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Thursday, August 20, 2026

On the Rag, Vol. 921

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Josh Daicos, Mark S. King, Rob Jetten, Benson Boone, Paul Anthony Kelly, Jacob Elordi, Charles Melton and more BELOW.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Remains of the Day (08/19)

Uncloseted Media: From Gay.com and AOL chat rooms to Manhunt and Grindr, a look back at 32 years of gay hookup culture moving online

Socialite Life: Taron Egerton opens up about his estranged father -- and the grueling physical toll of getting into racing shape for "Apex"

Advocate: Nancy Pelosi on AIDS, trans rights, the legacy she resists claiming -- and why Democrats must "win big"

CNN: I can hardly wait to find out why Nick Kyrgios's fans think it's not his fault that he was provisionally suspended for cocaine use

Wrestle Wednesday: Major flex appeal

Just Jared: Derek Chadwick exits Goose, weeks after launching gay dating app

CBS News: NYC's iconic Carnegie Deli set to reopen in Midtown

Instinct: Playboy's new gay editor says he will make the mag playful again

McSweeney's: Julie Klausner loses her cookies

Greg in Hollywood: A mostly shirtless photo tribute to film legend Robert Redford, who was born 90 years ago

Pitchfork: After 71 years -- and countless too-good-to-be-true offers of albums for pennies -- Columbia House is finally shutting down

The Randy Report: Judge blocks ICE from deporting a gay man to Guyana after he warned: "They're going to kill me"

Out: How a friend's AIDS-related death changed the life of Nasty Pig's co-founder

People: Amy Schumer to make a "brutally honest" divorce comedy after her split from Chris Fischer

MNPP: Jonathan Bailey: "Just the tip"

Hot Cat of the Day: Someone made sure Madonna's birthday dinner in Corfu was purrfect!

RIP: Peggy Webber, prolific radio actor who had a memorable turn in Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man,” dies at 100

No Country for Old Cowboys: Damian and I caught a screening of "The Misfits" at the Quad, as part of a John Huston festival of sorts. I was a massive Marilyn Monroe fan in college, so it had been some 40 years since I'd seen the film. I was excited to finally experience it on the "big screen" -- before remembering the theater's screens are smaller than our television! -- and was surprised by how little seemed familiar.

Although it was little-appreciated when it came out in 1961, it's easy to see why it's been reappraised over time, with so many incredible performances and themes to unpack: loneliness, aging, masculinity and the fading mythology of the American West, all embodied by a group of people desperately clinging to their independence while just as desperately trying to connect. (Life may have been imitating art given that Arthur Miller adapted the screenplay from his own short story specifically for then-wife Marilyn, even as their marriage was falling apart during production.)

Bonus points to Thelma Ritter, who steals every scene she's in!

Footnote: Filming wrapped on November 4, 1960, just 12 days before Clark Gable's death; the film was released on what would have been his 60th birthday, February 1, 1961, and Marilyn Monroe died 18 months later, making it the final completed film for both stars. For his part, Montgomery Clift would die about five and a half years after the film's release at just 45.