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"Merlin": Is There Enough Beefcake to Make Up for the Not-Gay Couple?
I'm interested in the Grail legend, because of its origin in ancient Celtic mythology, but the rest of the Arthurian mythos leaves me flat. It's mythology in mythology, symbolism that leads to deeper...
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The Invisible Wrestlers of 'Ewa Beach
Boomer's Small Town Beefcake:The Invisible Wrestlers of 'Ewa Beach.
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I'm Not Okay With This
Netflix is trying to sell me a new series called I am Not OK with This. The blurb reads: "A teen boy negotiates his budding sexuality and superpowers.""Budding sexuality" usually means being gay, but...
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The Van Patten Brothers
Speaking of show biz dynasties, Dick Van Patten's three sons and his younger brother all began appearing on screen at the same time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, producing a quadruple-threat of...
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Spring 1978: Husbands, Wives, and Lovers
The spring of 1978, my senior year in high school. I devised a clever scheme to avoid having to date girls: I would ask out a supermodel-cheerleader laughably out of my league. Then, when she slammed...
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In Search of Basque Beefcake
I've always been fascinated by the Basque language of northern Spain -- not related to any other language on Earth, with words that date back to distant prehistory.And the Basque physique, with...
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Aaron Tobey, the Boy with the 4th Amendment on his Chest
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Leif Garrett
Even in the glam-rock 1970’s, when swishy postures were sexy and the androgynous became superstars, Leif was so absolutely girlish in every word and gesture, polarized so far into the feminine, that...
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Hunters: Everything Bad About the Summer of 1977, and Not Enough Beefcake
The Hunters, on Amazon Prime, is set in 1977 New York City, where Steve Guttenberg..um, I mean Dustin Hoffman...um, I mean Logan Lerman...discovers that there are hundreds of Nazis (the World War II...
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The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia: A "Family-Friendly" Show "For the...
The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia is a teencom straight out of Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel, a mashup of Hannah Montana and ICarly: a girl with absent parents lives in an impossibly lavish...
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Quentin Crisp: Homophobic Gay Pioneer
This elegantly-attired, feminine person, who looks a lot like my Grandmother Davis, is Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), who spent his life saying and doing exactly what he wanted.He didn't like doing...
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Lidsville: Butch Patrick's Nude Bubble Bath
One of many Krofft Saturday morning tv shows about boys trapped far from home, Lidsville (1971-73) starred Butch Patrick, formerly Eddie the werewolf-boy on The Munsters, as seventeen-year old Mark,...
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Vicksburg: Beefcake from a Troubled Racial Past
Vicksburg is an old French town in the Mississipi Delta, just across the river from Louisiana.It's in the Democrat Belt of red-state Mississippi: mostly black and poor, beset upon by obesity, diabetes,...
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Katy Keene: A Singer, a Dancer, and a Fashion Designer Have Big Dreams
Any show that starts off with a muscleman in black underwear is worth viewing, in my book.Even if it is about some of the most minor players in the Archie universe.If you read some of the Archie...
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Are Muscles Sexy or Dangerous?
Do you want to kiss this guy or beat him up?Today I was on the treadmill at the gym, flipping through the channels, when I came across Mark Wahlberg with his shirt off -- always a reason to stop and...
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Marble Falls: A SkinnyTarzan, a 71 Year old Bodybuilder, and the Wrong Wrestler
Everybody knows that, after my horrible year in Hell-fer-Sartain, any day that I don't spend in Texas is a good day.I only started researching Marble Falls, Texas because I thought this high school...
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Jesse Bradford
Born in 1979, Jesse Bradford made his acting debut at the age of 8 months, in a Q-Tips commercial (it was a non-speaking role). He was busy as a child, playing the son of a screenwriter with lung...
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What do Moose Javians do on Saturday Night?
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, "Canada's Most Notorious City," has nothing to do with moose jaws. It is an Anglicization of the Cree word for "warm breeze."Why is it notorious? According the director of...
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