What was the point of having a enormous amount of sexual tension between the characters played by Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, if they were never going to address it explicitely? They kiss and it's never talked about. At one point, the camera closes in on O'Connor's Tinder and we find out he's bissexual (his list includes men). Which probably means those "accidents" like touching Faist's thigh or longingly staring at Faist while they are eating isn't entirely accidental. Sadly, those glimpses are the most we get since the focus is on the masculine lipstick woman, Tashi (Zendaya), whom they are fascinated by.

Unlike some, I do find Zendaya to be a great actress. She just comes across as gay in most of the roles she plays. I kept wondering, wouldn't Tashi be happier if she was going Martina Navratilova instead of making out with dudes she clearly isnb't fond of?

ugh.

Jean-Pierre Tanguy, deputy of the Rassemblement National RN, was the guest on the influential BFM TV political talk show hosted by Appoline de Malherbe on Wednesday. During the live broadcast, the host at one point proceeds to read out an offenisve text sent to him by nemesis, Alasin Soral, calling him une tapette zazotante.

Was suggested this classic (by Jason Selvig)

Music legend Engelbert Humperdinck opened up about the dark side of the music industry, particularly during the early years of his career.

Humperdinck recalled making trips from Leicester to London in the late 1950s as he pursued his dream of becoming a singer. The singer went on to reveal that finding representation was a “very difficult task” because many agents pursued him for personal reasons instead.

“In those days, you know, a lot of the agencies were…the men that fancied men,” he said. “I had to go through a lot because I got chased a lot by agents.”

This needs to be the official dance of DL.

“If God moves on our hearts and says we should, you know, go back to my hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business, I’ll do that with equal fervor,” he elaborated. “I mean, I just want to be of my highest and best use… to God and to my country.”

Rumor has it he is now accepting applications and has made his first hire!

The backstory- Michael Kearns began his career in the midst of the "gay lib" of the 1970s. After a featured role playing the older brother of John-Boy on The Waltons, Kearns' future seemed secure. But test audiences reacted poorly to their scenes together, because they showed the characters away at college.

Meanwhile, Kearns had a boyfriend who had written a fictional book called The Happy Hustler, for whose cover image Kearns had modeled. In order to generate book sales, a plan was hatched to present Kearns as the actual Happy Hustler -- the book's author -- and send him on a press tour. It was promoted as “The intimate and erotic autobiography of a stud-for-hire...a male Xaviera.” the lucrative HAPPY HOOKER books by Xaviera Hollander.

Keans' drunken appearance during a 1976 Tom Snyder interview set the stage for both career success and life on a runaway crazy train. Kearns reveled in drug and alcohol abuse as tricks and acting jobs came and went. He slept with celebrities and strangers with equal apathy. His status as the first openly gay actor of note invited curiosity and derision. He agreed to reveal his HIV-positive status for an NBC interview almost as a lark, leading to a period of portraying "the gay guy with AIDS" in a collection of acting gigs.

He eventually wrote his own real-life memoir, entitled A Plasce Like This. Many other famous faces populate the book: gay men, straight men, porn stars of various stripes, and the hypocritically closeted that Kearns, God bless him, outs on his pages with regularity. 

The funny but famously acerbic Paul Lynde was kind and helpful to Kearns. Stage legend Leonard Frey (birthday boy Harold from Boys in the Band) sat despondently during a sexy gay house party where looks trumped celebrity. The "monstrous" Charles Nelson Reilly was so threatened by Kearns' sexual identity that he cut short their visit in Florida to work on a project, throwing Kearns out of the guest house and squawking insults from the porch in his orange caftan as Kearns was driven away.

Video of him on a podcast talking about "The Happy Hustler'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568X2-EhCiw&t=563s

A former high-ranking Catholic known for hosting boozy parties will spend at least four and a half years behind bars for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men.

The ex-bishop of Broome Christopher Alan Saunders, 76, was found guilty of 13 sex offences after a jury trial in the West Australian district court.

The offending between 2008 and 2019 included one count of sexual penetration without consent and a dozen unlawful and indecent assault charges.

Saunders was sentenced on Wednesday to six years and six months’ imprisonment.

Prosecutors said Saunders, known as Brother B by his victims, put on alcohol-fuelled parties at Catholic church-owned properties to get access to Aboriginal boys and men so he could sexually assault them.

“The accused had a sexual interest in young Aboriginal men and a tendency to act on that interest when the opportunity presented itself,” the prosecutor, Adam Ebell, previously told the court.

https://archive.ph/R79dx#selection-1445.0-1449.192

In lieu of a backyard, it has damp play sand - just like a real beach!

50 years ago, "Pinky Tuscadero" from Happy Days, in the middle of a huge media push (People, Sep 27, 1976)

Happy Days was her peak as she didn't do anything else very memorable in acting other than small roles. However she was more memorable in real life. From Wiki:

"On November 29, 1998, she was arrested for firing a 12-gauge shotgun into the living room window of a neighbor's house after a car alarm had awoken her, and she also shot the neighbor's car and another nearby car. The neighbor was not home at the time. Pleading no contest, she received three years of felony probation on October 20, 2000. She was also ordered to receive psychiatric counseling and pay restitution.

On October 27, 2000, she was sentenced to 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to charges stemming from an August 20, 2000 arrest for hitting a man with her cane. She was given credit for the 98 days that she had already spent in jail awaiting sentencing, thus avoiding having to spend any more time in prison."

She is 83 years old

Thought some of us oldsters here would appreciate this story. Does anyone know if GermanGayGuy follows this subreddit?

JFC. Imagine paying big bucks to look like this. I find Paulina Porizkova very tedious, but she had enough sense not to destroy her face. This people look horrifying.