THIS week I have mostly been thinking about the American actor Paul Rudd.

You may know him as the bloke who married Phoebe in 'Friends', or as one of the stars - although not the main star by any means - of films like 'Clueless', 'Knocked Up' and 'The Cider House Rules'.

There is a possibility that you may not know him at all, but I - and I'm not quite sure how this happened - seem to have fallen ever so slightly in love with him.

It all started when I was having one of my regular conversations with our lass over who would play us in a film of my life. (We have this conversation quite a lot, usually at my instigation. OK, always at my instigation.)

For a long time I have reckoned that John Cusack should play me because he is funny and cool, just like me (or like I would be if my life was immortalised in film and I was made, well, a lot funnier and cooler).

This suggestion usually leads to an argument over whether Cusack can play ginger, so I've been on the lookout for a new me for quite a while.

Now I think it could be Paul Rudd. He's witty, he's a bit silly, and he can be very self-deprecating.

All you have to do is take away his good looks and what I presume is a fairly large personal fortune, and you've pretty much got me.

There's something about Paul Rudd that's very winning. As such, I believe he'd be perfect for the rags-to-riches story that is My Life - from the pampered upbringing on my daddy's cotton plantation in the Deep South, through the family's ruin in the American Civil War and then eventual redemption through a much-publicised romance with that lass from Badenoch.

OK, that's nothing like my real life, but we can't film that. We've got Paul Rudd here, star of films like 'Clueless', 'Knocked Up' and 'The Cider House Rules' - we've got to inject a bit of drama into it somehow.

All I did was go to school, go to university, then get a job - I know Paul Rudd's very winning, but even he would struggle to make that interesting.

The more about I think about it, in fact, this film could be the making of Paul Rudd.

He would no longer be referred to as that bloke who married Phoebe in 'Friends'; instead, he'd be the Oscar-winning actor who played international sex symbol Ken Gorm (look, you've got to allow me some licence) in the film of his life.

And the reviews, no doubt, would point out how very winning he was.