Scarlett Johansson

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: the New Year

17 January 2011 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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:

Scarlett Johansson and Moet

Definitely, and very randomly, option two:

Scarlett Johansson drinking Moet

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“

TMINE

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and what can Santa Rob bring you for 2011?

23 December 2010 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

Merry Christmas!It’s that time again everyone. Time for my annual year-end break which some crazy people have decided to call “Christmas”.

As usual, I plan on doing precisely no work over the Christmas break, but I’ll be back with the news and more on January 3rd (well, maybe. The 4th definitely. Isn’t the 3rd a holiday?).

Survey time
As always, let’s take this as an opportunity to have a reader survey. What sorts of things would you like to see on this here blog in 2011? And what sort of things have outstayed their welcome? Not enough Scarlett Johansson? Too much Doctor Who? What do you reckon?

Leave your requests for more, less or the same below in the comments and I’ll decide what gets the chop and what stays alive when I get back.

In the meantime, a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all, thanks for reading and a great big thanks as always to everyone who’s left a comment for livening up the place!

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: maternity cover by Scarlett Johansson, Minnie Driver and Ryan Gosling

13 December 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Ali Larter in Hong Kong's Prestige magazine, courtesy of Ali Larter Daily

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“

Film

Question of the week: does Jennifer Aniston ruin every movie she’s in?

8 December 2010 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

So lovely wife and I settled down last night to watch He’s Just Not That Into You, an ensemble rom-com about modern dating etiquette. We were on something of a roll, having watched the totally awesome Inception the night before, as well as the surprisingly not bad ensemble rom-com Valentine’s Day at the weekend.

Now, on paper, this should have been awesome, too, because

  1. It stars the likes of Ben Affleck, Justin Long, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Connolly, whom we love 
  2. It has Bradley Cooper in it, whom we love and is on my wife’s "list"
  3. It has Scarlett Johansson in it, whom I love and is on my "list"
  4. They’re actually in scenes together

Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper in He's Not That Into You

As lovely wife puts it, "it should have been like that episode of Coupling when Angus Deayton and Mariella Frostrup meet". 

But it wasn’t. It was an awful, awful movie and we switched off after about half an hour. Belatedly, we realised what the problem with it was: it also starred Jennifer Aniston.

Now here’s the thing. I think Jennifer Aniston’s a great comedy actress. She was great in Friends, she was great in Dirt, she was even great in that one episode of Cougar Town. However, with the unique exception of Office Space, every film I’ve ever seen her in has sucked very very badly. Strangely though, it’s never been her fault. It’s simply been everything else about the movie. Much like Katherine Heigl, it seems, her mere presence in a movie – never a TV series – is enough to mysteriously turn the script, the direction and sometimes even the other performers into total cobblers, even while she’s remained just fine.

So this week’s question is:

Is Jennifer Aniston an evil movie talisman? Does she ruin every movie she’s in? Or are there exceptions to the rule? And can you think of any other evil movie talismans if she is?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Maternity cover by Ryan Reynolds

18 November 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

So as you know, Ali’s a bit busy being pregnant – and trying to sell vodka at bus stops:

Ali Larter advertising Absolut vodka as Lemon Drop at a bus stop

So being random is hard to fit in (although the above seems quite random). Last week, maternity cover was provided by Scarlett Johansson. However, this week, she’s too busy lolling over strange objects, and being airbrushed as GQ‘s “Babe of the Year” to be doing anything too random:

Scarlett Johansson in GQ

But fortunately, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, has stepped in this week to breach the gap by taking his top off.

Ryan Reynolds without his top on

Reynolds, who normally spends most of his time being charming, intelligent, funny (basically, Canadian), was also voted sexiest man alive this week by People magazine (George Clooney nicely sent his congratulations), which is quite random. Think what his and Scarlett’s kids are going to be like.

The actor does expect a few new perks at home with his wife of two years, Scarlett Johansson. “Now it’s going to be, ‘Sexiest man, take out the garbage.’ That does sound better,” Reynolds says. “The most difficult part is going to be organically working this title into a conversation with random strangers.”

See? How are men around the world supposed to be content with their lives, knowing that Ryan Reynolds is out there being so much better than they are? It’s just not fair.

But most randomly, he’s decided to be Green Lantern and become an interplanetary crime fighter this week by wearing a ring. There’s a trailer, too, in which Gossip Girl‘s Blake Lively co-stars. Cruelly, she’s dyed her hair brown. That should be a crime.