Maggie and Peter plan to wed

"Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, reportedly are planning to make their union official in a wedding ceremony to be held next month in Italy. According to New York Post, the twosome will tie the knot in a sun-kissed Mediterranean ceremony during the second weekend of the month.

Details on where and when exactly the wedding will take place are not known just yet. Both Maggie and Peter also have not yet commented on the wedding report.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been dating Peter Sarsgaard, a close friend of her actor brother Jake Gyllenhaal, since 2002. In April 2006, she and Peter made public their engagement". Source: www.aceshowbiz.com

Edie Sedgwick ("Baby Blue")

A musical video featuring images of 60's icon Edie Sedgwick and the song "It's all over now, Baby Blue" by Bob Dylan.

Robert, Kristen and Nikki

Nikki Reed with Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart - Wardrobe Test for New Moon.
At Sage's Dills concert with Robert Pattinson, on 18th April, 2009.Nikki Reed shopping with Vanessa Hudgens on 23rd April, 2009.
Robert Pattinson signing autographs at LAX airport, on 26th April, 2009.
Meanwhile, his "girlfriend" in "Twilight", the brunette young beauty Kristen Stewart was dating her true boyfriend, the delicious Michael Angarano:

Departing LAX Airport

Jake departing from LAX Airport, on 27th April, 2009.
"Jake Gyllenhaal gives one of the biggest smiles of the week as he departs LAX airport in Los Angeles on Monday (April 27). It’s too early to tell but the 28-year-old actor will reportedly be heading to Italy during the second weekend in May. According to Page Six , Jake ’s older sister Maggie Gyllenhaal , 31, and Peter Sarsgaard , 38, are finally going to tie the knot".
Source: www.people-buzz.com
Natalie Portman at the 8th Annual Tribeca Film Festival.

"Relativity and Lionsgate aren't strangers; they worked together on The Forbidden Kingdom, The Bank Job, and 3:10 to Yuma. The first film in the new agreement will be Brothers, a Jim Sheridan-directed drama starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman, which will be released later this year".
Source: www.getthebigpicture.net

Outlaw characters

L.M. “Kit” Carson: "Like a lot of North Americans coming of age in the Sixties, I thought of my self as an outlaw. The fact that Edie [Sedgwick] pushed the edge was part of what attracted me to her". Edie Sedgwick with Allen Ginsberg in "Ciao! Manhattan".

"When I interviewed L.M. “Kit” Carson about the production of Anderson’s first feature, Bottle Rocket, he told me that when he read the script for the first time, he felt as though he were reading “The Catcher in the Rye as written by Holden Caulfield.” Like Holden, Bottle Rocket’s hero, Anthony, has undergone a period of institutionalization and dotes on his kid sister.Anderson’s privileged milieus and his naive, gregarious, but often maladjusted characters are Salingeresque.
Anderson's films, like Salinger's stories, are filled with loquacious, combative, often hyperachieving individuals who seem fully formed and secure in their identities but who reveal themselves as deeply damaged—by class anxiety, social expectations, and family dysfunction. They are too smart by half, and both artists let us know that their characters’ intelligence affords no insurance against despair or death".
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"But Salinger's refusal hasn't stopped the studios from borrowing the Holden model for such movies as "The Graduate", "Diner", "Dead Poets Society", "Rushmore", "American Beauty" and "The Royal Tenenbaums."

"Most young male characters in the movies are based on the character of Holden Caulfield," says Raymond Haberski, 33, author of "It's Only a Movie! Films and Critics in American Culture." "It's been a very steady influence in the last 30 years. Every young man goes through the experiences of Holden Caulfield."Toby Maguire has made a career of being an updated Holden Caulfield. 'The Ice Storm' is almost a direct takeoff on 'Catcher in the Rye.' Since 'Dead Poets Society,' Ethan Hawke has played on that type of theme. Even Edward Burns, although not as young as the others, seems to fit that category."Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Good Girl" (2002) - Senior Tuna (Deleted Scene).

Add Jake Gyllenhaal to the list. In the current "The Good Girl" Jennifer Aniston starts an affair with Gyllenhaal, a disturbed young man who has renamed himself Holden and is fascinated with "The Catcher in the Rye.""Salinger touched on what's at the heart of American repression: familial neglect. Parents are not paying attention or are aware of the movement of their children. That's one of the worst things you can do. My 'Good Girl' character is disturbed, and I place the blame on the parents". Source: www.sfgate.com

Away We Go trailer

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

Distributor: Focus Features
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida
Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Carmen Ejogo, Jim Gaffigan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Josh Hamilton, Allison Janney, Melanie Lynskey, Chris Messina, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Schneider

Howl, beatnik counter-culture

"These three authors [Ginsberg, Keruoac and Burroughs], like most of us in college, wanted to change the world and start a revolution. And then, they actually did it. They started a counter-culture revolution that started in the clean-cut Eisenhower era of the 50’s, persisted through the peace movement of the 60’s, then were appropriated by the punk rock uprising of the 70’s and their legend continues even today. And I remember hearing in college that Kurt Cobain used to have Burroughs come over and recite spoken-word vocals over his guitar solos.
AE: What’s your take on the "Howl" film being made with James Franco as Ginsberg. Are you concerned about comparisons? This isn't Capote vs. Infamous all over again, is it?
JK: I think our two films will complement each other beautifully. Kill Your Darlings is the dramatic story of three young artists struggling to find their voice and Howl is an cinematic exploration of one of their poems almost 15 years later.
AE: Most folks know Ginsberg was gay, but what's the deal with Kerouac? Were he and Ginsberg lovers?
JK: I soooo cannot answer that question. There are so many competing accounts in various biographies debating Kerouac's sexuality, I wouldn’t even dare to suggest to know the answer. However, the movie takes place during their university years, and all I can say, is that like most college students, the characters in the movie are just discovering their sexuality, and perhaps would be inclined to be more experimental in these few years than during other periods of their lives". Source: www.afterelton.com

"I think there was one slight shade of error in describing the Beat movement as primarly a protest movement. That was the thing that Kerouac was always complaining about. He felt the literary aspect or the spiritual aspect or the emotional aspect was not so much protest at all, but a declaration of unconditioned mind beyond protest, beyond resentment, beyond loser, beyond winner--way beyond winner--beyond winner or loser...but the basic thing that I understood and dug Jack for was unconditioned mind, negative capability, totally open mind--beyond victory or defeat.
Ironically, Ginsberg was very insecure about Howl, and he questioned the big fuss over it. "There shouldn't be a trial over this poem," he once lamented. In fact, a biography of Allen Ginsberg--American Scream by Jonah Raskin--has a surprising revelation:

"In the mid-1970s, in the midst of the counterculture he had helped to create, he promised to rewrite Howl. Now that he was a hippie minstrel and a Pied Piper for the generation that advocated peace and love he would alter Howl, he said, so that it might reflect the euphoria of the hippies. He would include a 'positive redemptive catalogue,' he said."
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com