Victor Rivera: Summa cum laude theater arts grad, LARPer, D&D player, stunt cock. With bonus Jesse Eisenberg butt
"Splitting Adam": Tony Cavalero helps Jace Norman win the Girl of His Dreams. With the stars All Grown Up.
While looking through Tony Cavalero's work on the IMDB, I noticed that he had a major role in Nickelodeon's Splitting Adam (2015) -- which make sense, as he was a Nickelodeon staple, starring as the zany music teacher Dewey in School of Rock. The reviews say that Splitting Adam is awful. and it's not on any of my streaming services, so I'll have to pay for it. But first the trailer, to check for heterosexism and gay subtexts.
Scene 1: Jace Norman of Henry Danger dances with a girl, wakes up, delivers newspapers, gets yelled at by a gay-stereotype poof and his pocket dog, gets cheered on by a girl, and gets hit with a golf ball. The Narrator complains that he doesn't have enough time to do everything he needs to do.
Scene 2: Crash and Splash Amusement Park. A swimming pool Tootsie Roll, Jace getting yelled at by Jack Griffo and his girlfriend, Jace and his buddy Amar M. Wooten in a dunking booth. We see that hoary old cliche of the Girl of His Dreams walking in slow motion, waving her hair.
Top photo: the grown up Jack Griffo.
Scene 3: Amar advises Jace that he doesn't have enough prestige to impress The Girl. Shot of him holding a yellow barrel over his crotch in the swimming pool. Griffo agrees: "You can barely keep your shorts on." Is that a sexual double entendre?
Scene 4: Uncle Magic Mitch, a professional stage musician played by Tony Cavalero, arrives in his purple van and shows the guys his new -- tanning bed? That night Jace sees it glowing, investigates, and accidentally falls in. Zap!
In the morning, there's a clone in the house, fully self-aware: "I'm here to help you." He cooks breakfast.
Scene 5: Magic Mitch, not to be confused with Magic Mike, is happy with the clone because he made chocolate chip pancakes. Jace's two friends, Amar and Seth Isaac Johnson, hug each other in terror.
Scene 6: In the tree house, Jace's friends, whose sole reason for existing is to facilitate getting him laid, devise a plot to use the clones. They each have different personalities; the Girl is bound to like one of them. Zap! Zap!
Scene 7: Shot of Jace and two clones, in disguise, entering the amusement park. Magic Mitch performs. Jack Griffo snarls: "To get to her, you have to go through me!"
Scene 8: Jace's clones are: the Sensitive One; The Party Boy; Mr. Responsible; Mr. Perfect; and goofball Winston. Montage of several meeting or hanging out with The Girl, She complains: "Every time I see you, you seem like a different person."
Scene 9: Of course she prefers the original. Boy-girl hug. Uncle Magic Mitch tells him: "That's where the magic happens."
Moral: Be yourself.
Beefcake: These are all little kids, but there may be some hunkoids in the swimming pool scene.
Heterosexism: Of course. The whole plot arc is about winning the Girl of Your Dreams. We even get tips on how to do it.
Gay Stereotypes: The guy with the pocket dog. Sensitive Jace, although he's obviously heterosexual.
Magic Mitch Questions: Does he know that the tanning bed is a clone machine? Why is he the sort-of responsible adult -- where are Jace's parents? Does he get a girlfriend? The movie probably clarifies things.
Will I Watch: Heck, no.
Grown-up Jace after the break
"It Ends with Us": Not a post-Apocalyptic thriller, a drama about a lady with clunky rings and a hunk named Atlas
It Ends With Us showed up in my Netflix recommendations. Obviously a post-Apocalyptic movie about the last generation of humanity struggling for survival. The icon shows an elegantly dressed woman talking through her fingers at an elegantly-dressed man, but that must be before society falls apart.
Scene 1: The woman who talks through her fingers in the icon is driving through an autumnal road to a quaint New England town with a sign saying Plethora, Maine. Maybe the human race goes extinct due to a vampire outbreak.
She stops in front of one of those gigantic "middle class" homes, and hugs and cries with the woman inside. Geez, she's wearing like a gold ring the size of a baseball on each finger. How will she stake vampires that way?
Wait -- according to IMDB, this isn't about vampires. It's a drama about domestic abuse! Why such a misleading title, almost identical to The Last of Us, about survivors of a zombie Apocalypse?
I'm still watching. I never see dramas, so this will be an adventure in snarky comments. And it will be fun to watch a movie produced by, for, and about straight people, like going undercover in a foreign country.
The lady in the house tells the Finger-Talking Woman -- who has the ridiculous name Lily Bloom -- that this is her father's funeral (thanks for letting her know!), then criticizes her for taking a job out of town, so she couldn't be by his side every second. Oh, and she informs Lily that she is her mother. She acts so oddly that I thought she was the housekeeper. Why would the wife of the dead guy say "your father's funeral" instead of using his name?
Scene 2: Lily Bloom goes up to her room -- huge, cluttered with girly stuff like pictures of fairies and a ballerina music box. She brought nothing with her when she moved out?
Mom follows her upstairs to say "He really loved you." Yeah, that's what all abusers say. "At the funeral, you're going to have to say five things that you loved about him." Um...er...he was...um...
Left: Dad Kevin McKidd, in 1996.
Time for the funeral, at city hall, super-crowded -- Dad was the mayor, also a husband and a father. Give him a medal! Time for Lily's eulogy, but she can't think of anything, so she steps down from the podium. Murmur, murmur.
Scene 3: Back in Boston, Lily sits on the roof of a high-rise apartment building, no doubt planning to jump, but The Man of Her Dreams, Ryle (Justin Baldoni, top photo) bursts in, angry, kicking over chairs. He joins her on the ledge to discuss how much he hates maraschino cherries. She wants to know if he is upset over "a woman...or a man." Acknowledging that gay people exist! But I'll bet that's all the representation we'll see.
They exchange job information, which I understand is common for straight people in their first meeting: Florist, neurosurgeon. Guess which Lily is.
Their falling-in-love conversation takes up the next seven minutes of screen time, but they don't make a date for later. Are you sure there won't be any vampires?
Scene 4: Adolescent Lily in her bed,putting flowers into a scrap book. Gratuitous leg shot as she gets up, brushes her teeth, writes in her diary, and puts on her starter set of huge, clunky rings -- well, she couldn't write in her diary with them on, could she?
Looking out the window, she sees a young man sneaking out of the abandoned house next door and sorting through the garbage for food.
He gets on her bus! She gazes in Boy-of-Her-Dreams longing. Lily's going to have two abusive boyfriends?
It takes about five minutes of screen time for her to arrange a meeting and get his story: "My Mom kicked me out...because..." You're gay? Nope: because she doesn't like him interfering with her boyfriends "beating the shit out of her." They beat him up, too, but he can't mention it because he's macho.
Lily invites him home to shower and change clothes, and watch Ellen., with a gigantic bowl of popcorn between them. A lesbian exists in their world. He stares at her clunker rings; she criticizes the outfit that she gave him. So, for straight people, is criticism like flirting?
Scene 5: The adult Lily heads toward the store she's leasing for her new flower shop, while Mom tries to discourage her on the phone: she saw on the internet that "45% of all flowers die." Just 45% ?
As Lily is cleaning out the old stuff, a woman named Alyssa comes in to ask about the "help wanted" sign. It's leftover from the previous owner, but Lily might need some help soon: "I'm opening a flower shop."
"Ugh! Never mind, I hate flower shops. They're depressing, full of dying things."
"You're hired!" So you get a job by criticizing the job.
Montage of the two bonding over cleaning out stuff, painting, and so on.
Alyssa's husband Marshall (Hasan Minaj) calls -- darn, I thought she was a lesbian. He's across the street with her brother, watching the Big Game, but she drafts him into helping out.
Ulp: Alyssa's brother is -- Ryle the neurosurgeon!
They gaze at each other for about three minutes of screen time. Don't straight people, like, talk? Finally Alyssa and Marshall get tired of it and suggest a double date.
Cut to a karaoke bar, with Ryle and Lily trying to ignore their mutual attraction -- they're single adults, what's the problem? -- and Alyssa and Marshall aggressively pushing them together -- they've known Lily for like three hours, why do they care? After about ten minute of screen time, they kiss.
Scene 6: Adolescent Lily on a picnic with the Abused Guy, whose name is Atlas (Alex Neustaedter). The Greek god who is holding up the world, not the book of maps.
Left: Atlas's dick
They discuss Lily's Dad beating up her mom. In other news: Atlas will be joining the Marines, so they can't continue their relationship.
Scene 7: BFF Alyssa's birthday party, at her gigantic palace, with a living room bigger than a hotel atrium. Around a thousand people there, all heterosexual couples. Why does she want to work in a flower shop, again?
Lily runs into Ryle the Neurosurgeon again, and tells him, "Stop flirting with me." Then they go up to his room and have sex. Mixed signals, lady.
Scene 8: In the morning, Lily walks the six miles down to a kitchen big enough to prepare meals for the population of a medium-sized city. Apprised that she has spent the night, Alyssa cautions that Ryle the Neurosurgeon goes through women like candy mints. He's ok for a hookup, but if you're looking for a serious relationship, forget it. Then why were you so aggressively pushing them together?
More after the break
"The Third Day": Jude Law in "The Wicker Man," with scissor goblins, a dead son, Will Rogers, and Dagliesh dick
"Welcome to Plathville": Beefcake and bulges of a hard-core fundamentalist family, including the Boylicious model
Welcome to Plathville, originally on TLC but recently streamed to Hulu, is a six-season long reality series about the Plaths: "A strikingly blonde, blue-eyed Quiverfull family with 9 children in Southeastern Georgia, who are very passionate about traditional roles, their courtship rituals, music, God, and domestic life."
Brr. Sounds too scary. They must be wildly homophobic, but I imagine that they agreed to appear only if there were no "homosexuals" in the crew, so maybe they won't mention them at all. Episodes appear to be soap-opera like, with marital problems, career troubles, treks into secular civilization, and lots of clickbait "dark secrets" and "startling revelations."
The elder Plaths belong to the No Greater Joy Ministries, an out-of-the-box fundamentalist cult that, other than hating homos, teaches that women must always be subservient to men -- working outside the home is a major sin, and will turn her into an evil lesbian. Plus you must beat your children to ensure their subservience -- if you don't, they'll start to talk back and turn gay.
I'm definitely too squeamish to watch, but I'll check the Plaths for fundamentalist beefcake.
The parents, Barry and Kim, have broken up and gotten a divorce. In my childhood church, that would have gotten them kicked out.
Their oldest child, Ethan,left, married the outsider Olivia, who works as a photographer. A woman working outside the home! Shocking!
Ethan and a buddy at the gym.
Daughter Hosanna refused to appear on the show. She has left the family, moved to Ohio, and married an outsider. Shocking revelation!
Daughter Moriah visited San Francisco and had sex with her boyfriend Max Kallschmidt. A dark secret revealed!
The younger children are Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassidy, and Mercy.
Micah works as a model, which means he has to work with gay people. Uh-oh, he's doomed.
More after the break.
"Christmas on Repeat": A "Groundhog Day" romcom with Matthew Lawrence, Peter Pan, a bodybuilder, and some cocks
After successfully finding a gay romance tucked into the final scene of Falling for Christmas, I decided to check out some other recent Christmas movies to see if a gay character snuck in under the noses of the homophobes. First up, Christmas on Repeat, because it features one of those day-keeps-repeating plotlines, and Matthew Lawrence (sigh), one of the trio of muscle-hunk brothers who brightened the 2000s.
She calls her husband, John (Gary Poux), to say she's on the way home. He is upset, because that means she will want to cook breakfast and she's an awful cook. Wait, how is she going to fall in love with the Boss? Maybe she's just the conduit, and the Boss will fall in love with someone else.
Scene 2: She stops to buy some groceries -- the supermarket parking lot is empty on Christmas Eve? And the donation-collecting Santa Claus knows her name. Creepy. He points out that there will be a shooting star tomorrow night with "off the charts" magic.
Scene 3: At home, she greets her teenage children. Lexi, who looks like a 30-year old supermodel, has a new dance routine -- this is depressing, as Andrea and her husband used to dance, before she got too busy.
And Matt (JJ Whyte) is there; he was going to stay overnight with his friend Ryder, but changed his mind. Tell me more about your "friend," dude.
Back story: Daughter from Andrea's first marriage, Son from this one. I guess they want to explain why Lexi is so melanin-deprived. Or they could have found a 30-year old African-American supermodel.
Scene 4: Andrea works on her laptop until late, and goes to bed after Hubbie is already asleep. Don't worry, I won't say anything about the cock she's missing out on.
Scene 5: Christmas day. She commits the following crimes:
1. She doesn't know her son Matt's friends
2. She is unaware that he has stopped being interested in basketball
3. She tries to make pancakes, but sets the kitchen on fire. Not being able to cook is apparently a major sin in this world. Maybe this movie is pushing the nuclear family myth, where Dad works and Mom stays home to cook.
4. At the comemrcial shoot, she doesn't prevent the "Clean, Green, and Prestine (sic)" actress from sninping at director Paul (Terry Woodberry).
Director Paul yells at the actress, she quits, and then he quits. And gets heterosexualized by mentioning his wife. Darn.
But at least we have another cock, after the break
Matthew G. Taylor: Chongo, Nemesis, a god's guard, a lot of fan conventions, and some dicks
On a 2001 episode of Queer as Folk , Emmett (Peter Paige) decides that he wants to become "ex-gay." To dissuade him from this crazy idea, his friends arrange for him to be visited by adult video performer Zack O'Tool, played by the super-sized-in-every-way Matthew G. Taylor (left).
Matt's most famous role is probably Nemesis, a "huge, overpowering monster" in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004). His instagram is full of selfies that fans wanted to take with him at horror conventions.
Shackles, an "uncontrollable monster with freakish strength" on the teen adventure series Aaron Stone (2010).
A character called "Man Mountain Guard" on Lost Girl (2011).
More man mountains after the break
Gavin's Cute/Cool Photos, Part 4: A boy and his bully, a boy and his stuntman, Kelton Dumont, Santa Claus, and some n*de dudes
Previous: Gavin's Cute/Cool Photos, Part 3: A boy and his monkey, a boy and his fish, bikers, surfing, and bodybuilder buds
1. Such as Jesse La Flair, parkour athlete, who will be the stunt double of Kimball Farley in Righteous Gemstones Season 4.
2. In Dear Santa (2024), a dyslexic boy writes a letter to Santa Claus, but it accidentally goes to Satan (Jack Black), who appears to help him gain self-confidence, best a bully, and win the Girl. Gavin plays the bully.
I don't know why he needs a mannequin. Does Satan, like, shoot him out of a cannon?
3. Bullies wear colorful outfits
4. In case you want to see Satan and Santa Claus riffing. That's actually Kyle Gass, who plays a science teacher.
5. A boy and his fish.
6. A boy and his boat
"No Good Deed": Four lesbians, a gay realtor, a gay son, Oedipus, some murderers, and Phoebe from "Friends"
Braxton Alexander recommended No Good Deed, a tv series on Netflix, so presumably he's in it. The trailer shows Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Lisa Kudrow (Friends) spying on the couples interested in buying their house, no doubt planning something nefarious. Plus I thought I saw a lesbian couple, so here goes:
Scene 1: Establishing shots of Los Feliz, the gentrified L.A. neighborhood. near Dodger Stadium. A Spanish Colonial house for sale. The swishy real estate agent (Matt Rogers) tells various couples that the homeowner is very invested in selling, while Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow watch on their cell phone. Uh-oh, they're up to no good. Are they trying to find the perfect buyer to kill?
There are four stories, not interconnected, so I'll go through each separately:
The Soap Star:A scary unshaven guy with dark glasses signs his name in the register as John Smithe, but he's not a villain, he just plays one on the soap opera Rising Tides. A shady handyman who cheated on his stepdaughter and was killed off. The first incest reference. There will be more.
He's played by Luke Wilson, top photo and left.
Later, high-heel shoes enter the house. I hate that cinematographic cliche. Then a woman's back, like it will be a big shock when we finally see her face. Gasp! It's someone I never saw before! What a shock!
Swishy Real Estate Agent Greg criticizes her for being a Lookie Louise, looking at houses but never buying one, but her real name is Margo.
Ray and Lisa, watching from their secret lair, criticize her purse: "She looks like an AI-generated bitch." Then they discuss the hardness of her nipples. They definitely don't want to sell to her, unless she pays cash: "Then I will bend over and take the cash up my *ss," Ray says. Anal sex joke. There will be others.
Cut to the Soap Star talking to his manager on the phone. Back story: he's so deeply in love with his wife that he bought her an expensive house, some cars, and a boat, and now he's going bankrupt. But he can't help it: she wanted them, so what else can he do? "Maybe buy a house you can afford?" So that's why he was looking at the Spanish Colonial.
In bed, John's overbearing, painfully elitist, super-snob wife turns out to be high-heel Margo! They discuss why Ray and Lisa are selling their house.
Oedipus: A m-f couple, the man O.T. Fagbenle, the woman an architect and highly pregnant, tour the kitchen. They discuss how much they love each other and smooch a few dozen times until Mom tells them to knock it off. Way to go, Mom!Cut to Oedipus and Mom staking out the house. Mom complains that they used to spend every moment of the day together, but now she sees him barely twice a year. He explains: she used to be his whole world, his reason for living, but then he fell in love with someone else. Be thankful for twice a year, Mom. Some guys don't want to see their ex-lovers at all.
What's going to happen when the baby comes, and they both need to work? They'll need someone to stay home with the baby, hint hint. Dude, don't hire your mother/ex lover as your nanny! She'll try to murder your wife to get you back.
In their next scene, Oedipus tells his wife that they can't afford the house on his novel royalties and her architecture, so why not have Mom chip in? She is loaded. Of course, she'll want to live with them. Wife hates the idea. Her husband's ex-lover, right there in the house with them?
The First Lesbian Couple: Leslie, forceful and practical, and Sarah, quiet and mystical, examine the upstairs. Sarah thinks it's "more of a family house," and it has a "dark vibe."
They find a locked door. It leads to the room where Ray and Lisa are hiding out and spying on everyone. So, they're going to murder whoever buys the house?
On the way out, Practical Leslie is ready to make an offer, but Mystical Sarah doesn't want to spend all their money. Besides, the neighborhood has a dark vibe.
Back story: They've been trying to get pregnant with IVF, but it doesn't work.
That night, Practical Leslie drives through the neighborhood to prove that it is safe. She sneaks into the garden of the house, planning to climb to the secret room's window and look inside, but instead she sets off the security alarm and the sprinklers. Hiding in the bushes, she sees Homeowner Ray hide a gun in the piano.
Meanwhile, at home, Mystical Sarah injects herself with something in secret. She's either dying or a drug addict.
The Second Lesbian Couple: In bed, they discuss the house: They could fix it up, put in a pool, and make a fortune off it. They hatch an evil scheme to get it for under market value, and smoochify.
Ray and Lisa: While spying on the prospective buyers, they discuss how sad they are to be selling the house where Lisa grew up. Wait -- I thought they were going to do something sinister to the buyer. They just want a buyer who will "love the house as much as we do"? How is that the premise for a tv series? Somebody better get stabbed to death.
More back story: they're struggling financially; they took out a second mortgage, and now they're in arrears. Lisa can't work, because she's a concert pianist with some sort of disease that makes her hands tremble.
Lisa decides to go down and meet some of the prospective buyers, but Ray zooms in on an Old Guy, is horrified, and tells her "Don't go out there!" Why, is Ted Bundy downstairs?
Later, the open house over, Lisa returns some photos to the mantle, showing her and Ray getting married and having a son and a daughter. She sees them running through the house, playing "tag." This memory makes her cry. I'll bet the son and daughter died.
More secrets after the break
Jason Bradley Jacobs: From a cowboy cruising in the shower to a cartoon Kentucky Adonis to...well, isn't that enough?
Insurance companies go to great lengths to produce clever commercials, but they rarely venture into the realm of beefcake. That's why the Eastwood Insurance cowboy was so memorable.
In California in the 1990s, a series of at least 30 tv commercials showed the Cowboy riding up to a befuddled car owner, almost always a man, who was paying too much for car insurance, and "saving the day" with Eastwood's low, low prices.
Nudity in unexpected places is always stunning.
Besides, he had quite a smile.
A record company executive in Selena, 1997, about the Tejana singer who topped the Latin music charts and sang at the Astrodome. John Seda played Chris, her guitarist/boyfriend.
Maurice Charpentier in The Feast of All Saints, 2001, based on the Anne Rice novel about "the Free People of Colour" in 19th century New Orleans, "a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression." Anne Rice -- shouldn't there be vampires?
Jason provided the voice and artists' model for a character in a comic book and animated series, Plowboy in the Cornmeal Universe, created by D.W. Newman. It is set in the Appalachia of 1978, the era of Jimmy Carter, Hee-Haw, and The Dukes of Hazzard, and emphasizes the "raw physicality and blatant sexuality."
Dillon Brady: Four-time Gemstone extra, IT guy, crabber, polar plunger, model, and Slytherin
Dillon Brady received his undergraduate degree in ecomics and his master's in health administration, and has a day job "developing system integration solutions for cloud-based services, specializing in enterprise." In his ten years of experience, he has written 95,000 lines of code for 34 websites in 7 programming languages. Whoa.
Or crabbing with his shirt off.
Or at a music festival with his...well, you get the idea.
Dillon's acting career began in 2019, when he played a cop extra during Season 1 of The Righteous Gemstones. He returned for Seasons 2 and 3, playing a member of the church choir, a member of Peter's militia, and "Attractive Club-Goer," partying near Baby Billy and Dusty Daniels at the Y2K party in Monaco.
More acting jobs, mostly uncredited, followed:
"Man outside Window" in the psychological drama May December (2023).
"Husband" in Mother Couch (2023), about a woman who refuses to leave a furniture store. Starring Ewan McGregor (left).
"Club Goer" in Suncoast (2024). The IMDB description is too convoluted to summarize.
"War Department" (that's what it says) in Manhunt (2024), a miniseries about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination. Starring Tobias Menzies (left) as Edward Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War.
A starring role as Dennis, an abusive husband, in the short Swine (2024).
Also some commercials and modeling work.
I'm not sure about the nude modeling, but you never know.
More Dillon after the break, Caution: explicit















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