"Heated Rivalry": Heavily closeted hockey player hooks up with his rival the homophobic 2010s. With a lot of backsides and some stuff

 

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Heated Rivalry  on MAX, features a clandestine romance between hockey players in the 2010s, when you had to be closeted or you'd be fired -- the first hockey player to come out was Brock McGillis -- in 2016, long after he retired.  It's getting good reviews, except among gay men who complain that there's no plot, and star Hudson Williams is not really gay (so what? he's not really a hockey player, either).   My main problem is, I know nothing about hockey except it's played on ice, and has the reputation for being violent.  Will I be able to understand what's going on without conducting research?    I'll review Episode 1.1

Scene 1: December 2008, Saskatechwan. The International Prospect Cup.  I don't know what that is.  Ilya (Connor Storie)  is smoking out back, when Shane (Hudson Williams) from the rival team approaches to tell him that it's not allowed.  They trash-talk each other's teams as the worst in hockey history, and establish their conflicting personalities: Shane is a by-the-books good boy, while Ilya is a rebellious, arrogant a*hole.  

Cut to a newscaster telling us that this is a Canadian-Russian prospect game.  I'm guessing that it's where prospective players show their skill?  

 The game begins: Ilya keeps looking up in the bleachers, which are empty except for a guy glaring at him.  I think he's glaring at himself.  This is never explained.

One week later: Crushing defeat for Canada, although Shane did a good job.  Wait -- were there several Canadian-Russian prospect games?

Scene 2: Six months later.  The Major League Drafts.  I'm guessing that this is where the major teams pick new players based on their performance at the prospect games.   Ilya got #1, and Shane #2. 

The Montreal Canadiens want Shane, because he's cute and Asian-Canadian, breaking down racial barriers:  "People are popping champaign all over Quebec."  As they discuss how important hockey is to Canadian culture,  Ilya glares at him from above. 

Ilya is drafted by the Boston Bruins. They don't give the names of the teams; I had to look them up. 

Scene 3: Shane in bed in his hotel room.  Nice chest, buddy.  He can't sleep, so he gets dressed, goes to the gym, and starts biking.  Suddenly Ilya is beside him.  They try to see who can bike the fastest.  It's a draw.  Then they sit across from each other and make boring small talk ("Montreal is nice." "Yes. People like it there") while sneaking peeks at each other and sharing water so they can touch hands.

Scene 4: Six months later, Ottawa.  International Prospects Cup.  Wait -- I thought they were already drafted into teams?  Brother Alexei (Slavic Rogozine) calls to ask for more money, but Ilya is tired of forking it over to support his drugs-and-girls lifestyle. Alexei calls him a "f*ggot" and hangs up.  Is that an all-purpose slur, or are you out to your brother?

Next Ilya calls his Dad, who asks him to "apologize to Russia" for losing his last hockey game.  

"Well, we lost to the Czechs, but we'll beat Sweden."

"You'd better!"

Cut to "An amazing comeback for Canada, who trounced the Russians!"  Wait  Ilya is playing for Boston, not Russia, and he said they were going up  against Sweden next.   

Scene 5:  Six months later, Toronto.  Time is passing so quickly that I'm getting dizzy.   Ilya and Shane pose for a commercial about the game.  The director complains: "Would you guys try to hit your marks at the same time?"

Cut to Shane gawking at Ilya as he practices, while his Mom talks to him about wearing sneakers.  "A lot of Asian kids will be looking up to you as a role model."  So he should wear sneakers?

Cut to the showers, with Shane and Ilya sneaking peeks at each other. Ilya wants to do stuff, but Shane says "Not here!"

As they're getting dressed, Ilya says, "If I come to your room tonight at 9:00 pm..."  "I'll answer."

Scene 6:  Shane puts on a suit, then isn't wearing it as he waits nervously in his hotel room.  Ilya tries to get off the elevator at Shane's floor, but a woman is there, so he keeps going up.  She'll just think you have a room on this floor, dude!  This reminds me of my nine horrible months in..ugh...Texas, the worst place on Earth.  Guys would not show up for hookups, then explain: "A car was parked in the driveway of a house three doors down, so I was afraid to stop."

He tries again, but now Shane has doubts: "This is such a bad idea."  They kiss anyway.  Har-har, Shane starts doing stuff before they even get their shirts off.  

He's never been with a guy before, so Ilya gives him some instructions.  Whoa, you thought Kelvin and Keefe were open about it.  These guys go as far as they can go without actually showing the act.

When Ilya finishes, he says "Ok, this was fun.  Thanks, bye!"  But he's just joking.  He does stuff with Shane, too. 

They agree to not tell anyone about their hookup, and since they both have early flights tomorrow, Ilya leaves.  Shane is upset.  Are you feeling guilty about the gay stuff, worried because Ilya belongs to a rival team, or hurt because he didn't spend the night?

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Gemstones Season 2 Finale: The Godfather, Butch and Sundance, random n*de dudes, and "My love for you will never die."

  

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The series finales on The Righteous Gemstones are meant to tie up any remaining loose ends and say goodbye to the characters, so we should expect little or no plot development, just a lot of hugging: everyone who has had lost, frayed, or troubled relationships during the season, lovers, friends, parents and children, siblings, will be reconciled.

Hold on tight to the one you love the most:  A blackened stage. Suddenly a spotlight on Jesse.  He begins the country-western song "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend," by Don Williams.  Then Kelvin, lying on a platform, raising a finger to Heaven.  Then Judy and the choir, as she walks up stage.  Then all three siblings together. 

 Coffee black, cigarettes. Start the day like all the rest. 

First thing every moning that I do, is start missing you.

Some broken hearts never mend.  Some memories never end.  

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die. 

Except this song is not about lost love, it's about mended hearts.  You're supposed to look at or point to a loved one. Kelvin starts out by pointing at audience stage left, obviously at Keefe, who points to himself and then back. My love for you will never die,

BJ waves, presumably at Judy.  Cut to Amber and the kids; then Baby Billy, Tiffany, and the baby; he looks back at Harmon, his no-longer estranged son; and finally Eli looks out at the audience. 

In the middle of love's embrace: Flashback to the Alaska Commercial Company, a grocery store chain with 33 locations in Alaska, mostly in rural areas. The Lissons, in hiding after their murders and attempts, are buying -- coffee to go?  Martin has them under surveillance.

Back in church, Eli looks at the band as the siblings sing the second verse together.  Then Jesse and Kelvin, looking up to heaven.

 Rendezvous in the night.

In the middle of love's embrace, I see your face

Wait -- they see God while their partners Amber and Keefe are going downtown?  Makes sense.

Cut to the Lissons in their cabin, watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where the gay-subtext bank robbers, played by Robert Redford, top photo, and Paul Newman, left, are trapped, with no escape, so they go out shooting. 

 Some broken hearts never mend.   Some memories never end.

Some tears will never dry.  My love for you will never die.

The Cycle Ninjas:  Cycle Ninjas on glittering metallic snowmobiles zoom through the woods.  

Lyle looks out the window and yells "Get the guns!"

Back at the church, the siblings point at each other. Eli smiles. 

The First Chorus: The congregation rises to sing the chorus.

We see Chad and his wife, who have been having marital problems since Season 1; Martin and his often seen, never-named wife; Judy and BJ;  Junior and Tan Man, Baby Billy and Tiffany, Amber and the kids.  Then the siblings again.  Wait, I thought the Tan Man was just Junior's assistant.  Is there a gay relationship going on back in Memphis? 

In the flashback, the Lissons get out their guns and tell each other that God believes in them: "God will see us through, for we are the Chosen."  Where on Earth did Lyle get that idea?  

More broken hearts after the break

Griffin Heckel: German, gay, muscular, or all of the above? With some bonus Jewish twinks, Michael Carr's d*ck, and an excellent adventure

 

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 After completing the profile of Francois Göske I realized that, although I read German (it was one of the languages in my Modern Languages major) and know about Germany's strong tradition of gay-themed novels and movies, there aren't other profiles of German actors here.  So I checked the teen idol website, and found Griffin Heckel.  This striking photo shows him in a park, presumably in Berlin.  I'm reminded of Rilke's "Pathways":

Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt

in blassen Abendwiesen?

und keinen Traum, als diesen:

Du gehst mit.

Shall I choose the road less traveled

through the pale evening meadows?

And with no dream, except for this: you come with me

Wait -- he's America, from New York City, and the photo was taken outside the Dia Beacon Art Museum, on the Hudson, about an hour north of Penn Station.

How embarrassing!

But I'm still doing a profile because Griffin is highly cultured. Here he's waiting to see Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter playing Vladimir and Estragon.  (Bill and Ted?  Excellent!)

And probably gay: he posts a photo hugging gay actor Ethan Slater, Boq in Wicked (who, incidentally, is 5'7" and built, sigh).

Wait -- it turns out that Ethan is straight. Darn it!  And Griffin took a girl to the homecoming dance.  He must be straight, too.

So not German, not gay.  Does he at least have an impressive physique?

Um...let's just check his roles on the IMDB for gay characters or subtexts.

Griffin is best known for the Netflix "hit" that I never heard of, Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024): a boy (Luke David Blum) is  separated from his parents during a storm, and "lost on a mountain in Maine." Beats those annoying one word titles that don't tell you anything about the movie. 

It's based on a 1978 autobiography by Donn Fendler, who was separated from his boy scount troop and lost near Mount Katahdin for nine days in 1939.

Paul Sparks (n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) plays the boy's dad, and Griffin plays his brother.

I'm guessing that there is no gay content, but there are no girls Griffin's age in the cast list, so no heterosexism, either.

Griffin has 12 other acting roles listed on the IMDB, beginning in 2019 with the short Remind Me (father-son squabbles), and episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Deuce, FBI, and Evil Lives Here.

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Kayden Koshelev: Alkaio's Other Half plays a zombie, a boy who wears girls' clothes, and a firefighter. With Dornan and twink photos

    

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Someone named Kayden Koshelev appeared on the teen idol website: rather feminine, with lots of pictures where he's going to movies and events with dudes (here Mason McNulty)  Obviously gay.  But that's not the interesting part (after I go through his LGBTQ roles).

16 years old as of this writing, Kayden was born in Burbank, then moved to Chicago before returning to L.A. to pursue his career.  He began performing at age 7, playing the young John (Michael Dorman) on an episode of Patriot (about a dysfunctional spy).

A lot of gay-themed tv followed:

A 2021 episode of Diary of a Future President, a Disney teencom with Charlie Bushnell (left) gradually (very gradually) coming out.

Five episodes of Search Party (2022).  The dark comedy started out as a search for a missing friend, but in Season 5 the gang sells "instant enlightenment" pills, not realizing that they turn you into a zombie.  Aspen (Kayden), adopted by gay couple Elliott and Marc (John Early, Jeffery Self), soon turns evil, attacking the Gay Pool Boy (Julio Torres of Los Espookies) because he won't provide ice cream. 

He then acts like he has a crush on Drew (John Reynolds), so he will lower his defenses.  Drew asks "Why is he so obsessed with me?" before Aspen attacks. 

 

Me Time (2022) stars Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg as a responsible "family man" and his wild-child buddy.  Kayden's character is not specifically gay, but his rendition of "Hallelujah" brings down the house.  And I can post a photo of Kevin Hart (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Let's fast-forward through Kayden's 21 acting credits to:

Firebuds (2023-25): Preteen first responders are paired with sentient vehicles.  Cory, paired with a helicopter, using they/them pronouns: the first nonb*nary character on any Disney Channel program.

And: Cupid's Treacherous Journey (2025). Teenage theater director Preston (Kayden, also the writer) and the girls in his cast are trapped in the theater during a storm, and decide that "the show must go on."    The girl playing the lead isn't there, so he'll do it:  "They built the sky like a glass ceiling, but I wasn't made to be grounded.  They fear what happens when us women burn too brightly."  

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Kafka's Boyfriend: 10 Surprising Gay Facts about Everybody's Favorite Writer

The one thing I learned from studying literature at Augustana College, Indiana University, and USC:
Writers must never, ever be gay.

If their gayness is undeniable, it is a trivial thing, not worth mentioning, as irrelevant to their art as their preference for marshmallow sundaes.

If it is deniable, it will be denied.  Diaries, journals, and stories will be scrutinized, and the most fleeting reference to a woman will be pointed out triumphantly: "See?  See?  See?  He mentions a woman!  He can't possibly have been gay!"

And the strongest, most passionate, most intense same-sex friendships will be ignored.  "He never mentions that they did anything in the bedroom!  Not gay!"

Like Franz Kafka (1883-1924), author of The Metamorphosis, which everyone has to read in high school (the one with the giant cockroach).

The Trial, an existentialist classic: everyone is on trial, but we don't know the charge, and the rules keep changing.  Josef K. has been played by gay actor Anthony Perkins, and Kyle MacLachlan (above).

The Castle: I haven't actually read it, but the onerous red tape necessary to gain access to the bureaucracy sounds like going to the DMV.   K has been played by Maximilian Schell, Nikolai Stoltsky, and Ulrich Muhe. 

Movies about Kafka, starring Jorge Marrale (1988), Jeremy Irons (1991), and Idan Weiss (2025), invariably center his life on the Woman of His Dreams.

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Francois Göske : Searching for gay subtexts amid the constant drone of "girls! girls! girls!" At least he shows his junk

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Robert Louis Stevenson's books are sacred, memories of childhoods past where boys conjured up lavish adventures with each other.  Especially Treasure Island, written specifically upon a request from his stepson Lloyd Osbourne that there be "no girls in it."  And there aren't, except for Jim Hawkins' mother.

So I was quite disappointed with the German miniseries (2007), in which Jim Hawkins (18-year old Francois Göske) not only does stuff with a lady of the evening, he falls in love with a female stowaway on the ship, Sheila (Diane Willems)!

Ok, I thought, but maybe Göske's other work will redeem him.  Some gay characters, or some substantial gay subtexts?

His first starring role was in a 2003 remake of the children's classic Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer (The Flying Classroom), set in a boys' school.  Only this one had girls -- and he gets a girlfriend.

In French for Beginners (2006), Goeske goes to France as part of a student exchange program.  It looks like he has a gay subtext buddy-bond with Lennard Bertzbach, but actually they are partners in crime, dedicated to winning the Girl of His Dreams. 

 A reviewer  suggests that this "charming" movie be used in French language classes.  It's not charming when you spent your childhood with the "what girl do you like?  What girl?  What girl?" interrogation.

Grimm's Finest Fairy Tales: The Farmer's Daughter (2008).  I'm not familiar with that particular fairy tale, but I imagine it involves Goeske kissing some girls.

Summertime Blues (2009), based on the juvenile novel by Julia Clarke: Goeske goes to the countryside with his mother, and meets the Girl of His Dreams.

Dornroschen (2009): The fairy tale of Sleeping  Beauty.  Guess who wakes her with a kiss?

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"I Love LA": Entitled 27 year old lady and her gay best friend have boring conversations. With Hutcherson, Firstman, and some others.

 

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The 11 years I lived in Los Angeles were the best of my life.  Imagine  having a job interview at Paramount Studios.  Driving down Sunset Boulevard, past Chateau Marmont and the Comedy Store, on the way to work.  Running into John Amos at the gym and Richard Dreyfuss at the Bodhi Tree.  Living two blocks from Mickey's and the Different Light.  Buying groceries at the West Hollywood Safeway, where everyone is gay.  So of course I'm going to watch a tv show called I Love LA., even though it's about zillenial ladies with influencer problems.

Plus, it stars Josh Hutcherson (left) and Jordan Firstman (who showed his stuff in Rotting in the Sun) as a gay friend. In an era where gay starring characters on tv suddenly turn straight (Dr. Who, Klaus in The Umbrella Academy, Will Byers on Stranger Things) or their shows are cancelled after one season, maybe secondary character will have staying power.

Scene 1: It's Maia's 27th birthday, and she doing stuff with her boyfriend (Josh Hutcherson); his chest visible, she is fully clothed.  There's an earthquake, but she thinks that he is being energetic, har har.

Scene 2: Maia and Boyfriend in the bathroom.  They discuss a girl in Boyfriend's class, whom Maia hates, but Josh gives the benefit of the doubt: she's only 12, entitled to be mean.

Next topic: Why Maia gets pain in her privates so often (as we know from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, that happens when your boyfriend is extra...um...capacious).

Next topic: Maia is a year older today, so does she look like an ugly old hag, or is she still as ugly as yesterday?  There's no way to answer that without getting in trouble, buddy.

And why is she still an assistant?  She should be a manager by now.  She's an utter failure! 

"You could ask your Boss for a promotion." 

"I could, but I have to time it right."  She looks at a photo on her phone of a woman gazing at the camera while shoving her finger in her mouth.  This depresses her.

Scene 2:  On the street.  Still depressed, Maia watches as her Black Friend gets out of a fancy car, runs across the street, and hugs her.  "Happy birthday!"  As they discuss how much Alyssa hates her hair style, two gay guys walk up.  Her Gay Friend (Firstman) waves goodbye, says "I love you!",  throws him a bunch of kisses, then admits to his friends that he has no idea who the guy is: "I've literally never met him before."  

He's Jason, played by Rion Fletcher (n*de photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).  This is his only appearance on the show.

Scene 3: The three walk down a jogging path in a part of L.A. I don't recognize.  Maia asks about Tallulah's Heaven campaign: it was months ago, but she's still "breadcrumbing it" at $10,000 per post -- a ridiculously low amount!  Plus she lives in...ugh..New York!  The friends agree that she's a joke, not worth Maia's time.

"Oh...um...we were friends five years ago, but now I hate her, of course.  She didn't even wish me a happy birthday."

"You're still in contact?" Gay Friend scoffs.  "Block her!  You don't see me hanging out with Avici anymore, do you?"

"Well, he's not alive."

Gay Friend rushes off to cruise a guy.  Maybe he didn't want to deal with the grief over his friend, or maybe he's just lonely.

Next topic:  Maia is that at 27, she's over the hill, no longer a useful member of society.

"Nonsense!" Black Friend exclaims. "My Dad won his first Oscar at age 28!  You still have, like three good years left!"

Back to Tallulah: "Block her!  You can't keep living in the past!"  He chants "Block! Block! Block!" until she does -- "and I feel amazing!"  She yells "Love you, b*tches!," and rushes away.  Is that a term of endearment now?

Scene 4:  Maia goes to work at Alyssa 180, determined to ask the Boss for a promotion.  Her assistant says "Good luck, Queen!"  Is that a term of endearment now?

She climbs the stairs to a workshop.  I don't know what they make or design here, but the staff is all women.

Left: So far the only male characters have been the button-down schoolteacher Boyfriend and the swishy stereotype Firstman, so here's Colin Woodell, who plays Ben in two episodes (not this one).

Alyssa, Founder and Principal, is getting a manicure.  "Happy birthday!  How old are you now?"

Maia tells her.

"Ugh, 27, that's rough.  Better than 28, though.  28 -33 are like 'K*ll me!'"

"What happens at 34?"

"B*tch, there is no one over 33."

Maia points out that she developed Grayson's Chipotle Bowl, which sold a lot of corn, so she should be promoted to manager.  

"Nope, sorry, I can't promote you to manager unless you have experience being a manager."  That sounds like a Catch-22, but it's actually how human resources work: you must have done this job, or you couldn't possibly do this job.

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Taylor Gregory: The fierce, fabulous Barbie kid grows up to ballet, bodybuilding, and kissing boys. With bonus Czerwonko going downtown

  

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When I was doing a profile of Iain Armitage, who played Young Sheldon, the preteen and teenage version of the Big Bang Theory's neurotic physicist , I thought Wyatt McClure should come next.  He played next door neighbor Billy, who started with a gay-subtext interest in Iain before the writers decided to give him a crush on his sister Missy instead.

Wyatt McClure turned out to be unsuitable; no beefcake, and straight.  But he did draw my attention to his best friend, Taylor Gregory: 17 years old as of this writing, and extremely muscular.

Taylor has done some acting, but he is primarily a dancer, interested in a career in ballet. Here he plays the Prince in Nutcracker at Christmastime 2023.  

Auditioning for the Houston Ballet Academy's intensive summer session in 2025.  Did they require you to dance shirtless on your audition video, or did you think your physique would give you an edge?

Gay in real life:

Taylor: "We weren't celebrating Valentine's Day, but we were."  His date, a guy named Carson, is getting friendly under the table. We don't see Wyatt's date; maybe they're taking the photo.

Taylor tries to kiss Wyatt, who isn't into it.  

Any questions?

Any gay roles:

In 2015, when he was six years old, Biloxi, Mississippi native starred in a commercial for Mochino's high-end Barbie doll collection.  He was  the first boy ever to be shown playing with Barbies on tv.  With his femme hair and his "fierce and fabulous" snap, he became a media sensation and "a voice of the LGBTQ community."  

In one of the news stories I watched, Taylor's Mom seemed uncomfortable with the idea of her son being a gay icon.  It was just an acting role; in real life, he plays with Matchbook cars (translation: "My son is straight")

Gay boys are allowed to play with cars, Mom, just as straight boys are allowed to play with dolls. You can't tell by the toys they like.

But she did allow him to perform at the  Gulf Coast Equality Fest, an annual LGBTQ+ event "aimed at inspiring, educating, honoring, and celebrating our community and our allies."  

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Jonny Quest: Gay in the 1960s, hetero in the 1990s, gay again (sort of) in the 2010s

An adventure series with distinctively realistic animation,Jonny Quest first appeared on prime time in 1965-65, and then on Saturday morning through the 1970s. Renowned scientist Dr. Benton Quest (Don Messick), with a reddish-brown beard and a white lab coat, and his white-haired, hard-muscled boyfriend Race Bannon, investigate weird mysteries in the Andes, the Artic, the Sargasso Sea, or most commonly in steamy jungles full of dragon-like lizards and headhunters.

 Tagging along, either to figure out the mystery or get abducted by bad guys, are Dr. Quest’s 11-year old son, Jonny (Tim Matheson) and his companion Hadji (Danny Bravo), who met them in Calcutta and then tagged along for no logical reason except that he rather liked Jonny.

Dr. Quest and Race Bannon were quite obviously gay partners. Neither displayed the slightest interest in women.

 Race was often drawn in a swimsuit so his massive muscles were visible.  Here he stains himself with purple berry juice to convince the savage Po-Po Indians that he is a god.

But I was more interested in Jonny and Hadji. Jonny, blond in a tough guy’s black turtleneck, rushes double-fisted into danger, while Hadji, slim and brown with petite hands, wearing a turban with a ruby in it all the time (even when swimming), is skittish and emotional, shouting “Be careful!” from the sidelines as he waits for an opportunity to assist with his mystical arts.

Hadji is presumably Hindu, although the turban suggests Sikh (in the 1990s series, his full name is Hadji Singh).  So why is his name an honorary title given to Muslims who have completed the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca?

He was one in  long line of South Asian boy-adventurers such as Sabu (left), Kim in the Corentin series, Gunga Andy's Gang, and Raji on  Maya (below) .

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Ten n*de and nearly n*de photos of Bernard the "Santa Clause" Elf, David Krumholtz. With bonus Jason Biggs and Rob Morrow.

  I had a full, complete profile of David Krumholtz, who played Bernard the Elf in the iconic Santa Clause (1993), but when I tried to post it, it vanished, replaced by the last of the "see also" links: Jamie Mayers: Absurdly hot Short Guy

It's Christmas Eve; I have things to do.  I don't have time to recreate the whole profile, but I don't want the photos to go to waste, so I'm posting them instead.  

Link to the n*de photos

1. Bernard the Elf.

2. David singing in his under*wear

Bonus: Jason Biggs trying to hide his d*ck behind a glass pan lid.

3. Shirtless.

4. With Wednesday Addams

5. His backside

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Connor Newall: The Hottest Property in Fashion buddies with Alfie Williams, models in gay ads, plays gay guys, shows his....

  

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Alfie Williams just posted a photo of his 28 Years Later Family, at a table read.  He's sitting between Chi-Lewis Parry, the zombie Samson (not shown)  and Connor Newall, who played Jimmy Shite, the first cultist to come to the rescue as Spike is facing a zombie hoard.  Alfie always gravitates toward LGBTQ actors, so it's worth checking him out.

In 2015, Connor Newall was a 16-year old high school student, growing up in the rough neighborhood of Govan, Glasgow, with a dad who worked on the docks and an older brother in the army. He figured that he would join the army, too, until a casting agent visited his school, looking for some scally lads to play in a PSA about knife violence in Scotland: No Knives, Better Lives.

She cast Connor, and then sent his photo to Michael O'Brien at Model Team Glasgow, who called instantly and exclaimed "Get him to my office right now!"

Connor signed on, and had a photo shoot for GQ within a week.  Then "the phone started ringing, and to be honest it never stopped."  He had to get excused absences from his teachers so he could fly off for magazine shoots in London, Paris, and Barcelona.  Every photographer in the business asked for him. He was called "the hottest property in fashion" and "Scotland's Model Teenager." 

What was the attraction?  Connor was shorter than the usual male model, and not muscular, but his striking, angular face could be angelic one moment, demonic the next, move from brooding to whimsical with a glance.

And he was really good at gay-themed ads.

Connor's modeling rarely involves hugging ladies, but the gay themes are everywhere. Here a four page spread for GQ China depicts him and Bradley Phillips as boyfriends.

Playing with a water hose and his d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends 

Connor's older brother supported his modeling,  and quit his army job to join him on the runway.  His father wasn't so sure.  Modeling careers don't last long.  In a few years, his looks will be gone, the media will go on to the next big thing, and then where will he be?  He should train for a back-up career.

Connor chose acting.  To date he has seven credits listed on his CV:

The short Bunny (2018): A teenager (Connor) wears bunny ears to deal with the trauma of his deceased mother.

The music video Gratitude (2018), by Benjamin Francis Leftwitch, a British Indie folk singer: a very upset Connor parks his car in the dark, punches it a few times, smokes a cigarette, takes off his clothes, and trudges into the ocean.  

Now I know what I'm praying for
Not to waste anytime like I wasted before
Now I know what I'm staying for
No more

It's nice that nothing in the lyrics or the video shows him upset over a girl. 

 More Connor  after the break