One of the Best...

Being old lends me to love old movies and old movie stars.  I have to admit that (to me) as  Harrison Ford grows older, and Sean Connery now is retired, the best of the stars are gone.

Now I don't mean that we don't have good actors and actress's.. no, no!

I mean "good actors" in the sense of the old actors, when studios owned them and loaned them out to make movies.  These people were used in sometimes 20-40 movies a year.. they had more than ample time to really (REALLY) hone their craft!

There is one actor though, that I can feel is a "hold out".. he is one of those who should have been born many years ago, because he has his craft so well under his belt that sometimes it's not seen.

Are you wondering who it is that would make put such a person in high esteem as to be named with the all time greats?

His name is Hugh Jackman.

The man is just great at everything he does.  He was born to be an actor, there's no doubt in my mind.  Jackman has played everything from a comic book hero (Wolverine) to a legendary monster hunter (Van Helsing) to a Broadway musical lead as Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, along with appearing in an Australian tv series inspired by the Man From Snowy River and going into the past to play Leopold, of Kate and Leopold with Meg Ryan.  This is called diversity.  The thing that holds him above many others is that he does ALL of them so darn well ! 

The reason Hugh Jackman is on my mind today (other than the very obvious!) is that I happen to have been at Barnes and Noble the other night and was taking a stroll thru the magazines while David had a Latte.

Low and behold I spotted the corner of a magazine I used to get years ago that I really liked because it is all about "Cowboys and Indians" (which I love!).  Remembering it fondly (but much cheaper) I pulled it out to have a look and there on the cover was the gorgeous Hugh Jackman!  I took a few quick breaths and smiled broadly!..

(admit it.. who wouldn't smile at that?!!)

I smiled to hard that I swallowed my pride and paid the amount for the magazine for the cover alone!   I think this is where I admit I've done that for books too.. heh.

When I made my way to the article I found out that Huge Jackman has a new movie due out the end of this month called Australia, starring along side of Nicole Kidman. (all native Aussie's!)

  (lucky Nicole!)

Now, I grew up on westerns.  Both on television and in the movies. But of course television had the biggest impact.   I fell in love with all cowboys and indians alike!

The movie plot of "Australia" revolves around Lady Sarah, played by Nicole Kidman, who is a proper British aristocrat who is looking for her missing husband. The Drover, played by Jackman, is a roguish loner, but you know Kidman falls for him along the way.   The movie is referred to as "an epic romantic adventure story".

I may just have to go see this!

(ahhh, yup.. gotta see this! yup, yup , yup!)

(this is going to make me wish I could go to Australia I just know it!)

Review: In northern Australia prior to World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

It gets even better...

Another Aussie actor that I had the opportunity to see and meet at a convention is in it..

David Wenham (who played Faramir in LOTR) has a part in this movie.

And it's not the first time he's worked with Hugh Jackman.  David also had a good part in Van  Helsing!

Having had an opportunity to meet him I can tell you that no photo really does him justice!  He's an extremely  handsome young man in person.. even better than any photo I've seen of him, and just as extremely nice! I hope he gets the opportunities to continue to perfect his craft.

I think I'm pretty much sold on the fact that I HAVE to go see this movie!  I hope it does well at the box office for all concerned... it certainly has a great cast!