His performance, with the jaw dropping and the shrieking, easily could have been over the top, but he completely sells it.
"MANKIND was my business!"

He turned down the Sean Bean role in Goldeneye too.
EDIT: Apparently i made most of this up. They offered him the Walken part in View to a Kill.

Thank God Jackson rescued Ian McKellen from obscurity.

Bruce McCulloch was in a Belgian art-rock band?

Go to Elle!

One more Leo related article today and you can go for the coveted comment hat trick.

We are?

You suck. I just had to bite the hell out of my lower lip not to LOL.

You should work for PETA. You have, arguably, a valid point but you phrased it in such hyperbolic and overwrought terms that the validity is overshadowed by the ridiculousness.

That's udderly ridiculous.

PETA: Making animal rights activists look stupid since 1980.

Now fill up the internet's room with concrete, like they did to Chris Peterson.

If you're like me, the annoying thing about books like Devil in the White City is the tendency of some non-fiction writers to slip in the type of personal insights that should only exist in fiction. Phrases like "He must have been feeling…" or "Her last thoughts might have been…" really annoy me.

Doomsday Book is terrific, everything I wanted from a solid genre novel.

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. I'm about halfway through and it's good so far, but from all the raves it received I was expecting great.
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie. So far a good solid Poirot but I never know if a Christie is actually good until the end where I see if the solution makes any sense. I hate…

I suspect the author was looking for the word"Ottological" referring to the study of things that make sense to stoned bus drivers.

I read the word megachurch all deep and booming and drawn out.

She has a painting of her holes up in the attic, getting all dry and puckered.

How come those people on Gilligan's Island brought so many clothes for a three hour tour?

It had a lot of Soul.