

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Seriously.

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How do I get on this set???

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Fuck everyone.

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Good Morning, Hotel

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Well American Horror Story: Hotel premiered last night -- what did we think? I found all of the Matt Bomer nudity perfectly agreeable! Naturally we'll be sharing all of that here. But what of the rest? I think there is the possibility for entertainment - I am intrigued by the characters and the place. 

But I don't know if I was really "entertained" by last night's premiere in itself. I was surprised by what an influence Seven appears to have been on the season; less so by all of the references to The Shining and The Hunger. A lot of the actual violence (rape by silver unicorn dildo, for instance) felt crammed in. (Sorry, I had to.) It was best when it was soaking us in the atmosphere of the place.

MVP, even besides all of the bare ass, was probably Bomer, because somebody's been taking strutting lessons (probably from Denis O'Hare) and I found his newly liberated looseness refreshing. Wes Bentley was good too - I look forward to him being dragged into the sexy sexy muck. Anyway before it gets too bright outside tell me what y'all thought and let's hit the jump for the pics...

Hotel Hunks Getting Checked Out

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The first real teaser trailer for American Horror Story: Hotel -- meaning it's the first one with footage of the folks who are acting in it -- has arrived, and it's the usual fashion horror hybrid we've come to love... for a few episodes and then grow exhausted by. 

I kid, I kid, I am of course pretty excited about Hotel, even if every season devolves into chaos and nonsense like clockwork. How could I not be with the man factor turned up to eleven this year - we get glimpses of Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson, Evan Peters, Finn Wittrock (way too quick with the Finn, though), Wes Bentley, and whoever that Sexy Disco Jesus is that Angela Basset's dragging around on a leash.

I hope he's actually on the show! Anyway you can watch the trailer over at BD and then here after the jump I capped the shots of the fellas, come along with me and Cheyenne to see the rest...

The Hotel Gang's All Here

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EW has got American Horror Story: Hotel on the cover of its new issue and besides the articles with lots of juicy details they're also sharing the first looks at what Ryan Murphy's troupe of actors will be looking like this go-around, and it is something!

Look at Finn Wittrock! Good lord that's... a lot to unpack. I'm guessing the season is set in the modern day because of the fashions, although you know, these looks are...

... timeless? No timeless isn't the word I'm looking for. More like... horrible. Horrible is probably the word I'm looking for. God the Los Angeles or Las Vegas is just dripping from it. At least Wes Bentley & Matt Bomer look human. And Evan Peters has a certain....

... fussy dandy quality that makes me think we might finally get him gay this year. I also always prefer him dark-haired, as we've well-documented, and this is the darkest they've gone with him yet. Anyway there are more pictures over there, of Kathy Bates and Naomi Campbell (!!!) and Sarah Paulson and Angela Bassett, oh my.

So what do you guys think?

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Bed Hopping With Evan Peters

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Evan Peters is returning to American Horror Story for the fifth time, says Ryan Murphy - given his alternating hairstyles through the seasons I'm gonna assume he'll be rocking something a la the Farrah 'do seen above this year, but I'd love to be proven wrong since I always prefer Evan in the darker haired years. That said can we finally get a good and proper homosexual Evan Peters this time around? You've got both Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson sauntering around the horror hotel - don't mess with me, Murphy.

Wes Checks In

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So apparently Ryan Murphy's decided to cast nothing but gorgeous men with black hair and light eyes for the next season of American Horror Story (and I certainly can't argue with such choices) - on top of Matt Bomer & Cheyenne Jackson he's just tossed the beautiful & talented Wes Bentley to the heap.

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Thrilled to announce Wes Bentley will be a series regular on AHS: Hotel.
— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) March 17, 2015

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Bentley had a small role in the last season as a two-faced Victorian ghost (oh, this show); he also previously  worked alongside Cheyenne on Murphy's not-picked-up HBO show called Open, which was supposed to be some kind of sex-drama, and which I still mourn every time the memory's unburied. Just transfer all those sexy scenes to Hotel, please!

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