11 Days Til Hollywood

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The latest trailer for Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series Hollywood has arrived today and it's a whopper of one, pulling in at over three minutes long and giving us flashes of... well as you see above most importantly giving us flashes of a naked David Corenswet, for one. But also...

... oh right also flashes of gay Rock Hudson! And also...

... flashes of what are clearly one of George Cukor's

infamous, legendary pool parties full of boys. My god.

I know I said this when the show was first announced and then again when Jeremy Pope got cast and then again when David Corenswet got cast and then again when Jake Picking got cast (as Rock Hudson) and then again when I posted the first batch of images from the show but I don't know if ever a show has been more squarely aimed at my interests than this one. I've read all of the books it's stealing from -- the ones about Tab Hunter and the ones about Rock Hudson and the ones about their pervert agent Henry Willson and the gas station prostitute Scotty Bowers, on and on. I love Closet Case Hollywood History. Here's the trailer:

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Hollywood premieres on Netflix on May 1st!

Hit the jump for a few more gifs of note...

Pics of the Day

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The first batch of official photos from Ryan Murphy's forthcoming Netflix limited series Hollywood have dropped today -- see our previous posts about the show right here -- and they have made it clearer than ever that Mr. Murphy is going to be leaning in to the version of Tinsel Town history that we heard from the juicy (and possibly made up) autobiography of Scotty Bowers, the supposed gas station gay pimp of the Golden Age.

On the left there is the gorgeous David Corenswet (who is probably the only takeaway from Murphy's series The Politician) and on the right that's Murphy stalwart Dylan McDermott -- neither's character according to IMDb is named Scotty but one of them (David, really) oughta be. That said most of the main characters seem to be made-up, while they'll be surrounded by people playing Rock Hudson, Rock Hudson's creepy super-gay agent Henry Willson (who's being played by Jim Parsons), the gossip writer Hedda Hopper, et cetera so forth.

The seven episodes of Hollywood -- which also features Patti Lupone,  Darren Criss, Jeremy Pope, Samara Weaving, Laura Harrier, Holland Taylor, Jake Picking, and Joe Mantello -- will premiere on Netflix on May 1st. So just try to survive for four more weeks, y'all! Then we'll have a new show to binge while we're trapped in our houses still. A silver lining, that. Silver... like nitrate film, or whatever! I'm clever! Oh god get me out of this house, I am losing it. Hit the jump for a few more pictures...

Ed Skrein Rescue Us

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So I tried to watch Midway last night and oh my god you guys that movie is actually unwatchable! Just absolute unwatchable trash -- I couldn't even finish it, and if I can't finish a movie that stars Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Nick Jonas, Alexander Ludwig, Dennis Quaid, Darren Criss, Aaron Eckhart and our favorite fucked-up Nicky Hoult doppleganger Ed Skrein here all in period military uniforms then you know something has gone very very very wrong. Part of me kind of enjoys the fact that we've got our own hyper-faggy Michael Bay with Roland Emmerich -- The Gays can make Hollywood Crap too, dammit! But man this movie is one long window-shaking fart. Ugh. 

There weren't even nearly enough shots like that of Patrick Wilson from behind! What were you thinking, Emmerich??? Anyway for the forty minutes of the movie I did make it through the only thing keeping me hanging on was looking at Ed Skrein, and as I distracted myself by also googling him while the interminable movie droned on and on I realized that I have somehow never posted this photo-shoot of Ed here on the blog proper? I think it's on the Tumblr but MNPP home-base deserves these shots, especially after all the suffering I went through staring at that movie last night. Hit the jump for the rest plus a bonus one...

Who Wore It Best?

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Lots of Privates on Display

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Grab the biggest pistol within reach and ready yourself, for the second trailer for Midway is here! Roland Emmerich, gay director of Independence Day and Stonewall, has scooped up all the hot pieces -- Luke Evans and Patrick Wilson and Darren Criss and Nick Jonas and Alexander Ludwig and Ed Skrein...

... and Aaron Eckhart and Dennis Quaid and Woody Harrelson and a ton of young actors who I don't know by name yet but who will inevitably look real gosh darn cute in their WWII uniforms -- for his recreation of the famous battle, out in theaters on November 8th. The first trailer is at this link but you probably don't need that now, since here's the bigger one:

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One thing I will add: did you catch the character posters?

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Good merciful grief pic.twitter.com/15Bg6tgl9p

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) September 10, 2019

Good Morning, Gratuitous Jeremy Pope

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I'm sure one of you theater fans can tell me more about the actor Jeremy Pope, who made a splash I guess on stage with the one-two punch of Choir Boy and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations -- enough of a splash anyway that he just landed a big role in one of Ryan Murphy's forthcoming seeming dozens of Netflix series that've been announced this week. 

Specifically Pope will star in Hollywood, which Murphy calls "a love letter to the Golden Age of Tinseltown" -- he'll be playing a "gay, aspiring writer in writer in 1940s Hollywood" where he'll supposedly come face to face not only with screen legends like Rock Hudson and Spencer Tracy, but also as an actor he'll be face to face with a slew of Ryan Murphy Regulars in those roles, people like Darren Criss and Patti Lupone and Dylan McDermott and that hot boy from the trailer for The Politician that we already posted about. (His name is David Corenswet and honestly I could see him playing Rock Hudson.)

But we're getting distracted! We're like Ryan Murphy in that way. We're here for Jeremy Pope right now. Hollywood will mark only his second screen role, after playing a character called "Jerk" in last year's basically ignored horror flick The Ranger (I only recognize it because it had a terrific poster). Did anybody see that? I doubt a character named "Jerk" had a lot of substance, so Hollywood will mark our true introduction to Mr. Pope I guess. Well that plus the couple dozen photos I've gathered up this morning, which you can see after the jump...

Good Morning, World

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This isn't the sort of thing I would usually open the day with -- nobody's brushing their teeth or in the shower... unfortunately -- but these the first pictures of all of Roland Emmerich's boyfriends in his WWII picture Midway, fetishized up in the crispest coded outfits you ever did see, well they woke me up this morning. Are we sure this isn't the Tom of Finland biopic? We're supposedly getting the trailer soon and no doubt I'll share that... ETA oh wait here it is:

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... there are a couple more photos at that link above but I grabbed the ones that really matter (as in Patrick Wilson and Ed Skrein and Darren Criss and Aaron Eckhart and so forth) and have them for you after the jump...

The Poster For Midgay I Mean Midway

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Given the cast that openly gay blockbuster director Roland Emmerich has (putting the ass in)  assembled for Midway, his big-screen telling of the 1942 WWII battle -- which includes Luke Evans and Woody Harrelson and Patrick Wilson and Ed Skrein and Alexander Ludwig and Nick Jonas and Darren Criss and Aaron Eckhart and those are just the name actors, check out the whole twink-full list here --  you'd think that the first poster for the film (via) might look more like a greasy beefcake scene from infamous annual Herndon Monument naval academy pole-climb. Something like...

Maybe they're saving that for closer to its 

release date? Midway is out on November 8th.

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Bodyguard, Superhero, Lover and Star

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Richard Madden and his Rocketman co-star Taron Egerton both flopped the assignment of Camp at the Met Gala last night, which was a real bummer for those of us who're looking forward to that film -- I hope Elton John sent them very sternly worded snail mail which they will receive in seven to ten days. (Elton seems like a letter writer.) Darren Criss did marginally better in his Adam-Ant-esque clown-pirate buffoonery, but it's more just loud fashion than it is Camp. That said they should all immediately make out to make up for it to the gays.

I'm not actually here to diatribe on their tuxedo choices though -- Dick got a job! A really big job! He's entering the Marvel-verse! He's in talks to join The Eternals alongside the already-cast Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani. No word on who he's playing, although given all his closet-door-courting with Brandon Flynn and the rumor that Marvel wants to have an openly gay actor play an openly gay superhero in The Eternals one's mind does begin filling in some blanks. All that aside have you guys been following Kumail's super-heroic work-out progress? I am into it, especially since it involves a lot of him and Dave Bautista bromancing each other hard...
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Dave made me flex. ⁦@DaveBautista⁩ pic.twitter.com/YC5kioCDcp

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) April 23, 2019

We All Globe A Little Mad Sometimes

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Since I usually only pay enough attention to Awards Season to scream about its indignities I had not a clue that the Golden Globes were set to air this Sunday until about 48 hours ago - it's a good thing I'm a loser with no friends then, so I could pencil it right in in between "taking down the holiday tree" and "touching myself." That said now that I am voting for prizes (and getting wooed in a minuscule way with screeners and screenings in order to do so) I do find myself paying a bit more mind to these things - I'm way ahead of where I usually am at this point in the new year, seeing stuff wise, and so I can lay claim to... well if not exactly a worthwhile opinion (not more than anybody else's that is) an educated one. So looking through the Globes nominations (you can see them all right here) I give you...

5 Wins I'm Rooting For at the Globes This Weekend

-- Best Actress, Drama --

Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

I know that Lady Gaga is going to win this (and then lose to Glenn Close or Olivia Colman at the Oscars, thank goodness) but man alive does she not deserve to, especially with a marvelously funny and firing-on-all-cylinders McCarthy right there in a film I've already watched five times and might very well watch once more before the Globes ever air, hell let's put it in right this minute, it's always a good time for some Lee Israel Cat Antics! (Read my review here.)

-- Best Screenplay --

Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite

My vote would've just barely gone to Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty for CYEFM over this but that one insanely did not even get nominated, so The Favourite it is. And it's has no runner up feeling to the vote either, since I've been quoting this movie just as much as the other this season. "I like it when she puts her tongue inside me," being a particular fave. (Read my review here.) 

-- Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television --

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Believe me I never thought I'd be calling something starring 

Darren Criss a masterpiece, and yet here we are.

-- Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama --

Stephan James, Homecoming

Real happy that Sam Esmail took some time off the increasingly burdensome Mr. Robot to make this humdinger of a series, which I haven't been able to get out of my brain for weeks - I went into it skeptical but it totally had me in its palm by the end, and even with the star-wattage of Julia Roberts right there it's usually Stephan James' face I keep coming back to. (Helps that it's a hell of a face.)

-- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a

Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV --

Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal

Since none of these idiots are giving him his deserved statues for Mary Poppins Returns, I'll take this as trade. And speaking of trade, Ben sure made for some good trade in this miniseries. In all seriousness Ben is never not great and he's on point here - complicated and heartbreaking and yet funny and alive stuff. Per usual. We really need to stop taking him for (Hugh) granted.

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So who are you rooting for?

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Gay Boys & The Gay Boys Who Love Them

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Whoopsie I forgot to link this last week, but then the opposite of whoopsie too since there is never a bad time to talk about (being in bed with) Ben Whishaw -- the second half of The Film Experience's communal tackling of the Golden Globe nominations went up on Saturday, you can read it right here. (And in case you missed it all here was the first half.) It is very happy and gay, my favorites things. And speaking of I mention therein Luke Evans in The Alienist, and have we all seen the pictures of Noted Luke at the beach speedo'd up and getting frisky...

... with his now public boyfriend, actor Victor Turpin? They even hold hands, and I have a feeling something is happening under the water there. This is a thrill for those of us who've been pushing Luke since He Knows When And What He Did, and he looks pretty content here to boot, so hit the jump for a few (dozen) more shots of satisfaction for all of us now that we've gratefully moved on past all of that earlier nonsense...

5 Off My Head: Globes Gotta Globe

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I totally forgot that the Golden Globes nominations were being announced this morning, but perhaps that's for the best - reading through them over at The Film Experience just now left me wishing for a cocktail or ten and its a little bit early for that. Love for desperate dreck like A Star is Born is expected this season so I'm not letting that actually bother me, but a Best Picture (Drama) nomination for Bohemian Rhapsody is some real bullshit, as is a snub for all things Hereditary, and then this...

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I am personally affronted by a nomination for the music for A QUIET PLACE for anything, unless there is a category for "Best Ruiner Of The Entire Concept Of The Movie"

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 6, 2018

... actually gives me stomach pains. What a bad, bad decision that is! Especially when you've got Thom Yorke making gorgeous haunting music right over there in Suspiria! Ugh, Globes. But that's just it - it's the Globes, they gonna Globe, there's no point working one's self up into a froth. So let's look for happy things... which are all, weirdly, among the TV stuff. Here are a few of my favorite things...

5 of My Favorite Globe Nominations

Supporting Actor, TV

Ben Whishaw for A Very British Scandal

Actress in a Limited TV Series

Laura Dern for The Tale

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Very much here for scenes of Daniel Brühl barking boot-lacing commands at a submissive Luke Evans on #TheAlienist pic.twitter.com/xlwt9QV2vo

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) March 4, 2018

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Actor in a Limited TV Series

Daniel Brühl for The Alienist

Best Actress & Supporting Actor, Movie Drama

Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant 

for Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Limited TV Series

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Runners-up: Timothee Chalamet in Beautiful Boy, 

Stephan James in Homecoming, 

all of the ladies in The Favourite, 

anything ROMA

So what are your favorite nominations?

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Fly By Ludwig

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I guess I should probably just sit on my hands for a bit - not a bad proposition, with these pictures in front of me - and wait for Roland Emmerich to finish announcing all the man-meat he's tossing in his movie grinder for his World War II picture called Midway - just a couple of hours ago I told y'all how Darren Criss was joining the cast already stuffed with the likes of Luke Evans & Patrick Wilson & Woody Harrelson & Ed Skrein & Aaron Eckhart & Dennis Quaid & Nick Jonas. And now comes word that Alexander Ludwig here...

... who is mostly known for the TV show Vikings - and you can click thru our archives on the actor right here to acquaint yourself better! - well you can lather him up and throw Alex right on top of the Midway cast and call him the cherry! (Thx Mac) At least temporarily, that is, until some fresh twink gets gathered up into Emmerich's broad embrace. Anyway like I did with Darren -- because why post one picture when you can post a dozen? -- I've got some more pictures for you after the jump...

All The Boys Go To War

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I was watching The Young Lions on TCM last night - if you're unfamiliar The Young Lions is a 1958 movie set in Tunisia during WWII that stars Marlon Brando (as a bleached out Nazi) and Montgomery Clift and Maximilian Schell, and reader, it is sexual. (See some pictures we've posted before right here.) They're all punching each other in uniforms and sweating in their bunkers - typical homoerotic military movie stuff.

Anyway I thought of that movie upon reading the news this morning that (openly gay) director Roland Emmerich has just hired Darren Criss to co-star in his upcoming WWII movie called Midway, opposite the previously announced Luke Evans and Patrick Wilson and Woody Harrelson and Ed Skrein and Aaron Eckhart and Dennis Quaid and, uhh, Nick Jonas. I can't imagine why I thought of a bunch of sweaty beautiful men in uniform. I just... did. So there's a movie to look forward to! To tide us over hit the jump for a couple more from this Esquire shoot of Darren...

Good Morning, World

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I feel as if I am doing this incredible opening sequence from last week's episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace a disservice by not including Laura Branigan's song "Self Control" which plays over top of it, so here, just turn this on and stare at those gifs:

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I know from scanning Twitter that reactions to this show have been all over the map - a lot of people think it's slow and are irritated that we don't see more of the titular designer - but you can count me among the folks who are finding this run of episodes extraordinary, just mind-blowingly good. I was skeptical at first about Criss and the show having a hollow heart at its center with his Cunanan creation but the longer it goes on the more brave it all seems to me - this show's delving into some very dark places about the American Gay Experience...

... of the past thirty years and is refusing to lionize us or our choices; it's as if, in the wake of AIDS, this rupture was born; Andrew Cunanan is the BOB of this world, spilling out and spreading sociopathic poison over all these broken and weak people who were primed for this exploitation by decades, lifetimes, of defeat. It is asking us what we really want; what matters in the face of absolute oblivion. This is dark stuff! I get it. Dark stuff that is painted like a perfume commercial or a GQ shoot from 1988. It is, in other words, perfect. Anyway let me know how you're feeling, and hit the jump for more naked Darren Criss since that's the real draw...