Alexander Koch Three Times

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I had to stop watching Under the Dome because it was making me crazy, literally crazy, every time I watched it, it is so so so dumb. I actually got so angry in the middle of an episode that I figured out a way to violently remove a subscription from my DVR, which is not an easy task. But I did it! Violently! And if you have any idea how much I love Mike Vogel, and love watching Mike Vogel run around in blue jeans, then you know what a sacrifice this was, and how hard it was for me to do it. But enough was enough. Fucking space eggs and butterflies and bullshit.

Anyway Alexander Koch (previously gratuitized here) is a pretty pretty block of wood - you know who he reminds me of? Pier Paolo Pasolini's under-age boyfriend Ninetto Davoli (see more of him here).

Ninetto was also kind of a pretty block of wood, honestly. I'm seeing Abel Ferrara's Pasolini bio-pic next week and I wonder if the dude they did cast (Riccardo Scamarcio) as Ninetto will be any better. Don't emote too realistically, Riccardo!

Under The Koch

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These are nice and all, very nice actually, 

but where are some new Mike Vogel pictures???
(via) See lots more of Alexander Koch here.

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Gratuitous Alexander Koch

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Fun fact: Almost every time I try to write Alexander Koch's name my fingers take on a mind of their own and I type "Alexander Kock" instead. I don't think you even need Freud to get that gist. Anyway I really only have eyes for Mike Vogel while watching Under the Dome - indeed I don't really even like the show very much, but I keep watching it, and I will continue to keep watching it, as long as Mike Vogel keeps looking like he does upon it. But Alexander Koch is a very very pretty young man, that much I can see. I'm not a fool.

Indeed the boyfriend and I've got a running joke while watching the show (actually we have dozens; it's the sort of show that demands you entertain yourself a lot of the time) about just how insanely lovely Junior Rennie's apparently deceased mother had to have been, given that Koch looks like he does and his father, played by the wonderful actor Dean Norris, well... looks like Dean Norris.

(Yeah right those lips are anywhere in Dean Norris' gene pool.) Anyway I found myself in sort of a gratuitous netherworld with these pictures - there were too many for an "Alexander Koch [blank] Times" post, but he hasn't quite done enough work yet to really feel justifiably worthy of the title "gratuitous," wink wink nudge nudge, up in here. Still, I've got just about forty more totally better than acceptable pictures of him to share, so hit the jump for it...

I Am Link

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--- Boy In the Bubble - That guy there is named Alex Koch and he's just joined the cast of the Stephen King tv series Under the Dome as "Junior Rennie." As I said the other day when somebody else was cast my memories of that book are pretty vague but the name Junior Rennie is ringing a bell - THR says his character's "the son of the local politician and car dealer who is a smart and deeply disturbed college freshman." Anyway, Alex Koch will totally be a new crush, I can feel it in my bone.

--- Go Go Rosario - When I wrote up some thoughts on Danny Boyle's Trance trailer over at TFE the other day I expressed my happiness at the Rosario-Dawson-ness of it all - we do like her so very much and would like to see her be as successful as all get out. So here's some terrific news of that sort - she's signed on to co-star with Ryan Reynolds in Atom Egoyan's new movie! I mean Atom Egoyan's not exactly making blockbusters, even if it has got Ryan Reynolds, but he made The Sweet Hereafter so that's all that matters. It also stars Scott Speedman.
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--- Sweet November - That Ridley Scott movie starring Michael Fassbender as a lawyer turned drug dealer called The Counselor has just been scheduled for November 15th of this year. It's also got Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz and Rosie Perez, amongst others. Obiously, I need this movie.

--- Hark A Park - I haven't watched the first clip from Park Chan-wook's Stoker because I've pretty much stopped watching cips before seeing movies, especially from movies I have every intent already of seeing. I don't need any convincing here! But you can see it over at The Film Experience, along with some similarly themed thoughts from Nathaniel. As a side-note, you know how I was just bragging about getting to see Stoker a couple of days early? yeah they changed the date and now I can't go. That's what I get. Oh well, it's only screening a day before it comes out for real now. (Although PCW will still be there and I'll miss that dammit. I have seen him in person before though.)

--- Rubber Lizard - I'm super excited to hear Frank Darabont talk about his plans for the script for Godzilla; he seems to get what the point is. We'll see it that translates, though.

---  Mega Man - You can see a couple new pictures of the new Robocop suit over here, which is much more hardcore than those initial sleek black version that we saw and the internet hated. (I didn't hate it, honestly.) This suit does nothing for Joel Kinnaman's figure, I'll say that much.
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--- Sundown On Me - We knew that The Town That Dreaded Sundown was getting remade - now we know who is remaking it. Ryan Murphy of all people is producing (along with the guy who made the Paranormal Activity movies, which makes more sense); it will be directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who's been a second-unit director for things like Babel and Argo (not to mention this week's finale of American Horror Story's second season (I haven't watched it yet, don't say anything!), and it will be written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacas, a playwright who also wrote the upcoming Carrie remake.
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--- Chainsaw Songstress - I'd totally forgotten this was a thing, but Gothamist caught up with Duncan Sheik on where his music for the American Psycho musical stands. It's apparently totally gonna open in London later this year. Plus he gives some song titles up, like "I Am Clean" and "You Are What You Wear." Indeed.
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