Wednesday, November 17, 2010

LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE: GQ's Babe of the Year (and the 2006 titleholder for Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive) and People's Sexiest Man Alive are married to each other. This marks only the second time a Sexiest Woman Alive and a Sexiest Man Alive have married one another (Pitt and Jolie were the first).

Relatedly--the trailer for the Sexiest Man Alive's next big movie is out (in which he stars opposite someone who I expect will be a Sexiest Woman Alive in the next few years) and it looks like they're not running away from some of the stranger elements of the source material.

18 comments:

  1. Pitt and Jolie never married!  It is a true first.

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  2. The Sexiest Man Alive's greatest performance however was on a recent episode of Sesame Street.   Just a taste.

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  3. Correct on Pitt/Jolie, but Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford were married when named Sexiest Couple (they didn't do a solo award), 1993.<span> </span>

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  4. Joseph J. Finn12:45 PM

    Oy.  I enjoyed a heck of a lot of that trailer, but Blake Lively...oy.

    (However, that's exactly the kind of reaction I want from someone showing off a mystical power suit to impress you're buddy; more than a little bit cocky and enjoying the hell out of it.  Reynolds is really starting to win me over as Kyle Rayner.)

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  5. Joseph J. Finn12:48 PM

    ACK!  YOUR!  Your buddy!

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  6. Reynolds is playing Hal Jordan, not Rayner.  And Lively is extraordinarily pretty, but yeah, can. not. act.  (Though this is her first major grownup part where her wardrobe is not "hooker"--"expensive hooker" on Gossip Girl, "cheap hooker" in The Town.)

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  7. Joseph J. Finn12:58 PM

    I know Reynolds is playing Captain Mopey, but part of me still looks at him and thinks "Oh yeah, you'd be an excellent Kyle Rayner."

    I look at Lively in that trailer and I keep thinking of Dr. Christmas Jones.  We may all now shudder in unison.

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  8. Wasn't a big fan of Ryan Reynolds until that EW spread....

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  9. Anonymous2:12 PM

    Am I the only one who thinks that trailer looks TERRIBLE?

    Compare that with Cowboys and Aliens, which blows it out of the water...

    http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/11/17/cowboys-and-aliens-trailer/

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  10. bella wilfer2:12 PM

    (that was me)

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  11. Dan Suitor3:29 PM

    I'm not a big fan of Green Lantern in general. It was always a little too goofy and contrived for me to enjoy the comics, and the whole "Space Cops" thing doesn't appeal to me.

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  12. bella wilfer3:52 PM

    I think we're seeing a huge disconnect between the tone of movies places like Marvel make (Iron Man) and the tone that DC seems to be taking (nonsensical ala Green Lantern and Jonah Hex).

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  13. Aimee6:45 PM

    Feh.  I thought Reynolds was charming in The Proposal, but sexy?  No, especially not when compared to Jon Hamm.

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  14. Agree that Cowboy and Aliens shows what's silly about the Green Lantern trailer.  But DC has Batman and the turgid Watchmen; Marvel has silliness like Ghost Rider/Fantastic Four/Spiderman 3.

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  15. Dan Suitor8:32 PM

    It's not quite the same. Marvel wasn't really making their own movies until the Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Before that they would just sell off the rights. Fox has the Fantastic Four, while Colombia has Ghost Rider and Spider-Man. The quality of the films went up markedly once Marvel took sole control over the production of their films.

    As for DC, their longtime partnership with Warner Brothers has been pretty good to them. After the dark years of the Schumacher Batman films, and the nadir of Catwoman, DC+WB has been on a roll. Jonah Hex was horrible, but its production cycle was wrought with missteps and the title character is a B-Lister at best (and that's stretching it).

    Hex aside, everything DC has done since 2005 has been amazing. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are the first two parts of what looks to be the quintessential Batman story. Superman Returns is the most artful superhero movie of the modern era, treating Superman not as a mere beat-em-up but as a near century-old mythology that comments on religion, love, and the very nature of humanity. Watchmen is a film made from unfilmable source material, with its truest fault being that our culture has changed so much from when it was created (1986) as to render its core message null.

    So, um, I guess what I'm saying is that I'll extend DC my trust based on the last half-decade of greatness.

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  16. bella wilfer9:07 PM

    I think you're giving DC too much credit on the recent Batman movies.  They had very little to do with it, aside from okaying the hire of Nolan.

    As for the latest Superman, I'm going to have to respectfully disagree.  Snore.  

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  17. I admired Superman Returns for trying to do something different with Superman, but it took the Superman=Jesus imagery at least one or two anvils too far and demonstrates the central problem with Superman stories--there are only so many stories you can tell that somehow involve Kryptonite.  At least Green Lantern's vulnerability is more flexible.

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  18. Marsha10:50 AM

    Speaking of Hamm, my TV boyfriend (Joshua Malina) has a new webshow called Backwash and he's gotten Jon Hamm and many others to do very funny cameos. http://www.crackle.com/c/Backwash

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