2010-02-07

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2010-02-07 11:45 am

Naked Boys Singing (2007) directed by Robert Schrock & Troy Christian

Directors: Robert Schrock
Troy Christian (co-director)

Writers: Stephen Bates (writer)
Marie Cain (writer)
other writers )

Release Date: 5 October 2007 (Rochester ImageOut Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, USA)

Genre: Comedy, Musical

Tagline: No dress code required

Plot: This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.

As the title suggests, naked boys do sing (and dance) in this campy big-screen adaptation of one of the longest-running and most lascivious off-Broadway musical revues ever produced. Filmed in Los Angeles, this is essentially a basic recording of the live stage show, spotlighting songs such as "Fight the Urge," "The Bliss of a Bris," "Muscle Addiction," "Nothing But the Radio On," "Members Only" and "Window to Window."

NAKED BOYS SINGING! sings the praises of male nudity and the cast includes a multi-talented, racially diverse selection of singers, dancers and actors including Jason Currie, Kevin Stea (Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition” tour), Joe Souza, Joseph Keane, Phong Truong, Salvatore Vassallo, Andrew Blake James, Anthony Manough, Jaymes Hodges, and original stage cast member Vincent Zamora, who bare it all on the BIG screen.

Features songs written by Bruce Vilanch, Stephen Bates, Shelly Markum, David Pevzner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Winkler and Robert Schrock.

reviews )

Awards: 2008 GayVN Award as Best Alternative Release

@IMDb
@Amazon: Naked Boys Singing
@Netflix
@TLA Releasing
@Wolfe Video

 

more pics )

Cast (in alphabetical order)
Andrew Blake Ames ... Performer
Jason Currie ... Performer
Jaymes Hodges ... Performer
Joseph Keane ... Performer
Anthony Manough ... Performer
Joe Souza ... Performer
Kevin Alexander Stea ... Performer
Phong Truong ... Performer (as Ethan Le Phong)
Salvatore Vassallo ... Performer
Vincent Zamora ... Performer
rest of the cast )

      
Jason Currie & Joseph Keane

more pics )


reviews_and_ramblings: (Default)
2010-02-07 11:45 am

Naked Boys Singing (2007) directed by Robert Schrock & Troy Christian

Directors: Robert Schrock
Troy Christian (co-director)

Writers: Stephen Bates (writer)
Marie Cain (writer)
other writers )

Release Date: 5 October 2007 (Rochester ImageOut Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, USA)

Genre: Comedy, Musical

Tagline: No dress code required

Plot: This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.

As the title suggests, naked boys do sing (and dance) in this campy big-screen adaptation of one of the longest-running and most lascivious off-Broadway musical revues ever produced. Filmed in Los Angeles, this is essentially a basic recording of the live stage show, spotlighting songs such as "Fight the Urge," "The Bliss of a Bris," "Muscle Addiction," "Nothing But the Radio On," "Members Only" and "Window to Window."

NAKED BOYS SINGING! sings the praises of male nudity and the cast includes a multi-talented, racially diverse selection of singers, dancers and actors including Jason Currie, Kevin Stea (Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition” tour), Joe Souza, Joseph Keane, Phong Truong, Salvatore Vassallo, Andrew Blake James, Anthony Manough, Jaymes Hodges, and original stage cast member Vincent Zamora, who bare it all on the BIG screen.

Features songs written by Bruce Vilanch, Stephen Bates, Shelly Markum, David Pevzner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Winkler and Robert Schrock.

reviews )

Awards: 2008 GayVN Award as Best Alternative Release

@IMDb
@Amazon: Naked Boys Singing
@Netflix
@TLA Releasing
@Wolfe Video

 

more pics )

Cast (in alphabetical order)
Andrew Blake Ames ... Performer
Jason Currie ... Performer
Jaymes Hodges ... Performer
Joseph Keane ... Performer
Anthony Manough ... Performer
Joe Souza ... Performer
Kevin Alexander Stea ... Performer
Phong Truong ... Performer (as Ethan Le Phong)
Salvatore Vassallo ... Performer
Vincent Zamora ... Performer
rest of the cast )

      
Jason Currie & Joseph Keane

more pics )


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2010-02-07 02:15 pm

Event: and now for a very different Valentine's Day, Puppy Love!

read on Geoffrey Knight's blog: http://geoffreyknight.blogspot.com/2010/02/hey-guys-wanna-do-something-special-on.html  

From: Friday, February 12, 2010, 18.00
To: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 17.00
Where: MELBOURNE - Edinburgh Gardens Fitzroy & SYDNEY - Sydney Dogs & Cats Home



PetRescue and Singles Volunteers are getting together for Valentines Day to help out both people and homeless pets who are looking for someone special.

Puppy Love is two special events which will be held in Melbourne (the night of Friday 12 Feb) and in Sydney (the afternoon of Sunday 14 Feb) for people who want to make a difference to lost and abandoned dogs and cats, while meeting other people with a similar interest in animal welfare.

SYDNEY - the event will be held at the Sydney Dogs & Cats Home on Sunday 14 Feb between 2pm and 5pm.

Over 150 volunteers are expected (they will be painting & refurbishing the concrete dog kennels, building cat towers, washing dogs with the Hydrobath, walking impounded dogs etc). It's a good opportunity to do something constructive for the shelter, meet the facility's animals plus learn more about the shelter and what you can do.

MELBOURNE - the event will be held in the Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy on Friday the 12th of Feb from 6pm to 9pm.

The event is to support a number of PetRescue's Victorian-based rescue groups. Volunteers will be forming "rescue committees' for dogs that have been in foster care for some time. In order to try to find a Valentine for these dogs groups will be completely re-doing the dogs' profile (pics/videos etc) for the PetRescue website, and brainstorming new ideas for rehoming these and other rescue pets plus lots of other fun things on the night.

Tickets are $70 pp (all proceeds to go to the animals)

Geoffrey Knight and a bunch of single gay volunteers will be at the Puppy Love same-sex singles day at the Sydney Cats and Dogs Home. They'll be overhauling dog kennels and cat cages in an afternoon of fixing, flirting and painting for a purpose.

Enquiries and bookings can be made via the website www.madwoman.com.au/events/upcoming.php


reviews_and_ramblings: (Default)
2010-02-07 02:15 pm

Event: and now for a very different Valentine's Day, Puppy Love!

read on Geoffrey Knight's blog: http://geoffreyknight.blogspot.com/2010/02/hey-guys-wanna-do-something-special-on.html  

From: Friday, February 12, 2010, 18.00
To: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 17.00
Where: MELBOURNE - Edinburgh Gardens Fitzroy & SYDNEY - Sydney Dogs & Cats Home



PetRescue and Singles Volunteers are getting together for Valentines Day to help out both people and homeless pets who are looking for someone special.

Puppy Love is two special events which will be held in Melbourne (the night of Friday 12 Feb) and in Sydney (the afternoon of Sunday 14 Feb) for people who want to make a difference to lost and abandoned dogs and cats, while meeting other people with a similar interest in animal welfare.

SYDNEY - the event will be held at the Sydney Dogs & Cats Home on Sunday 14 Feb between 2pm and 5pm.

Over 150 volunteers are expected (they will be painting & refurbishing the concrete dog kennels, building cat towers, washing dogs with the Hydrobath, walking impounded dogs etc). It's a good opportunity to do something constructive for the shelter, meet the facility's animals plus learn more about the shelter and what you can do.

MELBOURNE - the event will be held in the Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy on Friday the 12th of Feb from 6pm to 9pm.

The event is to support a number of PetRescue's Victorian-based rescue groups. Volunteers will be forming "rescue committees' for dogs that have been in foster care for some time. In order to try to find a Valentine for these dogs groups will be completely re-doing the dogs' profile (pics/videos etc) for the PetRescue website, and brainstorming new ideas for rehoming these and other rescue pets plus lots of other fun things on the night.

Tickets are $70 pp (all proceeds to go to the animals)

Geoffrey Knight and a bunch of single gay volunteers will be at the Puppy Love same-sex singles day at the Sydney Cats and Dogs Home. They'll be overhauling dog kennels and cat cages in an afternoon of fixing, flirting and painting for a purpose.

Enquiries and bookings can be made via the website www.madwoman.com.au/events/upcoming.php


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2010-02-07 04:13 pm

Top Men (Heroes 3) by G.A. Hauser

The third in the Heroes series is a mix of the two previous books: it has a bit of the lightness of Man to Man and a bit of the seriousness Two In, Two Out. Top Men is about LAPD cops Mickey and Jeff; even if both of them are quite good cops, they are not adverse to the idea of having sexual thirst during working hours. Probably they are still in the “heat” moment of their relationship, their relationship as lovers and colleagues is only few weeks old, and so they are still in that phase when they are knowing each other and tasting the ground on which their relationship will have foundations.

Even if Mickey and Jeff have more or less the same age, they are in two different phases of their life: Mickey has played the field for a bit, and when he met Jeff he knew he was ready for a serious relationship; instead Jeff is like a baby in a candy store, still wide eyed in front of all the Men candy he sees around. It’s not that Jeff wants to cheat on Mickey, but he needs time to understand that he has no need to taste all the candies, that he has already found his forever addiction.

G.A. Hauser plays a lot on the “gay romance” for women thing. She knows well that she is writing mostly for women, and the character of Aura, Mickey’s sister, is probably the personalization of all those women. Said that, I’m not implying that Hauser’s gay romances are not for men, I think that, they can be right also for men; as Hauser herself said in the novel, Aura, and probably a bit Hauser’s, more than women are a gay man in a woman body.

Mickey and Jeff are very much alike, and in being so, they are denying the assumption that opposites attract. Mickey and Jeff are good together since they react at the same way and they think alike. On the contrary of most of previous Hauser’s characters, they didn’t face personal and public issues with tears and emotional breaks, they react with rage and full front. In a way they are quite dangerous, and probably, on a relationship perspective, if they weren’t so alike, they wouldn’t survive as a couple.

Top Men is the book that links together the Heroes series with the Action! One, Mark & Steve from the Action! Series meet all the boys from the Heroes series, and from this moment on the two series moves together.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Top+Men/exact_match=exact

Buy at 1 Romance Ebooks

Amazon Kindle: Top Men

Series: Action! & Heroes
1) For Love and Money: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/101976.html
2) A Question of Sex
3) Miller's Tale
4) Capital Games: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/210160.html
5) When Adam met Jack: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/300519.html
6) Acting Naughty (Action! 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/493312.html
7) Playing Dirty (Action! 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/520179.html
8) Getting It in the End (Action! 3): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/656487.html
9) Man to Man (Heroes 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/891687.html
10) Two In, Two Out (Heroes 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/932718.html
11) Top Men (Heroes 3)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle
reviews_and_ramblings: (Default)
2010-02-07 04:13 pm

Top Men (Heroes 3) by G.A. Hauser

The third in the Heroes series is a mix of the two previous books: it has a bit of the lightness of Man to Man and a bit of the seriousness Two In, Two Out. Top Men is about LAPD cops Mickey and Jeff; even if both of them are quite good cops, they are not adverse to the idea of having sexual thirst during working hours. Probably they are still in the “heat” moment of their relationship, their relationship as lovers and colleagues is only few weeks old, and so they are still in that phase when they are knowing each other and tasting the ground on which their relationship will have foundations.

Even if Mickey and Jeff have more or less the same age, they are in two different phases of their life: Mickey has played the field for a bit, and when he met Jeff he knew he was ready for a serious relationship; instead Jeff is like a baby in a candy store, still wide eyed in front of all the Men candy he sees around. It’s not that Jeff wants to cheat on Mickey, but he needs time to understand that he has no need to taste all the candies, that he has already found his forever addiction.

G.A. Hauser plays a lot on the “gay romance” for women thing. She knows well that she is writing mostly for women, and the character of Aura, Mickey’s sister, is probably the personalization of all those women. Said that, I’m not implying that Hauser’s gay romances are not for men, I think that, they can be right also for men; as Hauser herself said in the novel, Aura, and probably a bit Hauser’s, more than women are a gay man in a woman body.

Mickey and Jeff are very much alike, and in being so, they are denying the assumption that opposites attract. Mickey and Jeff are good together since they react at the same way and they think alike. On the contrary of most of previous Hauser’s characters, they didn’t face personal and public issues with tears and emotional breaks, they react with rage and full front. In a way they are quite dangerous, and probably, on a relationship perspective, if they weren’t so alike, they wouldn’t survive as a couple.

Top Men is the book that links together the Heroes series with the Action! One, Mark & Steve from the Action! Series meet all the boys from the Heroes series, and from this moment on the two series moves together.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Top+Men/exact_match=exact

Buy at 1 Romance Ebooks

Amazon Kindle: Top Men

Series: Action! & Heroes
1) For Love and Money: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/101976.html
2) A Question of Sex
3) Miller's Tale
4) Capital Games: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/210160.html
5) When Adam met Jack: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/300519.html
6) Acting Naughty (Action! 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/493312.html
7) Playing Dirty (Action! 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/520179.html
8) Getting It in the End (Action! 3): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/656487.html
9) Man to Man (Heroes 1): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/891687.html
10) Two In, Two Out (Heroes 2): http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/932718.html
11) Top Men (Heroes 3)

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle