It’s a special edition of Eye Candy Friday dedicated to “The L Word”.  For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it was a Showtime series about lesbians that ran for 6 seasons.  I absolutely loved it, except for one thing.  It didn’t exactly portray lesbians in a realistic light.  For one, they were all lipstick lesbians…even the butchy one (Shane) and the fattest person on the show was Kit (straight/secondary character).  Granted when they introduced Max, a trans FTM that evened it out a little.

Oh well…if they weren’t hot I couldn’t do a blog post about it…

Rachel Shelley

Helena started out as a really controlling rich bitch when she came onto the show (not an original cast member) but once her eccentric mama cuts her off she becomes relate- able and frankly more human.  Plus she had a sexy accent.  Mrow.

Best Quote:  “The desperate… what?”  (After a straight woman references “Desperate Housewives”)

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Jennifer Beals

Main character (arguably) Bette Porter.  Self-involved, selfish, a control freak and perfectionist.  A bit of an elitist snob.  Sometimes I loved her for her sarcasm and the way she’d put things when she was pissed.  “F*ck you Jenny Schecter.  F*ck you.”  Oh sure, she cheated on Tina and you had to hate her for that but then Tina started dating a man and that seemed to even things out with the gay audience.  I know, I know.  Still.

Best Quote:  “This is Los Angeles. There are same-sex families on ever f*cking street corner! She was born in this f*cking hospital, and both of our names are on the f*cking birth certificate! So, why don’t you just give us a f*cking break you straight, bureaucratic maggot, and get our daughter to see a God damn doctor! Please?”

Laurel Holloman

Tina Kennard.  Bette’s significant other.  I have a love-hate relationship with this character.  I’m glad they ended up getting back together in the final season.  Tina went from being a weak willed woman who relied far too much on her SO into someone who could stand on her own to feet and be her own person instead identifying solely as someone’s spouse.

Best quote:  ”‘…Bette…’Hey poor tard! How’s your two moms you big gay-mo?’”  (After Bette suggests a combination last name of Portard)

Leisha Hailey

Hated her at first.  Alice, (as Dana so aptly put it) was trying to have her cake and eat it to.  Oh that storyline where she dated that guy who was a lesbian.  Yeah, not a guy who joked he was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body like most straight guys say (so clever).  He was a man, who called himself Lisa and acted like a woman.  I don’t know when I started liking her so much…maybe it was because she was sleeping with Dana and it was kind of cute.

Best quote: “Oh no, I cannot take Cruella DeVille this morning. Do something… uh… pretend I’m upset.”

Erin Daniels

We already know I have a huge crush on Erin Daniels.  I loved her character Dana and was PISSED when she died.  I think most fans were, just because it was so easy to understand the character.  Her fear of coming out to her parents, the fear of being famous and out.  Oh my God, her first crush on the “soup chef” was so adorable and she’s so lame about the whole thing.  Reminds me of me, actually.  Except she’s much hotter.

Best quote, “Don’t look at me like that.  I don’t want to have sex with you and some woman.  I’d rather just have sex with the woman.  I’m that gay.”

Lauren Lee Smith

The Sou Chef, Lara Perkins.  Dana’s first girlfriend.  H-O-T.  I have had a crush on Lauren for AGES, I just think she’s perfectly lovely.  I loved her in “Pathology” where she went from being sweet and aggressive to being evil and murderous.  I still found her attractive, does that make me weird?  It probably does.  I got to see her in a Canadian flick, “Lie with Me” which is completely and unabashedly about sex.  You see her naked, a lot.  Kind of shattered the illusion for me, since she was so boney and whatnot.  I think several times throughout the movie I yelled “EAT A DAMN SAMMICH!” at the TV.

Best Quote:  “You could kiss it and make it better.”

Katherine Moennig

Oh Shane,  you heart breaker you.  I normally don’t like the manlier girls, and Shane is very guyish…but she’s The Fonz.  Women can’t resist Shane…straight or gay you are powerless against her charms.  You kinda had to hate her for dating Jenny in the final season though.  You want to just shake her or slap her silly…and then make out with her… ….ahem.

Best quote:  “Spaghetti girls.  Straight until wet.”

Elizabeth Berkley

Only appearing in 4 episodes is Kelly Wentworth.  She’s hot.  In that I’m-crazy-and-will-stab-you-if-you-call-me-Jessie-Spanno-love-you-forever-never-leave-me-I-will-stalk-you sort of way.  What?  That’s a type of hot.

She doesn’t get a quote…only 4 episodes, she never said anything memorable, just catty.

Mmm non-lesbian lesbians.  Oh, except for Leisha.  Mmm lesbian-lesbian.

Okay okay one more…not with the theme but Cortejo brought this to my attention and it was enough that even Smelly Guy had to come in for a closer look.

Hot Hot Hot!

She’s a Judo champ.  She’s a model.  She’s freakin’ hot.  We don’t know her name, but I would let her rough me up any day of the week.

Well.

“24″ week continues with a (hopefully) quick look at some of “24’s” Greatest Villains.

Again, spoilers lie ahead…be weary, fair traveller.

Seven: Jonas Hodges, Season 7, Redemption. (Jon Voight.)

Angelina Jolie’s biological father was born to be a “24″ villain. And the man did not disappoint. Chewing the scenery with gleeful abandon every step of the way, Jon Voight proved to be a formidable opponent for Jack Bauer – and whoever else got in his way along the way. Hodges fast became one of my favorite Big Bads in the entire series, and I had high hopes on his returning in the future to antagonize Jack over and over again. Sadly, it turned out that he actually wasn’t the dude in charge, and was just another pawn in an increasingly ridiculous operation, and he exited the series…well, kind of lamely.

Too bad…he coulda ranked a helluva lot higher! Still a fun ride while it lasted, though.

Six: Habib Marwan, Season Four. (Arnold Vosloo.)

In Season Four, Jack Bauer was menaced by the Mummy. That’s right, the Mummy.

I kid you not.

Okay, so it was just the dude who played the mummy in those horrible Brendan Frasor films, but still.

The Mummy.

I have nothing else to add here.

Five: Christopher Henderson, Season Five. (Peter Weller.)

So we had the Mummy terrorizing Los Angeles in Season Four – that’s a tough act to follow. But the producers were more than up to the challenge.

They brought in RoboCop.

Christopher Henderson was once Jack’s mentor, and that’s cool – he’s basically an older, grizzleder, meaner Jack Bauer. The perfect nemesis, in other word. Not only can he predict Jack’s methods, but Jack can predict that he can predict his methods, so he realizes that his normal methods are all but useless – forcing him to find new methods, which I guess means Henderson didn’t really predict anything at all.

Still pretty badass, though.

Four: Tony Almeida, Season Seven. (Carlos Bernard.)

If Christopher Henderson is Jack in twenty years, than Tony Almeida is Jack now – which is far more lethal. Add to that the emotional element of discovering that your best friend, partner, and really the “only man you can trust” is now your adversary, and we have the makings of the ultimate “24″ villain. Or so I thought.

The writers didn’t seem to want to commit to Tony one way or the other – they wanted him to be the bad guy but didn’t seem to want him to be, you know, evil. Key element there.

So instead we got a mostly bad Tony, but a Tony who was bad for the right reasons. It turned him into a more tragic figure than an outright villain, and while I enjoyed the more complex journey he ended up taking, part of me still really wanted to see some hardcore Bauer vs. Almeida action.

Oh well…at least they didn’t kill him off this time.

Three: Mandy, Season One, Two and Four. (Mia Kirshner.)

Here’s a character that needs to return, like yesterday. While appearing in three separate seasons, Mandy has only appeared in seven episodes. Yet she still clocks in at Number Three.

That’s pretty incredible.

Mysterious, deadly, and, let’s face it, hot, Mandy has been a thorn in Jack’s side long before the two even came face-to-face. She always seems to appear at the worst possible moment, shocking the viewer and messing things up for Bauer and Co. even more. Whether she’s leaping out of exploding planes or poisoning presidents with a simple handshake, she’s generally pretty awesome. She’s still alive as well, which is a rarity for “24″ characters, let alone villains, and hasn’t shown up since Season Four.

I’d say her unique brand of havoc is long overdue.

Two: Nina Meyers, Season One, Two and Three. (Sarah Clarke.)

Of all the enemies on this list, I think it’s safe to say that Nina Meyers has had the most impact on Jack. She was kind of his arch-nemesis over the course of the first three seasons, and a seemingly unstoppable one at that. She started off as Jack’s most trusted ally and friend, and ended the day by killing his wife, Teri.

Jack was never a very good judge of character.

Nina would return in Season Two and Season Three to once again tangle with Bauer, and haunt him about his wife’s death. I’ve always said that a really solid, returning antagonist would really up the ante of the shows threat level, and Nina was perfect in the role.

And then, in the third season, Jack shot her like sixty times.

One: President Charles Logan, Season Five. (Gregory Itzin.)

When it was revealed midway through Season Five that it was the President who had been behind the events of that day, no one even questioned it. It was unexpected, it was terrifying, it…didn’t make a whole lot of sense. But we bought it. Without question. Because the writing was quality, but more importantly: because Greg Itzin, who had played Logan since his introduction in Season One, was just that good.

Logan’s characteristic bumbling and poor decision making skills had been an act – and we believed it because of Itzin’s performance. He (and Jean Smart, who played his wife Martha) were unbelievable that season, treading the fine line between duplicity and outright lying to your audience. They had great chemistry; and they both knew their characters inside and out.

But never mind the acting…the mere thought of the president, the most powerful man in the world being a terrorist was just too delicious for the writers of the show to pass up. Even if Logan’s turn to the dark side hadn’t been telegraphed from the very beginning (they say it was, but I think they’re lying) it was an intriguing premise – one that led to one of the best seasons of the show, and undoubtably, the show’s best villain.

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O site AICN divulgou a primeira imagem oficial da continuação de 30 Dias de Noite, que será produzida direto para DVD. Na imagem ao lado, a personagem principal Stella Oleson aparece ensaguentada e segurando uma faca, sim a atriz do primeiro filme Melissa George não voltou para continuação, ela foi substítuida por Kiele Sanchez.

O filme será baseado na história em quadrinhos, Dias Sombrios (Dark Days), que continua os eventos de 30 Dias de Noite. Na história Stella, se junta a um grupo de caçadores de vampiros em busca de vingança contra Lilith (Mia Kirshner), vampira responsável pelos ataques a sua pequena cidade, no Alasca.

30 Dias de Noite: Dias Sombrios ainda não tem previsão de lançamento.

Como ya comenté allá por el mes de septiembre, “30 day of night: dark days”, secuela de “30 días de oscuridad”, que dirigió David Slade en 2007, comenzaba su rodaje en el mes de octubre (lo hizo a finales).

Por entonces todavía no se sabía mucho sobre su reparto, pero todo indicaba que no contaría con ninguno de los anteriores protagonistas. Y así ha sido.

El personaje al que daba vida Melissa George, Estella Oleson, y que será el que encabece la historia de esta nueva película, estará interpretado por Kiele Sanchez, una actriz a la que tan apenas hemos podido ver en la pantalla grande, pero sí en catorce capítulos de la famosa serie de televisión “Lost”, durante las temporadas 2006-2007, interpretando a Nikki Fernández

Es ella la que protagoniza también la primera imagen que nos llega del film.

Junto a Kiele Sánchez, podremos ver a Harold Perrineau (Michael Dawson en “Lots”), Mia Kirshner, Diora Baird, Rhys Coiro, Monique Ganderton, Ben Cotton y Troy Ruptash, todos ellos, con experiencia en series televisivas, y escasa en cine.

Los dirige, Ben Ketai

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Mas información sobre la película, pinchando en el enlace de abajo

“30 días de oscuridad” – En octubre comienza el rodaje de su secuela

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Imagen: Bloody Disgusting

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Swanson 

Ya ha comenzado en Canadá el rodaje de 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, secuela de la adaptación dirigida por David Slade. Ben Ketai debuta en el largometraje sustituyendo a Slade y dirigiendo un guión diseñado por él mismo y Steve Niles, creador del cómic original junto con el dibujante Ben Templesmith. La trama nos sitúa un año después de la matanza en Alaska, con una Stella asolada por la muerte de su marido y las pesadillas que la persiguen. Durante ese tiempo ha intentado convencer al mundo de la existencia de vampiros, encontrándose sólo con escepticismo y mofas como respuesta. Sin embargo el destino le ofrecerá la posibilidad de vengarse de Lilith, la vampira ideóloga de la masacre. Sin nada que perder, Stella marchará hacia Los Angeles para enfrentarse a sus miedos, hacerse con su venganza y evitar que otra matanza pueda suceder. El reparto ha sufrido también grandes cambios, aunque es más interesante de lo que podría parecer en un principio. Kiele Sanchez (A Perfect Getaway, “Lost”), Diora Baird (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Wedding Crashers), Rhys Coiro (“Entourage,” “24,” “Straw Dogs”), Mia Kirshner (“The L Word,” “The Black Dahlia”) y Harold Perrineau (“Oz,” “Lost,” The Matrix Revolutions”) forman el elenco.

No hace unos días de que habíamos dado la noticia acerca de la secuela de esta cinta y de como iba a llegar directamente al mercado del DVD cuando ya nos dieron un poquito más de información de los actores y el lugar de filmación:

Todo se va a filmar en Vancouver, Canadá. Hasta ahorita esta segunda parte  de “30 días de noche” permite que se estrene como director, Ben Ketai y se basará en el guión hecho por Steve Niles y él mismo.

Los actores son variados: una de ellas es Kiele Sanchez de la serie de Lost así como Diora Baird (de la cinta The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) Rhys Coiro (de Entourage), Mia Kirshner (del programa de televisión The L word) y Harold Perrineau (que también andubo en Lost).

Dark Days está basado en el cómic de 30 días de noche. La trama principal del cómic fue la noche en un pueblo en Alaska que sufrió un apagón y fue el lugar designado para que lo arrasaran toda clase de vampiros. Una noche muy larga.

O site Bloody Disgusting confirmou que a sequência do excelente filme 30 Dias de Noite, adaptação dos quadrinhos de Steve Niles, já começou a ser rodada e também revelou o elenco do filme. A linda atriz Mia Kirshner (a Jenny da série The L Word, Dália Negra) será a vampira Lilith, enquanto o ator Rhys Coiro (Entourage, 24 Horas) ficou com o papel principal, não foi  informações sobre o persoangem.

Não foi divulgado quem intepretará a personagem principal Stella,que foi interpretada no primeiro por Melissa George, mas que não vai voltar ao papel. O elenco do filme terá também Harold Perrineau, Diora Baird, Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro e Monique Ganderton.

O filme será baseado na história em quadrinhos, Dias Sombrios (Dark Days), que continuou 30 Dias de Noite. Na história Stella, se junta a um grupo de caçadores de vampiros em busca de vingança contra Lilith (Mia Kirshner), vampira responsável pelos ataques a sua pequena cidade, no Alasca.

30 Days of Night: Dark Days será dirigido por Ben Ketai e será lançado direto em DVD, em data ainda não divulgada.

Mia Kirshner

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一名年輕女子Elizabeth被發現棄屍在荒野且殺手殘忍,屍體被分兩截,內藏被掏空,LA特別行動組兩名探員Dwight 和Lee負責追查此案. Dwight 和Lee都是拳擊手,兩人自一場比賽後,成為了莫逆之交. Lee介紹女朋友Kay給Dwight 認識.三人成為好友. 大鰐Bobby DeWitt出監，Lee顯得恐慌，Lee叫Dwight 不要告訴Kay．Lee對於捉拿Elizabeth案件殺手非常投入,誓要找出兇手. Dwight 和Kay相處日久漸生情愫.但Dwight視Lee為親兄弟,不敢造次. Dwight查案時遇到和Elizabeth很相似的女子Madeleine. Madeleine家族非常有錢,Madeleine介紹家人給Dwight認識,其家人行為特異.Dwight追查剛出獄的Bobby DeWitt, 親眼見到Lee被人殺.Dwight獨自杳案,在Kay和Lee的家里發現大量現金,揭發原來Lee原來一直和Bobby 合作內外勾結，而Kay以前是Bobby 的女友, 為賄賂Lee,而用美色誘之.Lee發現Elizabeth之死和Madeleine家族有關,故上門勒索,被Madeleine殺死.而Elizabeth之死則是Madeleine的母親所為,也和其父,和母親的情夫有關.

故事伏線太多,Lee,Kay和Bobby的故事可自成一個完整的故事,Madeleine家族的混亂的淫亂故事也可自成一線.Elizabeth本身的身世,遭遇和Madeleine,和其父,母親情夫之間的故事也可是一個獨立故事,在編輯這幾個故事在一起,又想做到即神秘緊湊實非易事. 電影要交待太多的內容而不見重心.

Por ric.

Es rara la vida sin The L Word. Extraño esas escenas ultra hot con chicas hermosas que se desean con pasión, que tienen trabajos súper bacanes y que salen a carretear casi todos los días. Admito que esperaba con ansias el estreno de cada temporada, y aún me cuesta enfrentar la realidad: The L Word terminó con Jenny muerta, Tina y Bette se van a vivir a New York,  Shane sin la guapa de Molly y Max teniendo un hijo. Este fue un final muy bizarro y poco esperado por toda la fanaticada.

Al parecer esto no era pura coincidencia porque Ilene Chaiken, la escritora/productora ejecutiva/ directora de la serie, quiere resolver estas historias en el cine (uuuuuuu), o sea las vamos a poder ver a todas juntas una vez más y quizás las historias terminen como nosotras queremos, o al menos de una forma similar.

En un principio iba a existir un spin off de The L Word llamado The Farm donde Alice iba a ser la protagonista, pero al parecer el canal Showtime no se arriesgo con esta propuesta y es por eso que ahora está el proyecto de la película, de hecho, creo que me gusta más que aparezcan todas juntas in the big screen que sólo Alice en la pantalla pequeña.

Katherine Moennig ha estado trabajando en una nueva serie del canal CBS llamada Three Rivers, y se trata de un drama médico que ocurre dentro de la compleja y emocional vida de los donadores de órganos, los que los reciben y de los cirujanos en el hospital que la lleva en el tema de los transplantes del país. La guapa Kate será la doctora Miranda Foster, una cirujana rebelde que no tiene que manchar la reputación de su fenecido padre cirujano.

Acá podrán ver a Kate vestida de doctor en el video promocional de la serie y también un Behind the Scenes. La miro y no puedo dejar de ver a Shane (jaja)

Jennifer Beals aparece en dos episodios de Lie To Me y es la asistente de la abogada Zoe Landau. También se unió a Denzel Washington en una nueva película llamada The Book of Eli que saldrá el próximo año e interpretará a una tal Claudia.

Mia Kirshner participa en un proyecto muy varguandista llamado I live here.

Para finalizar con ritmo les dejo un video de Uh Huh Her, el grupo de la Leisha Haley, y no nos queda más que esperar a que salga la peli, que ojalá sea buena y que tenga muchas escenas hot:

So many comments, so little time. (See below*)

A couple months ago, I showcased my friend/boss Paul’s top five punk covers of 80’s rock bands, but I feel he missed out on some other fine remakes by focusing solely on the punk versions. 

I didn’t and still don’t agree with his number one selection, and although two of his choices made my top ten list, he’s little bit out of touch with the alternative music scene of late.  I’m not claiming to be any wunderkind either, but here are ten of my favorite reinventions/redos/remakes/reboots… whatever it is that Hollywood calls them. 

Let me know in the comments if I missed any.

10) No Doubt – It’s My Life (original by Talk Talk)
Probably the last good song No Doubt made, and will ever make, and it’s not even their own.

9) Seether – Careless Whisper (original by Wham!)
Cool video.  Not sure if it’s official.

Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal (original by Michael Jackson, duh)
Paul put this at #5 of 5.  See where I rank it.  I think the leader singer’s weirdness in the video puts me off, but the homages to MJ’s life bring me back.

7) HIM - Wicked Game (original by Chris Isaak)
The original is a haunting song.  HIM is a haunting band.  Win.

6) The Ataris – Boys of Summer (original by Don Henley)
The Ataris once said in an interview I don’t feel like relocating that they wanted to remake this song to point out the creepiness inherent in it.  I never noticed it was creepy until they mentioned it, and that made me love both versions more.

5) Nonpoint – In the Air Tonight (original by Phil Collins)
The gorilla says it all for me.

4) Disturbed – Land of Confusion (original by Genesis)
Likewise, the puppets say it all for me.

3) Orgy – Blue Monday (original by New Order)
This isn’t really my kind of music (neither version).  And the fact that I dig it despite that speaks volumes.

2) Marilyn Manson – Tainted Love (original by Soft Cell)
Who am I kidding?  The video sold me.  Chyler Leigh, Mia Kirshner, and Jaime Pressly will cancel out Manson every time.

1) Limp Bizkit – Faith (original by George Michael)
I make no apologies for this.  I had a weird story happen over the course of listening to this song, and for that, it gets number one.  And now for the comments on the pic at the top of the post:

* COMMENTS
“I don’t know who pulls off the leather better.  I’d bet it’s a tie.”
“Is George Michael smelling his armpit?”
“Why does Fred Durst look like one of my uncles now?  They even wear the same jacket!”
“Why do I get the feeling these two have awkwardly bumped into each other using the restroom.”
“something-something… at least he’s wearing a glove!”

Finis.

A&E’s ‘the cleaner’s’ second season features some ‘l word’ stars…look out for both mia kirshner and janina gavankar.

also, kate moennig will be on a tv show this fall called, ‘three rivers.’ her character is ‘dr. miranda foster.’ the network carrying the show is cbs.

set for a release date of december 4, kate will be in the film, ‘everything’s fine.’ the cast also includes robert deniro, kate beckinsale, drew barrymore and sam rockwell.