Matthew McConaughey on WhoSay
Did you know that Matthew McConaughey was on Twitter? I didn’t. Matthew used his Twitter account to make a major announcement this Christmas: he proposed to his longterm girlfriend, Camila Alves! Matthew, 42, and Camila, 29, have been together since 2006. They are parents to son Levi, 3 and a half, and daughter Vida, who turns two next week. McConaughey tweeted the above photo yesterday with the caption “Just asked camila to marry me, #MerryChristmas” I wonder what prompted McConaughey to propose after so long. In April, McConaughey told Cigar Aficiando magazine that he wasn’t opposed to marriage, but that he didn’t feel like it was necessary:

“Marriage isn’t something I’m against. My parents married each other three times – and divorced twice. I know a few older couples who have been married a long time and are happy; I’ve been around healthy marriages. I knew I wanted a family and I found a woman I love and felt was right for me. I thought, ‘That’s the woman I want to make a family with.’ But marriage – it’s not something we feel we need to be complete. It doesn’t mean we won’t do it.

“It doesn’t make my mom that happy that we’re not married. But it doesn’t make her mad either. Of course, I was raised to believe that you don’t have sex until you’re married. So there you are.”

[From Cigar Aficionado, print edition, via Celebitchy]

So it sounds like he’s been cautious about it for a while, but that he finally felt ready to take the plunge. Congratulations to Matthew and Camila! I find holiday proposals so romantic, and I’m hoping they have a big showy wedding with a photo spread in People. Maybe they’ll do a barefoot beach wedding, though. That’s sounds more their style.

For those of you who are going to mention the blind item about the famous couple doing cocaine that has been neglecting their kids, I hope it’s not true. It was obviously written about McConaughey and Alves, but that doesn’t mean it’s true at all. That’s the problem I have with blind items: even if you figure out who they’re supposed to be about, that doesn’t make them accurate. That’s why no names are used.

Here’s another photo Matt tweeted of his newly-shorn head. He’s looking a little thin, but I like him bald.

Matthew McConaughey on WhoSay

Matthew and Camila are shown on 6/9/11 and 9/25/11. Credit: PRPhotos

I was going to title this story something like “Bradley Cooper: this is the sexiest man alive?” but somehow that topic is as dull as Cooper. Apart from speaking French fluently, this guy has almost no sexy qualities, but that’s kind of a given at this point. Look at him going to play tennis with his mom. I would not look twice at this guy if he wasn’t famous. It’s that bad haircut, the too-small sunglasses, the facial scrub that isn’t quite cultivated and the fact that he looks like he has no swagger. Plus the dude can’t dress. Cooper has some of the components of sexiness but they’re just not put together well.

Compare Cooper’s casual sporty style with Matthew McConaughey’s. McConaughey has a freshly shaved head (or maybe his hair is just stuffed under that hat) and he’s wearing a bright orange fleece with gray shorts and black sneakers. Somehow McConaughey looks better though. He’s geeky too in his way, we know he smells bad, and with his neck sticking out like that he looks like a turtle, but I so would. It’s probably because I know what’s underneath all those layers. Still, I want to see him bald without the cap. I googled “Matthew McConaughey Bald” and found this photo of him bald in 2002′s Reign of Fire. (Which I’ve never heard of before.) He really works that bald look and he isn’t one of those guys with a weird-shaped head who can’t pull it off. (Like Matt Damon or Tom Hardy.)

McConaughey, 42, was photographed outside the “Dakar Skin Clinic” in Beverly Hills late last week. Do you think he had a little freshening up? Will we be able to tell the next time he hits the red carpet? I’m hoping he shows up looking preternaturally young but almost untouched, like Tom Cruise as of late. That little minx.

As for Cooper, he needs to get some styling advice from his fashion idol Ryan Gosling. I get that he’s just going to play tennis, but check him out a day prior in his day casual wear. He went to lunch in Pasadena wearing those same black sweatpants with black sneakers and layered black jackets. He knows he needs to step up his game and he even admitted as much on a recent appearance on the Graham Norton Show. He said “I literally look like the neighbor who never really comes out of his house.” It doesn’t look like his fashion self awareness has been translated into any kind of effort yet.

Photo credit: Fame and Pacific Coast News

I can’t help it, I have a thing for Matthew McConaughey and his T-Rex arms and body odor masked by heavy cologne. That’s probably why his Brazilian baby-mama bugs me, I’m gel-ous, but I have to admit they look like two peas in a pod here. Look at how they’re slouched over, heavy-lidded, looking at the press line like they’d rather be anywhere else. Then when Matt straightens up and looks a little defiant, she does too – they’re sympatico.

This really endears them to me, that and Matt’s new thin 70s porn mustache. That scraggly thing over his lip is not hot, so it kind of releases all my pent up feelings of competition with a woman who is younger and hotter than I am. It’s ok, she’s in tune with Matt and his facial hair. They’re raising two adorable kids together and they probably spend their time exercising outdoors, getting stoned and looking through fabric swatches for various projects in their mansion. Their job consists of looking good and showing up to stuff, and they find it mildly annoying despite how well they fit the bill.

Matt and Camila were at the LA film festival last night at the premiere of Bernie, a Linklater film starring McConaughey, Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. Jack and Shirley were both there, and so was True Blood‘s Carrie Preston (she’s not in it as far as I can find, I just love her), and also John Lithgow (he’s also not listed as in it, but he might be). The movie is about a mortician who kills a local widow and tries to make it seem like she’s alive. I sounds like Weekend at Bernies, but it’s probably much more interesting considering that it’s written and directed by Linklater. Is this the first project he’s done with McConaughey since Dazed and Confused… no there was 1998′s Newton Boys, which I haven’t seen yet.

So did he grow that mustache for a role? I hope so, but I guess in the scheme of things it doesn’t matter. He’s also wearing those light brown boots, so that’s really a double whammy.

I love this picture.

Photo credit: WENN.com and Fame

Singer Pink was recently photographed in the parking lot of a grocery story in Malibu without shoes. Now I know she’s heavily pregnant and your feet swell during pregnancy, but why didn’t she leave her flip flops on? It looks like she was wearing shoes going into the store (see photos where she’s carrying a list) but took them off at some point. Were her shoes hurting that badly? It’s nasty to walk on pavement with bare feet, and it’s not particularly hygienic either. Taking off your shoes for a romp in the grass I understand, but not wearing shoes in a parking lot makes no sense to me. Don’t most stores have a no shirt, no shoes no service policy? I wouldn’t tell Pink not to shop at my store without shoes, but maybe she didn’t take her shoes off until afterwards anyway.

Is this a California thing? (I would ask my friend in California about this, but I’m sure she’s sleeping at this point.) Like I’ve never seen anyone on the East Coast in a parking lot without shoes but I’ve seen several barefoot celebrities. (Britney Spears and Diane Keaton immediately coming to mind.) Celebrities are a weird bunch anyway so I shouldn’t generalize.

Anyway this is just an excuse to post photos of Pink, who remains one of my favorite pop stars. Her songs are fun and fast-paced and we’re always singing along to them in my gym classes. (Ke$ha has some good workout songs too, Kaiser loves her.) You know that Pink is going to be a devoted mom and I’m excited that she’s having a baby.

I just found out that Pink is Matthew McConaughey’s neighbor, too! WENN had these pictures of their adjacent mansions, and in that very biased piece on McConaughey in Vanity Fair they mentioned that Pink and Carey Hart were guests at a party at Matty’s house. (I doubt that’s his nickname and I’ve never heard him called that, I just wanted to use it.) She’s living large, and yet she still leaves the grocery story without shoes.

Update: One of Pink’s flip flops broke! She wrote on Twitter “i broke my flip flop. brand new jimmy choo! i know you care, that’s why i told you:)” That’s cute! (Thanks lio for the tip)

Here are Pink and Matthew McConaughey’s estates. I think Pink’s house is the one on the left with the pool in front and the solar panels on the roof as the houses to the right have some airstream trailers parked out front.

With shoes before going into the store:

This story is from the April issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine with Matthew McConaughey on the cover. It’s been on newsstands for a while, but I picked it up in my local CVS and was pleased to see some new quotes I had read yet from McConaughey, who was recently unnecessarily bashed in Esquire by a journalist with a chip on his shoulder. (Thanks to all of you who pointed out that this was the same guy who made Brooklyn Decker look like an idiot, which she very well may be, but still.) The story in Cigar Aficionado is the one that McConaughey deserved in Esquire, because he comes across as thoughtful, introspective and grateful for his success in life. They quote people close to him who praise his career moves and talk about what a great guy he is. This is the impression I get of him in every interview and while I understand that he can be up his own ass sometimes, he’s a harmless stoner and they have that tendency. There’s no reason to paint a skewed picture of the guy because of it.

There are a lot of gems in this interview and it’s a shame they haven’t been more publicized. I love McConaughey’s take on the paparazzi particularly. He sees it as part of his job, and he’ll work out deals with them to leave him alone after they get their shots. Here are some of my favorite quotes from this article, and I would recommend you pick up the March/April issue of Cigar Aficionado if you’re a fan. It’s a very interesting and well written piece.

On public opinion making the law
“Public opinion is the tail wagging the dog, which is the law. It should be inverted. We elect these people because they supposedly know the law. Experts supposedly make the law. Judges are judges because they’re supposed to know the law. But when the public shouts first, public opinion creates a verdict before something even gets to court.

On Michael Vick
“Look at the Michael Vick thing. The NFL didn’t go hard on him, until public opinion said, ‘Hang him.’ Then the feds and the NFL stepped in. I don’t think the penalty would have been what it was until the public’s outrage was expressed. I’m not saying he shouldn’t have served time. But look at all the high profile people who’ve been allowed to stay free while doing heinous things to other people. But you create any kind of smoke and a team or an institution is going to say, ‘We don’t like this attention,’ and they’ll fire him.”

On how he deals with the paparazzi
“I was tired of getting pissed off. It was legitimate but I was tired of it. I though, well, am I ready to move to a place where they weren’t? No, not for good. Was I ready to build fences or tall walls around my house? No. So I just shook hands with it and dealt with it.

“So, say I’m taking my kids to the beach. And the photographers are there. I just talk to them and say, ‘OK, go ahead and take your picture. And then move on.’ How many pictures do they need of me running on the beach? So far, they’ve mostly respected that. But you’ve got to have a relationship with that kind of thing if you go out in public because that check’s already been written. Sure, I feel intruded upon. But I don’t feel it’s unfair. I can’t do anything about it unless I move on or imprison myself, and I don’t want to live like that.”

On whether he’ll marry Camilla
“Marriage isn’t something I’m against. My parents married each other three times – and divorced twice. I know a few older couples who have been married a long time and are happy; I’ve been around healthy marriages. I knew I wanted a family and I found a woman I love and felt was right for me. I thought, ‘That’s the woman I want to make a family with.’ But marriage – it’s not something we feel we need to be complete. It doesn’t mean we won’t do it.

“It doesn’t make my mom that happy that we’re not married. But it doesn’t make her mad either. Of course, I was raised to believe that you don’t have sex until you’re married. So there you are.”

[From Cigar Aficionado, print edition, April 2011]

There’s a lot more in there about how McConaughey got his start in Hollywood. He was discovered by a producer on Dazed and Confused in a bar in Austin, Texas. Then he went out to LA and started auditioning, earning his first leading role in Grisham’s A Time To Kill when he was up for a part of a Klansman and told the director he thought he should be the lead. They let him audition and then Grisham picked him personally for the role. McConaughey described the moment when Grisham called him personally with the news. “After I hung up, I went out and howled at the moon. That was big. I understood what that meant.”

I’ll be a Matthew McConaughey fan until he makes a dick move. Considering that he hasn’t done that in his 15 years of fame and has been nothing but low key, mellow and gracious with the press and even to the paparazzi that hound him, that probably won’t happen.

Above photos are scans from Cigar Aficionado magazine, where there are more. Photos of McConaughey running below are just from the month of March. Credit: Fame Pictures

I love some Matthew McConaughey, and I usually find him kind of fascinating, like he has this real joy for life and talks in parables. In the latest issue of Esquire, for which Matt is the cover boy, he comes across like a poser, though. He’s like one of those guys in college who thinks he’s the first dude to backpack around Europe and you just have to try it, or you haven’t lived. Only Europe is too good for Matty, he had to go to South American to challenge himself since they have modern conveniences in Europe. It became clear to me after reading a few paragraphs that this wasn’t the McConaughey I loved, though, it was some insecure journalist’s opinion of him.

In this Esquire story, McConaughey is so hospitable and accommodating. He invites the journalist to his spend a couple days with him, to go golfing, to attend a party at his house and to stay overnight on the property in one of his Airstream trailers. Only the journalist kind of sh*ts all over everything and comes across as insecure and out of his element. He portrays McConaughey as a caricature of himself and kind of mocks him. It’s hard to portray in a few segments, because it’s the overall tone of the piece.

Here are some excerpts, and I would encourage you to read the whole thing to get a better picture of what’s going on if you’re interested:

The journalist on McConaughey’s vernacular
Over the weekend he refers to six things as “nectar” — a steak, the wine, the company of his older dog, a hat he found for his two-year-old son, the arrival of his final set of friends, and that one golf shot. Broadly speaking, nectar is good.

McConaughey on his trip to Peru
When things are going right in a golf cart, familiarity builds. And so I ask him the question that is sometimes awkward: why he took time off from making movies. I’m inquiring about the previous two years, before this most recent comeback, but McConaughey goes straight to his own question. The last two years don’t seem to be any of my business.

“I’ve done that before,” he says. “I went to Peru after A Time to Kill. I had a lot to think about. Just grabbed a bag and left. And I went up and further in, until I was about as uncomfortable and unfamiliar with things as I could be. You know why I don’t go to Europe for these trips? Because in Europe everything pretty much works, or it almost works. I mean, it’s almost what I’m used to. But Peru, Mali, Morocco? Nothing works. Nothing. So you have to give up on what you know. At least I do. And for a while it’s very uncomfortable. Extremely. I mean you’re faking the language as best you can, nodding at things you probably shouldn’t be, and you start to miss the things you know. And you need to eat.”

For the first time since we met, the truths pile themselves, emblematic but also pragmatic, hard-earned or maybe stolen from the lyrics of a pop song. I can’t tell yet. But he persists. “And I started to strip things down. I took off my hat and my ring, just this big old gold ring. I’d made it, melted down one of my dad’s old rings and mixed in some gold from I don’t know — one of my mother’s teeth I think. And this ring — big old M on it — I took it off. One morning I get up — Count of Montezuma, the whole bit, threw up, diarrhea, puked. It was a purge, man” — this word he enunciates precise as a birdcall — “and it was sick, but it was a spiritual cleanse, and after that I was high as a kite. I was able to look at all the stuff I’d stripped away and ask questions: What does that ring mean? What does my name mean? What do I make of that old American flag that’s sewn onto the hat I’ve been wearing for eighteen years? All these things that give me pride, what did they add up to?”

He was standing over a putt then, or he’d walked up onto the apron of the green, or he’d reached down to pull his ball from the hole — some golf gesture. I don’t remember; I was listening. “It all comes into balance between day nine and day thirteen,” he said.

“What happens then?”

“That’s about the point where I start to see I can survive. And all my discomfort just disappears and then I pretty much feel free to go home. I try to let the place own me. Then I can go home.”

On his partner, Camila Alves, and their new home
“Before this, I had a super home in the Hollywood Hills that I did by myself — landscaping, detailing pretty much everything. But that house was mine. And yeah, we coulda gone in there right away. Camila would have said, Fine, don’t change a thing. But I thought, I found the woman I wanna do it with, the woman I wanna make a family with, hopefully live our life out together. She needs to have 50 percent of that. I mean, it’s a lot easier for me to be at 100 percent. I’d always been 100 percent. It’s braver for me at 50 percent.”

McConaughey calls himself religious
“A friend of mine who’s a lawyer said something about me a couple of weeks ago, and it’s true. You know how that is? When a friend you’ve known a long time declares something about you and wham!” Here Matthew McConaughey snaps his fingers so loud it sounds like the cracking of a Lincoln Log. “I mean, you think, Hey, that’s true!” His voice drops. “Good friend,” he says. He speaks in many directions at once. “He said to me, Matthew, you’re into commas. Every time you think you’ve stopped, you always come out of it. Every time you think you’ve reached the end of that long dead-end street, you slip around the edge, past that stopping point, past the right angles. And I thought: Yes.” This is a word he hisses, almost every time, stretching it right into an invitation. “It’s all continuation! Even if you’re dying, that’s a kind of continuation, because you move on. And you have to change. Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it…”

McConaughey takes that fifth bite of rib eye, then sighs. “Listen,” he says, “I was thinking. Earlier, when I was talking about the commas, and the continuation? You might be tempted to call that ‘spiritual.’ ” He tilts his head, as if weighing the word. “But I think that description would be a dodge. I’m religious. I like that word. You can use it.”

So he’s hunched, quartered toward me, speaking softly, cheek full of rib eye, and he pretty much whispers, “Yes, you can look at the table and say you see spirituality. Fine. Friendship, love, reverence for one another” — he’s darting his eyes in various directions, so I get eye-blink camera shots: heads thrown back in laughter, glasses clinking, women striking a harmony, children climbing into the laps of their fathers. “And I can shake hands with that. Spiritual. It’s perfectly good. But what I see here is ligare.”

“Ligare.” I repeat the word to be sure I got it. I was taught by Jesuits. We’re in for some Latin here.

“It’s the root word of religion. It’s the Latin. Ligare. ‘To bind.’ ”

“So, re-ligare?”

McConaughey starts nodding. “To bind us together again,” he says. He gently pushes away his plate. “That’s how I read it, anyway,” he says. “That’s what I’m after. I’m religious. We are religious. You can say that.”

[From Esquire via Huffington Post]

Not everyone gets McConaughey, and not everyone thinks his way of talking isn’t some kind of affectation. That’s why McConaughey went out of his way to be accommodating, so that he would be portrayed well. Only he got someone who had already made up his mind about him. All the golf and hospitality in the world wouldn’t have made this guy write a positive profile.

Photos from Esquire

The lovely Matthew McConaughey was on Piers Morgan on Friday making me swoon with his sexy drawl. He’s promoting The Lincoln Lawyer, which is still fourth at the box office in its second week. It hasn’t yet recouped its production budget, but is hanging in there. It’s a shame because it’s said to be a solid legal thriller.

McConaughey gave a lot of great quotes, as is typical for him, and my favorite was when he checked out a clip of Matt Damon doing an impression of him on The Late Show in 2006. He smiled and said that it was a good job, but added that he didn’t know Damon that well. He also said he’d sent him a bunch of t-shirts from his J.K. Livin Foundation with a note that he didn’t need them, (since Damon joked that McConaughey is always taking off his shirt) but that Damon never sent him a thank you note.

In this web extra, McConaughey tells Piers Morgan about his first – and arguably most iconic – movie role in “Dazed and Confused.” “That was my first job and I could not have been handed a more fortunate working experience,” he said. McConaughey said the role came about because he was “in the right bar at the right time.”

There are a lot of McConaughey impressions – what does he think of Matt Damon’s?

“That’s pretty good,” he said after watching it. “He did a good job on that, it sounds a lot like me.” McConaughey said he recently sent Damon some t-shirts, with a note: “obviously I don’t need these…. I never got a thank you.”

[From CNN.com]

Aw, Damon should have at least sent a note back! Especially because McConaughey is his go-to impression.

McConaughey also talked about the first time he met his partner, Camila Alves, and how it felt so natural because they were so open and honest with each other. As for whether he’s ever going to make it official by marrying her, he said that not being married “doesn’t make me any less committed. It doesn’t make me love her any less.” That was really sweet.

As for how he’s stayed grounded after making a mint in movies, McConaughey said that he has money saved but that doesn’t mean he’s wasteful with it or forgets the lessons he’s learned about hard work:

I got a nice egg… I’m going, OK, I’m going to be fine, my lady is going to be fine, my kids are going to be fine. And we can go on living our lifestyle.

We’re not that indulgent. We don’t do that much stuff. But sometimes, you know, there are months when we get around the holidays and stuff where I look at the monthly bill and go, oh, yes, we spent some. That was a good one.

Don’t have to worry about [bills] but we’re pretty thrifty. And I think that comes from, you know, value of a dollar whether you’ve got — you know, and when you’re — I grew up, raised value of a dollar, you work for what you get. You want to go out Friday night? We’ll do the chores of the house.

[From Transcripts.CNN.com]

I love watching this guy’s interviews because he seems like such a genuine person. You know what you’re getting with McConaughey, and he seems to like that trait in his women too.

Here’s a segment where he talks about if he’s ever paid to see a romantic comedy. The answer is “no”!

McConaughey is shown on 3/10/11 at the Lincoln Lawyer premiere. He’s also shown with Camila, his mom and brother, Rooster. Credit: WENN.com

I’m a Matthew McConaughey fan. He’s been looking kind of gaunt and greasy lately, but I’ll overlook it. That’s why it makes me sad to learn that The Lincoln Lawyer tanked at the box office this weekend and came a full third to Bradley Cooper’s Limitless. Lincoln Lawyer is faring better on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 81% rating to Limitless‘ 65%. Still Limitless is about the American dream of high achievement in a pill, and it has DeNiro in it. It came in first but only pulled in $19 million. Not a lot of people went to the movies this weekend, and I know it was one of the first warm weekends we had so I wasn’t going to waste it indoors. Here’s more from Box Office Mojo:

Despite decent starts for Limitless, Paul and The Lincoln Lawyer, overall weekend business was off nine percent from the same period last year, when Alice in Wonderland, The Bounty Hunter and Diary of a Wimpy Kid led, and attendance was on the low end for the third weekend of March.

Limitless packed an estimated $19 million on approximately 3,200 screens at 2,756 locations. That trailed the opening weekends of recent thrillers Unknown ($21.9 million) and The Adjustment Bureau ($21.2 million). Among other comparable titles, it was close to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ($19 million) but was behind 21 ($24.1 million) and The Social Network ($22.4 million) (Limitless copied the latter with its heavy usage of Kanye West’s “Power”). Not too shabby for Bradley Cooper’s first real star vehicle, though the movie was heavily-promoted, including three spots on Super Bowl Sunday (though Box Office Mojo readers voted it the worst Super Bowl ad). The marketing hammered out a simple message embodied by the movie’s tagline, “What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?” (though the brain enhancement aspect was glossed over), and this dovetailed with Cooper’s arrogant, partying persona from The Hangover and other movies. According to exit polling from distributor Relativity Media, which heralded its first respectable launch, Limitless’s audience was 52 percent female and 60 percent was aged 25 years and older.

The Lincoln Lawyer drew an estimated $13.4 million on around 3,000 screens at 2,707 locations, which was star Matthew McConaughey’s top-grossing start in a non-comedy-or-action movie since his breakout in A Time to Kill. That’s not saying much as Lincoln Lawyer was pretty average otherwise, faring a bit better than the nationwide debuts of Michael Clayton and Fracture, but it gets extra points considering the paucity of legal thrillers in recent years and how its television spots made it look nearly indistinguishable from similar T.V. fare. Those ads were incoherent and murky, largely failing to explain the movie’s basic premise to the uninitiated. Fortunately, Lincoln Lawyer had other things going for it, such as being based on a bestselling novel, and it received extra publicity from a $6 movie ticket deal through discount site Groupon.com. Nearly 190,000 tickets were sold through Groupon, and just under 40,000 were estimated to have been redeemed over the weekend, according to distributor Lionsgate. Lionsgate counted those tickets at full price in its reporting, but that only inflated the gross by less than $100,000. Publicity was the primary aim of the Groupon deal, and Lionsgate’s research showed that 89 percent of Groupon buyers would not have seen the movie otherwise. Lincoln Lawyer’s demographic breakdown was 63 percent female and 85 percent aged 25 years and older.

[From Box Office Mojo]

I didn’t realize the McConaughey has never fared that well at the box office, but it’s not like he’s been putting out great movies or has starred in an action series. I expected Lincoln Lawyer to do much better, since I saw the coupons on Groupon and the ads seemed to be everywhere online. Maybe now we know why McConaughey is always going around shirtless and bringing his adorable sons with him to the beach – the guy has to get some press. I still love him, though. CNN has a new interview with him (below) in which he said he loves to go around without a shirt and that his movie Surfer Dude (2008) had his ideal wardrobe for that reason. He also explained that he went to law school but decided he didn’t want to wait until he was 28 to get out into the world. I’m sure the high workload and brainpower required had nothing to do with it. Instead he went to film production school and the rest is history.

Does this mean that Bradley Cooper is a big star now? It’s pretty telling that he made his split announcement on the day his movie came out, as Agent Bedhead pointed out. We’ll have to hear more about his love life whenever he takes another girlfriend. I heard Olivia Wilde is free and can use the publicity.

Here’s McConaughey’s CNN interview.

Limitless trailer:

Lincoln Lawyer trailer:

God knows, I love Pink. I really do! She’s cool and she’s tough but she doesn’t try too hard. I even love seeing her “bump” photos – for a while, she seemed to be carrying small, and she was an adorable pregnant lady. Unfortunately, THIS happened. This is Pink at last night’s premiere of The Lincoln Lawyer, a film I kind of want to see just because I enjoy cheesy legal thrillers. Pink wore this crazy, navel-grazing muumuu that makes her look like a HUGE blueberry. Now, I’m not opposed to pregnant ladies wearing muumuus, at all. I’m not opposed to any woman wearing muumuus, in general. But not on a red carpet!!! Honestly, though, I think maybe I would have accepted the muumuu if the hair had been better. This hair is ten different kinds of tragic. Grey mushroom cap? For real?

Also at the premiere, the star of the film, Matthew McConaughey, who looked all kinds of rough as well. Is it just the horrendous fake tan? It’s something else, right? Something weird is happening with his face. I think it may be a combination of orange-ness, receding hair line, hair too long in the back, skin damage, weight loss and just general grossness. Camila looks pretty though.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I was all ready to report on Matthew McConaughey’s cover for Men’s Fitness before I saw him at the Oscars. McConaughey presented the sound awards along with Scarlet Johansson and he looked awful. His face was streaky orange, like his foundation or spray tan wasn’t blended well, and he had greasy thinning hair. Now I’m sure his hair has been thinning for some time but I’m guessing that he has plugs and hides it well when it’s not slicked back from his face. Plus his girlfriend seems like a famewhore to me lately. I don’t know, I used to love McConaughey but I’m souring on him a little.

McConaughey, 41, is the cover guy for the April issue of Men’s Fitness. Unlike a lot of past cover models he’s unfortunately wearing a tank top. When his fine abs aren’t on display you can see how short his arms are relative to his torso. He looks good here though and I love to hear the guy talk. He has such a colorful way of describing everything, and in this interview he doesn’t disappoint. McConaughey is known for his outdoor workouts, and he says that comes from his childhood:

On his workout philosophy
McConaughey’s mother always told him, “If it’s light outside, you must be out of the house.” This partly wxplains why he prefers outdoor workouts (jungles and trails) instead of training in a gym, and why for years tabloid paps have snapped pics of his lean, muscular, and shirtless physique running, running and running some more – usually on a beach. “It’s always been a lifestyle,” he says. “Then it became something that was like, ‘Hey, it’s also good for my job.’ I’m not a professional athlete, but I have a job where I like to look good and be as healthy as possible.”

His weight at 5’11 tall
Depending on his gig, his weight swings from 176 to 194 pounds. On the day we meet, he’s at 186, his physical peak.

On hiking in French Polynesia with Camila Alves
“We went up 3,000 feet and I had on hiking shoes and I was all set up and ready to go and she was wearing Havaianas sandals and a white skirt. I came down to the bottom of that hill afterward and had blood on me, muddy as all get-out, and that girl didn’t have a speck of dust on her.”

On his diet
“You can’t put me in front of a buffet line and tell me to eat right. If it’s there, I’m going to fill that plate up.”

Still, McConaughey says his clan eats healthy whenever possible. He and Camila do their own cooking, often with fresh ingredients from their backyard garden. For a snack, Matthew might eat a red pepper or an avocado, which quells the urge for chocolate. Come mealtime, he usually allows himself unlimited amounts of salad, topped with a dressing made with white vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, shallots and garlic. He rounds out the meal with brown or Indian rice, plus a touch of pickled pepper sauce. For protein, the family may have grilled fish or chicken breasts four days in a row, but homemade sauces and seasonings from three different continents give the main course distinctive tastes.

On his relationship with Camila
“It’s all working out good, man. Working out real good.” The time just had to be right, he says.

[From Men's Fitness, print edition, April, 2010]

Matthew lost a lot of appeal for me with his orange face at the Oscars, but all he has to do is wash his hair, take a shower, and go out jogging without a shirt again and I’ll forgive him. Seeing these photos of him working out reminds me of the hot guy with the drawl I used to adore. He missed a real opportunity to pose shirtless here, but maybe he wants to lose some pounds first so he looks extra ripped.

McConaughey’s next film, The Lincoln Lawyer, is out on March 18. Here’s a link to the trailer. It also stars Ryan Phillippe. It looks cheesy and overwrought but it might be decent.

For more from Matthew McConaughey, including workout tips from his trainer, check out the April issue of Men’s Fitness.