Good Morning, World

This morning we wish the actor Sam Page, of many TV shows but probably forever best known as that beautiful bastard husband of Joan's on Mad Men, a happy 44th birthday! You can scan through our past posts on Sam here -- the gifs you see today are from an episode of the Lifetime series The Client List, which had Jennifer Love-Hewitt playing a "Small-town Mom turned Hooker, gasp!!!", which, it is safe to assume, I never saw a single second of. Sam's résumé is scattered with little bits like this -- when will it be pretty pretty Sam Page's moment to shine? Well he can shine this morning, for a few moments, after the jump...

Sam Page One Time

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A happy 39 to the Mad Men (but more importantly David DeCocteau's The Brotherhood) actor Sam Page today -- see lots of pictures of him right here. We're still a little flummoxed that his career hasn't taken off like we thought it would but I guess he's still youngish! Actors at 39 are better off than actresses at 39, at least -- he'll just get called "distinguished" now, is all. I mean look at that picture, they're even letting him keep his body hair! He's practically at Carl Reiner or Ed Asner levels of manliness.

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How Much For That Ryan In The Window

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So have you guys watched the trailer for Tarsem Singh's new movie Self/Less yet? It appears to be a fantasy about buying Ryan Reynolds' body, which is something I am totally on-board for. I wonder what the asking price is for Ryan Reynolds' body? I should ask Tarsem.

The movie co-stars Matthew Goode and Sam Page and in it everybody's wearing well-tailored suits and then suddenly Ryan Reynolds is jogging in gray sweatpants and I made have blacked out for a bit. Here's the trailer:

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After the jump the rest of the shots that matter most...

I Am Link

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--- Double Damn - Over at this Henry Cavill fan-site they got to interview Alain Moussi, the stuntman who was Henry Cavill's stunt-double in Immortals; he's also done stunt-work on films like X-Men: Days of Future Past and Pacific Rim, and he's about to tackle the actual on-screen leading role in the remake of Kickboxer. Anyway he seems like a charmer, and he tells a funny story about pranking his girlfriend with tales of Henry Cavill nudity, so click on over.

--- Forever Cathy - I've been telling you about Schitts Creek, the hysterical new Canadian comedy with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, for a few weeks now - well it premieres tonight in the US and Vulture has a lovely chat with its two stars right here. I love the repeated instances Catherine's obvious humility shining through - "Let's not act like it's some big coup" - even though Catherine O'Hara of all people has no reason to be humble.

--- Video Star - David Fincher's beginning to have his fingers in so many pies I can't keep up - I can't remember if we'd heard about the comedy series he's making for Netflix or not? It's called Living On Video and it's about the dawn of the music-video in 1983 Los Angeles; some kid from The Killing just got cast in the lead but more importantly the beautiful and under-exploited Sam Page is also cast, as "a meteorologist trying to transition into game-show hosting." I can totally see it. (thanks Mac)

--- Love At Any Age - There's not a ton to this news-story behind the headline but oh what a headline - apparently Bill Murray was seen putting the moves on Catherine Denueve at a restaurant in Los Angeles a couple of days ago. Can you imagine? That is the coolest pick-up scene ever. I need them to have a torrid public love affair.

--- Rosemary's Birthday - I missed Mia Farrow's 70th birthday on Monday - happy belated birthday, Mia! - but thankfully Time magazine was there and they shared a glorious collection of photographs running through the course her several decades in the public eye. (Thanks Mac) Oh and on a related note there've been some raised eyebrows about her son Ronan's inclusion on Out magazine's recent list of hot gay bachelors, since Ronan's never come out.

--- Death Squad - Not only has the cast been revealed for the terribly ill-advised American remake of Pascal Laugier's brilliant and blistering 2009 horror film Martyrs, but apparently the thing's already been filmed too! I guess it was smart of them to just get 'er done and avoid the internet noise. I don't recognize any of the people cast in it but I wouldn't have recognized any of the people cast in the original either so that can't be a knock against it.

--- Hot Time - I haven't read this entire thing yet but Variety did a pretty comprehensive look at the butchering of 54, the "Ryan Phillippe's ass at da club" movie we love despite its awfulness because, you know, Ryan Phillippe's ass, just as the film's brand-new Director's Cut played in Berlin. The good news is the movie's apparently going to play all over the place, and get released (probably on VOD) later this year! We've been waiting for this for a long long time.

--- Bitter Tears - Another movie that played at Berlin that we're very very very interested in seeing is Christian Braad Thompsen's documentary called Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands, which is that's right you guessed it about the career of the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The Playlist reviewed it today and it sounds smashing, with interviews with lots of Fassbinder folks.

--- The Winged Stacie - Because I was away at the end of last week I never got to link to the final couple of entries in Final Girl's VHS Week, so head over there to hear Stacie Ponder take on Larry Cohen's Q: The Winged Serpent (a personal fave), Christophe Gans' Brotherhood of the Wolf, and Stuart Gordon's Dagon, which she inspired me to post about right before I left. (And thanks for the shout-out, Stacie!)

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Which is Hotter?

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Sean Faris in The Brotherhood 2 

or Sam Page in The Brotherhood?

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poll by twiigs.com

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A happy 52nd birthday to director David DeCoteau, who's never found it difficult in the slightest to make any horror story you can imagine revolve around a bunch of frat boys stripped to their underwear only to find themselves under an hypnotic spell that forces them to touch and stroke each other bunches; bless him. See more Sam Page here and more Sean Faris here.
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Sam Page Six Times

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You guys I am so confused.

Where is Sam Page?

Why isn't Sam Page everywhere?

What is happening????

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Sam Page Seven Times

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The Stylist For This Shoot Should Be Shot

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Sure, Sam Page is an attractive enough chap that you could throw him in a hefty sack and one of those beanie caps with fake dreads attached and I'd still want to ride his bones. But that doesn't mean you should style him like he's what Simon Doonan just pulled out of his drain. It just doesn't. Shame, stylist. Shame.

More pics here; they're not all a total loss,
as the following proves:

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Sam Page One Time

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Figured his giant gratuitous post from the other week wouldn't be sufficient on its own now that this new, immensely appealing picture of him in People magazine has done gone and shown up. (via)
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The United Monster Talent Agency

I watched the documentary Fantastic Flesh over the weekend, which is about FX make-up artists most specifically of the horror sort, and there was a lot of Greg Nicotero in there. Which is as it ought to be. The man did Sin City and Kill Bill and Army of Darkness and [insert a thousand movie titles here], for goodness sake. Anyway he's directed this short film apparently stuffed straight up to the swamp thing's gills with monsters called The United Monster Talent Agency... (via)

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For some reason my computer refuses to play this video right now so I haven't seen this yet, but I'm told that it briefly features today's Gratuitous Post Recipient Sam Page and he immediately has his shirt off! So that's nifty, and fortuitous. I'll try watching it once I'm home, I guess. ETA Now I've seen it and here be a couple caps!


Anyway Nicotero's doing the zombie make-up for The Walking Dead right now and next up he's gonna direct his first feature, an adaptation of the crazy-as-hell sounding The Drive-In. Coolness.
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Gratuitous Sam Page

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I don't watch Mad Men. I have no excuses why and it leaves my boyfriend flabbergasted. The few episodes I have seen I've enjoyed, and I love the look, and the actors all seem appealing (not to mention the camera's fixation with Jon Hamm's crotch). I just can't seem to work up an enthusiasm for it that keeps me coming back week in week out. I don't know. But I've said all this before. This is just my in to approaching Sam Page, who plays va-va-va-voom-tastic Joan Holloway's husband Greg and I keep hearing my boyfriend swoon over. I only had a vague idea of what he looked like...


... but once I started looking him up there was no stopping. In his almost-34-years he's been the giving sort. He even starred in one of David DeCoteau's homo-horror-fests, The Brotherhood, which no doubt you'll see some underpants-vamp action from below. Bless David DeCoteau. His movies are almost unwatchable but he's gotten more up-and-comers into their skivvies and on top of each other than Calvin Klein. Anyway Sam Page is pleasant to look at, the end.

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