Chloe Moretz on "My Name Is Earl"

It must have been years since I first saw an episode of "My Name Is Earl". I've seen many episodes, I've watched it almost regularly for some periods, then not for some time, never anything close to religiously. But there definitely is something to it. Chloe Moretz arguably started becoming a bit of a household name for me even before I've seen the movie that made her immortal in pop culture, "Kick-Ass",  which finally signed the deal for me, but probably long after my first round of watching "Earl" quasi regularly. When I started to really kind of get into Chloe, post Kick-Ass, checking out a couple of movies more or less because of her, I noticed that appearently she also was in an episode of that show. I've seen some episodes occasionally since then, but never got around to see the one with her. Lately, there are re-runs of the first season again in my country, and appearently her episode is in the first season, and damnit! I already missed it, it seems!

So one of these days, I decided to search for it on the internet, and there I got the answer to the big question that I had never actually asked: what could ever be cuter than Chloë Grace Moretz? (If you should doubt that she is that cute, and/or consider it weird that I dedicate a whole post on my blog to her cuteness, please check out this guy's posts on IMDb...) The answer is of course: A very young, super-cute, pre-teen Chloë Grace Moretz! Check out all her scenes in the aforementioned "My Name Is Earl" episode in the link below (underneath the cute pic), and tell me that she isn't totally adorable!

http://vimeo.com/36339526

This pic is epic!

There's nothing more to say! :-)

Happy Birthdays

It won't be all birthday posts as I hopefully continue this, but today is the birthday of not one, not two but at least four prominent people that I absolutely want to take the opportunity to mention, congratulate and write down some thoughts about.

Usually, it's ladies first, but today I'll go gents first, if only because it allows me to save the best for the last spot IMHO. I could also apply a saying we have in Germany, "Alter vor Schönheit", which translates to "age before beauty".

Here we go:

Dennis Quaid (60)

Sixty is a big birthday for sure. It also means he has a big career behind him, and hopefully also some ahead of him. But I won't discuss his whole filmography now, nor will I say anything about his marriage to Meg Ryan in the 90's, or remind anyone how it ended... I won't even state which of his performances is the best. I will only say for which role I will always remember him most, and I may be alone here. This clip is the closest I could find in a rather short time to my favorite quote from the 1989 movie "Great Balls of Fire":

By the way, Dennis Quaid was 35 when he played that role, but Jerry Lee Lewis is actually "only" 21 throughout most of the movie, as that is the age he was when he married Myra. Not that this makes it okay...

Belated birthday post for Alyson Hannigan

I actually wanted to post this a lot earlier, but didn't manage to come along. Still the occasion is too great to just skip it. Alyson Hannigan, pictured below, not exactly an unknown, but not really a big star either, who more and more became one of my favorite actresses during the last years, celebrated her 40th birthday on March 24th. If I had posted it on the big day itself, I would have titled the post "To Alyson on her 40th birthday", alluding to a 90's movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer that I have actually never seen, but almost two weeks later this seems ridiculous.