WHY THE DARK KNIGHT WILL KICK ASS... Or at least the next Batman Begins sequel... Assuming Chris Nolan helms a third flick.



Think the pic above is fake? Look closely at the outline of Harvey Dent’s face in this screenshot from the theatrical trailer:

MEGAN, MEGAN, MEGAN... Yesterday, Shocktillyoudrop.com and other websites released candid photos of Megan Fox showing some skin for her upcoming film, Jennifer’s Body. In this flick, Ms. Fox plays a cheerleader who becomes possessed and kills her male classmates. She uses her sexual prowess to seduce guys before she makes them sleep with the fish (just thought I’d place a Godfather reference in here). Does this sound familiar? Think back to Species and its two sequels, where Natasha Henstridge—and then Sunny Mabrey—go nudesy many times before killing their male prey. The only difference, other than being aliens-in-disguise in the Species films, is that Henstridge and Mabrey completely bare it all for their roles. Fox, on the other hand, is wearing pasties to cover up her goodies in these new pics. Don’t worry, though. One of these days The Foxy One will deliberately pose in the buff...and at the beach nonetheless, like Vanessa Minnillo (and Natalie Portman, Alyssa Milano, Courtney Cox, Kate Moss, Anna Kournikova, Cameron Diaz, Sienna Miller, etc...).



By the way, I’m well aware of the contrast between all the space-related stuff at the top of this page, and me trying to sound like Perez Hilton (minus the goofy hair and effeminate personality) here. That’s all. You think Shia LaBeouf is hoping Michael Bay has a similar scene for his co-star in Transformers 2?

RANDOM BABE BLOG #8... 2008’s first entry belongs to 24/Girl Next Door starlet Elisha Cuthbert. Granted, Kim Bauer (whom Cuthbert plays on the hit FOX TV show) may be one of the weaker characters on 24, but who cares? Especially when Ms. Cuthbert had a nice, um, tank top scene in Season 2 of the series. Need more specifics on that? She was in a bathroom.



Hey— Whoever said 24 was only about guns, terrorists, government moles and Jack Bauer always yelling, "Damn it!" (I would too if my hot-ass daughter didn't want to speak to me anymore)? That show rocks.



One more for the road:

TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, the Phoenix Lander will hopefully be down on the surface of Mars...intact and functioning, that is. Stay tuned...



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HOPEFULLY, the next time his teammates gather around him like in the photo above, Kobe is either hoisting up the Larry O'Brien trophy, or his NBA Finals MVP award. Go Lakers. Game 3 against the Utah Jazz is at 6:00 PM, Pacific Time, this Friday.

TODAY MARKS ONE YEAR since I injured my left shoulder. The reason why I bring this little tidbit up is because shoulder injuries suck reeeeaaal bad. You’ll be surprised to find out just how many activities require use of your shoulder after you’ve hurt it. Opening your car door... Turning the steering wheel... Lifting up plates to put in the kitchen sink... Typing and surfing the Web on the computer, like I’m obviously doing right now, haha... These all rely on el hombro. The way that I originally tweaked my shoulder was by doing pull-ups. Chances are I tweaked a muscle when I shifted my body weight awkwardly in the air while doing a rep—I don’t really know since I never got an MRI for my left shoulder (but I did get an MRI for my right shoulder...since it eventually started to hurt because I had to rely solely on it to make up for the original injury), but it was doing push-ups later that night (I didn't know how severe the problem was till the next day, FYI) and simple activities like those mentioned above in the days ahead that made the problem worse.

It took me 8 months to get back to doing bench presses, and 11 months to resume doing push-ups. I’ve yet to decide when I’m gonna go back to doing pull-ups. The gist of this Blog: If you ever hurt one of your shoulders, well... Sucks to be you.

THE DARK KNIGHT Theatrical Trailer... The new preview made its debut in front of Iron Man at theaters last weekend, and it shows more awesome shots of The Joker wreaking havoc on Gotham City, as well as Harvey Dent before he becomes Two-Face. Speaking of Harvey Dent, he had this one memorable line in the trailer: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Ominous.





Warner Bros. Studios

IRON MAN... I saw the film on Friday, and it totally kicked ass! Robert Downey Jr. did a great job as billionaire/womanizer/metal-clad vigilante Tony Stark. A few of my favorite scenes were when Stark was developing the Mark II (plain-silver) and Mark III (final version with the red-and-gold paint) suits at his Malibu mansion, him flying back to Afghanistan to exact revenge on those militants, and that dogfight with those two F-22 Raptors. The climactic fight scene between Iron Man and Iron Monger was cool, but how Obadiah Stone (Jeff Bridges)—who controlled Monger—finally bites the dust could’ve been more intense. Gwyneth Paltrow and Terrence Howard had good performances, but Samuel L. Jackson should’ve spouted a few F-bombs here and there in his brief cameo as Nick Fury after the end credits. Just kidding. Sorry... Didn’t mean to spoil that cameo for those of you who didn’t watch the movie yet. What are you waiting for?? Get to the theater right away! Can’t wait for the sequel (to be released on April 30, 2010)...

One last thing— Does Tony Stark reveal to everyone that he's Iron Man in the comic books, like he did in the movie? Just wondering.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Kobe is this year's MVP! NBA Commissioner David Stern will hand him the award during a trophy presentation next week. Go Lakers! Game 1 against the Utah Jazz is tomorrow at 12:30 PM, Pacific Time.


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TONIGHT, a couple of friends and I are attending a 10PM screening of Iron Man... Hell yea! Though I was pretty tempted to catch an advance showing of the film yesterday, haha. Fortunately, there was a new episode of Supernatural on TV last night, so that deterred me from going.



Yea, I was bored.