Omorka's Lair

Okay, for those playing at home:

Garfield's original voice actor was Lorenzo Music. Dave Coulier was called in a couple of times to act as the voice on the Saturday morning Garfield cartoon when Music was ill. After Music's death, Bill Murray was cast as Garfield for the more recent movies.

Dr. Peter Venkman was played in the two Ghostbusters films by Bill Murray. Between the two, the cartoon version of the character was played first by Lorenzo Music (brilliantly, considering the intended age of the audience) and then Dave Coulier (as with the second film, I probably would have been happy with it if it didn't follow something so much better).

Anyone interested in seeing if we can get Murray to voice the Dave character for a computer-animated remake of Out of Control? Any bets on whether we can get Music's ghost to show up to complete the nonagram?

I have discovered that I am just not all that into fan-photomanips. Some of them are cute, but for the most part unshopped photos or screencaps with lewd titles just end up doing more for me. Image vs. text again, I suppose. But I find digital art using photos as very close reference to be just as enjoyable as hand-drawn fanart; in fact, I have such a piece as my desktop image. *scratches head* I think I have a very inconsistent reaction to image-based fan-content, much more inconsistent than my reactions to text-based fan-content.

In the process of discovering this, I have also realized that the rule about attractive faces being more symmetrical has some pretty glaring exceptions. Jude Law and David Tennant both have crazy-asymmetrical faces, such that when a photomanip flops them they look absolutely wrong. And yet they are clearly both smokin' hot, not merely by my judgement but by that of squealing fangirls (and fanboys!) worldwide. (Come to think of it, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal aren't exactly even functions either, so it's not just an Anglophilia thing.)

Oddly enough, I can't find any 'conventionally hot' women with the same degree of asymmetry. (Tina Fey doesn't count; she's a comedic actress, and they're neither required nor expected to be conventionally attractive. And she's still not anywhere near as quirked as Tennant is.) Is that because the audience for male stars (straight and bi women, bi and gay men) is more tolerant of a slightly skew nose or crooked jawline than the audience for female stars (bi and lesbian women, straight and bi men) is? Maybe women who achieve a certain level of fame almost always get their asymmetries 'fixed,' while male famous people find it easier to resist such pressures? (The story of Jennifer Gray's nose writ large?) Or is this just the Hollywood beauty machine working? (Anyone arguing that Tennant wouldn't have made in it LA either still needs to deal with Law, who clearly has.)

I have previously mentioned that I want to someday see a film about a multi-generational extended family of mad scientists, starring all of the "Bug-Eyed Boys" - Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire. (Originally, I had Don Knotts as the cranky, ancient patriarch of the family, but alas, he is no longer available for the role. Maybe we could age up John Lithgow instead.)

It is now clear to me that their cross-town rivals must be the Shark-Grinned Businessmen clan. Their ancient patriarch is Jack Nicholson; their mature, glad-handling frontman, Tim Curry; their slightly younger Man of Action, Hugo Weaving.

So, between The Ice Storm and Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee has directed the entire Big-Blue-Eyed Bishi Boy Triumvirate - Tobias Maguire, Jacob Gillenhaal, and Elijah Wood. (I only wrote out their actual first names because I wanted to comment on these three blue-eyed white boys with the Celtic, Dutch, and quintessentially English last names all having Hebrew first names. What's up with that?) (And yes, I am aware that there is a school of thought that says that Tobey's eyes are more grey than blue. These people are smoking crack. Not the good kind.)