a happy monday?

i called in sick to work today. i'm not sick.

i feel guilty for throwing away $200, and it's not like i work more than 3 days a week these days, but...

i made up for it by watching youtube videos of my favourite male actors in their sexiest scenes (my version of sexy - not typical!! hahaha)

in terms of sheer hotness, this scene is a hands down favourite of mine. the way Cillian Murphy run his fingers through his hair and says "the bat...man" - just wow. the first time i saw Batman Begins was at the IMAX theater at the Paramount, alone and tripping on acid. i had a smile plastered on my face for days afterwards. :D

terrible quality cam of a tv screen that does not do the scene justice, but the only embedable one i could find.



next up, Gary Oldman in the Professional. First and foremost, i respect Oldman for his acting skills. He and Philip Seymour Hoffman are my favourite character actors. and the man is best friends with Tim Roth. Yes, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. i just can't even... never mind. Moving on, I only recently saw Leon: The Professional which is unfortunate since it happens to be one of the most amazing action movies ever (right up there with The Jackal and Ronin!). Oldman's crooked cop character Stansfield is the best part of this movie - another one in the long list of demented characters played by him. These two scenes involve the consumption of what i assume to be amphetamines, and i don't know what it is exactly (in the first clip, i'm thinking it's the high p.o.v shot down on him from above), but DAMN is that man ever gorgeous!! and the post pill crunching shudder. woah. hahaha i feel like a giddy pre-teen with tigerbeat posters on her wall (when i was 11, one of my bedroom walls was a shrine to Christian Slater!). maybe this is just my way of keeping warm to stave off the impending harshness of winter! Yeah! That's it!

The dubbed Italian at the end just makes it all the sexier! hahaha!



what's your name, angel?



So i mentioned that Gary Oldman and Philip Seymour Hoffman are my two favourite character actors, which is true, but i have to add Tim Roth to the list. I mean, the man has played a neo-nazi, an ape, a buffed-up supervillain, a bellhop, and undercover cop, a piano phenom, an extra from Hamlet, a junkie opposite Tupac, Vincent Van Gogh, just to name a few roles. And everything he's done is convincing. if that's not the definition of a character actor, i don't know what is. He is an amazing actor, so good that i'm even willing to forgive him his cameo in the stinking pile of shit that was the Million Dollar Hotel (love Milla Jovovich and Bono and Jeremy Davies but still not worth watching).

This is a legthly, though well done, compilation of some of his best work:



and finally, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Yes, i find him to be an attractive man. Not so much these last years as he looks a little slobby, but acting-wise he's still top notch. Best move i've seen him in recently was Doubt a few years ago. In terms of all time best perfomances, I loved him in Happiness, but Magnolia is by far his best work. The whole film is a masterpiece and probably in my top 10, but his performance as the compassionate male nurse was the most touching, by far. PT Anderson wrote the part specifically for him just like he did with Julianne Moore's character in Boogie Nights. Speaking of Julianne Moore, the scene between her and Hoffman in Magnolia is one of my personal favourites - i tear up everytime.

The scene in question begins at the 4 minute mark or so of this clip, but the whole thing is worth watching for Julianne Moore's amazingly unhinged and profane performance!!