THE BUMRUSH

For the first time in her 69-year history, Wonder Woman will be getting a significant costume change. And by significant, I mean she’ll be getting pants. Via The New York Times, new DC writer J. Michael Straczynski (he of Babylon 5 fame) said the following in an email statement:

“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941... If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.”

Modern sensibility? Pants are so 1997. The old Wonder Woman outfit is classic, in my opinion, as clearly demonstrated by Linda Carter.


Really, it doesn’t get any better than that. The time to put Wonder Woman in pants was 10 years ago, if ever a time existed. But now? Classic is new again, and the old Wonder Woman outfit is classic.


BUMRUSH demerits for the new redesign.

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The band Broken Bells (a side project of Danger Mouse and James Mercer of The Shins) scored big time recently with their latest video for “The Ghost Inside” by getting the absolutely smoking hot Mad Men star Christina Hendricks to play a gorgeous android in their video.



How did the relatively unknown band make it happen? They simply asked her to do it and she said yes. Fuck dude. That's all it takes. i really have to start reevaluating my life.

Here is the video if you are interested in seeing the final product.

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You may know Amanda Seyfried from the “movies” Mamma Mia! or maybe Jennifer's Body... or if you are a heterosexual male, then from absolutely nothing other than being smoking hot. She got her start on a couple of soap operas (As the World Turns and then All My Children if you are being gay again), but officially got her start in the motion pictures in the 2004 Lindsay Lohan classic Mean Girls.



Then after bouncing around between movie and TV projects, she got a lead role in Mamma Mia! and then got to lesbo it up with Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body, a movie described by one IMDB reviewer as “Neither scary nor particularly funny.”



Like any good actress, Seyfried road to respectability within her craft has taken her straight through nudetown. In her new movie Chloe, Seyfried shows plenty of her assets and shares some more lesbian hotness with co-star Julianne Moore. From the reviews, it looks like the movie sucks, but Amanda certainly does not. Or Maybe she does, I don’t know...

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In the world of frivolous lawsuits this one takes the cake:

Lindsay Lohan apparently filed a $100 million lawsuit earlier this week against E-Trade for a Super Bowl commercial that they aired about a milkaholic baby named Lindsay. She (and by that I mean her lawyer) citied that she is a one-named celebrity along the likes of Oprah, Madonna, or Borat and that the ad used her name to parody her life and profit off of it.



I mean, how could you not have that opinion after watching the ad? If I had one wish in this world, it'd be that Lindsay Lohan go back a few years to when she was just hot and didn't have to comment on what was going on in this world... and that she and I were friends with benefits. Very dirty benefits.

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Megan Fox is hot, I won’t lie to you. It remains to be seen how talented she is, but expect to see her everywhere the rest of 2008 and 2009. Including this little slice of hell.



Best Movie: Transformers. Was Transformers high art? Hell no. Was it fun? Yes. And to my surprise, Megan Fox was actually decent in it. Unlike many other “wet blanket” wives/girlfriends/hot pieces of ass in action movies, her character actually added something to the movie. Something very little, but hey, it was more than I was expecting. She even had some good chemistry with noted drunk driver and co-star Shia LaBeouf. Most importantly, she was smoking hot at all times, which had to be the main point of her character.



Worst Movie: Transformers. Were you aware that Megan Fox has only been in one movie? Well, two if you count How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, which has premiered at Cains but is coming to the US in the fall.

She’s done a lot of TV, including a series called Ocean Ave, which I swear has the lowest IMDB user rating that I’ve ever seen (1.1). Even “Manos: The Hands of Fate” managed to snag a 1.8 user rating.

But, this is perfect, because as much as I loved Transformers, I hated it as well. It was hands down, my most anticipated movie of the year last year. I’m not a huge Michael Bay fan (with the exception of the Rock, which is awesome, probably due to Sean Connery’s involvement) so I was a little worried, but I thought, hey at least the guy can do action.

And Bay did pull off the action in the Transformers. The stuff going on between the Autobots and Decepticons rocked the house. Optimus Prime was fantastic and Megatron was sufficiently badass. All the Transformers looked really good too.

But holy crap, the non-Transformers storyline was horrible, specifically the stuff with the soldiers. Why waste 45 minutes on a bad war movie in a story about GIANT FRICKING ROBOTS. And why is this group of 20 soldiers taking on a Decepticon mano-a-mano. Oh, and look, Megan Fox is fighting Decepticons now. Ok, Autobots, I guess you can go on vacation, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and some soldiers have it all under control...

But, I digress.



Random Internet Fact: Megan Fox appears to be a freak. She tells FHM:

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy, my sex drive is so high. I’d rather have sex all the time than leave the house.”

Megan is also showing off her breasts in her upcoming movie, Jennifer's Body. Well, most of them anyway. And she has a large amount of ridiculous tattoos all over her body – a clear indication that she likes to experiment with unusual things…

Have I mentioned that I’m unusual?

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Big news of the day: Every media outlet in the world (seemingly) has reported that Salma Hayek has officially called off her engagement to 45-year old French billionaire, Francois-Henri Pinault.

Francois-Henri Pinault, 45 going on 75.

Money certainly makes a man more attractive... well, not to me. I'm just saying. Really.

If you think this post exists so that I can show pictures of Selma Hayek, well, you are dead wrong my friends.


Dead, dead, wrong. I really have no idea what you're talking about. This engagement news is important to me. That's why I felt the need to report it.

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What’s not to love about Natalie Portman? She’s insanely beautiful, an extremely talented actress, and insanely beautiful. Ok, she may be a little too intelligent; as she can speak like 6 languages and graduated from Harvard. A girl like that wouldn’t go slum diving, even in my most exciting dreams.

Best Movie: With the risk of sounding like some kind of child stalker, it’s The Professional, which currently sits at #38 on IMDB’s top 250 films. Not only is it an amazing film about a professional assassin and his 12 year old neighbor: It has knock-it-out of the park performances by Jean Reno and Gary Oldman and Portman is phenomenal as the 12 year old neighbor. Portman has done a lot of amazing work since, but nothing is as jaw dropping as seeing her give this adult acting performance as a pre-teen.

Also mad props to V for Vendetta, which is a powerful film that contains a great performance by Portman. I couldn’t stop thinking about the movie for a week after I saw it. That doesn’t happen to me very often.



Worst Movie: Star Wars: Episode II. Episode I was a horrible piece of elephant shit right on top of the Star Wars mythology, and while Episode II was a slightly smaller piece of shit, Portman’s role was bigger in it. Not that the train wreck was her fault by any stretch of the imagination; no amount of acting is going to save you when you have to read dialogue written by a group of untrained orangutans. Case in point:

Padme: I do not like this idea of hiding.
Anakin: Sometimes we must do what is requested of us.

Really, George Lucas? Star Wars is your career, your legacy, your everything and that’s the best you could do. Really?


Interesting Fact: How time will change even the most steadfast of things. Earlier in her career, Portman was totally against doing nude scenes, going so far as to say:

"Also I don't like anything that exploits young women. Yes, nudity can be really artistic and really beautiful, but I don't think we need to see young people naked. I'm not trying to censor or criticize anyone, but it's difficult for me to watch. I wonder if someone else decided for that young person that he or she would get naked.”

So, it came as a little bit of a surprise when she did her first nude scene in Wes Anderson’s short film, Hotel Chevalier, which was a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. Her change of heart is our gain.

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Wow. Just wow. Two comedies, Get Smart and the Love Guru, opened this weekend and speculation was rampant about which one would make the most money this weekend. The most common prediction I heard was that it’d be a close race as both would earn in the $35-$40 million range, but Get Smart would eek out a win over the Guru.

Well, results from the weekend are in and Get Smart held up its part of the deal, earning $39.2 million to finish the weekend at number 1. The Love Guru, however, bombed miserably. It earned only $14 million to open at number 4, behind Kung Fu Panda (in week 3) and The Incredible Hulk (in week 2).

What the hell happened to The Love Guru? The reviews were abysmal; it currently has a 16% on Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star and Chris Vognar of the Dallas Morning News were the only two “top” critics to give it a positive review – I’ll have what they’re smoking…

But reviews can’t explain everything. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening didn’t fair much better (20% on Rotten Tomatoes) and it opened at $30.5 last week (only to fall 67% this weekend). Are people getting tired of Mike Myers? I doubt it. He hasn’t been in a live action movie since 2002, so it’s not like he’s shoving it down our throats like Will Ferrell or anything.

Did The Love Guru’s previews simply suck so much that they drove people away? It’s an interesting possibility. Even the worst movies (think Star Wars Episode 1) have awesome trailers that get people hyped for opening weekend. The consensus was that the Guru’s trailers looked awful. They weren’t funny and generally made the film look horrible. When a trailer undersells a movie to the point where the movie is funnier than the trailer makes it out to be, you know it’s time to fire the trailer-making dude.

The final possibility for Get Smart kicking The Love Guru’s ass this weekend would be because of the beautiful Anne Hathaway:



… I’m still trying to formulate a coherent why that would be. Give me a second…

Labels: girls, movies, news

What's not to love about Naomi Watts? A beautiful woman who can also act and isn't afraid to do nude? Sign me up for one of those!


Best Movie: Personally, I thought that Mulholland Dr. (8.0 on IMDB) was great piece of filmmaking. But for those who thought it was too confusing, 21 Grams (7.9) is also right up there and makes slightly more sense.

Worst Movie: The Ring Two (5.1). Aside from Tank Girl, which shouldn’t really count, King Kong was absolute dreck. But Watts’ performance was one of the best things in it. She had more charisma than the rest of the cast combined. So, the award goes to the idiotic and non-scary scary movie, The Ring Two.


Fun Internet Fact: Watts was born in England, but moved to Australia when she was 14. She is best friends with Nicole Kidman. Now, that is an Australian sandwich I’d like to be a part of.

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Best Movie: According to IMDB, the highest rated movie she’s been in was Love Actually (a 7.8 out of 10). But since her credit in that movie was “Harriet, the sexy one” – and I’m totally serious about that – her actual best (and I’m using that term lightly) movie was American Pie (6.8) where she basically became famous for showing her tits (not that there is anything wrong with that). I loved American pie. It was great. And about 3% of that was due to Shannon Elizabeth.

Worst Movie: Johnson Family Vacation staring Cedric the Entertainer (a slick 3.7 on IMDB)? I don’t know. All her movies where we don’t get to see her breasts pretty much suck. Which is why our first and last thought about Shannon Elizabeth begin and end with:


Random Internet Fact: Shannon was born in 1973, which makes her… 35? Really? 35? Wow, that’s old. She'll always be a high school girl in my mind…

Ok, maybe not so much...

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The tough part of this post was picking which pictures not to put up here of Jessica Biel.

Best Movie: The Illusionist. Up until the Illusionist, I pretty much lumped Biel into the Jessica Alba/Kate Bosworth group of pretty faces who can’t really act. But she was great in this movie and was actually able to hold a scene with the always talented Edward Norton. I liked this movie better than the other 19th century magician-based mystery film that came out in 2006, The Prestige, and Biel was a part of that reason. A small part, but she added something to the table.


Worst Movie: Blade: Trinity. This horrible movie was really her fault, as she wasn’t given much to work with in this piece of garbage. Nor did she really fit into a movie that was SUPPOSED to be about a badass vampire hunter named Blade, but was really about suckiness. Let’s really blame this one on writer and director David S. Goyer, who put out an absolute bomb and ruined what was a pretty cool set of movies up to that point.


Random Internet Fact: The day after she was born, her parents took her to a dog-sled race where the temperature was thirty degrees below zero. (Those crazy people from Minnesota).

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First, Helena Bonham Carter has the sexiest name in all of Hollywood. Second, despite the scummy roles she often plays in (such as Bellatrix Lestrange in the latest Harry Potter movie), she's always attracted me in that dangerous bad girl kind of way. Call me a sucker for mysterious girls, but you can't deny that Bonham Carter cleans up well:


Best Movie: If you count the roles in which she was a supporting actress (and she does the supporting thing a lot), it would absolutely have to be Fight Club. But while Bonham Carter did a fine job in the movie, it really was a Ed Norton/Brad Pitt vehicle. I've also heard good things about Sweeney Todd, but I haven't had a chance to see it yet.

Worst Movie: Again, it's really not her fault, but Planet of the Apes sucked ass. I was a huge fan of the earlier movies (I actually watched the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ones. That's how much I like the series). But this one was just a waste of my life.

Random Internet Fact: In May 2006, she launched her own fashion line, "The Pantaloonies." The first collection, called Bloomin' Bloomers, is a Victoriana style selection of camisoles, mop caps and bloomers. She is now working on Pantaloonies customized jeans which Helena describes as "a kind of scrapbook on the bum.".

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...to appreciate Selma Hayek of course. Just like that Friends episode, Selma is totally in my top five, along with Natalie Portman, Jennifer Connelly, and two women to be named later.

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Here’s all you need to know about Kate Beckinsale. She was placed at #23 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World", #16 in Maxim's "HOT 100" (2003), #63 in Stuff's "100 Sexiest Women in the World", and selected as "England’s #1 Beauty” by Hello! magazine. You want more? Ok, she starred in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution which were both worth the price of admission simply because of her and what she was wearing. Plus, she’s done nude in The Haunting and Uncovered (NSFW).


Best Movie: Aviator aside, which she only had a minor part in, the IMDB voters say her best movie was Much Ado About Nothing, directed and starring Kenneth Branagh in 1993. That’s crap I say. For my money, it doesn’t get any better than hot women in leather, aka Underworld, or if you prefer Underworld: Evolution.

Worst Movie: The IMDB voters say it’s a movie I’ve never heard of before called Tiptoes. Tiptoes amazingly stars not only Beckinsale, but also Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey. Here is the plot:

Gary Oldman plays as a dwarf brother to a normal-sized Matthew McConaughey. When McConaughey's girlfriend (played by Kate Beckinsale) becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the Oldman gene. Matters are complicated still further when Beckinsale finds herself falling in love with Oldman's character

Gary Oldman as a dwarf? How does that not work?

Personally, while I disliked Van Helsing, Beckinsale was alright in it, plus she was still smoking. I would have to say the movie I hated the most that she was in was Pearl Harbor, which was what, 10 hours long? While Beckinsale was non-offensive in it, overall it’s just a horrible movie.

Completely Random Internet Fact: According to an interview she gave on the UK show "The Big Breakfast" in December 2001, she hates wearing knickers. Ye-hah.

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Helen Slater had an amazing cinematical run from 1984 to 1987, starring in Supergirl, The Legend of Billie Jean (1985), Ruthless People (1986), and Secret of My Succe$s (1987) in four year period. But she gets my attention for her role in Supergirl, which I was absolutely obsessed with when I was a kid. It wasn't natural. You could say I had my first movie-star crush on her back in the day. There is something about a strong woman rolling around in tar that gets me excited to this day. I’ve actually watched Supergirl again about 5 years ago and the movie does not hold up in the least bit. It’s total cheese, actually pretty painful to watch. But, if you grew up in the 80’s it’s tough not to have a soft spot for Helen Slater, who was the Jessica Alba of her day.

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Speaking of Salma Hayek, here's the original scene in From Dusk Till Dawn that made everyone go crazy. I still remember being disappointed by this movie after Pulp Fiction, but certainly not by Hayek.

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Here's something you pervs might be interested in. God knows I am.

A gorgeous scene of Salma Hayek taking her shirt off in a cameo guest appearance on Ugly Betty, to reveal her large bra-covered assets.

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Unlike our first recipient of the month, I have always enjoyed Jennifer Connelly's... ahem... body of work.


And some of our thoughts on Jennifer Connelly?
Best Movie: (Tie) Labyrinth & Dark City
Worst Movie: A little piece of garbage known as the Hulk
Completely Random Internet Fact: She speaks fluent Italian and French and is interested in Quantum Physics. Which would make her smarter than the 3 of us combined, no doubt.
NSFW sites that I would absolutely not advise you to go to. They would be here and here in case you missed it.
Best fantasy image of Jennifer Connelly that 9 out of 10 men would recommended actually happening: Wonder Woman

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A classic from the old BUMRUSH website. I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

I once knew a girl that I liked
just because she had big boobies
I really couldn't talk to her face
cause I had to get up in those scoobies

But I never got a chance
she thought that I was a hellion
and I ended up in a trance
when I caught a melon

But she shot me with a Wession
so let me be your tutor
and this can be your lession
being nutered with a gun
is anything but fun.

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