PHOTOS: These Old Models Breathe New Life Into Some Of Our Favorite Film Classics
We’ve been covering a lot of calendars here lately. There’s the hipster anti-hunks, the oddly sexy orthodox priests, sizzling gingers and of course the naked Warwick rowers. But we may have just found our new favorite.
A retirement community in Germany has released a calendar where seniors recreate famous movie scenes. And it is just as adorable as it sounds.
Here are the months that stood out to us, reminding us simultaneously that we love cinema and our grandmothers:
Cabaret
Martha Bajohr, 77
She got a better review than Emma Stone.
Giant
Joanna Trachenberg, 81, und Horst Krischat, 78
I was like, James Dean, for sure.
The Seven Year Itch
Ingeborg Giolbass, 84, und Erich Endlein, 88
Still has legs for days, and those smiles make us all warm and gooey inside.
Titanic
Erna Rütt, 86, und Alfred Kelbch, 81 
After the shoot they did a little figure drawing.
Mary Poppins
Erna Schenk, 78
She may be 78 but don’t you dare take away the keys to Erna’s umbrella.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Marianne Brunsbach, 86
Holly Golightly has desert after breakfast.
Dirty Dancing
Johann Liedtke, 92 und Marianne Pape, 79
They finally mastered that lift.
h/t Buzzfeed
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JACKPOT: Two Aussies have the time of their lives at a Japanese arcade.
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Michael Sam Is One Of GQ's Men Of The Year For 2014 (PHOTO)
Michael Sam might be currently looking for another opportunity to prove he can play in the NFL after being released from the Dallas Cowboys’s practice squad last month. But the 2013 SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year and former All-American at the University of Missouri has nonetheless nabbed another huge honor: being named one of GQ’s Men of the Year for 2014.
Sam’s interview with the magazine will be rolled out later this week. In the meantime, the athlete tweeted an image of his cover shot:
A big thank you to @GQMagazine for including me among their #GQMOTY – I’m beyond honored to share their company!! pic.twitter.com/nw0gVXhYlb
— Michael Sam (@MichaelSamNFL) November 17, 2014
Sam, who became the first openly gay player to be drafted by the NFL last spring, graces one of six GQ covers released as part of the Men of the Year rollout. The 24-year-old shares the honor with “Guardians of the Galaxy” hunk Chris Pratt, Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley of “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Foxcatcher” star Steve Carell, among others.
Way to go, Sam!
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Colin Farrell Stands Up For His Gay Brother And Marriage Equality In New Op-Ed
“My brother Eamon didn’t choose to be gay,” actor Colin Farrell writes in a new op-ed for Ireland’s Sunday World newspaper. “Yes, he chose to wear eyeliner to school and that probably wasn’t the most pragmatic response to the daily torture he experienced at the hands of school bullies. But he was always proud of who he was.”
Ireland is getting ready to vote on a referendum to legalize same-sex marriage next year. Farrell, whose brother Eamon is gay, has joined the fight to help make marriage equality a reality for gays and lesbians in his home country.
“Even when others were casting [Eamon] out with fists and ridicule and the laughter of pure loathsome derision, he maintained an integrity and dignity that flew in the face of the cruelty that befell him,” Farrell continues. “I don’t know where those bullies are now, the ones who beat him regularly… But I do know where my brother is. He’s at home in Dublin living in peace and love with his husband of some years, Steven.”
Farrell goes on to explain how the couple had to fly all the way to Canada to exchange vows because same-sex marriage was not allowed in their country, meanwhile he could drive to Las Vegas, “get drunk and meet a woman and have Elvis marry us for $200.”
“It’s time to right the scales of justice here,” he writes. “To sign up and register to vote next year so that each individual’s voice can be heard. How often do we get to make history in our lives? Not just personal history. Familial. Social. Communal. Global. The world will be watching. We will lead by example.”
Ireland’s ballot referendum is scheduled for May 2015. According to an Irish Times poll, 67 percent of the nation’s voters favor a vote supporting marriage equality.
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Stewie (Sorta) Comes Out On A Very Special 'Family Guy' Thanksgiving Episode: VIDEO
Brace yourself, America. It looks like Stewie is officially gay!
At the end of a typically odd Family Guy episode which aired Sunday, the sassy baby with the posh accent seemed to admit what most had assumed over the course of the show’s 13 seasons. It all went down as he was filling in as host of the Griffin’s Thanksgiving dinner due to Peter’s absence on an epically weird find-a-turkey expedition. Stewie lifted a glass to give a toast saying, “I wasn’t planning on doing this today, but when I look around at all these open, loving faces of friends and family, I’m comfortable enough to finally say I am a proud, unashamed, active—” Just then, Peter arrives with the turkey, interrupting his somewhat unsurprising confession….though maybe Stewie was going to pull a Jodie Foster and use the similar setup to say that he’s single.
Stewie’s sexuality has always been suspect, so much so that in 2009 his creator Seth McFarlane said in an interview with Playboy that the character was gay, though he had never directly stated it on the show. Of course, there’s been plenty of gay moments for Stewie, some which were compiled last year on YouTube for easy viewing.
You can watch 17 of Stewie’s queer quips and gay gags AFTER THE JUMP…
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