Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving, Bitches!

Hope you're passed out on the couch in a tryptophan and wine haze at some point during the weekend. Now is the time of year when we like to think about the things for which we're thankful. Below, in no particular order, are some of mine. Gobble Gobble!

Development No Longer Arrested On Arrested Development Movie

Here's Jason Bateman this week at the premiere of his new film, Couples Retreat. The photo caption says that trick is his wife but clearly that's a mistake since that is not a picture of the two of us together. Interesting.

Seriously, how lovable is the Bateman? He's the kind of guy with whom you'd never have a one-night-stand because you want to date this guy, not just bang him (although obvi, you totes want to do that too) You want to go to dinner and movies with him, you want to bring him home to your parents, you want to eat brunch with him on a lovely Sunday afternoon, you want to spend the holidays with him, you want to spend a weekend in the mountains with him where you'd sip champagne by the fire and swap funny stories, and eventually you'd marry him in an expensive yet elegantly tasteful ceremony.

J-Bate was on the Ellen Degeneres show today where he confirmed an Arrested Development movie is in the works. Taste the happy! We already knew this was true but it's been quiet on the AD movie front lately so it's nice to get an update. I'd cry but I can't spare the moisture. Jason says the project is in the script stage and they hope to be on set by the middle of next year. Below is another picture of Jason Bateman. Just because.

Couples Retreat opens this weekend and was directed by this guy below. Does he look familiar?

It's Ralphie from A Christmas Story! I guess he didn't shoot his eye out with that Red Ryder BB Gun! Go Ralphie!!!!

And I Think to Myself, What a Motherloving World

Here's my love,  Justin Timberlake out walking his other bitch the other day. 

Did you know JT was nominated last week for three Emmy Awards?  I love it. One is for hosting SNL and the other two are for songwriting, first for the diddy I Love Sports from when he hosted the 2008 ESPY Awards and the second of course being the genius that was MotherLover. 

Just when I'm hating the world and everything and everyone on it, just when I'm about ready to reach for the bottle of Grey Goose, a couple of razor blades and contemplate calling it a life, a song about fucking your friend's mom gets an Emmy nomination and I think "World, maybe you're not so bad after all. I'm not done with you just yet, I ain't ready to peace out right now. Things might actually be okay!" And I put down the razor blades. But not the vodka.

JT already has an Emmy on his mantle for Dick in a Box. Again, amazing.

Candy for the Ears and Eyes

Readers of the online music mag gigwise.com have voted Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill as the sexiest man in rock. Hells yes they did. If I was blind, like I had my eyes gouged out of my face like Johnny Depp in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, I'd still be able to tell you that Caleb Followill is one.sexy.bitch.

It's that voice, that voice!!!!!

Even in speaking form, it's pure sex. I'm not usually partial to a Southern accent on a man. On a woman it's charming like on the incomparable Blanche Deveraux or those fabulous Southern belles of Steel Magnolias, but on a man? Meh. Give me a Boston or Irish accent any day of the week. I could listen to an Irish dude say "park the car in the garage" all.night.long. Irish is my kryptonite but Southern accents do nothing for me. Except young Caleb's. His accent? It's pure, unadulterated porn for the ears. It's ear porn.

Click below for an interview during which Caleb talks about getting drunk, passing out, getting a tattoo and barfing. Sexy, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrjQgV8P4yY&NR=1

Here's the video for Charmer. For no other reason than I like it when he screams;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YO0J-a-FxI

And here's some Caleb eye candy. Jared Followill is the more conventionally attractive member of KOL but that voice of Caleb's sets him apart.