Markus Bestin discusses rigors of his job at Nevada's Shady Lady Brothel. Feb. 1, 2010 — -- He's 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, a former marine. And if you're a woman in search of no-strings romance, ...

A brothel in the Nevada desert town of Beatty has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only ...

The 1980 film American Gigolo established Richard Gere as a leading man and was highly influential for its mix of slick style and a dark plot. Written and directed by Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader, ...

There’s little point in comparing Showtime’s “American Gigolo” with the cult film of the same name — the new series borrows the basic premise of Paul Schrader’s exceptionally stylish neo-noir, along ...

Carly Lane is an Atlanta-based writer and critic who has been with Collider in some form or fashion since 2021. She considers herself a television nerd, diehard romance/sci-fi/fantasy reader, and ...

For anyone who is exhausted by the male antihero, “American Gigolo,” on Showtime, is good news. Our main man, Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal), has not committed one selfish act in his sad life. He has been ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Let’s cut to the chase: This is not your parents’ “American Gigolo.” Showtime’s dark series shares a name, the Blondie theme song and some characters with the 1980 film that launched Richard Gere’s ...

Though production on the Shailene Woodley-led drama “Three Women” has already been completed, the series will no longer premiere on Showtime, which has also decided not to renew “Let the Right One In” ...

With its pulsing burble of Blondie music and its chilly aesthetic, the 1980 Paul Schrader film “American Gigolo” is a showpiece of what would soon be the Reagan decade. Some 42 years later, a TV ...