DDoM - DeCoteau Dude of the Month

Josh Henderson

This month's DeCoteau Dude is desperate boybander Josh Henderson (previously featured). I describe him like that because he was on Desperate Housewives and used to be in a pop band. I only ever did one wallpaper of Josh, much as I wanted to do more. But I could only find that one decent photo. But, as I'd hoped, since he got one of the leads on the revamped Dallas, the pictures have been abounding. Not like when he did Leeches!, but one takes what one can get. More to see at Superherofan and Tumblr.

WoW - Wallpaper of the Week - extra

Jesse Metcalfe

Hey, Jesse! I couldn't mention Mister Mooby Jesse Metcalfe without a few wallpapers. An oldie, and some ones I made more recently.

DDoM - DeCoteau Dude of the Month

Josh Henderson


Tyler Hoechlin

We begin the month (and the year) with two guys. I was only going to feature Josh Henderson. But since I started last year with Tyler Hoechlin, and there's so many great new photos of him, thought I'd do a double.

Josh was one of the stars of David's 2003 opus, Leeches! Probably the most successful of the cast, as far as long-term careers go. How could he not be, with such stellar thespian talent?

Before the acting, he was musical, as part of a short-lived pop group. After working with David, he got various TV and film work. Then he landed a recurring role on Desperate Housewives, where he was able to display his true dramatic range. He showed up later on a few episodes of 90210. Now, if the network gods don't push it back again, we'll be seeing Joshie this summer on the Dallas revival. Co-starring, ironically enough, another Housewives alum, the moobalicious Jesse Metcalfe. Now there's someone who deserves to be in a DeCoteau flick. How'd you miss him, Dave?

And Tyler? I've said what I've wanted to say already. If you want, you can do more oggling here.

Flashback

Who didn't love Jared Martin, now 70, back in the '70s and '80s? I first fell for him in The Fantastic Journey. Wasn't enough of a fan, though, to watch him regularly on Dallas. Started following him again when he did the War of the Worlds TV series. Yes, the first season was better.

It appears he stopped acting in the '90s. Now he's an artist, principally with photography. Very nice work.

Flashback

Jack Scalia (60 today) was one of those generically good-looking (ok, very good-looking) dark haired Selleck type hunks. Without the mustache. He appeared on Remington Steele and Dallas, amongst other stuff. He's still around, still working, and more stately looking. Not doing bad, not doing bad at all.

The photos above were got primarily from here and here. And more to see here.

Flashback

Whatever happened to Andrew Stevens, who'll be 55 today? It seems he's become quite the prolific producer, actually.

I probably first saw him in 1978's The Fury. That was back when I went to movies like crazy, from 1977 through the early '80's. Andrew struck me as almost too pretty for words. He was still pretty ten years later on Dallas, and in between on Battle of the Network Stars.

He's not stopped acting, but just does it less. I hadn't realized until I looked him up on IMDB how much stuff he's done behind the camera. Pretty don't last forever, so it's nice to know he's smart too.

Flashback

Erik Estrada






Patrick Duffy

Sixty-first birthdays this week for the stars of two series that premiered in 1977. My, how time flies.

First is Erik Estrada, who's celebrating today. He first came to major notice on CHiPs as motorcycle cop Francis "Ponch" Poncherello. Love a man in uniform, and he looked good in and out of it. He's done stuff since, like soap operas (Mexican and American) and reality TV. But he'll always be Ponch to me.

Fun bit of trivia. Robert Pine, who played his superior officer on CHiPs, is the father of the new Captain Kirk, and new hottie, Chris Pine. In fact, Chris sort of made his acting debut on CHiPs. About halfway through this interview with Jimmy Kimmel, the details are revealed.

Before CHiPs, though, Erik was on an episode of one of my all-time favorite series, The Night Stalker.

I can't be sure, but I think he appeared on that classic source of eye-candy in the '70s and '80s, Battle of the Network Stars. I know his costar was. I'm certain that tomorrow's birthday guy, Patrick Duffy, was.

Yeah, when most people think of Patrick, it's Bobby on Dallas or on Step By Step. But for me, the first time I saw him made an indelible impression. Three words. Man from Atlantis. Patrick, smooth all over b/c his character was, like, aquatic, running around in yellow biker shorts and nothing else. I actually cassette taped all the episodes, b/c I hadn't gotten a VCR yet. I may still have them somewhere, though I'm not sure in what condition the tapes are. Need to get around to getting the DVDs one of these days. Can't believe I found the second clip above on the Internet here. May have to check that site out more often.

I was so sorry that the series was cancelled. The story lines were cheesy, yes, but I loved the show anyway. And did I mention, Patrick Duffy shirtless? A whole lot? It's funny, I can remember him being interviewed afterwards, when he got on Dallas. It might've been with Mike Douglas. Anyway, Patrick was so excited about getting the role, in part b/c he didn't have to shave his chest anymore. Sometimes it's the little things.

That's a weird coincidence. Both Erik and Patrick were on The Bold and the Beautiful. I don't think simultaneously, but still.

Flashback

Blue Lagoon






The Pirate Movie




A Night in Heaven

His face is showing some wear, but for a guy one year shy of 50 today, Christopher Atkins still looks totally do-able.

I don't think I saw The Blue Lagoon in the theater, and maybe not for a while after, but I was certainly aware of him b/c of that movie. Still have the issue of Playgirl somewhere, which he did in '82. Boy had no qualms about showing it all, unlike most celebs that appeared in the magazine. He didn't need to; he was really beautiful. He looked better with the straight hair, rather than the Annie curls, too. Yes, I did look above the waist, thank you very much. I appreciate the entirety. If anything, I'm an eye and butt man, so I like 'em coming and going.

He was in one of my favorite silly movies of all time (right up there with Airplane!), The Pirate Movie, with Kristy McNichol. Whatever happened to her? Seeing the movie the first time is still memorable. I was at an SCA event in Orlando at a condo complex. Weird, admittedly, but there you go. A group of us decided to go see the movie. Imagine, if you will, a group of twenty medieval reenactors, in costume, watching a movie that's a parody of The Pirates of Penzance. I think we were the only ones who got all the jokes. Plus, Chris Atkins shirtless a lot, sheer heaven.

Speaking of which, A Night in Heaven. Another cheesy movie, but not so good. Yeah, Chris played a stripper and there was brief nudity, but not enough to make up for the movie as a whole. Neat that it was filmed here in Florida, though.

He played cougarbait on Dallas after, then various movies and TV and such. Saw him last year on VH1's Confessions of a Teen Idol, and like I said before, he's pretty fine still. More about him at his official site.