Heartthrobs: May 2007 Archives

Here's an afternoon snack for you! The latest picture of surfer dude Matthew McConaughey taken sometime, somewhere this week...

Is it possible for me to get tired of pictures of the cast of "Ocean's 13"? Kinda doubt it. Just came across this image from the terrace at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes, France. and excerpts from an interview in the new Time magazine via JustJared.com:

On the subject of charisma, you’ve each been called the last great movie star at one point or another. Are we really running out of movie stars, and is that, like, a problem?
CLOONEY: The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn’t this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.
DAMON: We didn’t know anything about them.
CLOONEY: There was mystique. They’re 60 feet high, and you paid your buck and a half to go see them. But that’s gone. People know everything about everybody now.
PITT: Jaws came along and proved you could make huge money with blockbusters, and it set this thing in motion that has lowered the subject matter. People like George have been getting good stuff out there, but it’s an industry that pushes people out on the big stage too fast, before they’re ready, and it eats them up as well. It’s a different kind of arena now.
BARKIN: Think about it. Do we know anything about Robert Redford’s children? Does he even have any?
DAMON: I worked with him, and I don’t know.
PITT: I have four, if you haven’t heard.

I think Leonardo DiCaprio is the best actor of his generation, someone who is smart about working with great directors (especially Martin Scorsese) and who has transitioned from teenaged star to young hearthrob to leading man with real chops. My Leo faves of recent years are "Blood Diamond," "The Aviator," "Catch Me if You Can," and "The Departed."
Now Leonardo is filming "Revloutionary Road" which reunites with him "Titanic" leading lady Kate Winslet. He is oh-so handsome but even better, he is oh-so talented too.

For a tennis fan, this is kind of embarrassing. And as a gay tennis, it is REALLY embarrassing. I make it my business to not only know what is gpoing on in pro tennis, but to knowing which players are really hot! But I had no idea who Mikhail Youzhney was before seeing this pictures of him playing in the French Open today. His name is difficult to say, but he is oh-so easy on the eyes. Mikhail, the 13th seed, won his second-round match over Nicolas Lapentti. To see my round up of other winners on Wednesday at the tournament, check out my tennis blog DEUCE!

Well, I guess lighting up the Cannes Film Festival last week as one half of the most glamorous superstar couple since Burton and Taylor is technically work. But Brad Pitt has resumed shooting "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in Old Montreal, Canada. According to JustJared.com, the shooting of exterior shots marks the tail end of a long shoot, which included four months in New Orleans and another two months in Los Angeles. The film is due out in fall 2008.

Spotted this pic of Cleveland Brown Quarterback Brady Quinn on Kennethinthe212.com. These are from his first practice! According to press reports, his first session wasn't stellar as he was a bit tentative. I'm sure it was just first-day jitters...

Once again, Andy Roddick is an American in Paris with feet of cllay. He crashed out earlier today in the first round of the French Open despite being ranked third in the world. It's a shame. Maybe he needed those fake muscles that were photoshopped onto his recent Men's Fitness cover? Anyway, he should still do just fine nextg month at Wimbledon where he has twice been the runner up. Meanwhile, his fellow American James Blake, ranked 9th, also lost as did the fifth seed, Spaniard Fernando Gonzalez who had made the Australian Open final in January.
But on the bright side, top-seeded Roger Federer won as did two-time defending champ Rafael Nadal, former number one Lleyton Hewitt and, one of my personal favorites, the appealing Russian, Marat Safin (pictured below), former winner of the U.S. Open and the Australian Open...

This guy has got the life...skateboarding, surfing and being a big movie star. These pictures were taken recently as McConaughey filmed his latest movie which revolves around the surfing world...

Love the surfer dude hair...

Whaddaya think of the stripped swim trunks??

Photos originally posted on JustJared.com

Trying to do a little blogging, finally, but not easy with friends visiting this weekend. My college roomie from SDSU days - who knows NOTHING about Hollywood, was looking at this photo of Eric Bana as I was checking it out on JustJared.com and he says: "Whose Eric Banana?"
Of course we all know exactly who this handsome movie star is: it's Eric BANA who was at the premiere on Sunday of his film "Romulus, My Father," at Theatre Royal in Castlemaine, Australia. Indoors or outdoors, Eric is a stunner AND a heckuva actor...

The only season of "Survivor" I ever watched in its entirety was season two in the Outback. Hmmmmmm. I wonder why? It was because this handsome Texan by the name of Colby Donaldson won just about every challenge week after week and kept himself in the game to the bitter end until the jury picked Tina Wesson over him as champion. Colby had the chance to eliminate Tina instead of the unpopular Keith but he put friendship in front of $1 million...HUH? Anyway, Colby was too good looking to go back to Texas and work as a mechanic once the show wrapped so he did some commercials and episodic guest spots but hasn't really broken through. But it seems that perky Rachel Ray is giving him a break and is going to use him as a correspondent on her hit morning show. On Thursday morning, Colby did a piece on how men think about women which included interviews in the field with three of his buddies and an in-studio follow-up interview.

He's still got that killer smile, a nice speaking voice and would be a nice addition just for the eue candy alone! So guess who is pictured with Colby (above) from "Survivor" days? It's Elisabeth Hasselbeck of "The View"who I remember as being quite gritty and shrewd as she finished in fourth place that season...

So why am I posting all of these pics from the Cannes Film Festival of Pitt, Clooney and the rest of those connected to "Oceans 13" other than the fact that these people are beyond gorgeous? It's because I love the old-fashioned movie star glamor that they brought to France this week and I love that we can look at these images for a change as opposed to just Britney buying a new wig (stop the presses!), Lindsey walking into a club (so exciting!), Paris carrying her dog or a bible (alert the media!) or Jessica Simpson spilling out of a dress (yawn). So I'm sharing with you these fabulous images of real stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Ellen Barkin, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie at various events...

A few nights ago, the black nail polish that "Lost" actor Dominic Monaghan wears on one of his fingernails got a lot of teasing from Jay Leno because, ya know, Jay has a gazillion cars and motorcycles and is the personaification of macho. But on this morning's episode of "The View," the ladies were just enchanted by this oh-so-cute actor and his fashion sense even though Joy jokingly asked him "Are you a trannsvestite?" after he he said he sometimes wears make-up, the ocassional skirt and likes jewelry.
"No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls," he explained before adding thatn he was always a kid with an artistic bent who also wore a Spiderman costume to school sometimes.
"If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it."
Bravo!!

I know that she's married to the film director Taylor Hackford ("Ray," "An Officer and a Gentleman"), but doesn't Oscar winner Helen Mirren look smashing alongside soccer stud David Beckham?
At least she doesn't appear to have an eating disorder the way his wife, the bag-of-bones Victoria Beckham, does! Beckham and Mirren were honored in the UK recently while the former Spice Girl is in LA getting filmed for her reality show. Somebody take her to the In-N-Out, pronto!

When Andy Roddick appeared to be too buff to be true on the new cover of Men's Fitness magazine, many eyebrows were raised...including Andy's!!!
The 2003 U.S. Open champion, currently ranked third in the world, said on his blog:
"I spent the last few weeks in Austin really focused on my training and getting back into shape…but pretty sure I’m not as fit as the Men’s Fitness cover suggests…little did I know I have 22 inch guns and a disappearing birth mark on my right arm. I saw the cover for the first time when I landed after Rome…it was pretty funny…I walked by the newsstand in the airport and did a total double take …I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital camera…whoever did this has mad skills…maybe Rafael Nadal (pictured below) wants his arms back?…if you can manage to stop laughing at the cover long enough, check out the article inside, the photo shoot on the boat was pretty cool..and I recognize the person in those photos…"

Earlier post:
Is Andy Roddick TOO buff on the Men's Fitness cover?

I love seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in full movie star mode here at the Cannes Film Festival. We are so inundated lately with pics of them taking their kids to school, picking them up from school, playing with them in the yard (these photogs should let them breathe!) that it's a rare treat to have them posing and waving and being able to enjoy their stardom in this kind of controlled situation. Pitt's "Ocean's 13" is among the films being screened at the world's most famous film fest on the French Riviera while Jolie's movie on slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had its world premiere.

Here at the La Dolce Vita resort in Palm Springs, it's fun to hang out poolside and read magazines and stuff. So one of the guys staying here walks back from the store and pulls out a copy of the new Men's Health magazine out of his bag announcing that James Marsden is on the cover! My friend Eddie and I yawn. Mine had arrived in the mail a few days ago and Eddie was actually reading it at that very moment. We are all rather fond of Mr. Marsden and I look forward to seeing him in "Hairspray." He's a handsome man who is not afraid to play gay in "Heights" and another movie with Scott Speedman that I can't remember at this very moment!

Thanks to Kennethinthe212.com for the images!

Palm Springs is great today! Nice sunshine but not too hot and the resort where we are staying at, La Dolce Vita, has two swimming pools and is just a block away from El Mirasol mexican restaurant (margaritas on steroids). We are gonna do dinner and maybe some karaoke tonight so I snuck online before we depart to see if there's anything worth posting. I see that the conservatvies are bashing Anderson Cooper for having the nerve to actually include some of Jerry Falwell's critics in his coverage of Falwell's death and I also see that Ann Coulter has posted some vile nonsense in connection with Falwell. So here's the deal: I'm gonna blow that off and just post these pics of "Lost" leading men Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway that I found on JustJared.com because I'm much rather think about them than the likes of Falwell and Coulter!
Have a good evening all!

Hi all. Just got out of the pool. I'm in Palm Springs having a little holiday w/friends but plan to still post some stuff...stuff like THIS! I spotted this on Towleroad.com. It is Brady Quinn, the Cleveland Browns-quarterback-to-be, letting loose at his sister's wedding.
Looks like SOME party!

I don't know what is cooler: Eric Dane on the cover of Men's Health magazine or a party to celebrate the cover. Either way, we get lots of photos (courtesy of the JustJared.com site) of this gorgeous man who plays Dr. Sloan on "Grey's Anatomy" but is better known as Dr. McSteamy...for obvious reasons.
Several of his co-stars attended the party in support of Dane including the beautiful Sara Ramirez, a Tony winner for "Spamelot" and the very talented and handsome Justin Chambers...

Earlier posts:

THE RED CARPET W?STAMOS AND MCSTEAMY

WAS I WATCHING GAY'S ANATOMY LAST NIGHT?

I think they might sell a few extra copies of the new issue of Men's Fitness featuring Andy Roddick. He might not be dominating men's tennis right now but at number three in the world, I give him a solid chance at winning at Wimbledon - especially with Roger Federer's struggling.
And if he never wins another major title, Andy could always be a model!
Thanks to Kennethinthe212 for posting these magazine pics on his site so quickly. I saw this cover at the Ralphs yesterday and thought, "I gotta post that!" But I was too cheap to buy a copy...
For more news about Roddick and other tennis stars, go to my other blog DEUCE!

Fortunately NOT! Here are the lastest pics snapped of the shirtless star courtesy of JustJared.com:

Diana's sons certainly know how to make a good impression. (The quotes were created by PinkistheNewBlog and I found them to be quite funny) Here they are on Sunday at the Cavalry Old Comrades Association Annual Parade in Hyde Park in London in matching bowler hats, ties and umbrellas. These two dashing and poised young men have, thankfully, inherited their late mother's star power. William has her looks while Harry seems to have the charisma (and the good looks, only different). I remember nearly 10 years ago when Diana died and how you just wondered how these boys would fare. It looks like they are doing just fine! It seems like it is in the best interest of the monarchy if Queen Elizabeth, 81, can stay healthy and remain on the throne for a long time (Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, lived to be 102!) because, I hate to carry a gurdge, but I cannot fathom that Camilla woman as queen consort. Can you?

William and Harry are wearing what was considered the “proper order of dress” before World War I. This is the 83rd Anniversary Of The Unveiling And Dedication Of The Memorial in Hyde Park.

Before he became magazine editor Daniel Meade on ABC's "Ugly Betty," the terrific Eric Mabius had already created an impressive body of work both in movies and on television. He never shyed away from diversity - projects with gay, lesbians ("The L Word") or (as if the case in 'Betty) transexuals. Here are some pictures of this appealing actor:

Not sure where this picture is from but ain't it cute?

That's not Fabio! It's Eric Mabius in the indie fave "Welcome to my Dollhouse" which starred out actress Heather Matarazzo.

A same-sex kiss in the indie flick "Lawn Dogs." I'm gonna have to rent that!

Playing a game of pool on "The L Word"

Some kind of candid photo I found on a fansite...

Waking up in bed with Joshua Jackson in "Cruel Intentions." Gonna have to rent that too!

Eric, during his days on "The L Word." He's worth a second, third, fourth look, etc.
RELATED LINKS:
ERIC MABIUS TALKS ABOUT UGLY BETTY
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Here are some pictures of Chris Evans at the "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" premiere in Melbourne, Australia that I found on Kennethinthe212. We love Chris when he's wearing his superhero suit (he plays The Human Torch in the "Fantastic Four" franchise) or when he's posing without much on at all. But, I gotta say, the guy looks pretty damned good in a regular suit as well.
It's official: Chris Evans is incapable of looking anything less than mouth-watering!

Related posts:
Chris Evans Goes the Non-Beefcake Route
Chris Evans' New Publicist Says: No More Shirtless Photo Shoots
The Charming Chris Evans

This new buzz cut sure looks better on David Beckham than that icky blondish white hair he was sporting for a few weeks. And his Real Madrid teamates sure seem enchanted by it. I just love how affectionate these footballers are with each other!

Geez! Can't a handsome and single movie star like Jake Gyllenhaal hang out at a Borders in Hollywood with pal Austin Nichols without everyone assuming they are having some kind of bro-mance? Of course not! It's all very silly but I don't want to be the only blog in town not to post this picture!

Gee, it looks like Matthew McConaughey has a hard time finding a moment alone. The photo above is a good visual of what he and others stars encounter in their everyday lives. It's not like he's at a premiere or going to the Ivy for dinner. He's just out for a run. But if not for these stalk-a-razzis, I guess we wouldn't have all these pictures of him working out. Unlike future jailbird Paris Hilton and drunk driver Nicole Riichie, at least Matthew has achieved SOMETHING in his life to warrant the spotlight. And his worst trouble with the law came when he was arrested for making too much noise while playing bongos in the nude.

He's a terrific actor and is so handsome that even straight guys have a crush on him. But Eric Bana's world isn't all perfect this weekend: his movie "Lucky You" co-starring Drew Barrymore was even a bigger bomb at the box office than anyone expected. I guess opening it up as counter-programming to "Spider-Man 3" wasn't such a good idea...
Bana was snapped on Saturday filming some kind of promo, according to JustJared.com, looking no worse for the wear...

Hey, I've got eyes. Eric Bana is one handsome guy. But I'm a gay man and we notice these things all the time. What has been interesting is how many straight guys notice! Maybe it's because of my blog or whatever but straight male friends, co-workers or acquaintances will sometimes tell me which hot celeb they would consider "switching teams" for. I get some Matthew McConaugheys, a Harry Connick Jr, (sigh), sometimes a Brad Pitt.
But the name that pops up more often than I expect is Eric Bana! I asked one guy a few days ago WHY Eric? "Did you see him in 'Troy'?' Well, yeah, I did. But I was pretty much zeroed in on Brad Pitt in that movie and that costume he had on. I know I have some straight male readers out there. Anyone want to share their man crushes with us??? I'm trying to understand you people better!

It's David Beckham! The future member of the Los Angeles Galaxy turned 32 today. Happy birthday Mr. Beckham. Please, don't get any more tatoos!