Thursday, August 30, 2007

teamm8

Sexy new Australian underwear label teamm8 as featured in DNA magazine. Can they challenge the mighty aussieBum?




Model: Jason Beam

Monday, August 27, 2007

Seth Rogen

Comedy actor and writer Seth Rogen is not the usual sculpted and chiselled actor/model/whatever but he is agreeably cubbish and after a successful supporting role in The 40 Year Old Virgin, will be becoming a big star in his own right in this summer's [maybe this year's] best comedy Knocked Up, starring Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl alongside Seth.

This talented cub is one to watch - and the movie certainly is too - and he brushes up pretty nicely too.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Queer Republic

Now that we are at the height of the international Pride season, stand out from the crowd in one the very cool t-shirt designs from Queer Republic. Cheeky and sexy. Rude and funny. You decide.



Check out their website for loads more great designs.

Danny Bayne

Well, I liked Danny Bayne a lot during the Grease Is The Word TV show - a TV talent contest to cast the stars of a new production of Grease - but the reviews for the stage show have been universally pretty awful.


It's not that Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden are awful as Danny and Sandy. It's just that whatever qualities made people vote for them shrivel and fade in the spotlight's harsh glare.

Bayne makes John Travolta look like Olivier, substituting a twitch of the collar and a curl of the lip for anything approaching acting.

He dances well enough, but he always appears to be copying someone else's moves - whenever he is asked to be still, or to think, he looks blank.

McFadden - sister of Westlife's Brian - has a sweet smile and a strong voice. Unfortunately she belts out every ballad as if it were karaoke night; there's no finesse or feeling.

Both have drama backgrounds and both have clearly been ferociously coached.

But nobody has been able to lend them charisma, or the ability to hold the stage. They appear what they probably are - two nice, eager people who are overwhelmed by the chance they have been given.

At some levels, of course, their limitations do not matter. No one goes to Grease for a master-class in performing, they go to have a good time.
The Telegraph

Truth is, I have always loathed Grease. Fifties Americana is simply not something I feel any nostalgia for or have any affection for. The only thing worse than rock'n'roll is rock'n'roll pastiche. And I have always found John Travolta odd-looking and charmless, and always thought the original cast ridiculously too old to be plausibly at high school.

So, the new production of Grease is awful? Why not? It's an awful musical with an awful story and hideous songs.

I still think Danny Bayne is fit though.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Shayne Ward

News pics have been issued as the Shayne Ward promotional machine ups a gear prior to the release of his new single and album in September.

Shayne is more than aware that he faces competition for Simon Cowell's attention as fellow X-Factor winner Leona Lewis prepares to release her debut material around the same time.

Shayne has the looks and the voice - this time it will all be about the material.

Original X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein isn't such a concern...


Thursday, August 02, 2007

DNA magazine

I'm not a regular reader of Australia's DNA magazine - although it is available on UK newstands - but there can be few gay magazines with finer male photography.

DNA is also available online