Archive for April, 2007
Poker Babe Erin Ness
How could someone this cute be this good at poker? Apparently Erin Ness is — that cute, and that good at poker. After landing a gig as one of Maxim’s photo assistants, she subsequently won the company’s poker tourney, got a free ride to the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas, and finished in the money in 207th place. (For those of you who don’t habla poker, “in the money” means she outlasted enough people in the tournament that she got paid despite not winning the event.) And she’s been doing poker shows part-time ever since. There’s not a whole of Erin Ness out there, but I did manage to find these. So remember, boys, (and especially you poker pro wannabes), if you ever see this very cute girl sitting across the felt from you, RUN.
The Miami Heat Dance Team is the Hottest Team in the NBA
The Houston Rockets are about to invade the NBA Playoffs and kick some Jazz ass in the first round, but alas, the Houston Rockets Dance Team (aka the Power Dancers) won’t be hoisting a championship trophy, having lost to the Miami Heat Dance Team in the final round of the NBA’s Dance Team championships. This marks the second year in a roll that the Heats girls have burned up the dance charts (get it? heat? burn? oh, I kill me), and we can see why. Check out some of the girls on the team in the pics below, then ogle the video of their recent photoshoot, and finally, head over to their NBA page for even more pictures of the dancers.
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT Remake On the Way
Variety reports that Brian Grazer, head honcho of Imagine Entertainment, has already put a scribe to writing a remake of the 1970 sci-fi movie “Colossus: The Forbin Project”, with an eye toward his studio partner Ron Howard directing. Based on a book by D.F. Jones, the original film was a forerunner of movies like “Terminator,” introducing the idea of a government-built computer that becomes sentient and then takes control. Stupid humans, always giving computers control.
Sanjaya Malakar Eliminated from American Idol
Good news and bad news, guys — the good news is that the horribly untalented Sanjaya Malakar has finally been eliminated from American Idol last night (suck on it, Howard Stern!), but the bad news is that we won’t be seeing anymore of Sanjaya’s sister, Shyamali, Sanjaya’s insanely hot 19-year old sister and ex-Hooters waitress, who always shows up in the audience during the episode tapings. Damn you, American Idol! Damn you Simon for constantly criticizing Sanjaya! Damn you all! Shyamaaaaaaaaaaali!!!!!!
India Presses Criminal Charges Against Richard Gere for Kissing Shilpa Shetty
The insanity in India continues, as here comes news that formal criminal charges have been filed against Richard Gere for committing “an obscene act” in publicly. As you’ll recall (unless you have attention memory loss, that is), Gere innocently kissed Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty during a televised AIDS awareness event in New Delhi. After which, Hindu fundamentalists throughout India protested and burned Gere’s image in effigy. According to this, people filing these type of charges in India is not uncommon, and that “they add to a backlog of legal cases in the country that has nearly crippled the judicial system.”
I Wanna Some Ivana Milicevic
Ivana Milicevic is an official Bond Girl, which I think means all she has to do is be in a James Bond movie, which she qualifies, having appeared in the recent “Casino Royale” version of England’s most deadly (and suave) spy. Hailing from the chaotic Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina (aka Yugoslavia before the big kibosh), Ivana Milicevic has guest starred on “Charmed”, “Buffy”, and has been in the movies “Head Over Heels” and the horror thriller “The Plague”. You can next see her in the Larry the Cable Guy comedy “Witless Protection”. God help her.
Mandy Moore in Another Bona Fide Stinker, LICENSE TO WED
Poor Mandy Moore. I like the girl. I really, really do. How much? Heck, I sobbed openly (and embarrassingly) at the end of “A Walk to Remember”. But what has poor Mandy done since? How about “Try Seventeen”, “Saved!”, “Chasing Liberty”, and “American Dreamz”. What, you’ve never heard of any of those? Well chances are you did hear about them, but you just never saw them. Don’t worry, you weren’t the only ones. No one saw them except Mandy’s agents, who put her in those movies in the first place. To wit: Mandy, you really gotta get new agents, baby, you’re killing your career with these crappy cinematic abominations if you’ve been in. Or at the very least, hire someone with some commercial sensibilities.
Brit Babe Invasion: Sarah Harding
Leave it to the British to go from being a part of a girl band to getting into modeling. Mind you, not that I’m complaining, because I think Sarah Harding looks a lot better than she sings. Then again, I’ve never heard her or her fellow Girls Aloud bandmates sing, so maybe I’m just talking about of my ass. Anyways, Sarah Harding is quite a lovely lass rather in lingerie or bikini, and no surprise that she’s been linked to a host of famous British men, any one of them would be lucky to hit this at night.
Haley Scarnato is Season Six’s Idol Hottie
Yeah, we know Haley Scarnato has been kicked off American Idol since last week, but we’re still feeling her absence from the show, especially since we (and when I say “we”, I of course mean “me”) barely got through last night’s episode, and aren’t even sure if we’re going to watch tonight’s Results Show. But now that Haley Scarnato has been kicked off American Idol, we can say with completely certainty that she was, bar none, the American Idol Hottie of Season Six, and we shall miss her. Call us, Haley!
Kate Beckinsale is … BARBARELLA?
The latest Hollywood remake news is that British import Kate Beckinsale is in the running for the totally unnecessary (but they’re gonna do it anyway) remake of “Barbarella”, a role originally assayed by a pre-hippie Jane Fonda and based on the comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. This news comes courtesy of Moviehole, who points out that last week Sienna Miller was supposed to be the frontrunner for the role. Can I see Kate as Barbarella? Hell yeah, especially very lightly dressed.
A Review of MY NAME IS BRUCE, Plot Details
It’s not easy being a B-list actor with fans in the millions based on a couple of movies you did in the late ’70s/early ’80s where you were mostly covered in blood and got tossed around a forest by your “best friend”, who seemed to really enjoy hurting you. Then your career amounts to playing leads in crappy C-list sci-fi movies and crappy cameos in A-list Hollywood movies directed by some dude name Sam Raimi. Such is life for Bruce Campbell, the only guy who can save even the most atrocious movies ever made by modern man (see “Alien Apocalypse” for an example”). Bruce’s latest movie is “My Name is Bruce”, and according to this reviewer, it’s a humdinger.
Final TRANSFORMERS Posters and Standee
Via ComingSoon, here are some new “Transformers” posters and theater standees (you know, those big posters you see standing in the theater lobbies?) that you may or may not have seen before recently sent out by Paramount Pictures. DreamWorks Pictures has released the final psoters and a photo of a new standee for director Michael Bay’s Transformers, opening in theaters on July 4. The sci-fi action-adventure stars Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor, Megan Fox, John Turturro and Jon Voight.
Ridley Scott Pursues Russian CHILD 44
How something like an unpublished (re: unfinished) novel gets sold to film companies is a mystery to me. Even more of a mystery than why film companies buy something that isn’t even finished, much less seen what the reaction to it is from the book buying public. I guess it’s all about taking risks, which makes you wish Hollywood suits would apply that same risk-taking attitude to, you know, making more original movies instead of just constantly remaking crap from the ’80s or Asia. But anyways, I’m going on a rant again. Ridley Scott has been hired by Fox 2000 to direct and produce “Child 44″, based on the soon-to-be published novel of the same name by Tom Rob Smith.
JERICHO Gets a Second Season?
Fans of CBS’s nuke drama rejoice! It appears that CBS has renewed “Jericho” for a full second season — or at least according to the blokes over at SyFy Portal, who says, “A source tells SyFy Portal that CBS is expected to pick up “Jericho” for a second season, although it may move to a new night when fall rolls around. The show has had a tough time against competition such as “American Idol” on Fox this spring after its return, but the network has shown nothing but promise for the show, giving it a full season order when some thought it might be heading to the big one-season place in the sky.” And hey, if it turns out false, you can blame them. But for now, be happy, and don’t drink the radiation-tainted water!
Random Supermodel of the Day: Juliana Martins
Says Wikipedia about our Random Supermodel of the Day: Juliana Martins (born on October 3, 1984 in José Bonifácio, São Paulo state) is a Brazilian model. She worked for Sports Illustrated, and contested in the 1997 Elite Model Look. Juliana Martins was labeled the Brazilian Cindy Crawford by John Casablancas when she was thirteen years old. Not a whole lot. You would expect Wikipedia to have more, but oh well. She’s Brazilian, she’s hot. Nuff said.
Carrie Underwood Sexy at the CMT Awards
Speaking about feeling guilty ogling a hot woman, I feel exactly the same way when I saw these pictures of former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood performing at the recent CMT Awards. I mean, damn, when did Carrie Underwood even developed the ability to be this sexy? She used to be cute and darling and all that, but sexy? Here’s Carrie Underwood performing at the CMT Awards. Now I don’t keep track of country music trends or whatnot, but are country music singers wearing stiletto heels, silver shorts, and corsets now? I gotta listen to country music more…
Hilary Duff in Blender
The more I see of Hilary Duff, the more I’m really starting to like what I see, which leads to a feeling of guilt. Why? Because Hilary Duff has always presented herself, and indeed, seems to really be a nice, sweet girl-next-door type. Never sexy, never tried to be, and then — bam. There was that appearance on Jay Leno with her synth song, and now in Blender magazine looking just as good, if not better. Dark hair really does do the girl good. Should I feel guilty about ogling her? Maybe. Maybe not. I’m gonna go with maybe not…
More Tori Praver
Supermodels are like chocolate bars — when you get that taste in your mouth, you just can’t stop with one. And if that makes any sense to you at all, you should immediately send me $50 each right now (paypal sucker@freemoney.com, please), because I have a rhino and a giraffe I’ve been having my eye on for some time now. Wait, where was I? Oh right, here is more of Tori Praver to ogle. Enjoy.
Sanjaya Malakar is Maxim’s “Girl of the Day”
With the caption, “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow”, those kooky guys over at Maxim has deemed American Idol’s Sanjaya Malakar as their “Girl of the Day“. Obviously this is a big joke, as Sanjaya isn’t a girl. Right? Frankly I’d just ignore Sanjaya and do something on his sister Shyamali Malakar. I mean, come on, Maxim guys, the girl plays guitars naked! That’s at least 50 brownie points in my book.
Jenna Fischer in a Corset and Net Stockings Pictures from BLADES OF GLORY
As I am wont to do, I was checking my referral logs for the month, and saw that there was quite a bit of searching for “Jenna Fischer in a corset”. After some investigation, I realized you guys were looking for that scene from the Will Ferrell comedy “Blades of Glory” where Jenna Fischer’s character seduces Ferrell’s figure skater by dressing in a tight black corset and fishnet stockings. And yes, the scene is quite frakkin’ fantastic, and I don’t blame you guys for stumbling around the net looking for it. Well it wasn’t really that hard to find pictures from that scene, so here you guys go.