Robster

Okay, Helluva Bottom Carter is pretty damn awesome. 🤣
But my favorite drag name is, and always will be, Ida Slapter.

Okay, Helluva Bottom Carter is pretty damn awesome. 🤣
But my favorite drag name is, and always will be, Ida Slapter.

Okay, Helluva Bottom Carter is pretty damn awesome. 🤣
But my favorite drag name is, and always will be, Ida Slapter.

Okay, Helluva Bottom Carter is pretty damn awesome. 🤣
But my favorite drag name is, and always will be, Ida Slapter.

I see him at Steel Gym (formerly World Gym) here in Palm Springs occasionally.  He still looks amazing.  I'll have to see about hiring him next time he's here.  I've gotten off to his videos so many times over the years; it would be a huge thrill to actually get together with him in person.

Looks hot like aged milk.  😉 

You  know, they married Ida Slaptim, and they named their first child Ida Slaptemboth.

Okay, Helluva Bottom Carter is pretty damn awesome. 🤣
But my favorite drag name is, and always will be, Ida Slapter.

I have, several years ago, and loved every minute I spent with him. I would definitely hire him again.
 
Rob

I was in the audience last evening for Death Becomes Her.  It was a really enjoyable show.  Megan Hilty is cast brilliantly for the role of Madeline Ashton.  Unfortunately, Jennifer Simard was out; however, her understudy was good and not once would you have thought that it was not the regular lead performing.  Chris Sieber is good in the role of Ernest, and Michelle Williams gave a strong vocal performance.
For those of us that appreciate things other than the leads, the choreography was excellent, the costumes were good (especially considering how many quick changes there were in the early part of the show) and the ensemble's costumes were sexy, they used real sets rather than projection, and the lighting was effective.  And how they created the injuries on stage had me stumped.  I am hoping I can return to the city to see it again.
I would like to see it get many nominations come awards season.

Thank you for this review! I remember watching the movie’s opening, when Madeline/Meryl Streep is performing on Broadway, and thinking to myself, I would actually pay to see that show everyone was walking out on! LOL.

Sally Struthers wanted to quit “All in the Family” — and blames its creator, the late Norman Lear.
The actress, 77, said on the Monday episode of the “Let’s Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti” podcast that she finally felt comfortable opening up about him because “he’s gone.”
Struthers also shared a conversation she had with Lear during the series’ first season.
“He was on the sound stage watching us rehearse, and we were on a break,” she told the hosts. “I said, ‘I can’t believe that we’re doing this and we’re about to hit No. 1 on the air.’”
After noting how Lear “saw so many young ladies” for her role of Gloria, including Reiner’s then-wife Penny Marshall, Struthers asked Lear, “’Was I really the funniest one?'” to which he replied, “No.” 
Lear admitted that when casting the show, the team thought it made sense to have Gloria be a daddy’s girl because O’Connor’s Archie Bunker “was a lot to swallow for American audiences with his bigotry and his social sluts.”
The way to “soften him up” was to give him a “soft spot in his heart for his daughter.”
“So we hired you because just like Carroll O’Connor, you have blue eyes and a fat face,” Struthers recalled Lear telling her. The comedic star said she didn’t know how to respond so she walked away.
Despite winning two Emmys for the series, Struthers described herself as the “fourth banana” after the other three leads. According to her, the show’s “older, brilliant Jewish faith writers” knew how to write for the other characters, but not for “a young lady.”
“I usually had about three lines per show that said, ‘I’ll help you set the table, Ma,’ ‘Michael, where are you going?’ and ‘Oh, Daddy, stop it.’ And then the next week I’d have the three same lines in a different order. And if they literally didn’t know what to do with me in a scene, they’d have me go upstairs to take a bath or wash my hair,” she stated. “It was very frustrating.”
The “Still Standing” alum ultimately tried to break her contract after five seasons on the show. After hiring a lawyer and spending $40,000 on legal fees during arbitration, she lost.
“I went back and had three more seasons, but they were by far the most fun for me. Because finally, they had Mike and Gloria have a baby, they had us move next door into the house that [the] Jeffersons lived in,” she said. 
Struthers appeared in 182 episodes of “All in the Family” and even received her own spinoff “Gloria” that aired for one season in 1982. Decades later, the Hollywood vet became a fan favorite for her role as Babette on “Gilmore Girls.”
Despite the ups and downs on the series, Struthers noted that part of her longevity as an actress is because she was “lucky enough to be on a groundbreaking national television series.” 
Struthers recently starred in the hit Netflix show “A Man on the Inside” alongside Ted Danson and continues to do theater.
She said audiences are still “curious” to come see her in person at 77, joking, “Maybe because they love you or like you, but just as much because ‘Wait a minute, is she still alive? Let’s go see what she looks like now.’”
In early 2024, she reunited with Reiner for a tribute to Lear at the delayed 2023 Emmy Awards.

Struthers also had a bad experience with Betty White.
The actress said that White once “fat-shamed” her.
Struthers brought up White after telling the hosts how she used to live four houses away from the exterior of the “Golden Girls” home in Los Angeles.
“I have to say now that she’s gone, I wanna talk about Betty White for just a moment,” she said.
“I know everybody loves her. They loved her so much. They signed petitions to get her to guest host ‘Saturday Night Live.’ I know all that,” Struthers continued. “I didn’t have such a great experience with her.”
The “Gilmore Girls” star called White a “very passive-aggressive woman.”
She recalled the alleged fat-shaming occurred at White’s “beautiful” LA home when the pair met up to work on a pilot for a new game show.
Struthers said that White told her housekeeper to bring the group something to eat.
“The plate was set in the middle and it was cookies, I think,” she recalled. “So I reached for a cookie and she said in front of everyone, ‘Oh, I wouldn’t do that if I were you dear, you don’t need a cookie.’”
Saperstein and Bellotti gasped in response to Struthers’ story.
“Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s not nice.’”
“Well I’m sorry you had that experience with her,” Bellotti told Struthers.
Despite the incident with White, Struthers noted that she has good memories about another “Golden Girls” star, Bea Arthur, who guest starred on “All in the Family.”
“I would run into her at the supermarket and she would trash everyone we ever knew,” she said about the star, who died in 2009 at 86.
“We would stand in the aisle and say, ‘What do you think about so and so?’ [And she’d say,] ‘She’s a f–king a—hole.’ People in the store were like, ‘What’s going on in aisle five?’ I loved how filthy she was.”
“She was a big deal,” Struthers added about Arthur. “I loved her.
When asked about some of her favorite Hollywood memories on the podcast, Struthers recalled how she dated Elvis Presley “for a while.”
“That was fun,” she said. “He was probably the nicest man I ever met. He was so polite and so kind and soft-hearted.”

Well... I managed to get some of band ( or circus 🎪 or orchestra 🎼 ) together this morning here in Palm Springs for breakfast at Rick's 🍳 🥞 and all 4 of us are exceedingly excited about the 2025 Forum Gathering.. @BobPS Ted  a wonderfully talented and gifted artist who attended the pool party; thank you @Oliver for allowing him to attend and also Dr. Tommy who attended the dinner at Trio ( thank you @purplekow ) 
 

It's my favorite of its kind ( clothing  optional  ) I've been there many times and you're right, It's quiet, but I think  thats one of the many things I like about it. I equate it to staying off the strip in Las Vegas.. the strip has the fun but it's also nice to be able to get away from the crowds and clatter/cacophony often associated with the strip 🤪 

Agree 1000%!  Vin is a beautiful man inside and out, and it's always a pleasure getting together with him.

What about Vin Marco?
VIN_MARCO - Male Escort, Gay massage - Beverly Hills | Rent.Men
 

Thank you. All these photos are recent, last couple of days actually . A little backstory..... I got off to a slow start with this diet prep... when I came home from the East Coast, I came down with Covid. It was my first time. I had outrun it for years and it finally caught me so as soon as I was tested negative I started my diet prep. I was in bed for a couple of weeks, not exactly, a running start but now all cylinders are firing and then some.  I've never been this heavy this lean. In about a month I'll be at what I believe to be my all time best with respect to size, symmetry and conditioning. I'm excited about Columbus next week where I'll still be on my diet and excited for Southern California for that photo shoot at Blacks Beach and after that I will be visiting with folks, lots of folks 🙂 

Unfortunately, things like this do happen thankfully not with a lot of frequency but a lot of times these things are slipped under the rug. The story I'm referring to occurred between 15 and 20 years ago in the state of New York. You can never be too safe in this business. It's never a bad idea to let someone know where you're going ( at least for a first time visit with a total stranger ) for those that don't it's fine,  no judgment, but you can't fault somebody for being cautious. 
 
i'll share a story about myself.... about eight years in San Francisco I got complacent, let my guard down and accepted a soda from someone I had never met. They were three of us....  at a certain point , I couldn't tell if I had been there 30 minutes or five hours luckily I didn't finish the beverage and  at that point I told these guys "game over" I took what was mine and left. I immediately called a psychiatrist friend /client of mine who lives in San Francisco and he informed me that I had been  most likely drugged and because I'm a big guy it helped but had I consumed the entire beverage I might not be here writing this story. In a weird way, I'm glad that happened because it reset my guard and I've never been complacent about such a thing since. 

So, just to clarify, to be on camera- in film or on television- you think everyone must fit into your definition of 'pretty' because you pay $11 a mo for HBO.
Gotcha.  The reasoning makes perfect sense.  I was totally in the wrong.

Based on many, many reviews and a stellar season of great acting, many would disagree with you.
And to throw in unattractive?  I wouldn't say that, even if I thought it. 
That's just shallow and petty as fuck.

The season finale was SO fucking good! Can't wait for the next season. 

I see him at Steel Gym (formerly World Gym) here in Palm Springs occasionally.  He still looks amazing.  I'll have to see about hiring him next time he's here.  I've gotten off to his videos so many times over the years; it would be a huge thrill to actually get together with him in person.

I see him at Steel Gym (formerly World Gym) here in Palm Springs occasionally.  He still looks amazing.  I'll have to see about hiring him next time he's here.  I've gotten off to his videos so many times over the years; it would be a huge thrill to actually get together with him in person.

I preemptively booked a whole week in a deluxe pool view room at InnDulge for next year 4/7/25-4/14/25. That room type has a better shower, more clear floor space for my massage table…and more room for various extracurricular activities. Maybe I will set up a sling 😈 

Well, move here and you will be! 😁