#April2012
The BAFTA Awards for Television nominees are announced. This post is mostly about Benedict Cumberbatch.
Ah yes, the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards for Television are coming up. For those of us who are complete and total anglophiles, the list of nominees dropped today, much to my delight and suspicion. Why suspicion? Well, since 2005, I’ve a vested interest in the classier cousin of our Emmy.
You see, Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for a BAFTA for Hawking in 2005. And lost. Try and imagine senior-in-high-school me flipping tables and ripping pages out of library books in my rage. I didn’t actually do any of that, but I seriously considered it. Surely, I thought to myself, they won’t make that mistake again. His next nomination was for Small Island, for Best Supporting Actor. And he lost. His next was for Sherlock. And he lost. His next was for film, for Best Supporting Actor in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. And he lost. If he loses this time, you’ll probably end up seeing my lovely face on TV. On the 11 o’clock news. When I’m in a bell tower surrounded by a lot of guns and ammo.
For the list of nominations, hit the jump!
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Cinematic Polyamory: The Cheekbones Edition
Welcome to Friday’s (no longer Thursday, because I apparently can’t get my shit together on Thursdays) most ridiculous column, Cinematic Polyamory, which — for those of you playing the home game — basically amounts to an ongoing list of the famous people I want to bang.
Last week, I opened with my two number one celeb spouses: Emma Thompson and Steven Spielberg. Today’s lucky duo have been on the list since 2005; celeb hubby #2 has been fixed at numero duo ever since I clapped eyes on him, while celeb wife #2 took about a year to get to her current spot. Never the less, they remain two of the most powerful actors today and someday I will be married to one or both of them. Because I have goals. And I always accomplish my goals. Just give me a pack of Orbit Wintermint gum, a pair of scissors, some lube, and a duck mask, and I’ll have what I want within an hour or so.
Terrified? You damn well should be.
As that Kabuki-looking chick from The Hunger Games says: ladies first.
FIRST LOOK: Benedict Cumberbatch As ‘Star Trek 2’ Villain. PLUS! IMAX.
Reposting after the great Malware Occurrence of February 2k+12 is a few pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain in Star Trek 2, plus confirmation that some scenes will be in IMAX glory.
Hit the jump to check it out.
‘Sherlock’ Star Benedict Cumberbatch Cast As Villain In ‘Star Trek 2’
Perhaps fittingly, I was just expressing interest in catching the modern day take on Sherlock Holmes starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Now even if I don’t come correct and get on that, I’ll be able to see him in a vehicle I am most definitely sweating: Star Trek 2.
