I Quit Smoking 18 Years Ago Today

I thought it was funny when the conversation about smoking cigarettes being "cool" again reared its head last week, as I was prepping for this annual post I've been doing for eighteen years now -- if you look it up this conversation pops up about every two years and everyone acts all outraged again. And as I say every year -- smoking is bad for you! I am glad I quit eighteen years ago today! And yet I also think that it's undeniable that it just looks cool -- it's erotic, it's cinematic, it's literally "bad for you" as I just said and I'm of the mind that we'll stop being human beings when we stop romanticizing nihilism. We're always gonna be attracted to the "bad boy" archetype, even when it's Gina Gershon in Bound. (Hell especially when it's Gina Gershon in Bound.) 

Anyway I make some form of that argument every single year so's I can justify this post. Eighteen years of them now! That's wild. And no I don't miss smoking in the slightest, even if I one thousand percent understand the sould-crush that the kids are feeling so they're picking up the cancer-sticks again. I'm not judging anybody -- I get it y'all. The world's on fire -- you might as well lean in and light some drugs up off of it. With that said over the past twelve months I've gathered a ridiculous amount of pictures and gifs for y'all (over 150) so let's get to those. Hit the jump and inhale...

Good Morning, World

It's Friday and I've spent this entire week in a haze of semi-insomnia and allergy-funk so sure, let's just go with the totally random photoshoot of Jeremy Allen White from Fault magazine in 2022 that I stumbled on this morning. Not sure how I missed this at the time but I might not have been watching The Bear yet then -- I came to that show late. And I might leave that show early as well because fuck my eyes the past two seasons have been nigh unwatchable. It hit a fast high peak and then tumbled precipitously. 

At least we got Ayo Edibiri out of it! And I know some people would also say we got Lionel Boyce out of it -- and hey there's a connection to today as Boyce is in this weekend's new release Project Hail Mary -- but I'm one of the few people who find the character of Marcus insufferable. Everybody else is freaking out with work while he's always standing off in his corner, day-dreaming? Do some goddamned work, Marcus! Ahem. Anyway. Just hit the jump for the new-to-me old photos...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Mothering Sunday (2021)

Mrs Niven: You have no family. 

Jane: No, madam.

Mrs Niven: Your mother left you, is that right?

Jane: Yes, madam, an orphanage.

Mrs Niven: How very lucky. To have been comprehensively

bereaved at birth. You have absolutely nothing to lose. 

And you never shall, not really. That is a gift, Jane, 

and you must learn to use it. You're very fortunate.

JFC that quote is wild. I'd forgotten how hard this movie (and Olivia Colman within it) went. It's one of the ones that got unjustly lost in the pandemic tumult -- it deserved better. I reviewed it right here. Anyway in theory we're bringing up this movie because its lead Odessa Young, a wonderful actor, is celebrating her birthday today -- we love her, go watch her in this as well as in Shirley. Hell she was also the best part of the Springsteen bio-pic with Jeremy Allen White this past fall. Anyway that's in theory -- let's be honest, though: bringing up this movie let's me re-post this gif of Josh O'Connor in this movie:

(See more -- I mean lots more, wink wink -- here.)

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... letting the pool boy put on a show.

Thanks as ever to the photographer Mert Alas for sharing some fresh images from his Calvin Klein campaign starring the Chef and The Boss himself Jeremy Allen White -- it's been just over a year on since those pictures first seared themselves into our retinas and we're still getting blinded but the good way! Hit the jump for the short video plus a few more gifs I made from it...

Going Into the Weekend Like...

Okay not really but a boy can dream.
(If you missed this photo-shoot click here.)

Good Morning, JAW

I was wondering when we'd start getting our Jeremy Allen White awards season PR push and I guess it makes sense that being today since his Springsteen movie is apparently out on Friday! I didn't even realize. I saw the film at NYFF and... it's fine? Actors have won Oscars for worse musician bio-pics and yes I am speaking directly to you, Rami Malek. I imagine it will make Springsteen people happy -- having never been one of said people I learned some stuff I didn't know but I can't say I was blown away by anything I witnessed. This is why I didn't write a review! I really have nothing to say about it. But Jeremy Allen White flashing dem abs and digging around in his jeans crotch for Interview Magazine today? That I could write ten thousand words about. Half of it would take the form of one of those "Man From Nantucket" rhymes sure but hey it's something. Anyway he's a sexy af short king and we love this shoot and good morning, hit the jump for all of it...

Jeremy Allen White, What a Coincidence!

I'm sure Jeremy Allen White getting photographed half naked at the beach at the exact same time that news just dropped about his Springsteen bio-pic premiering as the "Spotlight Gala" at the New York Film Fest on September 28th was just a coincidence and not at all the start of an awards season long press assault. Anyway it's a good way to get assaulted so I say keep it up! You've got my vote, JAW! I'm not sure if we had the final title of the movie yet (I hadn't seen it if so) so here's that -- it's called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which is a mouthful that feels like a compromise between a studio's chosen title (just Springsteen) and a director's (Deliver Me From Nowhere) right? Why not just call it The Boss and be done with it? Anyway click over to NYFF's site for the first official photo from the movie and more details along with all your ticketing needs; or hit the jump for more of Beach Boy Jeremy...

Jeremy and Tigers and Jude, Oh My

This news is two days old so the world's moved on but here I am, world, here I am, finally reporting that Jude Law and Andrew Garfield are going to play homosexual tiger tamers Seigfried and Roy in a limited series about their lives for Apple. Titled Wild Things (excuse me there is already a campy queer masterpiece called Wild Things) it'll have Jude starring as Siegfried and Andy as Roy, and if you ever knew which one of those weirdos was which I wish you the best. Coming so soon after reporting that Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall will be playing a gay couple I feel as if it's my duty to holler about "where the hell are the gay actors getting cast in gay roles" here, even if I'm not really honestly all that upset about this shit this week -- there's just other stuff to worry about. I can't prioritize who's slipping into spangled leotards to play the Vegas punchlines right now. But since we're here anyway...

... I will also report on (presumably) less gay news that also involves a pair of straight actors that people seem to find attractive (I only find one attractive and I've made that opinion known before) -- Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler are going to star in a "crime saga" film for A24 titled Enemies,  about a contract killer and a detective playing "cat and mouse." The film will be directed by Henry Dunham, who made 2018's Standoff at Sparrow Creek -- I feel as if that title is familiar but I don't think I ever saw that. But good on A24 for continuing to support new filmmakers, and to hook them up with great big stars in the process. Anyway that news is brand new, of today, so we're all caught up now. Hooray!

Pic of the Day

While I heard it was controversial I actually quite liked Andrew Scott's cotton-candy-colored suit last night at the Met Gala (see below) -- however I like it better that he tore it off once he got inside and showed off his guns, because of course he did. We'd also be remiss if we didn't mention that this photo (via) appears to be shoingw a suddenly half-undressed Andrew and Jeremy Allen White coming out of the bathroom at the Met, together. Just saying! Let them filthy minds of yours flow freely...

I would never ever in a million lifetimes have thought to put these colors together but the longer I look at it the more I adore it

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... pinning Jeremy Allen White to the mat. 

Sometime in the past month or so it appears that these outtakes of Jeremy Allen White for GQ appeared online (I don't have an original source) -- they were a part of his already extremely hot gym-bro photoshoot that we posted in 2023 right here. (This was during the Iron Claw press run so these photos were more on brand that they'd be for oh let's say his upcoming Bruce Springsteen bio-pic, for instance.)  Anyway it was cruel of GQ to keep these squirreled away from us for so long but it turns out that I needed something like this today so it all worked out in the end!

Run Daniel Craig Run

Yes that might be a picture of Daniel Craig there but if you've come around here anticipating a post from me about James Bond being sold off to Amazon you're outta the luck because I couldn't give a shit -- I famously never saw a single 007 movie until Craig suited up and while I saw all and enjoyed most of those, and even went back and saw a couple handfuls of the earlier films over that time, I still would be fine if the character was dropped off a cliff now. Who the fuck cares? Tell new stories dammit. Bond is picked-clean Boomer leftovers and if you change the character too much you'll satisfy nobody. (And if you return the character to its actual origins you'll only please the cretins.) So let's movie on. 

Okay I said this wasn't a post about that and yet here I am rambling on. At least the more I ramble the more photos of Daniel you get to fill up the space -- be happy about my rambling then! No I'm here to touch on the other Danny-boy news -- namely that he has yanked himself violently out of Luca Guadagnino's clutches, and he will not star in Luca's supposed DC superhero movie (I still cannot believe this will be a thing) Sgt. Rock. The two of course collaborated last year on (my beloved) Queer -- Deadline says no reason's been given for the departure but I hope Daniel doesn't hate Luca now because he didn't get an Oscar nomination. That's where my petty mind goes anyway. But maybe he just saw the writing on the wall that this project seems to be a bit of nonsense. I mean I love that Luca wants to challenge himself but yeesh what an idea. Not that I want Luca to turn his sights toward that nonsensical American Psycho remake either! Deadline says there are other actors (including Jeremy Allen White) in the running to step into Daniel's combat boots. Whatever. Make your money, Luca. I don't want him in the poor house like Brady Corbet!

JAW Me By Your Name

Now here we see a few of my interests rubbing up on each other in a pleasurable way -- underpants model and professional chef pretender Jeremy Allen White is going to follow up his role as everybody's favorite New Jersey songstress with man-fucking! He's going to star in an limited series adaptation of Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman's bisexual tome Enigma Variations for Netflix. Here is the book's description:

"Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men―whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were."

I actually weirdly can't remember if I read this book or not? My brain ain't what it used to be y'all. I don't think I did but if I did it would've been in 2019 and there was so much else going on right then who can remember shit. Anyway on top of this series starring JAW and coming from an Aciman novel it's being directed in full by Oliver Hermanus, the South African director who caught my attention with the gay military drama Moffie in yes ye olde 2019 (I remember Moffie!) and then further when he made the gorgeous Living with Bill Nighy, and then again when he made the queer princeling story Mary & George with Julianne Moore, and who's immediate next project -- a gay love story starring Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal called The History of Sound  that'll supposedly be out sometime this year -- has been capturing my interest every second since I first heard about it ages back for obvious reasons. 

Anyway Hermanus seems to smartly be following the Luca Guadagnino playbook in establishing his cinematic bonafides while remaining very very gay, and we love to see it. This project will obviously remain very much on our radar!

Jeremy Allen White Comes Between Our Calvins

Again! I guess Calvin Klein must be really happy with their Jeremy Allen White campaign because they've kept him front and center for I think three rounds now? They're usually not this loyal. (I don't have a direct link to every bit of them I've previously posted but click here and it'll vaguely do the trick.) Anyway I am sure I'll have to update this as the day / week goes on because they always drop more more more but as of this morning let's enjoy the fresh sexy JAW bounty for Winter 2024 and hit the jump (psst there are videos!)...

Pics of the Day

There is a sexy ass photo of Jeremy Allen White meeting Bruce Springsteen on the set of the Bruce Springsteen bio-pic that JAW is starring in -- I maintain that those jeans on Jeremy should be at least two sizes tighter...

... because who could ever forget how tight Bruce wore his back in the day. But I wouldn't be angry if they started making out. Bruce has still got it!

I say this only for the sake of historical verisimilitude obviously but those jeans definitely need to be tighter pic.twitter.com/Xp90MA0PRt

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) October 30, 2024

Jeremy Allen White One Time

Obviously we're all disappointed that he's wearing clothes this time -- the last time Calvin Klein showed JAW off it was a bulge riot. That itty bitty sliver of cum-gutter skin is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. But I'll take it! (via) Especially compared to the new Alexander Skarsgård picture which is showing off even less. What do they think, they're selling clothes or something???

Jeremy Allen White Sixty-Seven Times

After yesterday's lackadaisical posting here on the site, I feel this will more than make up for it -- Jeremy Allen White has graced us (and our loins) with another Calvin Klein campaign (via) and I've got all the photos and all the gifs and video too! And it gets...

... real horny, baby. I guess they saw the internet go into full meltdown mode over the first batch of pictures back in January and knew they had to dial it up a notch and fully obliterate us. Well I feel...

... quite happily, quite enthusiastically, obliterated! Oblierated in all the right places! Anyway I have a feeling more of these will drop in the next couple of days so keep checking back -- I'm going to try to keep them all contained in one spot. For now hit the jump for the truly bountiful and oliterating assortment already granted us...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... reaching for heaven with Jeremy Allen White.

I'm sure you probably all remember the Calvin Klein photoshoot of The Bear star back in January -- you can see what I thought until today had been every single tidbit of it at this link. But the above photo only just made itself known to me today and where the hell were they hiding it? Why would you hide that?  Anyway now it's here and I am going to go have it tattooed up my inner thigh, bye.

Jeremy Allen White One Time

(click to embiggen) What did we think of this season of The Bear?

(And also if you would like to make it 

three times, click on my tweet below.)

Jeremy Allen White apparently modeling for YSL now too pic.twitter.com/mv7VJD3ABZ

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 16, 2024

Happy InDePlaidPants Day 2024!

It's time for that goofiest of MNPP-specific holidays -- every July 4th I post photos of dudes wearing plaid pants, because why not. WHY NOT??? Really though -- if any of you can come up with a good reason why I shouldn't do this ricidulous thing every year let's hear it; it'll save me gathering up these photos all year long. I welcome one less thing to worry about in this worry-full world!

But until that happens here we are, and here they be -- dudes wearing plaid pants. It's been so long since I've owned or wore a proper pair of plaid pants. That seems a shame. You'd think I'd capitalize on the site's name and brand myself like a proper "influencer" with a look (or is that "lewk") all my own so I could become a pop culture character and perhaps then pay my bills on time. LOL. Wouldn't that shock the world. Anyway, celebration! Hit the jump for the year in plaid pants photos...

I Quit Smoking 16 Years Ago Today

Well, here we are. My nicotine cessation can officially drive a car in the United States now. Today marks sixteen years since I touched a dirty filthy cigarette and sixteen years of me doing these posts of famous men looking hot as shit while smoking dirty filthy cigarettes. I regret nothing! I admit remain surprised that I can continue to find enough photos to fill up these posts, but I hear smoking has become cool with the kids again? I don't recommend it obviously, but I also can't lie...

... sexy motherfuckers be looking sexy while doing it. And listen, nobody should be looking to me for moral guidance. I'm just a fucked up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind -- don't assign me yours! Oh wait that's Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine. The point remains! Don't smoke! Unless you're sexy! Then do whatever the hell you want to. Hit the jump for a pile of photos and gifs...