Matthew McConaughey = allegedly the sexiest man alive

Matthew McConaughey may name his son after beer

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(if only because his brother did it first)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5223977&page=1

The Fight for Celebrity Privacy Turns Violent
Fed Up, Surfers Take on Paparrazi in Malibu
By DEBORAH ROBERTS and LEE FERRAN
June 23, 2008

The paparazzi know that they can sell candid pictures of stars for a big paycheck, but often they don't realize how much it might cost them to get that perfect shot.
Surfers and paparazzi fight over Matthew McConaughey's privacy.

A photographer trying to snap shots of actor Matthew McConaughey surfing in Malibu, Calif., this weekend sparked a brawl between more than a dozen enraged surfers and several paparazzi, some of it caught on video.

"They don't want you here," a surfer yelled at a photographer just before the brawl broke out. "Nobody wants you here."

The video of the confrontations, which took place on two consecutive days, shows surfers surrounding the paparazzi and, then, when the paparazzi refused to leave, fists flying. Several photographers took punches to the face.

"Let's draw a line and we'll fight for the beach," the surfer told the photographers. "If you win, you can have the beach."

The beach brawl is the latest of several incidents involving the paparazzi in the tony beachside community that's home to a number of celebrities, according to Malibu Mayor Pamela Conley.

"We're getting major complaints of people getting put in harm's way," Conley told ABC News. "We have reports from all over Malibu that people are feeling their public safety is at risk."

Balancing Rights With Safety

To address Malibu's safety concerns, including several instances of paparazzi taking pictures in elementary schools, a First Amendment conference was held last April.

Attendees included representatives from the ACLU and Kenneth Starr, the lawyer and former judge who was the special prosecutor in the Clinton-Lewinsky case and is now the dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu.

does anyone else think the Lincoln Lawyer kinda looks like fun

has anyone seen it

i thought it looked a bit promising.

i like how ned's title for this thread almost seems tinged with envy.

haha

i kinda wanna hate this guy (esp. for being in all of this shitty chick flicks over the past decade), but i don't begrudge anyone for getting paid and he has been in some good films (mostly in the 1990s) and seems like a likeable enough fellow.

adam scott:

"I shot with Matthew McConaughey [in the last episode of season two], and he was the most confident person I had ever come in contact with. He's kind of become this mythic figure in show business. Like, when he came on the set it just got quiet – everybody’s just in awe of this guy, because he’s a terrific actor and everything but he also has this persona of being … it’s almost like he has this outlandish persona in the vein of Brando or something. Not as eccentric, but he just adds a presence – he kind of walks in the room before he does, you know? And he just looks incredible, his skin is perfectly tan, he smells just amazing … you’re around him and as a man you just feel like your penis disappears."

http://blog.craftzine.com/crafty_is_cool_matthew_mcconaughey_amigurumi.jpg

IIRC, this was part of his community service for the bongo incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA83Yx0-Cqw

the j's for just the k's for keep

http://www.matthewmcconaughey.com/

Matthew McConaughey ‏@McConaughey
happy birthday America, more good news, Camila and I are expecting our 3rd child, God bless, just keep livin
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"Allegedly Sexy" would be a good Rod Stewart album title (cover art could have a courtroom scene with a hot female witness pointing a finger at Rod)
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, November 16, 2005

why didn't this ever happen

i try not to be judgmental about famous guys my wife finds attractive since she's cool about my taste in famous ladies so it was funny to me when a Magic Mike ad was playing and she said in a really preemptively embarrassed way "i'm sorry but he's really hot" re: McConaughey

some wife otm

"We found a great rhythm," Matthew tells OK! about the delivery of baby Levi. "Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music."

The Texas-born actor says he cut the umbilical cord in "one snip" and got to hold his son for the first 15 minutes while doctors worked on Camila. Both he and the Brazilian beauty -- who waited to know the sex of their baby -- say they were not surprised to find out they had a boy.

"I said, 'Come here, little man. I saw the pecker and screamed that we'd been right all along about him being a boy. Then I brought him over to her [Camila],' Matthew said.

is it wrong that I am imagining McConaughey trying to beatmatch "Bucky Done Gun" to his wife's contractions

nope

no – the first fifteen seconds of Paul Simon's "The Obvious Child."

would birth dance with

also lol @ I saw the pecker

Give it up
Give it up
Give it up
PUSH

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6oxk19Gpo1qbh1rjo1_500.gif

i may have posted this elsewhere but if you didn't watch the food network 2 hour special with guy fieri and mcconaughey, you're missing out

Dennis Lim on the actor's mid career reinvention.

He next stars with Woody Harrelson in “True Detective,” a new HBO series

with bells on, y'all

ditto, completely presold on that

article also links to this, which killed me

http://www.cracked.com/blogimages/2009/04/mattymc_baqi.jpg

I watched The Lincoln Lawyer last week and realized goddamn how much I miss mid nineties Grisham flicks. He's terrific in it.

which means: mainstream "adult" cinema is impoverished that TLL looks like Anatomy of a Murder.

*so impoverished

I watched The Lincoln Lawyer last week and realized goddamn how much I miss mid nineties Grisham flicks. He's terrific in it.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

otm, though if you go back and watch them i think you'll find that you miss the idea of them. TLL is better done than most of em

i remember when i saw ides of march last year, there was this vibe in the theater of everyone being just relieved to watch a movie for adults after the summer of pain

Mr. McConaughey is well aware that there is a perception that he was coasting in those interchangeable romcoms; he maintains it was harder work than people think. “I’ve done romantic comedies that were more difficult than ‘Killer Joe,’ ” he said. “The work is to keep them buoyant. If you dig deep, you try to go to the reality and to the humanity, it’s a 12-minute movie.”

i buy this btw

I won't overrate Grisham adaptations if you and Matt don't overrate his romcoms

The Onion AV Club does a "Random Roles" with Patton Oswalt today, and this happens:

Failure To Launch (2006)—“Techie”
PO: Again, one scene. Me and Sarah Jessica Parker. She was a delight. I remember doing the table read with Matthew McConaughey before she was cast, and his dad was not played by Terry Bradshaw. It was Paul Dooley. He was the best. I said, “You are my favorite movie dad.” He was in Sixteen Candles and Breaking Away. And I think the mom was played by Kathy Bates, who was also amazing at the table read. Then McConaughey shows up in bike shorts and no shirt for the table read. I was sitting across from him, and I could see his right testicle.

AVC: He literally was shirtless for a table read?

PO: Yes. If I looked like that, I’d be shirtless, too. I think he showed up on his bike, so he legitimately had been out biking.

Wesley Morris on McC's imminent AIDS activist movie: "It's Erin Cockovich."

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-toronto-2013-jean-marc-vallees-dallas-buyers-club

i hear good things

Also doing an HBO miniseries in January:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/08/woody-harrelson-matthew-mcconaughey-hbo/

can a mod remove the "allegedly" from the thread title now that this has been confirmed

better keep it to avoid libel suits

how about a dash after sexiest & an exclamation mark after alive

enjoyed "Mud", some reservations about the gender politics notwithstanding. felt like a pretty unusual movie, an odd combo of bildungsroman, noir, and southern gothic

in general definitely enjoying the McConaughsance

It's a terrific movie, yeah.

Ellis and Neckbone are the best