Category: Actors and Celebrities

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Gratuitous Jake McDorman







A perennial favorite of mine, a homosexual archetype harkening back to my earliest lustful imaginings (think Christopher J. Brown, "Duff," and Treat Williams in The Ritz), I did not even recognize him in the most recent episode of HBO's Watchmen—but the actor playing Captain Metropolis definitely caught my eye and I thought, "Who's that?!"

So imagine my surprise when the credits rolled. I had to go back and watch the scene again.

Regarding Watchmen, I have to say I've been enjoying the hell out of the show even without being fully versed in the source material it is derived from. My only exposure to this particular universe was the 2008 movie that while visually stunning, I found…ponderous…and  saw only once.

Unlike Westworld and Lost, where you spend more mental energy trying to figure out the wheels-within-wheels machinations of the story and timeline, Watchmen presents itself in a fairly straightforward narrative, leaving you with just enough questions to keep you coming back for more. And surprisingly, after Westworld and Lost, answers those questions posed have been generally quickly forthcoming. Perhaps because Watchmen is a limited run series the writers and producers knew they had to present a cohesive story with a definite ending in mind.

Anyway, if you've got HBO check it out (from the beginning, otherwise you'll probably be totally at a loss for what's going on).

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Gratuitous James Wolk



And here we see James in a few screengrabs from HBO's Watchmen, a show—despite my having no exposure to the source material other than the critially-panned  (which I loved, BTW) 2009 film—I've been enjoying the fuck out of.

I might write more about it at some point, but right now all I can say is it may have snatched my title of Most Batshit Crazy Show on Television from the hands of AMC's Preacher.

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Zaddy!

As I've said before (or maybe I haven't; I could've sworn I posted this hunk before but can't find any record of it), Tom Welling did nothing for me during his Smallville days (although I did watch now and again). But after his season-long appearance in Lucifer, now…"I'm not sure I can get in that position SIR, but if that's what you desire I will certainly try!"








Maybe it's the scruff and the bit of weight he's put on?

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And Who Among Us Wouldn't?


Rami Malek, the villain in the new Bond film, on his "moment" with Daniel Craig on set:

"We had this scene that was a very complicated scene and we were rehearsing for it with our terrific director, Cary Fukunaga. And, we were sitting at a table over hours just batting about ideas back and forth. And we finally cracked this really challenging scene. And he grabbed me, picked me up—and I can't tell if I initiated the next moment, if it was him or I—but, a kiss transpired between the two of us. And I'm gonna say that Daniel initiated it and I was very taken aback … I took a moment, caught my breath, and I looked out and said, 'So, does this make me a Bond Girl?'"

I.Would.Have.Died.

Seriously; Daniel Craig kisses me? I would die.

Source.

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Gratuitous Shaun Sipos

One of the reasons you should be watching SyFy's Krypton. (Another being a bearded Cameron Cuffe.)

Yes, I'm shallow.

Okay, Krypton isn't horrible. I personally wouldn't call it great TV either, but it's entertaining. (Rotten Tomatoes, however, has a decidedly different take, recently opining, "Krypton has evolved past a Superman prequel series into one of the best science fiction shows on TV.") Uh. Okay…

It's got a good-looking cast, and it's obvious SyFy spared no expense in set design, effects, or costuming. And it does provide backstory to the entire Superman mythos, well beyond what we got from any of the movies.

Season Two got off to a very slow start IMHO, and I all but gave up on it, letting the episodes pile up on the DVR. But one night I was bored and started watching again and I have to confess it's gotten uniformly better. I still don't agree with Rotten Tomatoes, but it's worth a watch—if only for the pretty menz.

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Woof.











"I'm into expanding people's idea of what's sexy, because I think our culture is almost anorexic in terms of what it views as sexy. To me, human beings are sexy. If you want to exploit the fact that my body isn't perfect but you find me sexy—if it's used in that context, and sometimes it is—then I'm cool with it. Whatever gets you to broaden your scope and find your own Hopper in your world—that guy or that girl at the deli who has a beautiful soul but is a little bit fat or whatever—that's what I want to expand in this world."

– David Harbour for Playboy, 2019

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Gratuitous Gavin Leatherwood

You might recognize him as Nick Scratch from The New Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix.

Not my usual type, but we all need to eat a well-balanced diet.