Last week nopooh was at the MTV Movie Awards giving away free t-shirts for charity, hobnobbing with celebs, and taking lots of pics. In this promotion, we’re giving away the proceeds from sales of all t-shirts worn by celebrities at the event to their chosen charities, which include Ride for Autism, the Red Cross, Special Olympics and World Fit for Kids. Celebrities in attendance included Erin Murphy of Bewitched, Kevin Sorbo of Hercules, Brad Sherwood of Whose Line is it Anyway and Heath Pearce of Chivas USA.

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Step Brothers, 2008, starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, wins hands down as the best movie featuring graphic tee shirts.  The simple plot: two 40 something live-at-home slackers end up roommates when their single parents marry.  They squabble, act and dress like ten year olds with a tremendous assist from their brilliant wardrobe, which prominently features vintage graphic tees, usually reproductions, since Ferrell is 6’4” and many of the original tees were women’s or children’s sizes.

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Marlon Brando, in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), singlehandedly reinvented the tee shirt, till then considered an undergarment, into the most recognizable piece of American male attire in existence today.   The iconic picture of Brando; handsome, glowering, clad in a tight white, plebian tee shirt established the uniform for the tortured, sensitive, working class male.  A journalist of the time described Brando as: “the Valentino of the bop generation”

If you missed seeing Christian Marclay’s The Clock at the Paula Cooper gallery in New York this winter, there’s still hope.  The twenty-four hour long film, spliced from innumerable film clips, is described on the gallery’s website: “The Clock uncannily proceeds at a unified pace as if re-ordered by the latent narrative of time itself. Because it is synchronized with the local time of the exhibition space, the work conflates cinematic and actual time, revealing each passing minute as a repository of alternately suspenseful, tragic or romantic narrative possibilities.”