Hunk-A-Lot Hump Day: Gerard Butler

Hungry Like The Wolf

I'm on a Hungry Like The Wolf bender after seeing a Barbarella clip over at By The Bayou. If you don't get the connection, you probably aren't a Duran Duran fan and this post will suck for you. The song is almost 25 years old and I think it still holds up. And it's a reminder that I'm getting older. Ugh.

Read my review of the Duran Duran concerts I've seen.

So on this Albany Pride Day, I proudly bring you the guys who made it okay for men to highlight their hair. Same song...pick your clip...or pick them all!

The Original
Who can forget the video that practically launched MTV?


A Remix
Put together by a fan using images from the original video and the As The Lights Go Down (ATLGD) concert video. (Lips don't always sync with singing.) The live footage was filmed on the 1984 Tour at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto from which they also pulled together the video for The Reflex. I saw the concert two nights previous in The Carrier Dome at Syracuse University.


As The Lights Go Down
See ATLGD info in "A Remix" above. The singing is live, with heavy video and audio post-shoot production enhancement. Premise: There's a tiger loose in the concert audience. Oh, and that fierce chick is crawling around in there, too.


Pirates of the Caribbean
For Johnny Depp and Pirates' fans.


Dracula 2000
For Gerard Butler (300) fans.


Me, Circa 1983
Not really...but almost.

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Iran Denounces 300

War epic 300, a gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian wars starring Gerard Butler, has drawn the wrath of Iranians for showing their ancestors as bloodthirsty savages. It tells the story of the 300 Spartan soldiers fighting off ancient Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae.

"It seeks to tell people that Iran, which is in the Axis of Evil now, has for long been the source of evil and modern Iranians' ancestors are the ugly murderous dumb savages you see in 300," fumed an Iranian newspaper on its front page. An advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the film as "American psychological warfare against Iran."

I don't hear them bitching about Al-Manar, Al-Jazeera, and Al-Arabia cranking out anti-American propaganda and spinning news to incite ever more Middle East violence.

Oh, and they seemed to have missed the fact that the movie is a huge gay leatherfest. Talk about gays in the military!
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