Let's hope James Marsden finally gets the girl in '08.Byline: Jim Keogh COLUMN: FILM CLIPS The year 2007 officially has been put to bed. Time to look ahead. A few predictions for 2008: James Marsden gets the girl. I don't know what casting directors have against this guy. He's handsome, he's talented, his teeth are whiter than icebergs, and he doesn't appear hygienically challenged. So why is he always on the losing end of the romantic equation, so much so that being dumped by your girlfriend will one day be known as "getting Marsdened"? Consider his track record. Marsden was the unfortunate boyfriend of Lois Lane in "Superman Returns." She, of course, prefers men of steel. As Cyclops in the X-Men movies, Marsden did such a poor job of holding onto the affections of girlfriend Jean Grey, that she, well, killed him. As a scion of the South in "The Notebook," Marsden was a perfect match for the lovely Rachel McAdams. Maybe too perfect. She instead went for the poor boy down the road who restored a 200-year-old house in her honor. In the end, isn't it always about real estate? Most recently, Marsden played the fairy tale prince who comes to New York to claim his missing princess in the film "Enchanted'' only to find she's taken up with Dr. McDreamy himself, "Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey. Redemption, I hope, is on the way in the upcoming comedy "27 Dresses" in which knockout Katherine Heigl finds herself a perpetual bridesmaid, never the bride (hard to believe, yes, but perhaps less so than Heigl choosing a life with slobbery slob·ber v. slob·bered, slob·ber·ing, slob·bers v.intr. 1. To let saliva or liquid spill out from the mouth; drool. 2. , stoned Seth Rogen in "Knocked Up"). I've seen the trailer, and it appears that Marsden finally has a fighting chance one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. See also: Fighting as the guy who can charm Heigl into the white dress. Amy Adams and Isla Fisher discover they are long-lost sisters. The two red-haired actresses are such dead ringers for each other, that I honestly did not know it was Adams and not Fisher who appeared in "Talladega Nights" until I checked out their complete film histories on IMDB See in-memory database. .com. And yes, I'd seen the movie. Adams is getting the lion's share of attention at this moment for her performance as the ditzy dit·zy adj. Variant of ditsy. ditzy or ditsy Adjective [ditzier, ditziest] or ditsier, ditsiest Slang princess in "Enchanted"; Fischer is best known as Vince Vaughn's tormentor in "Wedding Crashers'' and as new mother to a baby with fiance Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born 13 October, 1971) is an English comedian, writer and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist-hip hop gangsta wannabe (aka Borat). Maybe one or the other of these women will go deep into the character-acting thing, messing with her appearance, fiddling with her hair - something to set her apart from her alter ego. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , Fisher will just have to keep Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. by her side at all times. Matthew McConaughey will stuff his face. Two things are a dead-on certainty in just about any Matthew McConaughey movie: he will remove his shirt and there will be a scene of him eating. Seriously, go back to his first major movie, "A Time to Kill," where he sucks down seafood with Sandra Bullock, and progress forward through his career and you'll realize you can't escape the sight of McConaughey chomping, slurping See pod slurping. , swallowing. "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," "Failure to Launch," it doesn't matter the movie, McConaughey will find a reason to open wide and work his jaw like he's savoring his last meal. Even my kids are onto this. In last year's "We Are Marshall We Are Marshall is a 2006 motion picture directed by McG dramatizing the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team, the rebuilding of the program, and the healing that the community undergoes. ,'' when a waitress brought McConaughey a slice of pie, my daughter turned to me and said, "Here it comes Here It Comes is the third EP from Doves. It was the last release on the band's Casino Records label on August 2, 1999 on limited CD and 10" vinyl. Martin Rebelski, the unofficial fourth member of Doves, plays piano on the title track. .'' This year's "Fool's Gold'' and "Surfer Dude'' will offer no less than the full McConaughey treatment. Indiana Jones' return earns some press coverage. Just a little. How much interest can there possibly be in reviving one of the most successful film franchises of all time? Just kidding, of course. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" will be the biggest spectacle of the year, and figures to be rivaled at the box office only by "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.'' The Whip versus the Wand. Tom Cruise will seem kind of creepy in "Valkyrie.'' There was no more noble a cause in the 20th century than to do away with Adolf Hitler, and Cruise's "Valkyrie'' character, the real-life Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, was executed following a brave attempt to assassinate the dictator. Still, the sight of the all-American Cruise strutting in a German army uniform, with that strange military-style haircut, speaking unaccented un·ac·cent·ed adj. 1. Having no diacritical mark. Used of a word, syllable, or letter. 2. Having weak stress or no stress, as in pronunciation or metrical rhythm. Adj. 1. English - just weird. Heath Ledger's Joker will be the villain of the year. Sorry, Voldemort fans. Ledger's interpretation of Batman's giggling nemesis in "The Dark Knight" will be the bad guy to remember from 2008. With his smeared clown makeup and gangly gan·gly adj. gan·gli·er, gan·gli·est Gangling. [Alteration of gangling.] Adj. 1. , loose-limbed physique, Ledger is more reminiscent of the otherworldly Crow than of Jack Nicholson's white-faced, green-haired harlequin from 1989's "Batman." His Joker is no laughing matter No Laughing Matter is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series Garfield and Friends. It was the 74th episode produced for the series, although it is listed as the 71st episode on the Garfield and Friends DVD. It originally aired on October 21, 1989. - in a good way. ART: PHOTOS CUTLINE: (1) Amy Adams (2) Isla Fisher (3) Matthew McConaughey (4) James Marsden |
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