Favorite Pic of the Day for November 23rd

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AJ by Michael von Redlich

Happy Birthday today November 23rd

 Happy 66th to actor Maxwell Caulfield!

Check out more of Maxwell (including an Actors & Skin piece) HERE:

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Round the Back Door...

Knock, Knock...

Who's there... Brendan Lane

Ear Buds

'If the world was ending, I'd wanna be next to you'

Lately, instead of drifting off to sleep to a sit-com, I've been listening to music.  Problem is, I'm not into music as background noise, I like to give it all of my attention.  That means sitting up, putting in my ear phones, and blasting it using a volume booster on Chrome.  That means however, I end up staying up later than I should when I find a song that for the moment, I enjoy listening to.

I love me some Bruno Mars, and I especially love his live performances.  Last summer, Bruno teamed with Lady Gaga on the song Die With A Smile.  I liked the song, but it wasn't initially really that memorable.  Then, I recently caught their live performance in Las Vegas from last year.  For some reason, I heard the song very differently.  Sure the staging, (and especially the lighting) was bit over the top, but it was Vegas and it all came together elevating the song with great performances.

Victor Webster in The Chippendales Murder

'They created a world of fantasy, but something more powerful destroyed their dream.'

Over the last few years, the story of the Chippendales, and the murder of choreographer Nick Denoia have been captured in both A&E documentaries, (The Secrets of the Chippendales Murders) and in an HBO show, (Welcome to Chippendales)  I think the 2000 television movie was the first time however, the story was told on film.

2000's The Chippendales Murder tells the story of the rise of Chippendales male exotic dancers. Steve Banerjee purchase a downtrodden discotheque and after experimenting with several ideas to fill the club weekdays create female mud wrestling and male stripping. The downfall starts with Steve hiring Choreographer Nick Denoia. Banerjee contracts for the murder of Denoia resulting in Denoias death.

Denoia was killed because he was the target of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Banerjee, the founder of Chippendales. Banerjee wanted DeNoia killed because they had a business dispute over a licensing arrangement for the Chippendales tour. In 1994, Banerjee pleaded guilty to the murder of DeNoia and was sentenced to 26 years in prison, but he died by suicide before he could be sentenced. 

A decent copy of the film is hard to find, but thankfully, xyzpdq (Scenes of Male Skin) archived several of Webster's hottest scenes.  Although his black leather thong stays stubbornly on, we still get great views of Webster lighting up the dance floor!