In Case You Forgot What Garrett Neff Looks Like...

Model Survivor : Guest Judging! : Hunk du Jour

Here's a friendly reminder! Thanks Calvin Klein! Even more gratuitous Neff at that site.

It's Fashion Week! (and that means more Garrett Neff)

It's New York Fashion Week again! In the next week, the minds of Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen, and those cute Proenza Schouler boys will be catapulted onto the runway and into the homes of millions of fashion-obsessed folks like me. To start things off, we have Garrett Neff walking the Trovata show. Now, if there are two things I like, they're Garrett Neff and Trovata. Put those two things together, and hot damn, you've got a good time! So yay for Fashion Week! Here's hoping for more exposed skin!

Because Garrett Neff Isn't Human

Calvin Klein's new underwear god, Garrett Neff, is something out of a dream. A fairy tale. Another universe. Sweet, sweet lordy. From here.

The Most Gratuitous Olympics, Featuring Ryan Lochte!

Oh Beijing! How I will miss thee! From swimming to diving to swimming to rowing to swimming to sailing to swimming to volleyball to swimming, there was certainly no shortage of gratuitous displays of male...perfection. And Ryan Lochte, pictured above after winning a gold medal, is arguably the most attractive, gold medals aside. (If you do wish to argue on this subject, I would thoroughly enjoy that, as long as you include extensive pictorial evidence.) Oh, those wet, hot, American swimmers. London feels so far away!

Three Hot Swimmers

This is the American 4x200 free relay team. Ungodly hot, right? Ricky Berens, Ryan Lochte, and Michael Phelps make the day so much easier to get through. But being the 4x200 relay team, you'd be inclined to think, wait, where's the fourth team member? Well, he was conveniently cut out of a lot of the coverage, both in photos and on NBC. See, while these three exemplify every perfect thing about watching the Olympics, the fourth resembled a mere mortal. I don't even know his name, and I'm not about to Google it anytime soon. I just don't care. But, I do thank nymag.com for their excellent coverage about all the really important parts of the games. And isn't that what this is all really about?

BMW Concept CS = GORGEOUS PICSPAM!

Because I can't help myself. Who can resist a car that reminds me of the absolute ferocity of the old 8-series? Holy mahoney!

Moving to Canada

Where the dollar is stronger and the men are hotter. Ryan Taylor is exquisite.

That Didn't Last Very Long...

Read The Vintner's Luck. Gaspard Ulliel stars in the movie adaptation next year, alongside Vera Farmiga, Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Jérémie Renier. It should pretty much be amazing. Source

Skip A Beat

Ah, the best is yet to come. More Romain Duris, because you surely can't have enough of that. Better than dix steak-frites. Read more here.

The Accidental Heartthrob

The title of this article from TIME says it all. Romain Duris is part of a new generation of astounding young French actors, just as James McAvoy is leading a new age of leading men across the English Channel. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find photos of him because, unlike McAvoy, he hasn't been in anything that has hit it big in America. It's bizarre, considering his penchant for full-frontal nudity classically handsome features. Nonetheless, I present a choice selection of the better pics. Actually, the lack of pictures probably stems from the fact that he has nowhere near the grasp of English accents that McAvoy has virtually perfected. Whatever, he's still hot. Dans Paris, starring the equally tall, dark, and talented Louis Garrel, comes out on DVD in America this March.

Skankariffic - Michiel Huisman

Yea. Sorry. Actually, no, I'm not sorry. He's hot.

Fall In Love With Michiel Huisman

I just saw Black Book and I was absolutely taken by the stunning Carice van Houten. I was equally smitten by Michiel Huisman (but for different, fairly obvious reasons). Apparently a heartthrob in his native Netherlands, he's not only an actor (who's in the romantic comedy Johan, which has been touring the U.S. film festival circuit), but he's also apparently the lead singer of some band called Fontane. Honestly, I don't care about the music so much. When you look like that, you can sing like Nickelback for all I care. More pics to come (including some rather skankariffic ones. God bless the Dutch!).

Predictably Skanky...

I'm not going to apologize for linking to (NSFW!) this or this. Everybody needs a little skankiness in their lives. I'm just happy to provide it.

Gasp(ard)!

Alleluia! This is old, from this past Spring, but any magazine cover with Gaspard is worth posting. Vogue Paris obviously has their priorities in order if they were wise enough to have Steven Klein shoot Doutzen Kroes (in Lanvin by Elber Elbaz!) and Gaspard Ulliel, probably two of the most gorgeous people in the world (in my opinion, at the moment, but you know how quickly I get bored and that can change...).

Movie Watch! - Starter for 10

Starter for 10 (2007) - Whatever happened to the good old American romantic comedy? It seems like Hollywood has been outdone by the Brits. It's hard to compete when you've made a film that features a fresh ensemble cast (as opposed to Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner, or anyone else ever romantically linked to Ben Affleck), a slyly intelligent script that focuses on character-based humor (in contrast to drab slapstick), and doesn't feel one bit forced or familiar. It's exciting to watch something done well, to observe what happens when one succeeds in breathing new life into an otherwise pointless, overdone genre. It's pretty clear that I'm a big fan of James McAvoy. He doesn't disappoint here. He plays Brian Jackson, a working class chap from Essex who has a genuine thirst for knowledge and the doors it can open for him. He's caught between his old friends and his new life. Sound familiar? This should have been a boring romp through the same old class conflicts, but it wasn't. It's nothing entirely revolutionary, but Jackson's quest to become a better man when he enters university, to become valiant in the classroom and to fall epically in love, it's something endearing and admirable and all too familiar to the youth of today, even as this movie takes place in 1985. I won't ruin the film, but it's definitely worth a watch. 9/10

Movie Watch! - Becoming Jane

Becoming Jane (2007) - Yowza. I saw Keira Knightley's Pride & Prejudice, which was the latest adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, sometime two years ago. I liked it moderately well, as much as a desperate-to-charm romance starring a desperately starving actress and balding actor could possibly be liked. This, with an upgrade in cast, is a rather more splendid affair. Anne Hathaway plays the real-life Jane Austen, the woman behind all the words that have won over generations of women (and men). Hathaway is fit for the part, able to bring a certain winsome vulnerability to a woman who is so brashly independent and forthright in her thinking. Her pale, doe-eyed beauty is a sight to behold, even though it's obvious that she's been dumbed down to a certain dowdy extent. The real charmer here is James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy, Austen's greatest love and the inspiration behind many a love interest in many of her novels. McAvoy possesses a surprising and impressive versatility, from the titular lady's man with muscular dystrophy in Rory O'Shea Was Here to Idi Amin's suave personal physician in The Last King of Scotland. The binding tie in all his roles is a certain charm, one that is never solely arrogant, but rather one that masks a level of vulnerability, leaving one to wonder whether they should detest his very nature or fall madly in love. You don't want to root for him. You don't want to like. You know there's always something just a little off about his character. But nonetheless, it's inevitable that you'll be hopelessly attracted to whatever you can't quite categorize about his character. Hathaway and McAvoy hold together a story that is somewhat thin at times, somewhere between dryly comic and apologetically drab anytime the two are not on screen. It's their pleasing chemistry that keeps us watching, even as we know exactly how the story will end. If you have any ounce of admiration for either Hathaway or McAvoy, it's really quite worth a watch. 7.5/10