I was surprised to find our High School Musical teenage heart throb on the cover of the recent Gentleman's Quarterly. I'm not the biggest fan of Mr. Efron, but I most certainly don't hate him either. In this issue of the magazine, along with a revealing writing piece and fashion spread of this dapper star, you'll find some informative spreads for the must-haves of the summer season. Among said must-haves are the golf jacket, a time piece by one of a variety of choices (Armani, Cartier, or Movado's Series 800 to name a few), and it seems the skinny tie has made like a phoenix, rising from its ashes to complement a classic but fresh summer look. A lot like the look Mr. Efron sports on this very cover, though, throughout the issue you'll find a few different variations; hopefully one to suit your own groove.
Beyond the awesome fashion guidance there are some awesome articles as you'd expect. One that caught my eye (even though I'm a far-from-preparing-to-wed-20 year old) was the in depth guide to giving/having the perfect bachelor party. Lot's of great ideas. Did you know Charleston has a ratio of 3 girls to every guy? Yowza. I don't think I'm gonna wait til I'm engaged for that one. Charleston might be the next spring break frontier for me... Scratch that. It will be where I am come spring break.
As for the last subject in the title... What's Mike Tyson got to do with anything. Well, according to Tom Carson, GQ correspondent, a new movie about Mike Tyson by director James Toback is due to come out soon. The film is entitled Tyson and is in part produced by Tyson. Carson's view on the production is grim. His stance is that Toback depicts Tyson as a glorified caricature, "...menacing and absurd, an especially loaded combo in this country when the celeb in question is African American. Tyson turns him into an art object combined with a noble-primitive martyr, but that's just the admiring version of the same racial prism." As a black man, I couldn't agree more in how distasteful and trite of an objectification this is. The distaste is obvious in that objectifying anyone is never good. And the trite nature comes in the fact that this depiction of black men is as old as the black existence in America alone. Not to mention Toback has sung this before in previous movies (as Carson pointed out) with Fingers and 2004's When Will I Be Loved. But I guess the real verdict will surface when the movie does. It's all subjective, no?
Great articles, great clothes, and supremely enjoyable.
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