So, Cilla, which of our lovely lads is the public going to plump for? Will it be ‘Dave’ the retrosexual PE teacher from Liverpool with a pint, who only uses aftershave his mum bought him for Christmas ‘on special occasions’ (but seems to be rather fond of hair product)? Or… Read More »The Sun newspaper: Retro or Metro?
Stallone is back! Again! Even bigger than last time! After the success of last year’s musclebound Rocky 60, he’s now promoting his latest inflatable eighties revival movie franchise, Rambo – you know, the one that President Bush based his foreign policy on. (Though Stallone, perhaps with a Sly eye on public opinion, claims his new movie… Read More »Rambo on Steroids
By Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, 21 Jan 2008) Every child wants to be a zookeeper when they grow up. To run a place where everything is in its place, and has nothing to do but eat, shit and breed – to your timetable. Maybe it’s a yen for revenge… Read More »Waxing Desmond Morris
By Mark Simpson (Nerve.com, February 22, 2001) Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers, may have won only a few consolation prizes at the Grammys yesterday, but clearly the white rapper behind The Marshall Mathers LP has created the Album of the Year in every other sense. Em is the hottest property not… Read More »Melts in Your Mouth: Eminem’s Shady Sexuality
Matt Damon is the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’, according to People magazine. Perhaps it’s time to cruise the graveyard. I don’t mean to be cruel — honest — but Matt is preppy, not sexy. The two things are not necessarily antagonistic, granted. But in Matt they are. Yes, I know, it’s… Read More »Matt Damon: Sexy or Twaspy?