While I sit here waiting for someone to finally give me the ultimate mashup of movie characters making fart noises, I suppose I can settle for today’s best effort of some of Hollywood’s hunkiest A-list male actors saying, “I love you.” There are also some people in this that have no business having ever been cast as a romantic lead *pauses screen, gives middle finger to Josh Radnor* but this post is all about what you ladies want today (or until the next post).
So why don’t you draw yourself a nice, hot bubble bath, pop a bottle of bubbly, strap on a blindfold, lay back and pretend like Matt Damon, George Clooney, Tom Cruise, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Shia LeBeouf, Brad Pitt, Zac Efron, Leo DiCaprio, Robert Pattinson, that guy from Scrubs and Paul Rudd are saying those awesome three little words to you. Also, while you’re blondfolded, I’m going to steal your TV.
At this point you’d have to be borderline retarded not to notice that Brad Pitt is constantly eating in his movies. I thought it was kind of funny as a running gag during the Oceans movies, but using the same running gag in Moneyball was kind of lame. That said, there are few I’d rather watch eat than Brad Pitt. Maybe Warwick Davis. |movieclips|
MORNING LINKS
Hey, do me a favor, would you? Check out this week’s Frotcast. Everyone says it’s good. Joe King pitches movies about black midgets and we make fun of MANswers. |Frotcast|
The With Leather Discussion: Has Anyone Ever Climbed The Ladder Like Stacy Keibler? |With Leather|
5 Elseworlds Comics That Should Be Made Into Video Games |Gamma Squad|
‘Community’ Has an Awesome Board Game; Yes, Annie’s Boobs Are On It |Warming Glow|
Tucked-In And Still Goin’ Hard: Video Footage Of A Teenage Kanye West Rapping |Smoking Section|
25 People Who Think MLK Day Is Milk Day |Buzzfeed|
Adult Swim’s 15 Best Webcontents of the Week |Adult Swim|
Beloved Comedian Comes Out As Gay On ‘WTF.’ This was actually pretty surprising. More the “beloved” part than the gay part. (Just kiddin ya, Glass!) |HuffPost Comedy|
The Screen Actor’s Guild released their list of nominees for the 18th annual (yay! finally legal!) SAG Awards today, and not surprisingly– in fact, predictably to the point of being nauseating — biopics were the big winner. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Michelle Williams, Meryl Streep, Kenneth Branagh, Armie Hammer, and Jonah Hill were all nominated for their portrayals of J. Edgar Hoover, Billy Beane, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Laurence Olivier, Clyde Tolson, and Paul DePodesta (fictionalized as Peter Brand) respectively. You’d think a guild made up of actors of all people would recognize that creating a believable personality out of words on a page is harder than just doing an impression of a living person, but I guess not. Daryl Hammond should make his SNL sketches longer, he’d clean up on these.
Here’s Brad Pitt in a super short film featuring him dressed as Henry Spencer from David Lynch’s 1978 film, Eraserhead. To be honest, I’m not really sure what the point of this was. It must be weird being so famous that you can film yourself combing your hair in a different way and it gets covered by the New York Times.
[Apparently it was part of a whole series of contemporary actors "embodying" (dressing up as) cinematic villains from years past. Here's Baby Goose and George Clooney, for instance. They're... pretty boring, actually.]
Not to be outdone, here’s Harrison Ford in “Staplerhead.”:
(Story updated, 10/19/2011, 2:14 pm et — scroll to bottom for the latest)
General Motors is looking to get together with a Hollywood studio to remind us why we go to the movies: to see two-hour commercials! The car company, of which 27 percent is owned by the government, is reportedly in talks with WB to bankroll a Cannonball Run remake. That sounds great, new ideas are for assholes.
Producer Al Ruddy (The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby) is producing the project, and the Fox-based Shawn Levy (Real Steel) has expressed interest, wanting it anchored by his Night at the Museum star, Ben Stiller. However, we’re told that that Levy is second in line to Warner Bros.’ go-to action-comedy director Guy Ritchie, who is considering taking it on and envisions it with Brad Pitt starring with some of his Ocean’s 11 confreres.
So Brad Pitt and Guy Ritchie, but if that doesn’t work out, Ben Stiller and Shawn Levy. Uh huh, sure. 10 bucks says by the time this gets made, they’ll be down to Brett Ratner and the dude from Burn Notice.