Random Acts of Ali Larter: Fighting Sendhil Ramamurthy

Ali Larter and Sendhil Ramamurthy

It’s been an interesting week for our Ali. Firstly, she randomly chose to have a fist fight with Sendhil Ramamurthy to see who can appear on-screen the least in the latest season of Heroes. I think Sendhil won, but I don’t know if he fought fair – I think he had help from the writers.

But there’s more…

Our Ali’s also been nominated this week for a Razzie for worst supporting actress in a movie last year, thanks to the extremely bad but still scary, Obsessed. Tish, pshaw and nonsense, Gawker says – she should have been nominated for the best actress Oscar for the same movie:

Larter gave a hilariously sly and knowing performance in Steve Shill’s well honed stalker movie send-up. Not normally known as a comedienne, Larter hit every line of campy cliche dialogue with a practiced flatness. Bringing to mind every eeeevil scorned lady from Lara Flynn Boyle in The Temp to Alicia Silverstone in The Crush, Larter has certainly done her hokey ’90s thriller homework. Her dead-on performance was so good that we almost believed that she was just a ridiculously bad actress. That takes skill.

As Hitfix says, she “was the only one winking at the camera”.

And as if that weren’t enough, she’s been off partying. First off, she went to the Calvin Klein Collection & Los Angeles Nomadic Division event in Los Angeles, where she signed an awful lot of autographs and did an awful lot of interviews with all sorts of random TV stations:

Calvin Klein Ali larter

Ali Larter signing autographs

Then at the weekend, she was part of the ‘glam and fun’ host committee of Cindy’s Having A Ball, which was organised to raise money for the Joffrey Ballet and to honour Ali’s mum-in-law, Shelley MacArthur Farley, who founded the Cinderella Scholarship for Young Girls amongst other things. Look – there’s a young girl with Ali now.

Cindy's having a ball with Ali Larter

I don’t know if she did any ballet.

As if all that wasn’t enough, here she is, together with Greg Grunberg, Zachary Levi and others, telling everyone about her favourite kids movies, ET and The Goonies.

And it’s only just February.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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