Gentle On My Mind
Yesterday we lost Glen Campbell, the legendary singer, songwriter and musician. I knew it was coming, because when we saw …
Category Archives: Beautiful Men
Ciarán Hinds “Lookalikes”: Political Edition Plus
Ciarán Hinds is not often cast as a politician. According to the collective judgment of casting directors, he most resembles …
Famous Men’s Love Letters
There’s nothing like a good handwritten love letter to persuade me that we are losing something important with our endless tapping …
Beautiful Men in Screwball Comedies
Screwball comedy, a genre invented during the Depression, often features a madcap woman (think Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck) embroiling …
“Taken”: Masculinity, Memes, and Liam Neeson
Last night I watched Taken in order to find out what all the fuss was about, since this hit film has spawned …
The People Speak: Ciarán Hinds in “Jane Eyre”
As part of my Jane Eyre blog series, I’ve been reading through lots of reviews on Amazon to see how film versions …
The Hunt for Red Sparrow
Russian Spy Agency Flooded With Applicants MOSCOW (CH news) The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the country’s main spy agency, was …
I Wanna Do Bad Things With You
This means you, Alexander Skarsgård. I don’t watch True Blood any more, having tired of it in the third season or …
Mance’s Barbecue: GoT Episode 5.1 Commentary with Ciarán Hinds
For my friends who are interested but won’t be purchasing the Season Five set. Only the parts with Ciarán are transcribed. …
Morny in the Earling
I often dream of words or phrases which I recognize as jokes or riddles after I wake up. The other night it …
