Entries tagged with “celebrities” from kotaraindustries.com, the helsinki branch

Almost one week ago, I experienced the pleasure and glory of seeing Mr. Bruce Lorne Campbell do a Q&A after a screening of his new movie "My Name is Bruce."  This is the second celebrity Q&A I have been to since moving to Seattle (the other was Crispin Glover, but that experience traumatized me to the point I never wrote about it).  But Bruce did not traumatize me.  Bruce entertained and delighted me, as expected.

First, they showed his new movie "My Name is Bruce" which is about Bruce Campbell playing a character named Bruce Campbell.  He has to save a small town called Gold Lick from a Chinese demon named "Guan-di".  Interestingly, the Guan-di demon also moonlights as the patron saint of bean curd, and as you can imagine, that becomes his Achilles heel which allows Bruce to save Gold Lick and banish Guan-di back to wherever Guan-di came from.

Once it was over, we all applauded extra loudly knowing HE was listening...and suddenly he came sprinting from the back of the theatre to the front.  He was amazing.  Bruce bravely and aptly single-handedly handled the audience...moderating all the questions himself and being all-around ridiculously charming and great.  A few gems:

• "It's not every actor who gets the chance to portray Elvis Presley with cancer of the penis."
  
  
• "If anyone needs an old west town, I have one on my property now. With a livery stable and everything."  (He built the town of Gold Lick there on his own land.  Gold Lick is not on Google Maps.  YET.)
  
  
• After someone accused him of tailoring some answer to a rather liberal Seattle audience..."oh, you think I'm pandering to this audience? I would never do that. Hey, anyone want to go get vegetarian after?"
  
  
• Question from the crowd: "What are the fans like overseas?"
  Bruce's solid gold answer: "Smelly."

Sadly for me, there was no meet and greet or really any opportunity to get near him and "give him some sugar," so all I have is this to remember him by:

This is a bit of a rip-off entry for those of you who knew me in my diaryland days, because I've already posted this topic.  Which is that Jock Ewing from Dallas looks remarkably like one of the urRu mystics from The Dark Crystal:



But suddenly, this is super-relevant because I just learned about a new website called TotallyLooksLike.com!  Where a whole community of people sit around and dream up (and document) stupid shit like this!  I just submitted this matchup for approval, so watch their site to see if my observation is worthy...

And now I have to go find some full-body images of Venus Williams and a sleestak.  Bye.


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Update!  Forget about Venus, I have a much better tennis-to-creature comparison:  Rafael Nadal and Trogdor!  Rafa, your arm is ridiculously huger than the other one!

John Rhys-Davies

• Traits: Welsh, short, chubby, hairy
• Best known for: being Indiana Jones' sidekick Sallah, and Frodo's dwarf friend Gimli
• Mnemonic device to remember him: John Rhys-Davies looks like Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

• Traits: Irish, hot, perfect lips, perfect body
• Best known for: being hot and perfect in Velvet Goldmine, being the Bend it Like Beckham coach, and his halfway respectable depiction of Elvis considering he's Irish
• Mnemonic device to remember him:  My, my, my Meyers is nice to look at!

Rhys Ifans

• Traits: Welsh, tall, skinny, questionable hygiene, bad teeth
• Best known for: Hugh Grant's weirdo roommate Spike in Notting Hill
• Mnemonic device to remember him: Not necessary.  Just remember he's the one that's NOT Davies or Meyers.

In my previous entry about Halloween costume options, there was a picture of Jack of Jack in the Box.  I spent forever hunting for a screencap of him with his wife Cricket and their son Jack Jr. to better illustrate the point of that slide, but to no avail.

However, I stumbled across something even more awesome. Jack's myspace page at www.myspace.com/jackbox.  Complete with the requisite emo self portrait in front of a mirror: