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Joel and Jody McCrea: The Bisexual Cowboy and His Beach-Movie Son
Speaking of showbiz families, Joel McCrea (1905-1990) was a tall, lanky, and muscular, perfect for roles as white-hat cowboys. And he played a lot of them during his 50-year movie career. But you're...
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Adrian Zmed After Dark
On an episode of The Simpsons, the family goes to a review featuring the once-famous: We are the stars that you thought were dead, Like Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Zmed.People who weren't...
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Lane and His Trophy Boy
West Hollywood, Summer 1989You can easily tell whether heterosexual partners have broken up. They begin going to social events alone, and no longer spend the night together. Usually they never see...
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Spring 2016: A Hookup with the Trophy Boy and His Dad
Plains, Spring 2016I'm at the Orthopedic Clinic to see a doctor about my knee injury. I still have Troy as my emergency contact."What is he?" the receptionist asks. "Your son, your brother...."I look...
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Teenage Millionaire: The Teen Idol Career of Jimmy Clanton
Have you ever heard of Jimmy Clanton?I thought I was an expert on teen idols, but I missed this one.Born in 1938 in Louisiana, he burst onto the charts right after high school, eschewing the usual rock...
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Big Bad Brucie
I am a child of the television era; the tv was on from the moment we got home from school until well past bedtime, except during dinner. We watched while playing, doing homework, reading, a constant,...
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Steve Bond: Most Famous Nude in Hollywood
The October 1975 issue of Playgirl featured several nude photos of model/actor Steve Bond. They quickly became the most famous male nude photos in the world (not counting those of Christopher...
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Homophobic Moment in History: Bob Hope's AIDS Joke
Bob Hope (1903-2003) was probably the most famous and beloved entertainer of the 20th century, from the 1940s Road movies with Bing Crosby (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore) to 30 years as a radio...
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Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson was the first teen idol produced by television. He was born in 1940 to show biz parents, band leader Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet, who played "themselves" on The Adventures of Ozzie...
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16 Texas Toughs, Houston Hunks, and Hell-fer-Sartain Sausages
I endured Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas for a year after getting my M.A. in English.It was actually Aldine, Texas, a far, far, far northern suburb of Houston, 20 miles from the beauty and excitement of the...
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Burt Reynolds Naked on a Bear Skin Rug
The most famous male nude photos in history:1. Johnny Crawford's full-frontal nude shot advertising The Naked Ape (1973).2. Burt Reynolds's nude centerfold in the April 1972 issue of CosmopolitanThe...
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Saturnino Herran: A Gift of the Gods
Saturnino Herran (1887 to 1918) came to Mexico City in 1905 to study at the National School of Fine Arts. He is most famous for murals that draw on Aztec motifs to display the color, life, and...
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Spring 2015: Three Guys on the Same Night
Plains, Spring 2015I hate Sunday. It's the dark, dangerous, lonely end of the week.Maybe it's residual Nazarene guilt.Maybe it's because there's nothing to do. No theater, restaurants are deserted,...
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The Postapocalyptic Fade-Out Kiss
In the movie 28 Days Later (2003), an attractive young man named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma to find himself in a deserted London hospital. Fully nude, he stumbles out onto the street, and...
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Disney's Descendants
The Disney Channel movie Descendants (2015) follows the unlikely conceit that seven Disney animated fantasies about beset-upon Princesses being saved by Handsome Princes all took place about 20 years...
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September 1984: Sex and Astrology in Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas
Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas, Fall 1984I'm 23 years old, just graduated from Indiana University with my M.A. in English, with a new job at a state college in Hell-fer-Sartain, Texas. I hate the bugs, the...
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Breaking Bad: Everyone Loves Jesse
People kept telling me, "You have to watch Breaking Bad (2008-2013). It's great! It's fabulous! It's colossal!"I turned on the first episode, in which Albuquerque chemistry teacher Walter White...
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April 2016: A Gigantic Sausage Sighting in the Campus Locker Room
Plains, April 2016Getting Sausage Sightings in the locker room at the gym is harder than it sounds. First, you have to be discrete, "accidentally" turning your head at the exact moment he drops his...
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Jay North's Gay Connection
Dennis the Menace (1959-63), the sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham's comic strip, was before my time and rarely rerun, so I have never seen it. But I knew Jay North's Dennis, a gangly blond wearing a...
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October 2000: Ozzie Hooks Up with John F. Kennedy, Junior
Old Westbury, New York, October 2000It's raining hard outside, so Ravi's Bear Party in Old Westbury had rather a low turnout to begin with, and now there are only five of us left:Ravi and his partner...
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