Be still my heart.

Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Alice Braga and more, all breathing the same air at the same time.

(By all means, click to see full size)

"Fresh Faces," from the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, via that other blog.

Is it me, or is this at once the most self-satisfied, depressing and dull story you've ever read in your life?

Very sad. But, I love it when millionaires start suing each other...

It happened AGAIN again!

The divine "tough-power chick" Milla Jovovich.



Anne Hathaway.


(Miss or Mister "Nine" jokes about my future bride would be very tiresome here)



Milla Jovovich, Anne Hathaway and, sitting in-between them, Ashley Olsen (hair looking rather cheap) and an unidentified but adorable-looking blonde.

ETA: Fan RAB has identified the adorable blonde as Chloe Sevigny in the comments. As you can see in my reply, I might have hazarded a guess that it was her, but didn't. I should have trusted my instincts.

Especially since I'd like to make her my second wife, after Ms. Hathaway...who I do not intend to divorce. It's a Big Love kind of thing.

Sigh...I miss this girl

It's happening again.

The women that I love are being drawn together. In red, Minka Kelly, of Friday Night Lights, in grey, singer/actress Mandy Moore.


Sure, Mandy is smiling, but just look at that body language. She's telling Minka, "Varkentine is mine, girlfriend, and you don't want to know what I do to competition!"

...okay, time to check the dosage on the ole' medication...

Dammit...I OUGHT to be able to come up with a clever and comical caption for this image...

This is the news.

Actual Earthlink News headline:

Children Caught in Middle During Wars

And in other news, ads sell for high prices during the Super Bowl. Babies are cute. Jack might seem foolish for trading his cow for magic beans, but wait. Comic books do not rot your mind. Life is not a cabaret. Las Vegas sells itself as a place to commit adultry.

And, finally, another actual EN headline...

Gunman Sought in Deadly Store Shooting

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Well who the hell else would you seek in a shooting (deadly or otherwise), a botanist?

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

People say to me, "Ben, you say the state of Tennessee is brain-dead."

And I say "Why, yes...yes I do."

Then they ask "Well, Ben...exactly how brain-dead are they?"

And I reply, "They're so brain-dead, they're going to award delegates to Fred 'Short run, wasn't it?' Thompson even though he's withdrawn from the race. That's how brain-dead."

At this time, I'd like to formally thank the people of Tennessee for so often being the slab of meat to my Rocky Balboa. Don't think I don't appreciate it, people.

Random Flickr-Blogging: 5968

"Steve, when you said your favorite place to eat was some hole-in-the-wall dive, this is not what I had in mind!"

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No one told Skip.

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Dennis Rodman as a fire hydrant.

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FOX Sports: When Cougars Attack!

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Disney's latest attempt to take a film property to the Great White Way of Broadway: Tron: The Musical!

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"Rookie bridesmaid mistake, Edwina. See, this is why you always bring a coat."

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He'd stood there and stood there and stood there, but John had begun to believe Heather Graham was never going to pass by on her way to the shower again.

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Bryant could convince no one he was constantly being followed by an invisible dolphin only he could see.

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Just try not to think about why the bear is smiling, why Herb is sitting in his lap (and how he lost his hair), or what Julie is doing to his ear.

Source.

I simply must find this girl.

Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together - mass hysteria!



It has begun.

(Photo "Honeymooners" by McNeney.)

(If you don't know what movie the quotes come from, don't tell me. I don't wanna know...)

Ohmigosh

Well, talk about stumbing into depressing information.

I was just looking for pictures of the actress Kim Walker, who's probably best known for her role as "Heather #1" in Heathers.

Turns out she died in March 2001, at the age of 32.

I had no idea.



Obviously, she was a beautiful young woman. I can't say she was one of my favorite actresses simply because her career didn't last long enough to establish that.

But she was in Heathers, one of the most perfect movies ever made, and she was great in it. She even got to deliver arguably the most memorable line in a movie full of them:



This assures her a kind of immortality, anyway. Which is all we might wish. If there's an afterlife I hope she's there...and that they don't make her sing "Kumyaba" too many times.

Suri she can't be serious...

From the front, she’s all woman, but actress Selma Blair says not everybody gets that from behind. “I had long hair for a while … but I wanted to go back to my Tom Cruise cut,” the “Cruel Intentions” star explained to Elle magazine (excerpted on Digital Spy). “I told my hairdresser to shave the back and leave the front long.” Apparently her sassy new ‘do left some confused. “Then someone thought I was Tom from the back.

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For those of you playing at home, this is Tom Cruise:



And this is Selma Blair:



Like twins.

BTW, the article where I found that picture says

Selma Blair is looking for love – and average Joes could be in with a chance.

The Cruel Intentions actress, 35, says she's on the look-out for an older guy 'who's not afraid to look like a fool'.

She told Elle magazine: 'I want to hang out with someone not so polished.'

Gimme a call, babe. I'm a year older than you; I have more than one friend who will vouch for the fact that I've been willing to look like a fool on several occasions. And I'm so unpolished I'm practically cracked.

The first one of you who says "practically?" is getting slapped right in the face.

I don't watch "Ugly Betty," so I really don't know who Ana Ortiz is

However, I am enjoying her butt.

Gives entirely new meaning to the phrase, "Have a Coke & a smile"

This is Adrianne Palicki, BTW, of Friday Night Lights. FWIW she's still on my short list of actresses I'd like to see as my character Annabel.

Celeste

I found this picture while Googling images for PD. I had been going to post it here with some kind of smart-guy comment like "When this woman falls in the forest, if there's no one there to hear it, does she make a sound?"

But then, curious, I took a glance at who she is. Her name is Celeste Lear and, turns out, she's a musician. Her MySpace page describes her music as "Electronica / Alternative / Down-tempo."

I like it, enough to make a mental note to see if I can score a copy of her upcoming CD to review for Ink19.

But can they PROVE I'm this skeptical?

You Are Very Skeptical

Your personal motto is: "Prove it." While some ideas, like life after death, may seem nice... You aren't going to believe them simply because it feels good. You let science and facts be your guide... Even if it means you don't share the beliefs of those around you.

How Skeptical Are You?

Don't hate me, because I'm beautiful...

You Are 42% Vain

You're a little vain, but more than anything you have a healthy amount of confidence. Thinking the world of yourself is great. Just don't think less of those who aren't as pretty as you!

How Vain Are You?

For Corey.

Get well soon, buddy. And...



This is us, isn't it?

"Excuse me miss, I think your dress may have shrunk a bit in the laundry."

I'm not sure if this is really her or just a like-a-look, but...

Doesn't this look like Emma Caulfield, who played the ex-vengeance demon Anya on Buffy?



(There was no credit on the photo, so I really don't know)

I like this

It's beautiful. I just wish I knew where it was.

Speaking of Eva Mendes...(UPDATED)

Oh, my dear lord...

...am I the only person who looks at this cropped version of her naked PETA ad and thinks...



"Face the camera. Face the camera. Oh god, face the camera."

I am, aren't I?

Take a minute and read this...

It's an article by "playwright and sometime actor" Chris Durang making a case for Barack Obama; it's pretty convincing, IMO.

(found via News From ME)

No I'm sorry, I can't accept that either.

The "AskMen" website has named its "Most Desirable Women of 2008." Well, I think we all knew I wasn't going to let that pass without comment.

Now. Leaving out some faves of mine who, I concede, simply aren't well-known enough to top such a list (for example Charisma Carpenter, Amber Benson and other Buffy babes).

And that dammit, if her father was going to be on the ticket this year Cate Edwards certainly would have made it.

And some, like Mia Sara, have simply been out of the spotlight for too long.

But I'm still left with a question or two. Such as:

What, no Kate Winslet? To be fair-she was, apparently, one of the 99 nominees-she just didn't make it to the top 10 in the hearts of AskMen's users. I blame my fellow Americans, because the English know she has the most desirable body in Britain.

Anne Hathaway was also a nominee who didn't make the top 10 of their list-even though for some of us, she's reason enough to believe in god and angels.

But anyway, here is their top 10, presented in reverse order:

10. Adriana Lima. Desirable? Yes-if you want to give all other women in the world who aren't Brazilian models anorexia...

9. Marisa Miller. Never heard of her. Hang on...ok, apparently she's a Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated model.

Contestants were selected according to their intelligence, humor, charisma, and ambition.

She certainly looks funny...

8. Rihanna. I admit it-I missed the whole Rihanna thing.



She's sexy, yes-love the eyes-but...eighth most desirable woman of the year?

7. Jessica Biel. Well, I've talked about this. She's kind of a joke to me.

6. Scarlett Johansson. I've talked about her, too. And I have a question. How many bad movies does she get to make before she's no longer considered "hot" in Hollywood terms?

I mean ok, yes, she's got a body that makes grown men whimper (myself included), but...

5. Jessica Alba. To me, Jessica Alba is like that girl at the gym who you always see, and enjoy watching work out...and then one day you talk to her and discover she has the brain of a frozen pretzel.

4. Eva Mendes. Now we're talking! I love her.

3. Kate Beckinsale. I really don't care for Kate Beckinsale. Mostly because I believe she's a snob who thinks, to use the vernacular, her shit don't stink.

2. Alessandra Ambrosio. See Adriana Lima.

1. Katherine Heigl. Well obviously, yes, I think she's good-looking, but...(see Rihanna).

Here's one of those things that seems funny at first, but makes me angrier the more I think about it

With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.

At first I was just going to throw this up here with some sort of a crack about "leave it to the Republicans to know what's really important." But...

The matter may not compare to the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes, Specter said, but he added, "I do believe that it is a matter of importance. It's not going to displace the stimulus package or the Iraq war, but I think the integrity of football is very important, and I think the National Football League has a special duty to the American people - and further the Congress - because they have an antitrust exemption."

Are you fucking kidding me?

I hate myself for this one

Selma Blair fingers my favorite color.

Holy-!

You know, between you and me, I've never thought Cate Blanchett was that gorgeous. A great actress, to be sure, and I'm not saying she's not good-looking. Just that, for me, in the very personal way in which we all instinctively "rank" those we think have sex appeal or not, she never scored as high as, say:

Katherine Heigl.



Or Fairuza Balk.



On my own personal list (which I don't really have, in case you were wondering, but...I think you know what I'm saying), I'd probably have put her somewhere between Anjelica Huston and Anna Paquin.


I stand corrected!

"All right, dammit, stop dropping the damn ball! This is the last time I'm bending over to pick it up, you pervs..."

Is it just me, or does anybody else think that this is the sexiest thing they have ever seen?

It is just me, isn't it?

"Shoot 'Em Up" is my new favorite movie...

...ever.

Ok, that's over-the-top, but I'm saying this is a fantastic flick.

A sensational "tough guy" movie (better than Sin City), and a better "movie that knows it's a movie" than Planet Terror.

I enjoyed it from beginning to end. It's genuinely funny and genuinely thrilling, which is a harder mix to get right than some may think. Director/screenwriter Michael Davis does it by setting the loony tone right from the beginning (I wouldn't dream of telling you how...but I've just given you a clue) and maintaining it throughout.

I was surprised to realize, listening to his DVD commentary, that Davis is the man who made 100 Girls and Eight Days A Week, two films which I'd put in the category of good-looking movies that are completely lost when it comes to screenplay.

Here, his skills as a writer have finally caught up with those as a director. And the actors, god bless them, know how to play both comedy and reality, so you laugh even as you're caught up in the action, and vice-versa.

Shoot 'Em Up is very much a "guy's" movie, but I think you ladies might like it too, as I say, it's funny, and, ah...Clive Owen.



Can't be bad...

The always-worth-watching Paul Giamatti looks like he's having an exhilarating time breaking free from his typecasting. Without ever quite "winking" at the audience he plays a villain with just the right touch of self-mockery.

We (straight) guys won't be drooling over Clive, but besides the zoom-bang action, we do get Monica Bellucci, who of course looks like a goddess.



But she also gives the best "hooker with a heart of gold" performance since Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas.



In a small but key role, the very pretty actress Ramona Pringle (above) plays the pregnant woman whose troubled delivery-to say the least-is the start of the whole thing.

Though she's killed early on, she was extremely well-cast. Making enough of an impact in her burst of time onscreen that, later, when she's dead but not quite gone, we still think of her as a her. And wonder about her back-story. I did, anyway.



Oh, and talking of whoring, which I was...I'm not ashamed to tell you there's one scene where Clive O. spanks a woman played by Laura DeCarteret (right).

I thought one or two of you women might be interested to know that (well-maybe a little ashamed).



Jane McLean (above) and Talia Russo (below) play hookers the metal characteristics of whose hearts are not determined, but look good in g-strings and bras, which is all the movie really asks of them.



It also has the second-most fun ending credits of any 2007 movie I've seen (Ratatouille is the most).

That this movie did so poorly at the box office is, I think, a reflection on us as a people.

I haven't seen Juno, but there's no way it's better than this.

I hope she gets the help she needs

Britney Spears Heads To The Hospital Again

Ok-what the hell-one more for the road

I love this lady's smile...



This is Lady of Baghdad, oil on canvas by William Clarke Wontner, 1900. I know nothing else about it.