Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jamie Randall (the womanizing Viagra hard-seller in Love & other drugs)
"Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a slacker electronics salesman who somehow manages to hook a gig selling pharmaceuticals for Pfizer. Despite his womanizing charm, he is unable to break through on the Prozac vs. Zoloft war. In the midst of his very humorous pill-pushing rep moments, however, he finds some humanity after meeting Maggie Murdock (Hathaway), a Parkinson’s patient he encounters while bribing a doctor to act as an intern and help move his product.Don’t ask how this concept works, but suffice to say you believe in the payoffs and exchanges between the reps and the doctors. You may find yourself wondering if the film couldn’t have been split in two, so we could cover the romance as well as the finesse the nuances of the pharmaceutical industry, but never mind. At any rate, Randall’s slick womanizing attitude is very much neutralized by Hathaway’s oddly aloof and extremely detached persona. Knowing her illness, she wants to make permanent connections, a perfect companion for Jamie. Will the casual sex between these two oddly-matched characters, morph into something more? Will Jamie realize he has a soul, after all? Will Maggie show definitive signs of degeneration with her illness, attempting to plug away at your heart strings? While the script has plenty witty dialogue to fuel the film, it is really the performances that bring “Love and Other Drugs” to a rise. We get some good laughs from always solid side-liner Oliver Platt as Jamie’s partner; from Hank Azaria as a Viagra-addicted doctor that helps lift Jamie’s career; and perhaps most of all from Josh Gad as Jamie’s brother Josh, a multi-millionaire younger brother with marriage problems, and just problems in general. But this is after all, a romance, and the leads are the life or death of the picture. Fortunately, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway have more than enough. After working together on 2005’s Best Picture nominee “Brokeback Mountain”, the two are at obvious ease with one another. If chemistry is crucial for a romantic comedy these two had it in spades walking onto the set. Gyllenhaal works his part perfectly as a somewhat sleazy salesman that slowly begins to look beyond himself. Hathaway, however, is the real star here and perhaps gives her best performance to date playing a character with a debilitating disease. Zwick’s script allows Hathaway to show the extreme fear of having Parkinson’s, without going too far in the sappy end of the drama tree. With “Love and Other Drugs”, Zwick is very much like Jamie’s pharmaceutical rep: He’s selling us on something we may not need, but is slick enough in his sales approach to have us buying into his shifting and mood-altering script". Source: www.thereporteronline.net
"The relationship between Gyllenhaal and Hathaway is outstanding, which is no surprise considering their past work in Brokeback Mountain. The two actors are very comfortable together onscreen, making the numerous nude and love scenes very easy going and not awkward to watch, like so many romantic comedies.Jake Gyllenhaal and Oliver Platt, dancing to tune of Viagra
Love & Other Drugs is a fantastic film. The plot is perfect, the actors are amazing, every word of dialogue hits the spot, every thrust has purpose, and every Viagra joke sends the audience into a fit of laughter. If vulgarity and nudity isn’t in your field of interest for a movie, this probably isn’t for you. To everyone else, please go to this film, whether on a date or with a friend. Everyone knows someone affected by an illness, and this film will warm your heart as the characters come to grips with the struggles they, and those around them, face everyday. It is truly remarkable and a must see. Plus, who doesn’t love penis jokes?" Source: www.themuse.com
Olivia Wilde plays Quorra in "Tron: Legacy" (2010) directed by Joseph Kosinski
TRON: Legacy Soundtrack - KCRW's Jason Bentley with director Joseph Kosinski (part 1)
JB: What other ways did it affect the process, the execution, on set? Was it a matter of establishing a tempo, was it about an overall aesthetic, I mean, how did it inform the whole group? Joseph: Music has this ability to answer so many questions without having to say anything. I think with a movie like this it's very important to establish the exact right tone for the actors, even for the crew. So I always had my little sound station at my director's chair where I was just playing all the demos constantly in between setups. And it was cool, it just set the vibe and the crew just got a sense of this movie as we were making it. I think it affected the way people worked - I know Olivia Wilde one day came to me when we were shooting a scene and we were talking about this character Clu in this movie, who's a completely digital character who was really only completed in the last couple of months, asking questions about him, like – ‘I have to talk about him in this scene, but I've never seen this character because he doesn't exist yet’… and I said, well let me play you Clu's Theme, I just got a demo from Daft of the theme for him, and I played the theme and she listened and was like, I got it. Now I know why to be afraid of this guy. Source: www.kcrw.com
Make your bids, ladies (except girlfriend Kristen Stewart and co-star Nikki Reed) and Twilight addicts! "Robert Pattinson is being auctioned off for charity! The question is – can you afford him?? Pattinson is listed on the auction site Charitybuzz with the current offer standing at $40,000. The winning bidder will also get the opportunity to spend a day on the Vancouver set of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the fourth movie in the Twilight franchise, and meet the rest of the cast including Robert’s girlfriend Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning. The auction package includes two nights at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver and VIP limousine service to and from the Breaking Dawn set with all proceeds going to the GO Campaign". Source: haveuheard.net
Jake Gyllenhaal with Elmo - Sesame Street 40th season Katy Perry and Elmo "Hot N Cold" in "Sesame Street"
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION -- Sundance Film Festival
BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer's Journey (Director: Constance Marks) - The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children across the globe. Meet the unlikely man behind the puppet - the heart and soul of Elmo - Kevin Clash. Buck (Director: Cindy Meehl) - In a story about the power of non-violence, master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.Crime After Crime (Director: Yoav Potash) - Debbie Peagler is a survivor of brutal domestic violence incarcerated for her connection to the murder of her abuser. Two decades later a pair of rookie land-use attorneys cut their teeth on her case, attracting global attention to the troubled intersection of domestic violence and criminal justice. Director of Photography Martina Radwan sets up to shoot "Hot Coffee"
Hot Coffee (Director: Susan Saladoff) - Following subjects whose lives have been devastated by an inability to access the courts, this film shows that many long-held beliefs about our civil justice system have been paid for by corporate America. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Director: Jon Foy) — An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America. How to Die in Oregon (Director: Peter D. Richardson)
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity. Source: www.pronetworks.org
The Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon
Bette Davis and Mayo Methot playing party-girls Mary Dwight Strauber and Estelle Porter in "Marked Woman" (1937)
Mayo Methot died alone in a motel room in Multnomah, Oregon, an outlying suburb of Portland, on June 9, 1951.
"In 1919 Mayo Methot graduates from Portland's prestigious private Catlin school and leaves Oregon for a small part in a Lionel Barrymore film ["Unseeing Eyes" (1923)] with William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures. At the 1936 annual Screen Guild dinner in downtown L.A.'s Biltmore Hotel, Mayo reportedly meets an up and coming movie talent named Humphrey Bogart. Given his extraordinary stage presence and talent, Bogart finds fame in a wide variety of films. Portland's Mayo Methot indeed makes the big time, performing before audiences in New York and the cameras of Hollywood."
Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Pepper on the set of Michael Curtiz's film, 'Passage to Marseille' (1944)
But by the time Bogart leaves Mayo for Lauren Bacall, Mayo's already troubled life worsens. For Mayo Methot, the staying power of celebrity wanes like applause at the end of a performance. Years after her death, a dozen roses reportedly arrive at her crypt each week. It's rumored Bogart sends them. In 1957, when Bogart passes away, Mayo's flowers are said to stop arriving at the Portland Memorial". -"Whispers From The Rae Room" by Roy Widing (2009)
Kristen Dunst in LULA MAGAZINE Issue # 11, "White Chalk" photoshoot by Autumn de Wilde
The color white has long been a symbol of innocence and virtue. But there is a sinister aspect as well. White is often used as an eerie juxtaposition against darker elements. "The virgin suicides" young Cecilia's innocence is illuminated all the more in her untimely death in her childlike white dress.
Kirsten Dunst in Lula Magazine Issue #5
"Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans" -F. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
"I'm afraid I promised to dance the next one with Dorothy Parker, Fitzgerald said. We met at the Garden of Allah and went to the Clover Club, a gambling place with dining and dancing upstairs. Scott said little on the way out, there was a reticence about him that made me feel he belonged to an earlier, quieter world. His clothes, too, spoke of another time: he wore a pepper-and-salt suit and a bow tie, and though this was July, a wrinkled charcoal raincoat with a scarf about his neck and a battered hat. It was hard to believe that this was the glamour boy of the twenties. At the bar we were introduced to Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Mayo Methot. Won't you have a drink with us? Bogart asked Scott. He shook his head and said, pleasantly, no. Bogart seemed surprised. We sat with them for a few minutes and Scott made some light jokes about a picture he was writing for M-G-M. The Bogarts laughed and I caught respect and deference". -"Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood" by Aaron Latham
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, couple with dazzling chemistry in bed in "Love and other drugs" (2010)
Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" (1959)
Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004)
A Twiligh fangirl embracing her Robert Pattinson bedmate
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Martha Vickers in "The Big Sleep" (1946)
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston in "Along came Polly" (2004)
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston in "The Break-Up" (2006)
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Saratoga" (1937)
Blake Lively and Leighton Meester in "Gossip Girl" tv series
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005)
Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in "Suspicion" (1941)
Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder in "Reality Bites" (1994)
Selma Blair and Jared Leto in "Highway" (2002)
James Stewart and Grace Kelly in "Rear Window" (1954)
George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961)
Catherine Deneuve and her sister Francois Dorléac
Marilyn Monroe lying on a bed and a photographer
Poster of "Trust" starring Clive Owen and Catherine Keener
