Stadiums, Pittsburgh Steelers, Arena events

Aw, do you remember that big smooch Jake gave Reese almost a year ago at the Trail Blazers Vs LA Lakers Game?

"Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Portland Trail Blazers Sunday night to claim the best record in the NBA, but that bit of news seemed to play second fiddle to the "smooch seen round the stadium". During the "Kiss Cam" portion of the evening, actor Jake Gyllenhaal planted a big one on girlfriend Reese Witherspoon. Now I'm not usually one for celebrity gossip;" Source: www.examiner.com

From now on, will Jake have to attend LA Lakers games with Austin maybe? Here Austin Nichols and Jake Gyllenhaal are watching a LA Lakers game, on 11th February 2006.

"Love and Other Drugs is directed by Ed Zwick (Defiance, Legends of the Fall, Blood Diamond, Glory) and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria and Jill Clayburgh. The movie is set in 1997 during the boom of Pfizer and the birth of Viagra.
Jake Gyllenhaal with one of the casting extras on the set of "Love & other drugs".

The scene they need extras for will shoot on October 13th and will be a Pfizer event and rally which will require over 400 extras to portray Pfizer employees at Mellon Arena". Source: www.onlocationvacations.com

"Have you ever dreamt of sharing the big screen with Jake Gyllenhaal or Anne Hathaway? Who hasn't, right?The scene will be a Pfizer rally shot inside Mellon Arena on October 13th". Source: www.jaunted.com


The Pittsburgh Steelers badly need a win and they could be in luck when they take on the hapless Browns. NFL.com analyst Pat Kirwan and Jason Horowitz have the preview.

Stadium Concerts:
In the 1970s, stadiums became the main venue for staging concert performances of popular music. Popular performers attracted audience sizes anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 people at a time. Rock music--with its mass participation and the sheer volume that was necessary to reach so many people at once--was particularly suited to playing concerts at football stadiums and in sports arenas. Rock musicians looked to the stadium as a way to play in front of the most people, for the most money, as audiences broadened during the seventies. Rock's dominance on the concert circuit continued into the 1990s. Of the 20 top-grossing North American concert tours between 1985 and 1994, the average tour grossed $55 million and visited 42 cities; nearly all of them were rock artists.By 1967, outdoor rock festivals began attracting audiences on an even larger scale. The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 drew more than 50,000 people, while the 1969 Woodstock festival attracted more than 400,000. -from "St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture".