Arnold Schmahzenegger
How the Austrian Cinders became a Hollywood Prince Two decades ago, during peak metrosexmania in the US, the bodybuilder movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, never exactly shy about… Read More »Arnold Schmahzenegger
How the Austrian Cinders became a Hollywood Prince Two decades ago, during peak metrosexmania in the US, the bodybuilder movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, never exactly shy about… Read More »Arnold Schmahzenegger
The steamy private life of the seismically successful Cinemascope stud How tall was Rock Hudson? The answer seems to be ‘it depends’. Wikipedia and others give… Read More »Rock (of Gibraltar on the) Hudson
I’ve been devouring – a little late – High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess, Charles Fleming’s page-turning and hair-raising 1998 biography… Read More »How Don & Tom Made ‘Top Gun’ So Steamy
How Sam’s body in ‘Psycho’ melted mine and Marion’s minds On New Year’s Day I rewatched Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. As you do. Released in 1960,… Read More »Psycho Somatic
Mark Simpson finds Midway ‘dumb, numb and empty of cum’ When I went to see Roland Emmerich’s teensploitation flick Midway this week I had low expectations. In… Read More »Midway to Paradise (So Near, Yet So Far Away)