Fannish Items of Interest

[calliopes_pen]

A prequel for Doctor Who’s The Impossible Astronaut has been released.

15 sci-fi actors we’d watch in anything. I agree with almost everyone on this list, save Neal McDonough, and the ones that I’ve never heard of, like Harold Perrineau, Enver Gjokaj, and Ian McShane.

Warren Beatty retains the rights to Dick Tracy.

The Gallifrey Road t-shirt.

Bryan Singer reflects on Superman Returns.

Neil Gaiman discusses the upcoming Good Omens mini-series.

Diana Wynne Jones passed away yesterday at the age of 76, following a year-long struggle with cancer. May she rest in peace.

Comments

[calliopes_pen]

He's always seemed incredibly creepy to me. Granted, my first exposure to him was Desperate Housewives during an attempt to watch that, so that may have simply ruined him for me. Next time I spotted him was when I was watching a portion of Tin Man, and I was just waiting for him to try to kill everyone.

I just checked IMDB, and the only thing I've seen Harold Perrineau in wasn't live action, so it's understandable I don't know him. He did some voicework in an episode of Spider-Man: TAS. The shows he's in aren't shows I would watch, given that they seem to be cop shows, The Matrix, Oz, and Lost.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh, can't argue with that! The creepiness is why I like him! Really, I don't get the whole "nobility" thing that article was talking about at all. He's a steely, creepy, intense, Aryan motherfucker.

Sometimes I forget that Perrineau was also in drag as an ecstasy-dispensing Mercutio in R+J.

[veracity]

It might have to do with Neal's unwilling to bend his morality to gain a part. He's refused roles - or walked out in the middle of filming - before because it involved being intimate with another woman, like on screen sex scenes, and it tends to bleed into whatever he's doing. Even when he was playing the villain in Walking Tall, you saw how he warped the creepiness into an almost benevolence in providing things for a dying town.