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If you were gonna hire a humanoid robot to come home with you and your spouse to do your chores I can certainly understand why you would choose one who looked like Steven Strait. I certainly would! But I think you kind of need to expect things to, you know, develop. If you hire a Steven Strait robot. To shave you naked. 

That's all I am saying. That's the plot of the new film Life Like anyway -- starring Strait alongside Drew Van Acker (from Pretty Little Liars and the Training Day show) and Addison Timlin as the couple who bring Steven home for those hard to reach places...

... Life Like is hitting blu-ray and DVD next week, you can buy it on Amazon here. I haven't watched anything but the scenes between Drew & Steven yet but they more than life up to the premise's promise -- this is some off-the-chart sexual tension these two brew. Hit the jump for a few (dozen) more gifs...

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I think I'm far enough away from everything I hated about The Walking Dead to once again want some Jeffrey Dean Morgan in my life, which I realized while watching the mostly execrable Rampage. It was good to see him! Not as good as it was to see this, but good nonetheless. Let's get him back to groping twinks!

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A happy 30 to the actor Christian Cooke, who we randomly just posted a couple dozen pictures of last week even though we didn't actually see him in anything to bring about that post. Well besides the dozens of pictures, which were plenty, obviously. These shots are from his time on that show Magic City, which was filled with unbelievably attractive men - see also all the Steven Strait that was on display. That thing got canceled too damn soon!

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I still have not started watching The Expanse like I said I might when I posted those pictures of shirtless Thomas Jane last week, and here we are and they're gifting us with another shirtless Thomas Jane scene - I should feel ashamed. They're going all out like this, and all. Hmm maybe if I wait another week they'll have Steven Strait flash his ass like he did in the first season? Maybe me waiting will be to the betterment of us all? Well while I contemplate such deep, deep thoughts (as Steven Strait's ass) you all can go ahead and hit the jump for another dozen gifs or so...

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So do any of you people watch the SyFy series The Expanse? It's just starting its second season now (these shots of Thomas Jane are from the latest episode) and I keep wondering if it's worth my time - I mean it does star Thomas Jane and Steven Strait and it has been plenty gratuitous with at least the latter in the past (see here yes do see right here). And now this! It's been too too long, Thomas Jane's Hairy Chest. Even if Thomas is getting a little long in the tooth, those long teeth still sparkle. Hit the jump for another dozen gifs...

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I just checked IMDb to see what Steven Strait, who's turning 29 today, has been up to since Magic City stopped being around to flaunt his astonishing half-nakedness every chance it got, and was surprised to see he was apparently on a couple of episodes of the ABC soap Revenge - I, like a crazy person who doesn't know when to put down the pipe, have continued watching Revenge well past when anybody should be watching Revenge, and I don't remember him being on it at all. Any other lunatics out there still watching Revenge that can tell me who he plated? IMDb says he was named "Brooks" but haven't there been at least seven characters named "Brooks" on Revenge by now? Male and Female.

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(pics via) Do they even bother to dress Steven Strait in clothes on Magic City, or does he just prance around half-naked every time he's onscreen? (see more here) Nobody's complaining of course - you hire Steven Strait for a reason, several reasons really, and they're displaying all several of his reasons masterfully.

Still not having watched the show I also must ask, is it gay at all? Because it comes off as fairly gay in pictures. Case in point:

Remind me why I haven't watched this yet?

See more pics from the most recent ep after the jump.

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Anybody been keeping up with Magic City? I still haven't gotten around to watching any of it, even though it appears to be keeping true to its initial promise of Steven Strait and Jeffrey Dean Morgan gratuity pretty actively. 

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Way To Grab My Attention, Magic City

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If you don't have the money for advertising these days, I think the new Starz series Magic City has got it figured out - get your leading men out of their clothes and maybe have them suggestively touch each other a little bit and voila! The internet will do the work for you.

I hadn't even heard of this show until now, but giving me Steven Strait in a pair of blessedly teensy trunks getting his leg patted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan? That ensures I hear about you.

See a few more pictures after the jump, including a look at Jeffrey Dean Morgan's shapely just shy of forty-six year old buttocks.

TGT10: 26 Gratuitous Runners-Up

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And now comes the time when we interject a little something-something in the celebration. Every now and then, here and there, some movies in 2010 featured some menfolk in various states of gratuitousness. Mostly this means they took their clothes off, although not always. Mostly mostly what it means is the camera pointed itself on them and they transformed themselves into a big ball of sex for an instant, now captured forever. To be passed down through the halls of time and celebrated, appreciated, always. This is an attempt to document the ones that mattered most. These are our runners-up.

Aaron Tveit, Howl

Adrien Brody, SpliceAaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole

Ashton Kutcher, Killers (more here)
Alex O'Laughlin, The Back-up Plan (more here)
Channing Tatum, Dear John (more here)

Brandon Routh, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World

Daniel Radcliffe, Deathly Hallows Pt. 1
Dwayne Johnson, The Tooth Fairy
Ewan McGregor, The Ghost Writer (more here)

David Lyons, Eat Pray Love

Edoardo Gabbriellini, I Am Love

Gerard Butler, The Bounty Hunter
Garett Hedlund, TRON: Legacy (more here)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Prince of Persia
(more here and here and here)

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James Franco kissing Aaron Tviet, Howl
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James Franco kissing himself

Jerry O'Connell. Piranha 3D

Josh Duhamel, Life as We Know It (more here)
Joel Edgerton, Animal Kingdom
Justin Long, Going the Distance

Nev Schulman, Catfish

Patrick Wilson, Barry Munday (more here)

Scott McNairy, Monsters

Steven Strait, City Island (more here)
Zac Efron, Charlie St. Cloud

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poll by twiigs.com

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Keep in mind with that poll that we've still got more to come,
so if you don't see your favorite here it still might be showing up.
Because coming up next...
MNPP's 15 Great Gratuities of 2010!
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Is It A City, Or An Island? It Can't Be Both!

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I've no idea what this movie City Island is about that's opening this weekend, but I do now know that it's got two points in its favor. It's got Emily Mortimer in it, and that's always a bingo. And secondly it's apparently got Steven Strait spending a hefty chunk of screen-time running around shirtless. Cue proof!


Also always a bingo. I don't think I've laid eyes on Mr. Strait since that cinematic atrocity 10,000 BC, and he's a sight for sore eyes. Eye sore with lust!!! (Eww that sounds like something I'd need an ointment for.) Aaanyway for more Steven Strait click right here.
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Gratuitous Steven Strait

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In honor of my having finally gotten around to watching 10,000 B.C. last evening (when I told y'all yesterday that instead of watching John McCain's speech I was planning on watching a dumb movie, I had a specific dumb movie in mind, see) and realizing that hmm, I might not have forever to post some gratuitous love for its star Steven Strait because god he's bad in this movie, everything's so bad in this movie, I am OD'ing on the cheese, seriously, and would you stop staring at the screen like that Camilla Belle, you're killing my brain-cells with your stupid face, but man alive I can keep watching because underneath that caked-on mud and store-bought batch of dreads you sure are purdy, Steven Strait, and I might not be able to appreciate that for long since this movie could very well be a career-killer. I have no recollection of Mr. Strait's character in Stop-Loss, but he does have two future projects listed, so perhaps there's hope. For now... take no chances! Appreciate the beefcake while possible and/or semi-relevant! Forthwith! And it's a lot, praise be, because the sweet boy has been generous with his loveliness. I'll refrain from judging his need to exploit said loveliness due to the acting or lack thereof he displayed in 10,000 B.C.... ahem...

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