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- THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYLRA BRADLEY
- THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
- JOSH DYLAN : MOVI, GAY, GIRLIEND & NET WORTH
THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYMILLIE BOBBY BROWN IS READY FOR THE END OF STRANGER THGSBY CHRIS MURPHYLRA BRADLEY
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THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
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JOSH DYLAN : MOVI, GAY, GIRLIEND & NET WORTH
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