Jack Harkness: immortalized in comics

Comics?! Yep -- comics.

In fact, this is really cool. First, I happen to like comics; second, modern comics have incredibly high production values. Third, John and Carole Barrowman are writing this one. Fourth, John has made "his face" available to the character, so you get very, VERY nice artwork...

See this: Captain Jack And The Selkie’ Comic Strip First Look, for a sneak preview and the story behind the story!



Looks like being a blast, and it's great that John's sister Carole has gotten into this. (She has her own webpage, incidentally.) It's so great that Torchwood is a massive success -- it's even gone well in the US, which surprised the heck out of me. US networks are really picky about coarse language, sexual references, nudity and whave have you, and I'd expected them to handle Torchwood with tongs! In fact I think they did to a degree. I read a quote from John Barrowman where he says the next season (he could mean the third or even fourth, depending on how old the quote is, and this is something I can't say) of the show will be toned down. He said words along the lines of "We won't be swearing or doing anything close to the bone, so the show won't have to be heavily edited for US audiences." That's not a verbatim quote, but it's darned close ... and I can't find my way back to the original page for love or money!

Okay -- now the part you've been waiting for. The eye candy! Shut up and paste the pictures in, Aricia....

Rutger Hauer ... ice up a cold one. Wow!

You know, this commercial didn't run in Australia ... if it did, believe me, I'd remember it. I always knew Rutger Hauer did a commercial for beer way back in the Blade Runner days, but I never saw it.

I just heard that's he's done the voice track for a butter commercial (!) and while I was hunting for a copy (no joy yet) I stumbled over the Guinness -- Pure Genius commercial:

Hapy, happy, joy, joy! Check this out:



You know, that was worth waiting thirty years for!

And while we're here -- how about some goodies you might not have seen:

The Ultimate Movie, starring Depp, Jolie, Smith and Knightly (plus Pitt and Winslet, optional...)

Here's the challenge: design your own ultimate movie ... cast whoever you like in it. Who'd be your choice? We all of us can dream, I guess --!

In fact this scenario has been run as a poll in the UK, ant (not to anyone's astonishment, here's the result: "Ahead of Friday's 85 million pound, EuroMillions lottery draw, the poll has revealed that if finances come flowing, nine out of ten Brits would invest to make their own movie. While the hollywood's most bankable star Will Smith would be cast as the supporting actor with "Bend it like Beckham" star Keira Knightley would give him company for the role.One in four Britons would make a thriller, while one in five opted for a romantic comedy but they unitedly voted for London as their favourite destination to shoot the film."

And you have to admit, this wouldbe a heck of a film. It's a romantic comedy-thriller starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith and Keira Knightly.

Good lord ... I'd go see that one myself!

The production and promotion pictures might look something like this...

What a movie this would be!

If I was nuts enough, I'd say: let's run a competition ... take the above pictures and work out a story that connects them all. Like ...

The lady scuba diver and the lady who organizes a historical re-enactment society get together with a gypsy guy and an actor; the diving lady moonlights as a model, and the actor is trying to run for office. They all live in the same apartment block in NYC, and somebody on their floor gets murdered, and the murder weapon gets all of them tagged as the murderer/ess ... they have to prove themselves innocent, before the detectives (played by Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet) slap on the cuffs and march 'em all away.

Hey, that's not too bad at all!

The boy from Barcelona is back!

The news popped up just an hour ago (at the time of this writing) and I'm still in seventh heaven ... Antonio Banderas just signed to be in the new Woody Allen movie!

(Find the whole story on Entertainment and Showbiz here...)

Right now no one has much idea what the movie is going to be about, but if it's a Woody Allen comedy starring Antonio Banderas ... how could you go wrong?! I've been following Antonio for a looong time; and I think I've been a fan of Woody Allen even longer. Since Bananas, in fact! And that goes back so far, Sylvester Stallone's part in it was uncredited! (Congratulations, AG, you just told everybody in the world how old you are...)

Anyway, that's the big news today, so break out the bubbly! Any excuse to pop a cork, right? And since we're in a mood to party, let's get on with the goodies...

Viggo, Orlando -- and that other cute dude from TROY...

I've got some reading for you today -- good, meaty stuff ... if you're in a Viggo mood, and I am. There's a really good feature article you need to get your teeth into, so after you've grabbed the eye candy below, go over here:

Mr Good Bard

The feature is running on the Sydney Morning Herald -- the Australian paper, so you might not have seen it. And staying in Aus, and staying with things sorta-kinda Lord of the Rings -ish, here's another beaut:

Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom show their revhead side

...that one is on the Daily Telegraph, and allow me to give you the hook: "THEY'RE two of Hollywood's leading hoons and Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana hung out to talk the secret men's business of custom motorcycles in Sydney yesterday."

Can you imagine working at a bike shop in Sydney, and looking up over the keyboard, or out the window, and Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom just walked in??? You'd have to drop your Pepsi stright into the computer. I mean, you'd have no choice, would you?!

Anway -- there's some reading for you; also food for thought. And now the eye candy!

Star Trek was never like this ... or was it? Come to think of it --

Who's in a Star Trek mood? Oh, come on now ... hands up! That's better.

Because I found some goodies and if you have a few minutes and no regard for your ribs, play these:



and as if that wasn't enough ...



'Scuze I while I go mop my eyes and tape my ribs!

Gyllenhall and Carrey -- Jake and Jim, together again for the first time!

Here it is, right from the horse's mouth -- or at least right out of the pages of Variety (so you can believe it when I tell you that two of the hottest gay stars who aren't actually gay -- or at least won't 'fess up about it -- are paired ... together again for the first time ... in A MUSICAL:

Carrey, Gyllenhaal do 'Yankees'

Yip yip yip yip --

Seriously. Now, Damned Yankees is a peach of a project to begin with: there's this really, really nice guy, Boyd (married, but I don't recall him having kids. Anyone??) who's in love ... with a baseball team. Not the GUYS on the team, y'understand, but the team itself. And they only know how to do one thing: lose. So this really nice guy makes a pact with the devil hisself ... to transform himself into Slugger Joe, who's going to save the team, get them to the World Series, an' all. Things get complex when the contract's deadline comes up smack in the middle of said World Series (which is actually a misnomer because nobody else in the world plays in it, only the USA). And Old Nick plays the trump card: he reincarnates a femme fatal by the name of Lola to go "up there" on his business, seduce the Boyd (aka Slugger) and make sure the pact is forever. Add songs and dances, and you've got it.

Now, Jake Gyllenhaal is going to play Boyd ... okay; he's rather young for the part. Boyd was supposed to be maybe 15 or 20 years older. And Jim Carrey (what a surprise!) is going to play the Lord of Darkness who knows exactly how to seduce Boyd --

And I'm not going to say another word about that. Except --

Who's playing Lola?!