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I didn't actually watch his show much even when I lived in England, but I do sometimes miss Johnathan Ross interviewing actors. He's funny. And SUPER geeky. as RDJ discovers, here.

Though it turns out that hearing Robert offer to give him a helmet polish is actually almost as embarrassing (for me, anyway) as it is hilarious. YMMV

Ironman promotion, so nothing at all about Sherlock Holmes, jsyk, Holmes fans out there :)

I… don't really have an excuse for this. There are people I could blame, but I won't. I'll just claim rabid plot bunnies and leave it at that. Thank you to my angel beta, who is, now I think about it, one of the people I could blame for this, too. ♥

Title: Three is the Magic Number
Characters: Robert Downey Jr./Kiefer Sutherland/Rob Lowe
Words: 3,000
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I do not know any of these people and neither believe nor mean to imply that any of this actually happened. Not even in the 80s.
Enticements/Warnings: Drug use, 80s clothes, questionable judgment calls.
Summary: It's the late 80s. Robert and Kiefer are party hopping, and run into Rob Lowe. Sex, drugs, and sex ensue.

( Three is the Magic Number )

Totally without trying, or even knowing I wanted it, I found two delightful RDJ RPS fics in the last two days.

Cute ones are usually gay by paperclipbitch, which is a hilarious, adorable, and OMGSOHOT Robert/Jude drunk!fic. ~5500 words, NC-17 rating. I'm pretty sure that a wasted out of his head Jude torn between OMGWANT and OMGBADIDEA is my favorite Jude.

and

Not Quite Ready for Primetime by ponderosa121 over at IJ (also posted here at her dreamwidth, ponderosa, if you prefer). It is delicious RDJ/Kiefer Sutherland Bratpack fic, with bonus voyeur Billy Zane. ~1200 words, NC-17 rating. Just picturing Lost Boys-era Kiefer and Less Than Zero-era Robert riding around in a car and living together is hot enough. Add in the delicious porn? hellz yeah.

I can't stop thinking about Robert Downey Jr. lately, and the last couple days that has meant remembering the first time I saw Less than Zero. I remember being fifteen and filled with conviction that I was all grown up. I remember that one of the boys I went to school with was self-destructive (in a much more fifteen-year-old way than RDJ's character) and kind of looked like a young RDJ and I couldn't stop thinking that someday the same could happen to him. I remember that I cried so much that my friends threatened to leave me at the theater when whoever's mom was driving came to pick us up. It was one of those movies I couldn't get out of my head for years. It all seemed so TOTALLY profound.

Then, of course, RDJ himself kind of went down that same route. And I went right back to that place, and was all emo about it in that way that one (or maybe just me?) can get, when the origin of the feelings happened when you were fifteen.

Then, a few years ago now (and by few, I could actually mean something like six or seven) I watched the movie again. And spent a lot of the movie wondering how the hell I'd ever had such a crush on Jami Gertz. (though, to be fair, that crush arose from Lost Boys, not Less than Zero) And some more time wondering how I found the movie profound. But I was still incredibly impressed with RDJ's performance.

Point being, I kind of want to watch the movie again again. Even though I didn't think it held up all that well the second time I watched it. Sadly, I can't watch instantly on Netflix. Maybe I should rent Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang again instead.

Or maybe I should just go back to staring at ( this picture )