Atwitter this week the gay blogs have been.
And not just the gay blogs, the mainstream media as well. Everyone seems tweaked over some shirtless shots of “Harry Potter” (actually, the actor who plays him, Daniel Radcliffe, at left), who at 17 looks 17 and so sports a modestly adult body. This body comes standard with such secondary characteristics as five-o’clock shadow and those wisps of hair that taper from belly button to pubes, lovingly called “a treasure trail.”
Here’s what’s roiling those who are roiled by such things: Radcliffe has very famously played a child — a child increasingly younger than himself as the Potter movies lag the Potter books by about two and a half years. (When the series ends, Harry will be all of 17*.)
The commotion is not so much about Radcliffe’s rather staid display of shirtlessness but the fact that the pictures were taken in conjunction with the actor’s coming debut on the London stage in a play where he will be — try not to yawn — briefly nude in a few artfully dimmed scenes. (read the full article)
