Saturday, July 12, 2025

Favorite Pic of the Day for July 13th

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Happy Birthday today July 13th

Happy 57th to actor Robert Gant!

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Before salivating over Gant's glutes on Queer As Folk, (below) in the early 2000's, we were already in lust. Gant appeared shirtless on many of television's most popular shows throughout the 1990's. 

Seasonal Sightings:

Lazzaro: Total Freedom

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Lemon Popsicle: The Party Goes On

'They're back! Wilder, sexier and naughtier than ever. Relive the magic of growing up in the 60's.'

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Earlier this month, I featured the 1982 American teen comedy, The Last American Virgin, (HERE:) and Lemon Popsicle, (HERE:)  the 1978 Israeli film that inspired it.  I mentioned in the previous piece that Lemon Popsicle had a few sequels that I wanted to check out.  It actually had nine of them, the last one, Lemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On, that I'm featuring today


Many have compared the film series to the Police Academy movies.  I think I see them more in the vein of the Porky's trilogy.  I found most of them, but from what I read, number nine, had some of the best male nudity, so... that seemed a good place to begin.  If you check out the video and caps below, you might see some comparisons with the pool scene in Porky's.  


In Porky's, it was a mom and dad arriving home early that caused the hotties to have to exit the pool naked.  You can check out that scene on FH HERE:  In this film, it's an angry dad and a man with vicious dog.  The angry dad in this movie is played by actor Zachi Noy.  Noy is the same actor who played the young Yudale in the original 1978 film.  In this case, he's the dad of a hot blonde, and none too please to find her skinny dipping with a hot trio of young guys.


The writers for some reason chose to continue the series with the same three male characters. (Benzi, Yudale and Momo)  Given this film was released in 2001, 23 years after the original, they needed three new younger actors to play the characters.   For Lemon Popsicle 9, the three character types are again the cute nerd Benzi, (Elad Stefansky)  the overweight friend Yudale (Nicky Goldstein) and the hottie Momo.(Ido Lev)  


Although the pool scene, and the male nudity, begins late at night in a pool, it ends early the next morning.  The guys leave and head home with only newspapers to cover their junk.  The nude scene ends with a 'cute meet' with Benzi, (Elad Stefansky) meeting a hot girl on the street.  Thanks to DJ for sharing his copy of the film!

Friday, July 11, 2025

Favorite Pic of the Day for July 12th

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Burn Baby Burn


 Someone got a bit too much sun...  If you'd don't recognize the actor, you will by clicking HERE:

Step Ladder



Photographic Porn Stars: Elian

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Friendship Can Be A Real Drag...


But I'm gonna be right behind you,
There ain't any use,
You ain't never gonna shake me loose

Regular FH viewers know that instead of taking a sleeping pill, I drift off to sit-coms.  I need a show that's not too interesting, and is light and easy to fall asleep to.  Last month, I decided it was time to try the 80's sit-com Bosom Buddies.  I've featured both of the male leads before, (Peter Scolari HERE: and Tom Hanks HERE:) but I have never actually watched the show.  

I was hadn't even started school when the comedy aired on ABC, but given the success of it's stars, it's a show most people have at least heard about.  The show lasted only 2 seasons, and I can sort of figure out why.  I'm half-way through the second season and the show is already starting to feel tired.  First off the premise of having the two guys dress in drag for an apartment is too weak for a long run.  It's funny at first, but difficult to sustain. 

At the same time, once the other characters know the two women are actually men, the show quickly loses steam.  It was also difficult to accept as a viewer, even for an 80's sit-com, how stupid all the female characters had to be to believe Kip and Henry, (Hanks and Scolari) were actually women.  Still, the talent of the main cast members made it an enjoyable watch for a short while.

What really surprised me was just how 'gay' the show actually was.  I know calling something gay is often used an insult, but I'm referencing the actual gay aesthetic of the show.  Well beyond the element of drag, the way the two male leads interact, and even their wardrobe as men struck out to me.  Maybe it was just a sign of the times, but if you watch the opening credits below you'll see what I mean.  I don't think I've seen so many scenes of guys in 'short shorts' in a set of credits. 


The theme song is catchy though.  The version above, from the syndication episodes, features Stephanie Mills singing Shake Me Loose.  The original theme song featured Billy Joel's My Life.  If the show had gone on longer, I would have liked to have seen more of the female characters getting story.  Although Donna Dixon is fine, the stand-outs are Telma Hopkins, Holland Taylor and Wendie Jo Sperber.  


I'd not really released the great Holland Taylor was in the cast, and I've been long been fascinated by the career of the late Wendie Jo Sperber.  I think I first say Sperber in the short lived sit-com Babes in the 1990's, but remember seeing her many guest starring roles on television in the 1990's and 2000's prior to her death from breast cancer in 2005.


If like me, you'd never seen any of Bosom Buddies, I give it a tepid recommendation.  I'm enjoying seeing the cast earlier in most of their careers, but the writing is just 'ok'.  I will say, I was surprised how, for the most part, drag is treated.  Yes, it was the 80's, so there ware some mortified reactions from Kip and Henry's parents, but the show actually downplays most of transphobic jokes that I'm sure other sitcom writers may have jumped on then, and sadly, even now.