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January 26, 2021
Sex in the Park
Rummaging around in an old hard drive one lockdown, I found this review (for Details ) of the Sex Pistol’s Finsbury Park reunion gig from June 1996. Ah! The summer of ’96! When they were so young! And I was even younger! And when gigs – and life – still existed…. In those rancid gift […]
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January 23, 2021
Monkey Business: Roddy McDowall & Me
Mark Simpson recalls his chance meeting with Cornelius and his ‘hungry eyes’ Grief these days seems to come easier when attached to the death of celebrities. Especially when seen as the end of not just a media relationship but an age of innocence. For some it was the death of Diana, Kennedy, Lennon or Martin […]
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January 21, 2021
‘Oneymoons & Bloody Deviants – How Gay Love Stories Lost Their Way At The Movies
by Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in Fall 2018 issue of XY Mag) “WE’RE ON OUR ‘ONEYMOON!” Two teenage working class lads, Matt and Phil, hitching from London to the South Coast, are in the back of a car driven by a middle-aged man with a moustache and a bowtie, who has asked why they’re headed […]
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January 17, 2021
How Don & Tom Made Top Gun So Steamy
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 of the late Hollywood producer and ‘bad boy’, who along with his ‘good boy’ partner Jerry Bruckheimer were the most successful independent producers in Hollywood in the 80s and early […]
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January 14, 2021
Boys on Film: An Anatomy of YouTube’s Pro Spornos
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January 13, 2021
Grab Ass is Over
Strewth! What’s the world of team sports coming to? Horseplay has been sent to the knacker’s yard. Australian Football League team Melbourne Demons gave their players Jayden Hunt and Christian Petracca a stern telling off, after the former playfully grabbed the latter’s be-shorted bum during a game against Essendon last September. It seems that Petracca […]
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January 5, 2021
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Insta-Lovefest
The world’s most famous man this week became the first person to pass 250 million followers on Instagram. A milestone in human e-volution. Already the most popular personality on social media, 35-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is now just rubbing our noses in it. The Juventus star has 100 million more followers than all 20 Premier League […]
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December 22, 2020
The Smell of Vinnie Jones
It’s that fragrant time of year again, and Brut are spraying the airwaves with a new TV ad, fronted by ‘ard man Vinnie Jones, the ex-footballer, ex-actor, ex-Guy Ritchie fetish object. Jones seized his claim to fame way back in 1988 by squeezing (the much better) footballer Paul Gascoigne’s wedding tackle during a game. This […]
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December 20, 2020
The Importance of Being Adam Ant
Elise Moore takes a close, loving look at the protean punkster pop star’s masterfully submissive manipulation of sexual imagery – and his wet shorts (special guest post) As a Canadian born in 1975, I knew essentially nothing about Adam Ant until this year. I don’t even have the faintest recollection of “Goody Two Shoes,” his […]
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December 16, 2020
Prince Charming – Adam Ant’s Pop Apotheosis
Some years back I posted a piece called ‘The Prettiest Punk’, about the most fetching three minute wonders. Scandalously, Adam Ant appeared nowhere in the list. Perhaps this oversight was an unconscious censorship – because otherwise none of the other candidates would have stood a chance. Or more likely down to the fact I was […]
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