Pirates, pirates everywhere, and gallons of rum to drink!

The rumor circulating right now is that Disney is paying Johnny Depp about sixty million to return to the Caribbean, put on the hat and boots and, uh, do the whole Swishbuckler thing ... which is very nice of Disney, because Johnny had said months (years?) earlier that he wasn't done with the character of Jack and would be happy to play him a couple more times!


Same day ... more news: Keia Knightly came right out with it and said she won't do another one.


Same day ... no news: I was soooo expecting Orlando Bloom to be in the next one, and Disney didn't whisper his name in the press release where the movie was announced. Is that weird, or what? Okay, Elizabeth's story is done (she's going home pregnant: The End. It usually is, when you go home pregnant). But Will is out there as the skipper of The Flying Dutchman, and the way Jack flirts with death, you'd expect their paths to cross (and entangle) three times a week, and twice on Tuesday.

No wonder Orlie seems to have a headache. I guess we need to wait a while and see what develops. And while we're here, lets have a couple more photos, for the fun of it. Don't you hate it when people are stingy with the photos -- as if there's a national shortage of them! Enjoy ... I did!

Undies can be chic. Well, can't they? Ask Armani!

Undies. They lie there in the drawer, limp and kind of forlorn. Then you put them on, look in the mirror and think, "Gee, I should've bought a bigger size." And if you're really vulnerable you think, "Gee, I ought to eat right and exercise."


Unless your name is David Beckham, of course. Then you thing, "Gee, I wonder if Armani would pay me to wear their undies and strut my stuff in front of the camera, so that they can put the pictures on forty-foot-tall posters on the side of sky scrapers...?"


And the answer to this canny question is, "Gee, I guess Armani would! And did." Like so:


Woah. I'll just bet there were some traffic jams and fender benders on that block! The city traffic police were probably the ones responsible for the graffiti that wrecked the whole thing the next day, so they had to take it down ... just kidding, guys. I think.

Heath Ledger: happy endings

It's official ... Heath Ledger has earned more since his tragic and untimely death than he did when he was on this earth and making movies like A Knight's Tale and The Dark Knight. It's just too bad that the will he left is old, and leaves little or nothing to his daughter. (It all goes to his Dad, and down here the elder Ledger has something of a rep for not being able to handle money, so it seems.)

However, I heard something nice ... and let's be honest, Hollywood is not the usual place from which you expect to hear really nice things! Turns out that Johnny Depp, Colin Farrel and Jude Law came in to finish off the work Heath had begun on the Doctor Parnassus movie, and they donated their paychecks to Matilda Rose.

This is one heck of a nice story. Read more about it right here: http://www.dailystab.com/johnny-depp-colin-farrell-jude-law-donate-earnings-to-heath-ledgers-daughter/

...and meanwhile, let's have another couple of pictures while we're here. NOT the full-frontal totally nekkid one ... let's have a little respect for Heath, guys. Now's not the time ... and this blog probably ain't quite the place for that kind of in-ya-face explicitness. Thoughts, people??

Wolverine's Day Off ... or, Logan at the beach

All work and no play makes even the Wolverine a dull boy. So every now and then ... and especially when the sun's shining and the weather's fine ... Logan takes the day off and pops down to the beach, there masquerading as an ordinary human being who enjoys a dip and doesn't have retractable claws. Don't believe me? Check this out:





There you are -- you probably believe me now! While we're here -- have you see the Wolverine trailer yet? No? Then stick around:



This is a movie I am definitely going to see in the theaters. Is it just my imagination, or has Hugh Jackman put on a lot more muscles for this prequel? Looking forward to this -- it opens in Australia in about five months, along with the new Star Trek movie and a swag of others.

Will Smith --? It all depends. Sometimes he sure will!

Here's a couple of delicious items featuring the equally delicious Will Smith, who was outed a while ago by a Hollywood Madam who had this to say to the panting, drooling press:

"I had to reassure him over and over that I could guarantee discretion," she said. "Once I convinced him I could, he placed his order. It was for a man. I had 14 women working for me and two guys. You’d be surprised at how many Hollywood stars requested the services of the guys."

My advice to this Madam: get more guys on-staff! Good lord, they're not hard to find, especially in the regions of Hollyweird!


Want more on this story? Here you go:
http://www.queerty.com/will-smith-hired-male-hookers-says-discrete-madame-20081017/

http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/10/21/will-smith-gay-according-to-madame/

http://mel-keegan.blogspot.com/2008/10/will-smith-or-wont-he-turns-out-he-will.html

So far, so good. Is it true? Is it rumors? Make up your own mind, folks, but the rumors don't seem to want to go away. Ready for more?


Here's a great feature: Jada "Encouraged" Will Smith's Love Scene in "Seven Pounds" ...

...and I got to thinking, as I read that headline, how many love scenes have I seen the delectable Mr. Smith play? And I realized, I haven't seen one yet, because I haven't been able to get out to the theaters to see Seven Pounds (yet), and I never did get the chance to see Ali before it was trashed by the movie critics which caused me to put it so faaaar back on the backmost burner, it's still sitting there.

Food for thought? More than you'd think. When you read the above feature, check out some of the comments on the story and be ready to gnash your teeth, because homophobia is alive and well out there, much as most of us would like to think it ain't.

Let's round this up with a beauty shot, in the interests of eye (and brain) candy: