Weird coincidence: All three of the actresses I mention here (including Penelope Ann Miller) have played Matthew Broderick's romantic interest

1994:

Mia Sara.

Here again, admittedly, I'm hedging a bit.



Because Sara probably loomed largest in my brain around 1986, when she was Sloane, Ferris' girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (she had the greatest hair). She stood out to me and I'd always remembered her.



Then, in 1994, she did a little movie called Timecop--which seems destined to be remembered as "pretty good...for a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick." Certainly that's how I remember it, with one addition:

In said film--let me put this as gently as possible--Mia Sara exposed her breasts to the camera for the first time. You can understand how this was an important moment for me.

Ferris (recently issued on DVD for the third time) remains her most praised work. I paid my own tribute to her in my Girlfriend's Boyfriend screenplay/novel, a character named Jenny Sloane is half-named after Sara's Ferris character. She was also my physical model for the character.

Traci Lind.

I know nothing about this actress--in fact I only remember ever seeing her in one movie, The Road to Wellville. However, in that movie, she displayed one of the prettiest asses I have ever seen, when Matthew Broderick fantasizes he can see her undressed.



(I'm determined not to play around with what I mean in this series of posts--and BTW, click to enlarge, you pervs)

Lind seems to be residing in another corner of the "Whatever Happened To" box, perhaps opposite Penelope Ann Miller.

Seventeen happiness

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into the '93 beauty files...

1993:



Laura Dern. Dern isn't one of those women whose hotness jumps out at you like, say, Alexis Bledel. Bledel just looks like a movie and TV star, or a Tiger Beat cover girl.

Dern has more of that Maggie Gyllenhaal thing going on, wherein she looks like a regular person, just who every now and then manages to look like a pinup.


Dern most recently appeared as Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in the HBO film, "Recount." I haven't seen it, but the film was nominated for 11 Emmys, including a nod for Dern. A role in "Jurassic Park IV" is also said to be in the works.

Now married to musician Ben Harper (that's right, she moans, "Oh Ben," when she...oh hell, I'm not gonna finish, I'm better than that...no I'm not) and a mother.

She was quoted recently as having said

"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

Andie MacDowell

Is she worth it? When she's in a good film ( Short Cuts, Sex, Lies & Videotape), MacDowell can actually be quite a winning actress. I've often said that I consider Groundhog Day to be the first Bill Murray movie in which I bought the romance.

When she's in a bad movie though (Bad Girls)...she can't help.

She has got nice laugh lines around her eyes...



...and her nipples appear to be made out of adhesive, which must come in handy.

MacDowell joins Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer and others in trying to stay sexually desirable (in Hollywood) after 50. I don't know if this'll help that or hurt it, but a male colleague from her modeling days has recently published a memoir, in which he reportedly kisses-and-tells about a night they spent together.

Kate Winslet dressed.

I never thought I'd say this, but Kim Kardashian somehow manages to make that outfit look cheap

Sixteen happiness

Funny, smart women who can write, like the much-missed Molly Ivins.

Sarah Shahi is so smoking hot she may actually make my favorite color burst into flames

Holy crap.

The good news: This is the greatest-looking used book store I've ever seen.

The bad news: It's in Scotland.

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Amazing waterfalls and lovely women

I think we've all wondered about this:


Fashion Victim by ~The-Lovely-Hearts on deviantART

Lovely (01)
Originally uploaded by EdlinRoguel

I don' ; t savent vraiment qui c'est, mais je la respecte profondément.

Amazing waterfall, seen on boat ride outside of Lucerne, Switzerland
Originally uploaded by mikep

Now that's a cheap shot.

"Clone Wars" isn't even as entertaining as the "Empire Strikes Back" game for the Atari 2600 back in the mid-‘80s.

From this attack on George L.

Methinks they're taking this a bit too seriously.

"the most anticipated event of the year"?

I anticipated the new Star Wars movie...which I hope to give a miss, but may be seeing with my nephew...more than this.

They are cos92med heroes, hear them roar

1992 :

Jasmine, Aladdin. Sexiest Disney character ever. (That's right, I said it.)



Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman.

hear me roar
Originally uploaded by trixiebedlam

Halle Berry is sexyhotter than Pfeiffer, to me, and a better actress (again, in mine humble opinion), but comic book movies have not done as well by her,

The Packrat Files: Batman Returns Catwoman Cup From McDonald's
Originally uploaded by cbake76

And especially this role.

Fifteen happiness

Anne Hathaway in pure white...thank you god

Anne Hathaway


Anne Hathaway

Stars in my eyes

Pin the tail on Poppy Montgomery.





You know, Audrey Tautou is very appealing.

I'm the first person to notice that, right?



Jessica Simpson: Big breasts as art form.

Liz Phair feels that you've been ignoring her since she sold out.

EDITED w/ ADDITION: Because the media have 24 hours a flippin’ day to kill...

They give publicity to shit smears like this guy.

If they just reported the truth, and just talked to people who had some education as to what they were talking about, it wouldn’t take up more than 20 minutes.

This is why when I think of the people who lit the match that destroyed America, I think of one name: Ted Turner. He invented CNN and the 24-hour news cycle, and thus we lost context and perspective.

It’ll never happen, Pandora’s box being impossible to close, but I often wish I could somehow take us back to one news report at the end of the day. And the media forced to make their limited time on-camera actually count for something.

But, why waste time fantasizing…

ETA: I would like to revise and expand upon my earlier remark that Corsi is a shit smear. What I meant is that he is a bigoted, white-power loving, interracial-sex hating shit smear.

Thanks for your time.

Well, that would explain a lot

Dig this excerpt from a GQ & A with Aaron Sorkin:

Have you met Obama? What do you make of him?

The first time I met Barack Obama—I should say the only time I've met Barack Obama—was a year ago, when he was doing fifty-person-cocktail-party fund-raisers. He flattered me by saying, "My intention is to steal a lot of your lines."

(Emphasis mine-BV)

My prediction is he's just going to blow the doors off the place in Denver. ...I don't need to tell you that I'm a big fan of oratory. A big part of leadership is the goose-bump experience. We've been missing that.

I also like that Sorkin doesn't blame others when he doesn't write well:

Why didn't Studio 60 work?

I made too many mistakes. I would give anything to go back and get another bite of that apple.

He's also gentlemanly about Tina Fey, as I would expect him to be (even if I'm not always capable of it), and mentions something about a possible new show on HBO...

91ctures of nearly nude babes

(yes, I'm trying to increase my whorely--I mean, hourly visits)

1991:

Linda Hamilton. James Cameron created what I like to call "the Sigourney Weaver/Linda Hamilton workout," picked up by such actresses as Laura Dern in Jurassic Park and Natalie Portman in Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones.

In short, it's where girls get tough; dirty and hot.

There's a rumor that Hamilton will make an appearance or appearances in the new Terminator movies.

Personally I don't buy it, and if it is true, I'm not sure it's a good idea.

Geena Davis.

She may not have picked a lot of great vehicles in the past 25 years (look at the first two pictures below if you don't believe me, to refresh your memory).

Originally uploaded by emilie margaret

but damn, could the girl wear panties.

--unsurprisingly, she's a former model in the Victoria Secret's Catalogue.



Cute as a button, too. More noted recently for her extra-acting activities, such as almost making the 2000 US Olympic Archery team.

This seemed worth mentioning

US troops donate more to Obama than McCain

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US troops, stationed both abroad and in the US, have donated more money to Democrat Barack Obama than to decorated war hero Republican John McCain, a study published Thursday showed.

The study by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan research group, showed that by the end of June, Obama had received six times more from soldiers stationed abroad than Vietnam war veteran McCain, who comes from a prestigious military family.

Even McCain's former rival for the Republican nomination, Ron Paul, who opposed the Iraq war, had managed to garner more funds.

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