Friday, December 13, 2013

Tennessee Williams

 Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright, author of many stage classics.
After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth. His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output.
Williams adapted much of his best work for the cinema, and also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs.


Throughout his life Williams remained close to his sister Rose who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman. In 1943, as her behavior became increasingly disturbing, she was subjected to a lobotomy, unfortunately with disastrous results, and was subsequently institutionalized for the rest of her life. As soon as he was financially able to, Williams had her moved to a private institution just north of New York City where he often visited her. He gave her a percentage interest in several of his most successful plays, the royalties from which were applied toward her care. The devastating effects of Rose's illness may have contributed to Williams' alcoholism and his dependence on various combinations of amphetamines and barbiturates.

After some early attempts at heterosexual relationships, by the late 1930s Williams had accepted his homosexuality. In New York he joined a gay social circle which included fellow writer and close friend Donald Windham (1920–2010) and his then partner Fred Melton. In the summer of 1940 Williams initiated an affair with Kip Kiernan (1918–1944), a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts. When Kiernan left him to marry a woman he was distraught, and Kiernan's death four years later at 26 delivered another heavy blow.

On a 1945 visit to Taos, New Mexico, Williams met Pancho Rodríguez y González, a hotel clerk of Mexican heritage. Rodríguez was, by all accounts, a loving and loyal companion. However, he was also prone to jealous rages and excessive drinking, and so the relationship was a tempestuous one. Nevertheless, in February 1946 Rodríguez left New Mexico to join Williams in his New Orleans apartment. They lived and traveled together until late 1947 when Williams ended the affair. Rodríguez and Williams remained friends, however, and were in contact as late as the 1970s.

A rare image of a nude Tennessee Williams (lower right)
and Donald Windham to (upper left) dated 1943.
Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of a teen-aged Italian boy, called "Rafaello" in Williams' Memoirs, to whom he provided financial assistance for several years afterwards, a situation which planted the seed of Williams' first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. When he returned to New York that spring, he met and fell in love with Frank Merlo (1922–1963), an occasional actor of Sicilian heritage who had served in the U.S. Navy in World War II.

This one enduring romantic relationship of Williams' life lasted 14 years until infidelities and drug abuse on both sides ended it. Merlo, who became Williams' personal secretary, taking on most of the details of their domestic life, provided a period of happiness and stability as well as a balance to the playwright's frequent bouts with depression and the fear that, like his sister Rose, he would fall into insanity. Their years together, in an apartment in Manhattan and a modest house in Key West, Florida, were Williams' happiest and most productive. Shortly after their breakup, Merlo was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and Williams returned to take care of him until his death on September 21, 1963.
As he had feared, in the years following Merlo's death Williams was plunged into a period of nearly catatonic depression and increasing drug use resulting in several hospitalizations and commitments to mental health facilities. He submitted to injections by Dr. Max Jacobson – known popularly as Dr. Feelgood – who used increasing amounts of amphetamines to overcome his depression and combined these with prescriptions for the sedative Seconal to relieve his insomnia. Williams appeared several times in interviews in a nearly incoherent state, and his reputation both as a playwright and as a public personality suffered.[citation needed] He was never truly able to recoup his earlier success, or to entirely overcome his dependence on prescription drugs.

TOP 50 SCI-FI/FANTASY FILMS OF THE 80′S!

From:  The Backlot
 #30
The Terminator

It was the film that put James Cameron on the map and solidified the star power of Arnold. Its success had a huge influence on sci-fi films of the 80′s, giving us countless ripoffs, a superior sequel, a couple of inferior sequels, and one of the great movie catch phrases.

Favorite Hunk of The Day: December 13, 2007

Hugh Jackman
From:  Favorite Hunks & Other Things
 Who could not love Hugh Jackman. Firstly his smile, secondly his chest, secondly his talent. As great as it is to see him shirtless on screen, it is equally hot seeing him dance and sing on stage. He has a classic face and body, and although with the exception of a brief butt shot in Halifax afraid of the dark, he is still a favorite hunk. I just wish Hugh would lay off the hero and sci fi roles as his talent is beyond playing Wolferine for sequel after sequel.


Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theater, and television.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. 

 He is known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, Australia, Real Steel, Les Misérables, and Prisoners. His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award 

 nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy in 2013. He is also a singer, dancer, and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.

 A three-time host of the Tony Awards, winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.


Favorite Birthday Boy for December 13th Jamie Foxx

From:  Favorite Hunks & Other Things
 The talented Jamie Foxx turns 46 today.


Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, singer-songwriter, musician, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the 2004 film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical or comedy. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral.
He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life, and Intuition. Foxx starred in his own television show, The Jamie Foxx Show, as Jamie King. In 2012, Foxx starred in the film Django Unchained, and he will star as the villain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014.

Brother(s)ly & Love(rs)

From: muscularblkhungn2deviantsexfun
 OMG, just realized that I have not followed-up with more vids and, or pics of the two identical twin Brothers (who are Lovers). Kinda shocked no one reminded me, OR , I guess I’m the only perv among us, lol. Anyway…-better late than never right?

 Curious, how many others or who among you have ever been with identical twins ? For me, it this all started when I was 19 or so, in college. The 3 of us worked in reservations at an airline together since we were all in college. The one of the twins was supposedly straight, while the other was bi.


 I started playing around with the alleged ‘bi’ guy twin. One night, the two decided to pull a joke and the straight twin, pretended to be the bi guy and we proceed to have sex. About hmmm, 2 min into the foreplay, I was well aware that this was the supposedly straight twin. Next day, I was getting like, these wicked stares from the bi twin I was dating. So at lunch, I told him I knew what they had done and serves both right; both he and his brother just for the stupid prank that went too far. Well, from that point forward, the 3 of us engaged in 3some sex on numerous and several occasions :)


These Sexy, Young (And Real) Priests Want To Teach You All About The Vatican

From:  Queerty
And on the seventh day, God collected the hottest Roman Catholic Priests in the Vatican for a sexy calendar photoshoot, thus birthing the 2014 the 2014 Calendario Romano.

The unintentionally erotic souvenir known as “the hot priests calendar” on the streets of Rome was actually not shot by God himself, though this fresh take on an otherwise seedy stereotype suggests a matter of divine intervention. It was shot by Venice-based photographer Piero Pazzi during Holy Week, and unlike the models of the blasphemous 2014 Orthodox Calendar, these Men of God are totally authentic.

 Now in his tenth year of producing the calendar, which is available online and for sale at Vatican gift stands, Pazzi says the purpose of his work is purely educational. He meets his subjects organically on the streets of Rome, where “most are happy to be photographed” after learning the calendar is actually a tourism marketing tool that offers tips and facts about the Vatican. Unfortunately, the calendar does not also include links to each model’s profile on Venerabilis

Father September
 But these Holy men are far too fine to go unnoticed by the lustful eyes of gay media, which has some diehard Catholics a bit concerned. One writes “I hope the priests don’t encourage anyone to refer to them as ‘sexy holy men’ or ‘strapping young men of the cloth.’ It’s just wrong.
Father June

Check out the best of these sexy, holy, strapping young men of the cloth
Father January
Father February

Father March

Father April

Father May


Father July

Father August


Father October

Father November

Father December

7 GAY MOVIES THAT MIGHT NOT SUCK

From:  Manhunt Daily
3 WICKED WITCHES

DESCRIPTION
When Lana, Tina and Donna (Kristine DeBell, Lisa London and Helene Udy), three best friends from college, reunite for their 25th year reunion, revenge becomes the order of day. Donna’s teen-age daughter recently died during a hazing prank and Donna has proof that five frat guys are responsible. Back in the day, Tina, Lana, and Donna dabbled in the occult and decide to use their powers to conjure up a demonic force to punish the guilty. A possessed clown doll is sent on a mission of murder to the frat house but there are always consequences when one makes a deal with the devil! This evil clown is no laughing matter.

WHY I WANT TO SEE IT
Again, this isn't a gay movie per se, but who the fuck else do you think is watching it? Between the campy humor and the frat boys in tighty whities, I get the sense that this one would be a good time (even if it’s not exactly an Oscar-worthy film).