Blonde ambition (Image via Modern Screen)
ABOVE: Today, Lana Turner would be 104. There are (roughly) 15,000 or so 104-year-olds on the planet right now, so it could happen! Today's birthdays HERE.
P.S. Ricky Martin acted with her in her final on-screen performance ... on a two-part episode of The Love Boat:
BELOW: Keep reading for more ...
ABOVE: Cheeky!
Philip Fusco takes a hike (Images via video still)
@boyculturedotcom Today, August 23, was the 97th anniversary of the birth of Peter Wyngarde (1927-2018), a British actor best remembered as the campily adventurous Jason King on 2 British shows. More interestingly, he played a Polish soldier named Jan Wicziewsky on a November 24, 1959, ITV play of the week in the UK called "South." Set in the U.S. as the Civil War is about to break out, it features him as a clearly gay and tortured character. His scenes — in which his character pines for handsome soldier Eric MacClure (Graydon Gould, who died at 82 in 2020) — are remarkably obvious for the time period. Note: The teen to whom he semi-confessed was played by Karl Lanchbury, who is alive at 80. A critic at the time wrote, "I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. This is not prudishness. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up." One of the first queer representations on TV anywhere, there are no dramatic U.S. precedents for it. #peterwyngarde #gay #queer #lgbtq #boyculture ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture
ABOVE: Check out these snippets of South, a truly trail-blazing drama aired on British TV in 1959. (Kenton Coe wrote an opera on the same story called Sud that was reviewed by the NYT.)
BELOW: Keep reading for an Olympic OnlyFans collab, Israel pushing it, Marsha P. Johnson's b'day and more ...
@boyculturedotcom Madonna has only been in Italy for a couple days, and has already turned around this eye-popping shoot by Ricardo Gomes. She is celebrating turning 66 (!) a year after almost dying. #madonna #materialgirl #aging #glamour #bouculture #encyclopediamadonnica ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture
ABOVE: I'm not a big fan of Ricardo's, but he has some great shots in this batch. Madonna seems to spend every waking moment doing faboosh shoots for fun. Happy 66th!
ABOVE: Cheeky!
Cheekier! (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
BELOW: Biden digging in, chilling AIDS anniversary, gay grands and more ...
ABOVE: Don't assume your baby will grow up straight!
Bonus ad! I used to have this mag; I found it as a 20-year-old ... somewhere? (Image via vintage cover)
