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ABOVE: That little asshole from The Holdovers is actually a big asshole. (Well, I'm sure the real him is nice.)

BELOW: Keep reading for a tennis pro's best side, a Taylor Swift world wonder, Rocco and the porn star and more ...

ABOVE: With a strong Tom Hintnaus/Calvin Klein flashback.

BELOW: Keep reading for books, Cher, a naked guy and more ...

She also seems to dress him for sexy time. (Image via Facebook)

ABOVE: Woman puts husband through fake yoga positions just to show off his stuff.

BELOW: Keep reading for Zane Phillips, Ted Cruz's dick obsession and more ...

@boyculturedotcom Dona Drake, biracial movie star who played Mexican, Native American (opposite Bette Davis in "Beyond the Forest") and eventually had a couple of roles in which her ethnicity was a nonissue, was born Nov. 15, 1914. Here, she meets Groucho Marx with her husband, fashion designer Travilla. She was 45, had been retired for years, but was still cookin'. (And Groucho slobbers over her.) She lived to be 74, dying in 1989. Travilla died the year after. #donadrake #grouchomarx #travilla #biracial #herstory #movies ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture

ABOVE: The late, great Dona Drake. The more you know.

BELOW: Keep reading for the history of phone sex AND of After Dark, LGBTQ+ parents in the Midwest and more ...

Your heart: “And I — OOP!” (Image via selfie)

ABOVE: It seems Heartstopper star Joe Locke wanted us to remember Kit Connor wasn't the only cutie on the series.

BELOW: Keep reading for Glen Powell's butt, a tennis stud's package, a book that calls Will Smith a demonic buttfucker and more ...

ABOVE: Never got hotter than that.

Bonus photos: Vintage gay house party (1960s) from the collection of Peter Miller/New York

BELOW: Keep reading for a stunning 'Grammer, a stacked locker room, Trump fans boo reality and more ...

ABOVE: Just another way being a hot twink pays off ... eventually!

BELOW: Mr. Deep Voice's erotic spread, George Santos lives to fight another day (possibly just about 16 more days) and more  ...

The book's cover image is by Deborah Feingold, from the same session that graces the rare 1984 The Quiet Storm Thai magazine. (Image via Little, Brown)

Reading is ... hard. It takes a lot for me, English degree be damned, to sit quietly and read a book. For years, having my constantly active and attention-craving dogs, and then dog, was enough to keep me judging books by their covers alone. Then, I became as addicted to inst-ernet gratification as a person a couple of generational alphabet letters down the line from me.

At some point, I joked that I don't read at all anymore, and I may have even said so to Mary Gabriel, the acclaimed writer who has set her sights on Madonna with her new biography Madonna: A Rebel Life (Little, Brown, October 2023), because she teased me when she sent me a signed copy of her work — “I know you don't read Madonna books. But read this one. You might learn something.”

!!!

I did and I did. The book is not filled with shockers for diehard fans/addicts, though I'm sure there are things you didn't know or forgot you know, but it is something that has been missing from the hundred or more Madonna books out there so far — a serious, sober, all-inclusive, biographical look at Madonna's life and career executed with scrupulous attention to contextualizing who she is and why that worked and works for us.

There have been a couple of interesting biographies, but I always felt they were lost in the long shadow of Christopher Andersen's dreadful best seller from 30 years ago. It was time for Madonna: A Rebel Life.

And it was time for me to quiz Ms. Gabriel about her gigantic endeavor ...