As some of you know, I like Blake Lively. I don’t think she’s God’s gift to acting or anything like that, but I find her very beautiful, albeit augmented and enhanced. Still, all of those enhancements made her one of the prettiest young things going, so show some respect. Or don’t, whatever, I’m not that invested in her.

One of the things that cracks me up about my girl Blake is that she’s pretty much incapable of being fully clothed. This goes for the characters she plays, the red carpets she walks, the magazine covers she appears on. Blake is all about her T & A. Now, her T&A are spectacular, but still. I just want to shake her and say “You don’t have to show everything all the time, Blake!”

So it is with Blake’s appearance on the February issue of Esquire Magazine. Blake is pantless, yet again. Damn… she’s got great legs. I’m so jealous of her thighs. Surprisingly, though, her boobs aren’t on display. Doesn’t Blake know that she’s appearing on a men’s magazine? What gives?

Anyhoodle, Esquire has only released a few little snippets from the interview with Blake (courtesy of Huffington Post), Blake talking about her character on Gossip Girl: “”I can snap into Serena very easily. The way I dress as Serena is pretty much the way I dress as me. I’m living in New York City, shooting in New York City. I’m in a comfort zone.” In addition to Gossip Girl, Blake recently filmed a supporting part in The Town, directed by Ben Affleck, which will be out later this year. There were some rumors going around about Blake and Ben, but they seemed to leave just as quickly as they came, so maybe there was nothing there.

Blake also recently cast in The Green Lantern, which will star Ryan Reynolds as you guessed it. Blake will be playing “the girl” – only the girl is an engineer or something. God knows how she’ll pull that off. She’ll probably be the only aerospace engineer in booty shorts. And finally (I’m betting Esquire will want to release their interview more quickly in the future, hmm?), I want to put this blind item out there, mostly because everyone thinks it’s about Blake and Harvey Weinstein:

It was mystifying several years ago why she was hyped the way she was hyped. Just another starlet with no real significant starring vehicles somehow ending up with a prestigious magazine cover proclaiming her as the next It. Well It never happened. And after all this time and a string of failures, she’s been trying to change the course. So she’s gone back to the major player who tried to make it happen for her the first time. There was an arrangement back then – her sexual services for his professional services – and apparently the same arrangement was resurrected recently in the hopes that she’ll finally confirm a juicy role to kickstart a stagnant career.

Never mind that he’s married. His wife benefits handsomely from his generosity and while he may not fulfill her with fidelity, he certainly makes up for it through client exchange. Probably better that way. And given what he looks like, it totally makes sense. But he is a legend in the business both for his accomplishments and for the way he leads these ladies to their accomplishments, counting a couple of award winners and a few box office heavyweights on his resumé…which is why he quickly tired of our poor girl and discarded her.

But not before drying her out. One day late summer, they were joined in a hotel suite by a third gentleman (identity insignificant), both of them enjoying her as she allowed herself to be taken, and, um, decorated appropriately, all for a reward at the end of the session – the privilege of simply looking at a script, no promise, no confirmation…just an advance read. And a suggestion to show up at a premiere for a few introductions. She is so desperate, it’s been so meagre, she submitted to the humiliation although gamely seems to have enjoyed it. An actor after all, obviously able to shut out her husband and child waiting for her back at home.

And then he just cut it off. Told her he could no longer help her. That her body in his bed was no longer required. Which of course only added to her degradation. She tried and tried to offer up more, willing to engage in further depravity, but was only met with rejection. Because he’s moved on. He’s hunting his next target. A young, nubile, blonde babe with a large profile and a perky rack who so far has been able to resist his advances but is trying to graduate from supporting roles in film, as the fact that she’s a headliner on the small screen has not helped with the quality of scripts she’s being offered, or with many of her auditions so far. She’s currently waiting on a big break and he’s trying to make sure it doesn’t happen, so that in her disappointment, she’ll come running to him, ready to wheel and deal.

Note: there are 4 famous names at play – the reject, the replacement, the power player, and his wife.

[From Lainey Gossip]

Most people think it’s about Harvey, Blake, Gretchen Mol and Harvey’s wife Georgina Chapman. Those are really the only names that fit exactly, when you think about it. Although I think Blake might not need Harvey – she must have every producer in Hollywood just dying to work with the hottest T & A going right now. I mean, her talent. Yes, that’s what I meant.

Blake Lively on the February Esquire cover, courtesy of HuffPo. Additional photo of a pantless Blake at the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ premiere on December 17, 2009. Credit: WENN.