Favorite Face of the Day: Cyril O'Reilly

When I catch a re-run of Murder She Wrote on TV, I usually skip the episodes in which Jessica is traveling.  I like her firmly planed in Cabot Cove Maine solving mysteries by the seashore.  I especially avoided her trips to Ireland, which for some reason I never enjoyed.  I know the show's Maine scenes were shot in California, but some of the scenes from 'Ireland' were especially poorly shot.

Murder She Wrote (1988)

A few weeks back however, I stopped when watching a 1993 episode entitled 'A Killing in Cork.' I stopped not because of the story or the Irish countryside, but because of the handsome face lighting up the screen.  The actor was Cyril O'Reilly, who appeared in 3 episodes of the old CBS mystery show.  Even appeared shirtless, (above) in one, but not the Ireland set episode that I recently caught. 

Splendor in the Grass (1981)

I actually featured O'Reilly before in a small piece back in 2009 (HERE:)  One of my summer reads that year was Melissa Gilbert's autobiography, and she spoke glowingly about the actor.  The two dated briefly back in the early 1980's around the time they were making the television re-make of the classic Splendor In The Grass.  O'Reilly played Bud, the character Warren Beatty played in the original.

When I did that first post, I hadn't seen the re-make, but since found a copy and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.  I usually hate re-makes, especially of classics, but O'Reilly was both engaging and compelling in the role. I also enjoyed the classic shower scene with Bud's friends. I posted about the original shower scene. (HERE:)  

In the original actor Gary Lockwood played Alan 'Toots' Tuttle, and in the re-make he's played by actor Jim Youngs.  I'm a big fan of Young's work in the 80's and previously featured him on FH (HERE:).  There is no nudity in either scene, and the re-make mostly focus's on faces, but those faces are incredibly hot.

Dance of the Damned (1989)

I've seen O'Reilly in a few of his old television guest roles the last year. In addition to Murder She Wrote, I also recently caught his appearance as prisoner Mike Kinney on repeat of a 2002 episode of ER.

ER (2002)

Porky's (1981)

Of course one of O'Reilly's most famous roles was in the Porky's series from the 80's.  O'Reilly played Tim in both the original Porky's and Porky's II, The Next Day.  Tim was sort of the groups 'leader' and was a part of the infamous 'cabin scene.'  I saw the Porky's series on VHS when I was a kid, and have loved looking back at the many scenes of male skin from the trilogy. 

You can't see much of O'Reilly in the DVD version of the cabin scene, but it does appear he was fully nude during the filming.  The old VHS version showed a bit more, and it appears there's a brief frontal when the guys walk to the back door at the end of the scene.  

Although the film does deal with issues of race and antisemitism, the cabin scene doesn't really hold up that well.  If you want to check it out though, I uploaded it on Sendpace HERE:  Below, O'Reilly is the one naked closet to the dressed man on the stairs.  Look closely and it appears to be a penis peak

Happy Birthday today October 16th

Happy 67th to actor Jim Youngs!

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Archives: Blast From The Past

Peter Barton

When I started FH, one of my goals was to only featured some of today's hottest and most talented hunks, but also feature men who impacted my, and others in the past.  So many sites are all about the men of the moment, the current and hottest bodies and moments.  As we all know however, it's hard to stay front burner for too long, at least not without burning out.

Patrick Duffy

Blast From The Past began as my way of spotlighting some of the models, actors and singers who I grew u with.  It soon became so much more.   Although I had connections with many of the men that I featured, I also included actors who I discovered later in life.  There are many actors, who I either didn't like or didn't notice that I looked at differently when I got older.  

Terry Lester

When I was a kid, I remember thinking that Tom Selleck was sort of 'gross'.  He seemed old, and I hated his moustache, and how hairy he was.  Then... when I hit my thirties, I started looking back on all those shirtless shots of Selleck with a different perspective...   There are also several classic stars from the 40's, 50's and 60's that I never heard of when I was a kid.  Thanks To TCM, I quickly began crushing over actors, many of whom are in their 80's, 90's or no longer with us at all.

Adrian Zmed & Scott Baio

This list includes most of those actors, performers, singers and models that I've blasted back to the past with.  I say most, as there are many former heart throbs who showed up in my birthdays or movie section that I have yet to include.  I hope to add them in once I have time to fully research the blog, but this list is a pretty good beginning.   Looking back at some of the posts, especially those from the site's early days, I realize many need an update.  Some were done before I had the ability to cap and create images on my own, and before learning how enlarge an image.  Hoping to update a few of my favorites soon.

Ted Shackelford

Willie Aames | Bruce Abbott | Jeb Adams | Steve Antin | Richard Dean Anderson | Christopher Atkins | Scott Bakula  | Jimmy Baio | Scott Baio |  Lajos Balázsovits | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Doug Barr | Peter Barton | Steven Bauer | Randall Batinkoff | Warren Beatty | John Beck | Michael Beck | Dirk Benedict | Tom Berenger | Helmut Berger | Kevin Bernhardt | Michael Biehn | Hunt Block | Brian Bloom | Steve Bond | Jesse Borrego |  Joseph Bottoms | Timothy Bottoms | Bruce Boxleitner | Greg Bradford | Brady Boys | Beau Bridges | Woody Brown |  Tom Byrd | 

Billy Hufsey

Bill Cable | Stephen Caffrey | Dean Cain | John David Carson | Maxwell Caulfield | Byron Cherry | Brian Patrick Clarke | Nicolas Clay | Jack Coleman | Christopher Collet | Jeff Conaway | Nicholas Cortland | Christopher Crabb | Brett Cullen | William Kirby Cullen | Rad Daly | Brad Davis | Mac Davis | Brandon De Wilde | Matt Dillon | Troy Donahue | Patrick Duffy | Keir Dullea | Sam Elliott | Greg Evigan | Shea Farrell | Jay R. Ferguson | Jon Finch | Steve Forrest | Sami Frey | Tony Ganios | Leif Garrett | Jonathan Gilbert | Grant Goodeve | Richard Grieco | Steve Guttenberg

John Allen Nelson

Antony Hamilton | Randy Hamilton | Tye Hardin | Mark Harmon | Jim Harris | Gregory Harrison | Rodney Harvey | David Hasselhoff | Richard Hatch | Martin Hewitt | Charlton Heston | Jon-Erik Hexum | Darby Hinton | Tom Hodges | Lee Horsely | Billy Hufsey | John James | Doug Jeffery | Christopher Jones | Sam Jones | Steve Kanaly | William Katt | Omri Katz | Alan Kayser |  Andrew Keegan | Brian Kerwin | Perry King | Wyatt Knight | Martin Kove | Kris Kristofferson | 

Kevin Bernhardt

Matthew Laborteaux | John Lafayette | Burt Lancaster | Lorenzo Lamas | Michael Landon | Perry Lang | Lawrence Lau | Scott Layne | Terry Lester | Tony Lo Bianco | Jason London | Simon MacCorkindale | Fred MacMurray | Ed Marinaro | Steve Mateo | Lee Majors | Paul Mercurio | Leigh McCloskey | Matt McCoy | Ted McGinley | Scott McGinnis | Todd McKee | John McMurray | William McNamara | Jimmy McNicol | Steve McQueen | Robert Mitchum | Lee Montgomery | Rick Moses | William R. Moses | Ben Murphy | Timothy Patrick Murphy |

Jon-Erik Hexum

Michael Nader | James Naughton | John Allen Nelson | Rick Nelson | Anthony Newley | Paul Newman | Tony O'Dell | Michael O'Keefe | Miles O'Keeffe | Ryan O'Neal | Cyril O'Reilly | Ken Olandt | Ken Olin | Jameson Parker | Michael Parks | Michael Paré | Robert Parucha | Alain Patrick | Don Michael Paul | John Payne | Bruce Penhall | George Peppard | Radames Pera | Joe Perry | Pat Peterson | Aidan Quinn | Robert Redford | Christopher Reeve | Burt Reynolds | Christopher Rich | Brian Robbins | Charles Robinson | Cliff Robertson | Rick Rossovich | Kurt Russell |

Greg Evigan

John Savage | Devon Sawa | Jack Scalia | John Schneider | Ricky Schroder | Tom Selleck | Ted Shackelford | Stephen Shellen | Marc Singer | Mark Slade | Rex Smith | Star Trek | Andrew Stevens | Parker Stevenson | John Stockwell | Rob Stone | Adam Storke | David Tiefen | Richard Thomas | Oliver Tobias | Barry Tubb | Robert Urich | Tim Van Patton |  Jan-Michael Vincent | Jesse & Alan Vint | Ralph Waite | Clint Walker | Kelly Ward | Ted Wass | Grant Wilson | Brian Wimmer | Ray Wise | Tom Wopat | Jeff Yagher | Michael York | Jim Youngs | William Zabka | Adrian Zmed |

Scott McGinnis

Hey Pretty Boy...

To Youngblood, winning wasn't everything - proving himself was.

Sooo... there's a hazing scene near the beginning of 1986's Youngblood. In the locker room, 17 year old Dean Youngblood (Rob Lowe) is grabbed by his teammates, held down and stripped.  Then, teammate Derek Sutton, (Patrick Swayze) uses a jock-strap as a doctor's mask, picks up a scalpel, then shaves off Dean's pubic hair.

I have seen bits and pieces from the 1986 Peter Markle directed film many times, especially the scene with Rob Lowe in a jock strap.  I hadn't however, actually seen the movie in it's entirety until last weekend.  I think I avoided watching the flick thinking it was a sports movie.   I'm a big sports fan, especially hockey, a game I played, but I usually don't get into sport focused films.  This film, really wasn't a sports movie.

I was actually pretty surprised how blatantly homoerotic Youngblood actually was.  The first thirty minutes looked as if it was directed by David DeCoteau.  Shirtless locker room scenes, towel snaps, jockstraps and tons of close-ups of Rob Lowe dripping with sweat.  The second half of the movie was a bit more straightforward with it's hockey focus, but the first half was all about getting as many hot shots and angles of the leads pretty face and body as they possibly could.

I have to admit, although I've always thought Rob Lowe was handsome, I never really appreciated his beauty until recently.  When I was a kid watching his 80's films on VHS, I usually preferred his co-stars.  I was more into Andrew McCarthy than Lowe who I didn't really think was especially talented.  He was hot no doubt, but the fact he seemed to know it was a bit of a turn off.  Like so many actors however, my appreciation for Lowe, as an actor, and as object of lust, has grown as I've gotten older.

Lowe isn't the only hottie in the film.  In addition to Lowe and Swayze, Youngblood also featured Keanu Reeves and Jim Youngs, (who I previously featured HERE:) as Lowe's older brother. Although Dean Youngblood has a female love interest, (Cynthia Gibb) the main relationship, well, the one that gets the homoerotic bonding montages, are between Lowe and Swayze.

If you want to see more from the film, including Lowe's embarrassment scene in just his wet jock-strap, check out the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Blast from the Past: Jim Youngs

I had never seen 1986's Youngblood until last week.  Sure, I downloaded the scene of Rob Lowe in a jockstrap, but that was the only scene that I'd seen.  Last week I saw it playing on my on demand 80's movie channel and decided to DVR.  I'm glad I did.

In addition to Lowe's gratuitous jock strap scene, there were also many moments of hot men.  The film also featured Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and an actor I'd seen before, but not really focused on until seeing this film,  The gorgeous Jim Youngs played Kelly Youngblood, the older brother of Rob's character Dean.  Although he only had a handful of scenes, Youngs was a highlight.  Not only was his character pivotal in getting Dean back on the ice, Youngs beautiful face and sexy eighties hair had me wanting to see and find out more. 

The Secrets of Midland Heights (1980)

Youngs got his big break in the late 70's starring along side Ken Wahl in The Wanderers. (1979)  He went on to appear on television in TV movies including The Executioners Song, Splendor in the Grass and the short lived prime-time soap The Secrets of Midland Heights.  The nighttime drama was cashing in on the success of Dallas and also featured Linda Hamilton and Lorenzo Lamas. 

Youngs was back on the big screen in 1983 and had supporting roles in a string of box office hits including Youngblood, Hotshot and as Lori Singer's boyfriend in Footloose.  Incredibly talented, good looking and charismatic, Youngs roles on screen began to diminish as the 80's went on. By the time the 90's rolled around, Youngs was back doing guest shots on television including roles with former co-star Wahl on Wiseguy, and turns on NYPD Blue, Babylon 5 and Silk Stalkings.

Hotshot (1986)

Youngs last official credit was sadly back in 1995.  It's always difficult to understand why some actors, especially those as talented as Youngs hit a wall, especially have his string of hits.  There were rumors of projects in 2012, but thus far, nothing has made it past the pre-production stage.

Footloose (1984)

In researching Youngs, I could only come up with one nude scene, and it's not the greatest.  Youngs had a brief flash of butt in the 1985 teen drama Out of Control.  You can check it out on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

The Wanderers (1979)

Youngs with Ken Wahl

Youngblood (1986)