Thursday, January 21, 2016

Good Morning, Hercules

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Steve Reeves, the muscular giant who made Hercules the man more of Hercules the god, was born on this day in 1926, 90 years ago today, in the town of Glasgow, Montana - can you imagine anyplace sounding more rough and tumble than that? Picture it, young farm-hand Steve, building up a sweat plowing the land (not to mention the milkmaid), dreaming of the bright lights and big screens of Hollywood. "One day, Momma! I'm gonna be a star! My name in big lights! Pow, whiz, bang! (kisses bicep)" 

Besides the promise of rich and heady visuals, I think telling the star story of a beefcake pin-up would be interesting to today's film-goer, now that every single actor is expected to have a body carved from marble. Once upon a time somebody like Steve Reeves was a goddamned freak! Anyway someone was nice enough to compile a video of scenes of Steve Reeves laying in bed on YouTube, so watch that to wake yourself up this fine morning:
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