in LOVE with Gael "Gorgeous in a Dress" Garcia Bernal.

If I was that pretty, I'd have a boyfriend. Possibly Gael Garcia Bernal.

Bad Education was one of my favourite films last year. I love how subversively noir it is.

The man's biological clock just went off, I think.

Such a pity he'll have so much difficulty finding any women that would want to have kids with him. Some guys just have no luck at all...

Vin's referrred to as the Baby Whisperer, because he was often the only one who could get the babies to stop crying.

It's very likely the voice. (The voice! yum) Sometimes the low, rumbly deep-chested bass voice just knocks the little ones out. Lion's purr, or some such. Feeling very protected and safe.

But can he sing? I mean, REALLY sing? That's a pretty intense part, vocally.

Yeah, such was my blink. Mostly. I suspect we'd end up with more of a growling Sweeney than a singing one.

And man, what's her face from Phantom would almost inevitably be cast as Joanna, wouldn't she.

Vin's referrred to as the Baby Whisperer, because he was often the only one who could get the babies to stop crying.

It's very likely the voice.

I know that voice is part of the reason I'm such a Vin fan.

But can he sing? I mean, REALLY sing? That's a pretty intense part, vocally.

Well, he does front his own rock band. Though I imagine the vocal requirements for 50 Odd Foot of Grunts, or whatever the band's name is, is significantly less than those for the role of Sweeney Todd.

Well, he does front his own rock band.

Having seen the Bacon Brothers in concert (shut up, they were opening for the Nields), I can say with authority that being a movie star with a rock band has very little to do with singing ability.

Yeah... I've seen some decent crossovers from the other direction (Bowie leaping immediately to mind), but Christian Kane is the only actor I've seen who might actually have had a career as a musician without benefit of the notoriety from acting. And his band hasn't hit it big even so.

Kathleen "Bird" York [link] is pretty good, although I'm uncertain as to whether her acting career preceded her musical one.

Bruce Willis and the Accelerators!

Okay, I have no idea how they are, but I like Bruce Willis and I like the name.

When casting big-name actors for Broadway musical adaptations, you can't really hope for Broadway-quality voices most of the time, sadly. However, there are better choices and worse choices: I thought Ewan MacGregor and Nicole Kidman both had perfectly decent voices in Moulin Rouge (not that the parts were extremely vocally demanding), for example, while, on the other hand, Richard Gere was so the opposite, vocally, of the crooner Billy Flynn (Chicago) is supposed to be that his solo caused the broadway musical freak in me physical pain. He did ace the acting parts of the role, though, and everybody else was decent, so that one caused me few complaints.

Based solely on the trailer, it looks like the cast of Phantom of the Opera was chosen for some completely unfathomable reason that has nothing to do with singing talent (the last note of "Music of the Night" in that trailer truly screeches painfully through my head. I do it better than he does there. And the sad thing is, they had infinite chances to make it not suck, and it still sucked!) OR huge Hollywood names. But that's another complaint for another time (and after I see the movie, maybe I'll change my mind. But I doubt it.)

The only real question I have for a Sondheim movie is this: will they actually let Sondheim be involved? After all, he's very much alive. I hold out hope that he won't allow a movie to be made without him getting input on the cast and direction.

EDIT: On the other hand, an adaptation of the play Sweeney Todd, the one without singing (many people don't know about it), would almost certainly be awesome with those two actors. Though if the rumor actually mentioned Sondheim, then that's clearly right out.