I admit it: I couldn't care less about Twilight -- and to be totally honest -- I'd rather stake myself in the heart than be confronted by another mopey vampire at the newsstand or on my television set shilling Volvos. However, I will get behind all the half-naked guys running around the set of New Moon -- chief among them Taylor Lautner, who put on 30 pounds of muscle to play the role of were-twink Jacob Black (I am the only one who thinks it's weird that the werewolves in this movie are all waxed within an inch of their lupine lives?).
"Obviously I spent a lot of hours in the gym," says Lautner via the BBC. "The
most important part for me was the eating process. I had to double or
triple my calorie intake per day. It was a matter of eating every two
hours, disgusting things like meat patties and raw almonds and sweet
potatoes." (Sweet potatoes and almonds are disgusting? How old is this guy? 4?) But Lautner isn't the only one who'll be flashing a nipple or two when New Moon hits theaters on November 20. Robert Pattinson, the film's pasty lead, recently said, "I was really terrified [of going shirtless]. I hadn't worked out at all,
and I saw Taylor at the beginning of the year and I did feel incredibly
inadequate."
I wouldn't worry too much, Bobby. At this point no matter what you do, countless teenage girls, middle-age women and a healthy handful of gay men will still be knocking on your coffin lid.
Famed make-up artist Debbie Zoller couldn’t be happier. She’s flourished in a cut-throat industry for 25 years and has racked up a total of seven Emmy Award nominations. For two seasons Zoller created the “peaches and cream” look on Mad Men to fit the early 1960s period and now she’s making blood, guts and gore look authentic on ABC’s hit show Castle.
Zoller is no stranger to the big screen either. She's worked on the gay comedy Jeffrey, Pirates of the Caribbean and Kill Bill 1 and 2.
But behind the makeup is also a woman who fought to save her brother Mark’s life after he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Though he passed away in June, Zoller says she has no regrets and will continue the fight for other individuals with leukemia.
We caught up with Zoller while she was on lunch break at Castle. In an rare and honest interview, she discussed what she thinks of Adam Lambert’s makeup, what looks should go back in the closet, and what she learned from her brother’s fight.
Out: It’s always more fun to dish on the worst dressed people rather than the best dressed. So, before you tell us what’s in with makeup, tell us what’s got to go. Debbie Zoller: I see so many people still doing that streaky blush of the 1980’s. You know, where you look at them and they look like they have war paint on. I still see that, and I’m like, "are you kidding me?" Nowadays the cheeks are supposed to be just apples and illuminated and make you look like you just have a little bit of blush.
What else is in? The retro 60’s red lipstick is very in right now. Also, a clean eye with a black eyeliner. Pat McGrath was doing a lot of that with the fall fashion runway shows. The smoky eye is definitely coming back in. But instead of it being the smoky blacks and grays, they are mixing it now with the jewel tones -- smoky blue or smoky green.
Do you see men wearing makeup becoming an “in thing"?Guys nowadays are getting just as vain as women. They like to stand in front of a mirror before they go out on a date or out to a club. Sometimes they may have acne or if they shave with a razor they may get razor bumps and it’s all red and not looking too pretty. They want to be able to cover that. Men will use products, but they won’t admit it. Ten years ago I was really close to creating my own line of men’s skincare and foundation.
Adam Lambert’s makeup caught America a little off guard. What do you think of his look?
I love Adam Lambert. He reminds me a little of Sam Harris [The Class] who I worked with for years early in my career. He has such a huge voice and is an amazing talent. I love his "guy-liner.”
Today's featured honoree from the 2009 school day–themed Out 100 -- our salute to the 100 gay, lesbian, and trans people who have made an impact in their own communities and on mainstream culture in the last 12 months -- is Pedro Almodóvar, voted "Biggest Flirt."
Almodóvar’s sensual, glittering body of work has made him one of the world’s most successful and well-known filmmakers. He has been a novelist, pornographer, cartoonist, and crooner; his films draw on all of these experiences. Over the course of his long career -- including 17 films -- he has cultivated and defined a uniquely gay sensibility: life as outrage, beauty, and passion. Again and again, from the lives of transsexuals to the vagaries of childhood friendships, absurdity crescendoes into comedy. His latest film, Broken Embraces, shot in the style of hard-boiled American noir, further evolves his irresistible oeuvre.
We'll continue to bring you more featured honorees in the coming days until we unveil the entire 2009 Out 100 portfolio, shot by renowned photographer Jason Bell, in stores and online in mid-November.
To see an exclusive slideshow of images featuring Tamar Novas, Spain's newest heartthrob and star of Almodóvar's latest film, Broken Embraces, head to Out.com.
As we touched on in an earlier post, the new trailer for Tom Ford's first foray into the feature film arena, A Single Man, starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult, is similar to its original trailer except for one small change -- it totally strips the film of its gay subject matter.
IndieWire.com did a comparative study of the two trailers, the first (above) put out by Ford's production company, and the second (below) by The Weinstein Company, which is distributing the film, and found that "new trailer uses the same music and mostly the same shots, except it
adds in a bunch of quotes that not-so-subtly emphasizes the film’s
Oscar buzz, and leaves out a few choice shots -- pretty much all of
which are suggestive of the film’s gay content."
IndieWire goes on to breakdown the content of each trailer noting that The Weinstein Company is committed to making it appear as if the film is about Firth's relationship with Moore, even going so far as to remove Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode's names from the credits (both play characters romantically involved with Firth's character). What's more, in the second trailer a scene featuring a kiss between Firth and Goode is cut, a sequence of shots showing Firth looking into the eyes of both a female and male student now simply shows the female student, and "gone completely in the new trailer are a few shots of Firth running
into the smoking (literally and figuratively) male prostitute outside a
liquor store (one of the film’s more homoerotic sequences), as well as
a few shots of him and Hoult running romantically and shirtlessly into
the ocean together."
This isn't the first time a patently gay film has been marketed as a straight offering in order to either secure (trick?) hetero audiences into buying tickets or get potentially homophobic Academy members to vote for the film come Oscar time (Brokeback Mountain, anyone?). We guess it just means we (still) have to work that much harder not to be erased from mainstream culture. Perhaps we should get Michael Lucas to offer a counter-marketing strategy?
To see a photo portfolio of our November cover boy Nicholas Hoult, click here. To read our interview with Tom Ford on the making of A Single Man, click here.
> Hasbro is poking a stick at one of the few nostalgic pop culture stones left unturned by the recent flurry of remakes, revisions, and sequels -- it's resuscitated the licensing rights to Jem and the Holograms! At the moment no one has any idea exactly what this means -- there might be plans for either a movie or a TV series which may or may not have aHigh School Musical scriptwriter and/or the director of something amazing and bizarre looking called The Secret of the Magic Gourdattached.But we already know that Samantha Newark, voice of the original Jem, is ready for her comeback!
Oh, it's magic time. A second non-Disney Zac Efron film in 2009? My heart is just aflutter. And doesn't this one look good? A critical darling when it made its film festival debut, Me and Orson Welles will have a limited release starting November 25th (and a wider release in December) and I just could not be more excited. Opening night? Forget homework, I will be there to take in every quivering lip, every piercing stare from those big watery blue eyes, and every moment of stillness as we wonder if our Boy Wonder might burst into song.
This could be the very film to launch Efron into adult drama -- if his character in the trailer doesn't give you little chills recalling Jack Dawson, you're lying to yourself. Titanic was the last of Leonardo DiCaprio's romantic roles, so before Zefron too quickly transforms into a cussing, bearded hunter of African diamonds, let's take look at some of his lesser-known dramatic roles that you may (or may not, frankly) want catch up on before you step into the theater to see Claire Danes snog another handsome leading man (seriously, between Leo, Jared Leto, and Hugh Dancy some girls just have all the luck!)
Our featured honoree of the day from the "School Days"–themed 2009 Out 100 -- this year's look at the 100 gay, lesbian, and trans people who made an impact in both gay and mainstream culture -- is Kelly McGillis.
McGillis’s coming out last April created an outsize media storm. The 52-year-old star of Top Gun and The Accusedrevealed she was a lesbian to SheWired.com, unleashing a torrent of support from around the globe. McGillis, who also starred on The L Word as a closeted army colonel trying a “don’t ask, don’t tell” case, emphatically said she is “done with the man thing.” A sexual icon for millions of straight boys who grew up in the 1980s, McGillis became another iconic example of the significance of sexual honesty later in life. This winter she will star in a U.K. tour of Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
During the coming days we'll continue to roll out more honorees from the 2009 Out 100 -- shot by renowned photographer Jason Bell -- until the full portfolio is revealed in stores and online in mid-November. Keep checking back for a new honorees and in the meantime check out the 2008 Out 100 here.
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