Man of the Hour: Jeremy Renner Part IV

The Bourne Legacy was the perfect choice for playing hooky on a Friday afternoon.  God, I love when the boss is out of town.

All those expectations, all that anticipation was worth it.  That was an enjoyable movie.  Jeremy Renner was the BAMF I expected but there was also a subtle vulnerability.  I can't really think of another actor his age who can simultaneously sell "sensitive" and "action star."

Rachel Weisz was unexpectedly good.  She's believable playing a "smart person" (I hate when dumb actors are asked to play smarter than they are.  It never works.) and she also does freaked-out-and-panicked very convincingly.

However, the movie definitely needs more of this:

Man of the Hour: Jim Moriarty

Or, more specifically, Andrew Scott's Jim Moriarty.

Not to worry - a new trailer for The Bourne Legacy is due at the end of the week and I suspect Jeremy Renner will regain his position of honor here soon enough.

In the meantime, however, I finally watched the last episode of the second Sherlock series.  Benedict Cumberbatch is still exotically brilliant but Andrew Scott is the one I'm thinking of in the shower these days.  His Jim Moriarty is chillingly intelligent and diabolically manipulative.  Here, at his slippery and calculating best:



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Moriarty is, obviously, an insane force for malevolence but he also shows great humor, flashes of vulnerability, and, most of all, a very humanizing sensuality (something largely lacking in Cumberbatch's Holmes).  For example, this scene is wildly creepy but the way Scott works his eyes is undeniably sexy:



The series' finale suggests Moriarty won't be returning for more opportunities to send shivers (good and bad) down my spine.  I suppose I'll have to keep calm and carry on.

Man of the Hour: Jeremy Renner, Part III

Yowza.  According to my Blogger stats, somebody out there sure loves them some Jeremy and it's not just me.

So, let's feed the beast.

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And, he is a beast, isn't he?  I like the way he's looking at Scarlett.  I love how he actually looks at people.  Like he's honestly engaged with them.  He also looked at her that way at the Oscars last year:

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Or how about when he looked at Carey Mulligan that way at the Oscars the year before?

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I guess I'll have to put The Avengers on my To Do List so I can look at him that way for a while.

Man of the Hour: Jeremy Renner, Part II

In truth, the real Man of the Hour is a past-lover/former-boss who recently became the current-boss of a good girlfriend/former co-worker/past-lover.  My life isn't actually as soap opera as that sentence reads but I swear the scenario is true.  Plus, neither one knows that the other used to be my lover.  Plus, despite now being married, he's sending me flirty messages via my unwitting friend.  He's certifiably a dick but it was the best sex I've ever had.  So, although I will not reciprocate his flirtation, the fact that he still wants me fills me with hot lava.

I will distract myself with the reigning Man of the Hour, Jeremy Renner.  Dude, I don't care if you're gay, straight, bi-, reclusive, whatever.  I just love a man with talented fingers.

Man of the Hour: Jeremy Renner

He's a talented actor and I appreciate that he struggled and worked hard to earn the success he's now enjoying.

And I love his smushy putty face.

But mostly it's about his arms.

Now, I'm going to say something that is seriously raunchy and definitely not for everyone.  So, if you aren't wearing your sex-positive, big girl panties, please don't click through.

Man of the Hour: Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert Penry-Jones

I woke up this morning in the middle of a very nice, very naughty dream about you.

Apparently, BBCAmerica's showing of Whitechapel is having an effect.

And, apparently, I'm still not immune to the charms of a smart, smartly-dressed, crime-solving Brit.

Man of the Hour: Blake Shelton

Apparently this cowboy fascination runs deeper than I thought.

Stuck at work and wishing I were at the beach, I created a new Pandora station for myself.  I suppose it should be no surprise that since I seeded it with Jimmy Buffet and Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton is all over it.  And now I can't get enough of this song.

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So romantic!  Such passion!  The blue eyes and scruff don't have anything to do with Blake Shelton being the new Man of the Hour.  Nope, nothing at all.

Man of the Hour: Eric Northman

Because he pulls good string.

Man of the Hour: Raylan Givens

I never realized I have such a thing for cowboys.

Quick-witted and even quicker on the draw, Raylan Givens (as played by Timothy Olyphant on FX's terrific Justified) is driving me wild.

He's old-fashioned in all the right ways and brimming with charm and confidence.  Mix the righteousness of a Wild West lawman with the scrappy instincts of a backwoods bootlegger.  Add a sardonic sense of humor and a genuinely sweet chivalry.  Toss in some renegade rebelliousness and a quaintly formal wardrobe.  Work in a streak of recklessness and more than a whiff of danger.  And don't forget the wildly expressive face, the ever-so-slightly salt-and-pepper hair, and a sexy-as-sin smile to make me week-in-the-knees.

Pour yourself a mason jar of "apple pie," Raylan.  You are the Man of the Hour.

Man of the Hour: Shawn Mullins

This track is burning me up on these cold winter nights:

  Shawn Mullins - Light You Up by Vanguard Records

Shawn Mullins, thanks to your sexy-as-all-get-out "Light Me Up," you are the Man of the Hour.

Man of the Hour: Benedict Cumberbatch

Or, perhaps more accurately, Sherlock Holmes.

Benedict may be part alien (surely that bone structure can't be human) but I'm attracted nonetheless.

The intelligence.  The verbal precision.  The arrogance.  The dashing attire.

This is the kind of man who can infuriate and fascinate simultaneously.

I'm smitten.