How could it not with the JT now jumping on the bandwagon. Seems like just yesterday he was doing more the Austy vesting, but now he's mad for plaid.
You wonder if JT is just being the kind boyfriend and getting Jessica ready for shooting with Jake starting next week. You know too much plaid too quickly can be overwhelming. Or maybe Jessica just likes the whole plaid thing already.
But it comes down to who wore it better? And I 'm not only talking about the shirt.
Plaid- the official uniform of the fauxmance. Don't beard without it!
ReplyDeleteIt's sooo butch. JT and Jessica are wearing it far better. They at least seem to be real friends enjoying themselves.
ReplyDeleteKacie, yes I do think J & A are still together. I think Jake is living a full life outside of the view of the world and without Reese, whenever he chooses. Afterall he played a pick up game of basketball, suffered an injury requiring significant medical attention and not one word about who was with him or where it happened leaked out. It reminded me a bit of the xmas fire. Someone else was there with Jake, but any news of him just vanished. Both stories buttoned up tight as a drum.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty caught up now on all the comments. Dont want to drag people back into old items, but I was struck by that photo of Jake with Boo in TX. He did not display the Austin smile, but there is an unguardedness about him, a look he gets only around Austin. Childlike, like we are seeing the real Jake. I wish we knew more about that photo.
But it comes down to who wore it better? And I 'm not only talking about the shirt.
ReplyDeleteBoth bags look bulky, awkward and heavy. And too shiny. Esp the bottom one, the natural texture of the material has been smoothed out and polished so much that it looks totally like plastic. The top one looks more natural.
The top one is more rounded, seems more comfortable to wear while the bottom one is awfully square and looks like it has sharp corners.
I'm not crazy about the chain in the top one but at least it's pretty long. The other one has two matching/adjoining handles that are either held in a closed fist or swung over the shoulder like a cross and held tightly under a strong arm. Seems like a lot of unseen and unrealized muscle work is happening just to keep it held on. Plus holding it too close like that will always leave a stain or odor on whatever it comes in contact with sooner or later.
If I had a choice, if I was forced to choose one or the other I'd take the top one. Seems more comfortable.
LOL bad seed. Great analysis of the bags. ;)
ReplyDeleteWill Clooney be next with the plaid? There has been some talk this weekend about Leatherheads not doing as well as expected. The movie got mediocre reviews, but one article I saw talked about the fact that none of Clooney's movies have opened big. IMO this is just more evidence that popularity in the tabloids does not transfer over into popularity at the box office.
If Clooney, one of the biggest stars in HW can't bring in the viewers on his name alone, or generate interest with his relationship, what makes Reeke and their pr think it will work for them?
Afterall he played a pick up game of basketball, suffered an injury requiring significant medical attention and not one word about who was with him or where it happened leaked out."
ReplyDeleteDo we really know it was a game of basketball? After all, that's what PR said.
About Clooney's film, I'm just in shock that the Kevin Spacey/Kate Bosworth movie is pulling in a lot of people. I guess gambling is a real attraction.
Jumping crocodiles, fauxmances, fauxmances clad in plaid, and not a clearing in sight. I see a few double-faux-dates on the horizon in SC. Anyone else? Hee. All that plaid makes me dizzy.
ReplyDeleteAt least JT isn't choking Jessica!
ReplyDeleteI hope you're right about the faux double dates. How great would that be?
I'm suprised to BWF. By the way, I don't seem to recall that Spacey is parading around a beard (other than his agent at a few awards shows).
ReplyDeleteEgotastic claims Ellen Page is a lesbian
ReplyDeleteClaims it's a poorly kept secret in her native Nova Scotia.
Wow I really thought JT was Austin there for a split second :)
ReplyDeleteI love today's song, I think it's one of the greatest pop songs ever written.
I was asked about Outline of My Lover on the previous thread. I found the style completely hypnotic - the author sort of registers three out of five words in an impressionistic way. His character is vulnerable, kittenish and self-regarding but there's a core of steel, too - you also get a strong sense of the reality of the unnamed famous man and the influences pulling him away from the author. I dunno, whenever I pick it up I get engrossed in it all over again.
Out magazine's Power 50
ReplyDeleteGreat article on the HW glass closet
ReplyDeleteMichael Musto has a little bit in his column last week about why Ellen Page might be a lesbian, many of them silly, but ended with the one he concluded sealed the deal, her answer to a reporter that her personal life is private. There has been more open speculation about her than just about anyone I can think of in recent memory, and it does seem like it is kind of an open secret. I'm hoping that we're not going to see any bearding from her given all of the talk.
ReplyDeleteLoved how Colbert introduced the band saying R.E.M. put college radio on the map making it easier for corporate radio to find it and kill it. ;)
ReplyDeleteThis was so funny, Frenchy. I always had mixed feelings when a small indie band we loved would hit the big time - on the one hand, you'd be happy that they'd be famous and more people would see and hear how wonderful they were; on the other, you thought of them as your own little discovery and you'd wonder that their music would change by going mainstream, and you'd miss seeing them in small, intimate venues. I loved our Out Spotlight yesterday. :)
I agree, London, this is probably one of the best pop songs there ever was, I think it may have been one of the first (records!) I ever bought. ;)
Kacie, I love your formatting, it's you! Don't change a thing. :*
I actually saw "21" yesterday, and had been looking forward to it. I like movies centered around Boston. Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess were wonderful in it - you'd never know Jim wasn't a local college kid, he's Scottish I think. He was great in it, and I always love Kevin Spacey. It was light, fun and very entertaining. Vegas is fun once in awhile, it'd be exhausing to go to often! ;) Something everyone should see, tho, I think. It's so impressive, driving there from CA. Anyway, the movie is more about a smart kid getting his comeuppance, and a bit of a thrill ride of trying to beat the house. It was very fun.
Sorry for the long post, was busy at work today. :P
Justin wears his better. No question.
ReplyDeleteI always had mixed feelings when a small indie band we loved would hit the big time - on the one hand, you'd be happy that they'd be famous and more people would see and hear how wonderful they were; on the other, you thought of them as your own little discovery and you'd wonder that their music would change by going mainstream, and you'd miss seeing them in small, intimate venues.
ReplyDeleteITA, especially the part about bands' music changing by going mainstream. I stopped liking R. E. M. in the early '90s, when they started to get big. Their sound changed! You could understand what Michael was saying! I was so disappointed. Sorry, but I loved mumbly Michael. This new record is a return to the R. E. M. of old.
Re Outline of My Lover- I really enjoyed it. It's an incredibly fast read and an interesting look at what it can be like to date someone famous.
^^It's something I've been meaning to read for a long time - so many books to read! ;)
ReplyDeleteThe top one is more rounded, seems more comfortable to wear while the bottom one is awfully square and looks like it has sharp corners.
ReplyDeleteHa. Ha. Ha.
Bad Seed, I am getting used to your sarcasm, and I am liiiiking it ;)
I just can't stop laughing.
ReplyDeleteSomebody help me.
Do we really know it was a game of basketball?
ReplyDeleteIt can't be backgammon, I presume.
I just can't stop laughing.
ReplyDeleteSomebody help me.
Consider yourself virtually bitchslapped.
Consider yourself virtually bitchslapped.
ReplyDeleteAh, I kinda enjoyed it. What more do you have in store?
I love these parts of that HW Glass Closet article-
ReplyDeleteHis previous agent lost points by saying Barrowman shouldn’t appear in public with his partner, Scott Gill. The real message? Just as with picking roles, actors can select the right reps for their personal needs.
These people aren’t homophobic, they’ll remind you -- they’re simply reflecting the reality they perceive, which is that the public can’t handle an openly gay actor in straight roles. It doesn’t always occur to them that, more likely, it’s other money people who can’t deal with it!
And this as the suggested antidote-
The answer for many performers is to keep trumping their agents’ fears by responding to public pressure and being more forthcoming. As the increasingly savvy public tires of the halfhearted glass-closet lifestyle, a lot of stars will too, and the information highway will help lead them out of entombment.
Over and over, the message is that what people really hate is someone who comes across as a liar and/or hider.
Wow, and nobody cried "Timber!" to warn me I'll be coming home to a pair of fully bearded lumberjacks! :D
ReplyDeleteInteresting stuff I really want to catch up with. Love the excerpt about the public tiring of these PR games and the information highway impact. ;)
Thanks for all the interestnig input about Outline of My Lover. I always love to read other people's opinions about the books I loved... even when they disagree! :)
Talking about opinions, Spesh and Wicked, what did you think about Highway?
what did you think about Highway?
ReplyDeleteI liked it. I thought it was going to suck, so my expectations were not too high. We weren't entirely sure what the point of the movie was, though.
I always liked reading Jake's articulations during his interviews. The excerpt from a German magazine (translated by Stubborn a long time ago) was quite enjoyable!
ReplyDeleteDo you have the potential to be obsessive then? What about jealousy and envy, for example?
Jealousy can be something really healthy, while envy is dark and destructive, because after all you’re wishing something bad on someone. It’s very sensible that envy counts as one of the seven deadly sins. It’s similar with passion and obsession. Obsession can lead to destruction, to tremendous despair. Passion on the other side is enlightening, a powerful, great source of energy. But both feelings have the same roots and originate from the same family. I would compare passion with land. You have a ground under your feet and even if it gets exciting, I always know where I am. Obsession is the ocean: twice as wide and definitely creepy.
And the reason you mentioned that is what, Rattler? It's an old interview. Why did it come to mind now?
ReplyDeleteHuh?: BWF's comment on basketball led to my backgammon comment, which reminded me of the Jaustin days. I am just reminiscing!
ReplyDeleteBad Seed, I am getting used to your sarcasm, and I am liiiiking it ;)
ReplyDeleteThx Rattler!!!! :* I'm really starting to appreciate your dry humor too and your cryptology. :) It takes awhile to get to adjust and know people online doesn't it. (esp since you and I might be more alike than we think, eh?). I hope you finally sstopped laughing or else you might be writing your next comment from a room with padded walls. ;o
Obsession is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. ;) I always have thought jealousy was the more extreme of the two, with envy being milder and possibly more positive.
ReplyDeleteA pickup game of basket ball. Huh. Do ya think PR meant literally like the Celtics and Lakers or is it (Rattler!!) crypticspeake for something that involves a pickup and playing games with some baskets and balls?? :O
ReplyDeleteEnvy connotes an admiration for the person along with it; covet steps into unhealthy territory, jealousy further still and begrudge? You don't want to go there. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt takes awhile to get to adjust and know people online doesn't it.
ReplyDeletePrecisely, Bad Seed.
I'm really starting to appreciate your dry humor too and your cryptology.
Didn't someone famously say, "Birds of the same feather flock together in some ugly plaid shirt"?
Methinks, basketball is the new backgammon ;) What say you, Monsieur Spumanti? Agree or disagree?
Another fascinating part of that Hollywood Glass Closet article in Out is Clay Aiken saying he no longer has sexual urges! So asexual is considered better than homosexual? Really?
ReplyDeleteHoly shit, I just figured it out! Clay Aiken is our Constructive Sublimation poster!
ReplyDelete^^OMG - LOL! Who knew? ;)
ReplyDeleteThe Eagle (or Iggle to some) has landed.
ReplyDeleteAfter a delay in Baltimore, (thank you Air Traffic Control in Boston) I have arrived home moments ago.
So Frenchy no more worrying!
Thanks guys.
Igglespesh, what a surprise.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping to see you on Tuesday :P ;)
Good to see you got home sweet home safe Special! :)
ReplyDeleteI really loved that Out.com article; we should add it to our bibliography/library. Wait, do we have that feature up yet? ;D
Holy shit, I just figured it out! Clay Aiken is our Constructive Sublimation poster!
Lol! And he almost kept the same initials. ;)
Wrong Way
ReplyDeleteReese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, collectively known as GyllenSpoon, were snapped trying to evade capture together by the paparazzi's ever-watchful eye as they made their way to a gym in Santa Monica, CA on Friday. Jakey poo got the brills idea to walk next to Reese ... backwards ... so that it would look as if they were not together ...
Now, I really love me some Jake and it's not that I don't love to see Jake's behind but this has to be the dumbest pap-evading trick that I've ever seen. If it weren't for the photos, I wouldn't even believe it if someone told me about it. LOL. I think Jake should start carrying a purse (perhaps something in an Hermès) so that he can hide behind it when he's out and about with Reese ... I understand that makes celebs disappear from sight altogether.
JT definately wears his better. At least he seems to be enjoying his life and his time with Jessica. And JT's shirt has more brown earth tones it which to me says that he's more down to earth.
ReplyDeleteThat Out article also mentioned Rupert Everett as an example of someone who came out and difficulty with his career. I always feel like that is such an unfair example to trot out given that imo he is not very good, plus there are plenty of stories of how full of himself he is and how difficult he is to work with. Being out may have hurt him a bit, but would it have had the same effect if he was talented, nice, etc. I suspect not, but there we have it, the poster boy all those money people can point to as a reason not to come out.
ReplyDeleteDestiny the poster boy all those money people can point to as a reason not to come out.
ReplyDeleteI never thot of it that way but you are right about Rupert Everett. That people point to his being out as a reason for his non-success but its prbly from other factors.
I read something about the model Cindy crawford a long time ago, that she wasn't the most beautiful model but the reason why she was successful and kept getting hired for work was because she treated everyone well, she showed up on time and was prepared and ready for her shoots. And was nice and down to earth and easy to work with. So ITA agree about your RE theory and how people/PR/film execs have prbly tuerned it into a 'don't out yourself' horror story.
Huh? at 8.41: It appears that your only contribution to the discussions so far was to express contempt. In my book, you are a troll.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it's a troll.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the quote Rattler.
Power forward. Double dribble. Man to Man. Pass shoot score. Basketball the new backgammon? ; )
ReplyDeleteHuh? at 8.41: It appears that your only contribution to the discussions so far was to express contempt. In my book, you are a troll.
ReplyDeleteIf asking someone why an old interview suddenly popped into their head is trollish, then yes, I am a troll, and proud of it! Just wondering what made you think of that now. You explained it quite well.
Looks like somebody's pissed about Jake calling in the lawyer. Guess that's not how it's done in SC.
ReplyDeleteDear Feted Fruits:
ReplyDeleteHomos playing heteros? You bet. Uncloseted gays playing straight? Uh, other than Rupert Everett...
BBM reference?
Huh?
ReplyDeleteIt's simple - there's no need for a specific reason to share / post / repost something interesting about Jake.
Correct me if I'm wrong but someone is being called a troll because they asked an unnecessary question? WTF??
ReplyDeleteDon't like the tone of that blog. Nasty. I think Jake has a right to his privacy about where he's staying in SC. :(
ReplyDeleteIs Jake the only one who called a lawyer or did the others too? If it was only Jake, why is he the only one with security issues? Is it cos he has gay rumors? thought they were all buried under the ever so public Reeke??
ReplyDeleteFlf,
ReplyDeleteIt's not the question. It's the tone of the question.
I apologize if I got it wrong.
I just hope it isn't homophobia in disguise, by the nasty tone. You never know where it can turn up, with it's ugly cousin racism too. :(
ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize 'who'sthat' just was a little puzzled, is all :))
ReplyDelete