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"Anne Hathaway insists she only lands top roles turned down by more accomplished actresses. Hathaway claims filmmakers work their way down a list of stars and her name is near the bottom. She says "I'm on the long short list. But I'm not on the short short list, which is Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley". Source

Three Warriors

Our threesome of brave warriors "fighting" in the Lone Star State. My skin crawls, folks, but Jake is a smart fighter on his own, even taking tips from Lance and Matt, two infatigable texans.

Texas ACL Festival?

When I read that Jake mentioned in this interview What brings you to Austin? Are you just with Lance for the Ohio State game? Yeah, we're here for the game, and then we're going to hang out and go to ACL Fest. I remembered someone I know who attended last year the ACL Festival so she was really lucky of listening to Wilco, one of my favourite bands.




















Besides, now it's time for me to reveal that Jeff Tweedy, frontman of Wilco has been one of my permanent indie-rocker crushes. I was very smitten with Jeff Tweedy until Jake starred in "Jarhead" (I'm half-joking). One thing from this great singer/songwriter that atractted my attention was a sweet-features face like Jake's, his witty background, and a geeky quality too in both, as in the pictures where they seem to check their private parts out. Here you have some pictures of Jeff Tweedy I like of him the most.
The first photo isn't of Austin Festival (15-17 September), it's from Lollapalooza festival, in August 4-6 when Wilco played. The line-up from ACL this summer counts (among many others) with Van Morrison, Flaming Lips, Gomez and some "Americana" groups as Calexico or Son Volt, whose leader Jay Farrar (see below) founded with Jeff Tweedy alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo.

Finally, a token of Wilco from their last work "Kicking Television Live in Chicago", "Via Chicago"live song and another version:
"Via Chicago" demo.

With Austin Nichols

Jake with Austin Nichols in a "Donnie Brasco" sequel? But in that case, Jake should play Donnie.

Austin female clerk

She (Colleen, this Texan bike store clerk) reminds me a bit of a young Doris Day, with that yellow lace on her hair.

American Abysmal Female Beauty

I'm frankly surprised of the level of misogyny poured onto Kirsten Dunst. I'm not her unconditional defender or anything like that, but it's unbearable even by normal hatred standars. All that dumb nauseating bashing to her anonymously adressed by these assholes makes me sick, folks. I mean, what is so terrible in the not very feasible case she told press that she fucked Jake in a boutique? I think we all are adult people here, I suppose that we're not simply brainless fangirls/guys who care to that dangerous irrational point, because then, imo those fans don't respect Jake either.

Sherrybaby Review

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman:

"In Sherrybaby, the emotionally arresting new independent feature written and directed by Laurie Collyer, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a young New Jersey woman who's a recently released convict, a recovering junkie, and — more than that — a totally annoying dim-bulb narcissist. Yet from the opening of the movie, she has you hanging on her every word and gesture. Blond and beaming, she speaks in a slack, dazed little-girl voice — the sound of a burnout looking for the next sensation — that makes her sullen sexuality seem an eruption from within. Sherry believes in her willowy body and not much else. She's a cherry-bomb hellion who never grew up; she wants and wants, and gives too little in return. Yet Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherry's desperate, selfish destruction. I was gripped by the way that she holds a cigarette, her two fingers stretched out in a girl's rigid notion of ''maturity,'' and by the way her head dips slightly, with sulky sensuality, like something out of an old Cyndi Lauper video. You may not like the character — you'd be deluded if you did — yet your heart opens up and bleeds for her.
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Gyllenhaal has a great scene in which Sherry embarrasses her family by singing the Bangles' ''Eternal Flame'' at a dinner party, yet what makes it powerful is that we can see that she's been doing this ever since she was a girl, when it was probably charming. Gyllenhaal never lets you forget the damaged child, the baby, under Sherry's jaded facade. The movie ultimately shows you how she got that way, but it never lets her off the hook. Danny Trejo, as the hulking dude who befriends Sherry at a recovery meeting, has a marvelous been-around-the-block tenderness, yet even he can't ''save'' her.
No one but Sherry can, and watching her try, fail, and try again makes for one of the most authentic, and moving, journeys the movies have offered this year."
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