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Leto 'Stache

It only took me about 0.0003 seconds to go from thinking about Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted to thinking about Jared Leto in Girl, Interrupted. Ah yes, way back when in the golden age of Jared, before he got roles where he had any character to play other than Pretty Pretty Man. And that's the way I liked it! He's sort of out-acted in the movie by his facial-hair tour-through-the-ages, but he looks good. Love the pornstache!

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"Some advice, OK?"

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"Just don't point your fucking finger at crazy people!"

Stolen from Inspired by this great post over at Sunset Gun where Kim reminds me of all the reasons why I love Angelina Jolie forever and always yet sometimes forget.

Kim even manages two statements that made me chuckle at their audaciousness yet I immediately agree with them both:

a) Jolie should've gotten her Oscar nomination this year for Wanted, and b) Jolie would've had a field day with Anne Hathaway's part in Rachel Getting Married... I especially love this line from Kim:

"You know she would have taken all of those plates during that dishwasher loading moment and smashed them to pieces out of protest for the sheer dorky squareness of that competition."

Ha! If only.
Angie totally could've saved that movie from itself.
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Happy Birthday, Jayne

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Nathan Fillion and I would both like to
nuzzle our birthday wishes like Eskimos
all up all over you, Adam Baldwin.
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Gratuitous Tab Hunter

What the hell, I figure I brought him up with that Damn Yankees story, might as well go for it, right?

And here's a little gallery of Tab with the ladies. You might not know this but he was quite the stud with the ladies back in the day. Winning hearts left and right he was...

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I Am Link

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--- Who's That Girl? It's Cordelia, sillies! Aww, I missed Charisma Carpenter's face. That's the first still (via) from a thriller called Vivid in which she stars. Here's how they describe the film:

"Vivid is a slight adaptation of a short film made in the late '70s called The Dreamhouse. Reg has added a lot more beef to the screenplay and added some dark scenes and character undertones. We are led into the mind of Susan, an American crime writer who has recently married David and moved to a quiet part of the British country to finish her latest novel. She finds herself questioning her own sanity, whilst others around her are almost playing her as a game. There is a definite Straw Dogs element to this movie mixed with The Amityville Horror and classic, soft '70s Hammer tones. This is more in line with sophisticated thriller/horror movies and is very British."

There are more stills at this link.

--- These Have Always Brought Me Luck - The Film Experience wishes Liz Taylor a very happy 77th birthday today in a delightfully comprehensive manner.

--- Jason The 2nd - Yup, surprise surprise, they're gonna make another Friday the 13th movie. And here I thought that would never happen! Ahem. The good news is apparently director Marcus Nispel is off looking at other projects and probably (probably, fingers crossed) won't do this next one. Good news, that. Maybe they can find someone who doesn't disdain what the series is all about this time. Maybe they'll set some of it on (gasp) the actual campground! Imagine that craziness?

--- Cue Fur, Et Cetera - If you want to look at Rick Baker's concept art for the wolfy transformation of Benicio Del Toro in the upcoming flick The Wolfman, click on yonder. This shit will make or break the movie, guys, so I hope you get it right.

--- And finally, y'all need to check out Final Girl's comic rendering and review of the film Trilogy of Terror 2 that Stacie's posted this week. Gee-nee-us. Here is Part One, here is Part Two, and here is Part 3. Is there anything Stacie cannot do and do spectacularly? If I find out she's a wonderful darner I might just die of my inadequacies.
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Good Morning, World

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A little more Hugh never hurt nobody...
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Pics of the Day

More Wolverine beefcakey goodness (via):

(Click em to embiggen)
(No seriously, click on them)
Just... fuck.
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Damn Gyllenhaal

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So Jake is finally taking the promise he showed to us in his opening monologue for SNL where he proved he's got a stellar set of pipes and he's making a musical, eh? Via Variety:

Carrey, Gyllenhaal do 'Yankees'

New Line Cinema is playing ball with Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal on "Damn Yankees," attaching both actors to star in a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical.

Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script.

The musical is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the duo behind New Line's musical "Hairspray"; a sequel to that film is in the works.

"Damn Yankees," which bowed on Broadway in 1955 and won seven Tony Awards, focuses on Joe Boyd, a happily married middle-aged man whose devotion to a hapless pro baseball team prompts him to make a Faustian bargain with the devil to help the team. He's transformed into slugger Joe Hardy, in exchange for Boyd's soul. Boyd can break the deal, but the deadline occurs during the World Series. For good measure, the devil engages Lola, a gorgeous lost soul, to seduce the slugger and seal his fate.

The plan is for Carrey to play the devil, and Gyllenhaal to play Boyd. It's the first musical for each.

Being me I have no knowledge of Damn Yankees other than knowing it's a baseball musical. I see that the glorious 50s pin-up and closet-case Tab Hunter played the role in the original filmed version that Jake's taking on now though, which... no comment (my no comment should be read as plenty of comment by the way).

Anyway, yay Jake making a movie. I'll watch him do anything. And if that anything involves jock-straps, then all the better.
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How Are You Going To Spend The 76 Minutes This Weekend That You Won't Be Spending Watching Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience?

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I think I'll wash some dishes. Maybe eat a sandwich.
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Pics of the Day

I wish that BD didn't have to crud up their exclusives with that damned enormous watermark of theirs; alas. But here are some new and super freaky shots from Vincent "Cube" Natali's upcoming sci-fi / horror DNA monster-piece called Splice:

There are a couple more (marred-by-giant-watermark) shots over at BD, including one semi-gruesome one that I declined to swipe.

And yes that girl with the blond hair is indeed Sarah fuckin' Polley, aka the reason I can't wait to see this movie. Polley is always the best reason to see anything she's involved with or in, always and forever.

Previous post on this movie here. Splice was produced by Guillermo del Toro and is out in limited release on September 18th.
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5 Off My Head - These Are A Few Of My Favorite Total Recall Things

This Total Recall remake news has got me frightened. Frightened for the citizens of Mars anew! I'd thought that Quaid had saved them, but now they're in danger again. So I beg of the movie's remakers, do not forget these, the five most important denizens of Mars!

Midget Hooker with crimped hair
and machine gun

"Twooo weeks!" lady that's really Arnold in disguise

Kuato, God of the Lower Intestinal Tract

Benny's fey alien arm

And you, Three-Titted Hooker,
you I'll miss most of all!

With a very special shout-out to Sharon Stone's finest performance (fighting Arnold Schwarzenegger in an aerobics outfit beats anything she was up to in Casino) and to the dude whose head explodes, as runners-up in Total Recall awesomeness:

I love you two too.

Man writing this post has made me need
to watch Verhoeven's classic rightthissecond.

ETA I figured I should work this real-world story in here somehow, but wasn't sure how. Alien life possible on Mars! Of course it is, silly scientists! Alien life with twice the crimping power and triple the bazooms at that!
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Ready Set, Dead Set Go

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I've watched Dead Set - the "Zombies meet Big Brother" TV miniseries that aired in the UK this past Fall - almost twice now in the past week, and it really needs to stop giving me nightmares. Like... really. Stop it, Dead Set.

Also, I might mention, Dead Set OWNS y'all. Seek this shit out if you haven't caught it yet. It's not on DVD or anything here in the States so acquiring it can be... difficult... but it's worth some effort. Scary as fuck.

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