Rachel Bilson Graces GQ.

My deposed Woman of the Year and still reigning ultimate fantasy/girlfriend material Rachel Bilson is on the cover of this month's issue of GQ. My (all-time) favorite female celebrity and my (current) favorite magazine in one sizzling combination. That's something to be really thankful for.

Bilson is dubbed as American beauty. Appropriately, she appears on the cover bedecked red white and blue. It is not the American flag, though, that is draped around her but a two-piece bikini that barely covers the inappropriate. A lace of red is wrapped around her short, slim legs, leading to her sexy white shoes.

In the inside pages, Rachel is teasing. she wears the same red-white-and-blue combination bikini as she sips her coke light (the phallic symbolism is not lost on the readers) and tumbles on the beige carpet.

When she changes costume, the same amount of flesh remains exposed. She lies in bed in just brasierre and underpants, silk I must judge. Suggestively, she bites the tip of her right ring finger and then undoes the strap of her bra.

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Rachel! Oh, Rachel!!!

I must say that GQ could not have chosen a better covergirl. Gearing from just a style guide and competing with other men's magazines in terms of sexual content (or non-contents), GQ has featured female personalities in the past year from Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel to Giselle Bundchen. Bilson is a logical successor as she is one of the sexiest women in the world.

I consider this a big boost for the career of Bilson. The O.C. has long ended and no new big project has come her way. Adam Brody has come out with a feature film, In the Land of Women. On the other hard, Marissa Cooper, I mean Mischa Barton, remains a tabloid topic.

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With this exposure, I hope that Rachel will get the career push that she truly deserves. This girl does not deserve to be a one-show wonder, or a mere footnote to the new millenium's TV history.

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Saw Sweeney Todd last Friday. I enjoyed the movie but most of the people in the theater did not seem to share my appreciation. The audience had mixed reception of the movie.

The apathy, ambivalence or downright unappreciation of some of the viewers is explainable. Sweeney is not the typical entertainment that one expects at this time and age. The theme ---and the movie in general--- is dark. It is hardly entertaining or relaxing, even if it is a musical.

But Sweeney Todd remains an excellent piece of film. The cinematography, production and direction are just near perfect. The audience was instantly transported to the era when Sweeney exacted his revenge. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter gave performances that are certainly among their best.

The movie is a museum piece. To appreciate the movie, the viewer must psyche himself that he is seeing a film for the experience of it ---much like the mental condition one must put himself in before watching a show in Broadway. And also, to judge the film one must consider its intrinsic faults and beauties and not in comparison with other works.

Can Depp sing? Sure. He can carry a tune but his voice lacks the power and the range to really carry a musical and bring the crowd to an ovation.

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There is no more space above so I have to put this last Rachel Bilson picture here.

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