person : Patricia Conde

This amazing Spanish woman Patricia Conde can be the funniest and the hottest at the same time. She went to the beauty contest Miss Spain representing Palencia, although she was born in Valladolid in 1979. Then she started to work as an actress or a reporter on TV programs, like El Informal, well known in Spain. Then she had her own program ladykaña which was like Patricia Conde doing sketches all the time. It was on local TV but enjoyable indeed, without success though. Later she was in another sketch show, Splunge. This video is for Spanish speaking readers, sorry!

The fact is that she can play the classic stupid blond girl. She's clever. Currently she's hostess of Sé lo que hiciste la última semana which is kind of gossip show but there're a lot of cynical elements. I'm not big fan of that program (I don't usually watch TV) but she and her collaborators are magnificent, I'd have to write about them too.


I'd just like to watch her playing in funny sketches again!

person : Melora Walters

It's gonna be self-satisfied post but I don't care much becuase I just can't leave for another day to talk about Melora Walters. My favorite actress. She abnormally attracts me. And today I'm celebrating that I've seen her in a film, but it was a surprise to me because she was uncredited in it. The film is Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men starring Nicolas Cage. She was his ex wife and it was 10 seconds appearance... Shame on the film!!! Well the film was OK, but let's get to the point: Melora!

I am fan of her since I saw Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. She played my beloved Claudia, who has psychological problem and addicted to cocaine. Then I fell in love. It's a disappointing that I haven't seen much of her films, but I'm doing my best. The another Anderson's film Boogie Nights was great as well and Melora Walters was... I can't find words. The best of that good film. She also had small character in Cold Mountain where she took her clothes off for Jude Law. Maybe Butterfly Effect is the latest major film where Melora played more than one minute. And what else... I think those are all the films I've seen. Just five. But Magnolia is enough to fill my mind. I wish she gets a lot of good roles this year, though. I have to see Dead Poets Socierty (her first film) and Ed Wood.

I don't know much about her life. Searching in the internet you can find that she's now 38 years old and she was born in Saudi Arabia. Wow. And she's divorced actor Dylan Walsh (Sean in Nip/Tuck).

She's kind of obsession to me. And I want her to be paid more attention, to be able to work with good directors, like Paul Thomas Anderson who brang her best two times. Because I think she has got very good presence on screen because, although she's beautiful woman, normal pictures of premieres that I've seen weren't just extraordinary. But her acting is. Oh yes, the most important thing is that she does her work pretty good. So people, watch her films for me because I want to talk about her all night long with someone!

person : Ginghis Khan

Mongol was always interesting to me because of the steppes and nomad life. So I had to know something about the most important person of all Mongols, Genghis Kahn. The man who built the greatest empire of whole world and history. Hero and god for Mongols, founder of a royal dynasty for Chinese, barbarian for the rest of Eurasia. At the end of the day, he was a clear-minded strategist, Mongols believed him and deserves to be reminded.

Thus recently I finished reading a book called GENGHIS KHAN LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION by the author John Man (well actually it took 6 months... I am not good reader), I guess it was great introduction to his history. I hardly knew anything about him but the fact that he was a special figure.

He united his people. His way was sort of take part of us or die, you decide and he conquered much of Eurasia (China, Russia, Persia, etc.) and his heirs even arrived to Hungary, just to make a big summary. That helped international trade and the world developed a lot. But his moral values were quite important. He respect all type religion and beliefs, everything which concern to self improvement was right. The royalty was the most important thing to him. The treachery was definitely condemned, even when Genghis sees that the enemy's leader betrays his people, that was the most awful thing to Genghis:

No wonder that to Genghis loyalty was the moral equivalent of gold, hard won, easily lost.

It seems that all Mongols, in present day, conserve that value, I heard a lot. Beautiful people, aren't they?

Also his mysteries are addictive, the more you research, the more you want to know about his secrets, which is unknowable, at least undiscoverable. And I wonder what would happened if his heirs continued the conquest toward Western Europe. I'd like to know, or I wouldn't. I don't know...

person : Hugh O'Conor

Some actors can catch one's attention, not doing that breakthrough performance to eclipse other actors but being there to make shine others and themselves. I think that is the case of Hugh O'Conor, a 1975 born Irish actor. Actually I only saw him twice, but both films are enough to recognize his personality in the industry.

In Lasse Hallström's Chocolat, he played a young parish priest. The casting of this film was absolutely interesting, and his role was small but charming one, as he was so good that he was very conditioned by people around. I think this film is the most viewed one of his career.

And recently I've seen Jim Sheridan's My left foot, a film about an Irish author, painter and poet Christy Brown, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis. Hugh O'Conor was young Christy in this film of 1989, so at his 14 years old he was such a talented guy. His appearance was brief but also remarkable.

I wish I was a well known director so I could give him a lot of good roles.

person : Rinko Kikuchi

When you're in foreign country you want to know everything about your home country, right? In my case I am always looking for news about Japan and specially I waste my time searching how Japan or Japanese people success in the world. And Rinko is one of them.

I only want to congratulate her because of her challenge of being remembered. She's Rinko Kikuchi, a Japanese actress and she took part of the upcoming film Babel, a contender for the Oscars. It seems like a lot of people loved her performance and consider that she has to be nominated as best supporting actress. Let's see a pic from the film. She plays deaf-mute teenage girl.

I am following her steps from here and she really tries hard, that's my impression. Personally I am not talking about superficial things. Next pictures are her first appearance in world premiere, at the festival of Cannes. First one with the big director Alejandro González Iñárritu and the big Cate Blanchett. Second one with all the crew.

Damn, looks like alien but nice! Now let's go to Toronto film festival. She completely involved in Hollywood style and it's like she knows how to capture the attention. Changing dress, makeup, hairstyle, skin color... With big Brad Pitt.

And I think she's kind of self-promoting her career and it seems like she's succeeding. It's amazing the power of makeup. At a party with the big Gael García Bernal.

Is she chameleon? She looks hot here.

Reminds me Kelly Carlson a little bit.

... I'd like to talk about Kelly Carlson but not today, so I'm gonna post a pic. This is a cure for eye illnesses.

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person : Tadanobu Asano

His name is Tadanobu Asano and I'm follower of him. He's a versatile Japanese actor born in 1973 and he made over 35 films in 16 years. I'm trying to watch his films as much as possible but it's quite hard here in Spain. Besides his films are mostly independent or not commercial. That's one of the reasons why he's so charismatic and cool.

I like his style, his face (the most attractive one to me), his films, also his wife!! She's Chara, she makes pretty good music. My current long hair is partly due to him. I found this picture, he looks so young here!
His work is constant and he did memorable acting in almost every films. For example:

Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)

Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)

He also participates in few overseas production. He worked with Wong Kar-Wai for commercial spots, Christopher Doyle, etc. Well his latest international film is called Invisible Waves, featured in few festivals.

Here's some pictures of his upcoming film Mongol, directed by Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov. His role is Genghis Khan, looks and sounds good! I can't wait because I'm following it like over one year...