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Indie Queens and Indie Spirit Awards
2007-12-09 07:45:00
"Before Maggie Gyllenhaal, before Parker Posey, there was Adrienne Shelly. Around 1990, when the first wave of the Sundance-era indie-film revolution was cresting, Shelly was the queen of the scene. With the one-two punch of The Unbelievable Truth (pictured) and Trust, she and filmmaker Hal Hartley had made put each other on the map, and those deadpan romantic comedies had made the lush-lipped actress a pin-up among indie film fanboys. She'd go on to specialize in portrayals of waifish, fringe-dwelling women who often seemed to hide a ferocious intelligence behind an offbeat exterior. In recent years, she'd largely given up acting for directing (though she appeared on screen this year in Matt Dillon's Factotum), including a movie she'd recently directed and submitted to the 2007 Sundance Festival called Waitress,starring Keri Russell.It's worth going back and watching the Hartley movies or Joel Hershman's Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, and Deran Serafian's The Road Killers in o...
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Charity Folks auction
2007-12-06 12:45:00
"Actor Jake Gyllenhaal has generously decided to auction a second chance to visit the set of one of his upcoming movies AND have lunch with him, with proceeds benefiting the ACLU of Southern California! The winning bidder may bring one guest to share in this experience!The winner of this auction lot will visit Gyllenhaal on the set of "Brothers", filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico through mid-January 2008. "Brothers" is about a young man who comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. The film also features Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman.With talent and instinct beyond his years, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal is speeding down the fast track of stardom. Currently, he can be seen in New Line Cinema's "Rendition" along with Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep. Even in the early stages of his career, he starred opposite several of today's most respected actors, such as Dustin Hoffman, Laura Dern, Holly Hunter, John C. Reilly and Susan S...
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Reese on Savn Vincente Blvd.
2007-12-06 12:41:00
Source: Celebrityfashionwatcher.com
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Cooking with Reese
2007-12-04 06:55:00
"Jake Gyllenhaal has treated lover Reese Witherspoon to private cooking lessons.The couple - who met on the set of their film 'Rendition' earlier this year - fell in love with Italian food during their recent break to Rome, so Jake arranged for a top chef to visit his house and show his new girl around the kitchen.A source said: "Reese fell in love with Rome and Italian food reminds her of the great time they had together. Jake knew Reese would be thrilled to learn how to make some of the dishes herself. She loves cooking for her children."Reese has two children with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, eight-year-old daughter Ava and four-year-old son Deacon.The Oscar-winning actress is believed to have been dating Jake for months, but the couple only went public with their romance in October.That same month, Jake joined Reese and her children to go trick or treating on Halloween (31.10.07).The 31-year-old actress was dressed as a witch, as was daughter Ava. Jake, 26, was dressed in a gori...
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Kirsten: new face of Miu Miu
2007-12-03 00:55:00
"One of our favourite celebrity style makers, Kirsten Dunst, has been signed up to front Miu Miu next season. She has just shot the spring/summer 2008 campaign in LA with fashion shutterbugs Mert and Marcus (who were nominated for a British Fashion Award last night). Miuccia Prada has always been fond of using celebrities for Miu Miu campaigns ? previously casting Kim Basinger and Lindsay Lohan ? although last season model Laeticia Casta starred in the ads. Miu Miu is set to expand even further in the US next year with new stores planned for New York and LA, so it was the perfect time to inject some Hollywood glamour into the brand again". Source: Elleuk.com
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Most paid actresses
2007-12-01 03:40:00
"Reese Witherspoon ranked number one on The Hollywood Reporter?s annual list of the highest-paid actresses. The 31-year-old actress commands $15 million to $20 million a movie.Angelina Jolie came in second, and Cameron Diaz came in third with a $15 million-per-movie requirement.While Angelina and Reese are now asking for $15 million-$20 million per movie, they frequently agree to ?no-quote deals? ? deals in which the studios actually pay them far less than their usual fee". Here?s The Hollywood Reporter?s top ten list:1. Reese Witherspoon ? $15 million-$20 million2. Angelina Jolie ? $15 million-$20 million3. Cameron Diaz ? $15+ million4. Nicole Kidman ? $10 million-$15 million5. Renee Zellweger ? $10 million-$15 million6. Sandra Bullock ? $10 million-$15 million7. Julia Roberts ? $10 million-$15 million8. Drew Barrymore ? $10 million-$12 million9. Jodie Foster ? $10 million-$12 million10. Halle Berry ? $10 millionSource: Justjared.buzznet.com
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Hall of Fame quarterback
2007-11-29 07:28:00
"Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath was the first football player to find rock-star status.Universal Pictures will turn the life of Joe Namath into a feature film, with Jake Gyllenhaal playing the Hall of Fame quarterback.David Hollander will write the script once the writers strike is over. Mad Chance's Andrew Lazar will produce. Jimmy Walsh, who runs Namanco Prods., exec produces.Walsh said he and Namath OK'd the movie after a long pursuit by Lazar, a strong take by Hollander and the belief that the athletic Gyllenhaal was the right actor to play him.While other quarterbacks racked up bigger lifetime stats, Namath became the first football player to achieve rock-star status. The pic will tell the story of how the golden-armed kid from Beaver Falls, Pa., became Broadway Joe, the New York Jets quarterback who became a '60s cultural figure.... Gyllenhaal, who is coming off "Rendition" and "Zodiac," is currently shooting the Jim Sheridan-directed "Brothers" with Tobey Maguire an...
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Music Review of Mushman
2007-11-29 02:48:00
Akin to the same effect of a lit match on a perfectly sunny day, producing a subsequent yuxtaposing of both lights. There is a melodic overabundance pouring from this debut album by alternative Acoustic Folk/Pop-rock band Mushman and their leaders, actors, and musicians Patrick Fugit and David Fetzer from Salt Lake City.David Fetzer plays the guitar, the harmonica, some additonal keys, the guitar-banjo, and he's the main singer. Patrick Fugit plays the guitar, the Flamenco guitar, the harmonica, and occasionally he dares to sing a bit. Camden Chamberlain plays the bass and he's the recording wizard who does the mixing and mastering of the songs. Doug Grose plays the keys and Ian Aldous is the drummer. Their influences are varied: Iron and Wine, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, The Shins, Grandaddy, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, etc.The band's name refers to movie star Steve McQueen, who used it as an alias: "He would check into hotels under the name Harvey Mushman", Fugit told to Deseretnew...
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Blonde, pretty, actress
2007-11-27 16:58:00
Rememoring old times with old girlfriend Kirsten, Jake seemed very happy, now Jake acts happy again with his new crush Reese, so what do you prefer, "Gyllendunst" or "Gyllenspoon"?+=
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Marriage proposal?
2007-11-23 17:59:00
A source commented: "Reese says it is just too soon after her divorce from Ryan to think about marrying again.Advertisement"She is madly in love with Jake, but her divorce just became final, and she doesn't want to rush into anything". Source: Rte.ie"22 November 2007- Jake popped the question during the couple's recent romantic break to Rome, but Reese - whose divorce from Ryan Philippe was finalized in October - turned him down because she does not want to rush into another union.A source said: "Reese says it is just too soon after her divorce from Ryan to think about marrying again. She is madly in love with Jake, but her divorce just became final, and she doesn't want to rush into anything."Jake planned a day filled with romantic gestures before he plucked up the courage to ask Reese to marry him.The couple - who met on the set of their film Rendition earlier this year - strolled around the Piazza di Spagna, walked up the Spanish Steps and visited the Trinita dei Monti.They th...
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With Reese or alone
2007-11-23 17:36:00
Jake walking alone in Beverly Hills, on 13th November, 2007.
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Rai tv interview
2007-11-22 12:18:00
Watch this conference at the Festa del Cinema di Roma 2007 about "Rendition", with Gavin Hood, Jake and Reese Witherspoon: at the Rai.tv
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!
2007-11-22 09:32:00
I WISH YOU A HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO MY U.S. WEIRDOS READERS, HAPPY TURKEY!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JENA MALONE!
2007-11-21 16:36:00
HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY TO JENA MALONE! !LISTEN TO HER AND HER BAND HER BLOODSTAINS, HER MUSIC OF WILD ANIMALS IN MYSPACE
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On the cover of "Esquire"
2007-11-16 18:18:00
"The new December Esquire came out yesterday (or the day before), with six actors being celebrated on the cover for having given the mag's choices for "Performances of the Year." Denzel Washington in American Gangster, Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, Robert Downey in Zodiac, Emile Hirsch in Into The Wild and Jake Gyllenhaal in...Rendition?It's not that Gyllenhaal plays his Egypt-based CIA guy badly or ineffectively, but that Egypt-based CIA guy is written as such a revoltingly passive wuss. As Esquire's Mike D'Angelo points out, Gyllenhaal "spends much of Rendition standing in the corner of a dark room, watching as some poor soul gets beaten, doused and fried...it's a near-silent performance."For me, Gyllenhaal's inactivity is infuriating. He's not just a guy doing nothing, but an emblem of do-nothing types the world over. Two thirds of the way through a screening of Rendition at the Toronto Film Festival I leaned over to a friend si...
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Ad hoc encounter
2007-11-13 20:30:00
"We arrived about 10 minutes late, so we lost our table and had to wait to be seated. While we were waiting, a small, attractive blond woman walked in wearing jeans and a black wool coat. She faced the wall, and I could tell that she didn't want to be seen. Behind her walked in a taller guy with dark hair and a characteristically unshaven face. It was Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, standing four feet away from me, dining at Ad Hoc. The hostess seated them immediately in the back corner, about 20 feet away from our table, and that was about all I saw of them for the remainder of the evening. I have to admit, I was kind of starstruck. I guess that's California". Source: Aaronadalja.blogspot.com
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Car situations
2007-11-13 17:04:00
They are cute when they go errand, but they are closer (more accomplice) inside their car. That vibe you get on-the-road, driving and feeling sexy either you're alone or in good company, entering or leaving your car.
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"Rendition" review (some spoilers)
2007-11-12 09:40:00
"Rendition ," starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon, is a good example of this syndrome. Scenes of powerful realism alternate with melodrama. This is not altogether a bad thing: Melodrama can be enlivening; it can even heighten the political content. But more often, and this is usually the case in "Rendition," the clash of trenchant political drama and thriller histrionics produces a jarringly bifurcated experience.... Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) is an Egyptian-American chemical engineer returning home to Chicago from a business trip in Cape Town when, on frail evidence, he is linked to a terrorist bombing in an unnamed North African country that killed 19 people including a top CIA case officer. Whitman authorizes Anwar's secret abduction to North Africa and subsequent torture.Taking over for the slain case officer, Douglas Freeman (Gyllenhaal) starts out stoic and grows incrementally more disgusted with the waterboarding and electrodes administered by the cop in c...
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Weekend's videos of Jake
2007-11-11 02:50:00
Video with Jake attending the Clippers game being asked by a photograph about his intentions with Reese: Source: x17online.com Video of Jake along with Robert Downey Jr and Trudie Style at the Key Club Sunset Boulevard : Source: lulop.com
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"Almost famous": Matriarchy on the rocks
2007-11-08 13:07:00
"Let's analyze some of the symbols from "Almost Famous " (2000) or its more extended version "Untitled: Almost Famous - The Director's Cut" (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2001) beyond its popular façade of a love letter and sentimental ode to rock and roll by Cameron Crowe, who before becoming a director he began writing music reviews and worked as a journalist on the road for Rolling Stone magazine when he was just a 15 years old student in Palm Springs, California.Not only Crowe has been a well documented rock and roll writer ?he submitted the liner notes for various rock classic albums as "Biograph" of Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd's "One More From The Road" or Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same"- he also turned into an interesting writer/director of generational films as his debut "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), "Say Anything" (1989) or "Singles" (1992) about growing up and conflictive relationships using a confessed influence of Billy Wilder's humanism.And "Almost Fa...
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Jake & Reese from Brentswood to L.A.
2007-11-08 00:45:00
November 4 - Leaving Rees e 's Home In Brentwood.November 6 - Out For Breakfast With Reese In LA. Pictures courtesy by Iheartjake.com
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Wednesday Kirsten's eye candy
2007-11-07 13:59:00
Three stills of Kirsten as Mary Jane in "Spiderman 3" and from her photoshoot at Paris' Fashion Week - Chanel Spring/Summer 2008 Collection 05/10. Kirsten on the cover of Lula Magazine. Source: www.kirstenimages.com
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Fingers on lips
2007-11-06 13:43:00
Is Jessica Biel hot or what? Would she have good chemistry with Jake? I think so! Some fingers on/inside lips close ups and pictures of Jessica, and other screen-quakers, some of them even sexier than her: Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Roemer, Angelina Jolie, Jena Malone, Evan Rachel Wood, Megan Fox and Kate Moss.
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Nailed
2007-11-06 13:31:00
"We now have another reason why Jessica Biel didn't want to take on Wonder Woman -- she wanted to jump in bed with Jake Gyllenhaal! The Hollywood Reporter has posted that Jake and Jessica (with names perfect for tabloid coupledom) have signed on to star in David O. Russell's latest film -- Nail ed -- both the bed sort of nailing and the, well, nail sort of nailing. Not only that, but it is also getting another Gore into the movie biz -- O. Russell is co-writing the script with Al's daughter, Kristin Gore.Coming from David O., this won't be your run-of-the-mill political satire. Biel will play "Sammy Joyce, a socially awkward small-town receptionist who has a nail accidentally shot into her head by a clumsy workman, eliciting wild sexual urges." It gets better: "The uninsured Joyce goes on a crusade to Washington to fight for the rights of the bizarrely injured. She meets an immoral congressman (Gyllenhaal) who takes advantage of her sex drive and capitalizes on her crusade as Joy...

Videos of "Rendition"
2007-11-04 17:20:00
Jake on CBS 2 Entertainment talks about "Rendition " Source: CBS2Chicago.comGavin Hood, Jake and Reese in a video source: www.nelonen.fi
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Friday's eye candy
2007-11-02 10:15:00
Rendition's magazine scans for U.S. Weekly.Télérama Magazine's photoshoot (Cannes 2007).Jake in a session by photographer Testino.
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Halloween days
2007-10-30 11:25:00
Jake and Reese at Kate Hudson's Halloween party.Mary Kate Olsen.Heidi Klum and kid.Gwyneth Paltrow and kid Apple.
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Rendition's Oscar caliber
2007-10-29 13:54:00
"Best Supporting Actor Oscar Curse aside, my picks are generally accurate. And after seeing Rendition, I need to tell all fellow Oscar Pool Enthusiasts to put your money on Rendition. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.Rendition tells the story of a family in crisis. When Isabella?s husband boards a flight home from a conference but never arrives, she must summon every ounce of courage she has to discover what?s happened to him.Best Actress: Reese WitherspoonReese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) plays Isabella. I am a fan of Witherspoon?s; I think she?s absolutely delightful no matter the part. She has a smile that lit up the entire theatre and outstrips her contemporary?s talent level by a mile. As Isabella, Witherspoon manages to be tough as nails and utterly adorable all at once. While struggling to find out what?s become of her husband, she shows a gripping sense of desperation.Witherspoon?s character?s journey from fear to frustration to anguish is perfectly done and i...

A video of a young Jake
2007-10-27 12:15:00
WATCH THIS VIDEO, with a younger dark-haired Jake : Source: Video .accesshollywood.com
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Daily Mail Interview
2007-10-26 10:13:00
-What is your greatest regret?-I'm too young for regrets. But there was a situation a few years ago which could have become a regret. I was offered a great role by the legendary film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci which required me to do nudity.In the end I turned down. I came to the conclusion that I didn't really feel comfortable doing the things that were asked of the character at that point in my life.It was the hardest decision I've ever made as an actor, to say, I don't want to work with one of the best film-makers on earth. I thought I'd regret it later, but it was the best decision I made because I was honest with myself.-What were your dreams as a child?-I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliché, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path....-What turns you on?-I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certa...
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