Thank you kindly, Robin. I seem to remember for the Oscar-cast performance of the song, the jazz band had an actual refrigerator (and a bicycle) on stage.

I think Angelina Jolie is not "cool" enough for Bond. Now I am trying to think of a woman who could sucessfully play Bond, but all I am pictureing now is Judi Dench.

Also, Steve Buscemi is a known hottie (at least in the circles in which I run).

wasn't there a tune in that bizarre French-Canadian animated movie about a bicyclist (the name is completely escaping me!) where the noise the fridge made was a major sound component?

The refrigerator's role was limited to its wire shelves being plucked or strummed or played like a xylophone. I'll have to rewatch for the umptyeth time to be really sure of which. The real star of the tune was the vacuum cleaner.

He smooth and elegant, and the kind of guy whose attraction is predictable, and man oh man does it work. So so pretty.

Also, one of the more stellar examples of being a good father to be found among Hollywood stars.

He's one of the two people on the planet past the age of 50 that would get an eager yes! from me if an offer were tendered.

I don't feel the Brosnan love. Maybe it's the hair? He's a little too smooth for my taste.

Same here. He's a bit too smooth and perfect, and I like 'em on the rawboned side.

He's a little too smooth for my taste.

He's smooth, but he's got a twinkle in his eyes, too. I generally like guy sa little rougher around the edges, but I wouldn't say no to Brosnan.

Timelies all!

Got back from Chicago late last night. The con was fun, if a little disorganized.(No hospitality suite. Also, why did none of the book dealers selling new books have any Dennis Lehane books? He was the American Guest of Honor, and I know the Patrick/Angie books have recently been reprinted in paperback. Huh)

Everytime someone calls Pierce smooth and perfect, I think of this pic. I think the roles that have served him well have been smooth, but I'm not convinced that's all he is -- mostly I think he's stereotyped (but in a well paid way).

He still looks smooth and perfect to me in that picture, and that the "roughness" is for effect.

Which also works.

Geraldo's going to hell.

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Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him.

The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on his arm, though not as bad perhaps as a lady collapsed on a chair nearby, unable to move. Or a woman in a wheelchair being lifted from the truck, carrying her prosthetic leg on her lap.

"That's the second time he brought her here," one of the doctors tells me, nodding toward Geraldo.

"What?"

"They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog."

"Are you serious?" I ask. He says he is.