The Daily Grind

Since Jake's whereabouts seem to be everywhere these day -  Gulf Coast? New York? Texas? California? Europe? (Maybe) Nepal? (Not a chance)  - the fella needs a map to keep it all straight (ahem)

While there are no kale spot maps out yet - there is a coffee map of NYC that could help Jake remember where he is when they are trying to tweet, pap and print him being somewhere in the city.

 The map with the best places for coffee in Gotham comes with all the subway lines - so they can get the straight story - oops story straight.

Oh don't worry Jake there's an app for it.  Just don't confuse it with Grinder or you will give your team a stroke.

Now if there was an app to tell you where the fauxs go  so you could make sure you don't have to deal with them.  Wait - you might already have that.

Olympics for ALL Moment:

Norway has a perfect response to Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. XXL All Sports United, a Norwegian sporting apparel retailer, released an ad that shows its support for LGBT people at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The new commercial titled “Airport Love” was created with the message in mind that sports is for everyone.

Holidazed

 February vacation is winding up for most of New England and this weekend all those who escaped the cold will be heading home.

And since Austin wants it to seem like he's on a extended holiday  it was a must to channel back to Austin playing a high school kid on break - it has to be Holiday in the Sun in all of it's Olsen-ness

 

They should have just named his character Gulliver.

 

 

 

 Who knew then Megan would go for guy by the name of Austin.

Wonder if Austin still takes his scooter for spins in LA? 

And in honor of your best line of the movie Austy - "Check the rear I think we've got company"  we leave you with this.

Olympics for ALL Moment:

"In response to Russia's law banning "gay propaganda," members of a New York City-based running club are using their daily miles to show their support for members of Russia's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Members of Front Runners New York, a LGBT running club, initially set out to collectively run 4,664 miles - the distance between New York City and Moscow - during the 30-day span leading up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games' closing ceremony. As word spread through social media, and non-club members showed interested in showing their support, the group decided to open up the initiative to the public.

As of Wednesday afternoon, 202 runners - 127 club members and 75 allies - had logged 8,298 miles, already enough to cover the distance to Moscow and make it most of the way back to New York. Club members have adjusted their goal and now seek to have as many supporters as possible log as many miles as they can on the club's web site by February 23."

NOLA is the new Nepal

Working Title is working hard with updates about the Everest shoot. They word on high is that they have finished wrapping up filming in Nepal.  But it looks like Jake never took the trip.

Well unless NOLA is now Nepal.

Another week and another sighting of Jake with Ryan Reynolds who is shoot Mississippi Grind in Gulf Coast.  As we know Ryan took over the part Jake was originally slated to play.   But it seems while Jake is not in front of the camera he is playing a role behind the camera as one of the producers.  This is the second time there have been sightings of Jake on the set of Mississippi Grind.

So what is happening with Everest?  The movie will be moving on to film in Italy and at Pinewood studios in England.  Will we actually see Jake joining them in Italy and England? 

Will Jake go tell on the mountain?  Or just in front of a greenscreen?

Everest should be a visual treat with the movie to be in 3D.

Olympics for ALL Moment:

The UK's Channel 4 is showing support for the LGBT community in Russia during the Olympics by changing their logo and placing a large version of their rainbow'd logo out in front of the Channel 4 headquarters.

They also created this ad for the Sochi games. (You have to watch this!)

Audio Excellence

These might not be the only Audi's in Jake's house.

Prairie Girl  posted that Jake was nominate for the Audio Publishers Association (APA) Audie Award for his narration for The Great Gatsby.

Jake is nominated in the Classics category and is competing against:

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody; Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Narrated by Simon Vance

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Narrated by Dan Stevens

and

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Narrated by Armando Duran; .

Jake has readers and reviewers loving what he did with the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic.

Audio Book Review said about his reading:

"..even if you have read it a dozen times, you will find Jake Gyllenhaal’s narration of it is excellent! The Great Gatsby Audiobook read by Jake Gyllenhaal is highly recommended! It gives you a new appreciation of how important voice is as a instrument of master actors."

Library Journal named his Gatsby was one of the Best Audiobooks of 2013:

" Narrator Jake Gyllanhaal[sic] gives an understated performance filled with nuance and a thoughtful appreciation of the written word. Never overpowering, Gyllanhaal[sic] allows time for readers to draw their own conclusions and investigate their own interpretations of the novel’s many facets. This fresh audio production will inspire readers to experience the classic anew."

For a little rewind here's several clips of Jake reading The Great Gatsby and showing his range, with a little New York accent thrown in too.







From the sounds of it's hands down for Audie.

The winners of the 19th annual Audie Awards.will be announced on May 29, 2014 at the Audies Gala in New York.


Olympics for ALL Moment:

How you can use McDonalds to help support LGTB rights for Russia at the Sochi Olympics.

There is yet another way human-rights and LGBT activists can leverage an Olympics sponsor's existing social media campaign to speak both words of protest and words of support for LGBT equality in Russia and worldwide. This Achilles' heel of Russia's censorship policy has been hiding in plain sight since the McDonald's #CheersToSochi hashtag was first hijacked in January.

And although McDonald's has abandoned the use of the #CheersToSochi hashtag, the Cheers to Sochi campaign website is still up and functioning and, according to their press and social media updates, still a conduit to talk to Olympic athletes and teams who are, right now, behind Putin's Lavender Curtain.

Send a message while Olympics continues.

(Far from) Blue Steel

Jake from The Steelers game  back when he was in Pittsburgh filming.

What is that bare cheeks dimples and one of the best grins ever?

Like he saw a Sasquatch something.

Or from the angle of the picture maybe took the picture for the guy with the beer.

Olympics for ALL Moment:

Jimmy Kimmel pointing out to Russia and President Putin, that every sport is a little gay.

The Austin Algorithm

Austin seemed to be seeing good bye to San Francisco in his latest tweet.

Adios San Francisco - AUS10

Using the Austin Algorithm and triangulating the twitter effect  you wanna bet

Austin was long gone out of SF before that picture popped

Or

It was a picture that has kind of lived in the phone a bit and got called out of reserve

Or

That's his Valentine weekend wasn't with someone who sent out a picture of him but someone who does like SF

Olympics for ALL Moment:

 Principle 6, a campaign inspired by the values of the Olympic charter, is a way for athletes, fans and global supporters to celebrate the Olympic principle of non-discrimination and speak out against Russia’s anti-gay laws before and during  the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

 
In Russia, you can be fined or arrested for speaking out publicly about gay, lesbian, bi or trans issues. The Principle 6 campaign uses the language of the Olympic Charter to allow athletes and fans to speak out against this discrimination during the Sochi Games without violating Russian anti-gay laws or violating the Olympic ban on political speech.

Under pressure from Athlete Ally and All Out, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that Principle 6 includes sexual orientation, but the IOC and sponsors still refuse to speak out against the anti-LGBT Russian laws.

Where did the idea for Principle 6 come from?
Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter states that “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement,” and the IOC has confirmed that this includes sexual orientation. But in Russia, you can now be fined or arrested for speaking publicly about gay, lesbian, bi or trans issues. The new laws have fueled a massive surge in anti-gay violence within the country. The Principle 6 campaign uses the language of the Olympic Charter to give athletes and fans a way to speak out against this violence and discrimination before and during the Sochi Olympics without breaking Russian anti-gay laws or violating the Olympic ban on political speech.

Out Spotlight

Today's Out Spotlight is an American ice hockey player. The Olympic hockey player received a Bronze Medal and a Silver Medal from the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics respectively. They were chosen by US President Barack Obama as part of his delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Today's Out Spotlight is Caitlin Cahow.

Caitlin Cahow was born May 20,1985 in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Branford, Connecticut. She was named after figure skater Caitlin Carruthers, who won a silver medal for pairs skating with her brother, Peter Carruthers, at the 1984 Olympics. Her mother, Barbara Kinder was a professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine.

Her father, Elton, was a surgeon and he died of cancer when she was only 11 years old.
Cahow has two brothers, Garrett and Christian.

Cahow attended the Foote School, where she graduated in 2000 and then attended the Hotchkiss School where she graduated in 2003 after playing soccer, field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse. She then went on to college graduating from Harvard University in 2008 with a degree in anthropology. She also studied the French language while there and has used her language skills for interviews with French-Canadian media. She went on to attend Boston College Law School, graduating with a J.D. in the Spring of 2013.


While Cahow’s mother was a professor at Yale University, her first exposure to the ice rink was through figure skating. After one figure skating practice, she saw hockey players take to the ice and noticed that the players had ponytails. From there, she gave up figure skating and attended a kids hockey clinic. Most of the students at the clinic were boys. Her mother forced her to play her first year in hockey wearing figure skates.

Cahow played four years at Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey in the ECAC Hockey. Led all ECACH defensemen with 37 points (15-22) in 34 games. And as a Junior (2006–07) led team defensemen with 28 points (8-20) in 30 games.

As a student at Harvard, she met Boston Lobsters tennis player Nicole Pratt. Cahow and Pratt developed a hockey-tennis dry-land workout which helped Pratt make a comeback at the French Open tennis tournament.

After collegiate hockey she went on to play for the Western Women's Hockey League. She tied for first among the league's defensemen with 21 points (3-18) in 19 games. She helped the Minnesota Whitecaps to the Western Women's Hockey League championship in 2008-09 season and was named top defenseman at the Championship.

One of Cahow's heroes was Manon Rhéaume. The two got the opportunity to play together for the Minnesota Whitecaps.

During the 2012-13 CWHL season, Cahow was the captain of the Boston Blades. By season’s end, she would become the second American-born captain to help a team win the Clarkson Cup.

Four-time member of the U.S. Women's National Team for the International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's Championship (gold 2008, 2009, 2011 and silver 2007)she played forward for the majority of the tournament and scored twice in the gold-medal game in 2009. She led U.S. defensemen with five points (2-3) and named one of Team USA's top-three players in 2008.

Cahow won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Before the Olympics, Cahow Captained the United States Under-22 Select Team in 2006 after the USA Hockey National Women's Festival in Lake Placid.

Cahow is openly lesbian and was chosen by US President Barack Obama as part of his delegation to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She has called the trip humbling.


 Olympics for ALL Moment:

The telecommunications giant AT&T posted a blog on Feb. 4 declaring its opposition to Russia's anti-propaganda law. 

"AT&T has a long and proud history of support for the LGBT community in the United States and everywhere around the world where we do business. We support LGBT equality globally and we condemn violence, discrimination and harassment targeted against LGBT individuals everywhere. Russia's law is harmful to LGBT individuals and families, and it's harmful to a diverse society," the statement read. 

The company is not an IOC sponsor, but is a longtime sponsor of the United States Olympic Committee.

And because of a glitch - the wonderful video from Sweden didn't show up in yesterday's post.  Here it is:

Fixers, Flubs and F'ed up

Did the Fixer Fic flub up?

Screenwriter Brian Larsen, is claiming that Showtime stole his idea to create the Hollywood-fixer hit Ray Donovan. Southland creator Ann Biderman is credited with coming up with Donovan and is an Executive Producer on the Mark Gordon Company show.

Larsen is claiming former Showtime Original Programming VP Danielle Gelber, who's called a “development executive” in the complaint, took a pitch meeting with him about his Writer's Guild of America registered script  about a San Francisco-based fixer who discreetly handles high-profile clients problems and has a messed-up family – like Donovan - in Northern California on November 5, 2010.

In the 11-page breach of implied contract and breach of confidence complaint filed February 13 in L.A. Superior Court , creditless Larsen and his Radical Pictures LLC  says Donovan “mimics” his 2009 fixer concept The Swissman. He says that the series has “enriched Defendants to the tune of millions of dollars,”an is seeking to have production on Ray Donovan stopped via an injunction and is also seeking wide ranging but unspecified damages of more than $25,000.

Interestingly the credited show creator Ann Binderman nor producer Mark Gordon are named as a defendants in the suit.

 Will Showtime have to hire their own fixer to get them out of this one?



Quick fix = big flub?


While this picture popped up yesterday in V-day splendor

Why does it look like it came from a photoshoot Austin did with Davis Factor while he was on OTH?

Olympics for ALL Moment:

This is how Sweden shows their opposition to Russia's anti-LGBT legislation just days before the Olympics began.

The short film, titled Live And Let Love, features a diverse group of people from all walks of life, surrounded by rainbow flags, singing the Russian national anthem and supporting the LGBT community in Russia.

That's the look

That's the look

The look of love

Can't think of better pictures for today

 Happy Valentine's Day!!

Olympics for ALL Moment:

Johnny Weir is not going to change no matter what the politics may be. He has stayed true to who he is during these Olympic games and allowed all the fabulous that is Johnny Weir shine. (check out all of his outfits on Instagram)