The Lost Weekend

Photos by David Bartolomi

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Photo Flashback: 1975

FAMILY AFFAIR: I'm sure you would have never guessed what decade this was from if I hadn't listed the year for you.

Morning Glory: Patrick Wilson

Patrick channels his inner-stud in the new film "Little Children"

With "Barefoot" co-star Amanda Peet (below)

Feeling guilty about being so hot in "Angels in America" (above)

I first fell for theater favorite Patrick Wilson as the tortured-but-hot Mormon in HBO's "Angels in America," then recently saw him shine in the Broadway revival of "Barefoot in the Park" (lucky Michael got to see him in "The Full Monty"). Last night I got an e-mail from a reader who is working on Patrick's new film "Little Children" and it reminded me that I had seen a steamy trailer for this new movie in which Patrick sheds his goody-goody image and plays "an ex-jock stay-at-home dad" who is having a torid affair with a stay-at-home mom (Kate Winslet). The stills above give you an idea of what I'm talking about ... the film opens Oct. 6 and I can't wait.

UPDATE: Check out Patrick's super-hot photos from "Little Children" here.
Previously: Nights on Broadway

Crack Den

Via reFRESH magazine

McGreevey Does Good

Michael and I watched Jim McGreevey's Oprah appearance last night (DVR heaven). We were both completely mesmerized by the whole thing and screaming at the television at various points, yet I don't want to go on and on about this. What I do want to say though is that I thought he did a wonderful job explaining himself -- and made me proud to be a Gay-American. And more importantly, I thought it was very revealing of society as a whole seeing how naive and unaware of the plight of gays and lesbians even somehow as well-rounded as Oprah is. "Why would you get married if you knew you were gay?" she wondered. I think the better question would be why wouldn't someone (particularly an Irish-Catholic born in the 1950s) get married if they knew they were gay. It's like society expects little gay boys and girls to grow up in a world that completely condemns everything we do -- and then many of our parents drag us to churches where we're being told we're going to hell for feeling the way we do -- yet we're supposed to be mature enough (as children, no less!) to know to just pick and choose which parts of it all to believe (FYI: it doesn't work that way).

As much as Oprah Winfrey emphathizes and tries to understand -- and she truly did as good a job as could be expected -- her obvious inability to truly comprehend the gay experience (even in theory, Gayle!) just goes to show that it must be just that much harder for the average person in Middle America -- who might not be as wealthy, liberal, open-minded, well-read, well-traveled and doesn't work in gay-friendly show business -- to "get it." (My sister said Rosie O'Donnell did a great job of "sticking up for" Jim on "The View" even as Elizabeth Hasselbeck yammered on and on about "the wife.")

Nice job, Jim!

Find out more about Jim McGreevey's book "The Confession"

'Office' Outing

I hope you didn't miss "the outing" on "The Office" last night -- it was cringe-inducingly hilarious. As Michael put it: "At least we put this matter to bed. That's what she said. Or he said."