Category Archives: media

Nadal Hammered Into Sexy, Slippery Pieces in Armani Vid

As if the tarty Armani poster of Rafael Nadal offering his arse to the world wasn’t slutty enough. Along comes the sporno video. The tennis ace is being shoved up against the (unplastered) wall and then thrown down and hammered on the builder’s bench. Twice. By the camera. Which chops up his body into sexy, slippery …

March 14, 2011 – 1:47 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, media, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

Quentin Crisp and Hurtian Crisp

The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in the UK.  Even if Crisp said he hated England — and he did, over and over again. So many lines in Philip Mackie’s superb …

January 13, 2010 – 6:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, commentary, film, gay, media, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

The End of Michael Jacksonism

By Mark Simpson (Edited from a feature that originally appeared the Independent on Sunday in July 1997, titled ‘Now the end is near’) Only a Michael Jackson gig could begin with a ten-minute computer-generated sci-fi video which obviously cost more than most artists can muster for an album. The film beamed on to the three giant screens …

June 26, 2009 – 2:40 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, commentary, media, music, racism | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

The Sun newspaper — how gay is it?

Why is Britain’s best-selling, sauciest tabloid so unsure of its sexuality? Mark Simpson, the Guardian (August 24, 2007) The Sun’s TV critic Ally Ross is an unhappy camper. You see, he’s always bitching about TV being ‘too gay’. Which is a rather peculiar thing for a TV critic to complain about. Perhaps his dad wanted him …

August 27, 2007 – 3:18 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, media, popular culture | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)