Good Morning, World

Denzel Washington has been on my brain a lot since seeing Gladiator II a few weeks back -- and being in his rarefied movie-star presence for the Q&A after my screening! I wrote a bit about that movie's questionable queer villany yesterday, but Denzel comes out pretty clean from that nonsense. This led me to finally get around to seeing Mira Nair's 1991 cross-cultural romance Mississippi Masala for the first time the other night though and I am glad I did. It's beautifully shot (another masterwork by Ed Lachman!) and deliciously sweet, and Denzel is very good in it. You can definitely tell it's Sarita Choudhury's first movie role -- she's pretty wobbly at times. But also so gorgeous you kinda don't care. That said Denzel is dare I say even more gorgeous, which is the real reason we're here this morning. (This was the same sizzling year that his naked locked-room scene in Ricochet permanently seared itself onto my little impressionable gay-in-training brain.) I made gifs of from a few of his sexiest moments in the movie, and I've got them all here after the jump...