Top 5 Male Celebrity Eyebrows

Everyone can agree on who has the best mustache in the biz (Tom Selleck, obviously), but have you stopped to consider the best male eyebrows?

In fact, we should consider—nay, honor—eyebrows more than any fancy, full-bodied mustache, because eyebrows serve a higher purpose than mere frosting on the face. As proof, please consider a recent outcropping of websites that delight in showing you what celebrities look like without eyebrows.

At best, those images are slightly disturbing.

Aside from GrouchoMarx—whose iconic eyebrows were mostly drawn on—here are my suggestions for best eyebrows in the biz. I based my choices on thickness, shape, grooming and expressiveness. Who would you choose?

Peter Gallagher
This choice is a gimme, since most people already associate him with his eyebrows. They are naturally arched to perfection and uber thick, giving his eyebrows an A-list star quality.

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Dave Franco
Dave Franco, the for-now-less-famous younger brother of James Franco, gives Gallagher a run for his money. They are practically eyebrow doppelgangers, but Franco has the edge of being younger and more handsome. (Hey, even the best of us are “that shallow” at times.)

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Zac Posen
If you don’t follow fashion you’ve probably never hear of designer and regular “Project Runway” judge Zac Posen. But take a look at the nice point atop each substantial brow. Although they arch considerably on top, they are flatter on the bottom, which is perfect for a man brow. Only cartoons villains have high-arch eyebrows. I’m looking at you, Jafar.

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Lee Pace
Mr. Pace has what I like to call “caterpillar” eyebrows; they’re nice and fat and fuzzy with little arch. They give him an approachable look, which is great for the many sympathetic characters he has played. You can next view his eyebrows in high contrast and 3-D when he plays elven king Thranduil in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” But you won’t find much sympathy there.

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Stephen Colbert
Last, but certainly not least, let’s consider Stephen Colbert. What makes his eyebrows great is their bananas expressiveness. Sure, he’s got the thinner, arched eyebrow of a villain, but he doesn’t use them for evil, he uses them for good. Very funny good. With one timely flick of his eyebrow, Colbert makes the world a funnier place.

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Casting Agent

I've always fancied that I would make a great casting agent. At least I'm always casting stories that I'm reading, recasting terrible choices in existing movies, or making lists of actors in my head that would make believable siblings, be good foils, or have some sort of chemistry. (I don't get out much.)

Once I shared some casting ideas with a college professor, who was also a writer and stage director, and he was very impressed with my ideas. So based on my word that one person was impressed with one casting conversation we had, I'm pretty sure you all are convinced of my untapped casting talents.

If that's not enough evidence to convince you of my innate casting ability, which clearly it should be, I will tell you of my latest casting wish.  I wish it because a) they look similar enough to be related, b) they all are attractive to me on some level, and c) they all are skilled and talented actors brimming with charm. I don't have a story to cast them into, but they would make glorious brothers: Tom Hiddleston, JJ Feild, and Lee Pace.

So all you Hollywood execs or BBC producers who read this blog (none), please make this happen. And not just because these three in a movie together would make my ovaries explode.

Behold! (And you're welcome.)

Trailer Tuesday: The Fall

Hey, everybody!

Hi, Martha!

I'm back!

Yay! We've been crying buckets and being mean to small children because we've missed you so dearly.

Tsk, tsk, naughty! But I'm back now, so you can be happy and good.

We will...try, now give us the goods!

Patience little ones and sit still, for it is story time.

Welcome to Trailer Tuesday. I go through phases where I can't stand to watch even the previews of blockbuster-type movies, let alone the movies themselves. I am not against blockbusters, in fact I often enjoy them, but I often need a healthy dose of "other" to temper the simple-plotted, explosion-riddled, action-packed blockbuster. Unfortunately the cusp of summer is the worst time to go through this phase, yet here I am.

So instead of a new movie preview,  I must tell you about a movie I saw recently that is one of the most incredible and visually stunning films I've had the privilege of consuming; it now resides in my top five faves of all time.

The Fall (2006) stars my darling Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day), and is the pet project of director Tarsem Singh. Singh mostly used his own money to finance the film so he could have as much control over his vision as possible, and the results are stunning. Apparently The Fall was filmed over 4 years and in 20 different countries. Additionally and incredibly, no CGI was used, which is hard to believe at times. Oddly enough, it was mostly jeered by critics, but the critics who loved it, loved it passionately.

Bare bones plot: Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is an injured stuntman recovering in the hospital in the 1920s. Another hospital patient, a precocious little girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), befriends Roy and he begins to tell her a story. We hear the words of the story from Roy, but we see the world of the story through Alexandria's imagination, and this ain't your normally depicted child's imagination. The visuals are incredibly rich, bold, and expansive; and the story is sweet, charming, funny, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and intense.

On top of visual greatness and good story, the acting is excellent. Even I, the non child lover, fell in love with Alexandria. Singh filmed some of the scenes between Alexendria and Roy through holes in the walls or parting in a curtain so that the absence of cameras would allow more natural, spontaneous interactions. It worked beautifully.

With further ado, the trailer.

As of now The Fall is streaming on Netflix. Following are some stills from the movie that look dull an sad compared to the actual movie.