While reading Lynn Hirschberg’s profile on Daniel Day-Lewis in the Sunday magazine, I was pleasantly surprised to find out he was a Valentino Rossi fan.
Strewn on the floor around him were several motorcycle magazines: one of Day-Lewis’s passions is MotoGP, the competitive bike tournament, which is popular everywhere (although somewhat less so in America). This summer, he borrowed a GSXR 1000 bike and rode at 120 m.p.h. from Los Angeles to Laguna Seca to cheer on his hero, the legendary champion Valentino Rossi. When Day-Lewis spoke about Rossi, it was in the same adulatory tones he reserved for De Niro, Brando and Montgomery Clift. “I’m a groupie,” he said. “Rossi is a genius. There are some parallels between what he does and what those actors do — his work requires both a great deal of discipline and a wildness of spirit. With acting, there is always that intangible aspect that goes beyond the practical framework. Brando had that — the freedom that he had was more the instinctive freedom of an animal at times than a human.
In the same issue, Walter Salles has an essay dissecting the elements that make up a great road movie, which made me think of my all-time favorite road movie — “Midnight Run.”
It's taken one and a half racing seasons, but finally, Rossi has broken Stoner... and smashed him like a guitar!
Valentino Rossi: The smartest, cleverest, bestest, hottest, sexiest, sweetest, finest f**ker on the planet today.
2007... it's still gonna get it's ass kicked! 2007... it's HISTORY!
Forza The Marco Simoncelli Hair Appreciation Team. World Champions!
rossi is nice with everyone....with his big smile and his funny face he can make everyone to like him
Dunno, you might want to check out the thread, Rossi and Yamaha. Brubi just posted the funniest article about Rossi...
It's taken one and a half racing seasons, but finally, Rossi has broken Stoner... and smashed him like a guitar!
Valentino Rossi: The smartest, cleverest, bestest, hottest, sexiest, sweetest, finest f**ker on the planet today.
2007... it's still gonna get it's ass kicked! 2007... it's HISTORY!
Forza The Marco Simoncelli Hair Appreciation Team. World Champions!
The Pittster has joined the party... where has he been all these years? Obviously his kid got him pointed in the right direction...
Brad Pitt may get the chance to try the MotoGP bike of his idol Valentino Rossi, the Italian ace said Thursday.
”We’re looking at ways of letting Brad ride my Yamaha,” Rossi said during practice for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix.
”It should be possible,” he said.
Pitt, a motorcycling fiend since his teens, recently said he would choose to be Rossi if given the chance to be reborn.
In a cover story in the latest edition of Riders Italian Magazine, the American heartthrob said ”we celebrities shouldn’t worship idols but I have one who stands above all the rest: Valentino Rossi”.
”I’d give anything to be like him. That guy is a real wizard. He can lean his bike flat out on the asphalt without falling. It’s pure ballet, it’s true art,” Pitt said.
”Rossi has this calm and innate sense of balance that’s beyond mortal man. Just poetry to watch”.
Pitt has over a dozen bikes in his garage, including a Harley-Davidson chopper which his companion Angelina Jolie gave him for his 44th birthday.
And what Rossi wrote (nicked from Conversations with Vale)
They have told me during Saturday’s dinenr what Brad Pitt has said about me. I could not believe it! It is normal that many men like to appear like me or that they feel a healthy jealousy for what I do, but Brad Pitt? Ufff…
It is peculiar that he said that he would like to change with me because I would like to do the same with him. I would also love to be Brad Pitt… because I am a big fan of his wife! I was with him at the track in Mugello this year and I greeted him but I would like to see him again and spend a bit of time with him to talk about life or motorbikes…
A few days ago I was asked if I liked to be star in a film about my life but I already answered no, being an actor is not for me. I am not worth it but I would like for Brad to be the one interpreting it. Can you imagine for Brad Pitt to be Valentino Rossi? It would be funny, eh?
It would be hilarious... not sure how Brad would cover Rossi at 17 winning his first WC....
See, Tom Cruise doesn't count cause I didn't come across anything where he specifically said he was a Rossi fan... he's just a motogp fan... so that's the difference... Michael Jordan the same... they've gotta come out and say they are specifically a Rossi fan.
It's taken one and a half racing seasons, but finally, Rossi has broken Stoner... and smashed him like a guitar!
Valentino Rossi: The smartest, cleverest, bestest, hottest, sexiest, sweetest, finest f**ker on the planet today.
2007... it's still gonna get it's ass kicked! 2007... it's HISTORY!
Forza The Marco Simoncelli Hair Appreciation Team. World Champions!
said in an interview on the grid in valencia when asked about vale:
"Man he is soooooo awesome that guy,
he is the king.
I mean there is no one.. but ehm he is... won championships(not sure if I got that right lol) he is the comeback-kid
he is entertaining, he is brilliant with the fans
u know he is everything u want from a rider
he is an amazing guy"
me could not have said it better
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
well rossi said he likes rossi very much..and rossi also said he likes rossi very much... and i guess that rossi is a rossi fan as much as rossi is a rossi fan...
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