I don’t often do this, but after I wrote this post for my other blog, I realized it’d be a perfect fit here, too. Here goes:
Sign me up for the Vince Vaughn fan club
Has anyone else seen “The Dilemma” yet? In it, Vince Vaughn plays a guy who discovers his best friend’s wife is cheating on him. Then he has to deal with his dilemma: To tell or not to tell.
Am I the only one who thinks Vince Vaughn is a great leading man?
“The Breakup”? Hilarious. “Wedding Crashers”? Heck, yeah. “Couples Retreat”? I could watch it over and over. “Four Christmases”? Yes, please — and I’ll take a couple more while we’re at it.
I love the fast-talking, mistake-prone, so-smart-yet-so-dumb, sweet, funny type of guy Vaughn seems to excel at portraying.
He may not be Brad-Pitt beautiful or Gerard Butler gorgeous, but he’s adorable in his own way. He’s more guy next door … the one the girl doesn’t realize she’s in love with until he’s dating someone else. Then she kicks herself ten ways to Sunday and embarks on a campaign to steal him away from the other woman who is, of course, clearly wrong for him.
Hmm … did I just come up with a story idea? I can work with that.
You never know … maybe I can talk Vaughn into playing the hero in one of my novels someday.
You’re nothing without your dreams, right? 
(Speaking of Gerard Butler, the movie trivia playing before the film started said he had a law degree. I did not know that … but I bet Kristan Higgins did. She’s always posting “Gerard Butler Grammar Quizzes” on the RWA newsletter editors’ loop.)
I’ve never been much a Vince Vaughn fan but maybe The Dilemma will change my mind.
In that same category, I’d go with Jon Favreau a la Love & Sex.
I didn’t think I was, either … but it hit me hard during this movie. And then, as I was looking at photos online to find one to run with the post, I realized he really is cute in his own way.
(Plus, he struggles with his weight just like me … Google him and you get “Vince Vaughn weight” as a related search. He’s definitely been up and down.)
Loved Wedding Crashers. But while VV does play the bumbling sweet man really well, I get tired of seeing it after a while.
-Abigail
It might be interesting to check out some of his earlier stuff … He was in some football movie (but I can’t remember which one) and another movie where he wore a cowboy hat.