The Random Stuff of Interests Page

“A former police officer returns to the force after having been wrongly imprisoned for years.” Trust me, the actual show is a hell of a lot better than that brief, one-line synopsis of NBC’s show Life. I don’t know how Life is doing in the ratings, but I’m telling you this — you MUST watch this show. It’s probably the best new thing on TV right now. It stars Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi as mismatched partners solving crimes in L.A. Lewis plays Charlie Crews, the cop who was wrongly convicted, and is now out and about, determined to solve his own frame-up. Only he tells people he doesn’t care to solve it, but in fact he’s obsessed with it. Basically, it’s a damn good show, and you need to start watching it on Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Sure, sure, so Britney Spears has been more known for bad performances, losing her kids, and going around town without panties than singing nowadays, but that doesn’t mean, uh, she still doesn’t have fans who actually wait with bated breath for her music. Her latest album, to be released late October, is called “Blackout”, and here’s your look at the album’s cover. It’s not exactly groundbreaking stuff, to be sure, but it gets the point across — Britney Spears is back, she has a new album, and, um, after too many drinks, she tends to suffer from blackouts. I think that’s what they were going for, and if not, oh well, it’s something like that, right?

So why mess with perfection? Monica Bellucci was born to be a brunette. It’s what made her Italian — or, to be precise, what made her a smoking Italian babe. But hey, I guess some people are just determined to climb uphill, which is probably why they decided to make Monica Bellucci a blonde (one can only pray it’s only temporary) for this Vanity Fair spread. Mind you, not that I’m going to lose sleep if Monica Bellucci decides to stay a blonde, but you know, for the sake of the world and the health of the universe, I hope she goes back to dark hair. Pretty please, Monica?

You gotta love Kendra Wilkinson. Or at least, I love Kendra Wilkinson. And no, it’s not because she’s a hot blonde and Playboy playmate, although sure, that doesn’t hurt or anything (what am I, a monk?). I love Kendra Wilkinson because she’s so uninhibited. You’re talking about a girl from San Diego, California who ended up in Playboy and now is living out her dream of being a rapper. Yes, a rapper. This skinny blonde girl from the suburbs loves rap so much that she’ll do a show like MTV’s Celebrity Rap Superstar. And you know, she’s not bad at it, either! OKay, okay, so I don’t think anyone will be rushing to sign her to a label, but it could have been worst. Some more pictures of Kendra Wilkinson doing her rap thang. Or as the kids call it, the rap “game”.

We saw behind-the-scenes pictures of Gemma Atkinson shooting this 2008 calendar of hers a while ago (where those pictures are, I have no idea; I think I might have hid them in my sock drawer, but don’t hold me to it), but I have to say, the finished thing is pretty damn excellent. What’s that, you say? You don’t go around buying calendars of hot British models for absolutely no good reason? Um, which part of “hot British model” don’t you understand? That’s right, head onto the net now (wait, you’re already there!), now go find yourself a copy of Gemma Atkinson’s 2008 bikini-clad (of course) calendar. You won’t be sorry. (Just tell your mom she’s, like, a scientist or something.)

Man, I miss watching JAG on TV. Sure, sure, the world isn’t completely without our daily dose of Catherine Bell, after all she’s one of the stars of Lifetime Channel’s Army Wives, but there’s just no substitute for watching a super fine woman walking around in that Marine ladies uniform — or whatever it’s officially called. You take a military setting, with all the trappings of macho that comes with it, and you plunk a woman as fine as Catherine Bell into the middle of it, and you have yourself a hit TV show. But then they had to go and cancel it. Now we’re stuck with watching Catherine play a army housewife (a MILF at that!), when we could have had another season of JAG. Gah, I miss JAG. Here are some reasons why.

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, aka Notch #551 on Leonardo DiCaprio’s list of supermodel conquests, is a draft dodger, and she’s damn proud of it. The supermodel recently told Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper: “I don’t regret not having been drafted into the army, because I made out big. “Why is it good to die for one’s country? Isn’t it better to live in New York?” And hey, why wouldn’t she feel that way? She’s 22, she’s dating a mega movie star, and she gets paid oodles of money for strutting around in her undies. That’s basically my dream job! Refaeli even goes on to bash Israel, referencing an incident earlier when the country’s paparazzi got into a brouhaha with DiCaprio’s bodyguards, saying: “I won’t bring anyone famous to Israel any more because there is a chutzpah here that you won’t see anywhere else.” You have GOT to be pretty hot to get away with saying those things. Luckily for her, Bar Refaeli qualifies.

So what exactly has Melissa Theuriau, the prettiest French newscaster to ever laced up the mics and stare at the teleprompter been up to since we last saw her? Answer: I have no idea, but these new pictures of her did show up online, and she looks real purty as usual. I swear, the woman can wake up in the middle of the night, hair all messed up, and those hazel eyes would still twinkle and those lips would still look inviting. I guess this must be what it’s like to be born beautiful; you just don’t have to try all that hard. God bless you beautiful people, I hate you all.

Holy mother of mercy. I can’t believe that the first time I saw Summer Glau on the old Firefly TV show, I thought she was just that skinny kid on that TV show that no one watched. I guess those Firefly fans knew better than me, because they immediately zeroed in on the show as being cool and Summer Glau in particular as being worthy of worship. Now Firefly is gone, but Summer Glau will be back on TV in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, playing a killer cyborg (but the good kind) who helps out our hero and Lena Headey. What I’m trying to get at is, Summer Glau has really become one incredibly hot woman over just a few short years, and I had no idea she had it in her. Check out those legs, those curves — mama mia! Say it with me now, boys, “Bikini candids, please!”

Just as the guys at Smallville got smart and added a super hot blonde to the show as Supergirl, the guys over at Supernatural also got smart and added two babes to their show’s Season 3: Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan. Now I don’t know if the producers of these shows are doing this on their own, or if the CW are demanding that they sex up their respective shows, but whoever got this ball rolling, I say, “Thanks!” We’ve already seen Katie Cassidy, a demon demon-killer (no, that wasn’t a typo) on Supernatural, but Lauren Cohan has yet to show up. But based on the previews we’ve seen of next week’s episode, it should be a nice intro to her badass character. That’s another thing: Not only are all these new injections of blood babelicious, but they’re all ass-kickers! Coincidence?

Man, I love Steve Francis. Not in the Brokeback Mountain sort of way, mind you, but in the, “Wow, I dig this guy’s game,” sort of way. Steve Francis started his career as a Houston Rocket before he got shipped off to Orlando, New York, and God knows how many other cities he ended up before finally returning to Houston this year. Welcome back, Stevie Franchise! We’ve missed you, bro! Now check out this monster put-back dunk by Stevie against the New Orleans Hornets. This was a pre-season game from earlier this week, and the basket didn’t count — they called a foul on Stevie. Can you believe that? No one calls a foul on the guy who pulls the put-back dunk! It’s like, an unofficial NBA rule or something. You just don’t call that foul, you zebra idiots! Great dunk anyway.

I’ll admit it and say that I don’t know what the new show Cashmere Mafia is all about. Heck, I can’t even tell you what cashmere is, or how it feels. Yeah, I’m that fashion-retarded. Go ahead and stone me — it still won’t make me know what cashmere is! Stop punishing me! But I digress. I may not know what cashmere is, or what the show Cashmere Mafia is about (I’m guessing it has cashmere in it, and the mafia), but I do know that they have some pretty hot number on the show, including Bonnie Somerville, Frances O’Connor, Lucy Liu, and Miranda Otto. Okay, so I have no idea who Somerville is, but I do know who the rest of the girls are, and they’re worth taking note off.

We all know that former Party of Five star Lacey Chabert has grown up. Boy did she ever grow up! Thankfully for us cleavage lovers, Lacey’s body has really ballooned, and not in the Kirsty Alley ballooning variety, but rather the va-va-voom variety. Which is the good variety, in case you were wondering. Here’s our tribute to a grown up Lacey Chabert and her party of two, if you know what I’m saying, and I think you do. Hint hint, wink wink, and all that jazz. Basically I’m talking about her cleavage. Oh vey, you guys are dense.

Who knew the Mexicans were producing TV hosts that looks like Rebecca de Alba nowadays? Well God bless them, because they are. Our Latin Flavor of the day is Rebecca de Alba, who hails from Zacatecas, Mexico, and despite being forty-four years young, she puts girls half her age to shame with that killer body and gorgeous face. The former Avon model turned TV personality once dated Ricky Martin, but that’s over now because, well, Ricky is gay, right? I thought someone told me he was gay. You guys are telling me he’s not? Oh well, it’s his lost, because if Rebecca de Alba was into me, I’d do everything to keep her. The woman is smoking hot, bros.

So I decided why force the Asian babes out there to share a category with the foreign babes? I gave the British girls their own category, so why not give the same props to the Asians? Thus, the Asian Babe of the Day column was born. And the first girl to grace its pages is Cristine Reyes, a Filipino model/actress from, well, the Philippines. What did you think Filipino meant? Anyways, she’s been in tons of TV movies, including hits like “Fantastic Man” and “”Super Twins”, and you know how much I like me my “Super Twins”. They’re, like, twins, and they’re super, too. That’s like twice as great, or something. Check out some Cristine Reyes.

It may be October in 2007, but don’t let that stop you from ordering your copy of Keeley Hazell’s upcoming 2008 calendar. Yeah, yeah, so you’ll have to wait two more months to actually use them — that is, if you’re one of those losers who buys calendars to, you know, actually use them in the first place, I mean. The rest of us mere mortals buy calendars like Keeley Hazell’s to stare and ogle when our girlfriends or wives aren’t looking. That’s what being a real man is all about, bro. In case you’re still not sure if you want to fork over the cash, take a look at Keeley’s 2008 calendar. All doubt will be erased from your weak, weak mind.

Sam Jackson kicks the ass of that punk who played young Darth Vader in “Jumper”: A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them. From the director of The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — Jumper hits theaters February 15, 2008. Check out the trailer below. It co-stars hotties Rachel Bilson (in the trailer) and Diane Lane (not in the trailer for some reason). Should be fun stuff.

When was the last Australian supermodel that graced our sad and pathetic lives? Wasn’t it Elle McPherson? Wait, she was Australian, wasn’t she? Or was it Rachel Hunter? Well, it was either one of those or none of those. Look, I ain’t no librarian! But I digress. Our Random Supermodel of the Day is Megan Gale, who hails from Perth, Australia, but who actually launched her career in Italy before finally making good back at home Down Under. That exotic look is the result of being half British and half Polynesian, and besides looking good in almost nothing, she’s also well-versed in Australia’s local instrument, the didgeridoo. Now how many supermodels can say THAT?

Look! Up in the sky! It’s Stacey Cadman — the star of Cavegirl and Mile High! The latter show is about super hot British flight attendants and handsome airline pilots, and this being a British soap, I’m guessing the title “Mile High” means exactly what we think it means. According to Wikipedia, our girl is also an accomplished dancer and kickboxer, which makes her twice as hot. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — there’s nothing hotter than a hot girl who can kick your ass ten ways to Sunday. And really, who would think a girl as innocent (albeit sexy) like Stacey Cadman would have the ability to deliver a killing kick to your throat?

God bless the people they have casting these Reality TV shows like Big Brother, because where else would you find so many good looking women so willing to take off their clothes for a risque magazine spread? Susannah Murray is one of the housemates of Australian Big Brother, known for going through a “mid-life” crisis when she turned 30 on the show, and thought that her life was over. Of course it’s not, as this spread by Susannah Murray will certainly attest. If this is one’s life being “over”, then damn, there’s a lot of girls out there who wishes their lives were over just like this!