Robert Downey Jr.

# 2010 BEST ACTOR

Hailed by many critics as one of the most brilliant and versatile actors of his generation, Robert Downey Jr. chalked up a formidable onscreen track record that quickly launched the young thesp into the stratosphere.

Although, for a time, Downey's stormy offscreen life and personal problems threatened to challenge his public image, he quickly bounced back and overcame these setbacks, with a continued array of impressive roles on the big and small screens that never sacrificed his audience appeal or affability.

"Robert has a way of making everyone around him feel very special and comfortable," Michelle Monaghan, his costar in Due Date, raves about the 44-year-old. "Whenever I see him, I walk away smiling. Those beautiful brown eyes may have something to do with it."

Clooney will always be Clooney

He is dashing, and charming; his hair glistens; his dark, soupy, saloon-singer eyes shine. He is thinking and saying just the right thing at just the right moment. He is against the war and for the people and stands up to the bullies.

It’s not just his looks, or fabulous gift for bullshit, but his political stands, evident in the movies he makes. He was at the awards for Syriana, a Stephen Gaghan picture in which Clooney played (get this) a conscience-ridden C.I.A. agent lost in a hall of mirrors. He got fat to play the role, and acted up a storm, and cast down his eyes, and let himself be tortured. He got the award for that one—best supporting. That's the sparkling actor we see on screen.

It can and has been argued that Clooney is the last of the old-time movie stars, a throwback to Jimmy Stewart or Gregory Peck, or the master himself, Cary Grant, the only American actor who radiates a calming sense of adulthood, the only grown-up in the room. It’s this persona—the decent man in a cockeyed world gone wrong—that he carries from role to role and that makes you cheer him the way the studio audience used to cheer every time Fonzie came on the set. Maybe he’s a doctor, maybe he’s a convict, but Clooney is always Clooney the way Gable was always Gable.

Off screen, Gorge Clooney lives in Studio City, just over the ridge from Beverly Hills. To get there, you drive on big roads and small, and, for a time, hug the rocks along Mulholland, the world spread below, all those neighborhoods and fields glowing beneath a chemical fog. It feels as if you are ascending, higher and higher, up to a Shangri-la, where the master, sits cross-legged and drinks herbal tea...

Pictures via Vanity Fair

This Charming Man

Just what is it about Rob Pattinson that makes us forgive his terrible-look trademark, sloppy clothes and a bit of anti-social attitude?
Here's one good reason...

Excerpted from his interview with Vanity Fair:

Q: What has this past year been like for you? How are you dealing with fame? Are you more comfortable with everything now?

Rob: I guess it's inevitable that you become more comfortable. You still fight against some things... I don't know how it's really changed. I still feel like I'm pretty much exactly the same, which is maybe not a good thing?

Pictures via Vanity Fair

A Crush on Josh

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”

-Josh Hartnett.

Picture via People Magazine

{Men's Guide to Style}

Voila! As promised, men's style-file section.

I'm actually a bit nervous about this post. Sort of uncharted territory for me to write about men's style. I'm not an experienced style-editor or what, so I'll just share my personal view when spotting guys and their outfits...

Free-spirited guys always gets me carried away. One who is a bit eccentric but very much confident of himself, who would dress for comfy, doesn't really give a shit of how he looks like.