THE slinky outfit had a surprising effect when Malin Akerman was cast as a superhero in the Hollywood movie Watchmen.
While the tight latex costume and high heels were not exactly comfortable to put on, the Swedish-born actress said yesterday that they were made her feel "super sexy".
"Every time a girl puts on a pair of heels, you feel like a different person," she told Stay in Touch. "And just getting in those heels and seeing the reaction of the boys on set, it was, 'All right. This is going to work."'
The 30-year-old, who has featured in 27 Dresses and The Heartbreak Kid, plays a former superhero who helps solve a murder in the $US100 million ($153 million) movie, based on a hit graphic novel. Watchmen is not released until next month, but Akerman has already met some of the book's rabid - and geeky - fans.
"There are some that start to stutter and don't really know what to say or don't really know where to look. For the most part they're either really excited or really nervous."
The director, Zack Snyder, whose last movie was the Spartan epic 300, found it challenging to turn a dense story into a movie that runs for two hours, 37 minutes. Lest hardcore fans feel robbed, there are plans for a cinema run of the director's cut, which runs for three hours, 10 minutes, later in the year.
Read more about Watchmen in today's Metro.
REALITY TELEVISION
The Seven and Nine networks have sustained strong audience numbers for news and current affairs programs this week while extending their half-hour bulletins to an hour to cover the bushfire disaster.
On Wednesday 1.58 million viewers watched the first half-hour of Seven News at 6pm, making it the most watched program of the night,
followed by the second half-hour at 6.30pm, which drew 1.54 million viewers.
Nine averaged 1.26 million for its first half hour and 1.24 million for the second.
The extended coverage has meant both Today Tonight and A Current Affair have screened at 7pm. On Wednesday the two programs, which rated 1.3 million and 1.1 million respectively, pushed the 7pm ABC news (which usually draws an average national audience of about 1 million) down to 942,000, and, for the third night running, was beaten by The 7.30 Report, with 990,000 viewers (down slightly on Tuesday's figure of 1.07 million and Monday's 1.2 million).
Other popular shows on Wednesday included Australia's Got Talent (1.3 million) and Criminal Minds (1.2 million) on Seven, House on Ten and Nine's season return of The Farmer Wants A Wife, both with 1.07 million. Gangs Of Oz, Seven's pitch at the "real" Underbelly, rated 1.02 million at 9.30pm.
RIHANNA REVENGE
Not every event that is planned around Valentine's Day has a romantic feel. A New York radio station, WBLI, has invited fans of the R&B singer Rihanna to shred CDs and posters of her boyfriend, the singer Chris Brown, who is accused of assaulting her. The station's operations manager, Nancy Cambino, said: "Valentine's Day should stand for love, so we find it fitting to make the Friday the 13th right before Valentine's Day a day for revenge for those who were unlucky in love.
"Whether you're a Rihanna fan or not, we can all empathise with being with someone who caused love to go wrong."
Brown was arrested last weekend after allegedly attacking Rihanna, who suffered a split lip, contusions on her forehead and bite marks on her arms.
According to the US gossip website TMZ, the couple started fighting in his rented Lamborghini after a star-studded pre-Grammy party. Both were last-minute cancellations at the Grammy Awards, where they were due to perform.
Prosecutors have asked for further investigation into the incident before pressing charges. Brown is due to appear in court on March 5. Two advertising campaigns starring Brown have been suspended, and several radio stations are refusing to play his songs. Rihanna has cancelled several events in the coming weeks.
BAT MAN GOES SCI-FI
The director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan, has settled on his next movie - and this time it has nothing to do with the Caped Crusader.
The Hollywood studio Warner Bros has given the nod to Inception, which is being described as a sci-fi action movie "set within the architecture of the mind", which makes it sound like The Matrix.
But whatever the movie sounded like, there is no doubt that The Dark Knight's remarkable worldwide box office of about $US1 billion made financing a breeze.
As The Hollywood Reporter tartly noted: "One would suppose a treatment based on some poems he wrote in his fifth-grade journal would have gotten the green light."
THREE QUESTIONS Matt Shirvington
What is your favourite Olympic moment?Kieren Perkins in 1996 at the Atlanta Games winning the 1500 metre final from lane 8. He was the outside chance and won. It's one of the greatest underdog stories of all time.
Do you ever bust out any of your Dancing With The Stars moves?Actually, at my brother-in-law's wedding, which was not long after the show, I had a dance with my wife, which I found a lot more comfortable to do than before the show.
How do you feel about your nickname, the Lunchbox?It's definitely not a nickname I chose for myself or encourage. However, there are worse things to be called.
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