Thought I’d post something light-hearted today.  There’s only so much reading and talking I can do about BHO and Biden and Blago and all the rest before I start to get depressed.

Here’s my top 10 hot actresses.  Hot as in smokin’ hot looks.  Most can act as well – at least I think they can, but I’m no expert.

In no particular order….

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba – Okay acting, although not particularly impressive.  Her looks are obviously what’s keeping her on the screen.  Let’s hope they last.

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie – I like her acting, and I’d say 90% of the time she’s hot.  It’s that other 10% when she just looks a little rough and worn out that worry me.  One benefit – she looks like she’s got a mean streak, which I like.

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci

Christini Ricci – I like her acting, and she’s had some pretty hot roles, not the least of which was in Black Snake Moan.  Probably the only times she’s not been hot has been when she was just a kid and when she did Buffalo 66.

Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria – I saw her on Desperate Housewives a couple times, enough to know she was easily the hottest one on the show.  Doesn’t really matter if she can act – her obvious hotness makes up for it.

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson – Scully, every sci-fi nerd’s fantasy.  On the show, she’s smart, single, redhead, needs saving a lot – we all want to be Mulder so we can show him how it’s done.

Heather Graham

Heather Graham

Heather Graham – I saw her first as Rollergirl on Boogie Nights.  Wow.  Fun, hot, wild – all wrapped up on roller skates.  Years later she was on Scrubs as a psychiatrist.  Still hot – too bad they couldn’t work the roller skates into the script.

Laura Prepon

Laura Prepon

Laura Prepon – Donna from That 70′s Show.  When the show started, she was a redhead.  Kinda awkward, too tall for her age, kinda nerdy.  She left one episode and came back the next as a blonde.  It was a better look for her, and as she seemed to get more comfortable with herself, she got hotter.

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu – she played a real hard-ass in Ally McBeal, and she’s gotten to kick ass in Charlie’s Angels and Kill Bill.  Her character in Kill Bill – calm, beautiful, and yet so deadly – is incredibly hot.

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis – Another That 70′s Show actress, she was Jackie, girlfriend to Kelso, played by Ashton Kutcher.  Like Donna, when the show started she wasn’t all that much to look at.  Cute, maybe, but not much else.  As the show went on her character was allowed to be more likeable, and she definitely grew into a luscious brunette babe.

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman – Also of Kill Bill fame, and of Pulp Fiction, two movies where she’s hot, sexy, and dangerous at the same time.

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett

Lastly, even though that wraps up my top 10, I’m going to give a special mention to Farrah Fawcett.  She didn’t make my list because she was a little before my time.  I didn’t get to see Charlie’s Angels as a kid.  I knew who she was, but that was about it.  I know I’m going to be watching every old Angel’s episode I can get my hands on.  Hulu appears to have the first 3 seasons online for viewing.

David Carradine found dead in his hotel room. The part of the obit that makes me cringe the most:

He is survived by his wife, Annie Bierman, and three children including actresses Calista and Kansas.

Spoilers!  Beware!

Okay, just finished watching the 4th Indiana Jones movie.  Overall, not too bad, really.  I’d read earlier reviews that compared it to the first 3 movies and found it lacking, but I don’t agree.  I re-watched the original Indiana Jones movie a couple weeks ago and then watched this one, and I’d have to rank them fairly even.

Movie plusses – seductive Russian military woman.  Can’t go wrong with an action movie to cast a dark, sinister, Russian woman in charge of the bad guys.

More plusses – Indiana’s still moving around well at his age, and so is Karen Allen as Marion.

My complaints about this movie?

I wasn’t real thrilled with the Indiana Jones’ son character – named Mutt Williams.  He’s a little too much over-the-top greaser with the constant fixing of his hair.  I know they tried to picture how Indiana would have been as a kid, but I wouldn’t have pegged him as a trouble-maker looking to pick fights.

I realize this type of movie isn’t supposed to be factual or real, but usually people like them to be remotely possible.  There are a couple ridiculous scenes.  In one, Mutt finds himself hooked on a vine in the jungle.  He looks around, notices a few monkeys also on vines, and suddenly starts swinging from vine to vine like Tarzan, catching up with the speeding car chase and saving the day.  In another, Mutt and Marion use a huge snake to putt Indiana from a sand pit.  Corny and impossible, could have been better.

The ending was a disappointment as well.  I’m left not knowing whether the aliens were friends or enemies, whether there was a live alien.  Maybe that was the intent, to leave us wondering so a 5th movie could be written?

Grand Theft Parsons was on IFC over the weekend.  Good movie, I highly recommend it.  Johnny Knoxville does a good job as Phil Kaufman, Gram Parson’s friend.  The other characters are all excellent as far as I’m concerned, from the hippie with the hearse to Christina Applegate as the ex-girlfriend.  One of my favorite lines is when the airport cop says “Wherever there’s a hippie, there’s a crime, even if that crime hasn’t happened yet. That’s what I always say.”

So, catch it on IFC or rent it, it’s a good time.

I had to go back and re-watch the last half of this movie this morning before work, as I couldn’t stay awake last night watching it.  I know that sounds bad, but it takes a really good movie to keep me awake past 10pm, so take it for what it’s worth.

To me, Walk Hard is a combination parody of a lot of other past movies about musicians’ lives.  I saw hints of Ray, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Doors…  A lot of the scenes were basically taken from those documentaries, dumbed down, and jokes added.  It’s not so much that the jokes are making fun of the real-live musicians, just that they exaggerate the situations of the time.

Still, there are some fairly touching moments, like when Dewey realizes that he’s never been a father to any of his many kids, and tries to make up for it, at least a little.

Overall, a decent movie.  Kinda refreshing to get away from the typical comedy where everything is a sex or fart joke.  Strip out a few f-bombs and a hotel room full of nudes, and you could even watch this with kids.

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