Previously in this series: If Kristen Stewart were your girlfriend.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would never bother you about the fact that you own two clearly well-worn copies of both The Devil Wears Prada and Julie and Julia. If he knew you were going to have a particularly hard day at work, he’d call out “Gird your loins” after you as you left the apartment, because he would know how much that would mean to you.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, your apartment would redecorate itself in only the finest and most luxurious of fabrics. The predominant colors would be Nantucket blue, slate grey, and the color of the sea before a storm.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, it would always be the second week of fall. The sun would never set before 8pm, but you would never sweat again.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, your relationship would be two-thirds what he and Patricia Clarkson had in Easy A, and one-third what he and Meryl Streep had in Julie and Julia.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would occasionally turn to you, smile warmly, and call you “Champ,” while wearing a scarf.
He would also call you “Sport.” You would find it endearing and waggish and not in the least patronizing.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, the two of you would go dancing, but he’d never make a big deal out of it.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, your dad would refer to him genially as “The Tooch.” “Come to the house this weekend, and bring The Tooch with you.”
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, you would own a good cheese knife. Nothing pretentious. You wouldn’t need a whole set. Just one. But it would be perfect, and you would never have trouble sliding Camembert pieces off of it. You would be the kind of person who invests in small, good, useful things. You would treat yourself with compassion, and you would never eat Cheetos in the shower.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would make pots of red sauce on the weekends, and make you taste all of them. He wouldn’t Bogart the kitchen, either, and he’d be more than just complimentary about your own (inevitably inferior) attempts at cooking. “No, it was extraordinary,” he’d insist after cleaning his plate. “Just extraordinary.” And there would be a light in his eyes that would let you believe him.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, Nora Ephron would still be alive somehow. She would have dinner with the two of you at least three nights a week.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, every single one of your friends would act like the guys on Friends did while Monica was dating Richard. “Your boyfriend is the coolest,” they’d tell you. You’d have to ask them to go do something else once in a while so the two of you could actually get some time to yourselves. “I’m sorry about those guys,” you’d say to Stanley Tucci, while he’d look intently at you and say “Don’t ever apologize to me on behalf of the people who love you.”
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, you would instantly become the kind of person who takes long, luxurious baths in a clean, bone-white tub.
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would make excuses to run out and pick up a paper and buy you breakfast while he was out. “It’s nothing,” he’d say if you protested. “I don’t even remember how much it cost. I threw away the receipt. Stop asking.” If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would wear perfectly cut waffle-print shirts just while drinking coffee at your kitchen table, but your life together would be more meaningful than a collection of expensive fabrics and bougie breakfast foods. Your life together would be more meaningful than your life before.
Tags: relationships, stanley tucci, the tooch
A! easy A!
yep
Loved Clarkson & Tucci in Easy A. Hope they are cast together again sometime.
In real life, Stanley Tucci wrote a great Italian cookbook and married Emily Blunt’s sister (he was widowed with several children a few years ago) and they have a bambino together. And I would just watch him from afar and wish him well.
I’m married to a wonderful Italian man myself, who cooks exquisitely.
I want this so badly I’m almost crying.
Me tooooo. I don’t know how these are so beautiful and heartbreaking.
I’m actually upset about this article.
I mean, I love it, but I also hate it and was doing really well with crawling into my spinster hole but now I’m upset.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
I know, I’m genuinely…I mean, I’m not upset, but my main takeaway is that I’m not worthy of this and now I at least know what it is I want and don’t deserve.
What a beautiful world it would be, if Stanley Tucci was my boyfriend.
(The Fellow, I am sure, would gracefully acquiesce).
My husband wouldn’t mind because Stanley Tucci would be my husband’s boyfriend too, and we would both enjoy the awesome brunches and being called “Champ” and the permanent second week of fall.
I am ashamed to admit that I had to google Stanley Tucci because I live under a rock and apparently the only movie I have ever seen him in was Burlesque, which I only saw because it was on at the gym last week.
FORGIVE ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED
(I don’t count Muppets Most Wanted because clearly the only cameo worth remembering in that movie was Josh Groban.)
I’m feeling a little faint imagining suddenly discovering Stanley Tucci. In addition to the movies mentioned in this post, definitely check out Big Night, which I think he also wrote.
Big Night is amazing, but I should warn you not to watch it on an empty stomach. You definitely want to be eating something amazing and delicious while watching that (this also goes for Eat Drink Man Woman).
If Stanley Tucci was my boyfriend, I WOULD SHARE because he’s so great and you all deserve that greatness in your lives!
But I’d be silently awful about it because he’s SO ATTRACTIVE and sometimes he calls me champ and sharing that is so hard, so so hard.
Seriously though, what is it about the shape of his face that is so appealing? How does he manage to radiate wry intelligence and compassionate humor? Are his eyebrows magic? Is he a wizard? I have so many questions.
What if he IS a wizard?
Just the mere thought of Stanley Tucci as my boyfriend makes me sigh with contentment.
The Tooch. Is. Loose.
SOMEONE TALK TO ME ABOUT FORTITUDE
I can’t even remember how I heard about it, I think we just saw some random ad while streaming a video online and it’s only available through this weird channel I’ve never heard of (PIVOT?! I can only hear this in Ross Gellar’s voice) and the first few episodes are all cool and creepy but now I’m realizing it’s probably just a straight murder show, not a supernatural one, but I don’t want to spoil myself by reading anything online.
But The Tooch is a gem in it, even though he kind of feels like he’s in another show. I’m just mad I have to watch it week by week now instead of binge-watching on Netflix as intended.
PIVOT! PIV-OOOOOT!
I watched the first episode of Fortitude yesterday, and the whole time I was watching it, I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue because I found it so grim and unnerving. Afterwards, though, I wanted to watch the next one. The turning point was that once Stanley Tucci arrived, I was relieved to have someone I could trust.
It’s definitely in the new tradition of creepy-ass UK and Scandivnavian murder mystery shows, ie I’m not sure it’s a good idea for me to watch because the mood sticks with me. And I’m not sure we can trust Stanley!! Isn’t there some weirdness about how he headed out before Eccleston’s character even died?
Just checking in to say that I’m getting my Ph.D. in virtue ethics and I got unreasonably excited when I saw your request. I’ll show myself out. The show sounds intriguing, though!
Ha, you can talk to me about virtue ethics too! Stanley is benevolent and interested in everything.
I misinterpreted the above comment similarly. I thought she was saying something along the lines of “someone talk me down, I’m overwhelmed with Stanley Tucci feelings, I need to stay strong” and then read the replies and was like “oh okay it’s a show.”
Jealous of ur studies though. Whose work are you into/reading right now? Or who do you recommend?
It looks rather interesting. I assumed it was a “murder that opens up the secrets of a community” show. I think I’d be disappointed if it went supernatural. Not that I don’t like supernatural stuff, but it already sounded like a good story without it.
If Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend, we’d get burrata-wasted and wake up in the kitchen saying “How the hell did this shit happen?”
I can’t pick a favorite in this series. Each one is so wonderful.
Oh, nvm all my previous comments on this series, Stanley Tucci is the one for me. All I want in life are expensive fabrics and bougie breakfast foods and opportunities to build a strangely meaningful life together.
Also if Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend I think I’d be the kind of person who actually liked NPR.
I am a person who actually likes NPR, and yet Stanley Tucci is not my boyfriend. Where have I gone wrong?
*taps you on the shoulder discreetly, whispers “I think that might be a logical fallacy…” and ghosts out*
If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, you wouldn’t just like NPR, you’d be able to make intelligent conversation about important world topics after listening to it.
nOpe. Dead. Size of Feels has exceeded amount of available space on my Emotion drive. This is beyond perfection.
I made it to “Gird your loins!” as a morning send-off before my heart become two sizes too big and I realized I’m going to have to digest this slowly, like a luxurious coq-au-vin that Stanley would no doubt make for us on the weekends. “Oh, it was nothing,” he’d say. “Stop. Tell me about this big creative project you’re working on that will revitalize the publishing world.”
*explodes*
I can’t even read this, because it’s too painful that it will never be real.
“You would be the kind of person who invests in small, good, useful things. You would treat yourself with compassion, and you would never eat Cheetos in the shower.”
I actually welled up.
“No, it was extraordinary,” he’d insist after cleaning his plate. “Just extraordinary.”
I made it this far.
If Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend, I would finally learn how the f*#! to fold a fitted sheet.
He would teach you how to fold fitted sheets with so much warmth and good humor you would pretend not to know how to do other things just so he would sweetly show you how to do them
I’ve worked in hotels and folded thousands upon thousands of sheets. It cannot be done.
But you would never need to actually fold one because he would always do the laundry as he finds the folding relaxing, and you should really get a glass of wine and tell him about your day.
My husband folds the fitted sheet so perfectly that I can’t actually tell which sheet is which until I unfold them. I’ve watched him do it dozens of times and have no idea how it works. I think he is a wizard. Probably Stanley Tucci is also a wizard.
OMG… if Martha Stewart were your MOM…
You’d need her fortune to pay for the therapy, probably.
*siiiiiigh*
/daydreams contentedly through property closings and board meetings
1. Have any of you read The Tucci Cookbook or The Tucci Table?? They both have stellar reviews on Amazon and I am SO curious.
2. Reading this made me wonder about his actual personal life, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and was not disappointed! First wife was a social worker who died of breast cancer in 2009 and now he’s married to Emily’s Blunt’s sister who is a literary agent! They have a baby boy named MATTEO OLIVER! I weep! I burn, I pine, I perish!
My boyfriend gave me The Tucci Table for Christmas. I haven’t made any of the recipes, nor can I guarantee that I ever will*, but the plentiful photographs featuring Stanley Tucci’s forearms definitely deserve 5 stars.
* Lots of fish, which is too expensive for me here. Lots of simple-but-refined trattoria-style recipes for things that look good but, honestly, are better explained by Marcella Hazan.
YES. I have both, and they are both good! Simple, hearty fare, nothing revelatory technique-or-recipe wise if you read Marcella Hazan, but his writing style is so charming.
I LOVE THE TOOCH but I also have Nigella and Jamie Oliver on my list.
I have never dated someone who can’t cook, but just a little worse than me so I can lord my culinary prowess a bit.
I have the out of print Cucina & Famiglia which he wrote the forward to. (his Mom co-wrote it with another chef) and it has the timpano recipe from “Big Night” which I often make at Christmas. It was a good book. His Mom can seriously cook. I use the book often.
It looks like that is the same book as The Tucci Cookbook!
MATTEO OLIVER TUCCI that is the best name ever. I bet they call him Matte-O when they’re bumbling along with him.
Wait. Does this mean Stanley Tucci and John Krasinski are brothers-in-law??? My mind, it explodes.
I grew up with his first wife – our families all went camping together, all over the country, in hurricanes and not. We were all weird together and it was lovely.
Also this is fucking outstanding.
Great post! Gave me quite the envious chuckle.
he’d look intently at you and say “Don’t ever apologize to me on behalf of the people who love you.”
*tries not openly weep at work*
Gawd, RIGHT?
Ahhhh. I hope he has a similarly suave sister please and thank you.
He has two similarly suave sisters.
If Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend, he would let me visit his wine tasting talk show. I’d be like the Jeffrey to his Ina. (also the show would come back from hiatus)
Love love love that show, so wish it would resume…
If Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend, it would almost make up for referring to women by their dress sizes in The Devil Wears Prada.
But he tries to make poor traumatized tributes feel at ease in The Hunger Games.
Also I bet Stanley Tucci ardently supports vaccines.
The thought of this made my heart grow 3 sizes.
Until this moment I had no idea I wanted to be called “Champ” by ANYONE and now I have a very specific, clawing need. In a scarf.
If Stanley Tucci was my boyfriend I would finally forgive Richard Cross, decades after watching Murder One.
And my heart would break into even teensier little splinters for Hope Davis when watching The Daytrippers for I would know the full measure of what it was her character lost.
(re Murder One) So you’re the other one!
Apparently! But I watched it obsessively with one of my best friends, so there may well be three of us.
I’m here!
OK I’m four weeks late but I’m here, too.
This is a Good Series that need never end.
“it would always be the second week of fall. The sun would never set before 8pm, but you would never sweat again.” THIS IS MY ACTUAL DREAM; TOAST GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
Seconded.
There would be woodsmoke on the air and a golden tint to the light and the trees, but no frost, and rain would pass in blustery fits overnight rather than lingering. You could wear nice jackets and scarves, but would also be fine to go out without them.
Oh god. Oh god yes.
Also, sweater weather without ever having to worry about your hands freezing because you forgot to wear gloves.
*dreamy sigh*
Stanley Tucci played Ben Bernanke in “Too Big To Fail”, which made me think fond thought of Ben Bernanke ever afterwards for just that reason
Kind of a similar effect watching him play Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games. “Maybe I was a little too harsh on this dystopian regime that conscripts children and makes them fight to the death,” I caught myself thinking.
“Caesar Flickerman is really just a good guy who is caught up in a system and really cares about these kids and helps them in what small, ineffectual ways that he can,” was my headcanon as soon as I saw the movie
“He just really likes Jennifer Lawrence and thinks she’s sweet! His teeth are terrifying, but I don’t even care!”
And then I read the book and Katniss notes that he helps the kids in their interviews and I was like, “My headcanon is TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
“IT’S REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!”
YES.
I got as far as “Champ” and completely crumbled.
My heart is breaking over this. I’ve never wanted Stanley Tucci to be my boyfriend before now. The ‘Sport’ and ‘Champ’ thing caused major cracking, and then the line about friends broke the floodgates of love.
this series gives me Miranda July levels of melancholy
The chosen pic is perfect. FOREARMS.
“you would never eat Cheetos in the shower”
Dealbreaker.
Stanley Tucci is older than my dad but somehow if he were my boyfriend it wouldn’t be creepy, because he’d always be the least lecherous man alive.
I guess nobody remembers seeing Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”. He is such a repulsive creature in this film. It makes you realize just how great he really is.
Literally crying.
“If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, your relationship would be two-thirds what he and Patricia Clarkson had in Easy A, and one-third what he and Meryl Streep had in Julie and Julia.”
But how did you know??? Ahhh!!
I wish Easy A had just focused on the family. It was the first time I’d seen a family in one of these movies that actually loved each other fiercely and had inside jokes and talked openly to each other!
When I watched that movie, I got to the line where Patricia Clarkson said “Your father and I support you no matter what the sexual orientation of your opposite-sex sex partner” and I had to stop the movie and laugh for a minute or two.
I love that movie a super unreasonable amount, and Olive’s family accounts for a solid 90% of that love. Emma Stone being, y’know, Emma Stone is another 9%. The final percent is Thomas Haden Church giving a half-assed anti-drugs speech that I’ve repeated verbatim to my cousins.
My old boyfriend called me “Mav” (short for “Maverick”) for NO APPARENT REASON and I should hate it, but I LOVED it and even though I have been happily married to someone else for 14 years now, I still secretly miss Old Boyfriend calling me that.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
A HORRIBLE guy I sort-of dated called me Ace and I loved it for some reason (it was basically the only redeeming quality of the relationship).
A horrible guy called my “cielito lindo” and it KILLED me. Is there some kind of seminar they attend?
How to Do Everything Wrong, but Nicknames Just Right … For Fun and Profit
I must refer you to “Marcel the Shell”.
Rory??
My parents are good friends with a man who did a lot of major renovations on Stanley’s farmhouse and had nothing but kind words about the man. When Stanley moved he gifted the guy with a lot of leftovers from the house, including his cat carier. It is now the centerpiece of my living room.
So, I naturally assumed that “a lot of leftovers from the house” referred to food, and then I got to “including his cat” and had to wonder what exactly is in all those pots of red sauce he makes me on the weekend.
My parents have his toilet!!
Your butt is only one degree of separation from Stanley Tucci’s butt??!
OMG that is insane and fabulous
THAT IS AMAZING. I love this. My parents still show off the toilet they installed themselves as though it is an actual throne, and Tooch has never been to their house.
Stanley Tucci’s Cat Carrier would be a fabulous name for a mellow jazz band. All members of the band would, obviously, wear scarves.
Whenever I read these posts, the song from Pushing Daisies plays in my heart. You know the one.
UGH NO I had it under control and I wasn’t even gonna cry but NOW
I should be surprised that a stranger who loves Stanley Tucci also loves Pushing Daisies, but at this point I unable to be surprised about oddly specific similar quirky-yet-geeky interests shared with other Toasties. My most surprising moment was when there was an article about the Lays of Marie De France the very summer I spent discovering and rereading it. I can’t be surprised now. Each new revelation of sameness in ever increasingly specific tastes feels familiar, as if it were always there, the connection waiting to be rediscovered. As a poly, pan, agender, atheist person, it’s a good and rare thing to have a community of like-minded people, without having to eye roll, shrug off, and field offensive jokes.
Tina Belcher moans. For the next 4-5 hours.
My dad LOVES Stanley Tucci, so this would be a no-brainer.
If Stanley Tucci were by boyfriend, every day would be Tucci Tuesday. https://www.facebook.com/TucciTuesday
If Stanley Tucci were my bf, he’d be messin’ around on Emily Blunt’s sister – she introduced them after TDWP.
Still, if he were ready to move on from that perfect heavenly match, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed…
“if Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend” is a sentence I have said, out loud, more than once. I love that you wrote this.
Also, I had a dream I was making Big Night’s timpano last night, and here y’all are: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5668-big-night…
Sometimes spaghetti wants to be alone with the Tooch.
If Stanley Tucci was my boyfriend, my entire family would love him. (because they already do.) I know he would laugh with me when I realized that I hated hiking in the hills of Italy, and he would tell me funny stories to make the blisters hurt less.
BRB, adding Stanley Tucci to the list of “men for whose sake I might give heterosexuality another try.”
Ooh, ooh! Natalie Dormer next, s’il vous plaît?
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE.
GOD YES. If N-do were your girlfriend, she would have a fabulous collection of lingerie and rock t-shirts, and I bet her conditioner is bitchin’.
Would it be okay if I ask him to use his Italian accent from “Big Night”?
“If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, he would occasionally turn to you, smile warmly, and call you “Champ,” while wearing a scarf.” WEEPS OPENLY
Stanley Tucci and I went to the same high school (several decades apart, but still). He would kindly agree with all my least favorite things about the place, but still return to the town in the fall to drive around the reservoirs and appreciate the beautiful melancholy of pastoral suburbs. The conflicting feelings would never be judged, just supported.
I went to a therapist for the first time recently and we were talking about relationships. He asked me what I was looking for in a partner and I said I didn’t know – turns out it’s Stanley Tucci! That’s not too much to ask, right?
I guess I’m the only person who still thinks of him as Morty. /UndercoverBlues
It’s Muerte. MUERTE! For death! You die today!
(Truly that movie was where I first learned to love him. A Midsummer Night’s Dream did the rest.)
“If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, Nora Ephron would still be alive somehow. She would have dinner with the two of you at least three nights a week.”
Throw a knife in my heart, invoking Ephron in a Stanley article. He’s been my favorite for years (when my contemporaries were mad for Orlando Bloom, I loved Stanley best). And Nora – I cried the day she died. Getting teary now. Geez, losing her was terrible. Terrible for American letters, for female writers, for all of us.
(Also: my suggestion for the next installment of this series is Mark Ruffalo.)
I was waiting for someone to mention Nora. I’m reading “I Feel Bad About My Neck” right now, and leisurely dinners are EXACTLY the kind of thing she wrote about so well. I would date Stanley Tucci IF ONLY to bring Nora back.
This made my whole day. Love it.
PLEASE DO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON NEXT
he’s my boyfriend. I’ll tell you all about it.
I don’t know how you do it. This series is everything. I’m flailing. I second Neil DeGrasse Tyson but I really really really suggest Jeff Goldblum and I don’t know why help me
My banner pic on Facebook is that painting of Jeff Goldblum lounging half naked, with mullet and tight 80s jeans, a butterfly perching on his languidly outstretched finger, for some reason. It’s ridiculous and beautiful and campy and wonderful. Look it up. You will not regret it.
Also, I hear that Jeff Goldblum is extremely cool and kind and outgoing in real life. He plays jazz in a club, I can’t remember which, and before the show he goes around the audience personally greeting and chatting with people, sometimes spontaneously bursting into duets with them. It’s magical. I heard it on NPR – they went and spent an evening with him, doing this. Just magical.
So, for what it’s worth – I think your instincts about Jeff Goldblum being a wonderful boyfriend are true and accurate and I agree. (Of course there’s always his drawl, his wit, his snarly laugh – look up vids of his laugh on youtube, it’s an indescribable thing)
The Kristin Stewart article was exhilarating, but this one is like, so soothing to me. So relaxing to think about.
“Why Alli, whyever are you weeping quietly at your desk?”
“STAAAAAAAAAAAAANLEEEEEEEY TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCI”
“…”
“He’s not my boyfriennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd”
I nearly just snorted hot tea onto my keyboard.
(also, your feelings are valid)
Stanley Tucci has written a cookbook and it is so wonderful. He co-wrote it with the chef who helped with the food research for Big Night. (Um, sorry if someone already said this before). It is a complete pleasure to read simply because he tells stories about his family and makes it feel like cooking is a wonderful, enjoyable family affair, as opposed to boring like so many other cookbooks.
Can you please do Liam Neeson?
Let us all reminisce about his turn as Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the end, he stared straight INTO MY SOUL. I will take your hand, Stanley. I will.
Watching that movie, freshman year of high school, is what made me fall for Stanley Tucci. I have unabashedly adored him ever since.
He really was far and away the best performance in that adaptation.
And there were, IMO, several good performances in that. He was, of course, the best.
Mr Daki has promised to start calling me Champ. He’s Tucci like that.
keep him forever. In amber, if you must.
<tiny screams> I can’t decide if I’d rather this was in the pipeline already and my comments on the KStew post were just a happy coincidence, or that I actually inspired Mallory to write an article about Stanley Tucci. Either way, I’m glad to know that my fellow Toasties fully appreciate his awesomeness. You are all truly my sisters.
“You would be the kind of person who invests in small, good, useful things. You would treat yourself with compassion, and you would never eat Cheetos in the shower.”
That’s the part where it way to real for me and the laughter started leaking suspicious tears.
Whenever I catch Julie & Julia on tv I’m always a little mad that the Julie storyline is there (love for Amy Adams notwithstanding) because I just want it to be a film with Meryl and Stanley.
…and here is the moment in my day where I realize I still haven’t written to him for an autographed picture for my collection. Well, best get to it.
Here you go.
Idris Elba! Idris Elba! May this series never end.
Idris Elba were my boyfriend, y’all would never hear of it. We would be too busy discussing dance music and wearing cozy 90’s sweaters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CudHK2Mss
“if Stanley Tucci were my boyfriend” I wouldn’t be watching that NYT video of him and his family being adorable while they cook. PEACHES AND WINE
I’ve met Stanley Tucci on several occasions, and I can assure you all that he is every bit as nice, charming, and witty in person as he is in your imagination.
The only way to improve things would be if Elvis were also your landlord.
Oh god, Thank you for mentioning Elvis Landlord!!!!
I’m so torn between the Channing Tatum “i just really like listening to you and your friends talk, babe. You’re all so smart! Also, I made us ten grilled cheeses!” and the Tucci “hey champ, why don’t we go to that little bar you like and drink corpse revivers and talk about harm caused by the patriarchy and why that Lean In book is absurd” types.
We’ll always have “Big Night” and he will cook eggs for me, uninterrupted. On our “fun nights” he puts on the “puck” costume which they let him keep from “Midsummer Night’s Dream” after he smiled at them.
Very sad to learn he lost his first wife to cancer.
I have wanted Stanley Tucci to be my boyfriend since I saw Julie and Julia.
I even endured Transformers just for him.
That’s love.
I’m digging this. If he was my boyfriend I would stare at his handsome forearms all day. I know I’m supposed to stare at butts and other things, but no . . it’s the forearms first for me. –Also, I think he makes and even better husband than boyfriend 🙂
Shit, is this a Gilmore Girls reference?
That is one deep cut, I can't believe I got that, if I got that.
I adore this…
I absolutely love Stanley Tucci and I love this article. BEAUTIFUL.
This was fantastic–best thing I read today!
Would it be wrong to buy both of Stanley Tucci’s cookbooks just for the high-res full-page glossy images of him with his sleeves rolled up, cooking with his glorious forearms on full display? Would it be wrong, or would it be so, so right?
Loved Clarkson & Tucci in Easy A. Hope they are cast together again sometime.
In real life, Stanley Tucci wrote a great Italian cookbook and married Emily Blunt's sister (he was widowed with several children a few years ago) and they have a bambino together. And I would just watch him from afar and wish him well.
I'm married to a wonderful Italian man myself, who cooks exquisitely.
After seeing what a darling he was on the Graham Norton Show, I want this EVEN MORE NOW.
His wife is a lucky lucky woman.
I was married to Stanley Tucci’s doppelgänger (who very sadly has since passed away) and I can’t help thinking every time I watch J&J that it would hurt a little less for me if Stanley Tucci was my boyfriend…it is almost as difficult to watch that video as to watch home videos … my ST lookalike used to call me “Dreamboat” whilst wearing a scarf…
This destroyed me.
I have met Mr. Tucci before, and he is a very interesting and fascinating fellow. He is extremely bright, intuitive, creative, sensitive and perceptive. He has great taste in décor, food, and impeccable clothing and manners. He is probably a devoted dad, but also, probably very controlling and strong willed. He is an extremely gifted and talented chameleon, as far as his acting ability goes, and very warm and thoughtful. Unfortunately, I think his wife passed away from cancer a few years back, and his family struggled with the loss. However, Mr. Tucci remained the strength for the family.
And I thought I was the only weirdo who thinks Stanly Tucci is just so freakin H O T ! !