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I have always been impressed with Greg Berlanti, the openly gay producer of this film, and so many of the CW super-hero and teen shows and remain grateful to him for his casts of gorgeous young men in most of his projects. This film looks great, especially as a different take on growing up and coming out in high school! TruHart1

I was unaware that Suor Angelica included offstage male chorus voices at the end, though sometimes it seems like Puccini threw everything, including the kitchen sink into it, attempting to create a true miracle from heaven onstage, which did not quite work! I love the opera, especially with a great Angelica and Zia Principessa, but once in a while even with his amazing composing and orchestration talent, Puccini could not get quite the effect he strove for. The final love duet in Turandot is the other example of this. He was stuck, and then ended up dying before he could finish. TruHart1

***************SPOILERS BELOW!*************** Tribes switched - all players are distributed between a new Naviti Tribe and a new Malolo Tribe. Naviti loses the immunity challenge. Disagreement among new Malolo about who to send to Ghost Island because the tribe cannot agree between the original Malolo members & the original Naviti members now on the new Malolo tribe! New Naviti tribe as losing tribe receives stones (one white stone and all others black) because winning tribe cannot agree. As stones are revealed, Chris has the one white stone, so is sent to Ghost Island! At tribal, because Chris is out of play, it appears it is between Angela and Dominick (but many believe Dom has an idol!) Dominick feels safe so he does not play his real idol. The votes are 1 for Libby, 3 for Angela and 4 for Morgan, (who holds that cursed Legacy Advantage!) so Morgan is voted out, willing the Advantage to Dominick, she says, because Dom has always been honest with her. TruHart1

If anyone is interested, here's the link for Apollo's older reviews under Logan at Maximum Escorts: http://www.daddysreviews.com/review/logan_nyc My first hire of Apollo in May of 2012, was through Maximum as Logan! His most recent review in these older reviews when he worked for Maximum is from 2010. Maximum Escorts went out of business a few years later. TruHart1

Well I certainly know what's more of a turn-ON! Seeing Apollo in my bed, with ME!!! LOL TruHart1

[uSER=5874] Yes! @peterhung85 is always very polite in all of his escort dealings! May I say too, that this man is very HOT in every sense of the word?!! ;) TruHart1 [/user]

You may also try the email address listed on his reviews at Daddy's review site: http://www.daddysreviews.com/review/peter_hung_lv TruHart1

Elizabeth Chambers Hammer Reflects On Her Wild Year And Call Me By Your Name https://www.wmagazine.com/story/elizabeth-chambers-armie-hammer-timothee-chalamet-oscars-tracksuits TruHart1

I recall quite well the very first time I heard the full opera Rigoletto in a broadcast transcription with the musical depiction by Verdi of the 4th act storm gathering and building to the trio which ends with Gilda's stabbing and then dissipating as it moves into the distance really striking my ear with his use of the male chorus as the sound of the wind, beginning softly, building to the storm's climax and finally calming to nothing. I was impressed. Later, listening to Puccini's Fanciulla del West (wherein the first and third acts both use the male chorus atmospherically) and Butterfly (the humming chorus with both male and female chorus) and the Tebaldi complete recording of Catalani's opera La Wally where the composer uses the male chorus as the sounds of the icy winds in the mountains which lead up to the final avalanche, in which Hagenbach is killed and into which Wally leaps to her death! All of these instances were impressive to my ears the first time I heard them and they are still favorites! TruHart1

In actuality, our local opera company uses the Figaro titles system (same as the MET!) with small individual screens on the back of the seats in each row. I recall quite distinctly that the titles in the performance of Rigoletto I attended on Wednesday night translated the Duke as singing "Your sister and some wine!" TruHart1

Armie’s acceptance speech from last Wednesday, March 7, for the Variety "One to Acclaim" award ... “It’s been an incredible ride....” https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155303325077197 Variety: Armie Hammer tells Call Me By Your Name co-star Timothée Chalamet while accepting Variety's "one to acclaim" honor at the Texas Film Awards: "I've handed you about 20 of these over the last couple of months so thank you now for being a part of handing me one" http://bit.ly/2Fhdl4u TruHart1

If you are truly interested in meeting up with Apollo, he has given me permission to post his email at [email protected] for any serious inquiries. I still hire him every time I get to NYC and he remains one of my favorites, always in excellent shape, looking no different than in his porn shoots back in 2007 and 2008! Not only that, he's a great kisser and a hell of a nice all-round sweet, hunky guy! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bhqw0Z51YqI/T031i6go1mI/AAAAAAAAlJU/bNSU-YN8FMU/s640/Big%20Bob-2.jpghttp://cdn.s3xstatic.com/images/manifestmen.com/the-bb-top-you-wont-say-no-to/apollo-phoenix-389-600x900.jpg TruHart1

This brings up a completely different question, do opera-goers attend opera for the plot/staging or do they attend to listen to glorious singing by great interpreters. In the case of this particular local production, we got a pretty fine baritone as Rigoletto, a great Sparfucile who made his few solo lines down to his lowest notes spooky and somewhat evil, and a Maddalena with a luscious mezzo voice who did not have any trouble keeping to her complicated staccato rhythms in the quartet. Unfortunately we heard a somewhat underwhelming Gilda, (a pretty but bland "bird-songy" voice) and a Duke, who, though he had all the notes, sang it all as if he just needed to "get through it" without much nuance or slancio! Still, listening to a really great performance, such as the commercially recorded Pavarotti, Sutherland, Milnes version, makes one realize why this opera has been a very popular 'bread and butter' opera since its first performance almost 167 years ago. Yes, the characters in the libretto are all unlikeable, yet the music, composed by Verdi, makes it a great opera for great voices! TruHart1

I attended our local opera company's production of Verdi's Rigoletto last evening with a friend. My friend told me about running into a man a couple of days ago, who said he'd seen the opening performance last Saturday. This man said he had enjoyed the production and the singers but that his wife and daughter, who had attended with him, were very put off by the "treatment of women" in the production and could not enjoy the opera for that reason. I asked my friend if the production was updated to modern day, since I'd read no reviews or discussions of this local Rigoletto production yet. My friend had no idea, either, but I expressed my opinion that if the production was in the original setting (16th century Mantua) how could the man's wife and daughter expect women would not be portrayed as they were treated in Italy back in the 1500's? The Metropolitan Opera's current production of Rigoletto is updated to 1960's Las Vegas and it perhaps would show the treatment of women in a better light, thus my speculation that our local production may have been updated to modern day and did not believably portray Gilda and Maddelena as modern women. No. As I found when the curtain first went up, the production is fully traditional, set in 16th century Mantua. So to my question. Is political correctness becoming so important to modern society that we need to modify and update or even drop classic plays/operas or even works of art so as to not offend the public? Do the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements on social media require a modification or avoidance of any and all performance art created in history, or are some just hyper-sensitive at this moment in time? TruHart1

HOLLYWOOD – Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name is to be remade as a heterosexual love story From the parody show business online publication The Studio Exec: https://thestudioexec.com/heterosexual-call-name-works/ TruHart1

********slight spoiler below********** Dominick Abbate, the survivor who found a real idol, then made an additional fake idol to try to fool Chris: Donathan Hurley, the (perhaps) clueless gay guy: TruHart1

Here's a publicly shared tumblr article that hits so many feelings I had, __hearing all the buzz, reading the novel and finally seeing the film: https://mellemental.tumblr.com/post/171439866999/call-me-by-your-name-a-personal-journey TruHart1

I'm not familiar with him at all (in his ad, he gives his name as Brunno.) WOW. If his pic's in his ad are real, he is one HOT man! TruHart1

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As far as Russell Tovey's nude scene, I read somewhere that in the filmed version of the original NT production Russell only showed his naked butt (which I can verify, having watched it on film myself) but that in every other performance which was not being filmed, he showed full-frontal. Why? I have not read any explanation but my guess would be that he was okay with full frontal nudity in the stage performance but they (TPTB or Russell himself) decided to not show full frontal for posterity so that if drama classes/student studies, etc., studying this production would be more accessible for universal serious study? TruHart1

LOL! My mother. She always had eyes which changed color depending on the color of her outfit, from hazel to green to blue to gray. Her father (my grandfather) had the clearest steely blue eyes (noticeable even in black and white photographs!) which I only ever saw in either b & w and color pictures since he died when I was only a bit more than a year old. That steeliness is what gives my eye color the "Husky eyes" look, with variance from clear green to clear blue, depending on what color of clothing I'm wearing! TruHart1

A change of pace - I know it's not CMBYN but... Armie on Nick Grimshaw's BBC1 radio programme, reading from Brit reality star Gemma Collins autobiography: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156131157611763 TruHart1

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Is this the man in question? https://rentmen.eu/ItalianMassge TruHart1

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