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Victor by Bob Burkhardt

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Rehashing The Tony Awards

Despite growing up loving them, I've grown a bit bored with most award shows.  This past Sunday's The Tony Awards broke that pattern.  Pink did an amazing job and the show's producers put on one hell of a show.  Sure, I had a few nitpicks, (Former hosts Neil Patrick Harris and Ariana DeBose added nothing) but mostly, I loved it all.

In addition to Pink, highlights for me included most of the live performances, Ali Louis Bourzgui's speech, (which is being scrubbed by many sites) and especially Leslie Odom Jr singing Without You from Rent.  I didn't see many comments about Odom Jr's performance, but for me, it was one of the best, and most emotional of the night.

Leslie Odom Jr 

Of course, this is FH, and like most past Tony's, I was both introduced to, and reminded of the hottest of some favorite actors.  In addition to Leslie and Ali, four others really stood out.  Check out my profiles of Sam Tutty, Constantine Rousouli, Joshua Henry and Luke Evans on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Ali Louis Bourzgui

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Back Issues: April 1981

Playgirl
April, 1981

Snapshots: Phil Atari

I'm a big fan of actor Jack Nicholson.  As a teenager, going through high school in the 1990's, I went to the movies at least two or three times a month.  Nicholson was in so many of my favorite movies.  Earlier this year, around the time of his 89th birthday, there was a video going around of the actor in New York.   Nicholson was coming out of a restaurant, and stopped to give an autograph.  Given he's basically retired from acting, the siting was noteworthy.  

I started to put together a piece on the actor, but forgot about it until this week.  I didn't get very far, but I had saved images from the 1981 issue of Playgirl that had Nicholson on the cover.  There were a few notable pictorials in the issue including the series below featuring the Men of Texas. 

Men of Texas

Men of Texas

Photography by Pete Wright

Novelist John Steinbeck put it aptly when he wrote, 'Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession.'  It became our obsession when we went in search of it's native sons.  We found these men to be rugged, friendly, and of good stock; they are masculine, with a sort of a John Wayne charm that is undeniably irresistible.  Everyone in the Lone Star State is just a little bit cowboy; even the entrepreneur, of whom there are many.  They wear ten-gallon hats and those boots with toes shaped like alligator snouts.

Given how conservative Texas is today, I can only imagine how it was in 1981, especially the State's men.  I had to smile when I thought of these Lone Star Studs posing for Playgirl Magazine, thinking of all the women who would be salivating over their hot bods.  I'm sure many women were, but wonder if any of them realized how popular the magazine was with gay men.  

I'm sure some did, some may have been gay themselves, but Playgirl always ensured their models were presented as Stallions forging for a filly.  I certainly would mount any of these men, especially Michael. (last pic below)  Check out the Man of the Month from this issue on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Jason, (below) was raised on a ranch and is a management advisor.  This amateur photographer says he can 'never get enough of women, baseball and jalapeno peppers.'

Michael, (bellow) is an electrical engineer.  He describes himself as young and restless and wants to 'learn as much as possible about other people's cultures.'