The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

He's tiny. He always looked tiny in Buffy.

Every single remotely famous actor I've ever seen in real life is tiny.

I've only met one. Google says James Van Der Beek is 6 foot, but that can't be right

His assistant was hot though. They couldn't figure out how to use a freight elevator. So I was their operator for their trip up. Don't know how they got back down

[Tamas]

Dunno, it just kinda passed me by. Same with Stargate (except the movie).

Same on both.

Also, Pain & Gain is an underrated movie. I found it hilarious.

[Sheilbh]

....Ide?

[frunk]

Just finishing up a rewatch of Buffy and Angel.  It holds up reasonably well, with Angel overall being the better watch.  The biggest shift for me is the appraisal of some of the actors, in particular Michelle Trachtenberg and Vincent Kartheiser.  I appreciate their acting now and feel like they were let down more by the writing.  OTOH Juliet Landau and Nicholas Brendon are even worse.

[crazy canuck]

He's tiny. He always looked tiny in Buffy.

Every single remotely famous actor I've ever seen in real life is tiny.

I have seen Ben Affleck in person (he was watching my son's baseball game of all things).  He is well over 6'.  I have also seen Colin Firth, I think he is about 6' or just a bit over.

Edit: Oh, and I almost forgot, Keanu Reeves was working out in my gym one day - he is around the 6' mark as well.

[garbon]

I think CC is right, you just see the shorties. Stephen Fry and Bill Nighy were fairly tall when I encountered them on the street.

[crazy canuck]

Bill Nighy!!! I am envious.

[Josquius]

I remember many years ago I went to see Regina Spektor at a fairly small venue. I was standing near the front.
The place was big enough there was a barrier but only half a metre after that to the stage.
When she walked out in front of me I noticed she must have been near 150cm and I couldn't help but blurt out "Woah! She's tiny!".
She definitely heard.

[Sheilbh]

I think CC is right, you just see the shorties. Stephen Fry and Bill Nighy were fairly tall when I encountered them on the street.

Nighy is a fair point - served him a cafe and he had a very precise order. Regularly see Rupert Everett too and he is normal.

Maybe it's just the small dense ones stick out in the memory.

Edit: Also Nighy was very well dressed.

[Sheilbh]

Bill Nighy!!! I am envious.

The wildest celebrity sighting I've ever had was going to see a play at Wilton's Music Hall - which is the last preserved Victorian music hall in London. Very nice East London venue:


Was having a drink in the bar downstairs before it started and realised that a few tables along were Judi Dench, Ian McKellen (who owns a local pub) and Richard E Grant

[Norgy]

Norwegian newspapers, the national ones, are full of stories about Marius Høiby. He's the son of the crown princess, but not heir to anything.

After the royal marriage back in, say 2000, he got a bit of status, though. Pampered and well-off.

He's good-looking, but the police reports and the indictment against him tells quite a tale.
Our "Little Marius" as he was called has raped like viking, beaten his girlfriends, filmed it, and gave sweet FA to each and every warning from the police.

Because he was a peripheral part of the royal family, the police didn't want to make a big fuss. This has been going on for years, and the Crown Princess, bless her drug-addled mind, found it was a good idea to ask the police to stay off the case.

Now, I am not one to talk about drug abuse or various mischief with women, but this is bad. Not quite Epstein or Prince Andrew bad, but this young man, who until last year had an apanage from the Norwegian treasury, has been living it up, beating up influencer girls (some I'd let into my pants as well), raping them, beating them. And filming it.

So. How stupid are you, mr. Høiby?

His grandfather, after the royal marriage, became a bit of a celebrity in the coloured press. He was, well, a drunkard. A liability.

Høiby is indicted on 32 accounts. I am glad I am not covering this.

[HVC]

He has a regal forehead.


Also, if I read it correctly, he's the illegitimate son of the princess? If the story was written  hundreds of years ago It'd make a good medieval tale.

[Norgy]

He has a regal forehead.


Also, if I read it correctly, he's the illegitimate son of the princess? If the story was written  hundreds of years ago It'd make a good medieval tale.

He is born out of wedlock, back when our crown princess drew lines of charlie off mens' cock for fun, yes.

The thing that irks me with the whole affair is how the police kept a lid on it for so long and that the royals tried to meddle.

There were small drips from last spring until now. "Little Marius" responded with a selfie with the front page of VG (the largest tabloid), a middle finger raised and a 12 pack of beers when his driver's license was revoked. An utter charmer.
Could not have done it better myself.

[Tonitrus]

Despite lacking an actual royal title, appears to have the physical/behavioral resemblance to Joffrey Lannister well covered.

[Josquius]

Slough - does the name make it (more?) crap or do we think the name is bad because the town is crap?