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Chi IL Live Shows On Our Radar: Due to popular demand American Blues Theater announces an encore run of BUDDY – The Buddy Holly Story By Alan Janes Directed by Lili-Anne Brown Musical Direction by Ensemble Member Michael Mahler June 29 through September 15, 2018 Here at ChiIL Live Shows we dig Buddy Holly and can't wait to catch American Blues Theater's acclaimed production. The encore run is selling out fast, so get your tickets while you can. American Blues Theater announces encore performance run of BUDDY – The Buddy Holly Story, written by Alan Janes, directed by Lili-Anne Brown, with musical direction by Ensemble Member Michael Mahler. BUDDY – The Buddy Holly Story will reopen June 29 – September 15, 2018 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. Tickets now on sale for the encore run. https://www.facebook.com/americanbluestheater/videos/10156163512493930/ Before the Beatles or the Rolling Stones ever played a note, rock & roll was forever changed by the bespectacled kid from Texas. BUDDY tells the true story of Buddy Holly through his short yet spectacular career and features the classic songs "That’ll be the Day," "Peggy Sue," The Big Bopper’s "Chantilly Lace," Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba," plus many more. “American Blues Theater is thrilled to present an encore run of our production of Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story, our company’s best-selling musical to date. We’ll take a break from May 27-June 28, but the cast will be back in our intimate space at Stage 773 through September. We couldn’t be happier with the outstanding reviews and audience reaction,” comments Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside. Buddy Holly is an American music icon. Regarded as one of the most significant figures in the birth of rock music, he is often cited as the innovator of the traditional rock lineup of instruments – two guitars, bass, and drums. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and Elton John all name Buddy Holly as a major inspiration in their respective careers. The Encore cast of BUDDY includes Keirsten Hodgens (Apollo Performer), Chuckie Benson (Apollo Performer), Liz Chidester (Vi Petty), Ian Paul Custer* (Hi Pockets), Elisa Carlson (Company), Ann Delaney (Company), Vasily Deris (Big Bopper), Alex Goodrich (Clearlake Announcer), Derek Hasenstab (Norman Petty), Molly Hernández (Maria Elena), Cisco Lopez (Ritchie Valens), Michael Mahler* (Tommy / Cricket; music director), Kieran McCabe (Jerry / Cricket), Daniel Riley (Apollo Performer), Zachary Stevenson (Buddy Holly), and Shaun Whitley (Joe / Cricket). The creative team includes Sarah E. Ross* (scenic design), Samantha C. Jones* (costume design), Jared Gooding* (lighting design), Rick Sims* (sound design), Kevin Rolfs (properties), Malcolm Ruhl (music consultant) and John Martinez (assistant director and choreographer). The Production Stage Manager is Cara Parrish*. *American Blues Theater Ensemble and Artistic Affiliates. About the Artists ALAN JAMES (Playwright) is an English writer and producer who has worked in TV, film, radio, and theatre. His best-known work is the musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story which ran for over 14 years and almost 6,000 performances in London’s West End and has been on tour in the UK for 17 years. Buddy has also played Broadway, 5 U.S. National Tours, 8 years in Germany, 3 years in Australia and New Zealand, and countless other productions around the world. Janes was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Musical for Buddy. He also co-wrote and produced the musicals 125th Street and Jailhouse Rock, which both premiered on London’s West End. LILI-ANNE BROWN (Director) A native Chicagoan, Brown works as a director, actor and educator, both locally and regionally. She is the former Artistic Director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she directed Dessa Rose (Jeff Award), Passing Strange (BTA Award and Jeff nomination for Best Director of a Musical), See What I Wanna See (Steppenwolf Theatre Garage Rep), and the world premiere of Princess Mary Demands Your Attention by Aaron Holland. Other directing credits include The Wolf at the End of the Block (16th Street Theater); Marie Christine (BoHo Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Metropolis Performing Arts); The Wiz (Kokandy Productions, BroadwayWorld Award); Xanadu (American Theater Company); Jabari Dreams of Freedom by Nambi E. Kelley (world premiere, Chicago Children’s Theatre); American Idiot (Northwestern University); the national tour of Jesus Snatched My Edges; Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Unnecessary Farce, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story (Timber Lake Playhouse). She is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and a graduate of Northwestern University. MICHAEL MAHLER (Tommy / Cricket; Music Director) is an Ensemble member of American Blues Theater. His Blues appearances include It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!, “Seymour” in Little Shop of Horrors, “Clifford” in Side Man, and “Jimmy” in Hank Williams: Lost Highway. Other Chicagoland credits include Honeymoon in Vegas (Marriott Theatre); The March (Steppenwolf Theatre); Working (Broadway Playhouse); The Illusion (Court Theatre); The Fox on the Fairway, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jeff nomination), and The Producers (Theatre at the Center). Recent music directing credits include Parade (Writers Theatre) and Road Show (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jeff nomination). Michael is a composer/lyricist who contributed additional lyrics to the new Broadway production of Miss Saigon. Other works include Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Man who Murdered Sherlock Holmes (Jeff Award), October Sky (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), and Hero (Jeff Award). CHUCKIE BENSON (Apollo Performer) recently originated “Truman Hayes” in the world premiere musical, TRU, at the Chicago Music Theatre Festival. He received a Jeff nomination for his performance as the “Lion” in Kokandy’s production of The Wiz. Chuckie was also a part of the Chicago cast of Spamilton. He has played some of his favorite roles at Wagon Wheel Center of the Arts including “Coalhouse Walker Jr.” in Ragtime, “Curtis” in Sister Act, and “Teen Angel” in Grease! Regional credits include: Hair (Mercury Theater Chicago), “Tom Collins” in Rent (Theo Ubique), Woman of the Year (Porchlight Music Theatre), and “Jim” in Big River (Timber Lake Playhouse). Chuckie received his BFA in Music Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University, and is a native to Lansing, MI. LIZ CHIDESTER (Vi Petty) is a singer/songwriter, actor, and teaching artist from Virginia. Her Chicago theatre credits include: Lizzie (Firebrand Theatre), High Fidelity (Refuge Theatre Project, Jeff Award - Best Musical), Billy the Kid (Cabinet of Curiosity Events), Big River and Pump Boys and the Dinettes (Theatre at the Center), Ring of Fire (Mercury Theater Chicago), and Stupid F**ing Bird (Sideshow Theatre Company). Her original albums with her band LIZ AND THE LOVELIES include Progress into Simplicity (2017 - Best Roots EP, Independent Music Awards 2018), Otter Hill (2015), and People Pumping Pedals (2014). She teaches group and private lessons at Old Town School of Folk Music. IAN PAUL CUSTER (Hi Pockets) is an Ensemble member at American Blues Theater. Recent American Blues credits: “David Halberstam” in The Columnist (Jeff nomination - Best Production, Midsize), It’s A Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! (Jeff nominations - Best Ensemble and Best Production, Midsize), “Orin Skrivello” in Little Shop of Horrors (Jeff nomination - Best Production of a Musical, Midsize), and “Adam” in Yankee Tavern. Recent Chicago credits: Bad Jews (Theater Wit, North Shore Center, Royal George), 33 Variations (TimeLine Theatre, Jeff Award - Best Production, Midsize), Annie Bosh is Missing (Steppenwolf Theatre), High Holidays (Goodman Theatre), To Master the Art (Broadway Playhouse/TimeLine Theatre), Strangers, Babies (Steep Theatre), and Fiddler on the Roof (Paramount Theatre). Regional credits: Hero: The Musical (Asolo Rep Theatre), Cymbeline (Notre Dame Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet (Cardinal Stage), and Peter Pan (360 Entertainment - London, England). Television credits: APB, Empire, Chicago Fire, and Chicago PD. ELISA CARLSON (Company) She holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and theater from Indiana University. She is a company member of Innervation Dance Cooperative, an ensemble member of Barrel of Monkeys, and a singer and multi-instrumentalist at Howl at the Moon Chicago, entertaining audiences nightly on the piano, violin, drums, and bass. ANN DELANEY (Company) is making her American Blues Theater debut. Her recent Chicago theatre credits include Hatfield and McCoy (The House Theatre of Chicago); It’s a Wonderful Life, Cabaret, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Spamalot, and Big Fish (Theatre At The Center); All Our Tragic and Gilbert and Sullivan Rep (The Hypocrites); Hobo King (Congo Square Theatre); and Mr. Burns (Theater Wit). VASILY DERIS (Big Bopper) Chicago credits: the Jeff Award-winning Smokey Joe's Café (Theo Ubique), “Barry” in the Jeff Award-winning High Fidelity (Refuge Theatre Project), “Eric” in Creatives (Chicago Theatre Workshop), “Shawn Eckhardt” in Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera (Underscore Theatre), and “Pharaoh” in Joseph (Paramount Theatre). ALEX GOODRICH (Clearlake Announcer) makes his American Blues Theater debut. Credits include Hero: The Musical (Jeff Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); Honeymoon in Vegas; She Loves Me; How To Succeed in Business..; Elf the Musical; On The Town; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and For The Boys (Marriott Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Writers Theatre); Love's Labor’s Lost; The Emperor’s New Clothes; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Seussical; Taming of the Shrew; Aladdin; and How Can You Run... (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Miss Bennet; Shining Lives; Civil War Christmas; and She Stoops to Conquer (Northlight Theatre); Old Jews Telling Jokes (Royal George); The Comedy of Errors and One Man Two Guvnors (Court Theatre); Everything Is Illuminated (Next Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Indiana Repertory); and Goodnight Moon and Harold and the Purple Crayon (Chicago Children’s Theatre). KEIRSTEN HODGENS (Apollo Performer) Most recent credits include: Ragtime (Marriott Theatre), The Naked Truth (reading, West End Lounge), Spamilton (Royal George), Jesus Christ Superstar (Paramount Theatre), and Smokey Joe’s Café (Drury Lane Oakbrook). She would like to thank her friends, family, extraordinary girlfriend, her team at Stewart Talent. DEREK HASENSTAB (Norman Petty) makes his American Blues Theater debut. Chicago theatre credits include shows with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Writers Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, About Face Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Court Theatre, Marriott Theatre, and Drury Lane Oakbrook, among others. Regional credits include: “Doc” in Come Back, Little Sheba (IRNE and Elliot Norton Nominations, Huntington Theatre Company), “Hermes” in Metamorphoses (Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum), and “Tom” in The Glass Menagerie (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). National Tour: “Zazu” in The Lion King. MOLLY HERNÁNDEZ (Maria Elena) makes her debut at American Blues Theater. Favorite credits include “Rosabella” in The Most Happy Fella (Theo Ubique); “Julie Jordan” in Carousel, Mary Poppins, Evita, and Scapino (Timber Lake Playhouse); Crime Scene: Breath Life and Forgotten Future: Education Project (Collaboraction). Last year she was given the Award of Excellence in Professional Theatre from the Illinois Theatre Association and was nominated for a Jeff Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in The Most Happy Fella. Molly can be seen on Chicago PD ep. 105 as “Elisa Rodríguez” and APB ep. 105 as “Maya Ruiz”. CISCO LOPEZ (Ritchie Valens) makes his American Blues Theater debut. Chicago credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Woman of the Year, New Faces Sing Broadway 2001, and In the Heights (Porchlight Music Theatre); Bonnie & Clyde (Kokandy Productions); In To America and Letters Home (Griffin Theatre); Planted (Rogue Elephant Productions); Dead Man Walking (Piven Theatre); Mutt (Stage Left and Red Tape Theatre); Macbeth (Midsommer Flight); Take Me Out (Eclectic Theatre); and Fiddler on the Roof and Damn Yankees (Light Opera Works). Film credits: Boystown and Closet Memories. He holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Baylor University and is represented by Shirley Hamilton. KIERAN MCCABE (Jerry / Cricket) This Philadelphia native is making his American Blues Theater debut. Kieran’s favorite credits include “Fluke Holland” in Million Dollar Quartet, “Scapino” in Scapino, “Orin Scrivello” in Little Shop of Horrors, “Agustin Migaldi” in Evita, “Mr. Manningham” in Gaslight, “Stacee Jaxx” in Rock of Ages, Carousel, Mary Poppins, Titanic, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Timber Lake Playhouse), and “Freak” in columbinus (Loyola Chicago). Kieran drums and writes for the Indie Rock trio Day Off (@dayofftheband). Kieran puts his English Creative Writing degree to good use as a Head Writer for Kettle Camp Studios, a Chicago based production company. DANIEL RILEY (Apollo Performer) is a Chicago-based performer who studied at Harold Washington College and Roosevelt University. He has worked in theatre and cabaret with numerous groups in and around Chicago, most recently Paramount Theatre, Davenport’s Piano Bar, The Inconvenience, and the Ravinia Festival. Dan also coaches and accompanies soloists and choirs of all ages in many styles of music. He regularly sings with Holy Name Cathedral and the Lakeside Singers, and can be seen Sunday mornings on WGN-TV singing for Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Dan is also featured (along with Michael Mahler) on Dark Side of the Moon A Cappella (VOCOMOTION Productions). ZACHARY STEVENSON (Buddy Holly) makes his American Blues Theater debut. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Zach recently relocated to Chicago after spending the last few years being based in Kansas City, MO. Select credits include: Million Dollar Quartet (Paramount Theatre – “Carl” U/S), Hair (CanStage), Ring of Fire (Chemainus Theatre Festival / Western Canada Theatre), Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (Blue Bridge Repertory), Urinetown (Belfry Theatre), Red Rock Diner (Arts Club Theatre), Assassins (Quintessence), and more than ten productions of Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story throughout the US and Canada, for which he’s been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award and Ovation Award. Zachary has also had the pleasure of music directing several productions, including Million Dollar Quartet (Arts Club), and Ring of Fire (Chemainus Theatre Festival), as well as performing in countless headlining concerts across North America. Off stage, Zach is busy writing a one-man show about the 1960s folksinger and activist, Phil Ochs. SHAUN WHITLEY (Joe / Cricket) returns to American Blues Theater. He is a multi-instrumentalist, actor, composer, and Jeff-nominated music director. He performed nearly 1800 times as “Carl Perkins” in the longest running Broadway musical in Chicago history, Million Dollar Quartet. Other Chicago credits include: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Drury Lane Oakbrook, The Second City, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Strawdog Theatre, TUTA, Redmoon Theater, Blindfaith Theatre, and Provision Theater. He studied Shakespeare at RADA in London. He teaches at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Community Service For this production, American Blues Theater will offer complimentary tickets to students of Chicago Public Schools and Guitars Over Guns. In addition, artists will visit assisted-living facilities to give mini-concerts. American Blues also continues its “Pink Previews” to donate proceeds from all preview performances to The Lynn Sage Foundation for breast cancer research. Encore Run: June 29 – September 15, 2018 Schedule: Thursdays: 7:30pm Fridays: 7:30pm Saturdays: 3:00pm & 7:30pm Sundays: 2:30pm Free post-show discussions on Sundays Location: Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago Ticket prices: $19 - $49 Box Office: Buy online at AmericanBluesTheater.com or by calling 773.327.5252. About American Blues Theater Winner of the American Theatre Wing’s prestigious 2016 National Theatre Company Award, American Blues Theater is a premier arts organization with an intimate environment that patrons, artists, and all Chicagoans call home. American Blues Theater explores the American identity through the plays it produces and communities it serves. The diverse and multi-generational artists have established the second-oldest professional Equity Ensemble theater in Chicago. The 34-member Ensemble has 600+ combined years of collaboration on stage. As of 2018, the theater and artists received 195 Joseph Jefferson Awards and nominations that celebrate excellence in Chicago theater and over 35 Black Theatre Alliance Awards. The artists are honored with Pulitzer Prize nominations, Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. American Blues Theater programs and activities are made possible, in part by funding by The MacArthur Funds for Arts & Culture at Prince, the Shubert Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, SMART Growth Grant, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, Anixter Foundation, Actors’ Equity Foundation, and the Chip Pringle Fund. ComEd is the Season Lighting Sponsor.
We love to discover treasure chests here in The Underworld and have done so here and here. Today, we're going to uncover a few more. There are sixty photos in this post, so if you only spend one second on each picture, you can breeze through it in just a minute! Then again, if you spend one minute studying each chest, you will be here an hour! Maybe you'll hit upon a happy medium. There's a variety on hand, hopefully something for everyone, though I tend to go for a certain type myself, the beefy, hairy ones. Special thanks to our cover boy today, Mr. Guy Madison! Here we find the late Mickey Rooney enjoying a conversation with a pal on a pair of comfy lounge chairs. 1930s hunk (and later stalwart western leading man) Randolph Scott. A one-shot, non-MGM movie called Tarzan's Revenge (1939) starred Glenn Morris as the title figure (shown here in a test shot.) Morris was, like the more famous Johnny Weissmuller, an Olympian too, though for the Decathlon rather than swimming. Unfortunately, the movie was poorly received and Morris gave up movie-making for life as an insurance salesman. This still is from an obscure film called Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939) starring Richard Arlen. Based upon the loincloth costuming, it just became a movie I need to see very badly! Next is 1940s sarong and sandal actor Jon Hall drying off. 1940s and '50s leading man Dane Clark. Fellow leading man of that era, Farley Granger. Bear lovers rejoice, for here is William Bendix as the ship's stoker and title character of The Hairy Ape (1944.) A little-known spy drama called Step by Step (1946) stars screen tough guy Lawrence Tierney. Note the fascinating way his arm creates a shadow across his side and hip to make his waist seem incredibly teeny! (You can see that his swimsuit waistband extends beyond that line.) This movie is on TCM this week and I'm interested in checking it out! Another obscure movie is 16 Fathoms Deep (1948) which had its share of beefcake as it concerned sponge divers. Eric Feldary is shown below in publicity for the movie. In this photo from the same film, Feldary is depicted with former child star Dickie Moore, by then in his early-twenties. Larry Parks, in an unidentified film, has a couple of burly, sculpted pals. Park was the victim of McCarthy-era blacklisting, which severely harmed his screen career. If you ever get the chance to see Tomorrow is Another Day (1951), chances are you won't be disappointed. Not only is Steve Cochran shirtless a few times, but he also sports a rather eye-opening set of jeans. Each time we come across Cochran in a movie, we walk away a little more interested and appreciative than before. Who's this popping up for a quick photo? Tony Curtis, of course. In The Story of Three Loves (1953), Kirk Douglas played a trapeze artist involved with Pier Angeli. Ida Lupino looks to have quite a decision to make in Private Hell 36 (1954) with bare-chested Steve Cochran and (her real life husband) Howard Duff on hand! I have to give Steve this one, though, over the somewhat "mooby" Howard, though nipple fans might disagree. 1955's Land of the Pharaohs had lean Dewey Martin being blindfolded as he entered the secret passageways of the pyramid to complete work on it. Thankfully, the audience isn't blindfolded and can look his tight, tan frame over (and over!) Manfish (1956) starred the extraordinarily hunky John Bromfield, seen here with Lon Chaney Jr. Here from the same film, Bromfield manhandles a bedraggled Victor Jory. Yet another 1950s hunk John Derek plays the title character in The Leather Saint (1956), a minister who boxes in order to win money for his charitable causes. Anyone ready to sign up and go a few rounds with him? Easily one of the most scorned renditions of the legendary vine-swinger ever was 1959's Tarzan, the Ape Man, in which UCLA basketball star Denny Miller played the title character while reams of stock footage (some of it tinted from the black & white 1932 masterpiece!) were crudely patched in. "Jane" in this one was Joanna Barnes who many may recall from the prior year's Auntie Mame as Gloria Upson. A swinger of a different type was singer-actor Sammy Davis Jr., seen here enjoying a soft drink between takes on a movie. James Garner showed off his hairy chest (once a Hollywood no-no in prior decades of shaving for the screen) in the Doris Day comedy The Thrill of It All (1963.) William Holden was one actor who often had to shave his chest for movies and he loathed it. In later years he went au naturel, which by the looks of things, he may also have been doing under his trousers in this photo taken in the chow line of a western location shoot! Despite playing Richard Kimble on The Fugitive from 1963-1967, David Janssen had precious few opportunities to go shirtless (one memorable time was when he worked as a lifeguard at a swanky club.) Here we see him in color wearing some trim trunks. In similarly-styled trunks, but which are far too baggy for my taste, is James Darren of the Gidget movies (1959-1963.) Those beach-set movies were and are a great place to see the make form without a shirt. Here are John Ashley and Jody McCrea in a scene from 1965's How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. (That's the aforementioned Mickey Rooney with them at far left.) Now a few shots of one of our favorites, Mr. Hugh O'Brian, seen here shaking hands with a close pal. An even closer pal is the lady helping him out with some suntan lotion here! Do not ever miss the chance to see him in 1965's Love Has Many Faces, a glossy Lana Turner spectacular. It was life-changing for me. Another Underworld fave is Robert Conrad, seen here pumping some iron. Just look at his sweat-strewn torso (and his deliciously decked-out cohort) in this shot. Even better is the series of athletic shots he and fellow Warner Brothers contractee Van Williams did together, several of which appear elsewhere on this site. Broadway and movie singer-actor Robert Goulet doffed his shirt in the TV spy series Blue Light (1966), parts of which were edited into a feature film known as I Deal in Danger (also 1966.) After working on a variety of TV series, Alex Cord won the role in Stagecoach (1966) that had made John Wayne a star in the 1939 version, but lightning didn't strike twice. Still, he continued acting (primarily with his natural, darker hair color) steadily for the next four decades. Prior to his debilitating motorcycle accident, James Stacy worked in films and on TV, notably Lancer (1968-1970.) Football great Jim Brown turned to acting and was often stripped to the waist (and even further in his spread for Playgirl magazine!) Rare was the Burt Reynolds movie of the 1960s and '70s that didn't feature a shirtless scene. Reynolds and Brown entertainingly costarred in 100 Rifles in 1969. One of the more well-received later Tarzans (and I believe the first hairy-chested one) was Mike Henry, seen here in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968.) Ryan O'Neal (of Peyton Place, 1964-1969, Love Story, 1970, and many other films) often went shirtless before the cameras. One of the chief reasons to watch the British sci-fi series UFO (1969-1973) was the hunky face and physique of costar Michael Billington. Later in 1977, he had a bedroom scene with Barbara Bach in The Spy Who Loved Me which proved that director Lewis Gilbert knew of a good way to fill the cinematic wide-screen! Former TV Tarzan (1966-1968) Ron Ely portrayed another famous hero in 1975 when he starred in Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze. We love his shredded shirt look shown below... Hirsute hunk Sam Elliott during his comparatively brief pre-mustache days. Those of a certain age will recall the 1970s stand-up and variety show guest The Unknown Comic (seen below spoofing Burt Reynolds famous Cosmopolitan centerfold.) The performer (real name Murray Langston) was a frequent guest on The Gong Show (1976-1980) as well. Look how furry 1970s singing sensation Andy Gibb was. It's hard to imagine today's girls going wild over a young man who wasn't waxed within an inch of his life... Tom Wopat of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985) lost his shirt from time-to-time including during the boxing match shown in the inset. Erik Estrada costarred on CHiPs from from 1977-1983, though this shot is likely from the 1982 TV-movie Honeyboy. Here we find college rowing team star turned model Rick Edwards, who later became an actor on the daytime soap Santa Barbara (1987-88.) Edwards was a frequent 1980s model in GQ magazine, it was a time when hairy chests were a macho sign of virility and sex appeal while today is more about smooth, ripped looks. If big muscles are your thing, it's hard to ignore Arnold Schwarzenegger back in his early days of movie-making such as Conan the Barbarian (1982.) A leaner, but still muscular, Dolph Lundgren parlayed roles in A View to a Kill and Rocky IV (both 1985) into a career as a leading man in feature and straight-to-video films. One of the great unsung furballs of the world was Brian Bloom, a soap actor (As the World Turns, 1983-1987) and later the star of a string of Bandit TV-movies in the mid-'90s. And let's not forget a memorable 2001 two-part guest shot on Oz. He also had the most amazing eyes one can imagine. In recent years, his chief work has been in voiceovers, which isn't fair! LOL This is noted gossip columnist Ted Casablanca serving up the naked truth with his typewriter by the pool! We can never get enough of the beautiful Jon-Erik Hexum. Jude Law was looking yummily bronze in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999.) While it's true that I don't get out much, it seems like I never see Law around anymore in anything. Most if not all of the aforementioned gentlemen are great-looking and had great chests, but in The Underworld, no one can ever fully compare to the wonders of Mr. Clint Walker, so the final spot in this post belongs to him. That, my friends, was a MAN!
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