Crushes: Bernadette Peters

This woman:



...is 62 years old and I adore her So. Much.

I could actually go on and on about Ms. Peters and her singular contributions to musical theater, or that she was so awesome that Spielberg designed the role of Rita in Animaniacs just for her to sing on the show. Or the time that I glimpsed her from a distance just shopping in Greenwich Village.

But really, I just think that she is really, seriously cute, and I am so happy to see her newest Broadway appearance be the triumph that it is.

And she is hot.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/theater/16peters.html
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Kathryn Grayson

Oh. sad news.



Kathryn Grayson, Operatic Film Star, Dies at 88 :

By ANITA GATES
Published: February 18, 2010

Kathryn Grayson, the petite singer and actress whose operatic voice and campus-sweetheart beauty embodied the glamour of Hollywood movie musicals in the 1940s and ’50s, died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 88.

Ms. Grayson, a coloratura soprano, was best known for three film roles: the movie hopeful who attracts the attentions of two sailors (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) on shore leave in Hollywood in “Anchors Aweigh” (1945); Magnolia Hawks, the captain’s innocent daughter, who falls for the handsome gambler Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel), in the Technicolor remake of “Show Boat” (1951); and the sophisticated, comically shrewish actress starring in a Shakespearean musical with her ex-husband (Mr. Keel again) in “Kiss Me Kate” (1953), Hollywood’s adaptation of the Broadway hit...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/movies/19grayson.html

I had SUCH a crush on her in my teens - certainly more than 30 years after she made the movies that I was watching on TV in the 70s.



Be sure to listen to her very last note.
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Jennifer Aniston Making Lonely Look Good

Elle landed Jennifer Aniston for their big September issue, but don't worry, you needn't pity the poor, single actress.

"I'm not going to ignore the pink elephant in the living room. It's fine. I can take it," she says of how it's hard to find a decent man in this town—and once you do, they just leave you for some way hot, tattooed, child-collecting superstar.

"If I'm the emblem for 'this is what it looks like to be the lonely girl getting getting on with her life,' so be it."


If SHE's "lonely" then the rest of us mere humans have NO shot at all...





And here's Jennifer on the set of her new movie, looking damn fine:

Crushes: Jaime Pressly

From The Bastardly (comments can be rough over there, for you gentle souls...):
Jaime Pressly @ "I Love You, Man" L.A. Premiere. More pics at the link.

Jaime Pressly - hot as a teenager, hot as a Playboy model, hot as a movie villain, and hot as a pregnant mom-to-be.

She gets more incredible everytime I see her, but these pics are just amazing. Respect.

Crushes: Jennifer Tilly

Because she's awesome - Some pics I found on another site:



Some pics of Jennifer Tilly from last November! When is she getting a new TV series?

Crushes: Rose McGowan in Glasses

From The Bastardly - Rose McGowan in Glasses. ZOMG - she needs to do a movie wearing these. If she wore these on Charmed, the show would still be on.

There's nothing about this picture that I don't love, love, love. There's a dozen of these shots at the link.

Crushes: Milla Jovovich

So, Friday night, TNT ran one of their periodic Superhero/Fantasy/Action bloc of movies. At least, I'm sure that's how they think of it.

Me, I always think of it as the Night of Kick-Ass Babes In Tight, Tight Pants!

First Kate Beckinsale In Underworld, Milla Jovovich in UltraViolet, and then Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux!

Milla Jovovich is my favorite go-to Kick-Ass Babe - Three Resident Evil movies, The Fifth Element, and of course, UltraViolet.

I look forward to as many more superheroines as she sees fit to play!

Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin

From Funny Or Die:




Gina Gershon as Sarah Palin..."If she shoots you in the face, she was aiming for it."

Crushes: Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci in this cute appearance with Winona Ryder. (WIMB)

You may be right, I may be crazy

I know it's wrong...but Barack's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is teh hawt.

Crushes: Jennifer Tilly

I was in a mood to talk about Miss Jennifer today....

From IMDB:

An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once...

Trivia:

In 2005, won the Ladies-Only No Limit Texas Hold 'Em event at the World Series of Poker, becoming the first celebrity to win an open (as opposed to celebrity-only) WSOP tournament and earn a World Series bracelet. She beat out exactly 600 other women to take the championship.

Personal Quotes

"A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows--faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double."

"I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.' [on why she never chooses roles that involve crying]"

Some of my favorite pics:

Kylie Minogue receives OBE

Kylie Minogue receives OBE

LONDON (Reuters) - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress who become one of the world's most famous female recording artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.

A beaming Minogue, who recently overcame breast cancer, received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Prince Charles, who was standing in for the Queen Elizabeth at the ceremony at Buckingham Palace...

...Earlier this year, Minogue received one of France's top cultural awards when she was made a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight of Arts and Letters) for "the cultural pleasure she has given French people."

This is seriously cute.

Crushes: Daisy Fuentes

Daisy Fuentes @ Hellboy II: The Golden Army Premiere

I still remember Daisy from MTV's House of Style - there's a show they need to bring back!

Crushes: Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino @ "Get Smart" Premiere in L.A.

She will play Sally Jupiter, the original Silk Spectre, in the upcoming Watchmen movie.

Awesome.

Kylie Minogue - "Wow"

Yes, yes - I know more important things happened this week. I'm busy.

So...Kylie Minogue does one seriously cute turn on Doctor Who, and gets a "sci-fi" bug. More like the 80s, actually...

Kylie Minogue - "Wow"



I'm going to learn some of those steps...

Why "Speed Racer"?

The Red Queen and I were over at Target the other day, and there was an entire wall of Speed Racer stuff.

Including a Speed Racer helmet.

That made "vroom-vroom" noises.

My inner nine-year-old simply fell to the floor.

That's why "Speed Racer".


Christina Ricci on Leno:

Crushes: Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly is Lucky in Life & in Cards. Damn Her.

Crushes: Rachel Dawes Believes In Harvey Dent

Because, well, Maggie Gyllenhaal. And The Dark Knight. Again.

Maggie Gyllenhaal for Agent Provocateur

Maggie Gyllenhaal just did a FABULOUS photoshoot for Agent Provocateur. Most of the other celebblogs are utter hating on her. Whatever. I know that you guys share my love and adoration. (Note: These aren't really her best work - I think that she has Regular Gal Seriously Turned On nailed.)