Golden Globes ceremony

MORE THAN 50 STARS SET AS PRESENTERS AT GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS “The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards” Will Be Telecast Live On NBC Monday, January 15

HOLLYWOOD, CA, January 13, 2007 – More than 50 Hollywood stars have been set as presenters at “The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards” to be telecast live on NBC Monday, January 15 (8 – 11:00 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton.

Presenters include Tim Allen, David Arquette,
Drew Barrymore, Jessica Biel, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Sean Combs, Dane Cook,
Courteney Cox, Geena Davis, Cameron Diaz, Tina Fey, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Hugh Grant, Adrian Grenier,
JAKE GYLLENHAAL, Tom Hanks,

Salma Hayek, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Djimon Hounsou, Terrence Howard, Felicity Huffman, Jeremy Irons, Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez,

Sienna Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlie Sheen, David Spade, Steven Spielberg, John Stamos, Ben Stiller, Sharon Stone, Hilary Swank, Justin Timberlake,
Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Williams,

Reese Witherspoon, James Woods, Renee Zellweger and the cast of “Heroes” (Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Greg Grunberg, Adrian Pasdar, Hayden Panettiere, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Milo Ventimiglia).

Tom Hanks will present Warren Beatty with this year’s Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.”

“The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards” will be seen in more than 150 countries worldwide and is one of the few awards ceremonies to span both television and motion picture achievements."
Source: www.hfpa.org

Maggie's career propulsed

"Gyllenhaal Ready for the Globes
By CHRISTY LEMIRE, AP Movie Writer

Maggie Gyllenhaal went to the Golden Globes for the first time four years ago as a best-actress nominee for "Secretary," a dark comedy in which she played a troubled young woman who engages in a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss.

But that was before she was a star.

Now, nominated again for "Sherrybaby," the 29-year-old says she's ready for the whirlwind of awards season, starting with Monday night's ceremony.

"I was really kind of a new, new, newbie at the time," she said of her first Globes experience. "I don't have a real strong memory of it 'cause I was just kind of so thrilled. Look, I know there are people who are cynical about these awards things but I'm actually thrilled to go. I'm excited to pick a dress, I'm excited to get dressed up, get my hair done and go. My mom's gonna watch my daughter and I'm gonna go and I'm gonna do it right.

"It feels like such a different situation this time. It feels like I'm doing it for the first time."

Gyllenhaal is up for best actress in a drama for the raw, low-budget "Sherrybaby" (available on DVD Jan. 23), in which she stars as a former junkie who's fresh out of prison and struggling to create a life with her young daughter. She told The Associated Press it's one of the performances she's proudest of, and one of the toughest of her complex career.

"I have no idea how I did it when I look at it now. It was almost like I was hypnotized when I was doing it," Gyllenhaal said. "I didn't actually feel horrible until after I finished shooting it, and then I felt awful. But while I was shooting it I was kind of like, `I'm fine, I'm totally fine. Yeah, I did just take all my clothes off in a nasty, disgusting basement in New Jersey, but I'm cool, it's totally cool.'"

"Sherrybaby" writer-director Laurie Collyer imagines that Gyllenhaal will have a career like Julianne Moore or Meryl Streep, with a mix of big studio movies and riskier, independent fare.

"I just can't imagine her ever being victimized by the system the way some women have been or are being right now. She's not really seduced by the glamour or the fame even though she's got both things in her life," Collyer said. "She knows that when you're hot, everyone's your friend and when you're not, nobody knows you. I think she's not into the fantasy of it that much."

Right now, Gyllenhaal is hot: "Sherrybaby" is one of about a half-dozen movies she appeared in last year alone. Among her other roles, she played a defiant baker opposite Will Ferrell in "Stranger Than Fiction" and the wife of a trapped Port Authority officer in "World Trade Center." Before that she was in such varied films as "Adaptation" with Nicolas Cage, "Mona Lisa Smile" with Julia Roberts and "Donnie Darko," in which she played the on-screen sister to her real-life younger brother, Jake.

In all her copious free time in 2006, she gave birth to her first child — Ramona, born Oct. 3 — with her fiance, Peter Sarsgaard, who's also built a career on difficult roles ("Boys Don't Cry,""Kinsey"). Though they live in New York and have been together since meeting at a 2002 dinner party, they are the rare celebrity couple who have managed to stay out of the gossip magazines by keeping mum about their private lives.

(The fashionable actress does draw attention for her sense of style, however; on this day she's wearing a strapless, knee-length, charcoal gray dress with high, black-leather boots that make her even taller than her 5-foot-8 frame. Her long, brown hair falls in waves around her face, and in person her big, blue eyes look even bigger and bluer.)

Before the interview begins, Gyllenhaal says in a soft but assured voice that she'd prefer not to discuss motherhood: "It's just been so weird, since my daughter was born, how protective I am," she said. "People have been very invasive."

She and Sarsgaard also collaborated on screen for the first time in a short that's showing this month at the Sundance Film Festival: "High Falls," in which they co-star as a husband and wife who share their secrets with a mutual friend during a weekend in the country.

Gyllenhaal had to admit that working with her fiance "was actually pretty horrible, to be honest. He was playing a big jerk and it was hard for me to be around him when all day long he was really being a big jerk. And I was playing a pretty self-obsessed person, also. We were in a terrible relationship in the movie, and it was really sad to have to pretend to be in that relationship for four days. I love his acting and I would love to make many movies with him but I want to make sure that the making of the movie will be good for us, because I'm not sure that the making of `High Falls' was good for us.

"I think it'd be cool to make, like, an old-school, '40s-style movie with him where we're both lawyers and we hate each other but really we love each other."

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Gyllenhaal grew up in an artistic environment. Her father, Stephen, is a poet and an Emmy-nominated TV and movie director; her mother, Naomi Foner, is an Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning screenwriter ("Running on Empty"). And her brother is ... well, he's Jake Gyllenhaal. Both have appeared in their parents' films.

While she graduated from Columbia University with an English degree in 1999 and still has an interest in academia, Gyllenhaal says she knew she could act from about age 11.

"When I was a kid, my mom sort of threw a lot of things at us, so we would take swimming lessons, piano lessons, and I went to an acting class at one point just sort of in the mix of all that stuff," she said. "It struck me — it was really fun and it felt kind of like deep daydreaming to me."

But being around the entertainment industry most of her life didn't prepare her for the backlash she received over comments she made about 9/11, which she says were misconstrued, during the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.

"It was incredibly scary and incredibly hard for me," she says now, and is still slightly shaken up by the experience. But she adds that she has no regrets about making a political statement, even though her words were twisted.

Gyllenhaal was quoted as having said that the United States "is responsible in some way" for the attacks.

"What I meant to say — and what I did subsequently say, like, two days later — was that I think the most patriotic thing that we can do as Americans in the situation that we were in then and in the situation that we find ourselves in now still, is to be brave enough to look at how we can amend our lives and the ways that we live to help what I don't think anyone would argue is a horrible situation in the world.

"If I had known that it was going to get that kind of attention," she said, "I would have liked to say what I meant much more gently and in a way that people could hear." Source:Sfgate.com

Jake Hosts SNL

Jake will host Saturday Night Live program on 13th January, 11:30 P.M., the indie band "The Shins" as guests in NBC.
Source: www3.tivo.com
On 6th March of 2006 Natalie Portman hosted the SNL, in which she performed that memorable Gangsta-Rap Video: "A day in the life of Natalie Portman" and how is Jake going to manage to delight us? I bet the Gyllenman will be a riot!
When Natalie isn't busy rapping in the streets, she looks as sophisticated as Audrey Hepburn was.

Cute hotties & Cute Pets

Grand Finale

How is possible the 4 men in the Top Row in "Hello Magazine" Most Attractive Man (Hombre más Atractivo) are the least attractive from the whole panel, is like an Upside-Down List.
Vote for Jake if you haven't done it yet.

I don't get it... Sean Bean no. 1 and the second Robbie Williams?? And the least voted is Clive Owen? So I had to vote for Jake and then for Clive!

And I would remove John Bon Jovi, Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland from this list, for different motives. I'd replace them with Peter Sarsgaard, Edward Norton and Joaquin Phoenix, for instance.

A French's review

A BEAUTIFUL, TOUCHING MASTERPIECE, October 21, 2006

Reviewer: Movie_Fan (Texas)
"I'll start by saying that I am French, and that I have studied Marie Antoinette as part of the history curriculum.

To say this is a historical movie would be a mistake. Then again...Yes, to the french, Marie Antoinette was seen as this heartless foreigner who, because of her extravagant spendings and way of life, doomed France and burned it to the ground, and that belief still stands today, that's still what's in the history books. She is summed up with one sentence: "Let them eat cake", a phrase which she apparently muttered when she was told the population was starving and didn't have enough bread.

So it's no surprise this movie didn't go over too well with the french critics at Cannes, since here she is depicted as a lost teenage girl thrown into a world she wasn't prepared to enter and given responsibilites no 14 year old could ever deal with, notably saving the country from famine and war.

Personally, I loved this movie. But to appreciate it, you have to let go of that historical aspect, which Sofia Coppola helps with by putting history in the backseat for most of the movie. There's some in the beginning, but the moment you fully realize that she is a historical figure in the movie is at the end.

It's really more a story about growing up, trying to find your place, feeling trapped and how to deal with that, and Kirsten Dunst portrays perfectly all those feelings, and she's very reacheable, and I identified so much with her, because you don't see her as royalty, just as a lost teenager.

Some might not like the movie because of its pace. Yes, just as a warning, most of the movie is people sitting around, reading, listening to soft music, peacefully "frolicking" and rolling in high grass, waiting, and then comes sudden bursts of retro bubbly music that fits perfectly with the tone of the movie along with the parties and getting dressed up.

Personally, I wasn't bored once, I never looked at my watch, it's a movie that if you like this sort of movie (You could possibly find similarities with "Pride and Prejudice" from last year), then you'll be completely captivated.
The whole film is cast perfectly, and the soundtrack is just amazing, and if you got into the spirit of the movie, then the end, when you realize that she was actually a real person, and that she might not have been that heartless, just lost and too young,

along with the hauntingly beautiful music ("Opus 36" on the soundtrack), will pull at your heart strings.
It's definitely a movie that made me think about Marie Antoinette, and shows a different side of the story. But you can't regard it as a historical piece, because that's not the focus of the movie. I also thought that it completely surpassed "Lost In Translation".

It has become one of my favorite films, and I'll regard it as a masterpiece. I fell in love with it as well as with its music.
It's a movie I whole-heartedly recommend."

I watched "Marie Antoinette"!

Sorry for the low quality of some of these still photos from "Marie Antoinette". I captioned them from a copy a friend lent me. The film was just screened in my country's theatres last Friday, on 5th January and we'll have to wait until the DVD release.

LET THEM EAT GANACHE, October 22, 2006

"Booed at its Cannes premiere this year (as Anthony Lane in the "New Yorker" states: "Who was in the audience, Robespierre?"), "Marie Antoinette" is that rare bird: a film that is beautiful on the outside (everything about the physical movie is eye-poppingly gorgeous: Costumes, Food, Pastries, Shoes {yes shoes...in fact I can't remember a film in recent memory of which almost every reviewer mentions that Manolo Blahnik did the shoes}) as it is on the inside: studiously, exhaustively researched, thoughtfully written and impeccably directed by Sofia Coppola who gives us a revisionist portrait of M. Antoinette that is humane, heartfelt and above all measured and compassionate. There is no doubt who is in charge of this huge production and Coppola's obvious tender touch is evident everywhere throughout this film.

At the center of this film is the tragic, sad and revelatory Marie of Kirsten Dunst. Dunst's Marie is the outsider, reviled by the French court (called "L'Autrichienne" by most...the Austrian *itch), lost and 14 when she first arrives in France, literally stripped of everything Austrian, Dunst navigates this difficult role with ease. But this is not a surface performance...not at all. Dunst digs deep and reveals all the nuances, all the insecurities, all the strengths of one of the most hated women in all of history. Dunst plays Marie from her gut and she leaves her blood as well as her tears on the celluloid. Do not be swayed or fooled by the naysayers: this is a towering performance of the first order.

Coppola is getting a lot of bad press or her use of 80's music on the soundtrack (Bow Wow Wow, Gang of 4, The Cure) but she has so far in her two previous films ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Lost in Translation") proven to be nothing if not a populist, a product of her environment, a lover of popular culture. In "M.A." the music serves the story effectively by blasting away and preventing any cobwebs from growing on what could have been a stodgy Historical drama.

This "Marie Antoinette" is told from a Marie as a girl perspective: she is very young, she is giddy, very much impatient of the French Court and it's customs, very much into clothes and shoes yet she matures, has children, takes a lover grows wise, becomes the subject of gossip, learns to love Louis and becomes a loving and doting mother.

This is a fully fleshed out role of a victim, really: a victim of politics, of circumstances beyond her control.
Though Coppola will not be beheaded for making this wonderful film, it is apparent that most people just don't get "it." With all that said the fact remains:

"Marie Antoinette" contains one of the most beautiful images ever committed to film: Marie in a carriage, having been forced out of Versailles, deep sadness in her face, clutching her children and holding Louis's hand, the camera pointed out at the grounds of Versailles, she poignantly says "Goodbye" to the only place she can claim as home...as the carriage takes her family to Oblivion."
Reviewer: MICHAEL ACUNA (Glendale, California United States)