All the balloon boy talk in the news has got tweets in a twitter remembering Jake as Bubble Boy.
While not the critically acclaimed success of some of his other roles, it seems to be a fave of video store employees who play it on endless loops, those "not so low", kids, people who are Bright and Shiny and frat boys who yell 500 dollah! What is has become is another cult classic.
But you know it could have told Jake a little about his future.
Bad hair will happen
Tiny people will boss you around.
But the good thing:
Life will be in a fishbowl but you have a person who loves the sea beside you
Bubble Boy Trivia Question: What Dancing with the Stars (US) contestant was in Bubble Boy?
One more question for you: What would Jake be doing in a Pittsburgh bakery? Cause you know he's never really looked like a sweets kind of guy. Hmmm. Scone? Cookie? Cupcake? Cake for some special reason?
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Cupcakes!
http://www.iheartjakemedia.com/thumbnails.php?album=753
More, yum!!!!
http://jakegyllenhaalwatch.blogspot.com/2006/05/jake-eats-cupcakes.html
2007 - Penelope Cruz and Jake new old BAFTA pictures
IHJ - Last uploads
Penelope: You did what?
Jake: Let me explain that to you!
^^They are gorgeous together.
Yes, they are!
I love the ones where they are standing close together - sultry! :)
I"m not usually a fan of boy bands, but Better is a nice song, and the video is really beautiful.
Special,
I'm a sucker for any discussion of Jake and Bubble Boy, pictures and thoughts of the Director's Diary done by Blair Hayes and Jake etc. Recalling the movie I don't feel 'Bright & Shiny' but do get warm and fuzzy.
I'm at loose ends today just came across some news about Ryan Gosling and his musical debut. Have often wondered about Ryan as he does some major 'pinging' on my gaydar. I'm wondering if anyone would like to take up the challenge and come up with some commonalities that might link Ryan to Luke MacFarlane and to Paul Haggis? There might even be a few six degrees of separation things here...... anyone?
Until your post Seaweed I hadn't felt compelled to watch the Dead Man's Video, but you got me curious with your post. It's a very haunting song, and not the lame I'm an actor in a band project I was expecting.
As far as Ryan pinging, there is certainly a lot of speculation that when he was with what's her name (I've gone blank on the actress) that she was a beard.
One thing I've been thinking about is Ted and his letter about Toothy trying to stay relevant. And then I started thinking about James Franco, and how he's doing all of these interesting things that keep his name out there, college, queer cinema studies class, his short, the soap opera. And now you've got Gossling and his band. It seems like the best young actors out there are keeping busy with interesting things that get their name out there, not the spreads in US Weekly.
And what has Jake done during all his long breaks between films? Coffee runs with Reese. I mean, seriously, which would you rather read about and see. There are so many things Jake could have done instead that would have been far better for his career.
Oops, forgot to ask Seaweed, why did you mention Haggis and McFarland in connection with Gosling?
destiny,
Just wondering if anyone knew the connection between these three guys. There are at least a few intersting connections...
also...
I agree with your comments destiny about Jake not being relevant, especially when you take a look at what some of his contemporaries are doing.
Destiny I agree with you 100%. Jake and his PR peoeple were so paranoid about the gay issues that they made some realy bad decisions. I wonder if Jake ever questions the advice he has got and thinks about making a change in his PR team. I really am looking foward to see what happens after PoP especially if it does not do well. Although I still do believe that Mom is the biggest influence in his life.
I don't know of any connection between those 3 Seaweed.
There are so many things Jake could have done--something with cooking/restaurants, become more involved in charity work, gone back to school or taken a few classes towards getting his degree, tried to get some kind of fashion gig (lots of the top actors now appear in high-end clothing, makeup, cologne, perfume ads--must kill Reese that she has Avon while others have Chanel, etc.). Instead he's been selling Reese, Avon, lingerie, Pain Quotidian (how many sightings did we get in that mediocre food chain).
I also still think Jake and his people messed up around the time of BBM and held out too long for more money and more "prestigious" gigs, contributing to his long absence from films. He should have immediately jumped into something while he was still hot.
Jake really needs to change management. They have really messed up his career.
InStyle: "Reese! Finaly Opens Up about Love, Family & Life With Jake"
RW on InStyle cover
Time for Miracles - Adam Lambert - 2012 soundtrack
i wonder what kind of blah, boring, non-informational things she'll have to say about him this time.
i agree with you guys: his pr team f'd up big time and he's paid a huge price for their mistake. makes me really sad... :(
If she says anything interesting it really will be a time for miracles.
I love it - Adam has a great voice. It has a Beatle-ish sound to it. :)
Now Simon. :)
Seaweed, your three guys are all from London, Ontario. Don't know much else (except that Luke is a hottie, and is I believe out).
Right Charybdis...
All 3 of these guys are Canadian and born in London, Ontario. Actually both Ryan and Luke were born in 1980.
Paul Haggis went to High School in London and one of his credits (besides Crash, which was given the Oscar that was won by BBM), was the TV show Thirtysomething, which had an ensemble cast including Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig. Olin and Wettig currently appear in Brothers and Sisters with Luke MacFarlane.
I'm sure there are other associations. Hope everyone is enjoying a good weekend.
Back from a long day of reunioning.
Yes Jake likes cupcakes. Sprinkles makes Longhorn cupcakes just for Texas/Oklahoma game. Congrats Longhorns!!!! Not Sprinkles in Pittsburth. But think someone else small not tall might got a special cupcake this weekend.
Don't think Jake was paranoid in the beginning, in fact it probably that he wasn't that made him so dangerous in his management's eyes. They were the one that were paranoid and closed in the ranks around and put the pressure on him. And if you heard the same party line pumped into your ear over and over in time that could make you get a little paranoid.
It will be interesting to read the In Style. What will be even more interesting to compare it to what he says or doesn't say about her in his upcoming ones.
Sorry, Seaweed, I sure don't know too much about those guys. Luke McFarlane and Ryan Gosling? I know Luke McFarlane as the guy Wenty was pictured with, lol.
Gee, I can't wait to see what Ice Maiden has to say. At least she looks good on the cover and more "relevant" to how she looks now as opposed to those Avon pictures where they photoshop her into trying to look 23 years old.
Relevant might be the new word.
All I can say about Jake's PR team is they cannot care about him as a person. They can't. Not the way they have shown to have treated him these past 3 years. They have shown that they think of him as less of a person than he is. I don't know anything about them professionally but I would say that just judging by what has happened to his fandom and the fact that he has done nothing for the past 9 months but follow Reese around like a puppy dog has shown me enough.
My biggest beef with them doesn't have to do necessarily with his career; it's their apparent feeling & treatment of him as a person and what he should be to them which would be as a friend. I know that you probably have to maintain some sort of objectiveness in order to provide for their client's best interest but man, they don't show much respect or caring for him as far as I can see.
LOL midnite in NY, top of the 11th.
And it's raining
LOL
LOL tied 3-3 top of 12th, still raining
I remember watching a bio about Robert Redford and him saying that he had to fight to avoid being treated like an object with PR people making decisions for him and to benefit themselves, so he finally just broke away. When I heard it, I thought of Jake, who obviously was not strong enough to deal with that. His PR killed the golden goose though. They would make a lot more money off him if he had been allowed to show his uniqueness.
Odd move, the Style piece. What we need to hear is what Jake has to say. He has yet to say one word about Reese.
I've just had my mind blown by Adam's photo spread for Details.
Holy Fuck
As someone on wft said, it could have been Jake mixing it up like this, keeping it hot and ambiguous. Instead he's helping Reese sell Avon.
Seaweed, I didn't realize any of those three were Canadian, let alone all from the same town.
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Reese's Life With Jake @10/18/2009 at 4:58 am
Mon 7 am meet @Peets for coffee pap pics Tues 2 pm J coming over & we drive in Benz to yogurt shop w/kids for pics (act surprised) **pay attention to kids** 4 pm call PR make sure pics get in JJared asap Weds - J day off - Thurs 8 am pics @starbucks (call J house @7 wake him up) - Fri 10 am car ride w/J to BH med center for pics (act pissed) make sure preg rumor gets in Popsugar (add m. proposal?) Sat shop/lunch Venice w/J take J’s big hairy dog?? (yuck) ~ call pap to confirm appt!!! Sun 2-4pm walk/shop town w/J (go in lingerie store room & bump wall for 5 min - giggle & hold hands leaving) - confirm on Mon “sex in dressing room!’ story be in major tabs following week (RP movie premiere) Mon & Tues - J days off, shop pm (maybe w/Ava?) wear gold twisty band on ring finger (be coy) Weds 9 am meet J @yoga for pap pics/coffee (smile/happy) ~ give him next month pap sched.
JJ
Wow, those pictures of Adam are hot.
I love how open he is. And he is beautiful. That dead-on look from his eyes, almost challenging.
I just cannot help but compare with what has happened to Jake in 3 years, who used to look straight ahead like this. Except when he's moodily or angrily staring down the cameraman (even in the recent one with that fan on the LAOD set), Jake is so often staring at the ground, looking off to the side and/or he's got the hood on. Might as well be wearing a sandwich board that reads the menu of how he feels about what he's doing or how he feels about himself.
And I hope that he becomes willing to do something about it and change it if he can. I don't know why I'm saying 'if he can'. If there's a contract, then once that thing is up, say sayanara. If there is no contract, then change the way things are. And if there isn't one and he doesn't make a move, then that is the saddest thing of all.
Still thinking about those Adam L pictures, lol. Whew!
Hey, I hear Philly had some snow? Is that right, Tom? Did you guys get any over where you're at? Is this a bad sign or what with all this early, early snow in areas of the U.S.? We seem to have gone pretty much from summer to late fall/early winter. I tell you what, though, our trees are just breaking out in the brightest colors I've seen around here for awhile. Must be from all the rain we've had. They are just crazy red.
Well, there'll be more visiting today. More friends expected and more siblings of Mom's arriving either today or tomorrow. Last night, we had fun when some friends of ours came over and brought their Wii dancing something or other. You stand on the pad and hit the arrows with your feet to the music. I am horrible at that. They like to just see me get on there and see how bad I am, lol. That thing even boos you and if you're really bad, you hear a whole crowd boo'ing you, LOL. Course, I hear that alot.
Wonder if ol' Austie Boy was watching that Texas/Sooner game. My brother & aunt sure were all absorbed in that thing. Then last night he was totally wrapped up in the KU/Colorado game. KU lost. :(
Sorry for the 3 posts in a row, but hey, no one else is up, lol.
Boy, I tell you. Here's some usual PR Drip in People.com regarding Renee Z and Brad Cooper, who were spotted having dinner together after filming apart for awhile.
On Thursday night, the couple and three friends arrived around 10 p.m. to Market, a Jean-Georges restaurant at downtown Vancouver's Shangri-La Hotel.
Fellow diner DJ Leanne, a Vancouver-based deejay, tells PEOPLE, "Whenever they were speaking, they had their hands on each other's knees underneath the table, and they were holding each other's hands underneath the table."
She adds: "They were very cute. They really looked like a couple, and that they were 'together.'"
I wonder if that DJ went to the same "insider/close friend" courses that everyone else goes to who comments to these Gossip sites/rags. They all seem to recite the same kind of lines and babble, don't they? Like there's a How To Be A Close Insider And Be Famously Quoted 101 Course.
Might even have to cover several classes, who knows?
But anyway, back to this Renee/Brad Cooper thing. Here's another romance I'm not buying. Didn't she just finish with somebody else and already this Brad Cooper is the next entree? I loved Renee Z in Bridget Jones but she's starting to turn me off with all this Kate Hudson behavior. Gee whiz.
I am up PG. No snow in Philly as far as I know. There was some snow in parts of Pennsylvania. The kids were throwing snowballs on the field at the Penn St game and almost got a 15 yard penalty. Penn St won the game 20 to 0 over Minnestoa. It sure is gonna be cold for the Phils/Dodgers game tonight.
Jake named to Empire Magazine's Sexiest Movie Stars of all time.
#16 Jake Gyllenhaal
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