As Tom Hiddleston’s comments about “camera phones” and “falsehoods” were going viral this weekend, it seems like Tom was on the move. Since I’m not Twitter-stalking him nor am I keeping track of Taylor’s plane, I’m going off of second- and third-hand accounts for this. Apparently, Taylor Swift’s plane was back in LA on Saturday, then the plane headed back to the East Coast, likely to Rhode Island. Basically, the theory is that Taylor sent her plane to LA to pick up Tom and now he’s back in her Rhode Island mansion, playing with the kitties and doodling in Tay-Tay’s burn book. Oh, the Daily Mail just published a photo! Bam. Tom at a private airport, boarding a private plane alone.
Tom Hiddleston jets out of LA… alone 😲 https://t.co/59HrnseIRd pic.twitter.com/xCaRJfwGgw
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) August 16, 2016
Meanwhile, Tom has said more words. Enjoy.
He really wants to do a rom-com: “I do think a rom com is possibly one of the hardest things to do because the best ones have a truthfulness about them. It is difficult to do. If you make a good one then there is no better time than that to be in the cinema. I would love to try one day.”
His favorite rom-coms: “I have two – Four Weddings and a Funeral and Pretty Woman. They are both fine movies.”
His ‘Rear of the Year’ award: “I didn’t know it was going to be on the bucket list until it happened. I’m just happy it happened. I’m happy that that’s something that has come into my life in a way that I didn’t expect. Sometimes the universe hands you something on a plate that you didn’t expect and, for me, it was the Rear of the Year award.”
[From The Mirror & the LA Times]
I hate to say it, but Four Weddings and a Funeral is a great rom-com. It’s great because the sad part is REALLY sad, like completely-sobbing sad, and there are some genuinely sweet and cute moments. I can re-watch that any time, basically. And I could see Tom in one of those Richard Curtis-type English rom-coms as well. I could not see Tom in an American-style rom-com, just because here in America, we’re killing rom-coms with tediousness. I’d much rather see Hiddles campaign for a rom-com than campaign for James Bond.
Incidentally, here’s the full video of Tom’s SAG-AFTRA talk.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Look at that photo of him at the airport, which was definitely taken with a cameraphone!
Poor thing. Hasn’t he suffered enough? What with the falsehoods and the bullying?
exactly..
Wonder how much his looking older is down to weight loss as well as hair loss.
And jet lag. He hasn’t spent more than a week in the same time zone for the past several months. During the full SAG-AFTRA interview, he appeared to be struggling to keep his eyes open at times.
I hope he is taking a daily dose of Aspirin. All that flying ain’t good for a Man of his age, dvt wise.
His looking older is because he gets too much sun and he’s a runner. The sun not only damages the skin but it also causes collagen tissue to breakdown. Hence the skinny, hungry and dehydrated look most serious runners have. So although he’s healthy, and his bod is super fit, in his profession not having a youthful look is a hindrance for the level he’s trying to be in.
He needs to hydrate and replenish his collagen. Bone broth is an excellent source as well as eating quality gelatin or supplements. That and a skin peal treatment could correct the sun damage he’s acquired over the past couple years. I’m not on twitter and don’t know how to contact him or his peeps, and I’m not sure they’re very helpful to him anyway cause they should know this and be on top of it.
addendum: Maybe he needs to work with HW management.
Looking older is actually good for men in Hollywood. He will get more juicy roles.
Gained a fair amount of hairline, to be sure.
There is no way in escaping a British hell (a lifetime of having small talk with the Queen whilst eating your own tongue from what you’re not allowed to say) without those two being your favorite movies. Never mind the message
The SAG-AFTRA interview includes Tom impersonating Idris near the very end. So, we’re continuing the Idris theme on the veranda: rum & coke, pistachios, steak, and cheesecake with dulce de leche ice cream. And we’re listening to reggae.
If we must have a rom com, yes, Four Weddings and a Funeral is one of the best of the modern era. But since the movie industry also seems obsessed with remaking what has been made before, I would love to see him do an updated version of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last. I want to see Tom hang off a clock face.
Current music playing is Maxi Priest’s ‘Housecall’ with Shabba Ranks rapping and belting out about ‘fast pretenders’.
Rum and coke please……
MAXI PRIEST! Another of my boos.
I haven’t seen Safety Last. I will have to check it out. I do wish that we could get more original movies, as opposed to regurgitating old movies over and over. Unless it’s Spider-Man, because Tom Holland is all I’ve ever wanted in a Spider-Man and I am so glad that is happening.
I’ll be by later to enjoy the Idris themed refreshment. Anything Idris has to be wonderful. Taking my little girl to see her kindergarten class today and I am going to sob through the whole thing (and my Mother is coming along to record the sobbing for Mr. Abby_J to see.) Not sure if I am sobbing that my baby is starting real school next week, or sobbing for her poor teacher. 😉 Either way, I’ll need a drink. Haha!
Oh Abby_J, I wish I could say I feel ya, but after three months of near constant refereeing and pulling them off screens, I’ll be doing this on Thursday:
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Haha! I hear it gets easier to say goodbye. 🙂
I still have a little guy at home, but the week after next he starts preschool and as sad as I am about that, the idea of having a few hours a day to myself is quite appealing. I would say that perhaps I will use the time to write the next great American novel, but the reality is that I will probably just do laundry and watch Law & Order re-runs.
Sixlet Major went off to school without even a second glance. I felt quite bereft and snivelly for about ten seconds and then did a Bonzo leap of I’M FREE, I’M FREE. When it came to Sixlet Minor’s turn, it was Mr Sixer who was doing all the to-ing and fro-ing and most of the home stuff, so I told him all would be well and it would be only Mr Sixer having a brief little snivel. OH NOES! Sixlet Minor turned out to be one of those kids who clung on to father, door, anything and sobbed his heart out at being left. It went on for a month. Mr Sixer was nearly dead of stress by the end of it, poor thing. Sixlet Minor doesn’t even remember now and flatly denies he did any such thing!
I think I had a couple of tears in my eyes as I was walking away after dropping them off at preschool, back when I was still working full-time. They got my independent and adventurous streak apparently, because they have never cried on the first day of school… and neither have I!
The hardest part is getting myself back into a routine those first few days when I’m feeling my independence. I want to drive into the big city and paint the town or sit on my ass and watch TV shows!
Wtf is a sixlet major?
Oh my girl was super excited. She marched her little self right in the classroom and right up to her teacher and put out her hand to introduce herself. She further informed the teacher that she was very good in math and knew how to read easy books (she reads super easy books to her little brother a lot), so if the teacher needs help with the other kids, she’ll volunteer. Ugh. My kid is something else, and just like her father. We got that on video for him. Haha!
I managed not to even get teary, but surprisingly, my mom did! I guess she’s having flashbacks. We’ll see what happens on Monday when I drop her off.
Yay Abby!
Tray – Sixlet Major is my older son; Sixlet Minor is my younger son. SixLET being a mini Sixer and Major and Minor being me messing about laughing at the British class system (they used to call siblings Major and Minor at elite public schools here).
Abby, bring the tissues on Monday. That’s when it hits ya.
We just got back my daughter’s meet & greet where she was bouncing around the classroom like a ping pong ball, stopping only long enough to snag the bubble gum and stickers from the gift bag on her desk. I’m glad she gets three recesses still, ’cause she’s gonna need them to burn off that energy!
My sister just called in tears. She took her little one to “orientation” today. My little niece walked in to the class room, greeted the teacher and then told my sister “you get out now!”
@Lilacflowers, you always offer the best selection of buffets, and I hope both Mark and Colin will be on duty to schlep said beverages to our ever thirsty lips. I expect them to be wearing smart, tailored shorts, and dicky bow ties, along with starched cuffs, and nothing else! A pinny is allowed, as long as it doesn’t cover the chest. I am in dire need of the pick-me-up, I have just had a bunch of navvies arrive at the house, and they have begun smashing up my side passage, and shifting dirt in readiness to pour me a concrete side path. I shouldn’t complain, but Mr Antipodean arranges these things, and then buggers off to work, and I am left to dispense water bottles, and generally play mine host! I am not best pleased and need your verandah to cheer me up.
As for the thought of our LEGS in a rom/com, if Hugh Grant can do it endlessly to some effect, then I don’t see why Tom can’t. All it needs is a writer of the calibre of Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, or Rowan Atkinson, maybe?
Both Colin and Mark are on their way. Along with our groundskeeper Matthias Schoenarts. He’ll deal with those navvies and set your grounds right.
“All it needs is a writer of the caliber of Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, or Rowan Atkinson, maybe?”
Too true. Although I think he needs to be more well known to be the lead, but a juicy supporting character – hell yeah. And Richard Curtis has a total man crush on Tom. He couldn’t stop talking how handsome Tom is in the War Horse Q&A with Empire.
@lilac, lovely spread and choice of musique. I’d like to order some nice, warm bone broth for my dear Tommy, and I’ll have a mojito which fits perfectly with the Caribbean theme, and it’s my favorite drink.
@Lilacflowers, you are a lifesaver, and a little drop of Matthias is always welcome, I am sure he will put everything right, quick smart.
“The SAG-AFTRA interview includes Tom impersonating Idris near the very end.”
Speaking as a fan of Elba, thanks for the trigger warning.
What a ridiculous person Tom Hiddleston is.
Umm, why?
He´s not on RI. She arrived in the plane alone:
https://instagram.com/p/BJKtGtPgG0e/
Well, Tom jumped out during the flight. There´s a parachute in his bag he´s carrying with him all the time. 😀
I´m nervous – where is Tom? Where are they? When will he go back to OZ?
Am I addicted to Hiddleswift? OMG :-O
She is playing with the tabloids who knows or he is already on the plane as this video show she is boarding the plane no getting out or going together to OZ
Ok, so she sent the plane to LA, he boarded there on Sat. afternoon alone, the plane landed on RI and she boarded there, too. So are they on their way to Oz together? Hmmm…
Pictures, I need pictures!!! 😀
I can’t believe the tumblr idiocy came here. And I’m ashamed of myself for watching the pap video but it shows her walking up steps on a loop three times. It doesn’t show her leaving the plane. . The logical (which is the anti-thesis of all things tumblr) conclusion a sane person would come to is that the paparazzi was kicked off the property before Tom (and Taylor) left the plane.
I think the private plane and floral bag indicates they are spending time together and whatever confusion the pap photos create are meant to keep stalkers off their scent. She’s probably accustomed to hiring other jets when she truly wants to hide from the public.
At least he’s gotten it through his bank vault thick skull that pap walks with the Forever 13 Mean Girl isn’t good for his campaign and he’s pulling back on the in-your-face PR. Too late to save his dignity now that the awkward rock snogging, concert chaperoning, family papping, throat baring and t-shirt photos are out there, but better late than never, I suppose.
Take deep breaths.
🙂
That’s a very high definition camera phone at that airport 😉
Also surprised that he didn’t go with Bridget Jones’s Diary. After all, it’s Pride & Prejudice.
*spits tea all over keyboard*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. He’s totally trolling us now. He’s saying he was never in a desperado-level campaign for Bond and to prove it, he’s going to introduce us to his desperado-level campaign to be the new Hugh Grant.
But Tommy will be a much more unicorn version of Hugh Grant. Instead of dodgy doings in cars and multiple concurrent baby-producing relationships, he will give us t-shirts, water slides, throat-baring and… BUILD-A-BEAR.
You left out choux pastry swans. One must never forget the choux pastry swans in fudge. How could you forget fudge?
@Sixer
hahaha yep I was thinking the same!
He’s the gift that keeps on giving lol
Oh lord. Yes. Choux pastry swans. Hugh never did those. LEGS has a very full rom-com stall to set out.
And sour pap face, instead of throwing baked beans and kicking paps.
I’ve just looked up Build a Bear, and there’s 2 in London which I’ve managed to avoid up to now.
And pedal boat rides
Don’t forget the swan boat ride!
Ffs, all this Hiddles nonsense has really run its course. Just incredibly boring and played out! Hopefully everyone will be ready to move on by Fall.
Taylor and Tom are almost as dull and predictable as the 100th Celebitchy commenter for the day LITERALLY laughing so hard that they can’t help spitting tea/coffee/water/booze all over yet another poor, abused keyboard.
That is how sincerely funny this all is. Full grown adults just can’t keep liquids in their mouths. Hilarious stuff folks. :/
I would say FREE THE KEYBOARD and start a campaign with at least a change.org petition or two. But no. My keyboard has a life of its own, dontchaknow. It delights in disrupting my day. But it will never stop me enjoying myself and entertaining some people while irritating others. Such is BTL, don’t you think?
Agree @Sixer. @Hahaha, live up to your name, why don’t you?
Speaking for myself only, Hiddles that hath branded himself the fool, shall remaineth the fool.
I’m struggling to unsee that porch shot with their foreheads gently touching. Their love spilling so sweetly as he ever so slightly tilts the cup from which he’s been drinking…
Back to reality. That photo was taken with a phone camera. That’s what he said in his interview so it must be true. Oh, to have a phone camera like that.
My keyboard is spit free.
I would agree that the fun ran out on TIDDLES weeks ago, but what continues to have me in endless giggles is the comments on the gossip sites. DL is particularly entertaining to read during this season as they are bored out of their gourds with these two (“This relationship is as exciting as Wonderbread soaked in skim milk.”) and wondering what the fuss over Tom is all about (“Unflavored room-temperature gelatin again!?!”).
Someone over there has dubbed them “Hiddy-Us”.
I need a new bingeworthy TV show that’s NOT currently on cable.
“Back to reality. That photo was taken with a phone camera. That’s what he said in his interview so it must be true.”
What photo? Where did he say that?
My keyboard, I am afraid, is not spit free. My keyboard and I have a volatile relationship.
But I agree with Bonzo: if we want to get happy and sniggering mileage out of any celebrity goings-on, why on earth not? It’s fun!
Sixer and I are in agreement. Celebrities are put on this earth for our entertainment. That is their PURPOSE IN LIFE. Who am I gonna snigger at, if not them?
lmao he is just like Grant, whom I’ve never liked either. No fire in them.
There is a Build-a-Bear in Providence, RI. I’m off this week. I could travel down to Westerly and drive past her house repeatedly with a “Follow Me to Build-a-Bear!” sign on the roof of my Bug. I’m sure my cousin down in Coventry would accompany me joyfully on this serious mission. Afterwards, I could steer them towards Federal Hill and a romantic spaghetti and meatballs dinner a la Disney’s Lady & the Tramp. Must steer them away from College Hill, lest Thomas realize he is near Emma Watson’s old dorm and start acting out scenes from Harry Potter or something. That just wouldn’t do. Which means my cousin will have to stay home. Danny Amendola lives on College Hill and there would be no keeping her from Danny Amendola’s house.
Hmm, maybe Taylor would like Danny Amendola? No, wait, with Brady suspended, the Patriots have enough problems.
I suspect I might be the only person alive who loathes and detests RomComs…Four Weddings made me bilious, everyone said it was good, I sat there bemused wondering what the fuss was about. Then I got angry at the upper class twits and general twattery of the whole thing.
Watched the first 15 mins of Notting Hill, then turned it off in a rage, and totally refused at the first fence when it came to Love Actually.
Friends gasp in shock when I say I have never seen Love Actually, ditto Dirty Dancing or any other twatty shite you care to mention.
So there bollocks to all of them. Rant over.
P.S: TH might be thinking I know, Women love Romcom’s, all right they’re all laughing at me now, but I’ll get ’em back onside with a load of twaddle about Four Weddings etc.
Say it how you see it why don’t you, Shelly?!
Mind you, I pretty much concur on rom-coms. I’m useless at sappy. What I want to know is how you have avoided watching when I seem to have been forced through thousands of the bloody things. Tell me your secret!
I simply refuse to watch them, and if someone puts one on I retire to another part of the house.
When someone tried to make me watch dirty dancing, I simply took their dog for a long walk.
I don’t know why they make me so angry, but they just do.
I think I have issues, romcom issues.
I think I am just used to deferring to the sister mafia of my aunties at Christmas time and during other family gatherings. So if they want to watch rom-coms, I watch ’em. Same with comic book movies. If the kids want to watch, I just sigh and let ’em. The appeal of both genres baffles me. Not to the extent of getting ragey, though!
shelly, I stopped watching them after the mid-90’s because I saw them as so unrealistic in their portrayal of romantic relationships. Guy chases girl who is playing hard-to-get… won’t stop the pursuit until she says yes?? I’ve never seen this in my lifetime. Men back down and move on at the first sign of rejection and those women remain ALONE for years until they learn to open up and give the not-so-gorgeous-but-will-treat-you-like-a-queen ones a chance.
I don’t watch them for the same reason I don’t read romance novels. I’m too much of a realist to suspend disbelief when it comes to romance. So I get why they would make you ragey.
The one exception was When Harry Met Sally. Still my favorite feel-good, laugh-out-loud, quotable movie. I never tire of that one.
Lol Bonzo maybe I overreacted but I can’t help it. I also hate the assumption that because I have a vagina, I must love Romcoms.
Its annoying.
I’m exactly the same way! I was forced to watch Love Actually and it’s definitely on my top 10 least favourite movies list.
I’ve happily managed to avoid Four Weddings and Dirty Dancing so far.
Lucky you Deanna, Four Weddings is a car crash of crap. imo.
Kate Hudson, Katherine Heigl, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston – who are these people?
I think it partly depends on the definition. Some fantastic films are romantic comedies – It Happened One Night, The Seven Year Itch, Roman Holiday. And the Doris Day ones are cute. But these modern day allegedly chick flick stuff – count this “chick” out. I usually avoid them, but I enjoyed Four Weddings; but even the premise of Pretty Woman is fairly offensive.
The classic ones are good. The modern ones are not.
Yes Annetommy, those old classics are not so bad.
Maybe it’s just the likes of Hugh Grant who make me angry.
Does Some Like it Hot count as a rom-com? It’s a permanent fave of mine.
I enjoyed Four Weddings, but for some reason never really saw it as a rom-com. Can one have a crush on a building? Because I’ve been in love with the church used for the fourth wedding since I first saw the film twenty years ago. I literally squealed when I saw it used as a location in Suffragette. Aside from Helena Bonham-Carter, it was by far my favorite part of that film.
You all have named some of my all-time favorite movies (classics). The newer rom-come pale by comparison, IMO.
@Dara, the church for the 4th wedding? The Hugh Grant and Duck face wedding? St. Bartholomew the Great. Both Hiddleston sisters got married there.
@Dara, “Some Like It Hot” is considered a “screwball comedy”. The genre started in the 30’s and continued through the 40s; it’s those decades’ RomCom.
“It Happened One Night”, “Bringing Up Baby”, “Philadelphia Story”… some of the greatest movies come from that time/genre. (Film was an area of my studies in college, and the screenings/discussions of these films were the best part 😊 ).
Does Truly, Madly, Deeply count as a romcom? That’s worth watching. Try it.
TMD is much, much better than that. Truly one of my favorite films. TommyAnnE does not have the chops for anything like this.
Just wondering if it counts as a romcom. I consider it GREAT whatever category it fits in.
Oh, I need to seek this one out. Just reading the synopsis made me a bit teary.
Omg, to me it does, and it is one of the best! It’s a cut above the rest, starting with the cast. Juliet gives such a fine performance at her therapist’s office early on and I was just so bowled over by it. It felt very real. She definitely ugly cried.
Truly, Madly, Deeply is one of my favorite films.
I can promise Shelly that she’d hate Truly Madly Deeply.
With commiserations from another rom-com hater.
@Suzanne, that is a GREAT film! I so miss Alan Rickman!!
Have you seen He’s Just Not That Into You?
I think the endings were sappy but I think it’s important for some women to see. If a guy doesn’t text back…
No, you’ re not the only one, I have seen a few (because I was forced) and… nope! Not my thing! I’ m lucky I have only a couple of female friends who enjoy them, most of them are like me and prefer other genres. And I’ ve never met a man who said “Hey, let’ s go catch a movie, there’ s this rom-com I am DYING to see!”, so I have never had problems avoiding them. Not that they’ re emotionless jerks who can appreciate drama, but they (and I) get sappy watching medieval armies battling, not two idiots getting together after two hours of terrible misunderstandings.
I also have a general aversion to rom coms. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain is the closest thing to one that I like. And Grabbers.
I no longer know how to take Tom. I’m just…I don’t even know
Take him for the disappointing, tacky, fame-seeking allegedly victimized joke that he has become.
@Maya, I said this on another thread but the Summer of Tiddles has completely killed my ladyboner for him. The ladyboner had gone flaccid in the past due to his dancing bear antics, but before Tiddles he was solidly back on my five list. Now, I still like him as an actor, but otherwise I completely agree with everything you’ve characterized him as. Definitely disappointing.
Or, take him for the “disappointing, tacky, fame-seeking allegedly victimized joke” you make him out to be.
He doesn’t either
At least not until TayTay’s PR tell him how to take himself.
I always liked Pretty Woman, rewatched it so many times… but I didn’t like 4 weddings and a funeral, maybe too sad or too English for me to get the humour of it?
It is bad I can’t see Hiddles doing a rom-com of that kind? Maybe it’s TayTo or how he comes across but I see him in an over-the-top rom-com, like The Notebook….
The only thing I remember about Four Weddings was all the sex. That was scandalously interesting to me at six.
Yeah, same here. I just couldn’t get into 4 Weddings and a Funeral. I liked Bridget Jones’s Diary, Pretty Woman, and Love Actually.
Same. All I can remember about 4 Weddings is that I couldn’t get into it. I think it’s too British or sappy for me. Pretty Woman was more entertaining but completely formulaic. I would not wish that on TH, bad move. Now Bridget Jones I could see him in. After all Mr. Darcy is in it.
Maybe he could play Darcy’s illegitimate son that he never knew about from a little dalliance as a teenager. And during a drunken escapade of self pity Bridget “accidentally” sleeps with him (insert butt scene) before they find out they’re related.
I gotta get on this. Sap.
Hmmm….the kept man….what a cliche. Even his rom-com movie choices are an effing cliche!
I must say that I find Tom to be such a shadow of his former self. He joined Instagram because he’s campaigning for an Emmy. He is also avoiding being photographed with Taylor because he doesn’t want that to overshadow his campaigning. I am just astounded at how pathetic he has become. He really will struggle to garner half the attention he ever did because his whole attitude of victim-hood is exhausting.
‘He joined Instagram because he’s campaigning for an Emmy’
OMG! He did not….!??!!
Yes, he did, in Loki costume. And he’s following 17 people!!
I’m afraid he did.
Didn’t he join Instagram because Marvel encourage social media exposure and Tom is always happy to shill for a movie/company. The Emmy promotion tour is just lucky timing for Tom.
Most of the people he is following are associated more with Marvel promo stuff.
LOL @ Sixer
I didn’t know IG was giving out Emmys.
I… don’t know where all that attitude of victimhood is?… The all thing reads like a pretty generalist commentary on celebrity culture, and that’s it.
Also, Tom always used social media to promote his work. Be it now, be it when he first joined Twitter, around the first Thor, I think. Much like, well, most actors working on Marvel. The main ones working on Thor right now, all posted some sort of picture promoting their work in the movie. What’s the objective of singling out Tom for doing something all the other ones are doing as well?…
He’s a shadow of his former self? In what way?
Apparently they must all be trying to get an Emmy. But Tom is particularly guilty because of when he got on IG and because his 1st pic wasn’t “cool”, oh and not posting pics of TS makes him disingenuous because he’s hiding. I think there’s more, but my head is starting to hurt.
Funny how he mentioned the ‘truthfulness’ of Romcoms, wtf is he on about ?
Has Taytay infected his brain to the point where he thinks Hugh Grant, errming and umming over some posh tart, is real life?
Or this just his new narrative re: falsehoods and truthfulness ?
Gah why am I so angry today ?
Oh yeah and he looks like a prim maiden Aunt in that last picture. Man up Tommy, or me and you are through.
Just as true to life as the successful business man ending up with Julia Roberts character and deviating, against all reasonable advice, away from the strategy that made him successful.
It is a strange time in Tom’s world with all these people chasing him with their camera phones and falsehoods. Hmmm, maybe that’s what his RomCom could be about.
Do you think Tiddles will follow the script of Pretty Women because TH loves it so much and believes its plots are authentic and no falsohood involved and he just committs?
But he would be in the prostitute role, right? Because Tay is obviously the mega-rich entrepreneur.
This is ninja Shelly we are seeing today!
But you are right. You can word salad the life out of Shakespeare and get away with it. You can even word salad the life out of the way Bond is emblematic of the British psyche (even though it isn’t and you’re fifty years out of date) and get away with it, especially to a non-British audience.
But you will NOT be able to word salad the life out of the rom-com genre and not get laughed at by everyone. Won’t. Ever. Happen.
Too right Sixer…He could do a foreign language film, in ENGLISH !!!
His verbosity is on another level. I’d still bang him though.
Yeah, the “truthfulness of rom-coms” had me laughing out loud when I read it yesterday. I’m sure he said it with all EARNESTNESS, bless his heart.
I didn’t even bother watching the video. Just reading his ridiculous word salads is entertaining enough.
I am not sure where he is getting “truthfulness” from rom coms. They always struck me as mostly about fantasy.
and falsehood from real life…lol
Tom said that only the best ones have “a” truthfullness, and that’s why they are so hard to do. Not that there’s truth in rom-coms in general.
Sssh! We must not interject reality.
there haven’t been many good romcoms in a while… ha I asked my husband to name a recent one and he said “does train wreck count? it was a love story.”
yeah….I could handle a Hiddles romcom though more than hiddleswift, which activates my gag reflex
Well I suppose the contract had terms for TayTay to cover transport costs for PR Crisis Talks.
Bond definitely off the table and angling for the new Hugh Grant – TayTay getting her safety-pin dress ready as we speak.
I can see TH in a Curtis style ensemble Brit lives-cross Rom-Com as 2nd/3rd male lead, but I don’t see him carrying one of the two main leads ‘boy meets girl’ type. His rapid ageing isn’t helping as he’s not aging to debonair, more the ok geography teacher who teen girls have a slight crush on until the hot, young art teacher starts after the Summer.
I fear Tom would be destined to be “a friend” in a Rom-Com.
Tom needs to forget his lust for AList movie lead stardom and get in on a Netflix original or a Showtime series.
Dippit! Been looking for you!
Firstly – on topic: Hugh succeeded at the Curtis stuff because there was a layer of self-mockery at the poshie chinless wonder type. LEGS wants to see everything, especially himself, as heroic, so I don’t think he could pull it off. A more American flavour of rom-com? Maybe.
Off topic: I have been reported to Labour’s NEC for hate speech! This is because I said an MP was behaving in a “clownish fashion” and despite my pointing out that a) so far as I know clowns are not a protected group, b) clownish is not an adjective associated with hate speech and c) I am not a member of the Labour Party. The reporter could not understand that there was therefore little point in her report. SIGH (and GUFFAW).
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Bravo, Sixer. At least now that you’ve watched Locked Up, you know what to expect.
Do they let you have wifi when they throw you in the slammer??
Just make sure you put your hand over your heart when you hear the national anthem, any national anthem, and stick “under God” into every sentence you utter. You’ll be okay.
And wear a flag pin. Preferably one made in China. Don’t forget the flag pin!
I replied to you about hands and hearts on the other thread!
Honestly. This is the state of British politics. The whole thing has gone up in flames. Everyone has truly lost their mind: on every side. How can you ask a political party to expel someone who doesn’t belong to it because they criticise a representative? And seriously believe that it’s even possible, let alone desirable? Whatever happened to winning over potential voters? That, ladies and gents, is the point we have reached.
We now have Trump announcing that as part of his foreign policy, he would deny admission to anyone from a nation with a history of terrorism. I guess he’ll be barring everyone from Britain, Spain and France if he gets in what with the history of the IRA and Basque separatism. And World War I started with an act of terrorism, didn’t it? There goes all of Europe.
Sixer – been off enjoying my garden for a few hours.
Right, so I need more details, DESPITE the obviously ridiculous aspect of reporting you as YOU’RE NOT CARD CARRYING!
Assuming Twitter interaction? Assuming a Corbynista? Which MP? … actually Jings I really need to read this interaction. For a wing of the Party rife with anti-Semitism are we to become sensitive of anti-Clownism… ?
I need so many details?
Give me keywords to Twitter search and maybe I can find you, if you want me to that is?
I was told by a Corbynista on Sunday that I should be expelled because Ruth Davidson liked one of my tweets… it was a silly tweet about the Murray Match and a Twitter spy-ring… but RD liking it must mean I’m a Tory.
LOL Dippit! I always knew you were a Thatcherite under the bed!
It was Facebook, which is unusual for me as I don’t spend much time there aside from the odd dutiful liking of photos posted by relatives. Yes, Corbynista! I am actually, and genuinely, a bit worried by the idea that MPs are no more than party delegates and I do think everyone should be disabused of this notion asap. But it seems I can’t say that while also liking a lot of the Corbyn policy platform. Also, am seriously worried that both sides – including the non-Corbynistas who keep going on about electability – seem to have no idea that they are carrying out this civil war on social media in the full view of VOTERS, who will have no truck with any of them. I might not like the Tories much, but they are not this stupid.
The independence referendum was like this, wasn’t it? Ruth Davidson is actually a very good politician. Her only problem is that I fundamentally disagree with her about most things!
Just for Sixer – you might find this of interest
https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/questions-all-jeremy-corbyn-supporters-need-to-answer-b3e82ace7ed3#.onlxnt2au
Dippit – yep, read it. Fair questions – and Owen generally gets on my nerves because he tries to cover all bases. He thinks he’s brave. I think he has splinters in his bum from all the fence-sitting. Even so, it’s telling how much stick he got for that article, isn’t it? I gather the Corbyn press operation has improved of late but I still think Seamus Milne should go. I often wonder if there would have been such acrimony had there been no Milne.
“I fear Tom would be destined to be “a friend” in a Rom-Com.”
I fear he would too. On paper, you’d think he’d be ideal rom-com material but there’s just something a bit dry and sexless about him.
Although looking at pic.2 above, stick a wig and a frock on him and he could perhaps play the matching-making (maiden) aunt of the lead female?
Is The Borgias a show by Showtime? also Penny Dreadful? no Tom is not good enough for shows like these
Penny Dreadful would be familiar territory for Tom. Yes PD has very good acting, but he is a good character actor as can be seen by Loki, and he’s done period pieces. I think he’s capable of upping his game to PD level. It’s there, but he needs to work with a good director (actor’s director) to bring it out of him. Some directors don’t give a lot of dramatic direction if at all.
I think Tom and Branah worked well together cause they had a an established relationship and understood each other. And they used the whole Shakespeare canon to reference and communicate dramatic instruction, character identity and motivations.
Same goes for The Borgias. Reference Hollow Crown, Coriolanus and Loki.
Only Tom has been saying he would like to do a rom-com, at least from back in October 2015, while promoting Crimson Peak.
“I’d really love to see if I could do a romantic comedy, because I think they’re really challenging and I think it would be really fun.”
He could do rom-coms if they’re the right ones, but he’s not famous enough to be the lead. He hasn’t established himself in the mainstream as a personality type to be cast ‘off-type’ to create the comedy element. He’s not slap stick comedy actor so he needs to play against type. I don’t think he should do rom-coms yet. It wouldn’t make sense at this point unless it’s as 2nd or 3rd lead.
Good for him! He can be the next Hugh Grant and I don’t know if that is a good or bad thing.
I just don’t see Tom as the star of a RomCom, but I really want to see Chris Hemsworth give it a whirl. I don’t know why. I sat watching Ghostbusters a few weeks ago, thinking that he’d be great in one. His character isn’t even close to a RomCom guy, but there ya go.
Maybe he’s realized that the action star isn’t gonna be a big thing, so he’s looking for a different direction?
Four Weddings and a Funeral was great, even though I have a weird strong dislike of Andie MacDowell, and have no idea why. It was still a good movie. I can’t believe Love Actually wasn’t mentioned by him, given its like the definitive English actors movie. It was also the only movie that made me dislike a character that Alan Rickman was playing.
I appear to be in the small minority that hated Pretty Woman. I just thought it was awful from beginning to end, and I can’t see why it was so popular. I’ve accepted that I am alone in that particular feeling. Even my husband didn’t hate it as much as I do. I guess I am weird.
I despised Pretty Woman. My cousins think it is the most fantastic film ever made and want to watch it all the time. I run from the room.
+1
Hate Pretty Woman too.
Oh yay! So glad to know that I am not alone!
The best thing about it was the outfit she wore to the polo match.
My favorite version of Pretty Woman is Dwight’s reenactment on The Office.
Pretty Woman is pretty awful.
I second Chris Hemsworth doing the romcom thing! Saw Ghostbusters last night and he was veryyyyyyyyyy easy on the eyes. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of him in a romantic setting 😍😍😊
I know, right? He’d be fun to watch. I bet he could do it, too. He was really funny.
CHems is only funny because he’s playing against type. Hunky, heartthrob playing the bimbo love interest to the lady heros.
I ALSO have a strong negative feelings about Andie MacDowell and yet she is in 2 of my favorite movies (4 Weddings and St Elmo’s Fire). She has no charisma; she’s a beautiful empty shell of an actress.
The last rom/com I remember liking is The Holiday- and that’s mostly because of Jude Law (sigh and swoon) and Kate Winslet (who is perfect in every way). Cameron Diaz I can leave.
I could see him starring in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (b/c it’s Shakespeare that he seems to be comfortable in).
I can’t picture him convincingly playing lead in a modern rom com at all.
Really, I could actually see him in a Bridget Jones sequel. I think he’d be perfect in those modern rommys, but as I said before, he’s not famous enough to be the lead.
Four Weddings is great except for Andi McDowell, who is a terrible, terrible actress and ruins all the scenes she is in.
And Pretty Woman glorifies prostitution, plus Julia Roberts. Enough said.
Man, I am sour this morning.
Came here to say exactly this, right down to Andie McDowell.
Where’s the love for When Harry Met Sally? It still holds up after all these years. And the best part? Billy Crystal as the romantic lead! Who’da thunk it?!
My sentiments exactly. The greatest rom-com of them all is When Harry Met Sally. I can’t respect a man who would prefer to do Pretty Woman over that.
Harrumph.
Nope, I hate When Harry Met Sally. Haven’t watched it in a decade or more.
Another film I cannot sit through.
That, and Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail are my faves… great actors, great chemistry, great writing.
came here to admit something… i did start watching more of tom’s films recently because of tiddles! i already loved him as loki and on ‘only lovers left alive’ but got more curious about his filmography after this whole (pr) romance…
gotta say, i do luv a dude who digs rom-coms though
I might be able to overcome my Romcom hatred to see, ‘When Tommy met Taytay’…
Seeing La Swift, attempting to fake an orgasm in a local eatery could be worth it.
Maybe that’s her plan to break into acting. Romcoms are light hearted frothy fun, and if Andie McDowell can do it, well then so can TS.
I am liking him less with every passing day. I used to work in domestic violence, and “Pretty Woman” with its ludicrous idealization of the “tart with the heart of gold” theme is one of the movies that make me angriest in all of cinema history.
I think Tom has always been shallow, it just didn’t show under the veneer of Shakespeare, Rada, his double First in Classics from Cambridge, but I think he’s totally into wealth and glamor and tinsel. Swift is a horror. He’s a shallow t**t.
I’m so confused.
The thing that amazes me is the sense of entitlement of the stans…they are mortally offended that Tom “lied” when he said he was going back to Oz in 48 hours…which, as it turns out, he didn’t actually say.
No matter what sort of fuckery this “relationship” is – and I am still firmly in the NO camp – he doesn’t owe anyone an accounting of his time or who he spends it with and where. The obsession with this borders on virtual stalking. Tracking planes?? Analyzing pap videos?? C’mon.
He may be acting like an idiot (or maybe he’s NOT acting!), but damn, some people really need to CTFO.
Thank you. Yes, the sense of entitlement is truly disturbing.
I am actually so fascinated by this I am going to use this as research and write about it. I’m not kidding. It’s a phenomena created by the instant gratification social media provides. Celebrity and fame has changed disproportionately because of it. Scary.
And it isn’t just teen-aged girls; these are adults! It isn’t as if he would be spending his time with any one of them if he weren’t going wherever it is he went . And none of them actually know where he went.
But Lilac if they know where he is going they could turn up and bump into him, accidently on purpose, dropping all the Shakespeare folios they are carrying and spilling out of their tops, Barbra Windsor style.
Then Tom could help them to their feet and brush them down.
Then he’d realise he never wanted Taylor Swift at all, he wants a real woman, with a Shakespeare brain, and big tits.
Hang on I think I just wrote a Romcom…Shame on me.
I am glad I am not the only one to accidentally fall into the lunatics bin on Twitter. It instantly reminded me of Misery and I got out quickly.
@shelly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the accuracy of that romcom.
@Shelly: Sounds like the modern version of Jo March running into Professor Bhaer in the movie! (My autocorrect put ‘bear’ lol)
MI6, Lilac
I think it’s interesting that a large proportion of the adult population seems to be devolving-by-social-media, too. The Sixlets don’t behave like this online. They also seem to have very thick skins and will often say, “Oh take no notice. That’s just a saddo. Don’t even bother replying.” Or similar.
I wonder if they have inherited my rhino hide for this sort of thing or whether the younger generation has grown up with social media so they are better at avoiding the pitfalls.
I know right??? I made the mistake of reading some of the Twitter meltdown about the 48 hours “lie” last night and I’m pretty sure I’m dumber now.
Lies! Betrayal! Forgery! Yes, forgery, and when asked to explain, one Twitterperson said his persona from 1981 to 2015 was the “forgery.” All the way back to 1981, it seems. Damn, baby Hiddles — way to commit early to the long con!
Ha Ha there are some proper loons about.
I demand to know the blokes plans for the next 20 years, and if there are any deviations I will feel betrayed and there WILL be consequences.
Did he forge his birth certificate like Obama? Was he actually born in Kenya too?
@lilacflowers, I believe he probably did, as he was apparently a forgery mastermind even back then. That would explain why his birth certificate is written entirely in finger paint.
@Ennui, and are we even sure those were his own fingers doing the painting? He could have hired someone or even controlled someone to do it using just his thought waves. OMG, he tricked Dominic into doing it for him.
Ooh, plot twist! I can practically hear the score from The Omen as we discuss this!
Perhaps we’ve said too much…
There’s no way that 1981 to 2015 con job twitterperson is not trolling.
@LambofLoom, one would hope, but unfortunately it didn’t read like that was the case. She was…let’s say…passionate.
I WANT a “Damn, baby Hiddles — way to commit early to the long con!” tshirt.
I was really surprised at how much of the hoopla had infected Twitter. Usually, it’s a lot of fawning and reposting of old pictures, but there was a full on meltdown there last night.
Of course he’s going to allow someone else to mislead his watchers as to his plans. Tom’s a pro at lying without actually stating anything untruthful. It’s one of his talents!
It sounds even worse than my (political) Twitter feed! People should chill and enjoy the fun, whether they’re stanning or mocking.
The political feeds, as ridiculous as they can be, are at least about something that affects the general population. I came home from a really fun concert last night (X, in fine form, although a lot of their stuff tends to sound the same after an hour – and Exene is looking quite rough) to see this lunacy all over twitter and instagram.
I usually miss all this stuff because the only place I do celebrity gossip or news is here, and sometimes the Datalounge. I’ve never been a fan (in the stanning sense of seeking out news or updates) of anyone. So the level of detail and the personal outrage that people feel always comes as a bit of a shock. I just read what Kaiser writes and either think of a joke or have a moan up if it’s a topic that gets my goat!
It is um… strange.
Exactly, Sixer.
I did try to reply to you upthread (Re: The Party) but I think it went way too off-topic so didn’t post. Which is fair enough, just don’t want to appear rude and have you think I was ignoring you.
OMG, I just left my usual Twitter (Political) territory out of curiosity – THE former(?) Stans had a #tomhiddlestonisaliarparty
???
Blimey. I looked. Won’t be doing that again. Lilac is right – at least wading into political stuff has a point in that it might make one’s country a better place. Celeb gossip should be for fun. Not for all this nonsense.
Gotta agree with you MI6. I don’t quite get how every move he makes, every word he says is so alternately laughable or despicable. I know it’s gossip but it seems so OTT. Oh, well, this too shall pass.
Flipping heck, someone else is trying to steal my sensible crown!
I am just waxing philosophical today, Spidey. The crown is yours to keep 😉
So gracious, thank you. 🙂
i just have the feeling that next time someone asked him about his fav romcom, his answer would be different, just like every time he was asked about his fav Shakespeare work, his answer was inconsistent
I am the same way. I guess my favorites change with my mood. Or I just have so many that I just pick the first one that comes to mind.
Regarding TH’s limited wardrobe, I am starting to enjoy how the tabloid writers wax eloquently in describing his duds. They also have taken to noticing his muscular build and height, to change it up a bit. I wonder how long they can keep ” word salading” his 4 Items of apparel before saying eff it here is Old man Tiddles wearing the dog out of the same thing he has been wearing for a year now .
That is one thing I commend him for. I mean, to buy a $500 pair of shoes and only wear them a few times. What a waste. I really dislike watching the “divas” show off there closets with hundreds of pairs of shoes and purses, or the men with their hundreds of pairs of sneakers.
And I guess this behavior is similiar to mine. I find my favorite pieces of clothing and seem to wear them only.
Agree with all this. It’s funny I see quite a lot of commenters on those sites defending Tom and giving him a lot of props for being a normal guy about his clothes. I’m sure many of them are men. lol
@Chef Grace.
‘The hunky English actor looked fit and buff, as he was pictured bording the plane, in his form fitting sweater, and snug jeans’
The next day.
‘The English hunk, famed for his pared down style, exited the plane in a tight sweater and well worn jeans, which showcased his gym honed physique’
That sort of thing ?
Yepper. You did that well Shelly 🙂
The only thing i am finding enjoyable to read as the jet stalkers of the jet setting crowd kinda makes me go uuuuuh wtf?
I have a few select things I wear as well. Not criticizing him about it 🙂 Just get a kick out of the fashion spinning.
Does The Apartment count as a rom-com? Because that’s one of my favorite movies of all time. On paper, they’re losers at life and complete hot messes, but achingly human.
Billy Wilder-such a great director. If you haven’t seen The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, search it out! One of his last great films.
Is that the Jack Lemmon one pop up.
I wouldn’t call that a romcom I would say it fits firmly into the classic catergory. But that’s just my opinion.
Yes, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
Although I hesitate to call it a rom-com (since it’s so much more than that), nothing comes close to the joyful perfection of Daniel Auteuil and Firmine Richard in ‘Romuald & Juliette.’
I’m 28 and I didn’t see Pretty Woman until last week. It’s… passable. Ish. For an early 90s romantic comedy, it hits all the marks, but god, Richard Gere could not act his way out of a paper bag! Julia’s acting has improved since then, but they were both so blah in an already blah story. There were rare moments of natural chemistry and believability, but they were so few and far between. I wasn’t expecting anything deep, just something a little better. Basic taste from this guy, tbh.
I think Tom would like the public to believe his PR romance with Swifty is something out of a romantic comedy, but most think it’s merely a comedy of errors.
Pretty Woman is awful. I’ve always been a sucker for the film ‘French Kiss’ with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan.
The scene with the wine just kills me. I can leave the rest of that film but the scene with the wine is fabulous.
Oh, lilacflowers… you had me at wine. I mean… hello. I mean WINE. Ugh, but that wine scene though… that’s it. I’m gonna have to watch that film over the weekend with my own glass of wine now!
Speaking of wine… does Sideways count as a romantic comedy? That film was pretty decent too!
Sideways was a romantic homage to wine. And Sandra Oh swinging a motor cycle helmet was pretty hilarious.
When it comes to Hugh Grant, my favorite film with him is About a Boy. Love it.
Pretty Woman I like, but Meg Ryan movies I love, French Kiss is a favorite.
My favorite movie with Hugh Grant is Impromptu (1991) with Judy Davis. But it’s really Judy’s movie so I don’t know if it counts. Like French Kiss too.
Sideways was filmed in my area and was wonderful at creating more interest in the wine country. And it was funny. Speaking of Hugh Grant, we saw Florence last weekend- the movie with Meryl S as the wealthy opera singer. It had some great moments, especially one with him dancing. He was terrific in it. Drool …..
Simon Helberg’s facial expressions wee everything in Florence.
While certainly not a RomCom, I have an ex boyfriend who insists that the most romantic movie ever made was Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He can analyze every single moment of the movie and why it is the greatest love story ever told.
Maybe Tommy can do something like that. Not a RomCom, but then he doesn’t have to try to be funny. 🙂
Hay. Tom’s got his own CB menu button. How long has that been there?
Touch down in Nashville.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-37094490
OMG this really has become a joke- anti terrorism?? So glad the Brits did it and not us in the US.
@lilacflowers. Was she the loud blonde that laughed so hard she was dragged out of the opera?? She was hilarious! And ended up being a good person.
FYI. Left Nashville headed to. Burbank.
: Beach Girl:
“It had also tweeted images of Chewbacca from Star Wars, Mr T from The A-Team, the the original Ghostbusters line-up and Daniel Craig as James Bond to promote Prevent, all of which have been deleted.”
Thanks for the update, BC. I hope he is leaving by himself…
@Beach girl, Simon Helberg played the pianist. But yes the blonde was hilarious too.
The Big Bang Theory. He was in a large part of the film. What an enormous break for him!! Yes he was great – a little creepy at first but eventually he got it. All in all a very enjoyable movie.
“Enthusiasm can be dismissed as rather Tiggerish,” says Kenneth Branagh. “Tom isn’t that at all. He’s passionate about ideas and art, and actually I think it’s a blessing he’s not cursed with that kind of enforced sense of ‘cool’ that requires him to be a bit under-impressed, almost as a badge of honour.”
Branagh is a longtime friend of Hiddleston’s: he hired him on his detective series Wallander, then for the Chekhov play Ivanov staged at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, and ultimately on Thor, directed by Branagh. Along the way, he has witnessed some cracks in the armour. During Thor, Branagh recalls the young actor as “a bit scared and vulnerable, and at times pretty lonely. I think he withstood isolation pangs that might have thrown some people. But what I admire about Tom is he’s not trying to present the idea that a tortured individual lives alongside this gilded youth. He has a lot of the personal challenges that most people have, but he doesn’t look for sympathy by trying to convince people that there’s trouble in the kingdom.”
Hey spidey.
Slight correction. Branagh didn’t actually hire Tom for the Chekhov play. The director of the play hired them both separately, and they both didn’t find out until later filming Wallander that they were going to be acting in another production together.
And thanks for the Branagh quote. 🙂
@spidey. I can’t remember if this is fairly new or a recycled comment but leave to Kenneth B to come up with an elegant, insightful, and much needed description of Tom. Thank you.
You’re welcome.
plane landed in Burbank earlier today. Tom spotted coming out of a black suv tonight at LAX, probably headed back to OZ on a commercial flight. Her plane headed back to Nashville. Looks like no pap walk, only a digital one with the mutual IG follows and possibly the staged pap pics at Burbank. Emmy awards voting end the 29th.
Thanks Beachgirl. Starting to build excitement for Thor 3
Here in the U.S., a bachelors degree takes 4 years, each year being 2 semesters with a long break in December and 2 months off in the summer. Is it only 3 years in the UK and if so, are they allowed no breaks?
Three years with three terms (semesters) each. Each term is 10-12 weeks depending on the institution. Some of the non-term time is spent writing essays or doing other independent work and, in the third year, a dissertation.
Bear in mind: UK students choose their major before they even get to university. It’s three years solely spent on the major subject. Also, UK students have already specialised. Over the last two years of high school (ages 16-18), only 3-4 subjects are studied, one of which will usually be the major at university. When they start university, UK students will have a less broad education than their US counterparts but they will be ahead in their major subject.
Interesting. In the U.S. so much focus is on the “well rounded” person but I think students might be more passionate about school if they were studying material they are actually interested in.
@ Sixer, aren’t more degree courses taking 4 years now, rather than in the past when they were pretty well all 3 years except ones like medicine/dentistry/vets?
No, spidey. There are a few with placements (Brunel, foreign language degrees) but the vast majority are three years. Now fees are £9k a year, I doubt the four year undergrad degree will become the standard any time soon.
Thanks Sixer.