So, Ali’s obviously on maternity leave. Being Ali, she’s less than a month from having given birth, but is already at charity parties, this time honouring James Franco on behalf of Art of Elysium.
All the same, let’s not over-stretch her.
Now maternity cover was being provided by Scarlett Johansson, but since she and Ryan Reynolds got divorced over Christmas, it’s questionable whether she’ll be able to help out any more. Either she’s partying away or she’s taken to cigarettes and booze. On the strength of these pics, I’d say let’s go with option two:
Definitely, and very randomly, option two:
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“
In the US: Thursdays, 8:30/7:30c, NBC. Starts January 20th 2010
“Put your best foot forward,” goes the expression. Now, theoretically, NBC has already done that with its Fall schedule, so whatever comes in the form of its mid-season replacements should be its second-best foot, if you continue to follow the metaphor. Given how terrible NBC’s Fall season was (Undercovers, The Event, Chase, Outsourced), root canal surgery should therefore be preferable to The Cape and the other shows that are going to be hitting TV screens in January on the Peacock network.
However, NBC is again trying to put its best foot forward to overcome these negative expectations by previewing what is likely to be the best of the also-rans, Perfect Couples, just before Christmas when not much is on, rather than leaving us to ignore it when the far more packed January schedule arrives. To really give Perfect Couples a chance, NBC has also clearly picked what it thinks is the best episode, too (if you notice, we don’t even have an episode number in the headline this time, since this isn’t the pilot episode or even the second episode – it’s the God-knows-what episode).
Well, if this is the best, oh dear for the rest.
Perfect Couples is a single-camera ‘comedy’ about relationships that features three couples who are friends with each other (so, yes, if you do the math, that’s six friends in an NBC show on Thursday night. Hmmm…). I air-quote ‘comedy’ because it takes 10 minutes to become in any way funny – that’s 50% of its run-time before a joke decides to put its head above the parapet – after which it does raise the occasional titter.
So is there a good reason to watch Perfect Couples when it bursts into our living rooms in January? Well, there’s the cast at least. There’s Olivia Munn, the occasional actress, author, host of Attack of the Show and somewhat controversialDaily Show reporter. There’s David Walton of the rapidly dead 100 Questions.
And then there’s Hayes MacArthur. Who? That would be Mr Ali Larter to you.
In a slightly random move to Monday caused primarily by the fact I’ve run out of decent Big Train sketches to show and don’t want to start anything new until next year, it’s Random Acts of Ali Larter. Now Ali is pregnant of course, but despite that, this week managed to unpregnant herself for a picture spread in December’s issue of Hong Kong’s Prestige magazine, which is really both random and amazing of her.
Nevertheless, official random maternity cover has been provided this week by reliably random Scarlett Johansson and the new recruit to randomness Minnie Driver. They’re randomly styling themselves with the Oxfam Collection. Scarlett’s favourite piece in the collection is the goat, because she greatly admires its fierce independence. Sounds a good enough reason to me.
Meanwhile, another new recruit to randomness, Ryan Gosling, is randomly reading out the best bits from the very random Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling. So that’s both random and meta of him.
Have you seen Ali Larter or one of Ali’s sub-contractors acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“
Despite our Ali trying her very best to be random while pregnant – creating the most iconic Lucky moment of the decade by buying an MYNE Paula blouse – this week’s maternity cover is being provided by the also-pregnant Christina Applegate, who’s created a pre-natal pole-dancing DVD and invented the word Seducidence. That’s pretty random, Christina.
Have you seen Ali Larter or one of Ali’s sub-contractors acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“
