Leaving winter in New Mexico and traveling to summer in Uruguay here is a picture of the film crew getting ready for shooting on the Informers set. It taken from the lighthouse that over looks Punta del Este.
Punta del Este is an upscale vacation spot. Although the town has a year round population of 9,334 (2001), it experiences a tourist explosion each summer between Christmas and the end of January.
Here are a few more pictures of Punta del Este, taken in the past week. While soaking up the summer sun, bet that someone there is thinking about snowy New Mexican mountains.
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Here's another picture from the set of 'the informers' in Punta del Este.
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Wow, it looks beautiful! I want to go there...
ReplyDeleteThanks ST!
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice treat, special and ST. It would be great if we get some photos of Austin on the set.
ReplyDeleteGyllenhaal tapped for Namath film
ReplyDeleteHall 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.
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Gyllenhaal, who is coming off "Rendition" and "Zodiac," is currently shooting the Jim Sheridan-directed "Brothers" with Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman and will follow that by teaming with Doug Liman on an untitled project at DreamWorks that revolves around a moon expedition.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117976625.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562
Jake will be sporting long hair and a Fu Manchu mustache for Namath. So brace yourself, Anti beardy brigade.
ReplyDeleteYou know he after he's done with Namath, he could just fill in the beard and move on to a Bee Gee's biopic with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake. Although Justin and Jake would have to duke it out to see who is the better Barry. Jake's got the mane and beard down but it would come down who can falsetto the falsetto better.
Interesting that there is no mention of Nailed in that article.
ReplyDeleteUruguay does look beautiful. Several weeks ago in the NYT Style section there was a feauture on vacation spots that mentioned the beaches in Uruguay are starting to attract HW types.
You know he after he's done with Namath, he could just fill in the beard and move on to a Bee Gee's biopic with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake. Although Justin and Jake would have to duke it out to see who is the better Barry. Jake's got the mane and beard down but it would come down who can falsetto the falsetto better.
ReplyDeleteWhat does this even mean?
BeeGees are a band that sang falsetto.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I feel old all of a sudden?
Actually didn't Jake do a bit from "Night Fever" at an awards show? Not to mention his Dreamgirls SNL skit!
Oh no they didnt has a nasty announcement about the Namath project. Jake bent over petting Atticus with the words Insert Here. Nasty and tasteless. I don't think they would be this snarky if he had not gone the bearding route.
ReplyDeletefor a moment I thought the guy on the set of informers was Jake!
ReplyDeleteI never thought of Uruguay as a vacation spot. It does look beautiful.
ReplyDeleteJake will be sporting long hair and a Fu Manchu mustache for Namath. So brace yourself, Anti beardy brigade.
Namath didn't always have that Fu Manchu! Jake will have to be clean shaven for at least part of the film. :)
M, ONTD has always made lame, stupid jokes like that. Long before Jake was with Reese.
ReplyDeleteJoe shaved off his famous mustache for $10,000 for a those famous Noxema commercials.
ReplyDeleteWill anyone admit to be old enough to remember ...."Take it off, take it all off" complete with Joe's smirk.
For anyone interested, Reeke’s PR planted fiction continues in the new issue of Star magazine:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.showbizspy.com/2007/11/28/did-reese-witherspoon-and-jake-gyllenhaal-have-sex-on-a-plane/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/news-alert-hollywood-men_b_74464.html
I guess pr can now check off the box for "plant an item about public sex." We're still not buying it.
ReplyDeleteMore pictures from the set of 'the informers'. Mickey Rourke filming in Montevideo, Uruguay last week:
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Ugh, you know since there is so much paranoia and thinking that PR would really plant such a lame story such as mile hight club. I have to wonder that all the posters who gleefully post all the tabloid stories here don't make up that crap and contact the tabloids themselves to make Jake look bad. Not like the tabloids like Star check their facts or anything. I am sure they will write whatever a "source" tells them.
ReplyDeleteHey if you can have conspiracy theories so can I.
St, thanks a million for all these info about "The Informers".
ReplyDeleteMovies about sportsmen are not exactly my cup of tea but that Namath guy looks, sounds and seems so crazy that it might turn out to be THE role for Jake to prove once and for all that his range is not limited. Frankly, after all he's done up to now I can't understand those who are still skeptical about his acting chops!
Jib, Jake can do a mean falsetto. His SNL performance is also quite indicative of how "high" he can go. :D
So Toothy really likes to do it in public places doesn't he? Or maybe he's just channeling Ralph Fiennes? ;)
Please. I worked in PR and I know exactly how it works. If you choose to believe that PR would never "stoop" to plant items in both respectable and disreputable outlets in order to concoct a particular image, then that's your blindness (or naivete or agenda, take your pick).
ReplyDeleteI have to wonder that all the posters who gleefully post all the tabloid stories here don't make up that crap and contact the tabloids themselves to make Jake look bad.
ReplyDeleteWhy would that silly story make Jake look bad in tabloid readers' eyes?
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ReplyDeleteHow do you know it?
Do you work for The Star? Do you work for their PR? Hang out with Reeke?
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ReplyDeleteprbaby, and I have worked in PR and a story like that makes their clients look bad. Yes PR can plant stories but more than likely something like this was the work of Star Magazine. Rags have to make money too and they are more than happy to make up stuff. Not every story about Reese and Jake is a plant. If you really worked in PR you would know that. Unless you are the "source" for Star?
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Prpr, make their clients look bad?
ReplyDeleteThe main objective of planting this story is trying to convince people that Reeke have sex!
I guess it depends how you define "looking bad". There are far worse things than having sex on a plane in some people's eyes, like being gay, for example:(
ReplyDeleteWhatever, tabloids. The story is silly, plain and simple. The point is you can't just always blame these stories on PR. Again, the star is more than capable of making up this "story" on their own.
ReplyDeleteabout Star Magazine article linked above:
ReplyDelete"Bonnie Fuller Likes the Laddies
Bonnie Fuller's back. We'll keep this short, but in a piece about men, wonderful men!, she proves to be out of touch with the real world. Proof:
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"Certifiable hunk" Jake Gyllenhaal is dating Reese Witherspoon. He's 26, she's 31. She's got an Oscar; he's got rumors. (link to www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com
story about Jake and Austin)
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If Fuller had any wit, she'd infuse these posts with some tongue in cheekiness, but she's earnest--say what you want, this girl is earnest. If she had any wit, she'd be unemployed. Or rather, she'd have our job and we'd be unemployed."
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/journos/bonnie_fuller_likes_the_laddies_71802.asp
^^Ouch! This is what hurts, having to read these "aftermath" comments. I wish they'd left well enough alone, he was doing fine. :(
ReplyDeleteI agree with NG and those of you who have trouble with the idea of taking a perfectly wonderful man and creating a sham relationship for public consumption, if this is what it is. I felt, like NG, that he was being as open as he could, if not being officially out. Never did I think something like this would happen. Not only could it be a lie, it has the great potential to hurt him, both personally and career-wise, in the long run. Ever since I first heard about this, my stomach has felt like a pinball machine, usually my indication that something is amiss somewhere, but who knows?
And yes, Spesh, I was around for those Noxema commercials, albeit a very young and impressionable girl. ;) No wonder I think watching a man shaving is H-A-W-T! ;)
^^Oops, forgot to add - "all JMVHO - all just my very humble opinion". Thanks! ;)
ReplyDeleteI also remember those commercials, though they did nothing at all to pique my interest in Joe Namath. He wasn't quirky enough for me. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I'm surprised that Jake has signed on for this role. I thought he mentioned in a recent interview that he wouldn't sign on for a role without first seeing a script.
Did he even sign on??? Who knows if he even signed on for Nailed? And isn't he supposed to do that Moon project as well?
ReplyDeleteI have a somewhat Joe Namath-related story. A few years ago, I was at a trade show and this older man (not bad looking but way TOO old for me) kept hitting on me. He kept asking me out for dinner, told me he was a former professional football player (wouldn't have a clue or care) and that Joe Namath was a good friend of his.
No, I never went out to dinner with that guy and I don't care if Joe is his best friend. Please.
^^Gah, doesn't that kind of thing just so turn you off? As if you could be that shallow, and that they even think you are, just makes ya wanna run, not walk, in the opposite direction! :(
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmmm Noxzema ...
ReplyDeleteBeen thinking about our Austin hanging out with bad boys Rourke and Ifans from the previous thread ... :):( :O
ReplyDeleteRhys Ifans is a brilliant actor - if you haven't seen Enduring Love, DO.
Yes, I don't quite know WHAT he hoped to accomplish by dropping Joe Namath's name. I was a smal child during his prime--why would I care? Now my older brother and uncles would care--but I certainly wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of name dropping when hitting on someone, I remember many years ago I was walking with a friend of mine in midtown Manhattan and this car stopped and the guys inside asked us if we wanted a ride. My friend, who was older, said no way but the guy inside kept telling us how he's "Billy Idol's guitarist." Now that impressed me more back then than Joe Namath. My friend dragged me away from that car. She was a smart girl.
Rourke also just got arrested for a DUI--but that arrest (was he on a Vespa?) was pretty lame.
ReplyDeleteAustin hanging out with the bad boys, I like it! Oh I used to love Mickey Rourke - :)
ReplyDeleteSaw this on DL:
ReplyDelete"Does Jake's agent know that Joe is bisexual? It seems like this role could make more trouble for Jake."
So we are expected to believe that Jake and Reese had sex on the plane home from Rome. And that Jake proposed when they were in Rome. And we don't find out about it until now. Hmmmm....
ReplyDeleteSince most people seem to think that every stupid story on rugs is planted by PR, is there anything the rugs write on their own or they just print whatever PR sends them? Do they actually have their own writer employees? Just asking. I have no trouble thinking that PR plants stories, but I sure do not believe everything you read on rugs is PR driven. and this one sounds like the typical silly thing they would just make up and pretend they had witnesses.
ReplyDeleteZero, I would believe the rags had made it up if it had been printed right after Jeese came back to LA. It's the over a month lag time on this story that makes me think it's a PR plant.
ReplyDeleteWell my comment was in general, since so far everything that has been published on any rug about Jeese has been considered a PR plant I think.
ReplyDeleteIs Joe bisexual? Out bisexual or what is the source of it?
Tabloid items can be either entirely concocted or fed to the tabloids from PR - or, occasionally, libel-free truth.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I think this Mile-High item is classic scenario #2.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading some of the comments over at WFT(love both places:)and comparing them to my own thoughts, i just can`t see Reese would be pleased with "the sex-on-a-plane story." I think she wants to be assumed as sexy, but not quite that far. The nr.1 for her is beeing a great, decent mother.
ReplyDeleteJake on the other hand..Who knows, maybe the magazine have employers lurking on "The Awful Truth", or maybe Jake`s people failed with the ring around Reese`s neck (after lurking here and got to know about the photo of Austin), and thought: "Hey...the gay-believers know about Jake`s urge to have sex in public with his boyfriend. Putting out an article about him and Reese doing exactly that, would make them change their minds and start believing in them.".
Or both`s PR-people are cooperating and want to change "the couple`s" imagage from boring to exciting and forget from week to week what they tried to gain last week.
Nomatter what, i still think it`s fake and i don`t want Jake to be humiliated. It`s like he has let his PR-people and/or magazines dictate and write whatever they want about him and Reese.
I hope one day, we can go several weeks without hearing about his romantic-raltionships. If he and Austin were an out couple, i would not like their private-life being described from A to Å(TO Z in the US). I know sometimes it is in BI`s, but that`s not mainstream on not that obvious. At least i think there is a difference.
Personally I fail to see how a relationship with a hunk would turn anyone from boring to sexy. To me is more like 'oh gosh, I wish he had better taste in woman' but I am not going to start thinking the gal/actress or whatever is any better. Maybe it has more to do in making her seem more down to earth and likeable, given how it is well known that Jake is a very nice guy in person. But even in this case, I'd say 'poor guy that bitch is going to hurt him!'.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: give it up, Reese. Take care of your kids and work on genuinely becoming more likeable, if this is a setup for the above reasons.
How old is Reese`s daugther? 8,9? My daughter is 7 years and eight months. She picks up a lot more than i thought she would at this age. They can read, they have friends. Kids hear stuff from their parents and other people. I`m so glad i`m not a celebrity. If i was, my daughter would have several questions for me each time i put her to sleep.
ReplyDeleteNG!!!!! Lets hear some of your wild stories. You hussy:-)
ReplyDeleteOh, Tom, i just want to say i had already seen the photo of NPH and DB at the emmys. But Tom, i didn`t mind see it again. So cute with the hand resting, quite shy on the shoulder:)
ReplyDeleteNPH together with DB and E.D together with P.DeR...just make my knees weak. Can`t help it. I just adore them and they make me so happy*melting*:D
ReplyDeleteI adore you Tom, but i`ve told you so many times now, i`m getting scared you will look down at me, you know...*don`t really want to tell you because i`m a liiittle bit jealous*, you have Ted. I don`t. He`s answered your questions..like SEVERAL times. Please don`t send him anymore. Feel with the rest of us! I`ve only asked him once, but i know with my luck, i can spare my calories at that point;)
I couldn't have the Punta del Este pics to display at work but now I realize I have the same problem at home! Argh!!! Oh how I hate it when computers start to have a mind of their own that disagrees with yours!
ReplyDeleteI could see the one posted by St though (great place I agree) and I ended up hanging aroung that guy's blog because it's superb too.
I forgot to say thank you for yesterday's song (Sia), which brought back to mind Six Feet Under's extraordinary last episode. :)
Coming back from a Spanish-speaking blog and since Chris Isaak was mentioned recently, how about playing his plaintive "Blue Spanish Sky" or "Wicked Games" maybe? ;)
^^Oh yes, definitely!
ReplyDeleteHey Tom, I was afraid the Eagles were gonna win on Sunday! ;*
NG I noticed that hand on the shoulder. It made my knees week too.
ReplyDeleteNow I will address all of this winning in Boston, Mass. and surrounding areas. Would you please send some wins down to Philly u greedy varmits.
Congrats Jimmy Rollins 2007 NL MVP
Greedy weren't not greedy. It took us 86 years for the Sox to get the big one again. The Celtics it's been 21 years.
ReplyDeleteBe careful Tom, those Flyers are playing dirty. How many more Bruins are they going to send to the hospital with illegal checks?
Now the Pats.... well what can we say. The are too good for words, and they have one heck of a QT/QB!
Special let me say one thing about that Patriot QB. WOW what a hunk!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think this latest story of Jeese entering the Mile High Club makes both look bad. I think it is an attempt by PR to legitimize this romance. I think Jake and Reese will ignore it because it is a rumor and will not hurt either one in terms of getting work.
ReplyDeleteRead the comments on dlisted and ONTD. They are crass, yes, and also disbelieving.
ReplyDeleteThanks ST for the links. Rourke looks so scary. Hopefully we will soon get some hot ones of that young blond boy.
ReplyDeleteI think the Star story is a pr plant. Like Wicked I'm suspicious of the timing, plus the boring angle, Jake's reputation for public sex, and the need to keep Jeese alive when they didn't spend Thanksgiving together and no pictures of them together in several weeks. I seriously think they have a checklist.
And sigh, I admit I remember the Namath pictures. I think this will probably be a good project for Jake as biopics usually do well and get Oscar buzz, although I'm not a fan of the forumla biopics, which I could see this being. You know the one, humble beginnings, fame, fall that usually involves drugs or alcohol (the latter for Namath).....
PR should have never chosen a woman with children as the beard. The whole scenario might have sold had PR been patient and waited for someone else. Not sure why the big rush, but it continues to back fire. Even comments around the net about the Namath gig are elicting comments about Jake being gay.
ReplyDelete^^I'm not sure how I feel about this project, either, Destiny. I hate, hate, hate all of the crassness and meanness this Reeke debacle has become, and yes, to top it all off, it looks like its bombing bigtime. Whose effing bright idea was this, anyway? :(
ReplyDeleteWhat is this club stuff? Reese I don't know and don't want to. And.... I'm not saying anything else. ; )
ReplyDeleteHi, Austin. Are you still blond?
ReplyDeleteYes baby.. you know I promised I would come home as a blonde just for you.
ReplyDeleteI really do miss you--even if you think I don't...with all the stories I mean.
ReplyDeleteThose are just stories. Know you miss me. Miss you more.
ReplyDeleteJust caught up on the gossip sites. It does seem like more sites than ever are making fun of Jeese and expressing their belief Jake is gay, even in the Namath stories. The latter I also attribute to all this Jeese nonsense. And then there is all the making fun of the 11 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI think it is an attempt by PR to legitimize this romance. I think Jake and Reese will ignore it because it is a rumor and will not hurt either one in terms of getting work.
ReplyDeleteWicked sorry, but if you think this is a plant by PR why do you say Jake and Reese will ignore them because they are rumours, well of course they are rumours ... are J&R supposed to make their PR issue a statement aginst what same PR just disseminated? I would assume PR and their client for whom their work they actually agree on things, cannot think actors would pay their PRs to do things they disagree or hate. If they agree to them they agree, period. Or they change strategy, change PR firm or fire them and take care of their own inmage.
I wish Jake would change approach right now. Considering how the rumoirs are not quitting, if he is really gay maybe it is really time to be brave and come out head on. If he is not, he should still adopt a different strategy maybe even talk openly about all this and definitely stop taking along a cohort of paps when traveling for romantic gateway.
Just looked at that front page pic if Heath as the Joker. Did Heath steal some of the wardrobe items from the Batman movie, or did he identify with this character so much that he goes around thinking he IS the Joker now?
Um, most of the gossip sites have made fun of Jake being gay in every post about him. It could be about anything and people a "he's so gay" comment. Why are some of you surprised that it was mentioned in the JN posts? I find it rather pathetic that it is that way. In posts that have nothing to do with Jake's sexuality people have to be so immature. It is not a problem with thinking he is gay, it is a problem that it is all some people see him as. That he is nothing else, not an actor, brother, son, etc.
ReplyDeletePR has been knee-jerking since Ted outed Jake. The panic started with Rome and they've been chicken with no heads frantic trying to catch a rumor that continues to stay twelve steps ahead of them.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm concerned about is, if Reeke has vacationed, trick-or-treated, proposed, had sex (EW!) and still people don't believe, what's their next step? What could PR panic pull out next to save the Titanic?
I shudder to think on it.
Oh, and Perspective, perhaps if Jake were to come out, show that he is proud and unashamed, live his life without apology, show that he is indeed more than just the sex, that he is a normal, hard working actor perhaps the gay crassness would soon move on to others more worthy of ridicule.
Suspicious tb, despite all the rumors and talk there is no definite proof of what Jake's sexuality is. You (and many others) speak as if this is fact when none of us really knows. Jake doesn't owe anyone an explanation of his private life.
ReplyDeleteBtw, why would they have a layover in Frankfurt? Why wouldn't they go direct to LA? Also, I don't see how having this story come out after Rome does it make it PR plant. It all sounds like really sloppy writing from Star.
Perspective, I agree with some of what you say regardin gthe fact we don't really know Jake's sexuality yet sometimes we talk as if we did. I think it is awful the amount of abuse Jke is getting over the possibility of him being gay, that''s why I think thta if he really is coming out would give me ground to call the jerks for what they are and noone would dare stopping him. If he is not he should use a different tactic completely.
ReplyDeleteLayover in Frankfurt is mandatory if you travel to Italy with Lufthansa, there is no direct fly from LA to Rome. Actually I am not even sure there is ANY direct fly from LA to Rome without a stopover somewhere.
that''s why I think thta if he really is coming out would give me ground = that's why I think that of he came out it would give HIM (not me!)
ReplyDeletesorry I typed to fast!
alright I fgive up I cannot type tonight :/
ReplyDeleteNotice that noone makes snide comments about out actors being gay? Because they are respected for being honest and once out the rules change. If Jake actually came out, the gay comments would stop. It would no longer be an issue for discussion, and people would move on to new topics.
ReplyDeleteTowleroad. a real class act gay blog
ReplyDeleteWhy are you prevaricating? Why do you make such capricious statements about Jake and his movie career? Why print misleading information: All the world is down on Jake G and his beard Reese Witherspoon, when you must know it's not true.
NO, not all blogs are calling a Jake gay sellout, or making disparaging remarks about his love affair with Reese Witherspoon.
Towleroad blog and the Datalounge have made no such statements. When these statements are made by posters, especially on the DL, they are called out, and insulted, called ponies, tinhats or worse faghags with unfulfilled Jake/Austin fantasies fueled by poorly written slash fiction.
Only Jake's angry female fan base, in particular female fans over 30-35 have it in for Jake big time. I've seen some of your photos on the going to see Rendition in a group page . . . Please . . . you're all old enough to have daughters on www.iheartjakemedia.com, which is still owned and run by a 16 year old girl since she was in Middle school, trying to finish high school, and her site remains one of the most comprehensive Jake fan site on the Internet. The ihearjake fans were unhappy but those young people have moved on; love Jake deal with who he loves or is with...they are true fans.
Your blog seems to have it in for Jake . . . and will say anything you want that is hurtful about him, without fear of reprisal, because he is in a romance with a woman.
You OMG bloggers are only hurting yourselves and perhaps inadvertantly Austin--who is trying as hard as he can to have 1/10 the career Jake is having--by talking trash about Jake and glorying in his so called PR mess, when it's your blog that's the laughing stock among my friends.
And no, we will not stop coming over; we all need a laugh every now and then.
Just visiting ... didn't you just say you come here for a laugh once in a while? So why is it that you sound so freaking pissed? You seem on the verge of a nervous breakdown! Relax dear, Jake is in a romance with a woman (thanks God!), Austin is working hard to get a career 1/10 of Jake's (nice snarky remark, sure would please Jake immensely) so all is good right?
ReplyDeleteMost important rule: Never feed the after midnight.
ReplyDeleteNow if only it was Snakes on a plane. Then Samuel L Jackson could have kicked in the door, glared at them whilst they were sitting in the bathroom, eyes glued to their watches, screamed 'Hey mother*******' and then slapped some sense into them.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to add
ReplyDelete11 minutes versus all day in a trailer?
PR, do you need my help? I've got a great imagination. I'll make this stuff way more believable than you have.
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