Random Acts

Originally, random pictures of Ali Larter doing various things that were also slightly educational – and random. Now pictures of various actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Amber Heard, Nicolas Cage and Bradley Cooper, doing random things

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Town Hall meeting

28 February 2011 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

So, a lot of you probably think I’m making a lot of this up. Ali Larter (happy birthday, Ali!) may be very random, but no way has she been sub-contracting out that job to the various random actors and actresses I’ve been claiming while she’s been on maternity leave, you’re probably thinking. 

Well, how to explain this. Ali Larter’s favourite charity is The Art of Elysium. But she was busy this week at the Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood 2011 – Chrysler Celebrates "The Fighter" Benefiting Communities In Schools and the Hollywood Domino Gala.

Ali Larter at the Dominos gala

So who did she get to go to the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas & The Art of Elysium Pieces of Heaven Art Auction on Wednesday? Scarlett Johansson, who took notes.

But she didn’t just send Scarlett. Amber Heard was there, fresh from assisting Amnesty International and some illegal
Immigrants, to randomly sign cars, too.

Amber Heard - Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood

See? Anyway, this is Scarlett’s bit of randomness this week (she got a whole load of other actresses to help out, too, including Emily Blunt, Jessica Biel, Minka Kelly, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria Sofia Vergara and Lindsay Lohan): the Hottie Body Hump Club.

Today's Joanna Page

Random Acts: Amber Heard melts Twitter, Serene Branson has a complex migraine, Joanna Page designs a Welsh bra

21 February 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Amber Heard on Top Gear

So yesterday was of course the day when thanks to Top Gear, British men en masse discovered there exists a woman called Amber Heard and that not knowing this fact had substantially impoverished their lives. Now our Amber didn’t come ex nihilo and had British men decided to watch Hidden Palms all of five years ago (despite – oh dear – my recommendations), they’d have known all about her. Here are a couple of her finest moments – she/Greta being easily the best thing in it – from the otherwise not that great pilot.

But they didn’t so have lived in terrible ignorance for five years. You could tell this because at 11am yesterday, a Twitter search for Amber Heard would have got you about one Tweet an hour of something like “Amber Heard is the SITRPC on Top Gear? Who’s she? I thought they were getting someone exciting.”

By about 8.35pm, Amber Heard had become the number one Google image search and first a UK then a global Twitter trending topic. And let’s just say The Informers was starting to get an awful lot of illegal downloads. If you thought Top Gear‘s ratings were sagging and it’s been losing its influence this series, turns out you were wrong.

Here’s the interview in case you missed it and want to know why British men went Amber-mad yesterday. Forgive Jeremy Clarkson – he’s Jeremy Clarkson.

Moving on, another of last week’s Random Acts participants, Serene Branson, who we all thought had a stroke live on air, fortunately only turned out to have a complex migraine.

And since this is TMINE, let’s let Joanna Page get in on the randomness this week by designing a Welsh bra. It’s for charity.

Joanna Page's bra

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: so much competition

14 February 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Ali Larter in Jay and Silent Bob

It seems with Ali off busy doing other things, there’s a mass outbreak of randomness among people wanting to get in on her act.

Randomly, Katherine Heigl has been smoking a metal cigarette. It even glows red at the end when you inhale.

Katherine Heigl

Amber Heard, currently tipped to be 2011’s “next big thing” thanks to her starring roles in The Rum Diary with Johnny Depp and in NBC’s pilot for the Mad Men-esque Playboy, has been getting very random, not only acting as Grand Marshall at a Nascar rally (“Gentlemen, start your engines”) – as you do – but donating no fewer than five pairs of the “Daisy Dukes” she wore in Drive Angry 3D to various online news sites to give away in competitions.

Amber Heard in Drive Angry 3D

But it’s this news reporter who probably has been the most random this week by spontaneously inventing an entirely new language while on-air (fingers crossed, she’s okay).


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

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: being in demand, going to the post office and sub-contracting out to Crispin Glover

7 February 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Crispin Glover in Willard

Ali is, of course, very busy right now, what with being one of the most in-demand actresses this pilot season and having to go to the post office. So, this week, Random Acts is being sub-contracted out to the world’s most random man, Crispin Glover. Right now, Glover is touring the UK with the second part of his Big Slide Show – “a one hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books he has made over the years”, including one about rat catching. Catch him if you can.

Just to keep all you Ali lovers happy though, here she is staring at some strange plants with Idris Elba:

Ali Larter in Obsessed with Idris Elba

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

Random Acts of Ali Larter: braving mudslides to give birth

31 January 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

So Ali’s still on maternity leave, having given birth last month. Of course, in true Ali Larter style, she had to brave the LA mudslides to do this – even when giving birth, she has to be random.

This week, her usual replacement, Scarlett Johansson, is obviously still too depressed and hung over to be doing anything after last week:

Scarlett Johansson for Mango

So this week, it’s up to Javier Bardem to save the day by doing something random.

Javier Bardem with a bad haircut

Now that‘s a random haircut. Nice one Javier.

Have you seen Ali Larter or one of her sub-contractors acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in "Random Acts of Ali Larter"