Why don't lesbians talk about Zöe Bell more?

Notice how my eyes are totally trained forward. I'm no perv...
So, last weekend I had my first brush with the silver screen when the circus came to town in the shape of a film crew from the movie Raze. The movie has been described as Fight Club meets Hostel. (AfterEllen has a good write-up about it here.) I have never seen either of those movies, and I probably won't watch Raze either, to be honest...I don't like horror movies. And although I liked Pulp Fiction (and probably a lot of other movies w/ bursts of extreme violence), the premise of women being kidnapped and made to fight to the death seems...extreme...and cring-worthy to me. Now, if the girls were making-out...

OK, that said...although ,sitting around for a couple of days in a velvet dress in sweltering heat was not what I would call fun, I will take away some fond memories, such as...meeting Zöe Bell! The super hot star of Raze who was also the subject of a documentary called Double Dare--which I had seen a screening of at the Roxy in San Francisco years ago. And now, finally I had a(nother) chance to have my t-shirt signed. (I was too cool to do it at the original screening, but any illusion of coolness dissipated when I moved to this hick town. Now I am free, free, free to be the fangirl that I am.)

So, with that prelude out of the way, can I just say, Zöe Bell is ridiculously HOT. Like, y'know, you look at her and immediately vow to go to the gym daily and never eat carbs again. I don't even think the pictures I've seen of her do her justice. I would look at her...and look around for validation, like, "Are you people seeing this?!" (There need to be many more Tank Top Tuesdays devoted to her). She very kindly hung out and participating in shoots that she need not--she could have escaped the heat and fucked off to a trailer somewhere, but no, she stayed with the sweaty masses, and even hopped up as food server when they were a man down:

So, in conclusion, lesbians, I'm talking to you. Zöe Bell may not make out with ladies, but she was the stunt double for Xena: Warrior Princess, so that gives her, oh, I'd say a lifetime of lesbian points. And if you're into hot chicks kicking each others asses check out Raze--Heeey, hot ladies in tank tops...bloody tank tops, but still...

'Friends With Kids': or 'Jennifer Westfeldt didn't just marry Jon Hamm and call it a day'

As an ardent fan of Kissing Jessica Stein (my go-to movie to pop in when I'm feeling down. Well, that and Imagine Me and You--"Number Niiiiine", but that's another story), so from time to time I wonder to myself, "What is Jennifer Westfeldt doing?" And sometimes I see her on Jon Hamm's arm at an award show and I wonder, "Yeah, but what the hell is Jennifer doing?" The answer is this:



I will watch almost all romantic comedies, excepting ones with Reece Witherspoon (Kevin Smith ruined her for me) and Jennifer Lopez (don't ask, I don't have an even a tenuous explanation for that one). But there are soooo few good ones (I'm still recommending It's Complicated and The Proposal to people). So, I won't necessarily get my hopes up too high, but Maya Rudolph?, Kristen Wiig? C'mon! And Jennifer wrote and directed this, so just based on the principal of supporting a sistah (not the gay kind, just the lady kind), this might be an opening weekend watch. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, director of Miss Representation said "Go see movies that are written, directed and produced by women on the opening weekend." That is where we can affect change in what gets produced, not by renting the movie from Redbox! (And then go rent it from your local video store when it comes out on dvd.)