Boy Culture Links: 'Pillion' Transformation, MAGA Halftime Parodied, Pedro Pascal Saves 'De Noche,' Once Around the Table with Madonna + More
FEBRUARY 4, 2026
NEW YORK TIMES: How Harry Melling went from Harry Potter to Pillion.
NEW YORKER: The movie Pillion is said to be better than the novel on which it’s based.
THE GUARDIAN: The lifespan of queer people (not counting trans folk) is said to be one year less than that of heterosexuals, at least in this study. Remember how our enemies have been saying for years we all die at 35?
DOMINIC ALBANO: Dominic Albano makes amazingly sexy underwear, and — in a twist — offers hot Polaroids of his models.
REELS: Turning Point USA’s anti-halftime show (by the way, it feels like the NFL could investigate suing them for using their brand in anti-advertising) sounds … like a moment.
PEOPLE: Bill Gates is addressing his association with Jeffrey Epstein again, detailing all their interactions: Dinners, talks about business, talks about getting richies to donate to global health; no sex, no island.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Space cadet Nicki Minaj is now an expert on NASA.
SIMON & SCHUSTER: Coming in March is the original audiobook Speak Now, a gay romance by Ash Perez featuring a reading by Jena Malone and Arienne Mandi.
VARIETY: Pedro Pascal has come to the rescue — that Todd Haynes gay romance, De Noche, will be made with him as its star after Joaquin Phoenix bolted at the last possible second, throwing it into chaos.
SOCIALITE LIFE: Male Model Monday, on Wednesday.
SWANN: If you’ve got big walls.
INSTAGRAM: A peek at all those books in Madonna’s new TikTok, and what they might meeeeean.
INSTAGRAM: Happy 90th to body beautiful Gary Conway, star of Land of the Giants and a great stiff on Columbo.
