In The History Boys (2006), Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon (Richard Griffiths) is an aging school teacher who indulges in the occasional fondle as a younger history teacher (Stephen Campbell Moore), who is also gay, helps prepare the students (one of whom is gay, one of whom seems tempted) for their exams to get into Oxford and Cambridge.
Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998) stars Sean Hayes (of Will & Grace fame) as a gay photographer who falls for his maybe straight model (Brad Rowe) and spends most of the movie in “is he or isn’t he?” musings. Who knew Sean had such a nice bod?
Alessandro Gassman is a married Italian man who inherits a turkish bath (in Turkey) from his aunt in 1997’s Steam (aka Hamam). He’s ready to sell the place until he meets the son of the family who ran it for his aunt. And who would ever expect their wife to pay a surprise visit to Turkey?
Flight of the Phoenix: Airplane. Broken. Desert. Dennis Quaid shirtless.
Beefcake (1998) gives a dramatized account of Bob Mizer (Daniel McIvor) and his Athletic Model Guild (AMG). Joshua Peace portrays a young model in the AMG stables. The movie is interspersed with snippets of AMG films and pictures and with interviews with some of the AMG models and other photographers of the period. Joe Dellesandro, Jim Lassiter, and Jack LaLanne are some of the interviews with accounts of the 1950’s “body building” mags. The movie gives a look at the modeling and then at the legal challenges of Mizer and the “industry”.
Paul Telfer stars in the TV movie Hercules as the title character. Action, killing and blood aplenty as this follows (somewhat) the traditional labors of the Greek demigod. There’s little of the humor you find in the Kevin Sorbo version, but still packed with well muscled, hairy chested hero.
A few more caps: Paul Telfer – Hercules
After school, we all used to watch the Wild Wild West reruns. Plenty of cool gadgets that put James Bond to shame. And, oh yeah, the bad guys always seemed to get him tied up and out of his shirt.
