{"id":694,"date":"2005-10-28T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/the-bed-listthe-dinner-list-72\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:51:24","slug":"the-bed-listthe-dinner-list-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/the-bed-listthe-dinner-list-72\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bed List\/The Dinner List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A couple of off-the-beaten-path choices for you women with brains:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>BED LIST: HUGH LAURIE<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/seattlebonvivant.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/hugh_laurie_1.jpg\"><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>I&#8217;m so predictable. Coming in second to Southern gentlemen for overall deliciousness are gentlemen from the British Isles. Find me a Brit (Scot, Irishman, Welshman) with a brain and a killer sense of humor, and you&#8217;ll usually find me willing to hop into bed. Case in point, Hugh Laurie, or as most Americans are finally discovering him, &#8220;Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/house\/\">House<\/a>.&#8221; This character is mostly despicable, with a horrible attitude and even worse bedside manner, and yet most women I know (including the Dr.&#8217;s lost love, played by the luminous Sela Ward) want to jump him. Or reform him. Or try to do both. Hell, anyone who can pull off both <span>Sense and Sensibility <\/span>(as the wonderfully droll Mr. Palmer) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/blackadder\/\"><span>Blackadder<\/span><\/a> is worth a spin&#8211;he&#8217;ll probably make you laugh, and even if you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll be swooning over that accent anyway.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>DINNER LIST: VING RHAMES<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ilpotereelagloria.it\/images\/immagini\/RhamesV.jpg\"><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span>Ving Rhames is the master at implausible one-liners that make me howl. Some examples: &#8220;George Bush.&#8221; (<span>Striptease<\/span>) &#8220;The stupidhead.&#8221; (<span>Lilo and Stitch<\/span>) &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna miss being disreputable.&#8221; (<span>Mission: Impossible<\/span>) <\/span><span>&#8220;Sweaters make my neck look too thick.&#8221; (<span>Dave<\/span>) He has an incredible range&#8211;everything from Disney to <span>Pulp Fiction<\/span>&#8211;and a great laugh. Yep, I&#8217;d have dinner with him. Hell, I&#8217;d cook for him. Anything he wants.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of off-the-beaten-path choices for you women with brains: BED LIST: HUGH LAURIE I&#8217;m so predictable. Coming in second to Southern gentlemen for overall deliciousness are gentlemen from the British Isles. Find me a Brit (Scot, Irishman, Welshman) with a brain and a killer sense of humor, and you&#8217;ll usually find me willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-bc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}