"Sweep! Sweeeeeeeep!"

[icepixie]

I may have a tiny little crush on Paul Gross. He is quite pretty, after all (there is no way he's in his mid-40s, surely), and he appears to play a lot of softspoken, sensitive, very-intelligent-but-very-oblivious-and-maybe-a-bit-crazy characters I like, and play them well. Hence, today I watched Men with Brooms.

It was predictable and a bit cheesy in places, but, dude. It's about curling, which is possibly the goofiest sport ever invented. It probably could've been ten times more predictable and cheesy and still been funny. I know there are people who take it seriously, but I can't see two people furiously sweeping a patch of ice in front of a slooowly sliding ball of rock without cracking up, I just can't.

Paul Gross's character is very much like Geoffrey Tennant, so all you Slings & Arrows fans rowdycamels, you may want to check it out. He even went crazy and left his fiancee at the altar, and, apparently, can at least hear a dead father-figure, if not respond to him. And as far as I can tell, PG has it stipulated in his contract that everything he does involves a shot of his naked rear end. So, lots of similarities. Obviously.

And Beth, Sharon's kinda-but-not-really girlfriend from Wonderfalls, shows up in this! She's blonde this time. I think she looks better as a blonde, actually, although she's quite pretty no matter what.

Anyway. Obviously, I now need to see Due South.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

can at least hear a dead father-figure

Wait, you point this out and you've never seen due South? Hee! You really must. (Pretty sure there are no rear-end shots in dS, though I've not got the whole way through the DVDs yet so I can't say for sure!)

Also, I really want to know what was in the water in 1959. Paul Gross, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Whitford, and Paul McGann, all born that year. ::boggles::

[nickless.livejournal.com]

Men With Brooms is all sorts of happy goodness! Cuuuurling!

[vallentine.livejournal.com]

I love Paul Gross and have ever since 'Due South' was first on the air. I'll have to check out 'Men With Brooms' it sounds amusing.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeeee, Men with Brooms! I love that movie! I make my friends watch it and tell them it's got naked Canadian boys and beavers. :D

When you watch due South, send brainwaves my way. I've seen several episodes, but not nearly all of them. I don't think I saw any after the Rays thing.

[twinb76.livejournal.com]

yay! another convert! hee! and you MUST see Due South! (and curling can be very intense to watch! seriously! and it's HARD! (not that I've done it, but my parents have)). lol!