Quote: Most Beautiful Man in the World

[wowie]

Revered by his fans as "the most beautiful man in the world", in person Mortensen strikes a slightly less imposing figure. Admirably lithe and taut at 48, he is an attractive man, sitting in bare feet and with a wrist band that says "peace".

An artist for all seasons



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Comments

[meanny62.livejournal.com]

what to say???? You are right!

[phoebiebell.livejournal.com]

Excuse me? He is not in the mood to be photographed? His entourage? Mr. Mortensen, we are getting a bit Hollywood are we not?

Phoebs

[pusspower.livejournal.com]

Maybe he had a bad zit that day?

[fomocobaby.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too, funny! Though my first thought was pretty positive - I'm encouraged to hear him saying no to something rather than participating in a round of pictures where his eyes are fairly screaming "can I go now?" (think: most of the Hidalgo press tour) Way to grow a pair Viggo!

And kinda sorta related to wowie's point - ever since this entry popped up on my flist I've had Charlie Rich's song "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" in my head. It was my absolute favorite favorite song when I was five years old. So, thanks for the random nostalgia trip!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

Well thanks for the soundbyte that's been in my head since reading this!

(And was it your favorite song because daddy sang it to ya?)

[fomocobaby.livejournal.com]

Earworms are for sharing!

(earworms = what Germans call songs or jingles that get stuck in your head. Very apt description, no?)

I don't remember if Daddio sang it to me or not, though he did like to sing. Both my folks were big country music fans back in the day. Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins, Charlie Pride, Glen Campbell, Mac Davis, Mel Tillis...all those guys. I get quite misty at the mere mention of "El Paso" - I can still sing every single word.

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

*tugs on ear to get earworm out*

didn't work!

My grandfather looooooved country and they never had a working record player that I remembered and he'd bring all these LPs over all listen to so I had snippets of tons of older country stuff in my head.

[fomocobaby.livejournal.com]

This will put a very specific time period on it: In my mind, all of that music was meant to be played on an 8-track tape player. If possible, in a big, green LTD sedan. :-)

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

8 track player? I figured you were too young to even know what one of those things wuz!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

Does make me wonder what he was thinking. Bad hair day? I beg to differ... I've seen worse! Bad clothes day... wellllll....

[foona.livejournal.com]

Bad day?

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

outta control?

(pretty bad for a control freak!)

[velcro-girl999.livejournal.com]

Entourage? Stylist … hairdresser … mate maker! *waves hands in the air* Oh, I want that job!!!

Still, we love The Vig
Yes, sir. That we do!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

seriously. what sort of entourage are we talking about? I figured he had no 'people'!

[redminerva17.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that opening to the article, too. Hard to tell what was actually happening, but I had the impression the writer was being just a tad bitchy.... (YES, I know it's a guy.)

[velcro-girl999.livejournal.com]

It was probably his mom and she just wrote him a note.

Dear Mr. Photographer,
Please excuse Viggo from pictures today as he drank too much mate and was up all last night with a sore tummy.

I'll bet it was the PR people for NewLine. I don't think he does have his own "people", aside from the necessary evils, such as an agent, etc. I love the guy and all, but could you imagine keeping him on task? I swear, he wouldn't last a day with me ...

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

Maybe he didn't like the fact the NL peeps were telling him what to do so it put him in a bad mood?

[velcro-girl999.livejournal.com]

Could be. I've noticed he seems to be having a little less fun with these interviews with each passing movie. He seems to be closing himself off just a tad, which isn't a bad thing IMO.

I could say the same "mood" thing about Cronenberg. Geezus, the man is p!ssed. I am glad that he finally addressed the "Crash" name controversy though. I always wondered why the studios would let that happen. Naturally, because it's two Canadian directors, our press is having a field day with it.

Sure, HoV should have done much better, but I'm worried it's all gonna seem like sour grapes. Same goes for the comments Viggo's made about studying HoV in school. If I didn't know the man better I would be waiting for him to "jump the couch" over this.

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

Good for Viggo, I say, for finally setting limits, if that's what he's doing.

I don't understand the same movie title thing, after all, don't actors have to use slightly different names (i.e. middle initials?) to avoid confusion?

[velcro-girl999.livejournal.com]

This has happened before, though I can't think of the movies off the top of my head.

And yes, there is that rule with actors, but they have to register with SAG. Where would you register a movie title? This industry isn't known for common-sense.

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

here's a movie called I Walk The Line vs Walk the Line (which has a link from that page) :)