ABOVE: Happy 84th to James Brolin and his tightie-whities!
BELOW: Keep reading for an embarrassing arrest, porn portraiture, Biden's diagnosis and more ...
ABOVE: I never see posters like THIS.
BELOW: Keep reading for hot rodent men, a Traitor-ous plea, a SCOTUS abortion ruling and more ...
Thanks to Ross Weisman for this terrific interview with Boy Culture and Boy Culture: Generation X director Q. Allan Brocka. Allan, as always, is articulate and witty, bringing us up to speed on the project's long journey. It's definitely a case of THANKS, JOE BIDEN!
It is currently streaming on Dekkoo — click HERE or the image below to check it out.
Look, I've been blogging free here since 2005 (!) — and I love it. And I will continue to aggregate news, adding in personal opinions.
But I am also excited to be launching a Substack.
At BoyCulture Substack, I will post interviews and other original posts of more depth and length, including some great Q&As that I conducted while researching an upcoming Esquire.com piece on Mandate and the other Mavety Media magazines, so much of which did not fit in the final piece.
I would love it if you would subscribe — it's free, with $8 as the first paid level (for 1 month).
Another option — during Pride Month, from now through June 30, anyone who subscribes for $150 through me directly on this post gets a lifetime sub to the Substack. No renewals necessary.
$150 to Paypal and I do the rest.
Thank you!
By the way, my first post is live now.
The original Cyn (Image via Ruven Afanador)
ABOVE: Cyndi Lauper's just-announced Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour goes on sale tomorrow (pre-sale). I loved the photo, and thought it belonged up top. On the Cyndi tip:
1977 phone conversation: "Hi, Mom? The good news is I'm on the COVER of a national magazine ..." pic.twitter.com/0npxUrh1qa
— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) February 29, 2024
(Image by David Zaugh)
Derek Magyar granted a wide-ranging interview to Pop-Culturalist, in which he talks about revisiting his role as X via Boy Culture: Generation X — and much more.
Snippet:
With the television series, it was getting the chance to work with Q. Allan Brocka again and working with Darryl [Stephens], with whom I have a really special friendship. And also Matthew [Rettenmund], who got involved as a writer on the series. In the film, he was more guiding it, and Q. Allan and Philip [Pierce] (one of the producers) wrote the feature, whereas Matthew wrote the book and Q. Allan wrote the series, bringing an extra level of excitement to it for me as well.
Having this series drop was one of the only great things that happened to me in 2023.
