"In this time of endlessly downbeat cinema, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist does provide a well-earned shot of happiness. It effortlessly harks back to the innocent days of being a teenager, and even today’s teens will likely be taken aback by the size of the film’s heart. Director Peter Sollett lets his actors and settings do the work, and he has fine examples of both to work with. The screenplay, by Lorene Scafaria (working from the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan), is well-paced [...]Michael Cera and Kat Dennings own this movie, and their chemistry is superb. I’m not sure how much longer Cera can get away with the playing the awkward, shy dork, but he continues to excel. Dennings, with her erratic confidence and dry humor, is an excellent compliment to Cera. Filmgoers of all ages will be able to identify with their personality traits, not to mention they are both extremely likeable. Ari Graynor, who plays the completely trashed Caroline, also deserves a mention simply for possibly being the most disgusting drunk in the history of cinema.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist resurrects an innocence that I thought was forever gone in this day and age". Source: www.fromthebalcony.com
"After discussing their new teen-romance comedy-with-music, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," all morning, lunch had become a priority."That sounds like the best soup they could have had for the soup of the day," Cera said, with his earnest, glass-half-full disposition that audiences have come to love. "I was at the airport yesterday and there was a tomato and red pepper soup and I ate it and it was so good." So, Kat, as a native, have you taken Michael to any of your favorite local spots? "No. We've just been kind of busy the whole time. I wish I could bring you back here in winter time and take you to Suburban Square," Dennings said to her co-star". Source: www.philly.com
"Based on the novel by Donn Pearce, Paul Newman plays the anti-hero sent to a workhouse after a drunken binge that included the destruction of public property (He cut the heads off of parking meters). The camp is run by a tough warden (Strother Martin), but the leader of the men is Dragline (George Kennedy in an Academy Award-winning performance). Though originally too tough for the situation, Luke (Newman) eventually wins over his bunkmates and becomes the leader, if not the deity, of the camp.
This new restored edition on DVD looks and sounds great, and includes a well-made documentary entitled “A Natural-Born World Shaker: Making of Cool Hand Luke. The documentary includes some great interviews with cast, director Stuart Rosenberg, and more.
[...] This is some of Newman’s best work, and it cements him as one of the best actors of the generation. Spotting actors before they were stars makes the experience even more enjoyable as does repeating all the classic quotes from the film, such as "Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand." Source: blogcritics.org
"Harry and Sally had a mind-blowing lunch at Katz's. Carrie Bradshaw satisfied her sweet tooth with Magnolia cupcakes. And of course, there's Seinfeld and the Soup Nazi. For as long as movies and television shows have filmed scenes in New York restaurants, fans and tourists have been flocking to them.
Michael Cera might not be as established as Billy Crystal, as suave as Chris Noth, or as iconic as Jerry Seinfeld, but he is fast becoming one of Hollywood's leading young men. His latest flick, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, opened last Friday and Tom Birchard, owner of the restaurant Veselka, reports that they were "slammed all weekend."One of the final scenes of the movie features Cera and leading lady Kat Dennings at the East Village Ukrainian eatery feasting on pierogies. Evidently fans (we're guessing the bulk of them were NYU freshman girls) flooded Veselka, which is open 24 hours, after seeing the film at nearby theaters. Of course, Cera was nowhere in sight (he divides his time between Canada and Los Angeles), but what better way to console a crush than with a steaming bowl of soul-warming borscht?" Source: newyork.seriouseats.com
Some pics of Jake in bountiful cafés & eateries: Jake at Joan's Lunch in West Hollywood, on 2nd January.Jake at the Urth Cafe in Beverly Hills, on 25th February.Jake having lunch at 'Chez Janou' in Paris, on 13th July.
"Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal's oatmeal-esque relationship is hitting the rocks. While Jake is tied up filming the adaptation of the Prince of Persia video game, the long distance relationship isn't going well with Reese who should, seriously, try to work things out".
Star reports: "This is his first epic, and his mind is on his work," a pal of Reese's tells Star. "They talk on the phone and e-mail, but he's not 'there.' Reese is wondering if this is how it's going to be between them every time he's out of the country filming." The relationship hit such a rough patch that Reese, 32, flew to London for a quick rendezvous with Jake, 27, at The Dorchester hotel in mid-September. "They really needed to reconnect and remember why they were in a relationship in the first place", says another source.
It looks like Jake Gyllenhaal's success is putting a wet blanket on his love life - which was already a wet blanket". Source: thesuperficial.com
*We saw some brief clips and animatics from Mike Newell’s upcoming Prince of Persia, which looked really strong and could be the movie to break the curse of the videogame adaptation. Jake Gyllenhaal, in the title role, is really buffed up, and we saw a couple of cool but brief swordfight sequences which proved he could cut the mustard as an action hero. Gemma Arterton looked stunning, and we also saw some really interesting concept art of the bad guys, some of whom can shoot snakes at people. We also got a brief animatic look at the way Gyllenhaal's character can pause time. This looks like it could be a very nice surprise. * Cars 2 has been moved ahead by a year and will see Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and Mater (Larry The Cable Guy) travel the world. In the meantime they are producing a series of short cartoons - "Cars Toons" as John Lasseter put it - called Mater's Tall Tales. We saw the first one, in which Mater makes out he was a fire truck and a doctor back in the day. Later ones will see him as a Stuntman and a Bullfighter. They will premiere on the Disney Channel". Source: www.empireonline.com
A musical video featuring some stills from "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist", pictures from the premiere at L.A., etc. Songs "NYC Man" by Lou Reed and "We love the city" by Hefner.
"If Michael Cera has a predecessor, it's Dustin Hoffman.Mr. Hoffman burst onto the scene out of nowhere 40 years ago with a striking performance in "The Graduate." Opposite Anne Bancroft, Mr. Hoffman took a role written for a waspy overachiever and imbued it with a mumbling nebbishness; his body language and verbal insecurity were in striking contrast to the typical leading man of the day. Mr. Cera is a similarly unlikely leading man. Although he has an undeniable boyish charm, one would never confuse him for Paul Newman or Tom Cruise. But like Dustin Hoffman before him, Michael Cera has tapped into a very real current within the American consciousness. By choosing his projects wisely, Mr. Cera has developed broad appeal with both hipster tastemakers and the general public alike. His star turns could signal the beginning of a new era of comedy, one in which irony is out and sincerity is in. Perhaps Mr. Cera (and the sincerity he represents) is a sign of the times. Just as "The Graduate" struck a chord with baby boomers because of their shared rejection of the Greatest Generation's values, snark-laden irony might be a mind-set few can afford to indulge in a time of collapsing prosperity. Maybe we all feel a little more comfortable cheering for someone who means what he says". Source: www.washingtontimes.com
Jake, on 3rd October, at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
I'm so happy of a new sight of Jake shooting, I consider this re-appearance as a birthday gift, because, yes, weirdos, today's my 34th birthday!
Reading below, let's see how Jake continues to be so desired by ardent blogger females worldwide: "just to clarify, he texts his girly reese like every two seconds (mostly while the crew is setting up the next shot) and has his mobile hidden in his costume. she even flew down to morocco when they were filming there, so no, i'm not gonna have a secret rendez-vous with him. although the lovely gentleman who plays his brother, tobey kebbell...i mean DAY-UM! he totally knows i fancy him, and his makeup artist told me half-jokingly that i was invited back to his trailer after the day's shoot...i refrained this time, but come monday morning, he's mine, bitch". Source: christineestima.blogspot.com
More pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com: October 3 - On The Set of 'Prince of Persia' In London.
October 3 - Leaving Cipriani Restaurant In London.
"Jake Gyllenhaal has long hair for his part in the silly video game movie Prince of Persia. I wonder what Reese thinks of it. I wonder what Lance thinks of it. Crabbie like". Source: crabbieshollywood.blogspot.com
Kendra doesn't like it so much, I usually prefer short hair for men, but is this really Jake? His look seems dramatically changed, as if it was caused by a Persian syndrome.
A musical video featuring stills from "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" and pictures from the premiere at L.A. Songs: "Yeah! New York" by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "I wanna be your boyfriend" by The Ramones and "Middle Management" by Bishop Allen.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist L.A. Premiere video:
Michelle Williams & Matilda Rose Ledger take a neighbour’s dog for a a morning walk around Brooklyn, New York City on Tuesday, 16th September. "Matilda Rose, the 2-year-old daughter of Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger, takes a neighbor’s dog for a morning walk around Brooklyn, New York City on Tuesday. “I thought a lot about what you look like when you think nobody’s looking at you, when you feel completely invisible,” Ms. Williams said of her character Wendy. “Your entire life happens inside because you don’t think anyone notices you. Which is very different from me. Not that I don’t have any inside life, but I feel watched, all the time.”
As she spoke over a long lunch at a restaurant near her home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Ms. Williams occasionally paused and smiled wryly as if to acknowledge the unspoken connections with her off-screen life. “It’s all so personal, isn’t it?” she said. “It’s hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don’t want to talk about my personal life, but it’s on my mind, and it’s in my work.” Source: JustJared.buzznet.com
He was part of the extraordinary rich history of New York and Method acting and the fifties, and yet he somehow made it through to the end of the twentieth century with his reputation miraculously untarnished. We live in an era where, I’m not naming names, but the fall from grace of a movie star is exactly that. They lose their grace, their dignity, and the moment that happens is often very clear. The transition he managed from actor to icon to philanthropist and great man was absolutely extraordinary. This guy was the biggest box-office [actor] in the world for over a decade. To have that, and still maintain people’s respect for them as an actor, is almost unprecedented. There are very few in our lifetime. As George Clooney said, Paul didn’t just set the bar high for actors. He set the bar high for people. He seems to me to be one of the great twentieth-century lives, and the more I hear others talk about that, the truer it seems. He was resolutely unconventional to the end. This is a tiny drop in the ocean of stories. I mean, imagine what Redford must have!You’re used to editing your thoughts about people—even the nicest ones—but there’s no need with Paul." Source: nymag.com
"I have been 'Internet challenged' long enough and am thrilled to join the tech revolution!" she writes as MySpace Celebrity's featured icon, which posted Sunday.
She adds: "Plus, I only have four friends and am in dire need of more. Just kidding, I have six." (Actually, she has three, according to her private profile.)
Currently filming "Nailed" in South Carolina with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tracy Morgan, Biel, 26, admits from her trailer that she's insecure about communicating so publicly but also feels "cooler being an official blogger." Source: www.people.com
"Nailed" may be called into question, the behavior of Russell can’t be, stars of the flick told MTV News, painting a very different picture of the director than what’s appeared in most recent stories.“He’s wonderful” Catherine Keener said. “I love him”, co-star Jessica Biel echoed. “He pulled such a bizarre cool interesting performance out of everyone. It was quite an interesting experience. David was amazing.”
What’ll be equally interesting, no doubt, is how the final film, a political satire Keener called “a screwball comedy” about the adventures of a brain damaged waitress in Washington D.C winds up, given the massive delays and stoppages in production.
“That was the only really sh–ty part. The shutdowns were killing us,” Biel said. Source: moviesblog.mtv.com
"Ok, I went into work and found out that Yesterday Thurs. thay had a test screening of Nats new film BROTHERS. I got a call from work from coworkers cause they know Im a die hard Nat fan and said hey they have a privite early test screening of Nats New film Brothers.
I was fraking out cause it's was shown at the cinema thats 5 min. away from my house and directly across the street from my work at fedexkinkos. It's a station casino. I live in vegas.
I am at work now and came in and the guys who had the test screening came in and had ALL of the test cards from peoples reaction to the film I had to make 2 copies. On top said BROTHERS and on it was How was the film?, How was Nat's performance, ect.
I went through all of them ( Hey i want to know) Alot said Nats performance was excellent. same goes for Toby and Jake".
A musical video featuring some images of three gorgeous actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Cera.Song "The Wanderer" by Dion & The Belmonts.
"In this time of endlessly downbeat cinema, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist does provide a well-earned shot of happiness. It effortlessly harks back to the innocent days of being a teenager, and even today’s teens will likely be taken aback by the size of the film’s heart. Director Peter Sollett lets his actors and settings do the work, and he has fine examples of both to work with. The screenplay, by Lorene Scafaria (working from the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan), is well-paced [...]
Michael Cera and Kat Dennings own this movie, and their chemistry is superb. I’m not sure how much longer Cera can get away with the playing the awkward, shy dork, but he continues to excel. Dennings, with her erratic confidence and dry humor, is an excellent compliment to Cera. Filmgoers of all ages will be able to identify with their personality traits, not to mention they are both extremely likeable. 
Ari Graynor, who plays the completely trashed Caroline, also deserves a mention simply for possibly being the most disgusting drunk in the history of cinema.
"After discussing their new teen-romance comedy-with-music, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," all morning, lunch had become a priority.
"That sounds like the best soup they could have had for the soup of the day," Cera said, with his earnest, glass-half-full disposition that audiences have come to love. "I was at the airport yesterday and there was a tomato and red pepper soup and I ate it and it was so good."
So, Kat, as a native, have you taken Michael to any of your favorite local spots?
"No. We've just been kind of busy the whole time. I wish I could bring you back here in winter time and take you to Suburban Square," Dennings said to her co-star". 
