I read about this before I left for work this morning, though the headline used "star" instead of "actor". You can imagine my disappointment that it wasn't Emma Watson. [cue disapproving BPhD comment]
I can't say whether this is "okay," in any sense. What I can say is that Equus made it impossible for me think without blushing about that Mexican beer whose name is represented on the bottle by two Xs. Because that, times two, whoo.
You know, I was about to make it its own post, but that might be too inflammatory: I hereby declare that it has become too late to perv on Hermione, but the time is just right to perv on Michelle Wie.
Maybe not- from a Harry Potter fan site:
"The part of Alan is usually performed nude in several parts of the play. However, there have been multiple versions of Equus in which no nudity was involved. Whether Dan will play the part nude or not, we don't know at this early stage. The play is expected to open sometime in spring, 2007."
10- This doesn't work, Wie is older than Watson- so if it's too late for Hermione, Michelle is an old maid.
(Birthdays: Michelle Wie: October 11, 1989; Emma Watson: April 15, 1990)
What strikes me as especially peculiar about this is that the actor who played his wicked uncle in the movies is now playing the psychiatrist. Of all the stage actors available.
Besides, from the way people are talking about this you'd think the Harry Potter series wasn't a serialized bildungsroman of psychosexual nightmares in its own right.
I don't really like the books (well, I tried the first one and put it down halfway in and then decided I wasn't hugely hot for the movies, either, though I guess they beat dental work if it's more than just a cleaning), and so I don't really care what Radcliffe does. That said, I think it's very squicky to realize that if he does any nude stagework those tickets are going to sell like fucking hotcakes for reasons that are very, very wrong. Ew.
One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it. "I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast — it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."
33 is so so weird, isn't it? Nursing breasts! EWWWWWW!!!!
Seriously, these people are themselves new mothers. How the fuck did they give birth? Do you think they all had themselves knocked out so that they could wake up fresh and clean and holding a fresh clean baby and pretend nothing had happened?
C'mon people, it isn't like you all to ignore the substantive issue at hand for idle talk about lactating breasts. As a male who used to ride frequently once upon a time, I can say that while riding around naked is probably quite fun, as most outdoors activities are more fun naked, I really just don't see how sexual stimullation is going to be achieved. Unless some guys can actually get off through a simple massage of the PC muscle?
Labs and Ogged are instructed to use two hands to type about the issue of a naked, sexually stimulated Harry Potter riding a horse.
Blimey, we've been up all night (more than slightly Becks-style) googling hott celebrities, and we didn't manage to come up with anything as successfully designed to make me spit out my mouthful of tea as 39.
Sawyer out of Lost though ... can he be in Equus next please?
A couple of years ago I overheard a bunch of women in my college -- all 20 something grad students -- sitting in our common room, totally perving on Radcliffe. So it's fair to say that people have been perving on him for a while.
This is irrelevant to everything, but just finished watching Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive" 1973 for the first time. First times are the best. Brunette with bangs and dark eyes again, even if Ana Torrent was only five. I don't perv.
So much pomposity in this sentence that the mind boggles. Actually, it doesn't; it's all too predictable. One of the hard things about being left of center politically is that sometimes you have to hang out with rancid a-holes on the left who think it's oh-so-hip to rip. Equus is a great play but why would the commenters above care? It's part of being a kewl kid that you can chuckle about Harry Potter getting his kicks on a horse, then toss up your hands and say, "There are more important things, right?" I hope Radcliffe wins an award.
Hey, an Atriot stopping by because of the Perfesser link, but the age of consent in the UK is 16, so it's legal to perv on D.R. Imagine how happy I was when I found out that Haley Joel Osment is now 18 and I can legally gawp at him.
47:At least the movie version had a nude and legally pervable Jenny Agutter of such legendary quality that the stills are permanently a net attraction. Agutter was also briefly naked in the first and better American Werewolf. The 2nd and worser Werewolf Abroad had Julie Delpy, unnude even in see-thru werewolf mode. But Delpy was not only very nude in Killing Zoe, but had an on-screen orgasm with Eric Stoltz, who has assisted actresses in many of the best nude scenes in history.
I always come to Unfogged for my Harry Potter perversion fix.
Posted by strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:04 PM
Now you have to post the link to the naked Fleur Delacoeur movie.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:05 PM
2: Or you could read the archives.
I read Equus in high school, it's all right.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:06 PM
Already done, SP.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:07 PM
Equus is a fantastic movie.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:08 PM
I read about this before I left for work this morning, though the headline used "star" instead of "actor". You can imagine my disappointment that it wasn't Emma Watson. [cue disapproving BPhD comment]
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:12 PM
Apo, have you been hanging out with the Derb again?
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:14 PM
I can't say whether this is "okay," in any sense. What I can say is that Equus made it impossible for me think without blushing about that Mexican beer whose name is represented on the bottle by two Xs. Because that, times two, whoo.
Posted by KF | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:16 PM
They totally stole that idea from my entry in alt.books.harry-potter.wank.wank.wank's Best Of SlashFic contest. Fuckers.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:18 PM
You know, I was about to make it its own post, but that might be too inflammatory: I hereby declare that it has become too late to perv on Hermione, but the time is just right to perv on Michelle Wie.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:18 PM
He is not Harry Potter. He just plays him on TV. Anyway this is a good chance for him to not get typcast as Potter.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:21 PM
He is not Harry Potter. He just plays him on TV. Anyway this is a good chance for him to not get typcast as Potter.
Posted by uncle | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:21 PM
He is not Harry Potter. He just plays him on TV.
Goddammit, uncle, quit shattering Ogged's illusions. He only has 1-2/3 kidneys, you heartless bastard.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:24 PM
Feel sorry for me then... I have 0 hearts vs his 1.666 kidneys
Posted by uncle | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:25 PM
Maybe not- from a Harry Potter fan site:
"The part of Alan is usually performed nude in several parts of the play. However, there have been multiple versions of Equus in which no nudity was involved. Whether Dan will play the part nude or not, we don't know at this early stage. The play is expected to open sometime in spring, 2007."
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:29 PM
Reminds one of an old Onion fave:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44683
Posted by Golabki | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:31 PM
the time is just right to perv on Michelle Wie.
ogged, didn't you know that Asian fetishes are very bad.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:31 PM
the actor playing Strang is required to simulate sexual ecstasy while riding a horse naked.
In first-year dorms, this is known as diversity training.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:35 PM
I hear Michelle Wie can do amazing things with a mashie niblick.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:36 PM
the time is just right to perv on Michelle Wie
That girl would kick your ass. But maybe that's what you're into.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:37 PM
So if it's too late to perv on Hermione, does that mean that lusting after her is right and proper?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:42 PM
simulate sexual ecstasy while riding a horse naked.
Yeah, sure, "simulate."
Posted by Felix | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:44 PM
That girl would kick your ass.
Ogged's looking for a girl to shave his ass.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:45 PM
10- This doesn't work, Wie is older than Watson- so if it's too late for Hermione, Michelle is an old maid.
(Birthdays: Michelle Wie: October 11, 1989; Emma Watson: April 15, 1990)
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:46 PM
If it were just a matter of looking at chronological age, SP, anyone could make these declarations.
does that mean that lusting after her is right and proper?
Yes, it does. Especially for a young whippersnapper such as you.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 12:48 PM
I really only thought this happened to girls riding horses.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 1:46 PM
What happened to games on Friday?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 1:59 PM
Tia's usually the gamesmistress. I have to run to a call, so I'm no good.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 2:01 PM
It startles me to think of Daniel Radcliffe... actually acting.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 2:14 PM
What strikes me as especially peculiar about this is that the actor who played his wicked uncle in the movies is now playing the psychiatrist. Of all the stage actors available.
Besides, from the way people are talking about this you'd think the Harry Potter series wasn't a serialized bildungsroman of psychosexual nightmares in its own right.
Posted by dave | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 2:28 PM
I don't really like the books (well, I tried the first one and put it down halfway in and then decided I wasn't hugely hot for the movies, either, though I guess they beat dental work if it's more than just a cleaning), and so I don't really care what Radcliffe does. That said, I think it's very squicky to realize that if he does any nude stagework those tickets are going to sell like fucking hotcakes for reasons that are very, very wrong. Ew.
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 2:59 PM
I misread "simulate" as "stimulate."
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 3:05 PM
Speaking of family entertainment, this is good stuff.
"I'm totally supportive of it — I just don't like the flashing," she says. "I don't want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't want to see."
Tbogg says it best.
"I don't know about you, but it's like she's talking some kind of crazy moonman language."
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 3:59 PM
One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.
"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast — it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."
That is some bad sort of crazy.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 4:28 PM
I wish I'd gone into psychiatry. I'd milk those fuckers for every penny they had.
Milk! Those fuckers! Haw haw!
Posted by Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 5:07 PM
33 is so so weird, isn't it? Nursing breasts! EWWWWWW!!!!
Seriously, these people are themselves new mothers. How the fuck did they give birth? Do you think they all had themselves knocked out so that they could wake up fresh and clean and holding a fresh clean baby and pretend nothing had happened?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 5:25 PM
re: 26.
C'mon people, it isn't like you all to ignore the substantive issue at hand for idle talk about lactating breasts. As a male who used to ride frequently once upon a time, I can say that while riding around naked is probably quite fun, as most outdoors activities are more fun naked, I really just don't see how sexual stimullation is going to be achieved. Unless some guys can actually get off through a simple massage of the PC muscle?
Labs and Ogged are instructed to use two hands to type about the issue of a naked, sexually stimulated Harry Potter riding a horse.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 6:37 PM
Also, having clicked on the link in the post, I have to say, is it too early to perv on Daniel Radcliffe? Because, wow. He's kinda cute.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 6:37 PM
It's too late to perve on Daniel Radcliffe. He's no innocent; he's totally sullied already: he must be fucking his cute buns off.
I think it's too late to perve on Hermione, too: I'm sure she's getting groovy head from all the willing boys in her nabe.
I'd like to see her face when she comes, though.
Posted by Adam Ash | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 6:53 PM
I think 39 indicates that it's definitely still possible to perv on Hermione.
Posted by strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 7:31 PM
Possible, sure. But is it *right*? I don't think Adam is a good test case: he pretty much perves on anything female.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-28-06 8:01 PM
Blimey, we've been up all night (more than slightly Becks-style) googling hott celebrities, and we didn't manage to come up with anything as successfully designed to make me spit out my mouthful of tea as 39.
Sawyer out of Lost though ... can he be in Equus next please?
Posted by asilon | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 12:38 AM
A couple of years ago I overheard a bunch of women in my college -- all 20 something grad students -- sitting in our common room, totally perving on Radcliffe. So it's fair to say that people have been perving on him for a while.
Posted by nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 1:09 AM
This is irrelevant to everything, but just finished watching Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive" 1973 for the first time. First times are the best. Brunette with bangs and dark eyes again, even if Ana Torrent was only five. I don't perv.
Harry Potter. Equus. What a waste of time.
Posted by bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 1:43 AM
43: Excellent. I shall perv with a free conscience, then.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 3:13 AM
What happened to games on Friday?
We came to our senses.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 5:44 AM
"Harry Potter. Equus. What a waste of time."
So much pomposity in this sentence that the mind boggles. Actually, it doesn't; it's all too predictable. One of the hard things about being left of center politically is that sometimes you have to hang out with rancid a-holes on the left who think it's oh-so-hip to rip. Equus is a great play but why would the commenters above care? It's part of being a kewl kid that you can chuckle about Harry Potter getting his kicks on a horse, then toss up your hands and say, "There are more important things, right?" I hope Radcliffe wins an award.
Posted by badnews | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 9:25 AM
47: I hope Radcliffe wins an award.
I hope he wins seven awards and the Nobel Prize for Awesome. That'll show all those a-holes who don't like Harry Potter or Equus as much as I do.
Posted by Felix | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 9:42 AM
I don't get badnews's hangup. Pretty much everyone in the thread likes Radcliffe, Equus, or both.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 9:57 AM
I'm just amused by the notion that not-liking-Equus-very-much is a property of the political left.
Maybe that's what's been holding us back!
Posted by Felix | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 10:01 AM
Our disdain for canonical plays about horse-fucking. I think you've got it, Felix! Quick, alert the DNC!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 10:09 AM
Voters know if you're just pandering to them. Someone's gonna have to spike-fuck a horse for real.
I call not me.
Posted by Felix | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 10:12 AM
Our disdain for canonical plays about horse-fucking.
We need to get Emerson more in the public eye, then.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 10:12 AM
Hey, an Atriot stopping by because of the Perfesser link, but the age of consent in the UK is 16, so it's legal to perv on D.R. Imagine how happy I was when I found out that Haley Joel Osment is now 18 and I can legally gawp at him.
Posted by Henry Holland | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 10:50 AM
47:At least the movie version had a nude and legally pervable Jenny Agutter of such legendary quality that the stills are permanently a net attraction. Agutter was also briefly naked in the first and better American Werewolf. The 2nd and worser Werewolf Abroad had Julie Delpy, unnude even in see-thru werewolf mode. But Delpy was not only very nude in Killing Zoe, but had an on-screen orgasm with Eric Stoltz, who has assisted actresses in many of the best nude scenes in history.
Equus was better as a long Doors song.
Posted by bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 5:13 PM
53 gets it exactly right. I've been thinking for a while we should get Emerson into the Iowa caucuses.
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 07-29-06 6:59 PM