on the entertainment front...

[rena_librarian]

Dear Tom Cruise:

We all know that Katie Holmes is taller than you. We really do. But I saw your wedding pics, and clearly you were standing on a box in some of them. There was one, though, where you looked like you were both the same height, and yet your feet were on the floor. I can only imagine that your new wife was kneeling on a box under her voluminous poofy dress.

This is idiocy. If neither one of you is embarrassed about the fact that she's taller (and in this day and age, no one should be--and keep in mind that it's your face, not your height, that's made you famous), PLEASE BURN THE BOX. Really. I'll send you a personal note of thanks.

~~~Sarah


Dear People Magazine:

Okay. I had no problems when you picked Johnny Depp and Matthew McConaughey as the Sexiest Men Alive. But GEORGE CLOONEY? He's barely even CUTE, never mind SEXY! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??? Why not Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, or Sean Bean? (We'll give a few years to David Wenham and Karl Urban, who really aren't known enough in the States. Yet.) I can't even name a single movie Clooney's been in (ever!), but the men I named all have long, respectable careers behind them. WHY? WHY, I ASK!

~~~Sarah



Anyway. Sexiest Man Alive issue bragged on the cover that they were featuring 204 sexy guys total.
Number I recognized (as in, I could name something they've been in): 74.
Number I think are actually sexy (as in, whether I recognized them or not, made me look twice and go "ooh!"): 46.
Number I think are downright ugly (including Brad Pitt, another undeserving recipient of the SMA): 16.
Most annoying thing about the whole issue: Elijah has a full-page interview (yes, my scan) in which he discusses Happy Feet and Bobby, but is not featured anywhere among those 204 guys.

ETA: But if you're a Harry Potter fan, particularly of the Weasley twins, this was cool!

Comments

[littlelaiken.livejournal.com]

Because George Clooney IS sexy!!

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

George Clooney has been in Oceans Eleven, Oceans Twelve, Good Night and Good Luck, Spy Kids, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Perfect Storm, several seasons of ER, Three Kings, Thin Red Line, Out of Sight, Batman and Robin, One Fine Day, was a regular extra on Roseanne for a few seasons, was in 3 eps of Facts for Life - to name only a few. So you see, he's been around a *long* time, longer even than many of those LOTR actors you named. And while he certainly isn't my type, I can say that he is good looking.

hehe This is the sexiest *men*, not the sexiest *stick boy* so Lij and Orli never stood a chance. ;) Was Shemar Moore mentioned?

[thehobbitwaffle.livejournal.com]

In my mind, People has redeemed themselves by including Steven Colbert.

Elijah is geek sexy. The world will never understand.

[eol-mithrandir.livejournal.com]

Well, George Clooney has something that most of these young whipper-snappers don't have, and that is suaveity. And he is tall, and, at least in his roles, is gentlemanly and thoughtful. When did sexyness (or is it sexiness) become reduced to age limits. that what's the matter with kids today, if a person doesn't match their cardboard cut-out to the letter, than the person is overlooked (or underlooked depending on the relative topographical differences between the two in question). Besides EW, too short, most women like tall men like GC or Christian Bale.