Thanks Fran, great pictures of Simon again! He can look so intense, it´s terrific! I don´t understand what the article says, though, but maybe our french friends here will give us a small summary in english?
Thank you Fran for the article. I totally agree with you beautyfulbabyboy, his look is very intense and I can't stop looking at him.
I tried to translate the article using google translation, hope that there are not too many errors.
Physical prince more than charming, casual elegance, disarmingly natural. Hero of the cult series The Mentalist, which will turn the seventh season, the audience panics. He is the new image of Swiss watches Longines and think to spend behind the camera. For us, he plays a fashion models and sublime in his image: sexy chic.
Athletic, tanned, blue eyes matched her outfit twill Alpaca and waters of Tasmania, Australia, where he grew up, Simon Baker climb the few steps to the courtyard of the Château de Chantilly. Support silent split into two. At the forefront, women. Behind, in a semicircle, men who have spontaneously developed slightly away out of spite or discretion. Came from all continents, perched on their stilettos to be bigger and better view, buttressed their phones, they strafed one of the most beautiful men on the planet Hollywood. Simon stops, turns a pirouette and smiled. Not one of those smiles and ready-made machinaux. No, a real smile subdued. A smiling gentleman, old school, vintage, british. Time stops. An eternity. Simon looks at the sun's last rays deliver. Right hand, he grabs a microphone while gently lifting the cuffs of his shirt to look at his watch, and loose a sigh: "But, in fact, what time is it? "Unleashing, with these simple words, a kind of mass hysteria among young women. The mentalist has not forgotten its mission tonight in one of the most beautiful castles in the world, he is the new ambassador of the luxurious Longines watches. "Elegance is an attitude," says the slogan. Simon Baker is a perfect illustration. He fixed his audience to hypnotize ...
A belated success
Before creating this new character dandy Hollywood, Simon Baker has long groped. "You can not outright say that I have long wandered behind the scenes of glory," resumed the hero of the cult series The Mentalist, which amounts to 18 million U.S. viewers per episode. Simon has long sought. "You can even say that I really rowed. "Simon is finally found. "You can even say that I have overcome the evil eye. "The good fairy is called Nicole Kidman, a fellow Australian. She encouraged the couple apprentices actors Simon Baker and his wife Rebecca Rigg now been married for twenty-one years, to try their luck in Hollywood. "I do not imagine that we would become without it. We had money problems. We cachetonnions in TV series such as Hartley hearts alive. I did the clips gogo boy in Australia. We already had a daughter to raise, Stella, born in 1993. "In 1997, he landed a small role in last LA Confidential, adapted from the book by James Ellroy, alongside Kim Basinger, Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe. It's not enough. "For me, this appearance was indeed very confidential! Nobody really noticed. "Nothing moves, but he persevered. "This is my next surfer. I spent my entire youth in Tasmania. A good rider is one who knows how to wait patiently, without drowning the right wave to take it at the right time. Before it's too early. After it is too late, "judge he smiled.
He had beauty, love ... and now the glory.
It was not until 2000 for it up a notch: he was chosen to play the role of Nick Fallin in The Protector, a series aired on CBS on media justice in Pittsburgh. His career shuddered. She finally explode six years later alongside Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada, where he plays a charming writer pushy. His name began to appear in short lists while U.S. producers. Simon was chosen to play the role of Patrick Jane in The Mentalist imagined by Bruno Heller Columbia. He had beauty, love. He lacked the glory. Arrived.
Today, it is there. Simon has signed the seventh season for $ 30 million, making him the highest paid actor in television series. In July, a newspaper of Melbourne, the Herald Sun announced the good news, adding that Simon Baker joined the club closed over Hollywood: the number of voters for the Oscars. Simon loves. But what he likes most in the world is eating a ham and butter in a cafe in front of Notre-Dame "with my wife and three children, Stella, Claude and Harry."
his idols Jean-Paul Belmondo. "At one time I was watching Pierrot le Fou and The Magnificent loop for the secret of his ease, his elegance, his casualness, its chic, short of its charm. My project is to try to do a remake of The Heir, a film written by Philippe Labro. '
Sophia Loren. "His eyes hypnotise me, bewitch me. There is a bit of Sophia Loren in the Mentalist. Again, I can watch without getting bored Marriage Italian or a special day. For me, this woman is a mystery. Its beauty is too much. '
Kelly Slater (eleven times world champion of surfing). "For me, surfing is a discipline, a philosophy, a way of understanding nature by respecting, and life without fear. Everyone should learn to surf. '
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TV star an insider in bank merger while public kept in dark (Dated 14th October 2012)
The Mentalist star Simon Baker was an unlikely insider to the plot to merge the ANZ and National banks, almost two months before the decision was made public.
The actor filmed a television advertisement promoting the merger in August, about six or seven weeks before it was revealed to New Zealanders.
ANZ representatives from New Zealand and Australia flew to Hollywood, at an undisclosed cost, to oversee filming of the promotion. The advertisement will air for the first time tonight but ANZ has given Herald on Sunday readers a sneak preview by posting it on YouTube this weekend.
In the ad, the Australian-born star of The Mentalist talks about "two great names in banking coming together".
"The power of two - something Kiwis understand," Baker says in the 30-second clip.
The union representing the bank's staff said ANZ and National should have consulted with the public and their staff before the merger was decided.
First Union finance director Andrew Casidy said it was a bad look that the bank filmed a merger ad at the same time it publicly denied any decision had been made. "We were publicly pushing the bank for a long time to come clean about what their plans were," Casidy said.
ANZ would not comment on the cost to film the ad in Los Angeles.
