Bradley Cooper and his magic hair take over Esquire (December 2012). Anyone seen him in Silver Linings Playbook? Totally Oscar-worthy and his acting chemistry with equally Oscar-worthy Jennifer Lawrence is phenomenal. A truly offbeat and interesting film.

Cooper says of his $15-million-dollar payday for Hangover III:

"It's afforded me the ability to do the five movies I did between Hangover II and Hangover III. And you can solve people's problems. To be able to say to someone, 'You know what? I'm gonna buy your house for you. You don't have to worry about your mortgage anymore.'"

Garrett Hedlund

Garrett Hedlund (above) and a host of other Hollywood hotties grace the pages of Esquire (September 2012) as part of Yu Tsai's "Next Generation" piece. My favorites—all hot as hell—after the jump...

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Brit TV stud Mark Wright suns himself in Esquire UK (August 2012).

Devilishly handsome Jon Hamm, 40, is on the cover of Esquire (March 2012), in which the writer fawns over him the way I might were I to be assigned the gig. Some tidbits—he taught high school drama in '95 to students including The Office's Ellie Kemper, he's been pals with Paul Rudd since high school and he once auditioned for "Jack Donaghy" (Alec Baldwin's role) on 30 Rock.

More pix here.

Houston, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston & Crawford

Robyn Crawford—Whitney Houston's former assistant and beyond a doubt her former lover for many years—has contributed a truly touching and honest piece about Houson to Esquire via Tom Junod. (Ironically, the man behind the infamous "Kevin Spacey Has a Secret" cover in which he openly talked about the actor's glass-closeted existence in popular culture.)

James "The Maverick" Franco covers British Esquire (November 2010):

More after the jump...

My main man James Franco looks dapper on Esquire (September 2010). Inside, he says that when he showed one of his student films at NYU:

"It got a little ugly. One faculty member—she's always tough on me, but she flat-out called me an asshole. She jumped me. She was muttering it the whole time: What an asshole. What an asshole."

Several more pix of this gorgeous, artsy-fartsy (in the best sense) asshole after the jump...

Deep within Esquire's eye-popping (as opposed to eye-rolling, though there is plenty of that, too) profile on sure-to-be 2012 presidential contender Newt Gingrich is a fascinating, honest and insightful exchange he had with his second wife after she found out he intended to repeat history and divorce her for a newer model.

He'd just given a high-profile speech touting family values when second wife Marianne Ginther asked him point-blank how he could give that kind of speech in light of what he was actually doing in private. Gingrich, she remembers, said:

"It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

Wow...that completely sums up all the hypocrisy of our leaders (not exclusively, but especially, the right-wing ones) both political and religious who do as they please while asking us to do as they say.

And this clown is back to haunt us a legitimate potential candidate for the presidency.

 

Above from OK! (November 16, 2009): Check out Melrose Place's adorable Michael Rady. Even Ashlee Simpson could act impressed with how hot he is. Below, In Touch (November 16, 2009) comes through with a shot of 25-year-old teacher Stephen Stagliano, who has somehow gotten mixed up in a lame post-show Bachelorette affair:

Esquire's Fall 2009 Platinum Edition Big Black Book has one spread that caught my eye—Tim Simmons shoots this hirsute hottie for an editorial on the versatility of gray:

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