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Retro Playguys

April 29, 2015, 9:32 pm
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These days are actually a whole lot more difficult for smut peddlers to get their products noticed (an sold) than in previous decades.  In the age when paper magazines dominated most male erotica sales, publishers understood that apart from establishing distribution networks, they really needed to make sure that their cover was 'money in the bank'.  Playguy was established in 1976. It was published by the same folks who also were selling Mandate, Honcho, Torso, Inches, Black Inches and Latin Inches.   Eventually the magazine closed down in October 2009.

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May Book Club

May 1, 2015, 5:57 am
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Published in 1968, this novel, written by Drew Austin, offered up the misunderstood character of Lonnie.  Handsome Lonnie was a man starved for the kind of sexual relations that society didn't approve of and had made illegal.  Lonnie found the answer to his desires in prison, as well as the untouchable guard, Phil. This novel was actually part of their French Line series of books and is numbered "French Line 46."  The back cover has an image of Eiffel Tower.
This book by Matt Bradley comes courtesy of Century Books and sounds the alarm that "15% of all Americans are homosexual!" This "growing national problem" of men engaging in homosexual activities together is must-reading for the concerned citizen, as it includes a slang dictionary of the special words that these homos use!  Lucky, we have Matt Bradley to share with us what goes on all over the country.  It's reported that Century Books published five titles between 1965-1967.

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May 1983

May 3, 2015, 9:16 am
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Starting on page 51 of this issue was this nice photo journal featuring KEVIN HASLAM.  As the magazine put it so well: "Our Man for May will put wind in your sails—he's a sensational yachtsman from Florida."  This was 1983, and photo shoots of men captured in rugged and masculine surroundings doing things (that they would normally have work clothes on) was a Playgirl specialty.



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1987 Prick up Your Ears

May 6, 2015, 2:24 am
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Gary Oldman as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears
Directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), Prick up Your Ears is a movie about real-life gay British playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell (based on the book by John Lahr).   In addition to great acting, the film won critical praise for presenting a complicated gay relationship set in the 1960s England, complete with Orton's unwillingness to acknowledge having a male lover.

 
This movie was very edgy in 1987 and is as much a period film about the late 1980's (when the movie was first released) as it is about the 1960's (when the action in the movie takes place).  1987 was during the era of AIDS and audiences who watched Prick up Your Ears were often afraid and uneasy about the topic of gay sex.  In England in 1987, the first specialist AIDS hospital ward was opened by Princess Diana.  The fact that she did not wear gloves when shaking hands with people with AIDS was widely reported in the press.  The context of what was happening in society back then is important when comparing the film to today.

This film is the story of the talented life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. "I have high hopes of dying in my prime," Joe Orton wrote in his diary in July, 1967.  Less than one month later, he had been murdered by his lover in the London flat that they had shared for 15 years.

In his teens, Orton becomes befriended by the older, less self-assured Kenneth.  Orton is attractive and daring and enjoys the risks of anonymous sex with strangers in public places.  Halliwell is less-desirable in the world of pick-up sex and much  more introverted than Orton.   Orton eventually achieves fame (his plays Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Loot) become hits in London.  He's commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles.  Kenneth resents the success of his lover and fears that their dysfunctional relationship may come to and end as Orton grows more and more popular and successful, outgrowing him. Despondent, Halliwell kills Orton and commits suicide.


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1992 The Living End

May 9, 2015, 12:53 am
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Craig Gilmore (left) and Mike Dytri in The Living End
There are days when it feels like everyone who I encounter is trying their best to make me angry, upset or disillusioned with getting to payday.  These are definitely "glass is half empty" days at work.  But let's forget about everyday insults and indignities...For courageous folks back in 1992, the time had arrived to come out fighting against a world that oftentimes spewed hatred and violence at gay men in ways that were horrifically being endorsed by large swaths of "civilized" societies around the world.   The AIDS epidemic and hysteria/discrimination against gay men had reached the point where socially active people were pushing back.   

This brings us to Gregg Araki’s  film The Living End.  Life is happening all around two HIV-positive gay men and they decide to be more than victims of rules and stigmas in an AIDS homophobic world.  It has been compared to a gay Thelma & Louise.   Luke kills a homophobic police officer and the two men head on out for a road trip with the motto "Fuck everything."  It’s an emotionally-raw movie with indie production values that only add to the message being delivered on screen. The most controversial scene is when Luke convinces Jon to have sex without a condom in the shower.  In 1993 Philadelphia would also be released, but this gritty little film came out first about fighting back.  The Living End was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.  Rolling Stone's Peter Travers found The Living Enda "savagely funny, sexy and grieving cry" made more heart-rending by "Hollywood's gutless fear of AIDS movies"
  

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Guess the Famous Retro Stud!

May 11, 2015, 6:17 am
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The year was 1979 and the month was May.  Hustler magazine not only was a publication for all-American straight men, it was for straight men who liked their smut raunchy in comparison to classier rags like Playboy.  And thanks to its very progressive (when it came to sexuality and gay rights) and intellectual publisher Larry Flynt, the magazine gave the readers what they wanted but also challenged them to think.  Both Penthouse and Hustler had begun including men in their sexual pictorials in the lalf of the 1970s and while some readers were upset seeing 'limp dicked men' with their hottie chicks, the popularity of the pictorials translated to more unit sales.  Straight-identified males like to watch other men having sex with women in smut.  Looking at the cover, for all the sex, the magazine was very topical and cultural.  Interestingly, the cover from 1979 asks 'Why the politicians fear instant voting' (still an issue today) and advertises a story on 'Circumcision: Repressive mutilation' (any visit to a gym showers will confirm that cutting cocks was on its way out with parents).
OK, so some may think that maybe Hayloft Harvest was published in the wrong season (Fall would have probably made more sense?)  but thanks to my farmer uncle Roy from Kansas, I know that winter wheat is harvested actually from mid-May to mid-July.

So maybe the readers were drooling over the naked lady, but the stud in the photo shoot was a true smut star in his own right who had a loyal gay fan base. He began his career in the adult entertainment industry in low-budget films and short loops in his early 20's (which was also the early 1970s) and remained an active performer in straight porn until 1992.  The viewpoint of the underside of his curved cock (when erect, his penis curves to his left) is one of the most-recognizable in smut film history because of one of his most-famous roles in a classic 1980 straight film, which was shot glorifying him during heated penetration.  It's also reported that he appeared solo in gay-oriented smut using another name. Recognize him or his famous pleasure stick?

Please stay tuned for part two.

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Guess the Famous Retro Stud! (part two)

May 14, 2015, 5:17 am
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Wow!  Thanks to everyone who emailed a response, and thanks to those who expressed their frustration about not being able to post to the story itself anymore...my sincere apologizes, but with all of the spam content VGMH was getting I had no choice but to (hopefully temporarily) turn off comments.  It was a surprise to read how many men identified with this particular Hustler magazine issue from their youth.  Many shared that they recalled finding the magazine which belonged to their Dad or an older brother. 
There was plenty of content suitable for gay men to enjoy with this pictorial. 







Please Stay Tuned For Part Three


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Guess the Retro Stud: Mr. Mike Arlen!

May 20, 2015, 9:46 pm
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Patrons of early 1980s gay smut might have recognized him as Mike Arlen, but he was already well on his way to becoming a true superstar of straight porn under the name of Mike Ranger.  Reportedly born Michael Grainger included Bob Sherman, Chuck Fabrae, Jack Gooding, Mark Ranger, Michael Ranger, Michael Stapp, Michael Stewart, Michael Stuart, Mike Carlson, Mike Fairmont, Mike Grainger, Mike Stapp, Mike Step, Mike Steph, Mike Stepp, Mike Strong, Mike Wrangler, Peter Kurzon, and West Regent.   While his career in adult entertainment probably began in the 1970s with meat market loops, thankfully for his gay fans, Mike performed solo for Nova in Fistsfull (a 1984 release).

In this movie compilation featuring six gentlemen, Mike's solo performance is titled  The Jock, The Music and the Mirror and features Arlen masturbating that famous bent dick, which would eventually be invited into the mouth, pussy and/or ass of pretty much every female star of  golden-era 1980s porn.   It's widely reported that in 1980 female porn star Loni Sanders first met her future husband Mike Ranger on the set of a soft-core picture.  Loni initially acted in hardcore X-rated movies with just Ranger and other women, but eventually performed with men other than Mike.  After divorcing Mike Ranger she continued in the business.  To his credit, Mike was a talented actor as well as skilled sportsman when it came to fucking the ladies and always delivered terrific performances.  While intended for straight audiences, many of his straight movies wisely focused the lens on Mike as he (in an era before erection pills) enjoyed sewing countless seeds from those hairy dishwater blond balls, using that muscular yet wiry ass to flex its way into movie history.  And as we will see in part three of this series, when VHS rental tapes became popular with home audiences in the 1980s, it was one classic movie featuring one classic scene (with Mike's body in action doing naughty things to an actress) that caused many to freeze the image so often that the tapes would become stretched in that location.

VGMH BONUS!!  Also in this movie was handsome Dan Kennedy who also performs in a solo scene.   Big-dicked and comfortable riding a crotch rocket, we watch as Dan wrenches his bike up and then decides to get himself off, complete with a nice old-school athletic supporter cock rub on the leather seat saddle as he humps and pumps it.  Finally the scents of gasoline, oil, and sweaty man all combine to fill the musty garage with the pungent aroma of sperm. The photo below is probably enough for many men (and women) to beg for a ride...on his bike?
And since we know that studios were never shy about recycling, here's a nifty stand-alone ad for Dan's scene (titled the same as in the compilation movie as The Biker Jocker).  We will feature more of Dan in the future.
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Magic Mike

May 24, 2015, 8:03 am
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Mike appeared solo in some vintage erotica for men to enjoy.  Many gay fans would continue to follow his work (As Mike Ranger) and that famous curved cock throughout his long career in straight smut.








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Braun Gets 'Dangerous'!

May 29, 2015, 9:46 pm
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Michael Braun with Jim Rodgers in Dangerous

Michael Braun's resume in porn may not be as lengthy as some other classic smut stars, but his sex appeal has been proven to stand the tests of time, and many consider his best work to have been in 1983'sDangerous.  Mike's performance Dangerous was released the same year as Gold Rush Boys and gave him the distinction of starring in two major gay films in 1983.  VGMH's Male Sex Icon award winner Al Parker (the film was by Parker's Surge Studio) and director Steve Scott collaborated to create what has become a classic gay movie with Dangerous, and not exclusively because of the sex scenes.  This is a movie that reflects the era it was created within.


The storyline for Dangerous involves something that many gay men have experienced in real life: being attracted to anonymous sex in public bathrooms with strangers.  This is very risky behavior in any decade, but in this pre-condom world of 1983, the biggest concern of the star seems to be with the possibily of getting arrested and explaining why (again) he was out looking for dick instead of being satisfied with the nice one on his boyfriend at home, who bailed him out of jail (again).
 
Amazingly, all of this activity happens at the very beginning of the movie and the rest of the film is about the boyfriend's personal journey into the gritty world of glory holes in order to try and find out what the thrill is about.  Tip: Try to play 'name that dick' and guess which cameo cock in the movie belonged to none other than Al Parker.

1970's gay porn used the glory hole theme often.  Still relatively fresh off of the go-go 1970's, the behavior of sucking a stranger's cock through a hole in the men's room stall wall was very common in major cities and places with military bases.   Simply put, it was supply (cocks on horny men looking to cum) and demand (mouths on horny men looking to suck) coming together in an efficient way that demanded anonymity with both speed and convenience.
 
Glory holes offered  closeted and straight married men a quick sexual release without having any social contact whatsoever.  While they had been around for decades (police reports and news about them being a social nuisance date back to the early 1900's), glory holes really came into their own during the late 1960's-early 1980's.   As one 1977 expose noted of businessmen in Chicago's financial district on Friday nights, the guys looking for sex were all ages: "[They've got]... enough time after leaving work and before the train home to slip into a bookstore and get sucked off.  It's free and fast."  For other men, it was the thrill of possibly being caught in the sex act that made it exciting. And yet other guys just liked sucking cock-any cock.
 
While many men simply had a good time, there were some obvious deterrents. Perhaps not surprising, glory holes offered a physical barrier that some men (in denial about their sexuality) often found appealing, which included homophobes who hated themselves and gay men in general.  Locations around military bases were sometimes fraught dangers, as young guys with issues would perform the act and then beat up the guy on the other side of the stall, in order  to distance themselves from what just had happened between them.   Glory holes were also easy places for police to make many arrests of "deviants" in a short period of time.  STD's (for both the blower and the blowee) were also common.  And of course, in just a few years the threat of AIDS would become a factor in reducing their popularity.

Dangerous was made when Boners were real and not created by taking a pill.  And some porn movies provided story lines and not just grunts and one-liners.    In this story, Rogers and Braun (boyfriends) have a serious discussion about what creates the desire for seeking out anonymous sex in public bathrooms. Rogers is afraid that his man goes looking for dick because he's not happy with him.  Braun assures him that it's not Rogers.
Rogers decides to try anonymous sex for himself to discover why his lover likes it so much.  He gives it a real good try,as a  matter of fact, and winds up sucking four cocks, watches a man suck himself off, and gets a blowjob!  His carnal desires are evident as he gulps and explores each cock through the hole.  The film ends with Braun and Rogers both kneeling at a glory hole together, sharing a cock between themselves and kissing. A happy ending!

It's obvious that both Parker and Scott wanted to produce a quality product. Mr. Parker's amazing life has been featured here at VGMH before and will receive an encore this spring for those that may have missed it. It's reported that Steve Scott began by working in the publicity department at Universal Studios in the late 1960's.   He began in straight porn via a friend who was a distributor, before trying his hand in the gay film genre (The Young Intruder). Besides quality, Scott's movies are known for minimal music during sex scenes, an expectation that his models perform hard, and Scott's use of various body types and ages.






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June 1983

June 6, 2015, 9:31 am
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The photo above continues to be an international Internet favorite for obvious reasons. Playgirl magazine celebrated ten years of publications with 25 year-old David Van Brunt, who they described as being "Playgirl's 10: Only the best for our anniversary fete" and David certainly delivered.  But back when it first came out, the biggest news for this issue however was probably lead guitarist Warren Cuccurullo's spread starting on page 76.  It's reported that Warren had worked with Frank Zappa, was a founding member of Missing Persons, and was a long term member of Duran Duran.  But can anyone blame us for ignoring everything else in this issue and enjoying the images of David?















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June 1978

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Summer Dudes

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June 1982

June 22, 2015, 8:42 am
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At 23 and handsome as well as physically fit, sexy Jeff Wintemute was a welcome summer start to Playgirl readers in 1982.  While Jeff Wintemute was the star of the issue, it also featured Couples: In Bed In The Sunroom, and Best Of Nine Years.  As the cover says, there was a poster-size centerfold (above) of Jeff inside the issue.
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It's Super Bulge!

June 27, 2015, 9:17 am
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Ray Middleton (above) is credited with playing Superman during appearances at the 1939 World's Fair.  But it would take Kirk Alyn to bring his own crotch bulge to movie fans.   He's not the most well-known of actors who played Superman on the screen, but just one  look at him in his costume makes it easy to see Kirk Alyn's take on the  man of steel remains a favorite of crotch cadets the world over.  Kirkclearly had the goods to pack a punch where it counted. 



In addition to performing Broadway, Kirk worked as a singer and dancer in vaudeville before moving to Hollywood  in the early 1940s to make feature films, where he was successful only in gaining bit parts in low-budget films before landing the role of Superman in 1948.   In fact, Kirk was the first actor to play Superman on the big screen, first in the 1948 film serial Superman, which consisted of 15 episodes that recounted Superman’s arrival on Earth, getting a job as a reporter  at the Daily Planet newspaper, and meeting sidekicks Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.  Kirk would then star in the 1950 sequel, Atom Man Vs. Superman.



Alyn would later recall the day that producer Sam Katzman asked him to play Superman:"I thought it was a publicity stunt. I didn't think you could ever put
 Superman on film. They brought the people from D.C. Comics [sic] over
and they said, 'Hey, he looks just like Clark Kent.' They said take off
your shirt, so I did and flexed my muscles. Then the guy said, 'Take off
 your pants' and I said, 'Wait a minute.' I was 37 when I played
Superman. I picked up that girl and ran up that flight of stairs like it
 was nothing."



Kirk Alyn died on March 14, 1999 at the age of 88. He was survived by three children.

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Mickey Squires

July 2, 2015, 10:37 pm
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Mickey's story is legendary in his hometown of Hollywood, where it's reported he was born in 1952 and some thirty years later became tinsel town beefcake royalty.  At 5' 11" tall and a solid 195 pounds, his hazel eyes and handsome face were perfect for show business.    His favorite childhood memory may have been 'Jerking off when I was 11 years old in the bathroom'but by young adulthood, Mickey had reportedly been rejected by Playgirl magazine for a centerfold shoot and then around 1981, was asked to model for COLT. 

 
The magazines followed, with BLUEBOY (Oct 1981, Dec 1982); HONCHO (Aug 1981, Dec 1981); STALLION (March 1983); MANDATE (May 1982, Feb 1983); JOCK (April 1985); and TORSO (March 1983), among others.  Today he's often best remembered for his1981 Honcho appearance alongside Joe Paduca, floating on a raft in a sparkling blue pool clearly enjoying the intimacy.


Mickey Squires films included Flashbacks, Red Ball Express, Face To Face, Fade Out, Joys of Self Abuseand The Brig; plus the two films he did for Colt: The Come-On with Jack Hacker (who is grunting on top of Mickey as he screws him proper) and Sun Strokeswhere Mickey is paired with Tod Avery (aka very young J.W. King).  Later in his career as time matured his beautiful face and physique, he would perform in bear roles and excite both original fans and new ones alike.  VGMH thinks one of his most-overlooked performances was in 1981's Red Ball Express.   Mickey plays a delivery guy for moonshine and Jayson MacBride give hims delivery instructions. Squires may want to sell hooch be he keeps going to places where guys are fucking one another.  MacBride eventually instructs him to come back to the dispatch station,and you can guess the rest.  The movie is cheesy and so downright baaaad in terms of production values that it's a perfect reminder that not everything from vintage vaults is wonderful--this was standard fare in the era it was produced which is why it's so great.  Classic 1970's smut music is dubbed into every scene and of course the audience is not given actual sex sounds from the guys having fun with one another.







Mickey had a very long career in adult erotica which included a blog briefly during 2006.   His Tuesday, July 18, 2006 blog entry was his last to his readers and in the opinion of VGMH, is very endearing and wise advice:

"HI ALL...just a few words here to end this thing and move on with my life...i am the happiest i have been in 20 years...my close friendship with kevin has made me feel complete, and i feel i have NOTHING to write about...NOW WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO DEAR READERS...IS GO OUT AND LIVE YOUR LIVES AND WRITE YOUR OWN STORY FOR OTHERS YET TO COME TO KNOW ABOUT...

we all have stories to tell...and THANK YOU ALL FOR CARING ABOUT MINE...I wll fully disappear into the night here and try to live my older age as quietly as possible with the help of friends and work...MICKEY SQUIRES is NO MORE!...

meet RICHARD!...i think you might like him too...

TAKE CARE AND I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH THIS TIME WE HAD TOGETHER...

cya!"

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Bill Cable

July 6, 2015, 9:19 am
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A straight man in his personal life, Bill's popularity with gay men (as Stoner) via Colt Studios and Mandate magazine,was equally matched by his appeal with women via Playgirl.  Indeed, Playgirl (founded in 1973) helped to make Mr. Cable one of the most successful adult-content models of that decade---Bill Cable appeared in Playgirl magazine numerous times during its first decade, testimony to just how desirable he was.  Bill could be found in: July 1973 (The Long Cool Summer: A Fashion Essay that began on page 76); November 1974 (cover model); May 1975 (Beauty and the Beast fantasy); and May 1977 (portfolio),  in addition to retrospective/special publications that reprinted from previous photo shoots.

Sadly, Bill would become part of Hollywood royalty history for a very sad event, when Christian Brando (son of Marlon) faced murder charges.  Bill was about 44 years old at the time and a close friend of Christian.  The People magazine story of events can be found here, including Bill in the story.  In 1990, Christian Brando pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing his sister's boyfriend.

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Sam Jones

July 11, 2015, 8:20 am
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Sam Jones was born in 1954 in Chicago.   He's probably best remembered for two splashy appearances in show business:  Playgirl and Flash Gordon. 

Posing as Andrew Cooper III (an alias created by the magazine editors to suggest he was a person of wealth), heterosexual Sam was the sexy 6'4" centerfold for the June 1975 issue of Playgirl. 

He would go on to make his first film appearance opposite Bo Derek in the 1979 romance comedy film 10.  Mr. Jones then got his big Hollywood break when he starred as Flash Gordon in the 1980 film of the same name.  It was supposed to be a big campy hit but something didn't quite work.  The Playgirl photo spread returned, and it probably didn't help that in 1974 a smut-spoof of the original Flash Gordon series had already been very popular, Flesh Gordon (please see video below). 

Now considered to be a cult classic, the initial box office failure of 1980's Flash Gordon pretty much nixed Sams' chances of getting a second shot at carrying another big budget movie.  Since then, it's reported that his work has been in television and in low-budget action films.

Sam played Chris Rorchek in the TV series Code Red (1981-1982), acted in My Chauffeur (1986), was the lead actor in a 1987 adaptation of The Spirit, was in Jane and the Lost City (1987), and played the title character in the short-lived NBC series The Highwayman.  Jones also acted in: Obsession Kills (1995), Fists of Iron (1995), American Strays (1996), American Tigers (1996), and Gangland and Psychotic (2002).   Going full-circle, in  In 2007, he had a special guest role in playing the prisoner Krebb in the Sci Fi Channel original television series Flash Gordon.

Jones is a former United States Marine and has received several entertainment, civic, and humanitarian awards: Citizen of The Year, presented by California State Senate; County of Los Angeles; City of Los Angeles; and North Hollywood Police Department, as well as The Outstanding Achievement Award in The Entertainment Industry, presented by The Southern California Motion Picture Council.

While the hunky actor has enjoyed a loyal following of gay fans for decades, it's reported that this straight actor has been married twice and is the father of five children.


Playgirl Magazine June 1975
Volume 3 Issue # 1 Number 25
PHOTO FEATURES
Page 76 PLAYGIRL'S MAN FOR JUNE - ANDREW COOPER III




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Summer Reading

July 12, 2015, 10:40 am
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It sounds crazy, but there was actually a time when people had to read  paper books.  And ain't it just like a darn dame...getting all clingy and cuddly and possesive, when all this rugged suspenders jockey wants from her is a nice smoke and a drink?  Honey, maybe he just ain't into you?  Perhaps he wants to go see Rock Hudson in"One Way Street" or spend some quality time with his best bud playing pool shooting balls at the tavern.  Published back in 1950, this cover model is hunka-hunka-hot in a smoldering tough-guy sorta way.  The cover got our attention, which no doubt was the intention.  So VGMH wants to know exactly what was the man was saying "no" to in the title of this pulp fiction?  That's what makes it a summertime mystery that we have to read it in order it to find out!  Of course if we had our way, he would be saying "yes!" to some athletic Navy man with a short blonde crew cut and white bell bottoms...but that's just the way we roll here aty VGMH.   
Looks like this treasure-trailed troubadour can't wait to rip off his robe and get busy dancing to some bongo-booty tunes!  This 1967 book cost a hefty 95 cents back then, so it had better have been good reading.  Maybe they could have splured on a few more colors for the cover, so the guy in the tidy whities in the background didn't have the same color hair as the mystery man's belt?  In any event, we're sure everything came out ok in the end.
 

And speaking about ends...Hopefully this July issue of After Dark was still laying around some body's coffee table in August of 1975 to be enjoyed.  This was definitely a keeper for the bathroom.  OK, so there may be some really good reading inside, but honestly the only thing we're paying attention to is that gent's wonderful sun-kissed legs and his beautiful white buns.  Whoever #14 was in the crimson red jersey, you have a place here at VGMH forever.







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Hollywood History

July 17, 2015, 10:14 pm
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For his contributions to motion pictures, Pangborn has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.  Sadly, not many people recognize his name.  He served in World War I and worked on Broadway before going into silent movies starting around 1926.  He was a talented actor and versitle but became favored for his comedic roles.  Mack Sennett used him in many shorts.  His facial expressions and mannerisms didn't quite classify him in the realm of somewhat effiminate male characters that film historians would later call "sissy" parts, but he was often close.  His uptight characters were often authority figures that ultimately were turned on their behinds, much to the delight of the audience.



Pangborn with a famous Tarzan

It's reported that  W.C. Fields was a great fan of him which is why he used him in several movies (including 1940s The Bank Dick), as well as working with Frank Capra, Gregory La Cava, and Preston Sturges.  In 1942 he worked in.



Yet Pangborn's  usual stock of characters could fit drama as well. Actually, in Hero his  coordinator Now, Voyager as the cruise tourist director with legendary Bette Davis.  As the talent of the silent era slipped into the shadows of Hollywood while television was in its infacncy, he used his connections and skills to work often on the little screen.






It was reported that Pangborn lived with his mother and his "occasional boyfriend.  He passed away on July 20, 1958




  • Exit Smiling (1926) - first film

  • Cheer Up and Smile (1930)

  • Not So Dumb (1930)

  • The Loud Mouth (1932)

  • The Half-Naked Truth (1932)

  • International House (1933)

  • Bed of Roses (1933)

  • Menu (1933)

  • Wild Poses (1933 Little Rascals short)

  • Flying Down to Rio (1933)

  • Strictly Dynamite (1934)

  • Young and Beautiful (1934)

  • 1,000 Dollars a Minute (1935)

  • The Headline Woman (1935)

  • Tomorrow's Youth (1935)

  • My Man Godfrey (1936)

  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

  • Easy Living (1937)

  • Stage Door (1937)

  • Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

  • Vivacious Lady (1938)

  • Four's a Crowd (1938)

  • Carefree (1938)

  • Just Around the Corner (1938)

  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)


  • Topper Takes a Trip (1939)

  • Christmas in July (1940)

  • The Bank Dick (1940)

  • The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

  • Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

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