London’s Daily Mail newspaper reported that ’80s action star — and our favorite comeback story waiting to happen — Dolph Ludgren foiled an armed robbery attempt without even being at the scene of the crime. His picture was enough to scare the perpetrators.

The paper says that a trio of armed and masked robbers busted into Lundgren’s villa near Marbella, Spain, and tied up his wife, terrorizing her into forking over cash and jewelry at knife-point. But after noticing a family photo of the brawny 6’5" karate black belt in one of the home’s bedrooms, they realized that they’d bitten off more than they wanted to chew and fled the scene. Lundgren’s wife, jewelry designer Anette Qviberg, called her husband in tears and he raced back home. The police are still looking for the attackers in the sunny, glitzy seaside area that is also home to such loaded luminaries as Simon Cowell and Antonio Banderas.

Lundgren, the blonde and chiseled Swedish muscleman who played Ivan Drago in 1985′s Rocky IV ("I must break you!"), costarred with Jean-Claude Van Damme in 1992′s Universal Soldier, and has cranked out scads of straight-to-DVD action flicks over the past decade. He’ll turn 52 in November. He also holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering, attended M.I.T. on a Fulbright,  and has a reported IQ of 160. He is currently starring in Sylvester Stallone’s action flick, The Expendables.

Wouldn’t you flee, too?

Oh, Susan Boyle, you little minx; why can’t I get enough of you? Unsatisfied with the avalanche of coverage this Scottish phenom has already received, I turned to the sultan of softball questions Friday to see if he could possibly unearth any new tidbits about the 47-year-old woman who brought down the roof last week on Britain’s Got Talent.

Sadly for we Boyle fans, Larry King made us sit through an excruciating 45 minutes of vapid chatter about Twitter and King’s competition with Ashton Kutcher (or "Oshton," as he called him) for one million followers. I thought we’d never get to Boyle — but then there she was, in all her un-tweezed glory. And wearing Wilma Flintstone beads, to boot!

Granted, I could barely understand some of the things she said (her "courage" sounded a lot like cottage) but it was positively delightful to hear her giggle over Simon Cowell wanting to make her a recording star. But then she spoke in all seriousness about not wanting to change her appearance because, after all, we’re talking about her identity here! And eat your heart out, Celine "I punch my chest for emphasis" Dion: Boyle ended her all-too-brief appearance with a breathtaking rendition of "My Heart Will Go On." Encore, I say! Encore!

So where will she do it, Boyle fans? How many days will pass before we see Diane Sawyer beat out Baba Wawa for the exclusive tell-all in primetime? Will you watch if she does? Or are you (gasp!) done with Boyle-mania?