On the Rag, Vol. 928

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Joey Pollari, Michael Johnston, Tom Hopper, Bruce LaBruce, Nicholas Hoult, Anthony Ippolito, Andrew Garfield and more BELOW.

Remains of the Day (10/07)

Dan Callahan: Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning star of "On the Waterfront" and "North by Northwest," dies at 102

Gr8er Days: Every one of Alfred Hitchcock’s still-living leading ladies

The Hat: As the midterms approach, off-Broadway tackles democracy, authoritarianism and resistance while larger theaters shy away from political risks

W42ST: Michael Musto shares his picks from the New York Film Festival, from must-see movies to the films that left him cold

Wrestle Wednesday: VPL in yellow

NYT: Long Island congressional candidate Chris Gallant is making the most of an unexpected tabloid reveal -- bondage photos from his past

Advocate: Samuel Alito blames marriage equality for America’s "decisive" turn "against religious liberty"

Attitude: Alfie Watts, winner of the British reality show "Race Across the World," comes out as bisexual, just like me in 1987(!)

BBC: Three arrested in a crackdown on a suspected criminal network accused of helping Bangladeshi migrants pretend to be gay to win asylum in Britain

PinkNews: Nyle DiMarco joins "All's Fair" for season two in a recurring role originally written for a hearing actor

Creepy Catalog: The story behind the haunting opening credits of "Rosemary's Baby"

HuffPost: Andrew Scott looks poised for an Oscar nomination thanks to his chilling performance in "Elsinore"

Out: Why Chris Colfer says a "Glee" reboot would be really hard to do

Greg in Hollywood: Van Hansis marks two years as Lucas Jones on "General Hospital," a role that turned a short-term gig into a life-changing move to Los Angeles 

RIP: Looking back at the life and career of soap stud Robert Kelker-Kelly, who starred on "Days of Our Lives" and "Another World" before leaving Hollywood behind

Hot Cat of the Day: A change of seasons

RIP: Remembering Michael Kearns, the fearless gay actor, performance artist and AIDS activist who came out when it was career suicide and later became one of the first actors to publicly disclose he was HIV-positive

Messy Debra: Bleeding-heart liberal Debra Messing pulls a Roseanne Barr. 

Someone really needs to study how a single issue can take over a person's entire life and personality. And I'm not just talking about the nutty Debra Messing types. Her counterparts on the other side, the #FreePalestine loons on my social media feeds, are equally incapable of talking about anything else. (Far too many of them seem a bit bummed a plane full of Israelis didn't go down.) However well-intentioned the "cause" (and much of it strikes me as performative), once you're so consumed by it that you can no longer acknowledge historical complexity (Israel wasn't created in a vacuum, kiddies), you've lost it. We've now got people voting for city and state offices based on Israel, and I still see posts saying "thank god Kamala Harris didn't win" because the Biden administration "funded genocide." (That worked out great for 'em.) Are we sure this isn't a mental illness? 

Wait till I start basing my entire persona around the reunification of Ireland!

#My9Albums

 

The instructions say: "Pick the 9 albums that made you. Search more than two million albums, put your nine in order, and share the poster," and so I did. Obviously, it's impossible to narrow it down to nine -- the first five Blondie albums all deserve to be on here -- and it was only after I'd finished that I realized I'd completely forgotten about "Beauty and the Beat" by the Go-Go's, although I don't see where I'd swap it in. But like most time-wasting social-media trends, it's fun. Tell me yours in the comments -- or make and share your own HERE.

Weekend Tennis Roundup

Titles for Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.

Purrfectly Served

 

Tennis Tuesday

 

ScottRileyXX swears he knows "SO much" about the sport. Judge for yourself BELOW.