Business Casual

This is one approach to letting people know it's a business meeting

Source

Wear the name of the movie  you both working on, on the back of your shirt.

And as for that mention of Jake out eating ramen -

Ahh don't you think this close to shooting and after all these weeks of training he's going to eat noodles?  Complex Carbs are you crazy?   It's all about the lean proteins and some simple carbs from fruits and veggies. 

All about Biz

Sometimes decades go by in a flash other seem like a lifetime. Almost seems the older you get faster the decade flies by. Now for Jake and Austin both going for 19 -29 that's more than ten years that's a life time of growing and a lot have things have happened.

Today is all about the business

Starting the decade they were both were in college on opposite coasts, both with aspirations of being actors and look what they've done. Jake in the past ten years has grossed $472,290,452 at the boxoffice in the 13 movies he has starred in and has been in 2 of the best movies of the decade, Donnie Darko and Brokeback Mountain. From indie films to blockbusters, he has before the age of 29, created to not one but two iconic movie characters of all time, and has amassed a resume of working with laundry list of award winning actors and some of the best directors of the time. He has been nominated by for an Academy Award and received a BAFTA for best supporting actor for his role as Jack Twist.

Austin is no slouch. He received his B.A. in Creative Writing from USC while he was starting out in Hollywood, and has consistently worked every since. From television to the big screen Austin has worked with and on some on both the most popular shows and as well as critically acclaimed television shows. Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights, CSI. He took a small part on David Milch's Deadwood and turn it into two year holding deal with HBO and the lead character in Milch's next series for the network. He has taken small roles in blockbuster movies and big roles in small independent films and made them all his own. Holiday in the Sun, to Utopian Society, The Day After Tomorrow to House of Usher, Wimbledon, Lenexa 1 Mile, Luz Del Mundo to indie shorts like The True Love Tale of Girlfriend-Boyfriend. Moving from s guest start to a regular cast member in an established series also shows the taking it and making it moxy he has. And he did one one thing before Jake, he worked with Jerrry Bruckheimer and Disney.


Do you remember this little blast from the past?

Anything you can do...

Ducktail, Van Dyke, Hollywoodian, You gotta call it what is....

Well we've had the:

Piggyback

Out for yogurt

Shopping

Industry events (New Picture 2:11pmEST)


Same Management

Airport pics

Couple pic in People

And now the coordinating outfits.



BushNic seems to be full steam ahead but it looks like there are a few lessons picked up.

Keep stuff in your hands.

Actually get along and like each other

Friends who want want to help each

Keep hat in hand.

Subtle doesn't always translate giving the heads up to those who know the faux. Make it bold. Like Big Blue.



Big Blue says a lot of things, Sophinfaux for sure, but also that there is only one man, and all the other stuff is just crap, whoever the co-star is.

But you gotta remember what Lainey told Sophia so long ago about that ring .... wasn't something about glitter? ; )

Should we just called them Blue Beard?

Photos:/ Just Jared, Sophia Bush Source Gallery, OTH Forum, OMG

It's Taxing

Gjelina's Patio

"Jake Gyllenhaal, enjoying a late lunch with a guy pal on the patio at Gjelina restaurant on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif. The actor sipped water with lime during his quiet meal of thin-crust pizza. "It seemed like a really relaxed lunch," says an observer, noting that even ultra-trendy patrons of the hip local spot were rubbernecking for a peek at the actor. "They lingered for a while." -- People April 15, 2009

"late lunch"
"guy pal"
"quiet meal"
"really relaxed lunch"
"even ultra-trendy patrons of the hip local spot were rubbernecking for a peek"

Hmmmm...... this doesn't sound like his standard business lunch. ; )







A few months earlier:

Accountant: "Jake, there are few things I need to go over that you have marked as business expenses."

"Go For it. "

"January 20th - Breakfast."

"Business"

"February 29th - Coffee"

"Business"

"You have a receipt for a black and blue plaid shirt , it's written here lumberjake or is that lumberjack ?"

"Business"

"What about the other plaid shirts you've been seen them? With the birds?"

"No, that's personal."

"You had no expenses for a trip to NY late February?"

"Not my business expense."

"Huh?"

"Don't worry about it."

"Coffee - March 15th?"

"Business. Look if there its for two coffees and that's it - BUSINESS!"

[Accountant --- going through a stack and pushing a big stack over to the side]

"And you put in everything for your gas and mileage?"

"Yes."

"Ok. Receipts for Charleston?"

"Well there's no money from the production company so make that business, except anything dated around May 1-3 - send to Evelyn."

"What about a dinner in a place called Zaytinya in DC ?"

"BUSINESS. It's Business If I marked it business it's business."

"Ok. Ok Jake."

"I just have to make sure - I mean I need to make sure if the IRS decides to audit you, why you wrote off everything as business. I mean it might look a little odd that everything with your ... uh well..."

"yes..."

"Ms Wi... well you know... the person you are "dating" marked business
Like this ... your birthday, dinner .... how can that be business?
I mean you had to buy your own birthday dinner ?"

"Yes"

"Damn, that's getting the business"

For those in the U.S. who have not filed their taxes yet, today's your last day.
(Hey I might see you in the line...ahem)

A sobering thought and an OMG rewind from last year on this day.

"For gay couples, the April 15 tax filing deadline can be a reminder of the disparities they face, even in a nation that is becoming more accepting of same-sex couples.

Gay couples often pay higher taxes because they don't get the federal tax benefits that go with marriage. And for couples in state-sanctioned domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages, filing federal income taxes can involve doing three sets of paperwork instead of one." - The Advocate (Online 4/8-4/12, 2008)

Check out the rest of the article

The Advocate

and another article about federal rights for same sex couples

Massachusetts couples suing for Federal Rights

But change is happening. Things are changing each and every week, like Iowa, Vermont.
And this week.

New York Gov. David A. Paterson, tomorrow will announce plans to introduce legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in the state of New York.

Change is happening. Change is happening. Change is happening. Hello California...

Convention Time

Hollywood is a industry town. They don't build cars or make widgets, they make movies. And it is town based on movies - not just on movie stars, it supports carpenters, electricians, caterers, hair stylists, seamstresses, set designers, animators, middle managers, accounting departments, directors, and yes studio heads. The Academy Awards is the big convention of the year. Everybody shows up for one of the different events. It's not very different from other industries. You have to talk up your products, some are promoting what they did, other are there to keep current and look to make business contacts. Networking, looking for work, and slinging the bull by the bar. Is it any different from anything you've gone to?

It is just a big business convention, one that brought in $130 million for LA, the parties are like those hospitality suites, the awards show, the key note address recognition to those who has outstanding performance, the outstanding salesman of the year award, remember who they lost in the past and its a little YEAH US convention - to make them all feel better and boost morale for the next year.

And before all the brouhaha about walking into a party together. How more business can you get. But seriously - why do you want to put yourself through that cause you know he's gonna look better than you. I mean he was born to be in a tux. The best dress next to that could look like Mrs Ropers Muu Muu. Someone said carpooling I say Bingo. Annnnd who was the one who had to do the red carpet? The one who's movie is opening in 3 weeks. ABC people - ABC. Always Be Closing. You got to get some projects set up for next year cause you have nothing on the planner.


Now look around at the award crowd, how many of them are doing the same damn thing, and some of them even worse, those who stood up front married and with kids, and it's all a cover. Is there outrage over Franco bringing a date? Or comments about Pattinson or Hirsch not? That the host has as many rumors or that one of the biggest box office makers who presented last night has more?


Last night was a business convention that the public gets to watch. It's up to you if you get sucked into the spin of it or not. Will you buy this year's product?

What it should be about is not who walked with who, or where they walked, or dresses, or jewelry. It should be about the movies, the story - the performances on screen.




Congratulations to Heath's family and Matilda that have the recognition of his accomplishments of his career. Congratulations to Milk for breaking down more walls, and to the cast and crew who showed support of equality with the White Knot. To Sean and Kate, for roles, and performances that showed their talents as the consumate actors they are. Congratulations to Slumdog Millionaire for a story that captured so many. And congrats to Buttons - who received the awards they excelled at.