Sorta-Kinda-News? Maybe???

James is being his usual tight-lipped self, tweeting something about opening windows and closing doors. (Which, if I can read him at all, means he's working on something big. But who knows?) Here's something interesting: someone who works for WB had spotted James at the lot a few days ago!

Julie_Gray: Holy FAN MOMENT: Just ran into and spoke with Gaius Baltar here on the Lot! James Callis - IMDb http://imdb.to/gbZu3j

Geez that sounds kinda promising, doesn't it?!!! At this point, I don't really care what it is - movie, tv show, reality tv, whatever. He needs to be seen by the big public again. I kinda love when he does British indies, because that's his roots and it's sweet that he wants to work at that still. But I really want to see him on my TV again. Or even - gasp - at the cinema. I'll keep my eyes peeled and let you know of any developments I can find. Be prepared to wait another six months for any concrete news, though.

Meanwhile, America is premiering in San José, California on the 10th of March! If James is in LA, he might conceivably be at the premiere.

Also, for those googling "James Callis penis", just do a "James Callis" blogsearch and you'll run into this:

Just found are many new naked leaked videos & leaked photos captured of the young sportsman James Callis. James is currently a British actor. James has an incredibly massive penis shown in a selection of leaked pics! ...

Wow. "Incredibly massive", you say? That's great for him. But um, are we really talking about the same guy?  "Young sportsman"? He's not old, but as sportsmen go, wouldn't he be retired by now? And did he ever actually DO any sports? I'm not going to click on this link, because it reeks of "this link may harm your computer", but if anyone else is curios enough to test it, please let me know what you found.*Obligatory giggle at the mention of his penis.*

Edit: Yeah, apparently there's nothing about James on that site, other than a truncated biography. What a disappointment! Every time I open my heart! I'm beginning to think we will never see his incredibly massive penis. (Hee, hee.)

James with Children = awwww.

This is an adorable interview with the America child actors, Jefferson and Anslei Shelton. Overall worth seeing if you like kids. But there's this adorable, very small clip with James Callis that just made me melt.

Jefferson: "One of my most favorite characters is Mr Leverett, really silly and fun." That's James' character. OMG I HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE LIKE BURNING. I haven't seen James interact with children much on screen, and I really want to see it.

Here's a screencap - it's from the America website, so it has that red stuff, but I'm too lazy to take another one from the Youtube video:

How cute is that?! James is saying "This is Star Wars" something, but it cuts off there. Toby suggested they're playing Lego Star Wars on the PSP. James really looks like he's bonding with the child and talking to him on the same level. Which I love. (Also, nice nerdy touches with the hair/glasses/undershirt.)

I dunno if it's my hormones responding to "good Daddy material" or what, but every time I see a man being kind to children it's just awwwwww. And if it's James, it's extra awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww with hearts and glitter. And now I sound twelve but honestly, how cute is he?

That's all I have to say. I know there's no real substance to this post but who cares.

Search And Ye Shall Find

I've been bitten bad by the Tumblr bug, and the bite grows bigger and more inflamed by the day.
Um, despite that mental image, do check my James Tumblr. Lots of photos each day.

I thought I'd take a look at the search terms that people use to land in my blog. There have been some interesting ones lately, and maybe I can be of assistance regarding the queries...

"Neha Callis"/ "James Callis wife photo". I get several of these a month and sorry, I can't help you there. There are no photos of her online (in public at least). She's an attorney, comes from New Delhi, India, and that's about all I can tell you. Some fans saw her at a Comic Con in 2008 and said she was gorgeous. She's a little unreal to me, to be honest. Not because I'm so terribly jealous, it's just like someone I hear about but never see, like she exists in another realm. I can't really imagine James' family. Just last night, I dreamt he had put up photos of them - and I totally respect that he doesn't but I guess on SOME level I really want to see them. His boys looked exactly like him and had glasses on. I think one of them even had a moustache, so... :D I'd take that with a grain of salt. (He also had a lot of pets, from ducks to bears and bunnies. I blame Tumblr for these dreams. My subconscious is obviously cluttered with cute animal images and James images, all mixed together.)

I'll stop talking about his family before I sound stalkerish, but just a note - if I saw something on Facebook, I wouldn't share it or discuss it here. I haven't seen anything really personal though. Except for the moustachioed sons and pet ducks. They were glorious.

"Are you supposed to like gaius baltar?" I think so. I mean, it's the weakness, the humanity in all of us, and he does have empathy and guilt. He's not irredeemable. But every viewer has his or her own reading, of course, so I can't put a gun against anyone's head. I do get a bit annoyed when people post something like "I hate that Gaius Baltar", to be honest. I've pretty much stopped doing twitter searches for the character, because I can't convert them all.

"James Callison tractor supplies". LOL!!! I've come up with this a few times on a James search, and it's hilarious that someone found my blog with that search. Oh dear, now that I mentioned it, this will come up in that search. Oh whatever.

"does james callis have straight or wavy hair?" Hmmm. When he has short hair, it seems less wavy, but it's still not completely straight. I'd say it's not curly or anything, but it's quite luscious. Like a lion's mane. A viril lion's. I'm changing topics now.

"James Callis penis". Let's just not even go there, okay?

"James Callis height weight". 5'8'' / 173 cm. If you want more detailed analysis, look at other sites. It's one thing I, for some reason, don't care about at all. (Maybe because I'm 5'2'').Weight, hmmm. It's actually not anywhere online. Maybe he's sensitive about it, or maybe it varies so much he hasn't bothered to give it. Or maybe no one ever asked him. Not that the number really matters, when you can just look at the luscious rounded... ok, changing topics again.

"why didnt they just ask kevin on eureka" - if you mean the timeline change, I guess he was a different Kevin? Like the autistic Kevin sent them back in time but the "regular teenager" Kevin wouldn't know about it.

"baltarstar blog"+"strawberry - ??? Weird, this is one of MY searches. (I sometimes look for specific quotes for the tumblr or something. But strawberry..?) It's really odd that I can't remember.

"Do suspenders go under the vest". Well, judging by Trevor Grant, they do. :D Or at least they did in the forties. Mind you, take that with a grain of salt, it's not Queer Eye for the Straight Guy '47 or anything.

"james callis chest hair" - as far as I know, it's real and it's spectacular. Is this a really horny post? I try to write non-horny posts too. I can totally look at James with an academic, objective eye without eroticizing him. (I think.) (don't ask me to prove that.)

On the other hand, I get a whole lot of "james callis sexy", "james callis shirtless", etc. searches. A lot. So I think all of our minds are in that same gutter.

James Callis birthday. It's June 4th, 1971. See, one query where I could actually be helpful and not get all horny. (Mmm, sexy numbers. No, I'm just kidding.)

James Callis in America

EDIT: ah, they already have it on Youtube? Embedded.

Edward James Olmos' film America, starring his wife Lymari Nadal, has a website now at americathemovie.net.

If you're interested in the film: watch the trailer. It seems interesting, I'll probably watch this. Someone was complaining on Twitter about the overpowering soundtrack, and I can already tell by the site and trailer that it has that. I'm interested in the premise though. Based on the trailer, it could go a little too much in the "violent husband is evil" direction, although I'm not sure how sympathetic you can make a beating husband. What I like is that the protagonist, America, is trying to change her life. 

If you're only interested in James Callis: skip the trailer and go straight to the selected scenes for him. (Edit: it's the same as the above embedded video.) There's a brief interview with behind-the-scenes shots, where you can see him talking to the cast. (And laughing and being adorable <3.) He plays Mr Charlie Leverett - another Charles? -, who he says is a computer nerd who likes comics, and he's the opposite of America's violent husband. Also, you can see him at the piano a little, so I'm hoping he's going to be playing some music in the film too. (In fact, if he's playing the overpowering soundtrack, I forgive it.) He looks boyish, with spiky hair and kinda nerdy thick-rimmed black glasses. It's amusing that he went straight from this to Gabriel McDow, whose hair was very messy and bushy. I guess it's all in the styling. He's in two photos in the photo gallery: 5 and 42. I can't link directly because it's a flash site. 

Here's what James says about the movie (and this is why I'm interested in it too): 

"It's quite a feminist movie, if I can say that. Women have to stand up for themselves and... seize the power, seize control. And if you're in a relationship that is no good and you can't change it around, you actually have to get out of it and start fresh, start something new." 

James Callis? Fuck Yeah!

Since there aren't enough James Callis sites out there - despite the fact that I talk about him all over the place - I have opened Fuck Yeah James Callis! the tumblr page. Basically, it's a simple and fast way to upload photos, or link to photos, or post quotes.

They say you haven't arrived before you have a fuck yeah tumblr. (Some truly famous - or truly hated - people even have a stfu hate tumblr.)

There are lots of beautiful images already tagged with James Callis, so I'm going to reblog some for now. I constantly have trouble with photo uploading here and on LJ, so it might prove a good place to do picspams. It's not really a blogging platform, so this blog is going nowhere.

It'll hopefully make a good resource for James photos. Peruse and enjoy!
Edit: I've enabled submitting, so if you have some nice James photos you'd like me to post, feel free to submit!

What Should James Do Next?

Haven't done these in a while, and since there are no news about James' real roles, it's a good timing for MY ideas.

AGENTS A TO O 
TV. Thriller/comedy/detective show.
Agent A (Tricia Helfer) is sexy, flashy and bad-assy. She can whip the crooks into shape, or she can wear a sexy cape. Agent O (James Callis) is a klutz and silly putz. He has failed his agent exam five years in a row, every day he is going "D'Oh!" He's being trained by a reluctant Agent A, and together they get into trouble-bay. But fall in love they may... ;)

F****ED UP
Movie. Comedy/Sexism.
Nicky (James Callis) is just a Regular Guy (tm). He loves his beer. He loves his video games. He loves to watch the game, no matter what sport. He loves to hang out with his manchild buddies and make gay jokes. What he loves the most of all is casual sex. But what happens when a drunken sexcapade in Vegas turns into an unwanted marriage? And then the next morning, the chick (Katherine Heigl) refuses to get a divorce? Nicky is unwittingly thrown into matrimony and all of its expectations. So unfair!!! Written and directed by Judd Apatow.

THE STATUE
Movie. Um... I have no idea.
Albert Alfraudschister (James Callis) has the same dream every night: everyone thinks he has died, and is surprised to see him alive. One day, he wakes up to find his obituary in the paper, and when he calls his parents, they cry out of relief. When a mysterious man appears who looks exactly like him and is dead, things begin to truly unravel. Who is Albert (James), and who did he used to be? Has a part of him died? He becomes unable to know reality from dreams. Then stuff happens that is too weird to even write about. The title is never explained. Written and directed by David Lynch.

Gaius Baltar in "Carol Brown"

Awesome fan video by nicole_anell - Gaius Baltar and all his women, set to Carol Brown by Flight of the Conchords.

I don't have much to add to this, except - damn, I wanna hit that. Hard. I'm note even sure if I mean James or just the fragile body of Gaius frakking Baltar.

Also... There were many beautiful moments in Galactica, weren't there? As in genuinely sweet moments, and really sexy ones, and just visually awesome ones. Despite the fact that most of these relationships were frakked up in one way or another, seeing them in this way is just - beautiful. I love this show so, so much.

James Callis = Enthusiastic Rugby Player?

So I was browsing through James' Wikipedia entry, and for some reason had linked it to Toby as well. He asked me, "Wait, he plays rugby?" I was like wtf? But yes, it says so here:

In 1993 he graduated with a BA degree in English and Related Literature at the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent College for whom he was an enthusiastic rugby player.

???? This entry has been edited on October 15th, 2010. Up until then, there's been no mention of rugby anywhere.

This was Earth-shattering for me. Could James have an athletic past I had no idea of? My teeth clattered, my brain chattered. (It may have had to do with being drunk, in part, but come on.) Toby laughed his ass off. He couldn't believe I found it anything but hilarious - tiny James in such a tough contact sport, probably getting battered!

Upon further inspection, I found nothing on James and rugby. Other than this: ... wait, where is it now? It was a 2006 interview where he mentioned that his teachers taught rugby wonderfully but weren't as good with science. But this was school, not college, as far as I can tell. I'll um, link to it once I find it. This is all very confusing. Maybe I dreamt up that interview.

There are three options:
1. Random Wikipedia vandalism (like the time his entry read "Callis is Christ" instead of "Callis is Jewish")
2. One of his contemporaries decided to add this snippet of information, which he wants to keep secret (??)
3. He's been confused with Jamie Bamber, who did play rugby for his college.

If we get no clarification, I'm going to assume this is Wikipedia vandalism. Mind you, I could see James doing some sports. He's mentioned horseback riding, swimming, running; I can see him doing any of these. But rugby sounds incredibly rough for such a small guy. Until he was about 30, he was very skinny indeed. So could he have been an athlete? Hmm yes or no... All pictures I've seen of rugby players, they're super muscular. But maybe that's just professional rugby. I really have no idea.

Edit: Robyn informs me that rugby is more of a "gentleman's game" in the UK, rather than a big bloodbath. So it's feasible James would have played. The plot thickens!

I took the liberty of drawing my idea of how such a rugby match might end up. Note James' enthusiastic attitude on the game. (I didn't go to much detail here, but you get the idea.)

(umm, just to clarify, the muscular guys are NOT naked. I just didn't bother to color them much.) 

A New Photo!

I was randombly browsing imdb last night and somehow ended up in James' profile once again. That's when I noticed there's a new picture! It's from Edward James Olmos's film America, which they shot last year in Puerto Rico. James mentioned this in the galactica.tv interview. He's not in a large role, and it seems he's as of yet uncredited, but there IS a picture! James Callis as Mr Leverett. He looks really hot and boyish and is doing the sad puppy eyes. Also: glasses! So maybe it's a brainiac/teacher role or something. <3 I'm not sure if the film is coming to theatres, but if it is, I'm definitely there.

So um, that's all the news I have, but since there haven't been many news lately, I thought people might appreciate it. Now I might as well blather a bit about his imdb page, while I'm at it. I really like the photos, the main one in particular. Lovely head shot. It's especially nice to see his hair and chest hair in such a large image, like you could dip your face into his hair... mm hmm. I'm glad there are quite a few Gabriel photos. It's also nice that his children's full names and ages are there. It's a bit odd, though, how few facts there are. I wonder if it's possible to add some. Hmm. Of course, now that I need to think of good facts, I can't really come up with much. Something about the unlucky theatre tour that inspired Beginner's Luck? "Likes to quote Shakespeare"? It would be nice to have some memorable quotes up there too. Anybody got suggestions for beefing up the page? We should work on his Wikipedia article too.

17 people have apparently seen the elusive Reuniting the Rubins and have given it the average grade of 6.7. Quite a few tens and ones, so maybe the film divides opinions. I'm very curious.

The conversation at the imdb "messageboard" is terribly lowbrow. "SHORT GUY", "he looks like Dr Bashir", etc. Sigh. OK, I won't spam the board, I don't have to dominate the James Callis conversation online. Serenity now! (The SHORT GUY thread is rather amusing though. I'd be all snarky and mean about it, but that wouldn't be James-worthy. Still, bwah!)

One last non-James-related note: I hate how the new imdb lists things for me in Finnish. If it's been aired here with a Finnish title, it only shows that title. I.e.:


"Ester - Persian kuningatar
Haman, the Agagite

2004 Dead Cool
Josh

2004 Bridget Jones: Elämä jatkuu
Tom

2003 Blue Dove - sirpaleinen tarina (TV mini-series)
Dominic Pasco

2003 Taisteluplaneetta Galactica (TV mini-series)
Gaius Baltar
– Episode #1.2 (2003) … Gaius Baltar"

So One Night With the King is called "Esther, the Queen of Persia". Wow. From king to queen! Bridget Jones' Diary 2 is "Bridget Jones: Life Goes on". Meh, but OK. I like it more than the inane German title "Bridget Jones: Chocolate for Breakfast". My least favorite is "Blue Dove - a Shattered Story". I hate double titles like that. Sorry, this was just to give you an idea of my hell when I browse imdb.

Back to Baltarstar...

I've decided to go back to the original title. I may keep this stylish design though - Baltar loves stylish suits, and he'd like to see his blog done in good style. Also, I apparently can't navigate Blogger's new template options. So um, I'll get back to you on that but don't you love those birds?

When I started this blog, I intended to make it about James/Baltar, pretty much 50/50. After BSG ended, I've realized I'm just going to be writing about whatever role James is currently doing, and James in general. I'm still a big Baltar fan, but since I'm not watching BSG episodes constantly, he fades into the background and James comes into focus in a ripe, delicious... I mean, um, admirable way. I could rename the blog James Callis something, but I'd have to change the url and move it to another location. Plus then I'd be confused with James Callis First Unofficial Website and All Things James Callis.

Baltarstar is a word he coined himself; it sets a silly tone, which is fitting. It doesn't suggest "OMG official James Callis website get your facts here". It's more like "A crazy fan writes about her personal oddities", which is closer to what the blog actually is. As long as Baltar is James' biggest and most varied role, I am keeping the Baltarstar Blog. If and when he gets a main role as something else, I'll reconsider.

The picture in the right margin is apparently either ENORMOUS so that you can't see it at all, or TINY so that, well, you can't see it much anyway. But I'll keep a picture of Baltar there for now.

So let's celebrate our favorite arrogant, alcoholic, nymphomaniac, cowardly.... angel / scientist / farmer /cult leader. He may not always be admirable, but he's at least MANY things!