This Weekend's Fanboy Delusion

This weekend I'd rather be...

... giving Joe Manganiello a ride. (via)
A long, slow, roundabout ride.

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The Moment I Fell For... Ginger Friedman

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"We fingah-fucked. Once. Last spring."

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Hello Anna + Hello Chris

Way back a billion years ago when we first started hearing stuff about What's Your Number? here at MNPP we theorized that Anna must be a fan of ours because she was snatching up seventeen-hundred of my favorite people and stuffing them into her movie. Ari Graynor, Chris Evans, Mike Vogel, Joel McHale... Matthew Bomer was even in there for a hot minute before pulling out (I've always wanted to say that sentence, it's a shame the context isn't quite right). Anyway, this picture proves everything!

There they are, reading MNPP. (Those are the faces I imagine everyone having when they look at this site. Vague disgust and shock, kind of as if you've just crapped your pants.) I think they were probably voting on this poll, actually. Which do you think Anna picked? She's always struck me as a banana-up-the-tailpipe sorta gal.

Anyway even if WYN turns out to be crap - and the critics are not being kind - it'll still have these folks, plus Chris Evans hanging out in his underpants, so all will not be for naught.

There's a lot out this weekend, actually. 50/50 with JoeGordLev shaving his head, Dream House with Dan Craig taking a bath, Margaret with Anna Paquin not being sandwiched between homoerotic vampire action. So hit up yonder Celebrity Beehive where I tell you a little more about them all. If you dare!!! Okay I don't know why you wouldn't dare, I guess the Halloween mood is just starting to infect me. I'm infected! Hooray!
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Who Wore It Best?

The half-shirt?

Bruce Jenner in Can't Stop the Music, or

Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Street?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... wrangling with James Dean.

Dean died on this day in 1955.

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Ratatouille (2007)

Anton Ego: If I don't love it,

I don't SWALLOW.

I learned this lesson the hard way.

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Pics of the Day

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I don't know what the hell is going on over at the set of Steven Soderbergh's Male Stripper Epic, All You Need Is Thong, but I love it. I love it! Is Matt Bomer carrying a bike pump? Why is Matthew Bomer half-naked and carrying a bike pump, if that is what that is? What routine does his stripper perform? THE MIND REELS. (ETA Is it a jump-rope of some kind, maybe?) I hate that this thing's shooting in LA. Why can't it be here in New York, dammit? And why aren't you people who live in LA camped out for this ridiculousness? Good lord, this movie is going to blow my mind.

This is currently my favorite movie ever made, and they

haven't even come close to being done making it. Congrats, all!

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I Do Not Understand This As Criticism

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So What's Your Number?, the new Anna Faris comedy, is out today. I am Anna's second biggest fan - her first biggest fan is this dweeb - so I'll be seeing it, come hell or terrible reviews. I mean, I've seen The House Bunny ten times by now and that thing's no critic's darling. (Come on, though. "The eyes are the nipples of the face" should be taught beside Shakespeare.) So I might as well read a couple of the reviews, see what people are complaining about, since they're not gonna make a difference, right? Which led me to this review at AICN, and I am boondoggled, barnswallowed, cornfussed! I have no idea if all of those are words, the point is I do not compute the following as examples of how something is wrong with the film:

"It doesn't help that Evans is at his full-on most scoundrelly charming and walks around a lot in his underwear. He frequently makes the trip across the hall to hide from the women who have slept over and he wants to leave. Then there's the unnecessary second plot (it takes up too much time to call a subplot) about Ally's sister (Ari Graynor) getting married."

So what you're telling me is Chris Evans' is half naked most of the time, and there's more Ari Graynor in the movie then I was expecting? AND THESE ARE BAD THINGS??? What the living fuck.

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Good Morning, World

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I've been doing a shit job at keeping up with Charlie Hunnam's shirtlessness - unfortunately that's as far as it's gone, from what I can tell - on Sons of Anarchy this year. I never did get around to start watching the show and now I seem so far behind... anyway here's what I could find for recently, with a few after the jump...

Say What Dominic Cooper

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Last thing we'd heard about Dominic Cooper's future he was "circling" a horror movie with Liv Tyler called The Cure that'd be directed by Last House on the Left remake's Dennis Iliadis, which could prove promising. Dunno where that stands, but he's apparently up for the lead in "the revenge thriller Motor City" which'll be directed by The Hughes Brothers (of The Book of Eli and From Hell and Menace II Society way back) and produced by Joel Silver - Chris Evans, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Renner were all said to be in the running for the movie at one time or another, but Variety says that Silver liked what he saw in The Devil's Double - yeah no kidding, so did we, Joel. So did we. The special thing about this script is apparently there's just a single wee line of dialogue for the entire running time. I'd hate to lose access to his charming voice, but he can probably find other ways to keep me riveted to the screen.

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Super Stupor

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EW's got some new pictures from The Avengers - including yet another horrendously photo-shopped group shot a la those X-Men Muppet Babies abortions from earlier this year (what happened to Scarlett's neck???) - and I included that full shot above even though it's got the dreaded RDJ in it because I would've had to crop joss out as well in order to get rid of his scourge, and that's no good. But what I really wanna see is just the right-hand side.

Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Hugh Dancy Four Times

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(via) Argh, he's got broad all over him. I might have to go see this Venus In Furs show anyway though. When I saw him go gay for The Pride last year it was awfully stimulating.

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Pics of the Day

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Can I talk about Radiohead rationally? No, I cannot. So I'll spare you the endless superlatives. It was a very good time, their show at the Roseland Ballroom last night. A very pleasant way to spend an evening. I enjoyed myself, muchly. These are just a couple of the dozens of pictures that I took, but I won't make you stare at all that.

After the jump, however, if you so desire, you can see seven videos I took! If you're prone to epileptic fits you might wanna sit these out as I have the steadiness of a feeble ninety-year old. But still! They sound great (understatement), and I was super close. My camera did die on me before the end of "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" though, so beware that being a bit of a boner killer.

Good Morning, World

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If You Think This Is Over Then You're Wrong...

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It's gotten to the point in the day where I can't focus on anything except the fact that I'll be heading up to Roseland in a couple of hours to see Radiohead, so until tomorrow I suppose this shall be it. From what I hear, the line of people who have tickets and are waiting to get in already stretches around the corner from the venue at this point, which is insane, but then insanity is how these shows have been greeted. Sigh. I miss the days when my favorite band wasn't everybody's favorite band. You know, fifteen years ago. Double sigh. Anyway I am excited! If a bit tense. They won't even go on until nine or ten I'm sure, so there's a whole lot of time for me to kill, standing in a very packed and sweaty room with a bunch of strangers. But I cannot complain! I am getting in! Yeehaw!

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Five Frames From ?

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What movie is this?

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

"The United States of Tara" (2010)

Marshall: People don't know I'm gay
unless I'm blowing them.

A very happy 19th birthday to Keir Gilchrist.

I miss this show so much already.

Extra Extraterrestrial

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Timecrimes was good enough that I should've been expecting a curve-ball when director Nacho Vigalondo started making a movie called Extraterrestrial about an alien invasion as his sophmore effort, but I still didn't see this coming. From Slash's review:

"Buying a ticket to see a film called Extraterrestrial brings with it a lofty set of expectations. You expect sci-fi, you expect action and most of all you expect to see aliens. Nacho Vigalondo‘s second feature film says screw that. His Extraterrestrial has an alien invasion in it but it’s there only to put a new spin on the romantic comedy, a spin only the man behind Timecrimes could create. Incredibly, Extraterrestrial feels almost as layered as that film, but instead of multiple levels of time-travel, this features multiple levels of lies, laughs and love. It’s a wonderful, almost screwball, comedy that does pretty much everything right."

Well, cool. Very cool! Hopefully we'll get a chance to see for ourselves someday soon.

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Good Morning, World

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That's Terra Nova's papa protagonist Jason O'Mara in his previous show, Life on Mars which lasted like negative seven episodes or whatever. Let's hope the dinosaurs feel like tying him up some too, it'll goose this new show a bit (it's in need of goosing). Although TN was kind enough, in the middle of all the semi-tedious family treacle, to give us some of Mr. O'Mara's shirtless chore routine though, so I'll give them some wiggle room, for now. Here are those after the jump...

Who Wore It Best?

The Edwardian Up-do of Evil?

Ruth Dewitt Bukater (Frances Fisher) in Titanic,

or Lady Tremaine (Eleanor Audley) in Cinderella?

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poll by twiigs.com

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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn fron:

The Thing (1982)

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MacReady: How you doin', old boy?
Dr. Blair: I don't know who to trust.
MacReady: [swallows, sighs] I know what you mean, Blair.
Trust's a tough thing to come by these days.
Tell you what - Why don't you just trust in the Lord?

Thanks to Stacie Ponder for cluing me into it being Wilford Brimley's 77th birthday today. Happy birthday, Mustache! It's solid character work in Carpenter's film like his that makes me worry for the prequel's chances. The casting was just ace top to bottom there.

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Johann Urb Seven Times

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(most via) Johann's one of those dudes who are so attractive he actually makes me exhausted. Like, what am I even bothering pulling in breath for? It is all for naught, I should just stop and let him have all the oxygen, he obviously deserves it more than I do. He is evolution forward, while I lay around on a pile of cheeto dust in the past. Onwards and upwards, pretty man!

He just got cast in the fifth Resident Evil movie (Fifth? Even I, Milla lover, have only seen the first two for god's sake), which is apparently set in a world intent on proving my just-stated theory - only gorgeous models like Milla and Johann and Boris Kodjoe are human, while the rest of us are hideous brain-dead ghouls. I've finally unraveled Paul W. S. Anderson's metaphor! Deep, man!

You can see a previously posted slew of Johann here.