Here Is A Photo Of Jon Hamm In High School • Hello, hospital? All the women's brains just exploded out of their pants!

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Keanu Reeves = Charlemagne (Because: Logic)

It's Monday morning, I haven't even had breakfast, and already my mind is blown? So it's going to be one of THOSE weeks. It's probably a good thing, though, that I haven't eaten anything yet today, you know? This is news that's better heard on an empty stomach. I mean, sure, the first two side-by-side pictures depicting Keanu Reeves's age-defying youthfulness could literally have been taken within 30 seconds of each other. There is no fact-checking department for Hilarious Homemade YouTube Videos About Famous Vampires. And, OK, that oil painting of Paul Mounet (because of how oil paintings are even better evidence than google image searches) doesn't even look like Keanu Reeves? But the point is that I am just being a naive sheep on his way to the slaughterhouse for my ignorance in the face of the Logical Truth because if Duh then Yup.

Keanu Reeves is also: Euripides, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Eleanor Roosevelt. HELLO? Wake up! (Thanks for the tip, Elaine.)

Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Where Were They Then?
Tags: Charlemagne | History | Immortality | Keanu Reeves | LOLk | The Truth Is Out There | Vampires

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thirtysomething: Weaning

[Ed. note: In the New York Times a couple weeks ago, there was an article about the much-anticipated DVD release of thirtysomething, a "groundbreaking" (not my word) television drama from the late '80s. By most measures, the show was not a huge success (according to that article, its highest ratings were during the first 15 minutes of a premiere), but it was a critical darling, and "thirtysomething" is now a word in the dictionary. But most importantly: when it came out, as far as I was concerned, it was a stupid-boring show for old people. Except that now I am one of those old people. And so, out of some misguided sense of curiosity, over the next few weeks, I will be recapping the first season of thirtysomething here. 2009, you guys. Anything can happen. There is no spoon.]

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Posted by Gabe at 12:30 PM in Recaps, Where Were They Then?
Tags: Edward Zwick | Ken Olin | Marshall Herskovitz | Mel Harris | Melanie Mayron | Patricia Wettig | Peter Horton | Polly Draper | thirtysomething | Timothy Busfield

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Leonardo DiCaprio Loves Karate Kicks And New Clothes

This video is awesome. It provides some really cool access to one of my favorite people.

His parents named him after Leonardo DaVinci, just to give you a sense of how familiar with third-grade education of historical figures featured on coffee mugs and mousepads artistic his parents were. That is probably the funniest part of this video. Because of how stupid it was when the person said that. Although a close second would be when a long-haired, baby-faced Leo leaned out of his convertible and said "we ah dooly appointed fedehral maahshals."

Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in Celebrity Gossip!, Where Were They Then?
Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio

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Richard Heene Has Always Been Terrible • With his history of violence and his homemade pilots of children's TV shows about boxes. Huh? What is this? It's Box Talk with Dr. Boxter! Go to jail, Richard Heene, if for some reason you are not already in jail.

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thirtysomething: Nice Work If You Can Get It

[Ed. note: In the New York Times a couple weeks ago, there was an article about the much-anticipated DVD release of thirtysomething, a "groundbreaking" (not my word) television drama from the late '80s. By most measures, the show was not a huge success (according to that article, its highest ratings were during the first 15 minutes of a premiere), but it was a critical darling, and "thirtysomething" is now a word in the dictionary. But most importantly: when it came out, as far as I was concerned, it was a stupid-boring show for old people. Except that now I am one of those old people. And so, out of some misguided sense of curiosity, over the next few weeks, I will be recapping the first season of thirtysomething here. 2009, you guys. Anything can happen. There is no spoon.]

Continue reading thirtysomething: Nice Work If You Can Get It...

Posted by Gabe at 12:15 PM in Where Were They Then?
Tags: Edward Zwick | Ken Olin | Marshall Herskovitz | Mel Harris | Melanie Mayron | Patricia Wettig | Paul Haggis | Peter Horton | Polly Draper | thirtysomething | Timothy Busfield

Comments (25) latest by ThatSpencerGuy

Tom Cruise Can't Catch A Break. Good.

Aww, poor Tom Cruise! He is really getting hammered in the press this week. Well, he is getting hammered in the on-line interviews with far lesser known people who worked with him a million years ago...press. But still! The "man" can't catch a break. First there was a very compelling interview with Bronson Pinchot in the Onion, which you should read in its entirety because it's great, in which he describes a young Tom Cruise's on-set hate crimes:

Bronson Pinchot: We didn't know [Risky Business] was going to be a big hit. We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn--we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don't agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, "You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?" I mean, his lingo was larded with the most... There was no basis for it. It was like, "It's a nice day, I'm glad there are no gay people standing here." Very, very strange.

Haha. You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there? Tom Cruise sounds like he was supergood at homophobia. Just constantly cutting straight to the heart of the issue. Everyone was always nervous that he was going to bring their own sexuality-slash-love-of-ice-cream into question. Also: what an asshole! He was so young back then. Just a tiny, baby asshole, getting ready to spread his asshole wings.

And now there is an interview in BlackBook with Mary Harron, the director of American Psycho, in which she describes how Tom Cruise was the model for Patrick Bateman:

Continue reading Tom Cruise Can't Catch A Break. Good. ...

Posted by Gabe at 9:45 AM in Behind The Scenes, Where Were They Then?
Tags: American Psycho | Bronson Pinchot | Mary Harron | Risky Business | Tom Cruise

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Fine, The Falcon Heene "Pussification" Music Video

I don't have any idea what this even is.

Surprisingly, all of the YouTube comments on this video in the past couple of hours have been nothing but thoughtful and full of respect. Or the exact opposite. (Thanks for the tip, Edith and Katie.)

Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in Where Were They Then?
Tags: Balloons | Children | Disasters | Fake Rap | Falcon Heene | Nightmares

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