#tom james

[spiltsoup]

I love cinematic parallels

[socialoutsider1a]

Happy birthday to one of the greatest actors I've ever seen on TV- James Hugh Calum Laurie- (yes, that is Hugh Laurie's full name).

From the early days of his roles in Blackadder, the British comedy series and work with Stephen Fry as a member of Fry and Laurie to the role that would bring him international stardom: playing Dr. Gregory House on "House MD".

He'd later go to play Senator Tom James in Veep and the one role that made me develop a new respect for him as the main villain, arms dealer, Richard Roper in the TV adaptation of "The Night Manager".

For me, House MD is where I first saw HL so that got me intrigued and digging into his past TV shows which is how I discovered his early roles in "Blackadder".

HL is a very talented actor.

He can go from playing genuinely stupid characters such as Prince George and Lieutenant George in "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth" to a man who's charming on the surface but is pure evil underneath, the prime example being in "The Night Manager". To me, that's a unique skill and something he's very good at doing ever since he began his acting career in 1981- 43 or 44 years ago.

[mcclintcock]

reminder that this is what selina and tom looked like when they were senators together and selina was obsessed with him 🙈😳

i ship it

[vonlipvig]

pretty ladies thinking pretty thoughts (or some excuse for me to draw some 5x07 doodles of my girls)

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Tom James

[murdercrowsblog]

I was wrong.

He is definitely not mid here.

He is hot here.

My bad.

[oldcountrybear1955]

Zara Man SS 2011 Lookbook - Tom James

[dokani]

please does anyone have this photo of hugh laurie i want to hang it on my wall

[shinsfangirling]

Is it me or Kent & Tom do synchronize their movements here…

[socialoutsider1a]

Hugh Laurie's American accent in House MD and Veep is great but there's something incredibly soothing about listening to his real voice, his English accent.

(Yes, in real life, HL is English).

The reason his voice is so unusually deep- I think it's due to the fact that he began smoking when he was a child.

From his wikipedia page:

"I was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a 'bookey' nature, I spent a large part of my youth smoking Number Six and cheating in French vocabulary tests."

I've seen HL hold cigars in "House MD" and "The Night Manager" while also smoking them during some scenes in the two shows.

[mcclintcock]

alicia is such a weird episode. its not *that* weird but the first few minutes are really weird because it feels like a medical drama even the camera angles n stuff. like characters we have never seen before on the side of the road talking about something random it feels like one of them should start having a weird medical problem cut to chase explaining the issue to house (tom james?)

tom james does know a weird fact about the medication scopolamine so he could be house md

i see the vision i think house md is tom james actually

[vonlipvig]

to congress we go.

inspired by and referenced from this leyendecker artwork below the cut

[frank-o-meter]

NEXT IN FASHION - SEASON TWO

When Netflix released the first season of Next in Fashion in 2019 - I thought it was a refreshing update to Project Runway design competition. After multiple seasons, PR had become stuck in a rut and focused too much on the “drama” between contestants. No wonder - they had brought in the show runners from MTV’s The Real World.

Next in Fashion also increase the prize from PR’s $100,000 to the sizable sum of $250,000!

I had been looking forward to another season. It was a long wait as Netflix finally released NIF Season Two on March 3, 2023.

Wow! What a disappointment!

It was clear from its first episode that NIF had been scaled down… a shadow of its former staff.

The number of contestants was reduced from 18 designers to 12 designers.

The prize money dropped from $250K to $200K.

The construction room looked cramp. Designers literally bumped into each other with work stations set too close to each other.

The show must have had a limit production schedule as several times the contestants were only given 4 hours to design and construct before judging. For the finale they were given 3 days to design 8 outfits (Project Runway gives its contestants a couple of months.)

This meant the outfits often looked unfinished. Somehow the judges kept praising what came down the runway (“I love the raw edges of the hems!”)

After 3 or 4 episodes I gave up… I started only watching the challenge introduction of each episode and fast forwarding to the runway.

One of my favorite designers (Tom James) got eliminated in the 5th episode.

The only saving grace was that Nigel Xavier win in the finale was deserved. The photos available on the internet don’t do his designs justice. His style is “focusing on upcycling pre-existing garments, with denim being a recurrent material” and often using patchworks, logos, and sportswear motifs.

Whether season three of NIF comes next year or 4 years from now… I think I’ll skip it.

[hakurei-ringo1031]

This where I realized that Banica Conchita and Carlos Marlon from Evilious Chronicles had a happier ending, than these two in Veep did

[oldcountrybear1955]

Zara Man SS 2011 Lookbook - Tom James

[hakurei-ringo1031]

(Probably) Inktober#7.5 Tom James from Veep but he's wearing Gallerian Marlon's Courtroom attire from the Evilious Chronicles