The Random Stuff of Interests Page

Earlier last year I made a post about Natalie Denning and marveled at her ability to fill out a two-piece bikini. And you know what? Almost a year later, she’s still filling those bikinis out pretty damn well. So well, in fact, that I had to make another post just to let you know. So who is Natalie Denning? She’s a British glamour model who has been in Nuts, ZOO, Loaded and Maximum. And oh right, in case I didn’t mention it before, but Natalie Denning looks really, really good in a two-piece bikini. Dear God, thank you whoever invented the bikini!

Our Latin Flavor of the Day, Viviana Greco, claims Argentinian as her nationality, but Italy as her ethnicity. Which sort of makes her latin flavor “spicy”, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. Or not. Look, I can’t hold your hands on all of this stuff, so, you know, get with it or sumthin’. Anyhoo. Viviana Greco is a model and is a self-proclaimed soccer (football to you international folks) fanatic, which means I really gotta start watching soccer. I mean, it can’t possibly be as lame and boring as it appears on TV, right? Well? Am I right or not? Uh, you guys are no help at all.

Being that I’m a sports fan, I get two benefits of watching the Superbowl every year: one, I get the great games, which have been great basically for the last 10 years that I’ve watched the Superbowls closely; and two, I get to watch all the cool commercials and, as a movie fan, all the cool movie trailers for upcoming films. Who could forget that totally awesome trailer for “The Matrix” movie? With the bullet-time effect? So in honor of the upcoming Superbowl (it’s this Sunday, ya bums), here is an advance preview of the 2008 Superbowl commercials that you’ll see in-between the hits, the interceptions, and the Patriots kicking the crap out of the Giants. (Or vice versa.) Thanks Associated Press!

Unless you’re an avid Australian TV watcher, then you have no idea who Anna Torv is, but that’s going to change when J.J. Abrams’ new TV show Fringe hits the air sometime this year. Why? Because Abrams has tapped the mostly unknown Anna Torv to star as the female lead in Fringe, which means she’ll be getting the Jennifer Garner, Evangeline Lilly, and Keri Russell treatment very soon — all three women were nobodies until Abrams casted them as the female leads in his shows, and now they’re more famous than Jesus Christ. Well, probably not, since JC is pretty famous, but you know what I mean. Check out some Anna Torv. Yeah, I gotta say, she has a certain Evangeline Lilly/Jennifer Garner thing going on there…

Imagine naming your kid Lake Bell. Geez, what kind of trouble would she get into throughout high school? Then she grows up, and everything changes. Hollywood producers realizes she’s too hot to be walking the streets selling T-shirts, so they put her in movies, TV shows, and now, she’s ready to blow up in “Over Her Dead Body” with Eva Longoria. And hey, if the movie career doesn’t work out, there’s always TV. Lake Bell is one of the stars of David E. Kelley’s Boston Legal TV show, which I hear is about the law…in Boston. Please to take a dip into Lake Bell.

A year or so back there was a dance movie called “Step Up” that did so well (shocking well, you might say) that they made a sequel: “Step Up 2: The Streets”, which I take to mean that they took the stepping up into the streets, with all the gum and trash and syringes and whatnot. But never mind what the movie is about. One of its stars is the gorgeous Briana Evigan, a new actress who looks damn fine gyrating in the rain (or manufactured water, as it were) according to the trailers and these pictures. Check out some Briana Evigan, and step up and admit she’s hot, or else.

Our Random Foreign Babe of the Day Ksenia Sobchak is called by some the “Paris Hilton of Russia”, which to tell you the truth, I’m not sure is a compliment. (Although I’m certain Paris Hilton would argue the point.) Besides being the daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg (what, you didn’t know?), Ksenia Sobchak is also the host of the reality TV show “Home-2″ on the Russian channel TNT, and you know I love me my Russian reality TV shows. Why, every time I’m in Moscow, I never miss them. Which is pretty amazing, since I have never been in Moscow my entire life, but that’s another story. Ksenia in her shiny boots. Please to ogle.

In the new horror movie “The Eye”, Jessica Alba plays one of those hot girls who doesn’t know she’s hot, who also happens to be blind and play violin. Once Jessica Alba gets a corner transplant, she’s able to see, except what she sees are ghosts. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I know I do. Anyhoo. Here’s a scene from “The Eye” — it has a naked Jessica Alba in the shower, looking very perturbed. Towards the end you get a glimpse of ass crack. Being that Jessica Alba was not pregnant during the making of the movie, and all the good bits are basically hidden, this is probably her and not a body double. You be the judge.

I love Jerry O’Connell. I’ve always been a fan of his. I don’t really know what it is, but I’m thinking it has to be the fact that Jerry O’Connell used to be fat when he was a kid, but he grew out of it, became a hunk, and now he’s married to a supermodel (Rebecca Romijn). Basically, Jerry O’Connell took John Stamos’ wife away from him. Now that deserves a nice round of applause! So here’s Jerry O’Connell doing, bar none, the best impression of Tom Cruise I’ve ever seen. He’s got it all down — the laugh, the hand gestures, the crazy eyes — basically, everything that we found spooky about Tom Cruise when he went on and on about the greatness of scientology. Great stuff!

January 2008 has almost come and gone, so what better way to celebrate is passing than with the appropriately named January Jones? Well, okay, I could probably think of a dozen other better ways to celebrate the passing of a really miserable month (stupid flu), but posting pictures of a pretty girl whose first name just happens to be that of a month just seems right somehow. You know, almost as right as kissing your cousin, but you didn’t know it was your cousin until much later, after which it was too late to regret the kiss? Yeah, like that. Have some January Jones for your January passing.

If the name Marion Cotillard doesn’t sound immediately familiar, don’t worry, it will soon enough. Besides being an Oscar-nominated actress hailing from France, Marion Cotillard is set to take Hollywood by storm, with major roles in big-time Hollywood movies like Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies”, which will star Johnny Depp and Christian Bale! You can’t get any bigger than that, folks. The only thing Marion Cotillard has to worry about is becoming another Penelope Cruz, or that girl in “The Beach” with Leonardo DiCaprio, etc. You know, a promising actress who quickly burns out. If all goes well, we’ll be seeing more of Marion Cotillard, such as this appearance in Studio magazine. Ooh lala indeed.

Wait, are you telling me that a French woman once modeled for Lara Croft aka Tomb Raider? Blasphemy! Isn’t that a job reserved specifically for our British hotties? Apparently not. French model turned actress Vanessa Demouy was the second model to slip on the tight short-shorts and carry the guns of Lara Croft, before giving it up. Nowadays, Vanessa Demouy is most known for her role on the French sitcom Models in Paradise. Yeah, I know, I didn’t even know the French had sitcoms, either! See, who says you don’t learn anything by reading the Random Page? Shame on you!

From what I can gather, and admittedly I could (and is probably) wrong, but I think Italian beauty Emanuela Folliero is some kind of TV host on a TV show or what have you. You know, on Italian TV, since I’ve never seen her on American TV, and I’m assuming since I myself put her in the “Italian Spice” category, she should and would have to be Italian. See, I love it when I realize I didn’t do something totally stupid, but in fact had a plan all along. Anyhoo, where was I? Oh right, Emanuela Folliero is a tall, leggy beauty from Italy, and for a babe well into her ’40s, she’s still got it going on and back again.

Was there anything better in the ’80s (1989, to be exact) than the sight of Alannah Myles on a porch rocking out to the smooth, silky sounds of “Black Velvet”? Hell no. And if you say differently, you deserve a kick in the teeth. Alannah Myles was a Canadian singer/songwriter (that means she actually writes her own songs, ya bums), who grew up on a ranch in Buckhorn, where she learned to appreciate horses and accounts for those pictures of Alannah Myles posing in the buff with horses. The guy loves horses, what can we say. And we loved her back in the ’80s (or 1990, if you really want to get technical about it). Let’s relive “Black Velvet” all over again, shall we?

And so it begins… I think we all sort of knew as soon as those nude pictures of Vanessa Hudgens flooded the Internet that we weren’t dealing with a goody two shoes here, that Vanessa Hudgens was destined to blow up in men’s magazines everywhere, and even a trip onto the nudie mags or two. This is definitely the beginning of that road, as here’s Vanessa Hudgens in Flaunt magazine. The spread isn’t anything great or risque, but it is suitably creepy and artsy fartsy, and trust me when I say that it won’t be long before she shows up either in FHM or Maxim or maybe Arena. Vanessa Hudgens is ready for adult-time, in case you weren’t aware of it when she snapped nude pictures of herself and sent them out into the world. And it begins with this appearance in Flaunt Magazine…

Good God, who is Katrina Bowden, and why haven’t we heard about her until now? Um, probably because we (as in me, myself, and I) are very lazy, and we only notice really smoking hot girls when we stumble across her while watching a movie or a TV show. And Katrina Bowden showed up while I was watching a re-run of 30 Rock — you remember, that sitcom about aliens who comes to Earth and get into trouble and all that junk that sitcom characters always get into? Or maybe it’s the one with the nerdy girl from Saturday Night Live about that fake TV show starring one of the Baldwin Brothers. Either/or. Yeah. Katrina Bowden played a girl on one of those shows, you figure out which one. Oh, to be 19 and smoking hot in Hollywood…

These Uma Thurman bikini pictures would be so much hotter if I didn’t know that Uma Thurman once dated (and probably did the horizontal mambo) with former videostore clerk turned geeky movie director Quentin Tarantino. Besides that tiny bump in the road to Uma Thurman uber hotness, Uma Thurman in a two-piece bikini on the beach is still pretty damn hot. Yes, that’s correct, I have no idea what I’m talking about. Please to ogle Uma Thurman bikini pictures. Can you believe Tarantino once hit this? Damn him.

Our Sports Babe of the Day is Polish chick boxer Agnieszka Rylik, who, like a lot of sports athletes who show up in our Sports Babe of the Day column, has a face that could use a little bit more time in the make-up chair, but the rest of her combined more than makes up for the rough looks. What I’m trying to say is, the girl has a tight body (as the kids would say) and what’s hotter than a girl with a hot body who can kick your ass if you don’t please her just right? That’s right, Agnieszka Rylik is that kind of hot. Take her in or she’ll beat the hell out of you.

Our Brit Babe for the day is Kellie Shirley, yet another product of British TV. In this case, the TV series Eastenders, where she played the character Carly Wicks. Unfortunately for Eastenders fans, Kellie Shirley will be leaving the show along with her character, which will royally suck for you Kellie Shirley fans. And if you’re not a fan of her character, well, it won’t matter to you, then. Anyhoo, here are some Kellie Shirley to take a gander at. I give her 9 out of 10 on the scale of Brit hotness.

I have to admit, I’ve been meaning to catch up with the CW’s superhero show Smallville ever since they introduced a certain blonde girl from Krypton as a new character, but, um, I never did. I’m sorry, but I have this strange obsession with AVOIDING things that are shown on the CW channel. I still hate the hell out of that name. But I really should tune into Smallville more often, especially if star Erica Durance (aka Erica Parker) is looking this good on the show as she does in this issue of Tecin-Rebel Magazine. Now I don’t know what Tecin-Rebel Magazine is, but when they can convince Erica Durance to take off her shirt and cover her ta-tas with her arms, they’re A-okay in my book.