Good Morning, World

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Since when I brought up Mary Elizabeth Winstead yesterday I didn't make mention of the sad news that my favorite new show of 2016 BrainDead just got canceled because all you people are terrible and didn't watch it I will use the excuse of Aaron Tveit's birthday today to share that sadness, in case you missed it. Sorry for shitting on your birthday morning, Aaron, but it's not my fault -- I did all my feeble little typing fingers could! This stripping sequence isn't even from BrainDead (see here for that) but rather from that show Graceland - a show I refuse to believe was better than BrainDead and yet, like a zombie, it ambled on for a couple seasons...

Haints & Bugs & Good Good Times

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Because I'm trying to put Greg McLean's wretched wreck of a film The Darkness out of my mind (which I just reviewed here) I am forcing my brain to happy places, and there's nothing making me happier than these two things right now, which I haven't talked about here on the blog nearly enough. Number One, the horror comic Harrow County, which my friend Dan Walber pushed upon me with the wisdom of a wise crone - any fans in the house? I plowed through the first dozen issues in the space of a few days but I've now slowed my pace, knowing I am near catching up with all there is and I don't want to grow restless staring at my mail-box for new issues.

The other thing, which I've been rather vocal about on Twitter but only mentioned once or twice here (and really only as a chance to stare at Aaron Tveit's exposed flesh) is the CBS series Braindead starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead -- its ratings have been terrible, I keep hearing, so I won't ask if you're watching because you're probably not. Instead I will scream at you for this perceived slight - watch the damned show already! 

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My love for #Braindead has tripled by each episode's end - I haven't been this infatuated with a new show in ages pic.twitter.com/LFxAq59EbX

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 24, 2016

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I mean Brooke Adams, star of the 70s masterpiece Invasion of the Body Snatchers, recently showed up! And any show that's got her on deck is playing with a full set of cards, right? It's probably for the best that it wasn't her Body Snatchers co-star Veronica Cartwright that showed up, because if Veronica Cartwright showed up I would most definitely go postal when (if...) the show gets canned. Brooke Adams is just genius enough. Watch this show!

Good Morning, World

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Please tell me you guys are all watching Braindead. I mean I personally have been ultra-lax (that's probably the name of a laxative but you know what I mean) in nagging at you so if you're not it's so totally all my fault and I will accept Aaron Tveit's lashings, but I did post about it before it began and I have tweeted a few times (example one and example two) so be gentle, Aaron. 

Anyway the show's a total delight, injecting all the goofiness and politics into the Invasion of the Body Snatchers story that we never knew we needed until they showed us we did, and then some. They say every generation gets the Body Snatchers story they deserve (no really, they do, go back and look at how each film corresponds to its era perfectly, and yes I definitely include Abel Ferrera's 1993 film... but okay maybe not that Nicole Kidman crap from a decade ago) and Braindead, with its sing-song intros and high-dollar pant-suits, is an epic document of the here and the now.

Anyway it's also an epic testament to the allure of Aaron Tveit without clothes on, so hit the jump for a few more random shots from in and around this week's latest episode and so forth...

Bubble For Brains

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Just put those lips together and blow, Aaron Tveit. (gif via)

So if I told you that there is a new series set to air on CBS this Summer from the creator of The Good Wife, and it was set in Washington DC, and it was going to star Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit, and Tony Shaloub among others, I'm wondering how long it would take you to guess that the plot is about, and I quote:

"... a new staffer on Capitol Hill who comes to realize that parasitic bugs have begun to infect politician's brains and are dumbing them down."

I am thinking that's a plot description that'd be pretty far down your list of plot descriptions, at least coming from this source (maybe if Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson or George Romero was involved we'd be less shocked), and yet here we are. BrainDead is what it's called (really!) and it will begin airing on June 13th. And now there's a trailer! Watch:

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I might sound incredulous but I am actually intrigued.
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Good Morning, World

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This is a couple days overdue but I had more important things - like ruminating upon Ralph Fiennes' sexy creep factor - to do so here we are, Wednesday, otherwise known as Hump Day in some quarters, and we're doing Aaron Tveit. (The last portion of that sentence amuses me.) The above picture was dropped by JJ last week and is from a movie called Stereotypically You, which is premiering in Santa Barbara this weekend at the film festival there. It co-stars Abby Elliot, Chris Elliot, and Kal Penn, and is about a dude having some sort of nervous breakdown that leads to "surreal hallucinations, flashbacks, and sex fantasies." Sure! Anyway that aside Aaron was of course on everybody's lips (heh) this week because of that Grease Live thing he starred in, and if you missed them over on the Tumblr I posted a few terribly vital pictures from it.

Happy 27, Tyler Hoechlin

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First off, how have I missed that picture before now? I have posted many many pictures of Tyler Hoechlin before this, but never that one. Anyway I clicked on Tyler's IMDb page to see if he had been hired for any jobs besides the fifteenth season of Teen Wolf and saw something called Undrafted on there and it all came rushing back - he's co-starring with like twenty other hot pieces (Aaron Tveit, Matt Barr, Chase Crawford, Manny Montana, and Philip Winchester amongst others) in a movie about baseball that lil' Timmy from Jurassic Park is directing! You can read about that here. Here's a shot from the set of him and Chace Crawford in uniform:

You can see lots of pictures from the set here or here.

This definitely has potential.
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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... Ashton Kutcher's grease monkey.

It's been a long time since we did one of these - hey it's National Underwear Day! Of course it's been a long time because every day is National Underwear Day as far as I'm concerned, and finding pictures I haven't posted already is kind of a chore. Mind you, a wonderful chore! These are the chores I adore. But after an hour of looking I only dug up a dozen or so not-posted-before pictures. Click here to see all the old posts, and hit the jump for several new-to-here pics.

Good Morning, World

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I was just thinking about Howl, and this scene with Aaron Tveit specifically (the entirety of which you can watch right here), since I saw Kill Your Darlings last night. More to come on that later presumably; for right now we're just wishing Aaron a happy 30th birthday. You can see more of him at this link.
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Man Batters

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If you'd have told me twenty years ago when I was sitting in the theater watching little Timmy hide from the Velociraptors in that Jurassic Park kitchen that that little boy was going to grow up and make a baseball movie starring several of the hottest fellows of that future present day... well I probably would have just shushed you because I was watching Jurassic Park dammit. But then once the movie was over I would have been excited! Doubly so, since I'd just met a fucking time traveler. Anyway, time-space continuum antics aside, let's get back to the point. Joseph Mazzello, the little boy from Jurassic Park, is all growed up now (we've already admired him for how he grew up, too) and is going to write and direct and star in a baseball movie. It will also star Aaron Tveit (more of him here), Matt Barr (more of him here), Chase Crawford (more of him here), Tyler Hoechlin (more of him here), Manny Montana, and Philip Winchester (more of him here), aka this beefcake-tastic crew here:

Good Morning, World

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As much as there is something to "get," I don't really "get" Aaron Tveit - I guess if I were more musical-theater inclined maybe he'd do something for me, but I'm not, so he leaves me kind of cold. I've even seen him in person! But nah, it wasn't happening. All that said, these pictures of him in his underpants on Graceland have maybe pushed me in the general direction of getting, a lil' bit. Hit the jump for a bunch more...

Good Morning, World

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A happy 28th birthday to Aaron Tveit,
who should've had more scenes in Howl.

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Good Morning, Gratuitous Jon Prescott

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If you saw Howl, the movie based on Allen Ginsberg's poem starring James Franco, then you remember these two scenes.

And if you remember these two scenes then you know who Jon Prescott is, cuz that's him with James there. He played Beat-legend Neal Cassady, aka the "secret hero of these poems." (I think those two scenes give up the "secret" part.) He got pointed out in my review, but mostly just because I was annoyed at how little we got to see of him and Aaron Tveit and Todd Rotundi as the men-folk in Ginsberg's life. 

Anyway Prescott was a model once, as you'll see below, and was on One Life To Live for awhile, as you'll also see below. He's playing gay(ish) in what I assume is an itty-bitty indie called The One out in "2011"... information's super vague on IMDb, but there's a little more in an interview with Prescott in Out magazine, where he also talks about filming the above scenes with James Franco. And he's in another movie with James (and Catherine Keener!), called Maladies, perhaps also out sometime in"2011."

In Case You Were Wondering...

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... we had a three-way tie for your favorite runner-up in the 2010 Pantys for The Great Gratuities - at 14% apiece they were James Franco making out with himself, James Franco making out with Aaron Tveit in Howl, and Edoardo Gabbriellini's Tilda-pounding prowess in I Am Love. See how it all fell out at the link.
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Meanwhile Mr. Gyllenhaal ran away with the Gratuities proper with 38% of the vote, topping Michael Fassbender (sigh) at 17%. And yes I just spent twenty minutes of my life creating the above gif, and yes to your second question they were the best twenty minutes of my life. Anyway great choices, y'all!
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TGT10: 26 Gratuitous Runners-Up

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And now comes the time when we interject a little something-something in the celebration. Every now and then, here and there, some movies in 2010 featured some menfolk in various states of gratuitousness. Mostly this means they took their clothes off, although not always. Mostly mostly what it means is the camera pointed itself on them and they transformed themselves into a big ball of sex for an instant, now captured forever. To be passed down through the halls of time and celebrated, appreciated, always. This is an attempt to document the ones that mattered most. These are our runners-up.

Aaron Tveit, Howl

Adrien Brody, SpliceAaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole

Ashton Kutcher, Killers (more here)
Alex O'Laughlin, The Back-up Plan (more here)
Channing Tatum, Dear John (more here)

Brandon Routh, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World

Daniel Radcliffe, Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
Dwayne Johnson, The Tooth Fairy
Ewan McGregor, The Ghost Writer (more here)

David Lyons, Eat Pray Love

Edoardo Gabbriellini, I Am Love

Gerard Butler, The Bounty Hunter
Garett Hedlund, TRON: Legacy (more here)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia
(more here and here and here)

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James Franco kissing Aaron Tviet, Howl
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James Franco kissing himself

Jerry O'Connell. Piranha 3D

Josh Duhamel, Life as We Know It (more here)
Joel Edgerton, Animal Kingdom
Justin Long, Going the Distance

Nev Schulman, Catfish

Patrick Wilson, Barry Munday (more here)

Scott McNairy, Monsters

Steven Strait, City Island (more here)
Zac Efron, Charlie St. Cloud

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poll by twiigs.com

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Keep in mind with that poll that we've still got more to come,
so if you don't see your favorite here it still might be showing up.
Because coming up next...
MNPP's 15 Great Gratuities of 2010!
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