Daniel Craig’s new ad for Belvedere vodka is quite the gay divorcee statement. In the ad, directed by Thor‘s Taika Waititi, fifty-four-year-old Craig (happily married to Rachel Weisz since 2011), sheds his 007 white tuxedo strai(gh)tjacket, dons a tarty black tank… Read More »Daniel Craig Escapes Bond’s Closet
Is Pride season over yet? Does it in fact ever end nowadays? Like the ever extending and complicating rainbow flags and acronyms it is, by definition, never finished. There is always more ‘work’ to be done. Some hitherto undiscovered shame… Read More »(Taken in for) Questioning
Mark Simpson’s love-affair with American engineering – & engineered Americans My first trip to the US, as a spotty provincial English teenager, was teeth-chatteringly exciting. Not least because it was also my first experience of space travel. My mum and… Read More »Cool New World
Twenty years ago, my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. Both the piece and he went virulently viral, starting an outbreak of global metrosexmania that lasted years. Thousands of… Read More »Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On
How Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ biopic undresses your mind Twenty-two years ago, when this now heavily skid-marked millennium was still brand, spanking new, I went to see a restored, remastered version of the classic 1970 rockumentary Elvis: That’s The Way It Is, about… Read More »Elvis: The Fully Clothed Striptease Artist
A disappointing date with Top Gun: Maverick I know this will come as a terrible, crushing blow to him, but sometimes you have to speak bluntly. And there’s no easy way of saying this. I don’t fancy Tom Cruise anymore.… Read More »Sorry Tom, I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling