Undies can be chic. Well, can't they? Ask Armani!

Undies. They lie there in the drawer, limp and kind of forlorn. Then you put them on, look in the mirror and think, "Gee, I should've bought a bigger size." And if you're really vulnerable you think, "Gee, I ought to eat right and exercise."


Unless your name is David Beckham, of course. Then you thing, "Gee, I wonder if Armani would pay me to wear their undies and strut my stuff in front of the camera, so that they can put the pictures on forty-foot-tall posters on the side of sky scrapers...?"


And the answer to this canny question is, "Gee, I guess Armani would! And did." Like so:


Woah. I'll just bet there were some traffic jams and fender benders on that block! The city traffic police were probably the ones responsible for the graffiti that wrecked the whole thing the next day, so they had to take it down ... just kidding, guys. I think.

Antonio Banderas: underwear, firepower, and a nice line in smolder

There's something piquant about droolworthy celebs in designer undies, as I'm sure you'd agreed. And the undies were never so gracefully modeled as when Antonio Banderas decided to step out onto the terrace in the bathrobe and slippers and not a lot more, soak up a few rays and do some smoldering for the camera... 

While we're on the topic, let's have a couple more; because I feel like it...

I have a quote for you, too:

In 1994, as Philadelphia was being released, Banderas sat down with The Advocate's Ronald Mark Kraft.
"I am completely proud to play a gay character," Banderas said, adding that despite Spain's Catholic culture, "homosexuality is more accepted there than in the United States." He continued, "If I have to worry [that] somebody is not going to call me because I played a gay character ... it's pretty sad." Banderas also said making a movie about AIDS was important to him: "I know many people who died and people who are suffering the sickness now. If 15 years in the future we see we did nothing--I mean no movies, paintings, plays--then we will not be able to say we are artists."

For Tom Hanks, acting opposite Banderas proved simple: "The first day, Antonio was in those tight pants and was wearing that cute leather jacket, and I just thought, I'd flip over this guy. He is dark, he is mysterious, he is ... completely accepting in that old-world kind of way. Playing Antonio's lover, I am the envy of 95% of the women in the world and, I guess, about 17% of the men."
http://www.aboutgaymovies.info/persons/banderas_antonio.htm



Nice one. Verrrrry nice one!

Sean Bean ... and my glasses just fogged up

Boxer shorts never looked so good. Trust me on this:



And while we're on the subject of one of the hottest bods who ever artfully draped himself on the business side of a camea, let's have a couple more pics of Sean ... (Not the Mr. Bean many folks were thinking of, thank gods) ... before we pass on to other delicious subjects:




Something just steamed up my glasses. I'll go polish them, and be right back.