As research for this post, I looked up the “Hey Girl” Ryan Gosling meme, which I’m familiar with but never paid much attention to in the past. I’m now irrationally happy after viewing these videos of Ryan Gosling reading his internet memes. (Kudos to MTV’s Josh Horowitz, who does the best celebrity interviews of anyone.) If you are able to, please watch Ryan Gosling giggle and get embarrassed as he reads some of his “Hey Girl” memes.

I’m not a Ryan Gosling superfan, like I don’t get hot for him like I do for Matt Damon at any age or Johnny Depp prior to his recent phase of debauchery. After watching these I feel giddy, though, and like a surge of puppy love is rushing over me. He’s hot, funny and he doesn’t take himself seriously. I can imagine screwing this guy and enjoying the hell out of it. Compare that to Bradley Cooper, who is a competent actor with no discernible personality traits. Cooper was just named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine, and I saw his video interview for it (at the end of this page on People’s site) and was totally underwhelmed. He’s a decent-looking guy, but if he wasn’t famous and he came at me with that personality I might not even go out with him. I’m not kidding. He just doesn’t do it for me in any way.

Many people agree with me. About 15 protesters gathered outside of People Magazine’s headquarters in New York Wednesday to protest Cooper and demand that Ryan Gosling be named the Sexiest Man instead:

There are a lot of protests going on in New York City these days, but this was unexpected.

Call it Occupy Sexy. Announcing themselves from the social-content website BuzzFeed.com, about 15 protesters in Ryan Gosling masks showed up – in the rain, no less – outside PEOPLE’s headquarters at Manhattan’s Time-Life Building on Wednesday.

“We are devastated,” Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera, 24, said of PEOPLE’s decision to name Bradley Cooper 2011′s Sexiest Man Alive. “[Gosling's] left arm alone makes him the Sexiest Man Alive. Hello, look at his abs!”

Facebook users also got into the act with an entire page devoted to The Pro-Gosling People Magazine Protest, illustrated with this week’s cover of Cooper with a great big red X over it. (Gosling’s photo is circled. What, no heart?)

Of course, Gosling is in the issue that hits newsstand Friday, along with 123 other hot guys.

As for the equally ab-tastic Cooper, “We stand by our man!” says PEOPLE’s Executive Editor Liz Sporkin. “Bradley Cooper is the whole package. He’s gorgeous, talented, brainy, loves his mom, can cook up a storm and speaks fluent French! Who can argue with that?”

[From People]

Cooper is definitely sexy when he speaks French, but that’s about it. The French speaking doesn’t make up for the rest of his blah-ness, and it’s not going to come in handy unless you’re on a trip with him to a French-speaking country. (Which could be cool, I could entertain that thought.) That novelty will wear off fast though, and you’re left with a guy who is about as interesting as a room temperature light beer. Gosling has swagger and he loves to go to amusement parks. Sure he has crap taste in women sometimes, but that just means that he’s not that discerning. I could definitely get behind him as Sexiest Man Of The Year. I doubt I’d stand outside in the cold complaining about it, but thanks to these brave souls I don’t have to.

Here’s a petition to ask People Magazine to admit that they were wrong and should have chosen Gosling. He is named as one of the sexiest this year, but he should have taken top honors.

Thanks to Jezebel for this video of the protest. It just cracks me up.

I’ve talked about my love for Vincent D’Onofrio before, right? I’m pretty sure I have. I love big guys, and Vincent is one of the biggest. We so rarely get new photos of him too, because he’s honestly a very low-key dude, and he has some health issues too, right? Something about migraines and exhaustion, I believe. Plus, his weight has yo-yoed a lot over the past five years (there were a few seasons of Law & Order: CI where he looked enormous), but he looks really good here. Vincent and Richard Belzer (Det. Munch on L&O: SVU) were both in Washington D.C. for the Black-tie Gala dinner to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. I think Law & Order creator and producer Dick Wolf was being honored for his decades of work in concert with police forces and prosecutors. Vincent looks great! Yes, I would still hit it. Again and again. I’m so incredibly attracted to him.

But really, look at Richard Belzer! Belzer brought his dog to Washington. Can you even believe that Belzer, a notorious curmudgeon and the king of conspiracy theorists, has such a fluffy, adorable dog? I love him. Tell me this, ladies (and gentlemen)… Richard Belzer: would you hit it?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

I already covered the first excerpts from this week’s hilarious In Touch Weekly, all about how Angelina Jolie is still bisexual, to the point where she just loves to randomly hook up with ladies in hotel rooms, and flirt with girl waitresses, and stewardesses, and how Brad can only weep, knowing that he can never satisfy The Jolie (because he lacks biscuits). Anyway, I’ve had the chance to read the whole thing, and it’s EPIC. You know how In Touch absolutely hates Angelina, right? And you know how they can turn the most innocent little thing into some kind of crazy hate-fest? Well, they did it again, and this time they seem to be bashing Angelina because, in the local parlance, Angelina likes to “get hers”. Basically, she has orgasms, and she encourages Brad to give her as many as she can. DEVIL WOMAN!!! SHUN!!!

But that’s not all, of course. That’s just the subtext. The text is all about Angelina’s insatiable sexual needs, and how she makes Brad feel like he’s not “man enough” to satisfy her. I’ll be honest, this story turned me on a little:

“One of the the things that broke up Angelina’s marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton was that she found herself attracted to other women, but her husbands didn’t want her to stray,” says a friend of Angelina’s. As fulfilled as Angelina claims to be in her relationship with brad, those desires remain. Though she is discreet about it, Angelina is intent on making sure those desires are fulfilled – whether or not it would hurt Brad.

When they first hooked up, Angelina wanted sex from Brad all the time. Six kids later, Angelina remains “a very sexual person,” an insider shares. “Brad has made a real commitment to make sure that her needs are met.” And that means letting her play a dominant role in their sex life.

In addition to meeting up with ladies for sexual rendezvous at the Roosevelt Hotel, Angelina also requests “only female servers” and whenever she travels without Brad, she brings a female companion. And along the way, on her many trips, she loves to flirt with beautiful stewardesses. “She doesn’t do anything like that when the kids are around, but it’s a different story when she’s alone, or with Brad.”

Brad “had never met a woman as overtly sexual as Angelina, so he was putty in her hands from the start.” Eager to please her, Brad allowed Angelina to be the dominant one in their relationship, and he continues to do that to this day, with their lovemaking session largely cenetered around making her happy.

“Angelina loves to tie Brad down to a chair or to the bed and blindfold him. That’s no secret.”

Some may view her as selfish, but Angelina believes she’s done Brad a favor by expanding his horizons.

“They have a grotto on their Los Feliz compound, and they go there all the time to have sex in the water… they’re not violent, but Angelina likes it rough.” She also likes to role-play. At least once a month, Brad and Angelina check into a hotel room and enjoy a 24 hour “sex vacation” with Angelina inevitably embracing the dominatrix role.

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

*fans self*

Okay, what else? Oh, she takes Brad to lingerie shops and makes him choose her panties. And of course, there’s an excess of stuff about “poor Brad” and how Angelina would never let HIM sleep with other women, so why does SHE get to? Um, because it’s HOT.

But my absolute FAVORITE part of the story is the photo spread – In Touch compiled all of these photos of Angelina standing next to or hugging various women on, you know, like red carpets and stuff, and In Touch insinuates that Angelina is boning all of them. There’s a photo of Angelina with Holly Goline, her assistant of 12 years, and ITW claims that Holly will “sleep over” in Angelina’s bed when Brad’s away. There’s a photo of Angelina kissing: a female fan on a red carpet, La Femme Nikita star Peta Wilson, and my two favorites: Queen Rania of Jordan (Angelina is kissing Rania’s cheek, btw, but it certainly looks suggestive), and finally, a photo of Angelina kissing Clint Eastwood’s wife Dina. OH NOES. Angelina is going to homewreck Clint Eastwood! (to get to his wife!)

Is anyone else hot? I’m hot.

Photos courtesy of WENN, InTouch and promotional shots from ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’.

Tom Ford has a new, wonderful interview in Interview Magazine. The piece was conducted by artist John Currin, who is somewhat close and friendly with Ford. You can tell that Tom feels comfortable with Currin – Tom really opens up. Not that it’s too difficult to get Tom Ford to give you a good quote. Since the launch of his new women’s line, Tom has given major interviews to all of the major American and European fashion magazines, and all of them have been awesome. He’s a fascinating man with lots to say. And even though I had to put away my heterosexual lust for Tom’s fabulousness after his wonderfully written piece about his partner of 24 years, my lust is now back on with this piece. Tom utters these lines: “I lust after beautiful women. First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture—this will probably get me in trouble—or a beautiful car. I believe everyone’s on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn’t overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things. It’s not like I ever think, ‘Oh, my god, I’ve got to spread her legs and f-ck her.’” So he lusts after women like he lusts after a piece of art. I will accept that. The full Interview Magazine is here (totally worth a read if you have the time), and here are some of the highlights:

Tom Ford on whether he sees his sexual imagery and sexualized fashion as “calculated”: It is never even calculated. When I’m making an image of a woman, or dressing a woman—I have a reputation for sex and making a woman sexy, and men as well—but I don’t start out saying, “Oh, I’m gonna make this woman look sexy or sexual.” I simply stand there and put her in front of me and say, “What can I do to make her more beautiful in my eyes? Let’s pull in the dress here, let’s do this, let’s do that.” The end result is something that other people consider sexual, but for me it’s just beautiful. My expression of beauty is something I do naturally. I love the human body—the female body, the male body. I work in a way to try to enhance the body, and so you often see a lot of the body or the silhouette or outline, and that’s what people equate with sex. But I’m very comfortable with sexuality. It’s not anything that’s ever freaked me out. I’m very comfortable with naked bodies. Someone asked me recently about male nudity, and I brought up the subject that, in our culture, we use female nudity to sell everything. We’re very comfortable objectifying women. Women go out and they are basically wearing nothing. Their feet and toes are exposed, their legs are exposed, their breasts are exposed. Everything is exposed—the neck, the arms. You have to be really physically perfect, as a woman, in our culture to be considered beautiful. But full frontal male nudity challenges us. It makes men nervous. It makes women nervous. Other times in history, male nudes have been regarded in a different way. The Olympics were originally held nude.

On whether he objectifies women: I think I detach the physical from the spiritual. It’s my business to make a woman or a man beautiful, and I’m working with a model in a fitting, and I’ve objectified them to the point that they become an object. They’re something that I’m modeling or shaping or sculpting, but I’m very aware that even though I make them physically beautiful, their soul and personality and character is somewhat detached from that. It’s great when you have a combination of the two— that’s what makes a true beauty. Some people are physically beautiful but yet they’re completely uninteresting, and thus they’re not beautiful. I detach the two. And I turn the same eye on myself: When I look in the mirror, I say, “Well, this eyebrow is starting to sag,” or “I’m going gray right here, I need to fix that.” Or “I’ve eaten too much. I need to do a few more push-ups, blah blah blah.” But that’s completely separate from me as a human being. It’s purely the body that I move through the world in, and people react to it on the surface. So, no, I don’t have any remorse, because I separate them.

On his lust for women: I lust after beautiful women. First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture—this will probably get me in trouble—or a beautiful car. I believe everyone’s on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn’t overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things. It’s not like I ever think, “Oh, my god, I’ve got to spread her legs and f-ck her.”

On regret: This may sound corny, but the only thing I feel remorse about is when I hurt someone, hurt their feelings, or make them feel bad. I’m obsessive about that. “Oh, my god, did I say the wrong thing? Did I hurt them? Did they understand what I meant?” But the creation of visual images or design, I have no remorse over. I’m not somebody who regrets anything, because I’m very happy with where I am and everything I’ve done in my life. Everything that’s happened to me, I’ve learned a lesson from—or if I didn’t, I was foolish, and I will repeat the same thing and eventually, hopefully, I will learn a lesson.

On America versus Europe: I think we’re very uptight in America. You have to remember that we’re descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. It was a group of people who escaped Europe because they felt it was depraved in a certain way, and that culture still permeates. I’ve lived in Europe for the last 20 years, so I’m kind of a hybrid. I feel very American in certain ways, and in lots of ways I feel more European.

[From Interview Magazine]

Tom also has some junk to say about France, and how terrible it is that the French are so nationalistic, which evens out his comments about America. He says that out of all of the European countries, he feels most at home in Italy, and that the Italians have always embraced him. He also tells a story about doing an interview completely naked, just because. I can’t be mad at him, even if he would never feel the need to spread my legs.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

VMAN Magazine’s promotion just sent us these photos from their new cover – with cover boy Stephen Dorff. Dorff is in Sofia Coppola’s new movie, Somewhere, and he’s getting a lot of attention and awards hype because everyone says this is his big comeback role, his re-introduction to A-List Actordom. I’ve said it before – I think Somewhere looks really good, and I’m very happy to see Dorff have a comeback, because the boy is good looking and really, really hot, albeit in a slightly sleazy way (that I love).

So… here’s the question: When you’re attempting your comeback, you’re hoping to parlay this buzz into something bigger in your career, is this the right time to take off your clothes for a Mario Testino photo shoot? Granted, his body is… um… in a word, DONGTASTIC. No, “Hot”. He’s very hot. And steamy. And gorgeous. So… is this a good idea? Or is it totally cornball and cheesy?

Here are a few excerpts from the piece:

STEPHEN DORFF, the 37-year-old rebel actor and star of the forthcoming, much-hyped movie directed by Sofia Coppola called “Somewhere.” VMAN’s cover and inside spread features Dorff with a body rivaling a teenage athlete. Dorff says he owes Coppola for the opportunity to renew his interest in the (acting) craft and continue to discover his art. His mother died of brain cancer one year and one day before Sofia offered him the coveted role.

He’s been labeled everything from a child prodigy to a Hollywood bad boy, but after his starring role in the film “Somewhere,” Stephen Dorff’s getting comfortable with a new moniker: Leading Man.

“This isn’t Stephen’s comeback. It’s his rediscovery.” – Sofia Coppola

“I learned how to grow up.” – Stephen Dorff

[From VMAN]

Yes, he’s so “grown up” that he’s making a move that even Zac Efron would be like “um, that’s kind of cheap.” Not that I’m complaining. I both love and hate this photo shoot. But I feel strongly about it, so I guess that’s something.

All photos courtesy of VMAN Magazine.

From what I can see, this story was originally reported in The National Enquirer, and everyone is picking it up now. According to sources, Johnny Depp demanded that a sexy shower love scene be cut out of The Tourist, all because he didn’t want to piss off his lover/baby-mama/partner, Vanessa Paradis. This goes along with those reports earlier in the year that Vanessa was pissed that Johnny was working with Angelina Jolie, and Vanessa was afraid Jolie would “steal” Johnny. According to some report, Paradis even tried to “order” Depp to withdraw from the movie.

In any case, Depp didn’t “pull out” and he and Angelina filmed the whole thing together, sex scenes and all. And the studio is so pleased with the film that they brought the release date ahead for December, months before it was supposed to be released. But Vanessa has allegedly won one small victory – she got Johnny to ask that his explicit shower sex scene was cut from the film:

Featuring Angelina Jolie in a naked embrace with Johnny Depp, it was expected to be the steamy highlight of new crime thriller The Tourist. But it appears that Depp’s long-time girlfriend Vanessa Paradis has won a battle to axe the sexually explicit scene, in which the A-list pair were to writhe together in a shower.

French singer Paradis, 37, who has two children by the actor, was so distressed over the script’s ­passionate theme that she begged Depp to pull out of the project, according to a Hollywood source.

‘She put pressure on Johnny and finally he said he wanted the shower scene out,’ the source told The Mail on Sunday. ‘He told the producers it cheapened the movie and I am assured that his wishes are being honoured.’

According to a copy of the script leaked to New York celebrity magazine Life & Style, Depp, 47, plays American tourist Frank Taylor who seduces Interpol agent Cara Mason, played by Jolie, 35. The script says that after walking into the shower, Taylor ‘lifts Cara against the glass, clutching at her slithery body, kissing her frantically. Cara later turns abruptly to Frank and presses her body against his. He’s taken by surprise but willingly responds. . . wrapping his arms around her.’

After learning of the scene, Paradis ‘wanted him right out of the production’, the source said.

‘Angelina comes with a reputation. She stole Brad Pitt from Jennifer Aniston when they were shooting Mr & Mrs Smith together.’

Depp, who has lived with Paradis for 12 years, resisted her pleas. ‘But he gave in over the shower scene,’ the insider said. ‘It would have been highly embarrassing for Vanessa. When Angelina learned he wanted it out, she wanted Johnny to reconsider, but he got his way.’

A spokesman for Depp did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for producers Sony ­Pictures said: ‘I have not heard that the scene was cut. I will have to look into it.’

The Tourist is due for release in America next month.

[From The Daily Mail]

The Enquirer’s version is somewhat similar, although there is less emphasis on Vanessa “begging” Johnny to not “embarrass” her by nailing Angelina on film. Instead, the Enquirer claims that Johnny felt like the shower scene “cheapened” the sexual tension that they had on film. They also say that Angelina protested to Johnny on the phone, and then petitioned the studio executives to keep the scene in, but no go. Who knows, though? This could just be some bullsh-t scandal to help the film when it comes out in a month.

Here’s the second trailer for The Tourist:

Photos courtesy of Fame – promotional images from ‘The Tourist’.

Gorgeous supermodel and mother of four Heidi Klum stars in a sexy new music video with her husband, singer Seal. The song, “Secret,” is the first single off Seal’s latest album, Commitment, which came out Tuesday. It’s a haunting lovely song with a video that’s sure to get plenty of attention.

I was prepared to roll my eyes at this video but it’s frankly very well done. It seems to capture intimate moments between a husband and wife who still are very much in love. I love how tender and gentle it feels, like a couple who is content to be with each other and isn’t in any kind of hurry. There’s nakedness and kissing, but more than anything I find this video kind of heartwarming. It’s sexy but in a calm, adult way, if that make sense. It portrays a relationship with a high level of comfort and safety. The video really goes well with the song.

US Magazine premiered this video and has quotes from Heidi and Seal on what it means to them. Seal said “The song, the movie, it’s the story of our love.” Heidi said “It’s the story of two people in love. My husband is what I always wanted and never thought I would have.” I like them both a lot and think they’re a very solid couple.

You’ll have to excuse me, I’m over here having my own private little Hot Guy Tuesday, starring my lover Vincent Cassel. Yes, I have to share him with his gorgeous wife Monica Bellucci, but sometimes she joins us in our loud, passionate, kinky lovemaking, and that’s alright with me. Because Vincent is so good, I don’t mind sharing him. Look at this motherf-cker! So damn hot.

Vincent is on vacation in Italy. Monica must be around somewhere, but there aren’t any photos of her (not that I’m really looking). I could seriously look at photos of Vincent on his surf (boogie?) board all day. And for those HATERS out there who are going to criticize his body – this man is amazing, bitches. He moves like a gymnast, an acrobat, a circus performer. He’s one of those men who is insanely comfortable in his own skin and he knows how to move, and his moves are beautiful. And you just knows he likes some kinky, crazy positions you’ve never tried. F-CK. So, yeah, he’s not some buffed, tucked and sucked beefcake. But I prefer a dude like this, any day of the week.

By the way, in addition to his supporting part in the upcoming Black Swan (with Natalie Portman), Vincent has a lead role in Mesrine, playing the famed French criminal. It’s already come out in France, but I think it’s set for a limited American release next week. This movie looks so, SO good.

Sigh… back to Vincent shirtless:

Vincent in Italy on August 30, 2010. Credit: Fame.

For the most part, I don’t watch network news. I used to be a hardcore news junkie, and my drugs of choice were always MSNBC and CNN, which I still turn to today when I want to catch up. I make an exception for Sunday morning shows like Meet the Press and Face the Nation, and I guess I watch network news in the mornings, if you consider Today and Good Morning America network news (which I don’t). So, basically, the only times I’ve ever formed an opinion of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is when he’s doing something funny, like appearing on The Daily Show (where he and Jon Stewart have a passionate love-hate bromance), or on 30 Rock, where his dry, sardonic humor works beautifully, or on that episode of SNL when he hosted.

So my opinion of Williams was already pretty high – anyone who has that kind of hilarious repertoire with Jon Stewart is aces – but I must now begin to look at Brian in a whole new light. You see, ladies bitches, Brian is hung like a horse. He’s so hung, he can even joke about it uncomfortably in Elle Magazine. Through the interview, the Elle interviewer and Williams begin to talk about fashion and the dreaded pleated pants. The Elle reporter says “I actually have a close friend in DC who still wears pleats. His wife confessed to my wife that he couldn’t move to flat fronts because his penis was just too large.” Brian’s reply: “Well, I’m with him. It’s a huge issue. Kidding!” Oh. My. Pleats. Honestly, though, the whole interview is hilarious:

ELLE: For our amusement, please share an especially painful memory from adolescence involving a girl.
Brian Williams: I found out after a junior high school summer vacation that my girlfriend had cheated on me, so I sent her what I thought was the craftiest sleeps-with-the-fishes, Mario Puzo–themed message: a 45 of the Ace song “How Long Has This Been Going On.”

ELLE: You’ve described your late mother as a “very old-school Catholic” who would take the $7 train ride from New Jersey to New York for confession.
BW: I know! I feared she was a member of the Gambino crime family.

ELLE: But seriously, how bad does a sin have to be to be worth seven bucks?
BW: I’m sure what she was confessing to wouldn’t impress anyone. She probably said, “I used the Lord’s name in vain, and I went right on red even though the sign said not to.” She just didn’t like it when Monsignor Bulman turned to his left and looked through the screen. And having been there, I agree with her.

ELLE: You’ve said that the very day in 1985 that you met your wife, Jane, who’d come to work at WTTG in Washington, DC, you told the station’s sports director that you intended to marry her. Was this a daily occurrence—your announcing after lunch that you planned to marry someone?
BW: It was a one-time thing. You don’t toss those words around! I got off the air at 1 p.m. I’d met my wife within that last hour. Later that afternoon, I sat in Bernie Smilovitz’s office and said, “I think I’m off the market.” That’s the exact expression I used.

ELLE: What kind of first impression could she have possibly made?
BW: I actually heard her before I saw her. We wear this cable in our ear—this little piggly curlicue thing called an IFB—and I had her in my ear first. Voices are a huge part of attraction. When I was growing up, every teenage boy listened to Alison Steele, the New York DJ known as the Nightbird, and we all had a mental vision of her. When you’ve got great pipes, it’s the most romantic thing in the world.

ELLE: So Jane’s got a hot, sexy voice?
BW: Yes, she does. And I always insist that she do our voicemail at home.

ELLE: Your daughter Allison recently graduated from Yale. What have you done that has most mortified her?
BW: There’s no question that I have an inner Clark W. Griswold. So I have a deal with my wife and two kids that when my shorts move out of the mainstream, or when I wear any pants product that can be construed as a “man jean,” I am to be told. You notice how pleated khakis have become a huge social divider? You see the fashion-forwards going to a plain front, and then you see the pleated community seemingly unaware of this trend change.

ELLE: You still see a lot of pleats in Washington.
BW: DC sometimes lags. Obama’s still rocking the pleated pants.

ELLE: I actually have a close friend in DC who still wears pleats. His wife confessed to my wife that he couldn’t move to flat fronts because his penis was just too large.
BW: Well, I’m with him. It’s a huge issue. Kidding!

ELLE: When you were seven, you wrote to LBJ offering him advice on how to buck up during the Vietnam War. If LBJ had decided to write you back and advise you how to land chicks, what advice would have been most useful?
BW: I think the basic advice that I could never follow was “Approach them.” I always marveled at my friends who had the courage of infantrymen to go up to a girl at a bar. I’d go to the same bars on the Jersey Shore but I could never muster the courage. Luckily, since I’ve been married for 23 years, I don’t have to date anymore.

ELLE: Let’s be honest about this. If you were single today and you walked into a bar, you’d be swimming in women.
BW: Aw, no, I don’t think so. I’m a haggard, weather-beaten 51-year-old man.

ELLE: Clooney’s almost 50! You think he allows that kind of thing to go through his head while he’s eating his morning toast?
BW: I’m a worn-out vessel, a shell of my former youthful self. I’ve given many good years to my trade, flying around the world to dangerous places.

ELLE: Precisely. All you’d have to do is wear one of those khaki TV-anchor vests, and I guarantee you’d be fighting them off.
BW: No. Because you still need the courage to engage in conversation, which I never had. I would sooner—and often did—walk into a burning building than talk to a young woman in a bar.

ELLE: After the Olympics, you left the city of Vancouver an online thank-you note. A woman named Mimi, from Coral Springs, Florida, left a comment that read, “Bri, you are SO handsome.… All I need is one night.” She also wrote, “I love nice restrooms. Bathrooms must be nice! A person’s ladies’ room says a lot about them.” Is Mimi—a woman passionate about news and bathrooms—a typical Williams groupie?
BW: Not as a subset of our fan base, no. I do read Web comments. But only to a point. When they move toward a restroom of any kind, I call it a day.

[From Elle]

The stuff about his wife is lovely. It’s also like, “UR DOIN IT WRONG, LAUER.” Finally, and NBC dude who has a drama-less marriage. Actually, I think Chris Matthews has a drama-less marriage too, right? Eh. Getting back to my new favorite topic, Williams Dong, do you think he was just being jokey and silly, or did he accidentally blurt out the truth? I’m finding him sexier by the minute.

Oooh, look at his hands! They’re huge! Honestly, that’s the best indicator.

Header: Brian Williams on November 4, 2009. Credit: WENN.

By popular demand, I present to you this week’s Hot Guy Friday! Actually, I think it was just two commenters who were begging for this, but you girls (and a few dudes?) seem to enjoy it, so let’s get started, shall we? Unfortunately, this week wasn’t amazing for random hot men being spotted by photographers, so I’m probably going to add some vintage glimpses at some of our favorite dudes. Above is my lover Liam Neeson. He and the A-Team crew have been working their asses off this week promoting the film in Europe. I’ve been so focused on Jessica Biel’s horrendous fashion statements that I kind of missed all of the lovely Liam photos. I love Liam and his jaunty little toothpick. God, I just adore this man!

Speaking of The A-Team, have we ever talked about Sharlto Copley and what a cutie he is? He really is rather gorgeous and rugged. Rampage Jackson is here too – if you like your man really big:

Mark Wahlberg got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week, and he looked really fine. Does Mark do it for you? He does it for me, big time. But only in dramatic roles.

Here’s Jeremy Renner being a cutie at Comic-Con last week:

Ralph Fiennes looks like a serial killer with his head shaved (at an A-Team premiere this week), but I would still do nasty things to him. “I love hedgehogs.”

I know, I know. I have an Ed Westwick problem. Especially when he’s wearing a ladies’ low-cut blouse. But damn, I would love to lick that chest fur.

And it was like Penn Badgley got Westwick’s Fur Memo and decided he was going to go low-cut too! I’ll admit, this is the most attractive I’ve ever found Penn. I have really problems with smarmy men.

A little Joseph Gordon Levitt, by request!

I think Ryan Phillippe has a douche face, but I know some ladies think he’s a cutie. He doesn’t look too smarmy here:

Was Tom Selleck’s mustache always this thick? Or is it just getting hot in here?

LL Cool J has one of the nicest smiles in Hollywood, I swear. He smiles and it’s like he’s hugging you. He and Chris O’Donnell were doing some promotional stuff for NCIS: LA. Chris is looking adorable too:

Oliver Hudson (Kate’s brother, son of Goldie Hawn) is giving me a little Joseph Fiennes vibe here. And I like it.

Russell Brand and the turquoise panties, because I can’t get enough.

Jonny Lee Miller at some event in England this week. I still get hot for him too. I love him!

Ewan McGregor was in NYC this week, looking… GAH. He’s so PRETTY!!!!

I would go to bed with Tracy Morgan, just because I know he would make me laugh my ass off. Look at him!

Vintage Eric Bana, just because there are never new photos of him and I can’t wait:

Vintage Jon Hamm, because I’m still thinking about that hooker slapping him…

And I totally agree that we should end every Hot Guy Friday on Clive Owen. Just because… RAWR. It should be against the law, you know?

Header: Liam Neeson in Germany on July 27, 2010. Credit: WENN.