Jake Gyllenhaal ... who's REALLY buff now?!

Hands up (honestly, guys!) how many people reading this have played Prince of Persia?


Fair enough. Now, hands up (ditto) how many of you pictured Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role of Prince Dastan?! I'm not saying he won't be good. He probably will. But I'll be honest here: he's just about the last all-American lad I'd have pictured in the part!


That said ... the boy's working hard for the role, so what the hey? Give him a chance before you decide that at least twenty other actors would have been better cast as Prince D. -- if for no other reason than that they uh, look like they might be of Arabic descent. (Nice shorts, kid. You might want to think about giving your trackies a yank before they escape.)


Anyway: the movie is still over a year in the future, so there's plenty of time to be forewaned. But right now I still can't get past imaging Oded Fehr (from the first two Mummy movies) in the part of Dastan. Okay, Jake: show me your best stuff, dude -- impress he heck out of me now!

Adrian Paul! Does anyone speak Hungarian?!

One of my favorite shows in the 1990s was Highlander, with Adrian Paul as Duncan McLeod. I'd loved the Highlander movies, earlier (well ... maybe not #2...), and the TV series was a blast.

While rearranging the video shelves, I stumbled over the VHS tapes (why in the world isn't Highlander available on DVD? For the same reason you can't get Kevin Sorbo's Hercules, I suppose...) and I thought, "What in the heck happened to Adrian Paul?"

A quick search of Google News shows that Adrial Paul has shown up in the press very recently. In fact, he was featured in a news story a couple of days ago ... but although I'll give you the link right here, it won't do you much good to follow it unless you speak Magyar -- Hungarian!

Anyone out there speak Hungarian?! Sheesh. You wait YEARS to see some mention of Adrian Paul in the news, and when it finally happens, you can't read it. Help?! Someone?!

And while we're here, how about a couple of photos? Well ... why not!






For your further browsing pleasure, check out Adrian Paul's filmography at IMDb ... you'll be amazed. He didn't "pack it in and get a fish shop" after all! I guess we just don't get his new work downunder. More's the pity.

Headin' back through the Stargate in 2009

And the good news is ... they're revving the Stargate up again. She's powered up, ready for a new series entitled Stargate Universe. Great news for those of us who enjoyed having our spectacles glued to Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Ben Browder and company! Moreover, the thinking viewer's hunk is back:

Any chance the SGC would let O'Neill grow his hair long and color it blond in the new show...? Rats. It would've been nice.

Anyway -- this story just showed up on I09.com: http://io9.com/5139871/dr-daniel-jackson-first-gater-to-cameo-on-stargate-universe, and in it, Michael Shanks says...

"There will be a Stargate SG-1 movie [for DVD], probably filmed around the same time the Atlantis movie is filmed this coming summer," he added. "So that's all going to be going on....as far as I know, is pretty Rick-heavy, pretty O'Neill-heavy," Shanks said. "So I don't know much more than that, but I will most definitely be involved in it."



Puts me in a mood to watch the old DVDs. It's going to be great seeing the characters back. Though I don't think Daniel Jackson will be allowed to lay a full-on smooch upon the tender lips of Cameron Mitchell ... as Michael Shanks has been known to do to Ben Browder:


Kewl. I mean, that is seriously kewl. Opens a whoooole perspective on the stories they could tell in the future. How's about a mirror univers (like the one where Spock has a beard), where everything's in a tangle and things get steamy?? Well, somebody should pitch the story idea! They can only reject it...

In honor of ther occasion, let's have a few more pictures before we move on to the other topic of today's fascination:


Who's buff now?! He must know every machine at the gym by its first name...


There you are, you see? He has got a great bod. Beats hell out of everyone why he refuses to show it. I think the scripts ought to have the aliens rip his shirt to shreds at least once per episode. I know, I'm wicked. I've been told.


Now, some folks professed to have some reason to protest the situation when Rick Anderson took a couple of years off the job to be with his family while his kids still remembered who is is, and his place in the show, and on the team, was filled by Ben Browder. And being thoroughly disgrunted, they took out their ire on Ben, as if there was something wrong with him filling in. Good grief, people!! Try cleaning your glasses once in a while, and have another look!!

Will Smith and Barack Obama: DC fantasy, with (or without!) the loincloth...

There's a movie you know HAS to be made. It just has to be, since the world in general and the USA in particular made history a few weeks ago.

I'm not having you on, this is not a wind up (nor is it a drill); have a read of this:

Will Smith Ready To Play The Part Of Barack Obama

LONDON, Eng., Jan.23 (TOTI) -- Now that Barack Obama has officially taken Presidential office, it comes as no surprise that there's talk of a Barack Obama movie. Leading man, William Smith, is ready to step up and play the part of the first bi-racial President of the United States.At the London premiere of his latest film, Seven Pounds, Smith said, "If I am ordered by my commander in chief to star in a film about him, I will do my duty as an American." (on Times of the Internet).

This would be cool. I guess. I supposed. I'm not quite sure. Thoughts, anyone?

And while we're here ... you probably haven't seen the pic below, so, uh, enjoy...

(Yep, the art is by Boris: copyright and so on, so forth, all rights observed, all wrongs obverted ... and yes, that IS a word -- look it up!)

Wolverine's Day Off ... or, Logan at the beach

All work and no play makes even the Wolverine a dull boy. So every now and then ... and especially when the sun's shining and the weather's fine ... Logan takes the day off and pops down to the beach, there masquerading as an ordinary human being who enjoys a dip and doesn't have retractable claws. Don't believe me? Check this out:





There you are -- you probably believe me now! While we're here -- have you see the Wolverine trailer yet? No? Then stick around:



This is a movie I am definitely going to see in the theaters. Is it just my imagination, or has Hugh Jackman put on a lot more muscles for this prequel? Looking forward to this -- it opens in Australia in about five months, along with the new Star Trek movie and a swag of others.

Will Smith --? It all depends. Sometimes he sure will!

Here's a couple of delicious items featuring the equally delicious Will Smith, who was outed a while ago by a Hollywood Madam who had this to say to the panting, drooling press:

"I had to reassure him over and over that I could guarantee discretion," she said. "Once I convinced him I could, he placed his order. It was for a man. I had 14 women working for me and two guys. You’d be surprised at how many Hollywood stars requested the services of the guys."

My advice to this Madam: get more guys on-staff! Good lord, they're not hard to find, especially in the regions of Hollyweird!


Want more on this story? Here you go:
http://www.queerty.com/will-smith-hired-male-hookers-says-discrete-madame-20081017/

http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/10/21/will-smith-gay-according-to-madame/

http://mel-keegan.blogspot.com/2008/10/will-smith-or-wont-he-turns-out-he-will.html

So far, so good. Is it true? Is it rumors? Make up your own mind, folks, but the rumors don't seem to want to go away. Ready for more?


Here's a great feature: Jada "Encouraged" Will Smith's Love Scene in "Seven Pounds" ...

...and I got to thinking, as I read that headline, how many love scenes have I seen the delectable Mr. Smith play? And I realized, I haven't seen one yet, because I haven't been able to get out to the theaters to see Seven Pounds (yet), and I never did get the chance to see Ali before it was trashed by the movie critics which caused me to put it so faaaar back on the backmost burner, it's still sitting there.

Food for thought? More than you'd think. When you read the above feature, check out some of the comments on the story and be ready to gnash your teeth, because homophobia is alive and well out there, much as most of us would like to think it ain't.

Let's round this up with a beauty shot, in the interests of eye (and brain) candy: