"Hav-ing the time of our liiiiiives, oooooh-oooohhh..."

When Hugh Jackman and Australia director Baz Luhrmann hang out, as you can imagine, it’s just a couple of good ol’ bros, broin’ out, doin’ bro stuff. Watching the footy, blowin’ the foam off a pint of suds, and of course, doing karaoke dressed like Japanese schoolgirls. You know, like bros do. Give me a pound, dog, let’s rock this town.

From Jackman’s recent interview with MTV:

“I actually did karaoke with Rob [Pattinson]. That’s random, isn’t it?” he said. “We were on our way to Japan, and he was promoting ['Twilight'] and I didn’t talk to him at all on the flight, because he’s this really tall guy with a hood over his head literally [ZOMG, R-PATTZ IS IN THE KLAN! -Ed], and every time I’d go to the bathroom, I’d be like, ‘Man, that guy takes some serious sleeping pills,’ because this was him [slumps over] the whole time.”

But the twosome quickly went from strangers on a plane to friends at a bar. “When he got out, I was like, ‘Hey, man,’ and Baz Luhrmann was also on the flight because we were promoting ‘Australia.’ So we went out to this Japanese karaoke bar, and we invited Rob, and he came,” he said. “And it was so much fun. Man, he’s got a voice. Really soulful.”

Jackman expanded a bit on the night’s debauchery, revealing what really goes on at a Japanese karaoke bar, for the uninitiated.

“The first thing you do is you get inside this room, the doors are closed, and there’s, like, eight of you,” Jackman explained. “So it feels a little weird. And then all of a sudden, they open, and they bring in these boxes, which are basically [full of] dress-up [clothes], and it’s all girls’ clothes. I was a schoolgirl, Baz got dressed up, and Rob did not. He was too cool for school.” [hat tip: videogum]

As much as I want to make fun of Hugh Jackman for being a fruity actor who can’t stop singing and dancing for five seconds, in all honesty, hanging out with him actually sounds fun as hell. “At first it felt a little weird, but then they brought us some schoolgirl outfits and Oy was like, ‘Suit up, blokes, it’s toime ta pahty!” I’d be lying if I told you I’ve never been to that kind of party.

And yes, that was an Abba reference in the photo caption. Because I guaran-goddamn-tee you they sang some Abba. Australians love Abba. Those people are the gayest racists on Earth.

Earlier this week during our workout routine — he puts on a dress, I hold his legs during situps while shouting encouragement, mostly stuff like “GRUNT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!” and “KEEP THOSE KNEES TOGETHER, PRINCESS, THIS AIN’T PROM NIGHT!” — Oliver Noble, our video editor, pitched me on this idea for a video quiz about famous actors in drag.  I never pay much attention to him while his big gums are a-flappin’, but I must’ve nodded or something, because he already made the thing.  So check it out.  Watch the video below, tally your score, and collect your prize.  Provided, of course, that you enjoy buying yourself prizes for taking video quizzes.  See? I love how collaborative this is.

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Daniel Radcliffe shirtless in a bra? Yes, Google, it's true.

I sort of dismissed Harry Potter movies as not my cup of tea a few years ago, but based on this new TV spot for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, perhaps I was wrong. Er, premature.  The sheer bra is cute.  But I wonder: couldn’t the choker be tighter?  LOOK OUT HARRY, THERE’S A GINGER BEHIND YOU!  MOTHER OF GOD, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

Guh. British people.  Cross dressing is their solution to everything.

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It seems like every script deal these days involves a concept that could be fully explained in a photoshop or tagline.  You think that’s ’cause people are stupider nowadays?  What was I talking about again?

Working Title paid high six figures against seven figures [that means high six figures for the script, seven figures if they make the movie] for an untitled concept comedy that Allan Loeb will write as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds.

Pic is described as a dude-in-drag romantic comedy, with Reynolds playing a jilted lover who must disguise himself as a woman and befriend his ex in order to win her back. [Variety]

Are you sh-tting me?  I realize the pitch was only worth that much because Ryan Reynolds was attached, but good lord, it’s not even a script yet.  He sold them on an idea that’s basically already been done better in hastily thrown-together South Park episodes.  I’ve seen better ideas in the comments section of this blog YouTube.  After this, Ryan Reynolds will have done a dressing-in-drag movie AND a fat suit movie.  All he has to do now is play a retard and a Holocaust survivor to complete Hollywood’s version of hitting for the cycle.