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Oct 6, 2024

Andrew Keegan: From "Teenage Caveman" and "The Broken Hearts Club" to...well, he kissed Dean Cain



Link to the n*de photos

Teenage Caveman, 2002, is not a good movie.  You find out instantly that the cavemen are actually living in a post-Apocalyptic world.  But it's good for beefcake.  Some of the guys strip to show their bottoms while preparing for s*x.  Stephen Jasso, who plays Vincent, also had unsimulated s*x in the controversial, "show everything" Ken Park -- frontals on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends


And it gave us a memorable scene where the hunky 23-year old Andrew Keegan, playing the head teenage caveman, is tied to a post with his hands over his head, showing us his bulked-up post-teen idol physique. 

Born in 1979, Andrew Keegan was one of the more popular teen stars of the 1990s, playing mostly operators, rebels, and scallawags, such as Zack Dell in Camp Nowhere (1994), and "bad boys" in guest roles on TGIF sitcoms like  Full House, Moesha, Step by Step, and Boy Meets World.



By the late 1990s, he was starting to bulk up, and the teen magazines started going wild.  They specialized in shots of his bare chest peeking out from his shirt, as if he had been caught in the midst of getting dressed (or undressed).

Gay-vague  "not into girls" roles on Party of Five (1997-98) and Seventh Heaven (1997-2004), led to  Broken Hearts Club (2000): 









Andrew played Kevin, one of a group of gay friends who hang out in West Hollywood (others include Timothy Olyphant, Billy Porter, Justin Theroux, and Zach Branff).  They deal with coming out, AIDS, and so on.  Kevin kisses mysterious newcomer Cole, played by Dean Cain, something that was unheard-of for two straight actors in 2000.







Andrew didn't quite make the transition to adult hunk.  During the 2000s, he performed mostly in horror and s*x comedies, like Extreme Dating, 2005: Four friends hatch a crazy sceme to get one of them laid.

He plays Sally Boy in Dough Boys, 2008, which is not about World War I, it's about a bakery. And his character is straight.

He produced and starred in A Christmas Too Many (2007), which includes a gay stereotype son among the relatives that Mickey Rooney invites to Christmas dinner. It gets a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.



I haven't seen any of Andrew's recent projects, and I'm not sure I want to.

Living Among Us, 2018: Vampires come "out of the coffin."  That's True Blood.

Dem Tinseltown Homies, 2021. Huh?

The Activated Man, 2023. After the guy's dog dies of cancer...  Better than a dead wife, but still, next!








Let's stick to the days when Andrew was playing ground-breaking gay characters.

2 comments:

  1. Teenage Caveman is actually a remake, and the original is where Planet of the Apes got the ending from.

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    1. I think there's a post on Robert Vaughn somewhere on this blog.

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