Researching Adam Christian Clark's Celebrity Cock. With a Big Brother, a Chunk, and a lot of arthouse indie angst

The main reason I check out the Celebrity Cock subreddit is for cock shots of actors I've never heard of in movies I've never heard of.  Like this one, Adam Christian Clark in Newly Single (2017).  

Nice lascivious grin, buddy.  

Next to him we see the back of someone's head and part of their backside.  They have a man's haircut but no torso definition, so I'm not sure if it's a man or a woman.

Here's Adam backside.  He doesn't have any torso definition, either.

But he's got a big one, so I'll let his butt deficiency slide, and check to see if he's playing a gay character here (or in another movie), or if he's gay in real life.

Bad news: Adam is a director and filmmaker.  He's only acted in three movies:

Stasis (2010), a sci-fi short about a solder in a futuristic dystopia (Reshad Strik) who is asked to fight for The Girl.  Adam plays "The Eye."

Face in the Crowd (2013): A woman searches for human connection.  Adam plays one of 17 Faces that she encounters.

And Newly Single (2017).

Well, maybe he's directed some movies with gay content.

Adam's directing career began in 2002, when he was still a student at the USC School of Cinematic Art, and hired for the reality show Big Brother.  He stuck around for Seasons 3-5  (2002-24), then moved on to direct other reality shows, like XTreme Sports Television, Fine Tuned (cars), and Fashion Star (wannabe models from China).

Left: Josh Feinberg, whose stay on Big Brother Season 3 got him a nude photo spread in Playgirl.

During ths period, he wrote and directed two shorts:

The Editor: A Man I Despise (2008), with hung chub Richard Riehle as the editor, and characters named Museum Girl #1-3, Waitress, Woman, and Young Woman.

I get the impression that Adam really likes the ladies.

Goodbye Shanghai (2010): Two Western bankers embezzle $14 billion from the U.S. government. They spend their last night in Shanghai partying with girls -- lots of girls -- before things go wrong. It won a New Media Award.

Adam has written and directed three feature films:

The art house indie Caroline and Jackie (2012): two sisters have a terrible night, beginning with Jackie's  birthday party that turns into an intervention, as Caroline and her friends confront her anorexia, drug abuse, and "sexual promiscuity."  With men, of course.  It got mixed reviews

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Pain and Glory: An aging director recalls his first crush and his first boyfriend, with nostalgia and nudity

For forty years, Pedro Almodóvar has been giving us raucous, irreverent, sometimes funny glimpses into the sexual and social freedom of post-Franco Spain: Bad Education; Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!; A Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; What Have I Done to Deserve This? He's not exactly a proponent of essentialist gay identity: his gay men are usually there to have affairs with the female focus character, when she's not busy seducing her stepson.  Or maybe she'll seduce her stepson and his boyfriend, or join her sister in having the affair with the gay man.  There will be male nudity, urination, pop culture references, and kitsch. And these aren't comedies. 

Pedro went through similar machinations in his private life, being closeted, then stating that he was bisexual, and finally coming out as gay.  He's been with his partner, Fernando Iglesias, since 2002.

Dolor y gloria, Pain and Glory, is the 74-year old director's swan song, a summary and perhaps a justification of his work, touching on all of his major themes:  "sentimientos, costumbrismo, reencuentros, homosexualidad, sensibilidad, pasión, familia, drogas… "

Almodóvar stand-in Salvador, played by regular star Antonio Banderas, is an aging director, in physical and mental decline.  His chronic pain has kept him from new projects for several years.

Left: A misty memory of Banderas, fully nude in his first film appearance in 1982.

Asked to speak at the restoration of one of his old films, Flavor, he decides to look up the star, Alberto (Asier Etxeandia, left), whom he hasn't seen since the filming.  They had a falling out over Alberto's use of heroin on the set.

While reconciling, and trying heroin himself to ease his chronic pain, he tells the story of his first boyfriend.  

His First Boyfriend:  Director Salvador was in a relationship with Federico, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia, in the 1980s, but ended it due to his heroin use.  

Federico turned out to be one of Almodovar's temporary gay men: he left the "lifestyle" behind, moved to Argentina, married a woman, and had children.

Flavor star Alberto turns this story into a play that draws the attention of the real life Federico.  He returns to Madrid and wants to start the relationship again, but Director Salvador wants to keep the past in the past. 

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