Jake trying to hide from paparazzis. On 5th August, 2008. Reese Witherspoon was shopping at Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles. Paparazzis questioned her if Jake had proposed her marriage. Another actor who can't stand paparazzis, Michael Cera: "Filmmakers love Michael Cera. Peers respect him. And girls want to marry him. So what's next? Frankly, he's thinking of quitting.After breaking out at 15 as George Michael on Fox's Emmy-winning cult sitcom Arrested Development, Cera hit the jackpot last year playing sensitive young funnymen in Superbad and Juno. His first foray into leading-man territory — the low-budget teen comedy Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist — just banked a respectable $11.3 million in its opening weekend. And he's already shot lead roles in two more promising titles for next year — Harold Ramis' Year One with Jack Black, and the literary adaptation Youth in Revolt. Now the Ontario native insists that he's taking the rest of the year off, and that he'll be thinking long and hard about whether he should put the brakes on his career.
Yes, Cera's serious. This isn't just another example of his famously bone-dry wit. ''I'll definitely slow down,'' he says over breakfast at a Manhattan hotel restaurant that serves him the apple juice he orders in a wineglass. ''I have a movie lined up for early next year [Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright], and then nothing after that. I'll just take it step by step, I guess.''It's the other stuff that comes with the job that's starting to get to him. Cera started to feel ''vulnerable,'' he says, after Superbad grossed $121 million last summer. As his costar Jonah Hill puts it, ''One day things were normal for us, and then the next day the movie opened, and things kinda changed completely.'' One year later, Cera still isn't comfortable with the paparazzi at red-carpet events (''They're so aggressive and really mean''), with people eye-balling him on the street (''I was always self-conscious, and feeling like you're being looked at just amplifies that feeling — you get paranoid''), and with haters who rag on him on Web message boards (''People are crazy'').
But is it really possible that all the annoying celebrity parts of the job could be enough to make him stop acting? ''Yeah, I think so,'' Cera says. ''Acting's not something I need to live, by any means. So I'll just see how it goes. I definitely don't think I wanna star in movies, if...'' His voice trails off. ''I like acting, but I'd like to start doing smaller parts, I guess, where I could just kind of relax and not have to worry about it too much. That'd be fun.''
Cera knows people don't like to hear actors complaining about fame. ''You get very little sympathy for it,'' he says. ''I don't wanna change because of other people,'' he says. ''I wanna be myself still, and I don't think I need to toughen up. It'd be weird to be comfortable with [celebrity]. But I won't drive myself crazy or have a nervous breakdown. I'll just deal with it.'' Source: www.ew.com
Some pictures of key places in Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, where Michael Cera grew up: The Train Station in Brampton. The Gage Park lights, Brampton.The Rose Theatre, Brampton.
Kirsten Dunst stepped outside of Brasserie Lipp restaurant in Paris for a little nicotine break with a few friends (October 5, 2008). Kate Bosworth and James Rousseau were spotted last night among many other stars in Paris for Fashion Week, the couple hit up Brasserie Lipp. Watch the video below:
"MAPLE GIANT THEATRE are now casting the final parts for their forthcoming production:
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father Robert, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind.Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: how much of her father's madness, or genius, will she inherit?
We are currently casting the parts of Robert (playing age 50+) and Hal (playing age late-20s): Robert: A prestigious mathematician and father of two, Robert is the darker side to this exquisite play. The deterioration of his mental health mixed with his unflappable ambition to sustain his incredible level of intelligence, with a flash of genius, Proof sees this intense figure slowly begin to unravel.Hal: An academic protégé of Robert who has devoted his life to his love of learning. A quiet and reserved character at the beginning, he soon becomes caught up in the mix of passion and frustration that is made clear during this psychological snapshot of mathematical genius.
What critics have said about 'Proof': "…those of us who want their dramatic characters to be real people need not feel excluded. All four – whether loving, hating, encouraging or impeding one another – are intensely alive, complex, funny, human. Out of this curious quartet, Auburn creates emotionally and intellectually enveloping music." —John Simon, New York.
"…but my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play…Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before." —John Heilpern, The New York Observer.
"What's perhaps most striking about Auburn's writing, though, is his sense of structure, which is at once imaginative and stringently coherent. Veering gracefully from past to present and from reflection to confrontation, the playwright traces the development of his characters and plot with a scientist's preciseness and a poet's lyricism." —Elysa Gardner, USA Today
Performances: One week run, Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th October 2008, at the OFS Studio Theatre, George Street, Oxford. Performances will be at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.
The production is directed by Luke Daking and the Producer is Stephen Wiggins. Jake in Proof (2005), From Stage To Screen: The Making Of Proof. Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com What critics have said about previous MGT productions:
"Maple Giant Theatre chooses the perfect piece to bring out the full story-telling potential of the Old Fire Station; the black studio is given the air of a downtown Manhattan off-Broadway theatre by the sharp phrasing of this exciting new musical." —Daily Info
"…a very able cast…brilliant comedy" —The Cherwell
"It's refreshing to see a musical which is stripped back and sparse, not relying on lavish sets or sequins to grab the attention of the audience. The cast of six do well slipping between different characters and moods." —Daily Info
"…very strong performances…highly talented performers" —Daily Info
"This is London, not Antartica, so why don't the tubes run all night, You are my Girlfriend, not Molly Ringwald, so why won't you stay here tonight, This is sixth form poetry not Keats or Yeats, and now we find the part that we both hate.
We love the city because it lets us down, We love the city NOT the suburbs thatsurround. We love all the dirty things, that lead us to think, that maybe true love could be found. We love the city because its how we live, We love the city cause it never loves us back. We love it all because sometimes, even though they're hard to find, it contains all the virtues we lack.
I am intrigued, not merely curious as to why it takes so long to change your mind.I am competent, not merely adequate, its impossible for me to be unkind.This is embarrassing, not merely awkward and I have ignored much greater feelings.
We can hold those aspirations down with bad luck and half hearted frowns,But fear alone will never bring us down, that can only happen in the small towns,
And if you don't love me now, if you don't love me now, if you don't love me, thenyou can't have me, you can't have me now". -"We love the city" by Hefner.
Maggie Gyllenhaal was raised to see Reagan as the Boogeyman. She sees McCain the same way. It's awkward for Elisabeth. And did Maggie say "husband"? in that case, congrats to Peter!!
Jake trying to hide from paparazzis.
"Filmmakers love Michael Cera. Peers respect him. And girls want to marry him. So what's next? Frankly, he's thinking of quitting.
After breaking out at 15 as George Michael on Fox's Emmy-winning cult sitcom Arrested Development, Cera hit the jackpot last year playing sensitive young funnymen in Superbad and Juno. His first foray into leading-man territory — the low-budget teen comedy Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist — just banked a respectable $11.3 million in its opening weekend. And he's already shot lead roles in two more promising titles for next year — Harold Ramis' Year One with Jack Black, and the literary adaptation Youth in Revolt. Now the Ontario native insists that he's taking the rest of the year off, and that he'll be thinking long and hard about whether he should put the brakes on his career.
It's the other stuff that comes with the job that's starting to get to him. Cera started to feel ''vulnerable,'' he says, after Superbad grossed $121 million last summer. As his costar Jonah Hill puts it, ''One day things were normal for us, and then the next day the movie opened, and things kinda changed completely.''
One year later, Cera still isn't comfortable with the paparazzi at red-carpet events (''They're so aggressive and really mean''), with people eye-balling him on the street (''I was always self-conscious, and feeling like you're being looked at just amplifies that feeling — you get paranoid''), and with haters who rag on him on Web message boards (''People are crazy'').
''I don't wanna change because of other people,'' he says. ''I wanna be myself still, and I don't think I need to toughen up. It'd be weird to be comfortable with [celebrity]. But I won't drive myself crazy or have a nervous breakdown. I'll just deal with it.'' Source: www.ew.com
The Train Station in Brampton.
The Gage Park lights, Brampton.
The Rose Theatre, Brampton.
