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[In this feature, we will periodically check in to see what is up with Topher Grace.]
Look, I know that the world is unfair. I know that! And I recognize that the disparity between wealthy people and poor people is a vast gulf filled with molten sadness. Even as someone who lives in a rented apartment the size of a grocery store toy dispenser and still wears t-shirts he owned in high school (which, you will recall, was more than 30 years ago), I’m still doing better than 98% of the world’s population. It’s weird! And I’m not doing any more about it than anyone else who is basically doing nothing about it, but at least I occasionally recognize it, which somehow seems like a worthwhile “thing” to me, even if I’m deluded and wrong. But the fact that Bryan Williams, aka Baby, aka Birdman, bought a 2.5 million dollar car (2.5 MILLION DOLLAR CAR!) this week makes me so angry! It’s fine to like nice things, but let’s keep it in perspective, guys. This is the part (via 50Cent.livejournal.com) that really makes my head fall off:
The Wall Street Journal estimates the yearly upkeep on the car runs about $300,000 and is akin to running a private jet!
Hey, Birdman, FUCK YOU. You are the one who belongs in jail!
Speaking of people who earn a respectable living from their work in showbusiness, what’s up with Topher Grace?
Principal photography continues on Topher Grace’s latest movie, The Double, starring Topher Grace and introducing Richard Gere. Or maybe principal photography has wrapped (industry term, look it up), I’m not sure exactly, what do I look like, Nick Finke? In any case, Topher Grace IS starring in a movie called The Double, and they have been filming recently, and are either still filming or are done filming, I am not sure. But Hometown Life has an interview with the Pickett family, whose house was used in the movie as a stand in for a better house! Neat! Here’s what it was like for them to be a part of Movie Herstory:
Pickett and his wife, Etsuko Kosuge, and children, Aya, 13, who will attend Northville High School in the fall, and Kai, 8, who goes to Amerman Elementary, stayed in a local hotel and received a daily stipend while the movie was filmed.
Most of the filming was done at night, and another home down the street was also used. Exterior shots were done at the Pickett home, with interior shots being done at the other house on Eaton Street. Most of the shooting was from sundown to sun up.
“They said they wanted to use our house because it looks like a typical home in the Washington, D.C., suburbs,” Kosuge said.
Their dog, Louis, was cared for by a neighbor during the shoot.
And here is a photo of them with some movie stars!:
All in all it seems like a pretty exciting experience for a bunch of NOBODIES, and it’s cool to see from this photo that Topher Grace is still down-to-Earth, which this photo proves.
Speaking of photos, Pacific Coast News On-Line has a new photo of Topher Graaaace!!!!!!
Looking good, T-Goz! And here’s the caption:
Topher Grace, star of That ’70s Show, makes his way to Soho House, a private members’ club in Hollywood. Grace is rumoured to be involved in producing a revival of the hit ’70s series CHiPs.
YUP! He’s going into a place, and those are some accurate references to thinks about his career. Nailed it, website!
Meanwhile, in our weekly update of Speculative Topher Grace Theorizing Non-News, MTV has an interview with someone about a new Spider-Man cartoon or something, I kind of breezed through it because it turns out SPOILER ALERT as an adult human being alive on a planet with a limited amount of years left to exist, my patience for interviews with people about make-believe casting scenarios involving a cartoon show I was never going to watch anyway is much thinner than it used to be, and it was already very very thin! But, someone does come up in the conversation. His name is Topher Grace:
It wasn’t a mistake to cast Topher Grace in a “Spider-Man” movie, but it was a mistake to cast him as anybody other than Peter Parker — with his slim physique, witty banter and emotional range, he would’ve been ideal for the title role. Grace can still pull off a perfect Parker by lending his voice to “Ultimate Spider-Man,” even if his chances of ever playing the character on the big screen are slim to none.
I guess some people are still upset about Topher Grace being cast as Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3, and they want to talk about it. A lot! Fair enough. We should all be so lucky as to find something in this world that makes us mad many years later to the point that we still want to discuss it. And this guy is right: Topher Grace probably could play Peter Parker if he were cast in that role, for which it seems like he’s not even really being considered, and also he might be getting a little too old at this point, but yes, agreed. Good talk!
And, of course, That ’70s Show remains popular in syndication.
There you go. That is what is up with Topher Grace. Send your Topher tips to tophergracenews@videogum.com. See you next time!
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FIRST! (to downvote winwood)
“YUP! He’s going into a place, and those are some accurate references to things about his career. Nailed it, website!”
This is why you should love this feature, Steve.
Face it, Winwood, there will be no Jessica Alba franchise. Topher is here to stay!
Just a thought, and I’m spit-balling here, if you care so much about the goings on of Jessica Alba, why don’t you prepare a weekly report that you post in the comments section of this very feature! Great idea, right! Are you with me Steve-O?
That is actually a good idea, Electric Koala. Does any body have any pictures of Jessica Alba? Can you post them under my weekly reports for me?
This is a good start, guys.
BT dubs, i’m the only one that doesn’t what Steve Winwood’s avatar is? Google search’s for ‘wolf mask’ ‘wolf costume’ and ‘wolf with bowtie’ have gotten me nowhere
Not even grumpy ol’ Winwood can say bad things about this photo.
Great job, Chris Trash!
ElectricKoala: http://www.showbizpizza.com/rae/characters/rolfe.html
Rolfe DeWolfe was, at best, an arrogant jerk. He seemed to appreciate honesty over “being nice”
sounds pretty accurate
How about this part: “Rolfe was your classic dork. He had a fondness for Disco music, and often times fumbled over his lines – attempting to be knowledgeable about things he obviously had no clue about. His ignorance was usually his undoing”
Showbiz Pizza sounds like it could be the sequel to Party Down.
But ultimately, this makes me very sad. Though I don’t have any memories of a Showbiz Pizza in my area, I’m not too young to remember Chuck E Cheese in its hey-day. I always begged to have a birthday party there, with no success. Eventually one of my friends had a party there that I was invited to; my memories are foggy, but I remember only getting enough money from my parents to play a few games of Skee-Ball. I felt like the kid in Blank Check at the amusement park. I don’t remember meeting this Rolfe DeWolfe character. In summary, Being White is Hard.
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But Milktoast is so soothing and easy to digest!
Blerg!
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Is that like Milksteak? I heard Milksteak goes well with hating people’s knees.
Birdman is an asshole but if Birdie wanted a car that cost $2.5 mill I would still think highly of her
Although I believe Topher could play a great Jon Baker, No one could ever replace Eric Estrada as Ponch:
OK I fixed it:
should you also paste the picture of that latino boy from that 70s show on to the face of Ponchorella on the left?
That’s what exactly what I was thinking! Mediocre minds think alike, I guess.
You put Topher on the wrong body!
Hello. I’m from cargum. Thankfully that Bugatti stickers at around $1.5 million, not 2.5! Much more reasonable. What a joke.
Nobody ever said that a guy who calls himself “Birdman” and goes around cooing like a pigeon all over songs was the smartest guy ever.
he just really loves pigeons
maybe his was “pimped”?
Anyone notice the steely stare and the hands-in-pockets stance of the little man up front? He is way cooler than anyone else in that photo, maybe even cooler than anyone on the planet
Well, look… Sad Keanu’s gotten to that kid. Goodbye, carefree childhood. Hello, droopy cheese sandwiches on a park bench forever.
“Their dog, Louis, was cared for by a neighbor during the shoot.”
No word on how their gerbil fared.
ZING!
They were paid to stay in a hotel and they got a per diem, but they only filmed the exterior of the house? COULD NO ONE DUCK?!
That gerbil’s got no place else ta go!!!!!
Hey, I met Richard Gere here in Michigan, too! UNFORTUNATELY it was two years ago, when the Dalai Lama came to Ann Arbor, after he saw me in a heated argument with the secret service and NOT this year when he was hanging out with Topher Grace on the set of The Double.
T-Goz reminds me of T-Gauze which conjures up images of bloody wounds.
I can’t wait for the plot of Mad Men to advance all the way to 1976 because then there can be an episode where Don has to fly to Milwaukee or something but instead drives around some small suburban city and then he would meet the teenagers of That 70′s Show and smoke pot and listen to the Eagles and do Donna and Mila Kunis and totes hang out with Topher Grace. It would be great because it would finally give WIlmer Valderrama work and then the economy would be fixed.
Mila Kunis is pretty.
Steve Winwood is pretty. PSYCHE! ICE BURN.
go topher or go home!
Duuuuudes. At issue this evening or morning or wherever you are when you don’t read these comments I”m going to add something, then i’m going to go back to Life or whatever I was kind of doing before but ok, here goes: UUGGHH it is hard to read these posts and listen to these comments when they are so nasty and so negative. Gabe. Dude. Pull UP. I have never left a comment on this site that i wasn’t hoping to get upvotes from until today. I can’t even read this shit anymore. DUDE. i effing love you. I have loved you since gawker hotties or whatever that is and i have loved you since worker 3116 but holy shit man you are low. go out. get a drink. get many drinks. come to missouri (which is never, ever called missouraah OR misery) and i will BUY you a drink. but for christ’s sake (also all the other god’s sakes) PULL UP. you seem down & i anon/no homo love you.
I did not know Birdman made that much money. I did not know Birdman made any money.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1415/880371718_3dd4c86a4c.jpg?v=0
Ha! I had the same thought, I was like “how did Birdman get so famous and wealthy? did WE make him famous and wealthy? go us!”
i had the exact same thought, and then thought that maybe you personally made him famous? the increased media exposure had to help…
also, imitating that bot about a month ago totally messed up my account on here so we had to regroup and multiply to get back.
I would love to be responsible for making Birdman famous. I might actually try this. I’m going to be traveling soon, so maybe I should get a bunch of photos of him to take with me, and tell people he is a very famous American?
Glad you’re back (and that’s what you never mess with the bot), though it’s just in time to watch my metamorphasis into the next Steve Winwood.
I think you should start now, and use the actual Birdman instead of a photo – I can’t imagine he’d object to following you around while you insist to strangers that “this is a very famous American.”
And the animatronic monster face will make it very easy to figure out who you are…