Check it

Ed note:
This is a truly collaborative post, it took all of these resources for me to go to and bring together to make this post possible.

Very special thanks must to Spooky for archives/chronology from the early days of J&A, M&M for her detailed chronologies of J&K and J&A and Stubborn TB for her very keen eyes of a fellow in the background and asking about if I saw the same thing . Couldn't have done it without you all.

For a long time the only picture of Jake at Club Lotus' 2nd anniversary party from 2002 was this picture:


Then this summer these two pictures showed up , 8 years after the party.

IHJ put them up on July 18th.


8 years? Sounds like the agreements, licenses or the embargos on them ran out.

So what? Those kind of things happen.

Well, check out it.

Look to the right of Jake's shoulder see the blue and yellow windowpane checked shirt right next to him in this picture?

Now check out it. The collar is from the same shirt behind him in this picture.

Now let's pull back a little, lighten up the background and crop the twink toga boy out of it.

Who do you see behind him?

That ear and that hand with those long fingers don't lie.

So what? The party was in 2002. They made TDAT in 2002.

Yes they did.

Starting in November 2002.

But they was casting for the movie in 2002.

Yes they did.

Jake finalized his contract in July 2002. Emmy was announced in September 2002. That's not to say that casting could not have happened before July 2002.

When was the Club Lotus party?

Well the only picture that was on IHJ for the party until the two new pictures were added, was dated as June 26 2002 on this site.

Need it s-p-e-l-l-e-d out ?

*

They've been together longer than most have thought. BEFORE TDAT started shooting.

Looks more likely "How They Met" who posted on the original Waiting for Toothy on February 9-10, 2007 was right.

It was during casting of TDAT, Austin walked in and the rest was history. They couldn't take their eyes off each other.


Now lets review.

May 2002 Austin Graduates from USC

June 26 2002 Club Lotus Party

July 17 2002 Jake in final negotiations to be cast in TDAT

July 21 2002 Announced. Maggie to film Mona Lisa Smile with Kirsten Dunst

Sept 9 2002 Emmy Rossum announcement for TDAT

Sept 18 2002 Jake and Kirsten start dating after being introduce by his sister Maggie at the after party for the premiere of Secretary

Oct 4, 2002 - Jan 2003 Mona Lisa Smile in production

November 7, 2002 - March 2003 TDAT in production

March 2003 Report that Jake is "so smitten" with Kiki he's desperate to marry her




*If it's a Texas Instrument, it's gotta be good. ; )

Run A Way

A lot of people think this guy

looks like this guy

Stuart Minkus

but what does this guy

have to do with this guy on Austin Friday?

Well this

Who'da thunk.

Austin's newest endeavor for Gulf Relief

Project RUN MY ASS OFF

I am running a half marathon in November to benefit the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. I am looking for donations, sponsors, corporate sponsorship. I am going to run my ass off. I am going to run so hard and so fast. My feet are going to bleed for the gulf and my eyes are going to cry. I also want to inspire others to get in shape and live a healthier life. How can we help the planet get healthier if we can't even get off the couch?? (Austin's aiming high with goal of $150,000 for the run.)


Maybe a little combination of Running Man meets Logan's Run






Guess Half Marathon Man, Project Run(a)way and Run Goosey Run weren't allowed by the Project Leader.


To inspire you, we leave you this.



It covers a lot of ground Austin.

It all adds up

Remember when Austin tweeted this?

Lebron james just said "LOL" Not sure how I feel about this. - Aug 2nd

We know he's dropped hints before. But it looks he was giving a hint of something in the works professionally.

Broadway veteran Gina Gershon has joined the cast of LOL an English-language remake of Gallic hit LOL: Laughing Out Loud, according to a report in Variety. Lisa Azuelos, who directed the original movie, will direct the remake from her own screenplay.

The movie focuses on a 15-year-old (to be played by Miley Cyrus) who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, sets her sights on his best friend.


"In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes and Facebook, Lola (Miley) and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne (Demi Moore), "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown. Through hilarious and heartfelt moments between mother and daughter, "LOL" is an authentic coming-of-age story for the way we live now.

Lola's high school inner-circle includes Kyle (Douglas Booth) – Lola's BFF, whom she realizes is her love interest; Lola's two best friends Janice (Lina Esco) and Emily (Ashley Hinshaw); Max ( Adam Sevani) – a nerd that Emily secretly hooks up with; Lola's ex-boyfriend and Kyle's best friend Chad (George Finn); Lloyd who is part of their crew; and Ashley (Ashley Greene) – the sexy girl who has set her sights on Kyle, much to Lola's dismay. Thomas Jane plays Alan, Anne's ex-husband and Lola's father. Jay Hernandez plays James, a dangerously cute, good-natured cop dating Anne who is able to offer a little perspective on her teenage daughter. Austin Nichols plays Mr. Ross, the heartthrob math teacher, who all the girls have a crush on. Marlo Thomas plays Gran, Anne's sophisticated mother whose relaxed demeanor allows her to be the easy-going bystander when it comes to watching Anne raising children of her own. Gina Gershon and Fisher Stevens play Anne's closest friends and confidants and Nora Dunn plays Emily's mom."

You know who could help with getting into the whole math teacher thing?

This guy

So want to see the exponential growth of my natural log?
(That's for those math majors out there)

I'm telling you 1+1 can equal 4.
Ok there are variables involved but it still comes out to 4.

Mean, why use the old math. Looking where counting to 10 gets you:

I know haven't raised as much money as you
and my tits are smaller.
You don't have to keep pointing it out. Geesh.

Didn't see that one in common

Vanity Fair has released its 2010 International Best-Dressed List
As VF says,"There’s an eclectic feel to this year’s ranking of the style elite. But, as always, the list is about individual taste, not fashion trends,.... only one real through line emerges: their exquisite self-expression"

And what brother sister duo made the list.


Jake's favorite article of clothing? His Hoyle Jackson jeans. And they are clearly his fav.




Another fav the Billy Reid Delta Work Boots. But we knew that already.

Favorite fashion purchase of 2010: Salvatore Ferragamo made-to-measure three-piece suit (how could you not?)

And I am telling you....

Favorite watch: 1954 Rolex Submariner
Produced in 1954 and hard-to-find, it is the first watch with a water resistance of 200 meters. One sold at Christie's in May 2008 for $144,399 another sold for $115,000 at Sotheby's in April of the same year.

- Hmmm who else is into Vintage Watches? You know kinda tall, brunette, with a unique fashion sense.

Jake's Style Icon - Clint Eastwood Whatttt? Well that was the first thought too when you think of Eastwood you kind of think of this:

But looking over Clint's career, you can kind of see why Jake picked him. Who would have known.

Maybe it was the hair beard combo

The polo classic

The love of Grandpa sweaters



Maybe the Cowboy meets Prince look

Or just the simplicity of grey tee with talismans?
Clint's tracked down bad guys in San Francisco, took a romantic short story of hidden love and turned into blockbuster movie, played a cowboy, gone to the moon and hey done a musical.... hello... Paint Your Wagon.

Jake one word of advice, wearing the monkey suit was enough, you don't have to do a movie with a orangutan too.


Speaking of styling, think Austin should call it the Flying Dutchman.
Those Berks are looking a bit Gyllenliike are you trying to win the funky footwear battle round 2?

And what's next Mr. Nichols? Wheelbarrow Wednesday?

Now now no cookie cutter ideas

PoP 'n Fresh

Austin's having his TwoWheel Tuesday but it's Jake's getting a twofer today.

First it's officially official
The Mouse House has announce PoP on DVD and Blu Ray
and it coming out on September 14th. Now why does the 14th sound familiar on yeah OTH is back that day. It's another TwoWheel Tuesday Miracle!


And here's the scoop on some of the extra:
-- An Unseen World:– A look behind the scenes on the set of the film (on all three releases)
-- Deleted Scene – The Banquet: Garsiv Presents Heads (on both Blu-ray releases)
-- CineExplore: The Sands of Time – Take control of the dagger and use it to unlock secrets behind your favorite scenes! Turn back time and uncover over 40 spellbinding segments – including "Walking Up Walls," "Filming in Morocco", and "Ostrich Jockey Tryouts" – with this exclusive interactive feature. (Blu-ray Combo Pack)


We're heard about Jake's busboy skills over the years, but here's a blast from the past that looks like he is perfecting his tableside table. A little dinner and a show? Talking about the last time he went Dutch?

It's a french tickler you just rub his ears like this.

No no his can't be bigger than mine. Are they?

Ding Ding Ding
The Gentleman from Texas wins the prize.

Island Screening

Well Jake it seems was still on The Vineyard, as of last week, according to the NY Daily News He, Maggie and Peter went down to road to check out what was playing at the Chilmark Community Center.


On Wednesday, Caroline Kennedy, "Jarhead" star Jake Gyllenhaal, his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal and her husband Peter Sarsgaard checked out "The Tillman Story," Amir Bar-Lev's documentary about the death of pro-football-player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman that hits theaters this month. The film, which looks into the military's cover-up of Tillman's death from friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, was hosted by Russell Baer, a soldier in Tillman's platoon, at the Chilmark Community Center in Martha's Vineyard. And a source at the screening tells us that Jake, hung around "to meet Baer" after the screening.



ESPN did an incredible story about Pat and friend Russ back in 2006.

"One day, God willing, Russell Baer was going to tell his son this story. One day, after the boy's heart and brain had healed, he was going to point to that picture on the kid's bedroom shelf of the man doing a handstand on the roof of a house, take a deep breath and say, Mav, that's a man who lived a life as pure and died a death as muddy as any man ever to walk this rock, and I was there for both. That's the man, when your heart stopped for an hour and they slit you open neck to navel, who I prayed to because ... well, because you wouldn't exist if he hadn't died, and I wouldn't be half of who I am if he hadn't taught me how to live. That's Pat Tillman, the man you take your middle name from, and I've been waiting for you to ask since the day you were born.

Russ never got that chance: Maverick Patrick Baer died on Monday. So now Russ has Pat's story stuck in his heart...."

..."Russ missed the stress debrief. As the Tillmans' closest platoon mate, he was chosen to escort Kevin on a flight to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, to stare for hours at that refrigerated coffin. The two men flew in silence, Russ under orders to say nothing about the incident, "until we get the facts," and Kevin still assuming that the enemy had killed his brother, too stunned and grief-stricken to ask Russ for details.

Dread began to boil inside Russ. In a few days he'd be representing the U.S. Army at Pat's memorial service, the lone Ranger there who'd been anywhere near Pat when he was killed, facing Pat's family and friends ... under a gag order. He was willing to defy that order, to clean latrines for the rest of his life for the sake of Pat's family, but he knew bullets were hissing everywhere that day ... what if the conclusions he'd drawn were somehow wrong? What if he told Pat's mom that her son had been blown away by his own men and suddenly found himself in a media firestorm, only for Army investigators to uncover evidence proving otherwise? On the saddest day of his life, he was going to have to squirm and evade the people who loved Pat most.

All he wanted to do, in those few days at his grandmother's house before Pat's service, was sleep, find the bottom of a few beer bottles and stare into space, but his cousin yanked him out of bed and dragged him to -- of all places -- the Sunshine Saloon Sports Bar in Pleasanton, Calif. A young woman named Tammy Wright happened to be sitting at a table there, and though in a mood to meet no one, Russ met the love of his life on a night when he would've been 7,500 miles away if Pat hadn't died. Funny, Pat had told Russ that his old girlfriend was all wrong for him."
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Out Spotlight

Today's Out Spotlight has described himself as gay, bisexual and sometimes a transsexual. Born male he is most famous as a female, and in a country were it is unexpected and even allowed. Today's Spotlight is Ali Saleem.

Ali Saleem is best known by his alter-ego Begum Nawazish Ali, from Pakistani television. Saleem has been a host, actor, scriptwriter and impressionist, breaking into the mainstream through his impersonations of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

His alter ego has now become his primary persona as he rarely appears as Ali Saleem.

Saleem was born in Islamabad to a Pakistani Army colonel and his wife, a government official, and into a well off life. Never wanting for anything money could by, this was one thing missing for young Saleem. Even from an early age, he desired and fantasized about being a woman. As a teen he got the opportunity to do a play where he got to play a part in a burka. It was that monologue that allowed the audience to see his inner female. So taken by the performance the audience would ask in almost disbelief of how a boy could impersonate a older woman.

Saleem's real breakthrough came when he started imitating his childhood heroine, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, from the way she talked to the way she dressed. So loved were his performances that Bhutto herself asked Ali to impersonate her. Bhutto not know for having a sense of humor, burst out in laughter at his performance of her.

During the divorce of his parents, he came Karachi. It was there where he came to meet with Imran Aslam, a political satire writer who would tell him of a television channel in the pipeline, that would later be called Geo TV. His Bhutto impressions which were now famous among his friends and Imran told him to take put on the air with this new channel. The first time Saleem did it for a television audience it was for a show dealing with political humor during elections in Pakistan. The show named Hum Sub Umeed Se Hain (idiomatically translated as We Are All Expecting (Pregnant), but meant to translate as We Are All Hopeful) showed people impersonating the election candidates.

He knew that this act could not go on forever, and that he would need to do more if he wanted to continue in the business. It was from this very first act that he gained the nickname BB (for Benazir Bhutto) or bibi meaning lady in Urdu. Friend, Omar Adil, a physician by training who had extensive research into Pakistani cinema and ties to many TV channels in Pakistan suggested to him the idea of having a drag character as a host for a talk show. Begum Nawazish and Late Night with Begum Nawazish was born.

Begum Nawazish was a wealthy socialite living off the money of her late husband who was killed in the Army. The show's premise was two invited influential guests would come to chat and find themselves answering very provocative questions by this hostess dressed in her beautiful saris. Businessmen, industrialists, actors,actresses, government and religious leaders would find their way to the couch, and male guests would find Begum flirting with "suggestive banter and sexual innuendo".

It must be remember this is Pakistan which is a Islamic country. It's just this use of gestures and acts that has earned him a reputation amongst the fundamentalist religious leaders of Pakistan while winning over the younger less fundamental generation.

No real woman could do on TV what Saleem did. If any woman would do such a thing, she would be shunned. Talking about "sex" or even innuendo in Pakistan is strictly off-limits. Yet there was no backlash. Women in Pakistan say that they are still afraid to do what he did on the show, but somehow a cross-dressing man pretending to be a widow talking about it is fine.

It wasn't just sex and sexuality where Saleem has pushed the envelope. Where television talk shows in Pakistan are extremely reluctant to criticize the military backed Pakistani government, alter ego Begum has always been openly critical of a general seated as a president.

Because of this former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf opposed to the show, which led to the temporary end. After that, a Indian network offered an opportunity for Saleem to create a follow-up of the show under the name Begum for Indian television. The reformatted show had 26 episodes with Indian celebrities.

It remains a mystery how a man who openly acknowledges he is bisexual is a sensation in Pakistan."Traditional Islamic teachings rejects bisexuals and gays, and gay Pakistanis have few outlets for a social life. The gay party scenes in Lahore and Karachi are deep underground." He openly "sprinkles his conversation with gender-bending phrases. 'My life fluctuates between two extremes,' he says. 'I always say this: I am a man and I am a woman. It is two gender extremes, and I am constantly trying to balance it.'”