Twilight is Making Anne Rice Relevant Again

Lily the Pink — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:00:27 +0000

And possibly leading to RDJ goodness

Gratuitous hotness

Robert Downey Jr. is currently in talks to play the vampire Lestat in the next installation of The Vampire Chronicles. He would join Tom Cruise and Stuart Townsend as the third actor whose casting as Lestat makes no sense. I mean, I’ve read the books, and none of these dudes even remotely fit Rice’s description of the character, which I have always interpretted as “a young Rutger Hauer and Legolas had a baby…a vampire baby.” OK, the Legolas part is a recent addition, but you get the point.

However, it’s RDJ and he could play most any character and manage to make it work, so I’m interested to see what becomes of this. What are your thoughts?

H.A.G.S.

Lily the Pink — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:00:35 +0000

Who’s You?

Some of the hags recently had a Facebook conversation wherein Cait mentioned that we would definitely rescue Stopthemadness from Albanian kidnappers, a la Taken. Obviously, I thoroughly agreed, and it made me jokingly mention a hag movie, which then led to wonder who I would want to play me. I thought that would be a pretty easy question to answer, but it brought up a lot more questions for me, instead. Should I go with an actress who looks like an idealized version of me, or someone who has range and can portray me in an honest and fairly accurate way? What about someone whose personality is close to my own, but requires a lot of work to look like me (padding, for a start)? Should I stick to the current pool of actresses or open things up to include everyone? Maybe I should just go with someone I think kicks ass. This should be easier!

I decided to stick with modern actresses, but those who at least share the same coloring as me are sparse. I have brown hair and blue eyes, and while the first actress that comes to mind is Angelina Jolie, fuck that. Yes, she’s gorgeous and intelligent, and maybe I would choose her if she were still the Angelina Jolie she was in Hackers, but now she’s too thin, too perfect and too beautiful. Megan Fox also has dark hair and blue eyes, but hell to the motherfucking no. After a series of ideas all ending in “no,” I finally decided to scrap the eye color criteria (Contact lenses for the win!), and was able to figure it out. So here’s my choice.

Rachel Weisz:

Who would you choose to play you?

Best Movie Review Ever

Lily the Pink — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:24 +0000

Roger Ebert’s take on Transformers 2

Megan Fox calibrates her weapons

It’s possible Roger Ebert didn’t like the new Transformers movie. Here’s an excerpt.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

The review would have been thorough if only he had included: “Megan Fox’s bra size and IQ are roughly equivalent, and “Shia LaBeouf has the screen appeal of a door knob.”

(Editor’s Note: No offense to door knobs intended.)

10 Actresses You Won’t Mind Your Daughters Looking Up To

Lily the Pink — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:01:02 +0000

Or future daughters…or girls you know…or sons…or cats…

In no particular order…

Angela Bassett

Education: B.A. African American Studies, Yale University; M.F.A. Yale School of Drama
Fluencies: English
Causes: Youth Arts Programs, UNICEF