In our house, the viewing habits center around the weird, creepy, paranormal and freakish. In the past six months we have watched every episode of Supernatural, Reaper, True Blood, Lost and Dead Like Me. Not to mention Ghost Adventures and now, Ghost Hunters International. There’s some kind of theme here, but I think for the sake of all involved we’ll just skip that part.

We are pretty obsessed with TrueBlood, an HBO original series centered around the fictional sleepy Louisiana town of Bon Temps, which is based on a series of books by Charlaine Harris, The Southern Vampire Mysteries. The series is a supernatural bonanza featuring a world filled with vampires, shape-shifters, Dionysus goddesses, telepaths, fairies and humans — Southern gothic culture on the skids!

The show, which has become wildly popular, is in its second season, and stars Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin (The Piano) as telepath Sookie Stackhouse, and up and coming British actor Stephen Moyer, as Bill “Vampire Bill” Compton. Sometime during the filming of the show, Anna/Stephen, Bill/Sookie began dating, making their on-screen romance that much more electrified — the latest news is Stephen and Anna are now engaged. Awwww… From the NYDN:

It’s true love for “True Blood” co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer.

The real-life couple, who play lovers in the hit HBO vampire series, are engaged to be married, reps for both actors confimed to People.com.

Paquin, 27, will be playing stepmom to Moyer’s two children – his 9-year-old son Billy and 7-year-old daughter Lilac – from a previous marriage.

Now with marriage in their future, fans of the co-stars can expect the chemistry on-screen to continue in the show’s frequent nude scenes.

“Obviously, if you’re already with that person then you’re not having to sort of get over the ‘Wow, I’m naked with someone that I don’t even know the middle name of!’” said the actress.

As for Moyer, 39, his feelings are mutual: “My girl is hardcore.”

Despite what seems like a hokey concept, this show is well acted and well written — and the sex scenes are pretty awesome. If only porn were this interesting!

It’s not often (in fact NEVER) I sign on to a Hollywood romance, especially one with a 12-year age difference, but I have good feelings about these two and I wish them all the best. Let’s just hope Sheriff Eric doesn’t come between them (a little True Blood insider talk.) Seriously, if you aren’t watching this show, then you get a big fat fail.

Now, on to the really, really, really, really bad news.

The other show we watch religiously (pun intended) is the CW’s Supernatural, which centers around two “demon hunting” brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, played by two of the sexiest male specimens to walk the earth, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.

Yet another menagerie of otherworldly creatures plague the brothers, though in this case it’s of biblical proportions, featuring an epic battle between heaven and hell, with Sam and Dean caught in the middle trying to save earth from the Apocalyptic future which may or may not await us. Tune in next week.

Jared and Jensen of “Supernatural” — Hells YES!

Supernatural is great because of a tight script, attention to irony, visceral violence and lots of gore. Did I mention the tasty hotness of Jared and Jensen? Yeah, there’s that.

This series is in its fifth season and the battle between the demons and angels is heating up, and there are many twists and turns as the various seals to hell are broken. In comes the bad news, according to news reports, the vilest creature to walk among us, Paris Hilton, will be making a guest star appearance on Supernatural, which can only mean the final seal of hell is broken and the four horses are upon us. More from
E!Online:

This is going to be hilarious.

Sources tell us exclusively that celebutante Paris Hilton is going to guest star in episode five of Supernatural this season.

Should you freak out? Is she going to be a love interest for the boys? Here’s what we’re hearing…

Details about Hilton’s role are being kept under wraps, but we are advised that freaking out is not necessary. A source close to the show tells us: “The fans should trust [show runner] Eric Kripke.” (We’ve heard the storyline, and when you see it you will die. It’s awesome.)

Supernatural season five premieres Thursday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. on the CW.

Well, everyone wants to know how fans feel about this casting decision and all I have to say is, Paris is already an abomination to man and God, so it was simply a matter of time before Hollywood found a way to rid us of one of the plague manifestations which loomed on the horizon, the dreaded HERPETITISYPHILISCHLAMDIONERREA.

Now, if only they could find a role for Lindsay Lohan, the CDC might be able to concentrate on finding a cure for H1N1.

Update on Paris Hilton’s Supernatural guest appearance from TVOverMind.com:

Eric Kripke loves to frak with his legion of Supernatural fans. Last year he had the audacity to ‘go there’ and introduce a lost brother for Sam and Dean, a move that many fans had earmarked as the only event that could potentially see Supernatural ‘jump the shark,’ a fact he acknowledged by including the phrase in the title of the episode. Now Kripke is torturing fans with the news that he has cast anti-celeb Paris Hilton in a fifth season episode of Supernatural. As usual, though, Kripke is hoping fans will trust his instincts.

More details have come to the surface about just what ‘role’ Paris will play, and it seems that Paris may be playing one of the most vicious blood-sucking, soul destroying beasts ever: herself. Okay, not literally, but a demonic baddy that takes on the form of Paris Hilton. Are you starting to see the possibilities here? With a show like Supernatural, that isn’t afraid to title episodes like “Criss Angel is a Douchebag” that feature a thinly veiled effigy of their ‘victim,’ you can expect to see Supernatural pull out the stops when it comes to skewering Hilton. This could be a catharsis for us all.

Producer Sera Gamble confirmed that thought to Chi-Trib’s Mo Ryan. “We’re very excited that she said yes. She plays the role of a demonic creature that takes the form of… Paris Hilton. If you know our style, you know we go pretty funny and irreverent with this stuff, so–expect that. The fact that she wanted to do the episode speaks volumes about her sense of humor. She’s flat-out awesome for playing along. You’ll see.”

Oooo-kay. I have trust issues, but I will withhold criticism, but only if they promise to stake her heart (er, I mean her character of course), shoot her with a silver bullet, spray her with holy water, speckle her with rocksalt — and last, but certainly not least — piss on her ashes.

Then it will be a “cathartic” moment. I knew she’d be some kind of vile creature. It’s that life imitating art thing.

Then and Now

I have been a huge Mickey Rourke fan going WAY back. My absolute favorite of his film is The Pope Of Greenwich Village. In fact, The Pope… is way up there on my all time favorite movie list.  Rourke and Eric Roberts tore up the screen up with that movie. Who can forget Roberts as Paulie screaming “Charlie they took my thumb!”? If you have never seen this movie, you are really missing out on a classic.  I watched this movie more times than I can count, and after writing this story, I now have to watch it again.

Couple movie facts you may not know about the Pope: Michael Cimino was uncredited for co-directing this movie and it was originally titled Village Dreams.

The only downfall to this movie for me, was Daryl Hannah, who played Mickey’s girlfriend. (blech! never liked the gal, sorry)

I swooned over Mickey Rourke in the Pope. Damn he was handsome. It takes a lot for me to swoon, and a lot for me to use the word swoon. Rourke was also great in Diner and Barfly too, even though I was shocked at his appearance in Barfly as curmudgeonly writer, Charles Bukowski, himself not a “handsome” man.  But in comparison to Mickey’s face today, and I don’t mean that in a mean way, I look back and realize he didn’t really look half bad in Barfly.

I bet few people remember  Rourke did a cameo as an arsonist in Body Heat.  Now again, if you haven’t seen this twisty mystery, please do, you will NOT be disappointed I promise.

OH! And let’s not ever forget the two highly erotic and very steamy flicks (and perhaps what he’s best known for) Wild Orchid and 9 1/2 weeks. Zowie!

Mickey in the Real Ring

Mickey eventually dropped out of the movie scene, due to him being “castigated” from Hollywood, spurred by his erratic behavior and super crazy indulgent life-style, as well as abuse allegations against his Wild Orchid co-star turned wife, model Carrie Otis.

At the Golden Globes, his reply to Barbara Walters, when she asked him about his past and did he ever considered committing suicide:

“I sort of self-destructed and everything came out about fourteen years ago or so … the wife had left, the career was over, the money was not an ounce. The dogs were there when no one else was there.

Yeah, I didn’t want to be here, but I didn’t want to kill myself. I just wanted to push a button and disappear…I think I hadn’t left the house for four or five months, and I was sitting in the closet, sleeping in the closet for some reason, and I was in a bad place, and I just remember I was thinking, ‘Oh, man, if I do this,’ [and] then I looked at my dog, Lowjack, and he made a sound, like a little almost human sound. I don’t have kids, the dogs became everything to me. The dog was looking at me going, ‘Who’s going to take care of me?’

 
So what did Mickey do when he was not popular in the movie scene any more?

He went full tilt into professional boxing back in 1991, a sport that he has loved since he was in his teens. But after years of jumping in the ring and getting knocked around, Mickey received Docs orders to stop. There are many consequences of getting your noggin knocked around for that many years.  You may just forget what you did the night before (I have been there), or suffer irreversible brain damage. Not to mention what it can do to your face.

After years of bodily abuse, Mickey put down his boxing gloves and traded them in for a movie script, to play Randy the Ram in The Wrestler along with Marisa Tomei. Mickey had to put on twenty pounds, forget his boxing days and train in wrestling.
Director for The Wrestler, Darren Aronofksy, who took a chance on casting Mickey, really laid down the law before casting him. Darren wanted to be sure that Mickey was aware of the chance he was taking on him and wanted a total understanding between the two of them, and that he may not be able to pay Mickey at all.

Darren told Mickey:

“I can’t raise any money with you, you have ruined your career by misbehaving, but if we can get the money, you are going to listen to everything I say, and your going to do everything I tell you to do, you can never disrespect me in front of the crew, and I can not pay you.”

Mickey goes on to say, “Well, I thought…I heard he was smart and I know he has the balls too, so I thought this is my kind of guy” 

Mickey as "Randy the Ram" in The Wrestler

Well old fans and new fans were truly glad things worked out for Mickey and director Darren. In a very BIG way. The movie was a SMASH and Mickey ended up taking home the Independent Spirit Award and a Bafta (The British Academy Of Film and Television Arts)  for Best Actor.  Not to mention the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards where Mickey was presented with ”Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture,” AND he was nominated by the Academy Awards for Best Actor. Many people will argue that he deserved the Oscar for his genius performance.  Don’t worry, you’ll get em’ next time Mickey!
Actually this movie has a very long list of awards, that I didn’t even mention. 

So after years of being out of the movie game completely, Mickey came back with vengeance and kicked some serious ass! 

Now back to that pretty face…..

Mickey’s once gorgeous face really has suffered due to his lust for boxing. It didn’t help matters, when Mickey found himself on the bitter end of what Mickey called picking the “wrong guy” to do his plastic surgeries.

More from BANG Showbiz:

 The 56-year old star of ‘The Wrestler’ said that he has had five operations to fix the damage done to his face during his career as a boxer, and he thinks he may have gone to the “wrong guy”.

He said: “Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together.”

Suffered a catalogue of injuries while in the ring, but admits the cuts and bruises were nothing compared to one little-known side effect of the sport. He said: “I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone.

“I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose and a couple of operations to scrape out the cartilage because the scar tissue wasn’t healing properly. That was one of the most painful operations, but the worst was hemorrhoids.”

Mickey admitted to Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper: “I was out of control and did not think the party was going to end. I could stay in any hotel, buy anything I wanted – I once bought six Cadillacs for cash and then gave them all away – and take out all my entourage to dinner. “My mansion in Beverly Hills was like something from ‘Halloween III’ – Elvis on acid. The neighbours were moving in and out almost monthly.”

Mickey was married twice and is now single. Even after multiple surgeries and his wacky ways, the chicks swarm around “The Pope.” 
He was taking a break from filming his role as assassin Whiplash in the Iron Man sequel and was spotted at the Bijoux Lounge nightclub in the Big Apple’s Meatpacking district yucking it up and tossing back a few with club owner KyKy and some gals. VERY YOUNG GALS.  He was seen mugging it up (my parents term for kissing, which I always hated, and now I am using it… go figure) with a Victoria Secrets, Russian model, 24 year old, Eugenie Volodina. Yup! She’s TWENTY FOUR!

Usually I would tend to say eeeewwwww over such a huge age difference, Mickey is 32 years older to be exact – but I just can’t do it when it comes to Mickey Rourke.  I am thinking more on the lines of ”Yeah that’s right…  Mickey is 56 years old and he is out smooching with a 24 year old freakin’ model…so You go Pope!” 

Watch That Hand Missy!

Eugenie Volodina

Despite my life-long appreciation for “The Pope”, there is one thing that really bugged me the most about the new Mickey: his hair. Ok, that sounds a bit shallow, but come on, his hair looks horrendous. When I think back to his lovely locks, that I SO wanted to run my fingers through years ago, it makes me sad.

Mickey, for all the time and effort spent on stylish clothes and plastic surgery, has a dirty hot mess featuring The Bride of Frankenstein extensions. I’m sorry Mick!

And while I feel kind of bad for posting these pics, it’s my job, and besides…it’s clearly not keeping you from making time with the ladies, so just keep on being you.

But Mickey, if you are reading this, please before you step out clubbin’, put a comb through your hair.  Ok? 

A little bit more on this age thing. I guess the cliches, “your only as old as you feel”, “you only go around once”, and “life is too short to drink cheap wine”, can all apply to this situation.

Everyone has their own ways of handling aging. I know some people act and look way older than they should. So am I acting immature? Or am I just young at heart? Hmm.

During an interview after winning the BAFTA award for The Wrestler, Mickey reflected on what his boxing trainer Bill once told him, and also threw in his own views on aging:

“Every fighter in one night, gets old, and they’re the last to know, cause’ they always want one more”

Age according to the Pope:

“As age goes by, time can be a cruel thing, and especially in the way society is, which puts emphasis on ”how old is this person?”.

So there you have it, Mickey is not one to bullshit anyone either and he has always lived his life with great gusto, in the past perhaps a little too much vigor and vim. But now, he is taking it down a few notches and attributes his comeback after fourteen years to his psychiatrist, who he sees a few times a week named, “Steve,” and a Catholic priest ”Father Pete.”

Rourke is a Roman Catholic and quite the spiritual guy. But you can never really tame the Pope completely. He will never be brought down to the state of mellow.

Mickey once said: “I’ll never be mellow, OK? I’d rather be dead than mellow. You might as well take me out the back and shoot me in the back of the head before I’m going to be mellow.”

So even though Mickey will never be mellowed, has boxed for years, and played the roles of sexy tough guys, he has a huge soft side to him. The man is quite the animal lover. Especially dogs. He is also a big advocate for spaying and neutering. Right on Mick! Most of his dogs have been chihuahuas. He recently lost his beloved dog “Loki”.  She was a chihuahua-terrier mix. Mickey was so devastated over Loki’s death, he wore a necklace to the Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards which bared Loki’s picture, and even choked up during his acceptance speech when he mentioned her. It nearly broke my heart, to see the Pope cry.

Mickey said:

 ”Loki is deeply missed but with me in spirit. I feel very blessed that she fell asleep peacefully in my arms.

I just think  that was beyond sweet and touching.

Mickey loved his dogs so dearly,… that during his Golden Globes acceptance speech he thanked his beloved pups:

“Id like to thank all my dogs. The ones that are here, the ones that aren’t here anymore because sometimes when a man’s alone, that’s all you got is your dog. And they’ve meant the world to me.”

RIP Loki...Your Daddy Misses You

Mickey delivered quite the saucy acceptance speech at the Independent Spirit Awards, and he had the whole audience roaring. It’s definitely worth the watch, if you haven’t seen it.  The first thing he did surprisingly, was praise his co-star from the Pope Of Greenwich Village, Eric Roberts, who happen to be present that night .

Rourke said:

“Eric Roberts is probably the best actor I ever worked with, and I don’t know why, in the last 15 years ain’t nobody give him a chance to show his shit again.” and “Eric Roberts is the fucking man!”

They both have TONS of fans, and people would flock to go see them reunite. Mickey’s fans even have a blog website called Uniquely Rourke actually there are MANY Rourke fan websites. And of course Mickeyalso has his own website. There is also a petition to get Mickey a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The goal is to reach 5,00 signatures and they are currently close to 4,000. So if you want to see the Pope get the star he so rightly deserves, go sign the petition.

So in my eyes, Mickey is 56 years YOUNG, and I am looking forward to many more wonderful movies. Even with his past years of wacky behavior, drug abuse, surgeries gone bad, and his hot mess hair aside…you gotta love him.

After all, he’s still the Pope of Greenwich Village.

Yesterday afternoon most of us watched as the events unfolded on the Hudson River in New York, when U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made a miraculous crash landing in the river. With 155 passengers and crew on board, the nation is still in shock that everyone is safe and accounted for. With the exception of a few minor injuries and cases of hypothermia, this was a text book emergency landing, except it wasn’t a landing so much as a hydro-glide of tremendous skill and bravery.

Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger has been hailed a hero for his ability to not only remain calm under pressure, but also for his extraordinary aviation abilities which allowed him to safely land an enormous piece of flying metal with the entire vessel in tact.

Here’s more on Captain Sullenberger from CNN:

All 155 passengers and crew aboard Flight 1549 survived.

The 57-year-old former Air Force fighter pilot has been flying for more than 40 years, and has been with US Airways since 1980.

His two-page resume is packed with achievements and highlights his broad aviation experience.

The pilot speaks internationally on airline safety, and collaborates with the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California-Berkeley, whose researchers look for ways to avoid air disasters.

Sullenberger was primed to help passengers aboard the Airbus A320 survive the crisis, said Karlene Roberts, a university professor who co-directs the center.

“I can imagine him being sufficiently in charge to get those people out,” she said. “He’s got that kind of personality, which is to his credit.”

Sullenberger is president and CEO of Safety Reliability Methods Inc., a company he founded. The firm provides emergency management, safety strategies and performance monitoring to the aviation industry.

He was an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the Web site of his company.

He participated in several U.S. Air Force and National Transportation Safety Board accident investigations, and worked with NASA scientists on a paper on error and aviation, according to his resume.

He was widely praised after Thursday’s forced water landing, apparently caused by a “double bird strike,” which crippled the plane’s engines.

“It was an amazing piece of airmanship,” said Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board.”

Even New York’s mayor had praise.

“It would appear that the pilot did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure that everybody got out,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference Thursday.

“I had a long conversation with the pilot. He walked the plane twice after everybody else was off and tried to verify that there was nobody else on board — and assures us there was not.”

Sullenberger’s wife, Lorrie, told the New York Post on Thursday that her husband is the “consummate pilot.”

“He is about performing that airplane to the exact precision to which it is made,” she told the paper.

“I’ve said for a long time that he’s a pilot’s pilot. He loves the art of the airplane,” she said standing with the couple’s two daughters outside their Danville, California, home on Friday.

His wife forgot to mention her husband kicks serious ass, surely an oversight on her part. Passengers on board have described the landing as amazingly smooth, like “hitting a wake in a boat” and said everyone was calm and the deboarding into the frigid water was orderly and basically with incident.

How hot is Captain “Sully” for staying with his ship and making sure EVERYONE was off before leaving the sinking vessel? Yeah, way hotter than Brad Pitt and almost as hot as Viggo Mortenson.

Honestly, I am one of those white knuckled fliers who no one should sit next to during a flight. I pray to the heavens while quietly losing my crap until we land safely. Even writing about it is causing me anxiety, so let’s move on.

It’s been a while since we’ve nominated anyone for the “Fresh Dose Of Hotness” award and Captain Sullenberger wins hands down.

Thank you for excelling at your job dude. And major props for all those ferry boat captains, NY rescue folks for showing us how you handle an emergency. Just think, if everyone executed their job as well as this dude, we’d have cured cancer, achieved world peace, ended poverty and starvation and found a way to have a perfect orgasm every time. When you dream, you should dream BIG!

I wondered how long it would last, and it seems about this long.  Hugh Laurie, television’s resident curmudgeonly hunka-hunka burning doctor on House, is canning his long-distance relationship with his family by finally moving them to America:

After nearly four years of living a trans-Atlantic life which has done little for the depressive actor’s mental state, not to mention his 19-year marriage, the Mail can reveal that Hugh’s family are moving to America to be with him.

Until now and despite the unhappiness the nine-month separations have caused, the actor has always refused to uproot his family.

A determined pessimist, he was certain that the moment he moved the family and disrupted his children’s schooling, House would be cancelled.

‘I’ll probably be confident enough to move them in about ten years time,’ he semi-joked earlier this year. ‘I can never really believe the thing [House] is going to last. The whole of the first year I was in a hotel. I didn’t even unpack the suitcase.’

But after a particularly difficult year, during which he was forced to forego his usual two-month summer break with his family thanks to the Hollywood screenwriter’s strike, it was clear that his nomadic lifestyle was not doing him any good.

Hugh has long struggled with depressive episodes and has always been upfront about them:

‘I get anxious about a lot of things, that’s the trouble,’ he said. ‘I get anxious about everything.’

Even the plaudits heaped upon House, and himself in particular, have done little for his confidence.

He has won two Golden Globes and three Emmy nominations for his role as the crotchety and rude Dr House, who specialises in finding out the causes of mystery illnesses.

The show regularly gets 18 million viewers in the U.S and is syndicated around the world.

Meanwhile, Hugh was recently voted second sexiest TV doctor ever and one of the top five most popular U.S. television personalities.

He also has hundreds of websites devoted to him; even Rolling Stone magazine has dubbed him ‘the most rock and roll actor on TV’.

But he admits that he still suffers from crippling self doubt and doesn’t even think that he has a convincing American accent on the TV show.

‘Every show we do, every scene we shoot is a disaster, I’m convinced of it,’ he says. ‘I go home at the end of the day and my head is full of all the mistakes I’ve made.’

It sounds to me like Hugh struggles with OCD, something I’m very familiar with.  Is his American accent perfect?  No…but he speaks American better than some Americans I know.  Besides, House himself isn’t perfect, so we don’t expect perfection out of his alter ego.  However, Hugh himself has an “escape clause”:

Hugh – pessimist to the last – has insisted on a get-out clause in case things do go wrong.

If any member of the family is unhappy in America by this time next year, they will all return home to London.

From what I have seen and read about this family, if they all love each other enough to make such sacrifices, then they should be happy no matter where they are.  Their conditions don’t dictate their happiness, as long as they are together.  Or, as Gregory House would say, “Everything is conditional. You just can’t always anticipate the conditions.”

I loves me some Hugh Laurie, and here is one reason why (besides the obvious)…he has things in perspective.  Didn’t I just do a piece on overpaid actors?  Well, Hugh realizes that what he does for a living ain’t curing cancer:

Your dad was a doctor. What would he have thought of House?He couldn’t have been more different to House. He was a hero to me. A very gentle man who would take any amount of time with patients.

You never thought about going into medicine?

I think I was too lazy to be a doctor. I do feel bad that now I’m pretending to do what my dad did and getting paid more for it than he ever did.

Now there is a statement I can get behind.

Seriously, you gotta watch this show.  I watch VERY little network TV, and this is a definite DVR timer for me.  If anyone wants to know what they can get me for Christmas, the series DVD set is right behind the Monk series DVD set on my Santa list.  tia

Name:  Pierce Brendan Brosnan
Birthdate:  May 16, 1953
Breakout Role:  Titular role, Remington Steele

It’s no big secret that I am a huge Pierce Brosnan fan from way back in the 1980’s, when I first saw the opening credits for a little show called Remington Steele, so indulge me for a bit.  As a dorky teenager, I fell for the twinkling blue eyes and mysterious smile and never looked back.  I can remember sitting in my mom’s tacky little living room, watching on a console television that still had a dial and rabbit ears encased in aluminum foil, and thinking, “This man is going to be a star.”  (I was smart, even back then.)

He not only was the best Bond (imo), but he’s a general all-around great guy, committed to his causes and still making great movies.  The fact that he’s Irish (he became an American citizen in 2004) doesn’t hurt matters any (considering my own heritage is part Irish, part Scot).  And today, I found out he is the new face of L’Oreal Men Expert line of skincare.  Hey, whatever keeps those Irish eyes a-smilin’ is fine with me.

I just bought The Thomas Crown Affair, and I own all the Bonds, so I may have to have a Brosnan movie night tonight…

Trivia:

• He had problems with the line “If you’re Q, does that make him R?” in The World Is Not Enough, because his Irish accent got in the way of proper pronunciation (he says it “Ahrh”).
• In the movie Tomorrow Never Dies, a stuntman got a bit too into the scene and hit Pierce in the mouth with his helmet, causing him to have to receive emergency stitches (but finished the scene!).  In the scene where he’s driving and answers the call from Elliot Carver, you can just see the stitches before he answers his mobile.  He now has a scar just above his lip, and it is referenced in the opening scenes of Die Another Day.
• Also in the opening scenes of Die Another Day, Pierce blew out his meniscus when he jumped on that last hovercraft.  You can see him slip.  Ow!

Favorite movie lines:

Xenia Onatopp:  Nice to meet you, Mr. Bond.
Bond:  The pleasure, I’m sure, was all mine.  (Goldeneye)

Q:  Here’s your cell phone.  Talk here, listen here.
Bond:  So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all these years?  (Tomorrow Never Dies)

Bond [strolling into a hotel in Hong Kong dripping wet in nothing but a pair of pajamas]:  My usual suite, please.  (Die Another Day)

I love Toby Keith.  Not only is he the hawtness, with a great sense of humor to boot, and his voice is to die for, but he’s a huge supporter of our troops and goes out of his way to entertain them.  But at a recent show in Afghanistan, it seems the locals didn’t appreciate his vocal stylings:

Keith and his band were in the middle of the song “Weed With Willie” when mortar fire on the base in Kandahar erupted, sending the band and the troops looking for cover.

“We all ran about 100 yards to a concrete bunker,” Curt Motley, the singer’s agent who was with him on the USO tour, told People.

Keith is currently on an 18-show USO tour throughout the Persian Gulf.

The singer and his bandmates stayed inside a bunker with the soldiers for about an hour, reportedly signing autographs and posing for photos to pass the time.

Once they were given the sign it was all clear, the country star returned to the stage, against the advice of military personnel.

“He went right to the verse he was in and finished his show!” Motley told People.

What a class act, to go out there and finish the show for our brave men and women in the Armed Forces.  They deserve the best we have (so let’s please not send Jessica Simpson any more).

This is the second post I’ve done this week about a country singer who could show some of these primadonna so-called “stars” a thing or two about professionalism and how to get things done.  Do you think Toby had to have a red carpet surrounded by scented candles just to walk to a stage on a military base?  Or perhaps he refused to sing for the troops unless he had a certain brand of water, chilled to just the right temperature, and some PLAIN (not peanut, or heads will roll) M&M’s?  Or maybe he would have threatened to storm out in a huff if someone couldn’t find wheatgrass juice and he forgot his black nail polish (a possibility that Trace Adkins, another country star, had to deal with concerning the Backstreet Boys on the season finale of The Apprentice, something which still gives me lulz)?

So you can forget the wheatgrass juice and the candles and the fawning sycophants waiting to wipe a star’s behind each time they fart gold.  Give me a real star like Toby Keith any day (preferably gift wrapped, but include the hat and boots, please).  One Breath Of Fresh Air Award for my man Toby, and put it on my tab.

Now this is the real deal.  So many of today’s primadonna “stars” could take a few notes.  Despite crushing some of the bones in his foot in an equipment malfunction, country star Kenny Chesney decides the show must go on:

Chesney’s foot was stuck for about 30 seconds between the stage and a lift that elevated him to the stage at Williams-Brice Stadium, according to CMT.

The singer was limping and holding his knee, CMT reported.

After the show, doctors from the University of South Carolina cut off Chesney’s boot to minimize damage.

“I took one look at those fans, and there was no way I wasn’t going on,” Chesney said in a statement. “Sometimes the energy and the adrenalin pull you through.”

He added, “They had come to rock, and there was no way I was sending them home with anything less than the best of what me and my guys came to do – put it all out there and give them back at least as good as they gave us.”

Noooooo…not the boots!

Thirty seconds?  So many superstar fragile flowers nowadays won’t go on stage if they get a hangnail, let alone getting their foot stuck in a piece of machinery for thirty seconds.  Seriously…have you ever had anything painful happen to you for thirty seconds?  It seems like an eternity.  If he had on tight boots, that might have helped him limp through the show, but still…that had to hurt major bad.

But, I guess if you can stand being married to Squinty McSquint, crushing your foot is comparable to a kiss from a baby.

Just for D, here’s some Justin, minus his box.

 

Enjoy Justin channeling his inner John Holmes in the upcoming Mike Myers film The Love Guru.

TGIF!

So, since we are what we are, and we aren’t pretending to be what we aren’t, let’s stick to what GlossLip does best:

Who’s hotter…

Tom Brady?

Or Eli Manning?

I’m going with Eli, mainly because I hate the Patriots.

Cast your vote below!

Just when you thought Johnny Depp couldn’t possibly get any cooler, he goes and does something like this.  To show his gratitude to Great Ormond Street, the hospital that saved his daughter’s life during her health scare last year, he made a generous donation of his own money as a huge thank you:

Johnny Depp secretly visited Great Ormond Street Hospital yesterday to donate £1 million [approximately $1.9 million USD] of his own money to thank staff for saving his daughter’s life.

He arrived unexpectedly at the London children’s hospital where eight-year-old Lily-Rose was treated last year when her kidneys failed. [...]

In March last year, Lily-Rose spent nine days at Great Ormond Street after E.coli poisoning led to the failure of her kidneys.

She is said to have contracted the bug while staying with Depp, 43, and her mother Vanessa Paradis, 34, in a rented mansion in Richmond, Surrey, while he filmed Sweeney Todd.

Filming at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire had to be halted as her conditioned worsened so much it was feared she might not live.

And not only that, but he reprised his role as swashbuckling slurring pirate Captain Jack Sparrow to read to children at the hospital:

And on November 29, unknown to the public, Depp spent four hours at the hospital telling bedtime stories to patients dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow after having his Pirates Of The Caribbean costume flown over from Los Angeles.

Also, Disney, owners of the Pirates franchise, said they would donate £10 million (approximately $19.7 million USD) to the hospital, who is needing to raise £170 million (approximately $330 million USD) over five years for major renovations.

Most stars would have called a press conference, set up streaming video, and had giant oversized checks printed up with the amount of money donated emblazoned in a font large enough to be caught by photographers’ cameras.  And if they had shown up to read to children, they would have had made sure that a reporter was with them, dutifully chronicling every affected smile and pat on the head for posterity.  To see someone of this caliber doing this sort of charitable activity with nary a journalist in sight is truly refreshing, and a wonderful palate cleanser after the overblown events of yesterday concerning She Who Must Not Be Named.  He’s the official first recipient of the “Breath Of Fresh Air” award here at GlossLip.

I wish Lily-Rose a lifetime of continued good health.  I also wish there were more celebrities like Johnny Depp.  Who would have thought he would have come so far from 21 Jump Street?