Bringing the Miami Heat

Dunno if you've heard the building buzz for beloved actress Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami --which imagines the foursome of Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) footballer Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and one Cassius Clay soon-to-be Muhammed Ali (Eli Goree), spending the night in a hotel room together in February of 1964 -- but the movie's getting great notices, even if nobody seemed to have thought what I immediately thought when I heard that plot description.

I’m halfway into One Night in Miami and... I cannot be the only homosexual who sees another version of this movie happening once these four men get in the hotel room and start talking about their “blue balls”

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 1, 2020

Anyway that aside (big aside) the film, which I saw a couple of weeks ago, is totally solid, and features star-making turns from Kingsley Ben-Adir (seen up top) and Eli Goree -- that's not to slight the other two! I just already consider Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr.'s stars good and made already -- am I wrong? But I do think those first two are best in show, especially especially Ben-Adir, who should definitely be in the run for Best Supporting Actor... although I think I read they were running him as Best Actor? I personally think all four should be considered Supporting but what do I know. Anyway, we have a new trailer!

One Night in Miami is supposedly hitting some theaters on Christmas Day, and then struts its stuff onto Amazon for a streaming release on January 15th. So more on it to come down the road. For now let's just take in three more of these shots of Kingsley Ben-Adir after the jump cuz hot damn...

Kingsley Ben-Adir Seven Times

Barbie and One Night in Miami actor Kingsley Ben-Adir has posed in a new ad campaign for Gucci's lil' loafers and he has done so while looking mighty fine -- why he nearly banishes all thoughts of Pope Benedict when reading the phrase " Gucci's lil' loafers" -- and so here are those photos. Gucci also posted videos on their Insta, see them here. And Kingsley doesn't yet have his own tab here on the site (I know I know) so click here to see our previous posts on him. One of these days! For now we'll make just have to due with these photos, so hit the jump and do them dues...

Kingsley Ben-Adir Four Times

These shots of actor Kingsley Ben-Adir are for GQ Style -- there is one more at this link -- and follow nicely with the photos of Kingsley that we shared here on MNPP last week; it's good that we're all being familiarized with his name and face (and so on...) because once y'all see him play Malcolm X in Regina King's film One Night in Miami we're gonna want to say we knew him when. He's so good in it.

Do Dump or Marry: Four Miami Men

First things immediately, a happy birthday to One Night in Miami director and queen-since-way-back Regina King today -- I love that her big movie is getting released on her birthday! Yes indeed One Night in Miami is now on Amazon Prime, watch it here -- this is the flick that imagines what a night in 1964 would have been like where Muhammed Ali (Eli Goree), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), all met up in a Miami hotel-room to drink, chat, and blow our collective heads in the future with such a confluence. 

You can watch the trailer here, although I recommend just watching the damn movie now that you can -- the four guys are great (Ben-Adir is best in show for me, but most people seem to have a different fave) and the movie's got a lot of heart, passion, and thoughtfulness to recommend. It's also got, dare I say, just a lotta goddamned eye candy with these four actors.

Which brings me to the "Do Dump and Marry" portion of the post. We haven't done one of these in awhile and this movie clearly lends itself to the game, even if it does present the question of an Odd Man Out since there are four people and three slots (ha) they can fill. Those slots? "Do" means you spend one night with them. "Dump" means you do nothing with them. And "Marry" means you do everything thereafter with them. I'm going to leave it to your discretions with the extra name -- dump two people, fuck two people, have yourself a Mormon wedding, I don't care.

But here's one thing I do want -- I want two lists of answers. I want you to "Do Dump or Marry" the actors, meaning Goree, Hodge (more here), Ben-Adir, (more here) and Odom Jr. And THEN second I want you to "Do Dump or Marry" the characters, aka the real people, that they are playing. Meaning a second list where you choose between the boxer Ali, the revolutionary X, the singer Cooke, and the footballer Brown. Two lists! Four people! Three slots! Make your hay in the comments of all this!

Good Morning, World

You should probably expect to see a lot of Aldis Hodge round these parts for the next little bit now that I've seen Regina King's big-screen directorial debut One Night in Miami, which has Aldis playing the footballer Jim Brown opposite Riverdale actor Eli Goree as Muhammed Ali, Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X, and Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke -- the movie imagines a night spent in a hotel room between these four legends and...

I’m halfway into One Night in Miami and... I cannot be the only homosexual who sees another version of this movie happening once these four men get in the hotel room and start talking about their “blue balls”

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 1, 2020

... yeah okay I already said that. It was impossible not to go there! But I'll try to be more respectful when I get around to reviewing the movie properly when it comes out at Christmas. You can watch the first trailer here. But respectability's not necessary just yet, thankfully, and I can just ogle Aldis for now! Not that that's anything new -- check our previouslies here. These gifs are from his short-lived TV program City on a Hill -- which also had Jonathan Tucker running around in tighty-whities, so clearly the greatest show of all time. Hit the jump for the rest...