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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfI0gf9oDc] Mesmerizing compilation of all 30 of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Japanese commercials. Now feeling irresistible urge to have instant cup of noodles.
If any photo needs at least a 140 character explanation, then it's this picture that was simply captioned "Me and Eliot Spitzer" from Terry Richardson's blog. This looks like it was taken at the Mayflower Hotel.
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I love this visualization of the slight variations of Tom Wolfe's white suit shtick.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9uGPQsVNk] Did you know that Ricky Gervais had a brief career in the 1980s as the front man for a new wave band named Seona Dancing? They were apparently HUGE in the Philippines. Hilarious.
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Elvis Presley's TV room at his Graceland mansion during the 1970s.
The signature of my all time favorite author Haruki Murakami. Hopefully someday, I'll have this signature in one of his many books that I possess. The difficult question is which book I would ask him to sign...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwqorRnsfMo] What's interesting (to me) about this video of John Belushi's SNL screen test is how unfunny it is. Maybe it's because the topical nature of his audition-Brando impersonation-is just so dated and derivative by today's standards. Nonetheless it's still a fascinating view from an archival point of view.
Booty calling before the days of text messages and cell phones thanks to Western Union's telegram service! I like this guy Stephen's style in his message to Katharine Hepburn: it's direct and aims high (Katharine Hepburn!). Or as the New York Times pointed out, it "almost resembles email in its lack of punctuation and in its upper-case sense of urgency."
Visual pun! Bet you weren't expecting that, were ya?
Lauren Bush, Barbara Bush and Vincent Gallo.
Poet E. E. Cummings sent this crayon valentine to Marion Morehouse, "a fashion model and photographer who lived with him at 4 Patchin Place in Greenwich Village, until his death in 1962."
Bill Simmons re-examines his Diane Lane All Stars (his team of hot 40-years-old or older actresses in Hollywood). His batting order for 2010:
1. Jennifer Aniston (40) -- I like having a single leadoff hitter with rumbling ovaries. Aggressive and unquestionably desperate. You'd fear her on the basepaths.2. Sandra Bullock (46) -- Cheery veteran, good for the clubhouse, willing to give up at-bats and move runners along to help the team.
3. Heather Graham (40) -- Power, OPS, speed, the whole package. It's almost unfair to the others that she's eligible. It's like when Jack Nicklaus joined the PGA Senior Tour.
4. Halle Berry (43) -- Perennial MVP candidate, someone you have to see in person to fully appreciate her greatness. Our highest-paid player.
5. Selma Hayek (43) -- Fiery Latina, prodigious natural gifts, famous for people gawking at her tape measure … home runs.
6. Catherine Zeta-Jones (40) -- She's our David Ortiz, an aging foreign slugger who's four or five years older than listed.
7. Kelly Preston (47) -- Don't worry about the creepy Travolta stink on her. She's still putting up big stats, and the statistical community loves her.
8. Demi Moore (47) -- Knows all the chemical shortcuts and can help anyone else who needs advice on surgery or botox.
9. Cheryl Hines (44) -- Keeps the team loose, keeps everyone laughing, doesn't go for her own stats, gives us a hot-selling jersey for our Jewish fans. Can play four positions.
Starting pitcher: Diane Lane (45) -- Crafty veteran, namesake of the team, knows every trick in the book. She's like Jack Morris circa 1991. You want her out there in big games.
Set-up reliever: Maria Bello (42) -- Can throw one inning or three, has the highest "nude scene per movie" ratio of any decent actress.
Closer: Cindy Crawford (43) -- Still routinely hits 103 on the radar gun.
Coaching staff: Jacqueline Bisset, Julie Christie, Helen Mirren (all in their 60s). Why is it that women with accents retain a level of hotness that American women can't match?
I really can't argue with this list.
Update: In light of Sandra Bullock's drama involving her cheating Nazi-ing husband, I wonder if Simmons needs to reconsider Bullock's position in the line-up.
A neat bit of trivia about the actor that plays Michael Scott's boss, CFO David Wallace in NBC's "The Office": A Stanford alum, Andy Buckley actually has a full time job in real life as a wealth management advisor at "a leading investment bank and wealth-management advisory firm in Los Angeles" and his David Wallace role is actually a side gig.
In 2001, Buckley gave up acting and switched careers. He filmed what he thought was one of his final roles on an episode of “NYPD Blue” and showed up for training at a leading investment bank two weeks later. Still employed at the firm more than eight years later, Buckley said he is unable to disclose its name due to company policy. (His company is fine with his side gig, he said, but he has to run everything, including this interview and scripts, by compliance.)His surprising turn as a minor character on “The Office” happened almost by accident, Buckley said. While at a local farmer’s market, he ran into the show’s casting director, who had tried to find roles for him in the past. She asked for his card, and nine months later, invited him to audition for the part of Dunder Mifflin’s CFO.
Unemployed actors and bankers hate this guy.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agT2GVNQjao] This old PSA featuring Pee Wee Herman sending an anti-crack message is f'ing frightening. It makes me want to take crack to forget that I ever saw this video.
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Conan is so pale, he looks like 