7 Things Viggo Mortensen Should Be Chewing On That Aren't His Shirt

Have you seen the new cover of NY Time's Style Magazine starring "grungy antihero" Viggo Mortensen? Viggo is one of my all time favorite actors as I was just recently saying to David Cronenberg so I'm always happy to see him but this photo -- I seriously thought it was an old magazine cover from when he was like 25 until I remembered that he wasn't famous till he was like 37.

Seven Things Viggo Mortensen Should Be Chewing On That Aren't His Shirt

1. More roles as good as Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method
2. The ear of the person who photoshopped this. Viggo makes 50something hot so don't take that away from the 50somethings of the world!
3. The scenery in more prestige movies; get that Oscar role, wherever it is.
4. Diane Lane's everything in a screen reunion. They were so nsfw hot together.
5. His own decisions about who he'll vote for as Actor and Actress on his own Oscar ballot... I mean who to vote for besides Fassy & Keira. 
6. His paintbrushes. Paintbrushes should always have teethmarks in them. Have you seen his art? 
7. Maria Bello's vajayjay in A History of Violence. Time to watch the cheerleader scene again! 

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Vamp Glenn, Crook Michael, and Killer Viola!

If The Film Experience were its own media empire the first thing we would do is some sort of annual gallery of celebrities a la Vanity Fair or the New York Times. For this year's New York Times video gallery ["Vamps, Crooks and Killers" (photos) "Touch of Evil" (video)] the Times has famous actors playing famous film baddies or villainous archetypes. We've mentioned we love this actors as actors business muchly before. It always thrills. 

Here's Glenn Close as Theda Bara the vamp and Viola Davis as Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) for appetizers.

The Close image reminds us that Glenn has always been thisclose to being a cartoon character who just happens to be made of flesh and blood. That's how most iconic film stars and characters come across... at least after decades in the pop cultural air, though it didn't take Close that long to achieve it.

Doesn't the Nurse Viola Davis Ratched immediately make you want to see her in a villainous role? It hadn't even occurred to me before but it'd be super scary to watch her soulfulness curdle in some choice role. I bet she'd be great. On her performance in this video she says...

I tried to channel all the parts of myself that are probably not pretty. That are not necessarily nice."

Rooney Mara, Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Brad Pitt and Mia Wasikowska, after the jump...

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Curio: Stanley Chow's Curvilinear Caricatures

Alexa here. UK illustrator Stanley Chow is one of my favorite pop caricaturists.  It's great fun to follow his flickr as he is quite prolific, adding posters and portraits weekly, all in his signature modern, curvilinear style.  His Mad Men character tributes were so successful that the Lions Gate lawyers forced him to stop selling them. Here is a selection of his film portraits, many of which are for sale at his shop. Snap 'em up before more lawyers get involved!

Click for more, including Michael Caine, The Great Escape and Margot from The Royal Tenenbaums

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"Fifty Goodies"

A wonderfully fun illustration set by Robert Ball

"Fifty Goodies" by Robert Ball Can you name them all?

the list after the jump...

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Curio: Bill, Bill Everywhere

Alexa here. It's hard to avoid the explosion of Bill Murray art lately.  First there was September's show at The R&R Gallery in Los Angeles devoted to Bill Murray tribute art. And now Gallery1988's show Please Post Bills is getting national coverage from the likes of EW and the HuffPo crowd.  And neither even begins to cover the endless Steve Zizzou creations out there. Bill's mystique only seems to grow with help from those urban legends and his own cultivating (by firing his agent and bartending randomly), and these shows are a celebration of that mythology.

The R&R show has an online gallery up for viewing here, with some of the work available for purchase at its store. Please Post Bills runs through the 26th, and you can view and purchase works from the show here. What follows are some of my favorites from both.

Party With Bill, pencil and watercolor by Cody Comrie

A Collection of Curiosities, screenprint by Jessica Deahl Click for more, including Bill as Grimm and Arthur Denton...

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