Tom Hardy makes an appearance on the Discovery Channel’s Driven to Extremes. Come here, Tom. Let me sit on your lap. Or your face. [Pajiba]
Andre Leon Talley quit Vogue for more money at Numero Russia. [Pop Sugar]
Michael K thinks Bieber looks like Vanilla Ice. Ice Ice Baby! [Dlisted]
Is Anne Hathaway the new Gwyneth? I think Anne is the new Michelle Williams. Gaspy little-girl voice, anyone? [LaineyGossip]
Colin Farrell’s old modeling photo is amazing!! [Buzzfeed]
Yeah, my state’s governor’s race is going to be INSANE this year. [Jezebel]
Justin Bieber is the new Marky Mark? Puh-lease. [The Blemish]
Lea Michelle’s lingerie dress is… weird? I can’t decide. [Go Fug Yourself]
Ian Somerhalder goes shirtless on a mag cover. [A Socialite Life]
Jennifer Garner’s jeans are unflattering. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
The new trailer for Tom Cruise’s Oblivion (I typed “Oblivious” first). [I’m Not Obsessed]
Miley Cyrus’s camp says Miley & Liam are still together. [Evil Beet]
Recap of the Top Chef: Seattle finale! [ICYDK]
Vanessa Hudgens is a gypsy bohemian, apparently. [Popoholic]
Kelly Brook flashes her drawers. [IDLYITW]
Review of that awful-looking film 21 & Over. [Moe Jackson]
Brooklyn Decker was a huge N*Sync fan-girl. [Celebslam]
People are obsessed with Duck Dynasty. Really! [Reality Tea]
My baby! Hey beau, hey. How you doing?!? UNF!!! *thud*
Oh, Tom let me love you. And do other depraved things with you…
Tom Hardy is scrumptious, but I think his too-furry-beard is not so great. For some reason, it seems everyone is going
Amish this season.
Oh, I hope that includes the hats. The hats really get me going.
Hahahaha! Yes, Miss Eyre, those hats are hot as hell. Put Tom Hardy in one of those, &
*clunk* I am now speaking to you from the floor.
You ladies enjoy. I’ll just wait for the year they send him “out” and give him an education in the ways of the modern woman.
@ECon – WTF?!? Where have you been since I started watching Parade’s End? I’m pretty sure that I’m the only person in the US watching it and I have nobody to talk to.
@T.Fanty:
Oops! Is my face red! I just mentioned Parade’s End in a comment to you further down the page. I really ought to stop doing everything backwards.
I wasn’t here at the right times this week, & kept missing you like one of those two passing ships. In the night.
So what did you think?! I am re-watching it now & seeing much more in it this time. I think it should have been longer, even if only one episode longer. Terribly rushed at the end.
Apparently we’re the only living souls who have seen it. So let’s yak. Want to hear what you thought of it!
@j.eyre & T.Fanty:
Imagine what Tom Hardy might do on Rumspringa….
I am not even hot for Hardy (new Chili Peppers song?) but he on Rumspringa is a field trip I would sign up for.
T. Fan – whose running it in the states? I’ll watch it with you guys? Is it a Masterpiece thing?
Dammit! Am now driving the Fantlings upstate and will be out of commission for 200 miles. Dear Jane, you have approximately three hours to hie thee to an HBO outlet and get watching. It’s gorgeous in every way imaginable. Go!!
Crap – I don’t have HBO (I barely have cable) Let me consider my options.
I can’t today, though (and thank you SO much for this lead in, btw) the Heir, with the severe ADHD and has never gotten above a “Needs Improvement” on behavior on his progress reports, is getting a Citizenship Award for Deportment today! I want to scream that from the rooftops. The maternal sobbing will commence in 3…
& T.Fanty & j.eyre:
Don’t worry, Miss Eyre–you can watch it online too. I’m watching it at “watchseries-online.eu”—put Parade’s End in the search bar, & you will get link results that will take you to a page to watch it. You don’t have to register for anything, sign in, or give any personal information at all.
Let me know if you have any trouble, but it should be fine–I’m watching it there this week too. I’m glad we’ll be watching it together! Cumby!
Hey! I just saw this. Bravissimo to you & the little Thornfield heir! Did drawing PocketRenner’s arms for his mummy’s refrigerator have anything to do with this?!
Stuck in traffic, so just enough time to say huge congrats to the little Heir!
Yes… the beard is gross, looks like it might smell of today’s lunch and may even still have a few crumbs in it. I’m not into the facial hair trend that is sweeping Hollywood right now… and, unfortunately, my gorgeous boy toy is doing it too so I can’t get away from the scraggly, itchy mountain man experience.
Okay, so. I LOVED Parade’s End. Even though I found the fat suit a little distracting, Cumby was unimaginably appealing in it. All that extensive repression did was to highlight how endearing he could be when he started to light up. Sigh..
I haven’t seen the last episode yet – Sylvia just left her visit to Rouen – but I’m hooked. I had read the reader reviews in the Guardian, which almost unanimously panned the show in spite of the critical praise and kept talking about BC’s mumbling and excessive pausing, but I thought the pace was lively, and I found it much more humourous than I had expected (especially as FMF said that he always wrote sad stories). I actually just taught Stoppard’s translation of Chekhov last week, and Parade’s End made me think of that, in particular how delicate and well-placed Stoppard’s humor is. And I think that the cast got that and that’s why all the misery and repression doesn’t drag.
Rebecca Hall has merely confirmed my absolute girl crush on her. She and Cumby are captivating, and so equally matched that, I think that the only problem is that it’s hard to see what Tiejens connects to in Valentine. She seems like a little girl caught between two titans. This is, I think, Cumby’s best role yet. It utilizes everything he does well, and it all hangs on his ability to make Tiejens both repellant and appealing, which he manages to do in those tiny moments he lets his guard down, like his smirk during the General’s inspection at the end of the fourth episode. And the scene between he and Hall in Sylvia’s hotel room darn near broke my heart.
Final thought for right now: Rufus Sewell!!!!!!!!!
What did you think?
Hello, T.Fanty! Well, there is so much to unpack for me & Parade’s End. First of all, what fabulous casting. Rufus Sewell!
The Christopher-Sylvia relationship was maddening. Can’t believe people were that formal! Must have been influenced by the decor.
What kind of actor is Cumby, eh? A great one? The same man who can sit in a starched collar at breakfast, making corrections to the Encyclopedia Britannica, can then look at Valentine almost child-like, & say “Will you be my mistress tonight?” so meltingly.
On second viewing, I am noticing much more Christopher’s repressed twitching. His mouth, I mean. I think he’s about to scream, then he just takes a swig of whiskey.
And….I want Sylvia’s wardrobe. At once! BTW, that convent was much more lux than the one I escaped from. We weren’t allowed to bring our own maids.
But at the moment I’m half-asleep so I will write further when I really wake up.
Toodles for now!
I was going to talk about that “will you be my mistress tonight?” I was pretty much shouting “YES!” at the television.
I’ll be glad when billy goat beards are done. I always think of my pet goat Jasper, who used to pee on his own beard..whenever I see a guy that untrimmed 🙂 I much prefer clean shaven on almost any man.
Omg! How did your goat manage to pee on his beard?
Ha ha! I boarded my neighbor’s unneutered male goats. Man, they pee on themselves all the time, don’t they?
Hot Damn Mr. Hardy… anytime, any place, any beard
No to the fur face! He is looking far to squatchy for my taste. He is way too good looking to cover up that gorgeous face!
I love you Tom!
I am going to respond to the Miley thing here because I am too lazy to read all the comments on the Miley thread (and I am confused at this point) My biggest question today is where are her parents? Billy Ray and Tish (Trish? – again, too lazy to Google) always have some kind of comment on their daughter’s life – where’s the official general assurance that all is well in paradise?
Dear Miss Eyre,
I originally read your question as: “Where are her pants?” My glasses are smudged. So I am wondering, where are her pants *and* her parents?
Curiously, though, the pictures in the CB post actually featured her more dressed than I have seen in a donkey’s year.
Hello, T.Fanty! I haven’t been here at the right times this week to ask you if you’d seen all of Parade’s End, & what you thought of it.
I shall await your report. 😉
Are we a Lohan-free site today?? Bummer!!! Her lawyer is an idiot and I wish that judge today was her trial judge. Fun times!
Have mercy!
I am not usually into blondish men with blue eyes but I love Tom and I love his hairy mountain man look. LOVE IT. Love it so much that I don’t think I’d chose anyone else so long as he kept this dirtball look.
I just creamed my panties. Damn that man is sexy!
How dare you Tom?!? I needed those ovaries for our future children!
Tom, My Love… Please, shave!
Yours,
Miss M.
Tom Hardy, too, apparently is obsessed with Duck Dynasty 😉
Oh man..look at that beautiful biscuit brush on my Hardy’s face.
I’ve had this fantasy before: Tom and I are trapped in the barren arctic landscape. We make an igloo and then are forced to bone all day just to keep warm..we drink brandy and play with penguins.
It would be amazing.
Just be careful you don’t mix up the brandy and the penguins; you know how disorienting Hardy boning can be.
Ha ha..very good advice. I just replied to your hair story on the Miley thread BTW.
When is this show coming on? I will watch anything involving sexy Tom. Justine Beiber should NEVER be compared to Marky Mark. MM was sexy. 🙂
Tom is such a sexy beast! Fassy and Hardy posts on the same day = heaven
I’m so used to hearing Tom with another accent that it threw me off for a second. Even with all the man scruff, he looks hot. Such a great actor. He was great in Lawless.
@turtle dove: Hello!!!It’s been a long time I haven’t seen you here. How/where have you been? Do you still have Fassiefever?
Is Lawless any good? It’s on my Netflix list but has a rubbish rating, so I can’t decide whether it’s worth two hours of my life.
Lawless is worth watching. Generally, I hate western shit but it’s solid enough. Good acting elevates it beyond the normal western dullness and Ladouche is mad decent in it.
Not gonna lie though-Hardy was my motivation to see it. I’ll watch anything this guy is in. He’s one of the best actors out there right now-and he’s sexy as HELL in Lawless.
Lawless was really good. Except it isnt a western, it is set in Virginia in the 1930s about moonshining. It is based on a true story written by one of the characters grandchildren.
Yep. This and the Oscars proved to me that the Viking look is definitely back in style for men.
There might not be a hit with Andre leaving Vogue. But if Grace does, it can be the beginning of the end for the Wintour empire.
Warning to everyone else: Don’t look at the Colin Farrell photo if you are in the midst of eating or drinking. My Macbook just got sprayed.