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Sunday, August 23, 2026
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tis, (not quite) The Season!
Whenever I do a post featuring actor Chad Michael Murray, I habitually include images, (like the first two here) from the shoot that introduced me to Chad. Long before I ever saw him on television, I remember 'meeting' Murray in Teen People. Although he looks a little stoned in the image above, that adorable face and those large suckable nipples had me wanting see more...
It was awhile before I actually saw Chad in show or movie. Although I followed him on One Tree Hill due to shirtless caps, and that nude basketball scene, I never ended up watching the show. I did catch Murry on Gilmore Girls when I finally discovered it years after it premiered. I binged those first few seasons on DVD and thought Murray's Tristan was far hotter and more interesting than Dean.
Even though he was playing a kid in Middle School, Murray was about 20 at the time and already exuding a sexual intensity unmatched by the cute, but bland Dean played by Jared Padalecki. I was really missing Tristan until Jess came along to replace him as the shows hot bad boy. It's become cliche to say a celebrity looks 'better than ever' but for me, with Chad Michael Murray it's true. He's still exudes that sexual energy and still does it for me, just as it did twenty years ago. A
I know it's not Christmas, but this week, Netflix released promotional photos for it's Christmas movie, The Merry Gentlemen. The story finds Ashley, a former big-city dancer, who in order to save her parents' small-town performing venue, decides to stage an all-male, Christmas-themed revue. The promo shots look good, and given it's Netflix, might we actually get a wee bit of holiday skin and see Chad in a G-string? Even if we don't, I'll be checking it out when it premieres on November 20th
Friday, August 23, 2024
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Blast from the Past: Craig Sheffer
One of the things that keeps me excited about FH is that I'm always discovering new images, new artists and new actors to feature. Now, as most of you know, Craig Sheffer isn't a 'new' actor, he's been working professionally since his debut on the soap One Live To Live in the early 80's.
For some reason, until now that is, Craig Sheffer never appeared on FH. I've known who he is for years, but never thought I had much of a connection with any of his role, movies or television appearances. I know from looking at at IMDB page that I've seen many of his movies and TV appearances, but nothing, until recently stood out.
Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
I certainly knew Sheffer from his role on One Tree Hill, but I never really watched that show, at least not, giving it any real attention. I certainly crushed over actors James Lafferty and Chad Michael Murray, my crush on Murray, still has the power to occasionally stimulate... Except for video clips however, especially of that basketball scene, I don't remember ever really watching with any frequency.
Last month however, a memory of arose which reminded me that I do indeed have a Craig connection. There's a page on Twitter, RetroNewSnow, that I enjoy following. The page basically posts old movie posters, tv promotional images and TV guide ads and show descriptions. Earlier this year, they posted an ad from the 1989 television movie Babycakes. I had a memory flash of crushing over the movie's male lead.
Sheffer by Barry King
I was only kid at the time I watched, so I'll cut myself a little slack for not connecting the hottie in the film was Craig. If anyone remembers the film, it starred Ricki Lake as a girl who crushes over Rob, (Sheffer) who she meets on the subway. I attempted to find a copy on-line, but couldn't find a one that was really watchable. Amazon to the rescue!
Craig was as cute and crush worthy as I remembered, and forgot he had a brief scene in briefs in the film. (see below) This had me searching for more about the actor and he's really had quite a long, successful, and eclectic series of roles. Both indie films and blockbusters, plus some interesting roles on the small screen as well.
Searching for Craig, it was fascinating to read about his meeting up, and being shot by Andy Warhol. The image above is credited as Andy's. The shot below is from photographer Christopher Makos who shot Craig at The Factory at the same time as Andy did. Makos saw Sheffer on the streets of New York and in addition to thinking he was incredibly handsome, also thought he make an interesting subject.
If you search Craig and 'Andy Warhol' there are also a series of full nudes that come up. Unfortunately, they don't show the actors face. I didn't include them in the piece as I'm not sure there's any way to identify that it's actually him.
'Grace, an overweight girl, spends her Christmas trying to start up a romance with a guy who controls the subway she boards for work each day.'
I don't think Sheffer did what I would consider a actual 'nude scene'. He did however, show a bit of side butt and a bit of skin in a few films, and in a few images. Check out what I did find on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
Monday, August 23, 2021
Happy Birthday today August 24th
Thursday, August 6, 2020
12 Days: Chad Michael Murray in The Beach House
It's common for gay kids in high school to crush over straight guys. Maybe even more so, when if you're still in the closet. When I went to high school in the 90's, there weren't any kids really 'out', at least not that I knew of. There were a few girls who called themselves 'girlfriends', but they both ended up married with children.... The only guys to crush over were 'straight', and it was a constant battle to keep those feelings under wrap.
I think many of us have had that fantasy of meeting up with that hot 'straight' stud from high school you fantasied about, and finding out he secretly also fantasied about you. That's sort of the feeling I get whenever I see a picture or movie featuring Chad Michael Murray. There is something about Murray, and I know many of you also feel it, that stirs the ole loins every time I see him.
I actually haven't seen much of Murray's work. My crush on Murray was formed through images, mostly through teen magazines from the early 2000's. I remember his face, often looking like he was stoned out of his tree, and his incredibly tight body. I remember his many shirtless pin-ups, and his beautiful suckabale nipples. Those photo shoots and pin-ups were powerful thirst traps, years before the term was conceived and became popular on social media.
I do remember his sexy bad boy Tristin on Gilmore Girls and those hot scenes with Murray in his grey boxer briefs during his short stint on Dawson's Creek. I never got around however to really watching One Tree Hill. I tried, and I certainly caught his naked basketball walk down the hallway at at school, but I didn't get much beyond that episode early in the show's run.
One Tree Hill
I did however recently catch a repeat of one of Murray's Hallmark movies, this one, the summer themed The Beach House. Those high school crush feelings came running back. No the wasn't a gay storyline, although Hallmark promises they're coming. The flick was one of Hallmark's trademark 'coming home' stories. You know the ones, girl from the big city returns home for a visit, but rekindles a high school relationship and learns her childhood home is where she really belongs.
Those Pin-ups, see what I mean....
The Beach House was a tearjerker, although really not that sad. It was actually quite an enjoyable escape flick, great for summer viewing and provoking dreams of owning a beach house. For the last 9 years, the same group of friends and I have rented a house near, not on, the beach, but this year, it's off due to Covid. I love waking up to crashing waves and the constant feel of sand in everything. This film made me both sad about the cancelled trip, while at the same time, acting as sort of a post card to great memories.
Chad Michael Murray is also like a post card, to a time I was younger, and to those straight guys I lusted over. Murray's sexual charisma has not dimmed a bit for me, and although my connections to his career are fleeting, when I see him, I'm always taken back to when I first saw him, in those many roles and those many shows where he played a high school student. As hot he was then, for me, he's even hotter now.
Friday, November 30, 2018
12 Days: Chad Michael Murray in Road To Christmas
When Maggie’s secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont goes awry, Maggie is reminded that above all, it is the love for family and friends that makes the merriest of Christmas.
I first fell in lust with the hot 19 year old Chad Michael Murray when he was playing Tristin Dugray back in 2000 on Gilmore Girls. Tristin was a hottie bad boy at prep school and was seen most in the show's first season. This was before Jess came along and I always hoped Rory would drop Dean and have a little fun with Tristin.
Soon after his stint on Gilmore Girls, Murray spent 12 episodes romancing many of the women on Dawson's Creek, I think pretty much all the lead character other than Grams. The show wisely had the hot young actor almost naked in about half of scenes, shirtless, stripping or in boxer briefs. It was then I first noticed Murray's great chest. You'll understand from these shirtless shots why I nicknamed him nipples.
The CW obviously saw the appeal of their hot heart throb and a year after completing his stint on Dawson's Creek was cast in the lead on teen high school basketball drama One Tree Hill. I tried to like OTH, but although I liked Dawson's Creek and loved Gilmore Girls, could not get past more than a few episodes of OTH.
With Alexis Bledel in Gilmore Girls
Not watching, didn't mean I didn't pay attention whenever Murray was showing a little skin on the show. His most famous OTH skinning was the rather daring basketball scene that fans of the show, or just fans of actor's anatomy remember well.
One Tree Hill
Seeing the promos for Road To Christmas had me thinking back to when I first noticed Murray on TV and back when I was a magazine fiend and enjoyed all his shirtless pin-ups in Teen People and Pop Magazine. It also had me thinking it was time Chad Michael Murray took a turn in my Actors & Skin feature. Check out that post below!
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