Lanny Fuettere emailed out of the blue to say he's amazed at all the attention the instant-classic infomercial's been getting. So, Lanny, any more work recently?

Not of late. The entire industry has fallen on bad times. Used to do HSN, QVC Guest Hosting....always did 35-40 + shoots a year. Voice-over work was also a God-send. Now....only 4 shoots this year & no VO work. Did a film, but it's only going to Sundance. No distribution. AND....I reside in Land O'Lakes, FL right now. Bummer!

We shot that bit at a house on the inter-coastal waterway in St. Pete Beach, FL. About a half day. The Front man did that on green screen in-studio.

I was handing the guy a tool and positioned myself so that I would have to cross his hind-quarters...(the green stuff was added in post...of course.) It was my idea to go for the sink to 'puke'. The truck bit was in the driveway....I originally open that piece with; ".....can I say BUTT on TV?......". We decided it was too much....I added the +my my my butt" as an after thought. That's what we're really paid to do.....'bring something else to the camera'. It worked...and it's kinda funny to some people. And, no, I do not speak in that manner.

Hey......visit my web site....OK? www.lannyfuettere.com

I appreciate your getting back to me. Have a GREAT day!

Lanny

Good luck with everything, Lanny.

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A tipster told us that Chad landed a role on the upcoming CW series The Beautiful Life, as a photographer. Here he is, in this photo, on the right, dressed as a photographer, next to Mischa Barton and also a catering guy, maybe? Congratulations, Chad.

[Pic: INF]

In order to get into character [for Death in Love], Mr. Lucas committed to being crazy for 25 days. Like the character, he avoided all things beneficial or healthy.
"I tried to do everything to be beaten and rundown, a sense of feeling that pain. I purposefully did not do yoga or go to the dog park or hang out in bright, beautiful places."

Yoga or the dog park. It's called sacrifice, kids. After those dark days, Josh had to immediately re-calm himself. With yoga.

He also switched from Bikram yoga, which is intense hot yoga, to Kundalini yoga. Sometimes, he says, "it's as esoteric as sitting there with your hands in a strange posture and just quietly breathing.

Doing yoga is a thing Josh Lucas likes to do. Yoga. Just be thankful that Josh Lucas found yoga—before he went over the edge:

"It's funny, I was doing yoga the other day, and it must have been a fire truck that pulled up and started blasting its horn because the cars wouldn't move out of its way, and I actually burst out laughing, 'cause I was like, ‘This is incredible.' I was like, ‘Thank God I'm doing yoga right now, because otherwise I might not be laughing, I might be screaming.'"

If you see Josh Lucas doing anything other than yoga, call the police at once.
[NYO. Pic: Getty]

Nevermind the fact that it was Rosa Parks' refusal to sit in the back of the bus that made her an American civil rights icon, such historical accuracy only diverts our attention from our hero's latest efforts to become the Jesus Christ of film acting or whatever, so just pay attention, okay?!

So today, I decided to change some habits and get back to basics, and took the $15 "Bolt Bus" to NYC (Instead of the ultra luxurious Acela I usually travel in), and even got a small room at The Pod Hotel, which is an upscale version of a Hostel in Midtown NYC with Bunk-Beds and a shared bathroom so I could taste struggle and poorness again and come down to Earth. I even rode in the back of the bus to feel the symbolism of "The Journey", because I see myself as a modern day Rosa Parks making a stand for the rights of the "Modern Actor" (An actor who does it with out worrying about what people think), and stared out the window thinking about how many people are living through me, and cheering for Arthur Kade to be the greatest actor in the world.

I am so excited to be on a premiere movie set for the first time in a month, and to feel the rush of the PA's and actors looking at me, and participating with me in making something special. When I worked on AirBender, we became a family, and I miss the feeling of connecting and feeling admiration from people who understand my plight, and I can't wait to be doing what I love again, not just focusing on being famous. I also have to plan my next Kade Angeles Trip this week, because I am getting tons of audition requests there, so I am looking into getting second place there shortly so I can be Bi-coastal. I am also going to try and run back to Philly to make my commercial class tomorrow night after a 7AM Call time for the movie.

Here's Arthur on his cab ride down the West Side highway talking about his big role in Step Up, though we can't seem to find a title listing for a project going by that name currently in any stage of production anywhere in the world.

If you haven't yet had the pleasure of seeing Arthur Kade act, check out his rendition of Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction.

Arthur Kade, we are convinced now more than ever that you are a total fraud, which we guess makes you a genius, and for that reason we stand in awe of you now, always and forever.

Back of the Bus [Arthur Kade]

#2 is clearly the most Madoff-esque, but for the purposes of this flick, why not just go with #1, "Extremely Angry Guy?"

The genial Q TV host, Jian Ghomeshi, introduced Billy Bob as an "Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor, and director" when doing an interview with Thornton and his band The Boxmasters. And that ticked ol' Billy B. off something fierce.

He was first sullen and sulky, answering questions evasively, when he was answering them at all, but then the whole thing spun out of control. When pressed to answer a question about his musical influences, Thornton pissily, an inexplicably, compared himself to Tom Petty, then just acted like a petulant little baby. Basically because he felt that people weren't taking his precious, precious "cosmic cowboy music" seriously enough. It gets real weird and awkward about half way through.

You don't need him, ladies. [Wholphin]

Let's get this out of the way first: Although the balance of available evidence would seem to indicate that Chad Lindsey is, in fact, a gay hero, it hasn't exactly been spelled out yet. Queerty asked him whether fanatical blogs such as this one are trying to turn him into the next gay hero:

Hmm. That hadn't occurred to me. It seems we live in a world where we're past that. I know we're not and I have a good idea that we don't, but I don't know. I'm trying to be judicious about how much I even talk. You know what I mean? I mean, "Look dude, you jumped in the train and got someone out, now shut up already." You know? It's enough to say I'm an actor. People are already rolling their eyes.

Never! This cycle of intense and fleeting adulation is all perfectly normal, Chad. Enjoy it before it fades away, next week. He told Queerty he's barely even had time to read the blogs, but when he spoke to Playbill yesterday he'd obviously had time to read the comments of you, the Gawker readers, who hurt his feelings:

"'Smoldering' is hilarious," Lindsey said. "Later in the blog they have comments and somebody wrote, 'We have obviously lowered the level of smoldering considerably.' I was like - Ouch."

We hope you're very proud of yourself. How would you feel if that was the last thing you ever got to say to Chad?

Queerty: Well, if there's anything people should take away from your story, what should it be?
Chad: *car honks* Oh, God, I almost got run over.

Chilling. Chad, now we know you're reading. Email us at once.

On Monday, in Penn Station, some dude fell on the tracks and totally knocked himself out. Chad Lindsey, proofreader and aspiring smoldering actor, jumped onto the tracks and hauled the man up, then jumped up himself before the train came. Instead of waiting around for a book deal, he just went ahead and got on the next train and left. Modest, selfless, and a sense of humor as well!

He looked back up at the people on the platform. "I yelled, ‘Contact the station agent and call the police!' which I think is hilarious because I don't think I ever said ‘station agent' before in my life. What am I, on ‘24'?"

You may be sooner than you think, my friend! Chad is 33, and sports a strong jaw and tousled hair. He's currently appearing in Kaspar Hauser off Broadway, but he's no neophyte—according to the internet, he's previously had roles on "How I Met Your Mother," MTV's "Undressed," and "Totally Sexy Loser." Among others!

Chad is also a minor sex symbol to his IMDB fans ("Plot Keywords: Gay Interest | Gay Kiss | Fear Of Commitment | Gay Sex"), and, as one asserts, "Chad Lindsey Rocks. Rocks Hard."

He certainly does! Here's his highlight reel. Give him some work, why don't you?

[Email us, Chad!]

Agency Spy broke this important news of the Republican prostitute shilling for the discount retailers. And what do you know?:

Ha. Hahahaha. Please, please let this be authentic. It is, at the very least, someone who has studied Vincent's particular brand of discourse quite closely. And remember, from his most recent public offering of his own company:

Heavy set, older, red heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I highly frown upon any male having even the slightest momentary thought or wish that they could ever become my client. No way Jose.

So there. [Agency Spy; Vincent, email us to confirm or deny!]

I told him I liked The Wire and he said, totally unbidden and without having any idea who I was, "Yesterday somebody sent me a thing from Gawker.com about how they stripped the set."

Whoa, hey, alright! He also said he hasn't watched some of the earlier seasons of The Wire yet, but it's on his agenda. This is the most exciting celebrity sighting here since the Williamsburg hair man.

*(May or may not be a fan.)

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When word of this book first got around, plenty of people hoped that Dean would just out some famous rappers outright, by name. Barring some unforeseen surprises later in the book, he's not going to do that. But he does like to tell salacious stories about people using pseudonyms, while giving enough identifiable details about them that it's certainly possible to make some very good educated guesses at their identities.

It should also be noted that this book is not just about hip hop. It starts off with Dean's life story—poverty, molestation, a heroin-addicted prostitute mother. He goes to college and moves to LA to break into the entertainment business. He socializes with a wide range of people from movies, television, and the random parts of the LA celebrity-industrial complex, as well as people from the music industry.

Finally, it's clear that this book is not a work of great literature. Nor is it intended to be, judging by the porny quote selected for the book jacket. It's basically an extended tease from a man who was deeply ensconced in the "down low" culture.

And now, today's highlights—there are lots of gay scenes with anonymous people in this book, but these are the ones that seem to involve the most famous subjects:

• Dean is at Keenen Ivory Wayans' birthday party. "There were two male celebrity actors standing a few feet in front of us. They didn't notice us because the club was dark. Both men are young and very attractive and have starred in some comedic and dramatic films. One of the actors, "Junior," is a tall, muscular, brown-skinned brother who got his start in television and is known for his comedic roles in films. He never married, but has a couple of children with a girlfriend. The other dark-skinned actor, "Fritz," has been in a few movies and has starred in a popular television drama."

  The two are obviously a gay couple, which surprises Dean, although he says there has been much speculation about "Junior."

• Dean's friend Sandy is working on a film with some major stars in it. "The lead was "Lucas," who is a megastar. No matter what film project he was attached to it was bound to be a box office smash. In Hollywood, he is considered a golden boy and very bankable. However, there were already many rumors swirling about his sexuality, and even though he married, it was hard for him to shake those pesky gay rumors."

  Every day, Sandy says, Lucas' friend "Kareem, a leading [married] sitcom actor," visits his trailer, where they go inside and—everyone believes—have sex. Dean also says that Lucas runs with a circle of high-level superstar down low types. He later meets Lucas again and finds him to be "smooth, charismatic, and charming," and his wife even brings goodies to the film crew.

• Dean's friend "Corey" is a singer-songwriter who was featured on the MTV series The Cut, opened shows for Jay-Z, appeared in a Broadway musical, and then signed with "Eli, a popular multiplatinum rapper, who had just started a label at the time (in the 90s)."

  "Eli was a force to be reckoned with. He flew out the gate with his debut album and would become a mainstay in the ever-changing Hip Hop industry, where many rappers are one-hit wonders. He has been hailed as one of the greatest rappers to bless the mic."

  It turns out that Corey has been giving oral sex to Eli (whom Dean describes as "fine as hell") in Eli's home studio. "Up until that moment I had never heard anything remotely close about the rapper being gay. Eli was a burgeoning superstar who parlayed his marketability into television and movie credits. He even had a promising clothing line. But every man's got needs and Eli's needed tending to."

I have some guesses. Do YOU?

More tomorrow!