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Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, whiling away these sweaty summer days pondering one of life’s eternal conundrums — how Tab Hunter became Tab Hunter. What brought this up was our recent consideration of Guy Madison (July 10 blog, Guy Madison — Choice Beefcake?) who came into this world with […]
By the 1940s cheesecake photos of Hollywood stars were commonplace, so when female fans reacted to a new comer during the waning days of WW II a new genre was born — Beefcake. Guy Madison’s good looks, sculpted body and innocent charm propelled him into movie stardom. In the picture above, he resembles a more […]
One of America’s greatest comedians, Jonathan Winters, died at 87 on April 11, and even his obituary stimulated laughs. He wasn’t topical and never got into the politics of the moment. Rather, he was a boy from the Midwest (born in Dayton, Ohio) who created the most vivid impressions of the people he knew growing up. He was easily […]