The Random Stuff of Interests Page

Becki Newton is one of the stars of CBS’s hit sticom Ugly Betty, but make no mistake about it, kids, there is nothing ugly about actress Becki Newton. She is, as the kids would say, a fine babe. Our Beautiful Becki grew up in Guilford, Connecticut, and can speak not one, not two, but four languages if you count English among them. What are the other three languages she can habla? Try Spanish, German, and Greek. And they say Hollywood actresses are stupid! There’s nothing stupid about Becki Newton and that brain of hers. Yes, she’s a hot women with actual brains. Go figure, right? Catch Ugly Betty when it returns for another (sure to be) successful season.

Who is Natalie Zea, and why should you care? This Texas native is one of the stars of the upcoming Dirty, Sexy, Money TV show, about a family of Hilton-likes who gets into trouble very often. So often, in fact, that they need to hire some expert to continually get them out of trouble. Now that’s a lot of trouble! Natalie Zea plays Karen Darling, a Paris Hilton-like troublemaker and wannabe star who also looks good. After years slaving on TV shows and soap operas, will this be Natalie Zea’s breakthrough role that propels her to fame and stardom? One can only hope. Check out the show when it comes on soon.

I don’t know who our Random Foreign Babe of the Day is, or where she comes from (although since this issue of FHM that she’s in its apparently the Portugal edition, I’m guessing she MAY be Portugese, but don’t hold me to it), but she sure looks good with most of her clothes somewhere on the floor, or maybe left behind in my basement. Either way, Diana Parente is one smoking hot babe, even if those things she calls breasts are the size of mosquito bites. But hey, who ever said you needed big boobies to be hot? Diana Parente certainly doesn’t, and we appreciate her for her naturalness.

Here’s a really great looking Halo 3 commercial. It’s a 90-second spot that was just released recently by Microsoft, and is part of the Halo 3 “Believe” campaign. I love the way they did it, the whole frozen-in-time conceit is fantastic. And the final few seconds is priceless. I haven’t really been a fan of the games, although I’ve played both of the previous installments, but it really does look as if Microsoft is going to push Halo 3 as some kind of “event” gaming release. I don’t know how good it’ll look, or if it’ll be one of those next-gen type games, but I’m pre-ordering my PC copy as soon as it becomes available. I can’t help it, I just can’t get used to those X-Box controls. Take a look at the commercial.

You know, I’m not going to start buying vans or anything, but if I did, and I had a couple of trolls to drag around (and of course by “trolls” I mean kids, what did you think I mean?), I wouldn’t mind shelling out some cash for the 2008 Toyota Highlander. Here’s Motor Trend with some specs (head on down to see pics of the 2008 Toyota Highlander from the auto show): “Available in five- or seven passenger versions, its standard engine is a 270-horsepower/249 pound-foot 3.5-liter V-6 hooked to a five-speed automatic. The 270-horsepower hybrid, introduced at the Chicago auto show, uses a 3.3-liter V-6 and electronic CVT, standard full-time four-wheel drive with intelligence, electronic brake and throttle control, and electronically controlled active steering.”

What’s a day without a brand spanking new Hollyoaks babe to discover? Not a very good day in my book. (But then again, I don’t know how to read, so what do I know. Damn you public schooling!) Ahem. Where was I? Oh right, our latest Hollyoaks babe is Loui Batley, who assays the role of Sarah Barnes on the show. So what else about her? Um, I’m not really sure, but she’s really attractive and she looks like a million bucks in these Maxim Magazine scans. There are two types of women — the kind that looks good in lingerie, and the kind that don’t. Loui Batley falls in the former category. And how!

Who is our Brit Babe Invasion girl of the day, and why does she make us tingle all over? Well her name is Jenna-Louise Coleman, and she’s an actress on a British soap opera called Emmerdale, one of those shows I never go a day without watching because, as everyone knows (and by everyone I’m also including my pet snake Spike and my imaginary friends, Fred and Ben, and their friends, Tim and Carver), I never go a day without my Emmerdale. Yum, I love me my Emmerdale. Anyhoo. Jenna-Louise Coleman hails from Blackpool, England, and besides showing off a generous cleavage in a couple of these pictures, was once nominated for Sexiest Female at the Inside Soap Awards.

Lauren Storm is an up and coming actress who spent most of her career in TV work, with guest spots on 24, CSI: Miami, and Still Standing before moving on up to movies, where she has not one, not two, but six movies coming out in 2007. Sure, two of them are TV movies, but the other four are big time stuff, including the Dwayne Johnson (that’s The Rock to you) movie The Game Plan, about a macho and narcissistic football player who learns he has a kid; he has to bring her to live with him and hilarity, as they say, ensue. I don’t think Lauren’s role in The Game Plan is all that big, but that won’t stop her from looking mighty fine at the movie’s premiere.

Are you ready kids? It’s Elena Santarelli lingerie pictures madness! Hmm, I should probably say something else in this space, because let’s face it, leaving empty spaces in a blog post is kind of lame, and you know us, kids, we’re not lame! Well, we are, but you know, in the annals of lameness, we’re somewhere between Pauly Shore and chick flicks starring Julia Roberts and her horse face, which is not really all that great, and I wish I hadn’t brought it up. But anyhoo, it’s Italian model and actress Elena Santarelli in various states of lingerie undress. She looks good, but I’m not crazy about the hair. I mean, damn, what is with the ’70s hairstyle?

You gotta love a name like Preity Zinta, especially when you are, actually, pretty to boot. Such is the golden life of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, who comes to us from India sporting a certain wholesomeness about her, mixed in with a little sex appeal, that we just can’t ignore. Our Random Foreign Babe of the Day has over 29 movies to her credit, and is one of the most successful Indian actresses you’ve never heard of. Well, that is, unless you live in India, or if you’re not Indian, then you really like Bollywood movies, which would be kind of weird, but hey, to each his own. Get some of the pretty Preity Zinta.

Wait a minute, I didn’t know funny car races were supposed to crash and nearly kill the drivers. Isn’t that sort of like goes against everything Funny Cars stand for? I mean, how could a car by considered “funny” if the driver can actually die while racing them? But I digress. John Force, of the Force Racing Team, had to go through six hours of surgery following a wreck Sunday at the O’Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex (video below). I wonder if this is going to be on the Force’s TV show “Driving Force”, but probably not. You can see the video of the car crash for yourself below. Wow. I mean, damn, that thing just came APART. Jesus Christ, I’m shocked no one died in that crash.

Erica Durance and the babes of Smallville are coming back for yet another season (and I think the boys are coming back too, but nevermind them), but this time Erica Durance has a major hottie to contend with in new co-star Laura Vandervoort, who will be playing Supergirl. It’s hard enough competing against farm girls and gossip reporters, but now poor Lois Lane has to battle aliens with superpowers from another planet? It’s almost not fair! Here’s Erica Durance taking it semi-off for the October issue of Maxim Magazine. She looks good, no doubt, but I think it could be better. Still, Erica Durance half-dressed is mighty fine, so enjoy.

Oh, those crazy celebrities and their wacky sex tapes. The latest celebrity to be tossed into the celebrity s-e-x scandal is none other than White Stripes drummer Meg White, who apparently has a tape showing her engaging in wild horse play circulating the Internet. According to this, the maybe-maybe not existence of said tape has cause White such distress that the two-person band has cancelled their tour dates, citing “acute anxiety” on Meg’s part. Now I don’t know if this tape is actually Meg White bumping uglies with some guy (God, I hope it’s not her brother and bandmate, BRRRR), but man, it sure looks like her, don’t it? Look at the pictures below and judge for yourself. (You’ll notice that Meg White has always been, shall we say, well strapped, and so is the girl in the tape…)

Get a good seat, boys and girls, because the Britney Spears Train Wreck continues unabated, and it’s just about to reach yet another zenith. New comes out of L.A. late Friday that Britney Spears has been charged by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office with hit-and-run and driving without a valid driver’s license. Apparently Brit Brit, as she likes to be called, can’t drive worth a damn, and hit a parked car before taking off. Apparently she didn’t think anyone would know, but oh how wrong she was. So what kind of penalties will she face if (and that’s a big IF) convicted? Well the maximum fine L.A. can lay on her is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, but I doubt if that’ll happen, if the precedence set by Hollywood Train Wrecks like Lindsay Lohan and her ilk are any indication. It’s L.A., baby, don’t try to figure it out.

Adult film actress Jenna Jameson would like you to know that, despite the fact that she makes a living having sex with strange men (or at least she used to; she’s retired, so I hear), that doesn’t mean she loves our troops any less. In fact, Jenna Jameson is so for the troops that she recently attended a USO “Support the Troops” function in Washington, looking extremely good and not all that skinny. I don’t know if she’s put on a little bit of (much needed) weight, or if the dress is hiding the skin and bones, but I gotta say, after seeing these pictures, I now remember what I, and every men out there, saw in her when we ran out and bought all her movies the moment they came out. Let’s hope she keeps it up!

You gotta love Kristen Bell — and if you don’t, you’re a big jackass. She’s a cool chick who just happens to be uber hot as well, and she’s into geeks. Or at the very least, she doesn’t mind geeks, which makes her personality a major plus. (Aside from the hot looks and sexy body, I mean.) Besides putting her fanboy bona fides to work by starring in the fanboy-themed movie “Fanboys”, Kristen will be forever inserted into the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere when she shows up in the second season of Heroes on NBC. What says geek more than being on a show about superheroes? Here’s Kristen Bell in Geek Magazine. (And you didn’t think there was any theme to my constant mention of geek. For shame.)

The only time I ever bother tuning into the CW is when Supernatural is on, and even then I rarely know when it’s on. (I think it’s on on Wednesdays, but don’t hold me to it.) But the CW is starting to fill their programming with some hot numbers, including Blake Lively, who is one of the stars of the terribly named Gossip Girl. It sounds awful, I know, the kind of stuff that the same screaming teens that watch MTV’s Total Request Live will eat up, but everyone will tune in and be totally dumbfounded by. Then again, I could be wrong and the whole thing might turn out to be really great. It doesn’t hurt to have a hot number like Blake Lively to liven the show up, that’s for sure.

Besides being a fetching French lass, Cecile Cassel is also the sister of actor Vincent Cassel, which makes her the step-sister of Monica Bellucci, the Italian bombshell turned Italian-French bombshell. What exactly does that have to do with the rising price of rice in China? Well for one if you were looking for wet fantasy material, you couldn’t go wrong with cooking up a scenario where Monica is home alone when Cecile shows up to see her brother, and one thing leads to another and — well, you know where I’m going with this, don’t you? Here’s Cecile Cassel, our Random Foreign Babe of the Day.

News from Friday is that movie star and all around suave dude George Clooney was hurt in a motorcycle accident in New York when he and girlfriend Sarah Larson, who was riding with him, collided with a car on a narrow road across the Hudson River. But not fright, George Clooney lovers; your boy was hurt, went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with scrapes and a broken rib, but otherwise he’s A-okay. Larson, meanwhile, broke her foot in the accident, but is also otherwise okay. If you’ve ever ridden a motorcycle, then you know a broken rib is the best-case scenario when you ram into a car. Usually people lose limbs or their life. Pictures of George and Sarah Larson below.

So I finally got around to watching the comedy hit Knocked Up, and yeah, it was as riotously funny (God I hate it when people say that) as people keep telling me, I’ll grant you that, and Katherine Heigl, the star of the movie, is pretty hot in it. But you know what? The babe that really caught my attention was Leslie Mann, who plays the older sister to Heigl. The character provides the film with a lot of its comedy, and Leslie Mann is just smoking hot throughout the movie, even though she was playing a mid-30s housewife with two kids and Paul Rudd for a husband. I’m telling you, Leslie Mann is a definite keeper, so look forward to seeing more of her here.