It's no surprise that summer tends to bring out the hottest guys in New York. And as the dog days of summer start to wane on the streets of the Big Apple, it's time to once again turn our attention to where the hottest of the hot like to spend their time: the New York stage.
Sure, movies and television have their share of rippling abs, but glimpsing a hottie on the screen is nothing compared to the live, in-the-flesh experience. So without further ado, we present the Hottest Guys of New York Theater!
Cesar Abreu
Ricky Martin isn't the only sexy stud to come to us via the pop group Menudo - we can thank our lucky stars we also get the stunning, studly Cesar Abreu. Currently dancing for the Metropolitan Opera, Cesar has also, unsurprisingly, been featured many times in the annual stripfest Broadway Bares.
Nick Adams
No stranger to this list,...
Sure, movies and television have their share of rippling abs, but glimpsing a hottie on the screen is nothing compared to the live, in-the-flesh experience. So without further ado, we present the Hottest Guys of New York Theater!
Cesar Abreu
Ricky Martin isn't the only sexy stud to come to us via the pop group Menudo - we can thank our lucky stars we also get the stunning, studly Cesar Abreu. Currently dancing for the Metropolitan Opera, Cesar has also, unsurprisingly, been featured many times in the annual stripfest Broadway Bares.
Nick Adams
No stranger to this list,...
- 9/5/2012
- by Tim OLeary
- The Backlot
Man and Superman The Irish Repertory Theatre, NY
Anyone looking to witness a professional production of George Bernard Shaw's challenging Man and Superman that executes the obstacles that lay before it in a steady and effective way should see this current production at The Irish Repertory Theatre. With few flaws outside those arguably imbedded in the text itself, Mr. Shaw is given a fair opportunity to openly speak his mind.
There are very valid reasons for not trying to tackle this play, but the qualities that make it an epic masterpiece give argument to accepting the terms of engagement. Its length can be painful, its unfinished business frustrating, its tangents diverting; there are few ways in which it lets an audience off easy. Staring down the barrels of those many guns with a collected and even-handed manner appears to have been this troupe's plan of attacking from a slightly defensive position.
Anyone looking to witness a professional production of George Bernard Shaw's challenging Man and Superman that executes the obstacles that lay before it in a steady and effective way should see this current production at The Irish Repertory Theatre. With few flaws outside those arguably imbedded in the text itself, Mr. Shaw is given a fair opportunity to openly speak his mind.
There are very valid reasons for not trying to tackle this play, but the qualities that make it an epic masterpiece give argument to accepting the terms of engagement. Its length can be painful, its unfinished business frustrating, its tangents diverting; there are few ways in which it lets an audience off easy. Staring down the barrels of those many guns with a collected and even-handed manner appears to have been this troupe's plan of attacking from a slightly defensive position.
- 5/24/2012
- by C. Jefferson Thom
- www.culturecatch.com
"Prepare for a great leap forward!"
-- Chairman Mao Zedong, er,
Don Draper
"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven fifth season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.
The show is at its best, and most important, when the drama revolves around the advertising business. It's the reason it's called Mad Men, after all, and not, say, Unhappy People.
This season, not incidentally, after reaching new highs early on, ratings have slumped to the lowest level since Season 3. This latest episode, in fact, is the lowest-rated episode in this decade, with viewership little more than half that of the highly anticipated Season 5 premiere.
It's not a surprise here, after the hairpin plotting that marked the first half of this season.
-- Chairman Mao Zedong, er,
Don Draper
"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven fifth season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.
The show is at its best, and most important, when the drama revolves around the advertising business. It's the reason it's called Mad Men, after all, and not, say, Unhappy People.
This season, not incidentally, after reaching new highs early on, ratings have slumped to the lowest level since Season 3. This latest episode, in fact, is the lowest-rated episode in this decade, with viewership little more than half that of the highly anticipated Season 5 premiere.
It's not a surprise here, after the hairpin plotting that marked the first half of this season.
- 5/24/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
"Prepare for a great leap forward!"
-- Chairman Mao Zedong, er,
Don Draper
"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven fifth season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.
The show is at its best, and most important, when the drama revolves around the advertising business. It's the reason it's called Mad Men, after all, and not, say, Unhappy People.
This season, not incidentally, after reaching new highs early on, ratings have slumped to the lowest level since Season 3. This latest episode, in fact, is the lowest-rated episode in this decade, with viewership little more than half that of the highly anticipated Season 5 premiere.
It's not a surprise here, after the hairpin plotting that marked the first half of this season.
-- Chairman Mao Zedong, er,
Don Draper
"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven fifth season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.
The show is at its best, and most important, when the drama revolves around the advertising business. It's the reason it's called Mad Men, after all, and not, say, Unhappy People.
This season, not incidentally, after reaching new highs early on, ratings have slumped to the lowest level since Season 3. This latest episode, in fact, is the lowest-rated episode in this decade, with viewership little more than half that of the highly anticipated Season 5 premiere.
It's not a surprise here, after the hairpin plotting that marked the first half of this season.
- 5/24/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die. You simply can't have so many soap suds flying around without folks slipping and hitting their heads on the sharp edges of all the symbols lying about.
Heh.
I wrote this sentence in the second paragraph of "Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?," my piece here on the Huffington Post about the Mad Men season premiere: "I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it."
I have more than a certain diffidence about the latest episode, which takes us into the final third of a great show's uneven fifth season.
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
Heh.
I wrote this sentence in the second paragraph of "Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?," my piece here on the Huffington Post about the Mad Men season premiere: "I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it."
I have more than a certain diffidence about the latest episode, which takes us into the final third of a great show's uneven fifth season.
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
- 5/15/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. It is not dying, it is not dying.
Lay down all thought, surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining.
That you may see the meaning of within. It is being, it is being."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
from Tomorrow Never Knows, on the album Revolver
Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.
Megan Calvet Draper's Marxist academic father, who so disapproves of her work in advertising, and of her life of easing into wealth by marrying a rich older man, evidently got through to his daughter in the episode before this. She's now pursuing her dream, which was unclear then but turns out to be acting. And...
Lay down all thought, surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining.
That you may see the meaning of within. It is being, it is being."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
from Tomorrow Never Knows, on the album Revolver
Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.
Megan Calvet Draper's Marxist academic father, who so disapproves of her work in advertising, and of her life of easing into wealth by marrying a rich older man, evidently got through to his daughter in the episode before this. She's now pursuing her dream, which was unclear then but turns out to be acting. And...
- 5/9/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
Somewhere, Conrad Hilton is saying he always thought Don Draper should listen to his wife. He always wanted the Moon, that ultimate symbol of Space Age striving in the '60s, from Don, and he didn't get it, which is why he dumped him at the end of Season 3. But Megan's brainstorm, which merely saves the day with Heinz, all primed to fire the agency after Peggy Olson's gaffes, finally delivers it. For Heinz, though, not Hilton.
"There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear ..."
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
Since Don and Megan actually seem to talk -- she knows he is Dick Whitman and isn't thrown in the least by it -- she probably knows about the unrealized Hilton Moon shot ad that eliminated Don's most important client by far.
"There's something happening here / What it is ain't exactly clear ..."
As always, there be some spoilers ahead. Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
Since Don and Megan actually seem to talk -- she knows he is Dick Whitman and isn't thrown in the least by it -- she probably knows about the unrealized Hilton Moon shot ad that eliminated Don's most important client by far.
- 5/2/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
Well, that was one of the spookier Mad Men episodes, complete with not one but two dream sequences. As always, there be some spoilers ahead discussing this episode, the aptly titled "Mystery Date."
The horizon of the future, i.e., the later '60s, is getting much darker, and a lot closer. New York City has slid past its peak, at which it glittered as the series began. Things increasingly don't work, we're seeing some people who look rather unkempt. And they're not the hippies, because those folks have yet to arrive.
Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
It's mid-July 1966. The worst things are happening elsewhere, but they're getting closer. Richard Speck raped and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, and race riots have cropped up in the Windy City as well. Much of the Mad Men crew...
The horizon of the future, i.e., the later '60s, is getting much darker, and a lot closer. New York City has slid past its peak, at which it glittered as the series began. Things increasingly don't work, we're seeing some people who look rather unkempt. And they're not the hippies, because those folks have yet to arrive.
Incidentally, you can see all my Mad Men pieces, going back to 2009, here in The Mad Men File.
It's mid-July 1966. The worst things are happening elsewhere, but they're getting closer. Richard Speck raped and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, and race riots have cropped up in the Windy City as well. Much of the Mad Men crew...
- 4/10/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
The roar of generational change got ever louder in this week's Mad Men, so much so that Roger Sterling plaintively wondered when things will go back to normal. That would be "Never," Roger. At least for you. As always, there be spoilers ahead.
Meanwhile ... She's baaack. It's around the 4th of July, 1966, and the character so many love to hate, and whom many thought had slipped away from the storyline, Betty Draper Francis, has returned to the show in a big way. Literally. Well, not that big. But the svelte Grace Kelly lookalike has put on a lot of weight. (This is how creator Matthew Weiner deals with star January Jones's real-life pregnancy, which arrived not long after she wrapped her co-starring role as wintry telepath Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.)
Absent an untimely demise, Betty is forever a key character in the show. She and Don were...
Meanwhile ... She's baaack. It's around the 4th of July, 1966, and the character so many love to hate, and whom many thought had slipped away from the storyline, Betty Draper Francis, has returned to the show in a big way. Literally. Well, not that big. But the svelte Grace Kelly lookalike has put on a lot of weight. (This is how creator Matthew Weiner deals with star January Jones's real-life pregnancy, which arrived not long after she wrapped her co-starring role as wintry telepath Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.)
Absent an untimely demise, Betty is forever a key character in the show. She and Don were...
- 4/3/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
Mad Men is back, finally, after the biggest series hiatus since The Sopranos. Was it worth the wait?
Naturally, there are spoilers ahead. I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it. Which is not to say it's not quite good. It's just that more is going on this year in what we laughingly call the real world than in 2010. And not much has happened in the Mad Men universe since Season 4 ended nearly a year and a half ago.
Only about half as much time has passed in the Mad Men universe as has passed for us, and not much has happened that was not otherwise obvious.
Incidentally, The Mad Men File, containing all my pieces on the show from 2009 on, is available here.
Wisely, as Season 5 begins with its cinematic two-hour premiere, the show is only up to around Memorial Day 1966.
Part of...
Naturally, there are spoilers ahead. I confess to a certain diffidence about it all, all two hours of it. Which is not to say it's not quite good. It's just that more is going on this year in what we laughingly call the real world than in 2010. And not much has happened in the Mad Men universe since Season 4 ended nearly a year and a half ago.
Only about half as much time has passed in the Mad Men universe as has passed for us, and not much has happened that was not otherwise obvious.
Incidentally, The Mad Men File, containing all my pieces on the show from 2009 on, is available here.
Wisely, as Season 5 begins with its cinematic two-hour premiere, the show is only up to around Memorial Day 1966.
Part of...
- 3/27/2012
- by William Bradley
- Aol TV.
Our close personal friend Brad Pitt is backtracking on some comments he made to Parade magazine about his relationship with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston. Per usual, people are dissecting his words and projecting their personal feelings about his divorce from Aniston and his relationship with Angelina Jolie onto his quotes.
Since we refuse to get involved in tabloid bulls**t and create more fan fiction out of a six-years-dead marriage (the more you know: Pitt and Aniston divorced Six years ago), we decided to bite the bullet and call up Angie Jo and William Bradley for comment. (Note: We did not call Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.) Much to our surprise, Brad happily conferenced in Jen – they really do have an "important relationship," y'all – and we got the real story.
(We did not get the real story. All quotes are courtesy of previous interviews Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston have given on the topic.
Since we refuse to get involved in tabloid bulls**t and create more fan fiction out of a six-years-dead marriage (the more you know: Pitt and Aniston divorced Six years ago), we decided to bite the bullet and call up Angie Jo and William Bradley for comment. (Note: We did not call Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.) Much to our surprise, Brad happily conferenced in Jen – they really do have an "important relationship," y'all – and we got the real story.
(We did not get the real story. All quotes are courtesy of previous interviews Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston have given on the topic.
- 9/16/2011
- by John Mitchell
- MTV Newsroom
A little over two years ago, AfterElton.com brought readers a list of the 37 Hottest Guys in Theater, and since then, the New York Stage has only become increasingly sexified. The lines between Broadway and Hollywood continue to blur, and as young men come to recognition in NYC, they're often quickly whisked away to Tinseltown to showcase not only their amazing talent, but often they're breathtaking good looks.
While it's tempting to include every Hollywood hottie who graces the stage on this list (a certain Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane spring to mind), the point here is to honor the men who are mostly known for rockin' the live stages here in New York.
And so, without further ado, we present, in alphabetical order, the list (39!) of this year's hottest guys in theater!
Nick Adams
A perennial AfterElton favorite, the muscular, openly gay Nick first made waves a few years...
While it's tempting to include every Hollywood hottie who graces the stage on this list (a certain Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane spring to mind), the point here is to honor the men who are mostly known for rockin' the live stages here in New York.
And so, without further ado, we present, in alphabetical order, the list (39!) of this year's hottest guys in theater!
Nick Adams
A perennial AfterElton favorite, the muscular, openly gay Nick first made waves a few years...
- 6/2/2011
- by JT Riley
- The Backlot
Apparently NCIS, the military cop procedural, is the most watched scripted show in the United States. I would not have guessed this if given a million guesses. More shockingly, it’s also the “favorite all-time show” of more U.S. viewers, as determined by a recent Harris Poll, than any other show. Ever. Including M*A*S*H. Love for NCIS cut across gender, age, income, political leanings, etc. The only significant skew is education: those with a college degree or beyond call Seinfeld their favorite show ever. Weird. William Bradley -- who is, he points out, a political analyst, not an entertainment analyst -- focuses on one particular oddity of this news at Huffington Post:...
- 5/19/2011
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Brad Pitt. Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” one of the most anticipated films of the Cannes festival (if not of the entire year), finally screened for critics in France this morning and Brad Pitt is the star.
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Brad Pitt - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "The Tree of Live" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes, France
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Brad Pitt - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "The Tree of Live" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes, France
William Bradley “Brad” Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men,...
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Brad Pitt - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "The Tree of Live" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes, France
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Brad Pitt - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "The Tree of Live" Photocall - Palais des Festivals - Cannes, France
William Bradley “Brad” Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men,...
- 5/16/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Angelina Jolie is finally showing her commitment to Brad Pitt with her new tattoo! Could this mean they have finally tied the knot?
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have firmly held a no-marriage stance ever since they first got together in 2005. But now, it looks like they have finally taken a big step in their commitment to each other. Angelina’s left arm lists the birthplace coordinates of the most important people in her life — her children. And now, Brad’s birthplace has been added to the list! Do you think this means she’s taken the plunge and tied the knot with the father of her children?
Ange and Brad may not have exchanged wedding vows but a friend close to the couple says this tattoo is more significant than any wedding ring the actress could wear. InTouch reports, “She got the seventh line right around the time she...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have firmly held a no-marriage stance ever since they first got together in 2005. But now, it looks like they have finally taken a big step in their commitment to each other. Angelina’s left arm lists the birthplace coordinates of the most important people in her life — her children. And now, Brad’s birthplace has been added to the list! Do you think this means she’s taken the plunge and tied the knot with the father of her children?
Ange and Brad may not have exchanged wedding vows but a friend close to the couple says this tattoo is more significant than any wedding ring the actress could wear. InTouch reports, “She got the seventh line right around the time she...
- 4/6/2011
- by Kirstin Benson
- HollywoodLife
The actress admitted she got inked for partner Brad Pitt, and now we are pretty sure we know what it says!
One of the most shocking parts of Angelina Jolie’s recent Vanity Fair article wasn’t her talk about Brad, the kids, or work, but rather the realization she had a new tattoo! Located on her upper thigh the actress said the ink was for Brad Pitt and we now know what it may say — Whiskey Bravo! But why?
An incredibly perceptive reader e-mailed website Jezebel with their thoughts on what the tattoo said and explained that Whiskey Bravo is William Bradley in military code. William Bradley as in William Bradley Pitt aka Brad Pitt.
Mystery solved!
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Mel Gibson’s friends are turning their back on him! The actor is suffering major consequences since his racist rants were leaked!(PopEater)
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Reports are saying that Lesbians in Lindsay’s future...
One of the most shocking parts of Angelina Jolie’s recent Vanity Fair article wasn’t her talk about Brad, the kids, or work, but rather the realization she had a new tattoo! Located on her upper thigh the actress said the ink was for Brad Pitt and we now know what it may say — Whiskey Bravo! But why?
An incredibly perceptive reader e-mailed website Jezebel with their thoughts on what the tattoo said and explained that Whiskey Bravo is William Bradley in military code. William Bradley as in William Bradley Pitt aka Brad Pitt.
Mystery solved!
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Mel Gibson’s friends are turning their back on him! The actor is suffering major consequences since his racist rants were leaked!(PopEater)
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Reports are saying that Lesbians in Lindsay’s future...
- 7/13/2010
- by cspargo
- HollywoodLife
Actor and film producer, William Bradley aka Brad Pitt is one of world's most attractive men. Pitt is the recipient of two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. It tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietress, played by Laurent, and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, played by Pitt. The Curious Case of ...
- 1/27/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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