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Abraham Lincoln, in the guise of actor Benjamin Walker, who portrays the 16th president in the summer movie thriller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the film’s cast and crew, yesterday visited the sailors serving aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Middle East.

The event marked the first time a major motion picture had its debut screening for troops deployed in the Middle East.

As history’s most beloved U.S. president and, according to the movie, its greatest hunter of the undead, Walker was joined aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln by co-stars Anthony Mackie and Erin Wasson, as well as by the film’s director Timur Bekmambetov, screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith and producer Jim Lemley.

Following a five-hour special make-up effects session that transformed Walker into Lincoln, he took photos, in character, with many of the crew, and posed in the captain.s chair.

Over 1800 sailors...

If anyone should be aware of the power of cricket to reveal the best and worst sides of human nature, it.s Brendan Cowell.

After all, Cowell wrote (and stars in) the upcoming cricket comedy Save Your Legs! (which was recently filming in India) as well as two episodes of Matchbox Pictures. The Slap, a fictional series exploring a traumatic chain of events ignited when an adult slaps a child during a backyard cricket game.

Although Cowell looks upon both writing experiences fondly, they couldn.t be further apart in terms of tone. Save Your Legs! tells the story of Edward Teddy Brown, who starts a cricket team with his two best mates to embark on a tour of India and recapture his childhood dreams. The story is especially relevant to Cowell, a thirtysomething cricket fan.

.You know the age that I.m in now. most folks are getting married...