We're used to seeing Helena Bonham Carter playing eccentric, unhinged goth-types in movies (and, for that matter, in real life), so it actually was a surprise to see her in a downright normal role, playing a dowdy, unhappy-looking librarian in the Philip Andelman-directed video for Rufus Wainwright's "Out of the Game"; the song appears on Wainwright's forthcoming Mark Ronson-produced album of the same name.  Taking the whacky mantle from HBC was Wainwright himself, appearing in three different guises as an Indiana Jones-wannabe type, a bookish alt-rock kid and a boozed up housewife.  Stick around for the climax (literally) when Wainwright's personas have a threesome and Helena Bonham Carter strips to her skivvies.

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