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Monday, January 22, 2007

At 18th PG Awards






Jake Gyllenhaal, Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick.

Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer and Jake.


At the 18th Annual Producers Guild Awards, on Saturday, 20th January, Century Plaza Hotel. Pics by IHJ.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Wearing White Hoodie








January 18th, out for lunch in Beverly Hills. Pictures by IHJ.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Battle of sensitive guys

"For a young actor, staking out the niche of soulful, long-lashed, sensitive dreamer isn't the worst possible strategy. In fact, for those under the age of eighteen, the more sensitive and long-lashed (read: girly) they are, the easier it is to attract girl fans who will embrace the actors' sexlessness.

Every generation needs its own off-brand James Dean -- usually more than one -- so no one goes hungry and millions of girls doodle their crushes' names on their Trapper Keepers, daydreaming about their hairless chests and delicate wrists. [...]

And though sad-eyed misfit roles are plentiful for the high school-aged, there are ever fewer of them as those actors age: it's why we only need one Jake Gyllenhaal,

and why Shia LeBeouf and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, at this moment, are so busily showing us that they should replace him when he ages out of his current slot. (Or, rather, beefs out of it, which he kind of already has, as you know if you saw "Jarhead". It's actually the accumulation of muscle that causes the Gyllentype to grow up, for the public; see Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man",

Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix",

and, someday, Lou Taylor Pucci as the lead in a film adaptation of Jose Canseco's "Juiced".)

[...]"Holes" made LeBeouf not just tomorrow's Gyllenhaal but the new Shirley Temple, practically: he was artlessly, uselessly shoehorned into the likes of "I, Robot" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle". [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is gunning straight for him.

Gordon-Levitt started out in the business even younger than LeBeouf did; you might remember him as George, the neighbourhood kid so boring and weird that even D.J. Conner doesn't like him, on "Roseanne", but you probably didn't know that it was his twenty-second professional credit. It's no surprise that he is one of the few Los Angelenos who was actually born there; one could even say he was bred there with the sole purpose of supporting his parents as a child star. Anyway, we can probably assume he wasn't horrible misused, as he continued to work once he was old enough to know what was going on -- as Tommy Solomon on "3rd Rock From The Sun", in "10 Things I Hate About You", and in guest shots on "That '70s Show" and (perhaps just to stick to his pattern) "Numb3rs".

And, suddenly, he's making an effort to show us how serious he can be -- in the well-reviewed high-school noir flick "Brick",

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in two scenes from "Brick" by Rian Johnson.

and in the current "Shadowboxer", opposite the eminent Helen Mirren. And though we're positing Gordon-Levitt as a contender to be the next Gyllenhaal, we would be remiss not to point out the physical resemblance between Gordon-Levitt and Gyllenhaal's Brokeback love interest, Heath Ledger (also a G-L co-star, back in 10 Things). Gordon-Levitt may not yet evince the physical heft that would have us believing he could herd anything larger than a weiner dog, but we'd probably buy him mournfully sniffing a work shirt or two.

Which of our wispy young dreamers is better situated now to play another sensitive math student (as Gyllenhaal did in "Proof") or slightly unhinged discount-store bagger (as Gyllenhaal did in "The Good Girl")? Turns out the answer is pretty clear. The next two films on Gordon-Levitt's CV find him playing a psychopath (reminiscent of Brad Pitt's Oscar-nominated role in "12 Monkeys", perhaps?) in John Madden's "Killshot", and a brain-damaged janitor (reminiscent of every "heart-tugging cripple" role that's ever won anyone a Best Actor Oscar) in "The Lookout". And LeBeouf is going to be in the Transformers movie. And not as a Transformer! WEAK.

Advantage: Gordon-Levitt."

Source: Fametracker.com

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

SNL Jake's Recap






The last two pics (all of them from IHJ) were taken on January 14th, from the SNL afterparty at "Docks Restaurant", N.Y.C.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Glamour in GG



Ellen Pompeo.

Cate Blanchett.

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie.

Cameron Diaz.

Sienna Miller.

Renée Zellweger.

Emilie de Ravin.

Chloe Sevigny.

Jake GG presenter








Helen Mirren won the Golden Globe for "The Queen", so we Gyllenhaalics will have to await for the next occasion for Maggie.

DRAMATIC PICTURE
"Babel" *WINNER*
"The Departed"
"The Queen"
"Bobby"
"Little Children"

MUSICAL OR COMEDY PICTURE
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
"Dreamgirls" *WINNER*
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"Thank You For Smoking"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
"Apocalypto" (USA)
"Letters From Iwo Jima" (USA/Japan) *WINNER*
"Lives of Others" (Germany)
"Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico)
"Volver" (Spain)

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood, "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Clint Eastwood, "Flags Of Our Fathers"
Martin Scorsese, "The Departed" *WINNER*
Stephen Frears, "The Queen"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Babel"

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" *WINNER*

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"
Maggie Gyllenhaal, "SherryBaby"
Helen Mirren, "The Queen" *WINNER*
Kate Winslet, "Little Children"

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" *WINNER*
Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You For Smoking"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"
Will Ferrell, "Stranger Than Fiction"

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening, "Running With Scissors"
Toni Collette, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Beyonce Knowles, "Dreamgirls"
Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada" *WINNER*
Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter"

SUPPORTING DRAMATIC ACTOR
Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"
Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls" *WINNER*
Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"
Brad Pitt, "Babel"
Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"

SUPPORTING DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza, "Babel"
Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"
Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"
Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" *WINNER*
Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"

ANIMATED FILM
"Cars" *WINNER*
"Happy Feet"
"Monster House"

SCREENPLAY
Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"
Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal"
William Monahan, "The Departed"
Peter Morgan, "The Queen" *WINNER*

ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil" *WINNER*
Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"
Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"
Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"
Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"

SONG
"A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"
"Listen" from "Dreamgirls"
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"
"The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet" *WINNER*
"Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"

For the rest of TV categories, continue reading at Theenvelope.latimes.com.