The Random Stuff of Interests Page

Word from TV Guide is that Charisma Carpenter will be taking part in Donald Trump’s celebrity version of his Reality TV show “The Apprentice”. Now I don’t know how it’s going to work with celebrities (What, they’re competing to win a job with him? Why would they want to work for him? They’re ACTORS!), but I might just tune in if it turns out to be true. I mean, damn, TV just hasn’t been the same without Charisma Carpenter gracing it every other day. TV Guide usually gets this stuff right (they are, after all, TV friggin’ Guide, so it goes without saying, right?), so I’m waiting patiently to see a Donald Trump show. Wow, I never thought I’d say THAT!

There is good news and bad news about the upcoming fourth season of “Stargate: Atlantis”. The good news first: Amanda Tapping joins the cast, reprising her role of Samantha Carter from the long-running “Stargate: SG1″ series, which has ended after its recent tenth season. Now the bad news: Torri Higginson has been been killed off “Atlantis”. Or at least, it seems like she’s been killed off. The last time we saw her, she was blasted halfway across the Atlantis station by a giant laser beam, so you know, she looked dead (or will be) to me. In any case, season four of “Stargate: Atlantis” is coming, and here are some promos. Featuring Amanda Tapping and Rachel Luttrell and “the guys”.

What? There’s another reason to tune in when “House” returns for its fourth season on FOX later this month? Why yes! And her name is Olivia Wilde. Fresh from the recently cancelled “The Black Donnellys”, Olivia Wilde will finally land on a hit TV show and (fingers crossed) she’ll stay on it for a while. I don’t know if the previous castmembers from the last three seasons — Jennifer Morrison, Epps, the other guy — are coming back, but with Olivia Wilde to take up the slack, you know what? I don’t really mind. Here are some promos of Olivia Wilde in the premiere episode of “House” season four.

So I was up late at night again last night (well, okay, it was more like 4:00 in the morning), and happened to catch the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team playing in China against a bunch of boys from North Korea. Wait, they were boys, weren’t they? They sure looked like guys, anyway, but they could have been the North Korean Women’s National Team. Same difference. Anyhoo. The first thing I noticed was the U.S.’s goalkeeper, Hope Solo. And then I heard her name, and I thought, “Wow, what a f–kin’ great name.” I mean, come on, how can you have a better name? She sounds like she’s Han Solo’s cousin or something! Anyways, check out some Hope Solo and tune in to watch the U.S. Women win the FIFA World Cup.

I don’t think NBC is promoting their new cop show, “Life” nearly enough. It’s got two of my favorite things in a TV show — Damian Lewis, star of the magnificent HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers”, and the premise is killer: a cop, wrongly imprisoned, is finally released, sues the LAPD, and gets his job back plus a ton of cash. The cash allows him to do basically anything he wants, like harass his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, and try to solve the mystery behind his own framing. And did I mention it stars Damian Lewis, who is a fantastic actor and one of those guys I’d watch read the grocery list. He’s fantastic. So watch “Life” when it comes on and keep this show on the air! Some promos below.

Every now and then I see an old show or an old commercial with a celebrity that I was smitten with back in the day, but realized I haven’t seen a whole lot of her for a while now. As a result, I’ve created this new column, the MIA Babe of the Week, where every week (or thereabouts) we will focus on one former babe who has been mostly missing in action. The first babe in the column is Jacqueline Obradors, who was on NYPD Blue and after that, the Godawful “Freddie”. But Jacqueline has seen resurfaced, as a regular on an HBO doctor show that will be produced and directed by J.J. Abrams. No idea what the show will be called, but with Abrams’ name attached, it’ll definitely get done, and we’ll see more of Jacqueline on TV again very soon. Welcome back, Jacqueline!

How great is German actress Alexandra Neldel’s life? She was a dental assistant before she got discovered by a casting director who put her in the movies, as the kids would say. Basically, it’s the same story you hear everyday in Hollywood about how a girl from the Midwest goes to Hollywood to make it big, gets a job as a waitress, and some bigshot producer discovers her and puts her in the movies and suddenly she’s famous overnight. Kinda like that. Except, well, it’s not Hollywood and Alexandra Neldel is a Berliner. But besides that, she’s hot, and is our Random Foreign Babe of the Day. And hey, she kinda looks like Kim Raver, too…

If a little bit of Giorgia Palmas is very good, then it stands to reason that a little bit MORE of Giorgia Palmas is very GREAT. Right? See, that’s the kind of concrete thinking that has led me to writing gibberish on the computer and publishing it on the Internet where some unsuspecting dude accidentally stumbles across it while hiding in his office cubicle and hoping that his boss doesn’t catch him goofing off at work. Wait, where was I? Oh right. Italian celebrity Giorgia Palmas is really hot, and we’d like to see more of her if that’s possible. And if not, well, we’ll try anyway. That’s just how we like to roll around these here parts.

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone who is an ex-beauty pageant ends up with some semblance of a career once their beauty reign is over EXCEPT American beauty queens? I can name on one hand the number of ex-beauty queens that have managed a career post-crowning, and that’s basically just Vanessa Williams (the pretty one, not the one with the dreadlocks). So here’s Veruska Ramirez, our Latin Flavor of the day, a former Miss Venezuela who has parlayed her beauty pageant win into a successful modeling career. Veruska almost won, too, coming in second in the Miss Universe pageant in 1998 only to Miss Trinidad and Tobago. She’ll always be number one in our book, though.

Actress Taryn Southern was actually one of the finalists on American Idol’s Season 3, but she must not have gotten a lot of camera time because I don’t remember her. Then again, it’s not like I watch a whole lot of American Idol until Katharine McPhee blew up and got me interested again. Anyhoo. Besides appearing on talk shows, she’s worked the red carpets of the Young Hollywood Awards and the Golden Globes, and has co-produced a documentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as well as produced and starred in Project MyWorld, the first ever original television series on DirecTV. And of course there’s that “Hott 4 Hill” video that is all the rage on YouTube. The girl is, in a word, busy.

I don’t plan on seeing the new The Rock movie “The Game Plan”, mostly because movies starring giant, muscular guys who are forced to act all womany in order to care for a little kid (come on, I can name 50 of them off the top of my head) is really stupid and contrived and I just…can’t…stand…IT!!!!!!! But hey, I’ve just recently learned that Kate Nauta is one of the film’s stars, which makes me kind of rethink my notion. After all, it’s been years since Kate Nauta showed up on the big screen blowing people away with two pistols. Speaking of which, how come no one has given this woman another job since? What a disgrace. Here are some promo pics of Kate Nauta from “The Game Plan”.

Get ready, kids, the latest season (Season number 2, to be precise) is coming your way courtesy of NBC, who have released these promo images of the “Heroes” cast (including, of course, Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere and all those other, er, people on the show whose names I don’t know and I don’t want to know). Obviously my eyes were drawn to Hayden’s character’s new spiffy cheerleader outfit. I would think that after helping to save the world she would have gotten tired of that whole cheerleader stuff, but hey, when you get to see Hayden in a cheerleader outfit, why would you go away from that? Thanks, Tim Kring and company! (Of course, I’m also expecting to see more of Ali Larter stripping guys…) “Heroes” premieres later this month. Tune in — or die!

I’ve already told you about Helena Mattsson, and how you’re going to be hearing more about this Swedish beauty very soon (her first starring role, “Species 4: The Awakening” is hitting DVDs very soon, so be sure to grab it), but until then you can check out more of her in this Carl Jr.’s Flat Buns hamburger commercials. And I mean “commercials”, plural. It’s the same commercial, with the same rapping white boys, but there are different footages of the gorgeous Helena Mattsson in them. I seem to recall that there were some controversy when this video was run on network TV, although I could be wrong. Then again, isn’t that the point of the commercials? The more “controversy”, even the fake ones, will get Carl Jr.’s free publicity, and that’s just something you can’t buy.

It’s been a long time since we last posted any Emma Griffiths (over a year!), and because she’s just such a fine looking lady, and there’s a shortage of really fine looking ladies out there, why not go back and post some more Emma Griffiths. This time around we had to go all the way back to 2005 (you know, the good ol days) for this FHM UK spread, but since it’s a hell of a spread — as in, it’s a rockin’ super hot spread — we don’t mind posting an oldie but very goodie. Get some Emma Griffiths ya bums and thank me in the morning. Or tonight, if that’s your pleasure.

To answer my own question: No. Unless, that is, you like watching failed teen TV show, then you might have already fallen in lust with Amber Heard when she starred on the short-lived series “Hidden Palms”. But if not, you might end up falling in lust anyway when she stars in the upcoming horror movie “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane”. Amber, of course, plays the titular Mandy Lane, because let’s face it, when you’re going to call your movie that, you better have someone playing the main character who is mighty fine. And Amber Heard? She’s mighty fine, alright. If you disagree call me so I can go to you house and punch you in the face.

Oh, those Latin girls and their flavorful bodies. Thank God there is an endless supply of them out there, or this lame ass column might have gone the way of the dodo birds a long time ago. Like, two years ago, probably. (Wait, has the column been around that long? Well, probably not, but just go with it.) In any case, although I can’t find jack on Debora Montenegro on the Internet, I’m reasonably certain she’s from down South Central America thereaways, but if not, let’s just pretend. And hey, is it just me or does Debora Montenegro look a heck of a lot like “24″ star Kim Raver? I’m telling you, the two ladies could be twins. Now if they would only stand next to each other wearing very little clothes…

Our Random Foreign Babe of the Day, Felicitas Woll, is a German TV actress, and since I have never been to Germany, and so will never see anything even close to being called “German TV”, I have absolutely no idea who she is or what she’s all about, but I do know this: she is random, she is foreign, and she is a babe, so she definitely fits the category. According to her bio on IMDB.com, Felicitas “supports people with Down syndrome,” which is a good thing, because anyone who is against people with Down syndrome is just a big fat jerk. Am I right or am I right, girls? (Well, unless the person with Down syndrome was kind of a jerk, then I guess it COULD be okay not to like them…)

Here’s Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado in the German edition of Maxim Magazine. So what’s the difference between the German edition of Maxim and the American edition, you ask? Well, er, one is available in Germany and the other is available in America. See? And you say I don’t teach you boys anything at the Random Page! For shame! But anyways, I’m quickly warming up to Nelly Furtado, who I wasn’t a fan off before, but is quickly growing to love. Er, I mean, lust. Same difference, right? By the way, if Nelly Furtado is Canadian, why isn’t she in the Canadian edition of Maxim instead of the German edition? I’m just saying.

Oh boy, apparently motherhood and trailer trashing it up for the last few years hasn’t been kind to Britney Spears’ talent — or should we say, what little talent she still has left. The poor girl performed at the MTV Video Music Awards last night (video of the performance below), and she looked, in a word: “Holy crap, you call that a performance?” Basically, it was awful. I mean, shit, I don’t even know anything about dancing or choreography or singing, but even I know that “performance” of hers was Godawful shitty. The song she’s doing is her new single, called “Gimme More”, and it sounds just as crappy as her performance. See for yourself before MTV yanks it off YouTube. (But on the plus side? Her doctor sucked out all the cellulite, so that’s good.) Update: Well the YouTube version didn’t last long. Here’s the DailyMotion version, hopefully it’ll last longer.

Twenty years from now, I think people will look back at FOX’s crime procedural/comedy show “Bones” and say, “Hey, that was a pretty good show, after all,” probably around the time Hollywood decides it wants to make a big-screen movie version of the show. (Oh come on, you know Hollywood will still be creatively bankrupt 20 years from now, let’s not kid ourselves.) Then again, my TV radar could be wrong and popular culture could evolve into something better and shows like “Bones” will only work as nostalgia time, you know, sort of like “The Brady Bunch”, except with, er, bones and dead people. In any case, here are some promos for the upcoming Season 3 of “Bones” on FOX.