Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Eugene: I know what your son is to you, and it frightens me. Let me explain a little. I don't think he'll change. At twenty-one or twenty-two, so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible. Which forty sees as nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this. Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty.

The great Joseph Cotten was born 120 years ago today.

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather...

... taking in some local color with Theo James.

Okay! So Dolce & Gabbana have been teasing the release of their Theo James campaign for a few days now -- I've been documenting it with daily irritation on Bluesky because we saw those set photos last summer! We knew what they'd photographed! And yet they were being coy! Well no more, as you can well see -- coy no more!

Nope not coy at all. Nice to see Theo embracing his Greek side! (I'd also like to embrace Theo's "Greek Side" wink wink.) Anyway I have a feeling even more will drop and I'll have jumped the gun by not waiting a day or two longer but... I couldn't. So hit the jump for everything to date...

Good Morning, World

It is very wet here in NYC this week and not supposed to let up for a few more days so I am trying to make wetness appetizing inside my brain and I thought of this photo of Josh O'Connor and... mission accomplished. You know -- Josh turns 35 next week on Tuesday so in order to wake us all up today tell me in the comments what you'd give Josh for his birthday if you could. (Oh myyy.)

Makin' Like Tovey...

... and peacin' the fuck out.

Bye til tomorrow...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

THX 1138 (1971)

OMM: Let us be thankful we have commerce. 

Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.

Since I'm on an unexpected Star Wars kick thanks to the crazy good series Andor -- as dived into yesterday -- let's go ahead and wish George Lucas a happy birthday today. I'm 100% going to be re-watching the SW prequels and such over the next few months, whenever I've got time to waste really, since Andor was so good it made me feel like diving into the world of the Skywalkers et al. And yet here I am using a quote from one of his few non-Jedi-related projects for this post! What -- you want a Jar-Jar quote instead? But in related news -- if you've watched the final three Andor episodes tell me your thoughts in the comments! (I stayed up way too late last night to binge them all and personally -- swoon, they stuck the landing.) 

Mason Gooding Seven Times

Mason Gooding posted these photos on Instagram saying thanks to Adidas for sending himself and his adorable doggy (who you'll see in a photo below) the clothes, and I think he's insinuating he took these photos himself? In which case I can only commend the man -- he sure knows his angles. Hit the jump for all seven snaps...

Jeremy and Tigers and Jude, Oh My

This news is two days old so the world's moved on but here I am, world, here I am, finally reporting that Jude Law and Andrew Garfield are going to play homosexual tiger tamers Seigfried and Roy in a limited series about their lives for Apple. Titled Wild Things (excuse me there is already a campy queer masterpiece called Wild Things) it'll have Jude starring as Siegfried and Andy as Roy, and if you ever knew which one of those weirdos was which I wish you the best. Coming so soon after reporting that Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall will be playing a gay couple I feel as if it's my duty to holler about "where the hell are the gay actors getting cast in gay roles" here, even if I'm not really honestly all that upset about this shit this week -- there's just other stuff to worry about. I can't prioritize who's slipping into spangled leotards to play the Vegas punchlines right now. But since we're here anyway...

... I will also report on (presumably) less gay news that also involves a pair of straight actors that people seem to find attractive (I only find one attractive and I've made that opinion known before) -- Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler are going to star in a "crime saga" film for A24 titled Enemies,  about a contract killer and a detective playing "cat and mouse." The film will be directed by Henry Dunham, who made 2018's Standoff at Sparrow Creek -- I feel as if that title is familiar but I don't think I ever saw that. But good on A24 for continuing to support new filmmakers, and to hook them up with great big stars in the process. Anyway that news is brand new, of today, so we're all caught up now. Hooray!

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Quotes of the Day

"I’m okay. Situation normal, all up, kind of a thing. I’ve had some pretty difficult things happen to me, so I’m in a state of repair and survival. I’m not really in any state of mind or any position to go on tour yet. But I’m starting to see the light. I’m starting to feel a sense of direction toward something meaningful and substantial. I’ve been focusing on the moment and on things that feel very silly and Zen: serenity and acceptance and duty and stewardship... I’m doing a lot of ordinary, mundane adulting. The other day, I had to get a septic pump replaced. I have had to retile the kitchen and buy some new appliances, and I’ve got seedlings under grow lights in the garage. I’ve been working on other people’s music this past year, not my own. It feels like my life is in service to other things right now. It’s fine and required of me. I’m okay, I’m okay, I’m okay. It’s been two years of a shitshow, but I’m okay."

A couple of weeks ago when one of the fresh demo tracks off of Sufjan Stevens' upcoming 10th anniversary re-release of his record Carrie & Lowell dropped I wondered how the man himself is doing -- ask and ye shall receive, as he talked to Vulture today and gave us that update on his well-being. Thank goodness! There's a lot more to the chat so check it out if you worship the man like I do (well none of you worship him like I do, but it's nice you try) -- most of it is about the record (which is out on May 30th) but they also get into the gayness of religion which mightily amused me (how I wish we could've heard Sufjan talking like this a decade ago):

"The religious is very sexual. It’s erotic. Look at Catholic art through the ages, Baroque art. It’s all very fleshy and sensual and full of naked bodies. I’ve always embraced that. I’ve always felt that my relationship to God is a very intimate and sensual one. Sacraments are. It’s engaging with God in a physical way. You’re literally eating the flesh and drinking the blood of God during the Eucharist. It doesn’t get much more erotic than that. If you’re a vampire, that’s the ultimate erotic experience.... The Bible’s very gay. Just all men. That’s what you get when there’s a patriarchy that’s endured for so long. Jesus was single, never married; Disciples were all dudes …"

Good Morning, World

Swallowed and Monsters actor Cooper Koch was revealed -- perhaps I should say "undraped" -- as Calvin Klein's latest tighty-whites model yesterday, so behold the fruits of his loom! Sexy pictures that are obviously a call-back to the original CK underwear campaign shot of Olympian Tom Hintnaus by Bruce Weber that got the entire ball(s) rolling. Hit the jump for all the snaps I could dig up...

A Love Letter To Genevieve O'Reilly

I was rightfully chastised yesterday when I mentioned that I hadn't written anything here on the site proper about Andor (even as I haven't shut up about it on social media) so let's right that wrong today with a love letter to the biggest reason for that love -- namely Genevieve O'Reilly's extraordinary performance as the senator-turned-rebel-leader Mon Mothma. She's been playing the character in some iteration since she her scene got cut out of Revenge of the Sith in 2005 -- the character was originally played by Caroline Blakiston in Return of the Jedi, ("Many Bothans died to bring us this information") and no I couldn't have told you any of this nerdy shit a few weeks ago before I binged the first season of Andor right before the second season began. As I've stated on here a million times I've never been much of a Star Wars person; I was way too young when the original trilogy came out to pay them much mind (my parents didn't take me to the movies so I definitely didn't see any of them in the theater) -- Jurassic Park was my Star Wars. But since binging Andor, phenomonal Andor, I find myself wanting to go re-watch all of the Star Wars movies, which will surely turn out disappointing in comparison given that Andor is operating on a completely different level than anything else the franchise has ever accomplished. At the very least after tonight, when the final three episodes air, I will have to go and watch Rogue One again -- Andor is that film's prequel and I have a feeling I'll have a very different reaction to it now compared to the shrug it got from me when it came out in 2016. 

All of that said it's Genevieve O'Reilly we're here to celebrate, and celebrate we shall -- there are several great performances happening on the show (Denise Gough and Kyle Soller as those fascist creeps Dedra and Syril we hate to love, for instance) but, with all due apologies to Diego Luna -- Andor belongs to O'Reilly. Watching her transformation from a life of walled-off privilege to one of dangerous rebellion all due to her steadfast commitment to freedom for all has been wildly inspiring to watch -- I don't know if there will be a better scene on TV this year than the one where she has a breakdown on the dance floor at her daughter's wedding as she realizes just how much her life is collapsing around her. Andor has been so smart about the way it's wielded what we know is coming -- the inevitability of everyone's coming roles in the rebellion (given we already know most of their fates) has enriched every choice instead of undermining the tension. Tony Gilroy (the showrunner) has done an astonishing job forcing us to luxuriate in these uncomfortable choices, and nobody's made a richer feast out of this than O'Reilly. Give this woman all of the awards!

Been a hot minute since I have loved a character and a performance as much as I love this lady right here #andor

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This Dude's Playing John-John

Say hello to Paul Kelly, a newcomer who according to Evan Ross Katz on Instagram will be playing John F. Kennedy Jr. in Ryan Murphy's upcoming miniseres American Love Story, which will tell the tale of John-John's whirlwind romance with Carolyn Bissette. Bissette will be played by actress Sarah Pidgeon (who's in the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot) while JJ's mommy-dearest Jackie will be played by one Naomi Watts! I couldn't even dig up Paul Kelly's IMDb page but he does have an Instagram right here -- I took note of how many followers he has right now...

.... and I'll be curious to see how many he has in a few weeks, or months haha. I already followed him, that's for damn sure. ERK says Kelly beat out a thousand other actors for the role -- he's gorgeous obviously (I'm guessing he was a model given the photos you see here off his Insta) but I'm not sure I see Junior just yet. But who knows what magic they can work with a makeover. Shave him (his face only!) and give him that wavy 90s pompadour and anything could emerge! Not sure how I feel about this series in general, but Naomi will make a good Jackie, I think -- I might not have thought so before her role in Capote Vs The Swans but it totally makes sense now.

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Good Morning, World

I don't think I need to apologize for using Garrett Wareing be the poster boy for our "Good Morning" posts two days in a row, but I will admit that this is me being lazy. He was on hand. (God I wish.) Oh well! Would that all laziness looked this good in tighty-whities. Click here if you missed yesterday's Garrett post, or click here if you missed the one I did a couple of weeks back. The boy is bombarding us with gratuity and I for one am not complaining. 

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 Today I'd rather be...

... making Miguel Ángel Silvestre smile.

Aww this is so sweet of Miguel -- he must have heard my brain this past weekend sending out distress signals that I hadn't had the chance to ogle him in a bit (it's been like eight months since our last post!) so he went and dropped this video (via) for us. He's a doll. No literally he might be a doll? Has this man aged a bit since Sense8? That show was 10 years ago! WTF. Anyway hit the jump for more gifs and the video itself showcasing this man's supernatural gifts...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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The Lion in Winter (1968)

John: A knife! He's got a knife!

Eleanor: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.

Kate the Great was born 118 years ago today.

Tom Hardy Nine Times

I haven't watched any of Tom Hardy's latest series MobLand but our pal Dustin at Pajiba is a fan so perhaps I'll get around to it. I am feeling a bit ovwhelmed with television at the moment as I'm currently trying to carve out whatever spare minutes I can for new episodes of Hacks, The Studio, Poker Face, and then of course the final three episodes of Andor are airing tomorrow night! (And I'm just now realizing I have not mentioned my obsession with Andor here on the site proper at all, only on social media -- so... I am obsessed with Andor. There, that's said.) Anyway MobLand will go on the list, but I make no promises. (Sidenote: Have any critics made the "MobLand? More like Mo' Bland" joke? I hope so. Just for the joke's sake, not out of any ill will toward the show obviously.) That said I love this new photoshoot of Tom...

... for Esquire (read the interview here) because he looks so fucking uncomfortable, and that's how I like my Tom. Adorable and irritable and obviously wishing he was anywhere else doing anything else. I so relate to that. Also I love and would wear all of these beautiful clothes, and I am probably showing a picture of Tom's haircut here to my barber my next go-round. (Tom and I are the same age and our graying patterns are going similarly so fingers crossed it looks like his!) Anyway come join us in staring at opur belovedly curmudgeonly Tom after the jump...

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Good Morning, World

It's only been a couple of weeks since I learned the name "Garrrett Wareing" and immediately preceded to share with y'all about one thousand photos of him in a great big gratuitous post which you can see right here. But the boy's PR people are making good on that gratuitous promise real fast -- on Friday I gathered up this really rather enormous in itself photoshoot of Mr. Wareing from Nineteen92 magazine (mostly via)...

... while a couple days before that the trailer for the long long long awaited adaptation of Stephen King's short story The Long Walk dropped, which features him in a prominent role. I haven't watched this trailer (because as I've explained too many times now horror trailers just give away too much, I'm done with them) and I haven't read The Long Walk since I was a teenager. So all I can really remember is the basic plot of the tale, which I won't ruin for you if you don't know it. But I'm excited for the movie anyway! And here's the trailer...

... so y'all can make up your own dang minds if you wanna watch or no. Francis Lawrence is a solid director though and this is a great (handsome) cast (Charlie Plummer!) so I say bring it on, baby. That movie is out on September 12th. Perfect for those Back To School feelings, lol. Anyway back to the studmuffin at hand -- I've got all of these photos of Garrett to share! So that's what we're doing. Hit the jump for almost four dozen "Good morning!"s from Garrett...