Paul Rudd: Bat Mitzvah DJ

Paul Rudd: Bat Mitzvah DJ from Jewish Forward on Vimeo.

LOL! Love the 80's hair and the yellow jacket!

Role Models - Mini-review

Rented this last week, and highly recommend this laugh riot. Paul Rudd was one of the writers of the script, and I just love anything he does. He could read the phone book with his sarcastic mug, and I'd eat it up. Paul Rudd's character loses his cool in a spetacular way after 10 years in a dead end job, and has to do over 100 hours of community service. He and his friend, played by Sean William Scott of Stiffler fame, are sent to a Big Brother type organization and given two of the toughest kids to mentor. Rudd gets a lonely nerd played by the kid who was McLovin' in Superbad, and Sean William Scott gets the most foul mouthed little kid you can possibly imagine. Jane Lynch, who has been one of Christopher Guest's regulars (she was in Best of Show as a dog trainer), plays the head of the Big Brother organization and a former drug addict. She had me on the floor laughing in scenes like this: "You think I'm a pushover? I used to eat cocaine for breakfast!"



I am so thrilled she has a part of the new dramedy Glee on Fox. She was hilarious in as the cheerleading coach: "You think this is hard! Try waterboarding! That's hard!" If you missed the preview after American Idol, you should check Glee out online here.

So, Role Models is three stars and most definitely worth a rental. Hilarious, and you can't beat a full on live action role playing battle scene! Yeah, the two guys grow up through their relationships with the kids, but it never gets overly sweet or maudlin. Really good writing, and the supporting characters are all top notch.

Read to me, Paul Rudd

The thumbnail picture is funky, but the video plays fine.

ABC News did a segment on the 60th anniversary of Harlequin books, having Paul Rudd, George Will(!!), Wolfgang Puck and Seth Rogen, among others, read from steamy bodice rippers. That's one business that's doing better in the recession. Yes, I'll escape to another world for $8, thank you!

Flatulence Exposed with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel totally lose it making fart noises in a press interview for I Love You Man.

April Vanity Fair cover remind you of anything?

Annie Liebovitz spoofs her own work! April's Vanity Fair has Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Jason Segal in the same poses as Tom Ford, Scarlet Johannsson and Keira Knightley from 2006. I love it!

I Love You, Man Trailer

I cannot wait for this movie. I adore Paul Rudd, and he is back starring with Jason Segal in the bromance I Love You, Man about a man's search for someone to be his best man. They were very funny together in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Here's the trailer!

Hurray for Chest Hair

Jessi Klein has written a hilarious article on The Daily Beast about the return of chest hair:

After many years of drought, during which the only reliable source of manly tuft seemed to be the Baldwin brothers, chest hair has returned with a vengeance as the sign of sex appeal and virility. Mad Men star Jon Hamm (aka Don Draper) is entertainment’s tall drink of testosterone du jour.

Even the Tiger Beat crowd is sporting post-pubescent chest curls these days. Robert Pattison, the delicately anemic looking young star of Twilight, has unbuttoned just enough on the red carpet to reveal a healthy crop of pectoral fuzz. And Gossip Girl fave Ed Westwick, while barely of legal drinking age, has the dark downy appearance of someone who has spent all day frolicking with a black Pug.

Then there are the ubiquitous everyman hunks of the Judd Apatow empire, the thinking woman’s boyfriends: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and Seth Rogen. All three are endowed with chest hair that could best be described as “enough for a handful” (employing the phrase I’ve heard men use to evoke the ideal-sized breast.) And while they all play man-children with immature tendencies, their resolute hairiness is a reminder of their ultimately full-grown hearts.

Frolicking with a black Pug! *snort* Read the rest here. Being married to a hairy man myself, I have to admit that I also agree that an obviously waxed chest (Daniel Craig are you listening?) is a bit off-putting. I find Seth Rogen's teddy bear "enough for a handful" qualities, well, sexy!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - mini-review

I have never watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother, so I had no idea who the star, Jason Segel of Forgetting Sarah Marshall was when I saw the film last week. It had the brand stamp of "produced by Judd Apatow", and therefore you kind of know what you're in for. Something raunchy, laugh out loud funny and not just a little bit sweet. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is all those things and Jason Segel is not only a very good writer, but he is one brave man. (I didn't realize till the credits that he also wrote the film.) You've probably heard by now that one of the opening scenes has Peter (Segel) standing full frontal nude as his girlfriend Kristen Bell (of Heroes) breaks up with him. FULL frontal and hilarious. Yes, this is an R film, but can you remember a guy being naked in a film showing all since, well, Richard Gere in American Gigolo? Mark Wahlberg's prosthetic schlong in Boogie Nights doesn't count. I whispered to my friend "Equal time!!", and it's about time, dammit! Peter's girlfriend Sarah keeps asking him to get dressed, and he refuses, saying if he puts his pants on then it will be real that she's leaving him.

Peter is devastated by the breakup, and goes to Hawaii on vacation to forget, but guess who is at the same resort with her British rocker boyfriend. Minor characters are played by actors from the Apatow stable -- Paul Rudd as a hilarious stoner surfing instructor, and Jonah Hill as restaurant host and uber fan of the rocker. The breakout performance is Russell Brand as rocker Aldous Snow. I have never seen this actor before, and let me tell you, this guy will be getting some major work from this film. He is a riot, and even Peter can't hate him.

My friend put her finger on the whole movie. She said as the credits were rolling, "That was a chick movie! Peter acted just like a chick would to a breakup." It's very true. This is a movie about a guy, but in reversing the roles it could have been the plot of any number of chick flicks, which was interesting. Also, I found it interesting that even though it's a broad comedy, no one was a stereotype, and you can't fully hate or dislike anyone. Even the ex-girlfriend, who in many movies would be a two-dimensional bitch, has real reasons for the breakup. And her rocker promiscuous boyfriend even Peter says is too cool to hate.

I really liked this movie, and highly recommend it. I give it three and a half stars. It was already playing at the cheap theater in our town, but is definitely one to watch for on DVD. Jason Segel is a talented writer as well as an actor, and I just read that he is penning a new Muppet Movie! Jason will be rejoining Paul Rudd in I Love You Man out in 2009.

Watch the Reel Geezers on Forgetting Sarah Marshall. They didn't both love the film, but caught the exact same chick flick vibe that we did. Watching them discuss the nude scene is a riot! Warning -- Spoilers in their review!