Smoking Hot: Jake Gyllenhaal & co.

Jake Gyllenhaal is smoking (hot) in "Brothers".Grace (Natalie Portman) shares a cigarette with Tommy in "Brothers".Emile Hirsch, cigar smoker & striptease club attendeé in "The Girl next door".
James Dean in "Rebel without a cause".Edie Sedgwick in Life magazine, November 1965.Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road".
Bijou Phillips in "Chelsea on the rocks"
Drew Barrymore.
Jaime King.
James McAvoy.
Anton Yelchin in "Alpha Dog".
Jennifer Connelly in "Mulholland Falls".
Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus in "Inglorious Basterds".
Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglorious Basterds".
Shia Labeouf on the set of "Wall Street 2".
Robert Pattinson.
Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett (The Runaways).
Sean Penn.
Al Pacino.
Anna Karina (Alphaville).
Mila Jovovich.
Lindsay Lohan.
Nicole Kidman.
Natalie Portman.
Evan Rachel Wood.
Josh Hartnett.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Misha Barton.
Sienna Miller & Hayden Christensen.

"Brothers" review

Natalie Portman called Jake "ugly" in People magazine (god, I want to move to Uglyland just now!): "Jake is the kind of guy who can do a spot-on impression of someone you work with that will make you giggle. He plays guitar and has a great voice. Kids and dogs love him. He loves his mom and sister and girlfriend. He’s perfect. Too bad he’s ugly".
On what skills she'd put on a job resume: "As far as skills go . . . I don’t have that many skills. [Jake: "Oh come on!"] I’m serious. I really wish I could make something. I mean, you’re a really good cook, you know how to build things — you can make things with your hands. I can’t make anything . . . Well, I can make chitchat, but not much else. I mean, I’d basically have trouble with any job that doesn’t require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices . . . And so I’m an actor." Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
Jake Gyllenhaal is Tommy Cahill in "Brothers".
"Sheriden is best known for directing such award winning films as "My Left Foot" and "In America". Now, with this intense drama... he yet again proves that he is one of the greatest directors of our time. Although he hasn't been extremely busy in terms of releasing movies... he certainly makes up for lost time with this one. "Brothers" is without a doubt the most powerful film you will see this year. What makes it so powerful, you ask? The amazing performances by Maguire, Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. It's full of intense, awkward, and heartbreaking scene's that are made extremely effective by the top-notch acting abilities of our main characters. We are also introduced to a brand new child actor, Baiylee Madison. If Abigail Breslin could get an Oscar nomination for her performance in "Little Miss Sunshine", then it would be a sin for Madison not to get one. She is an amazing child actor, and hopefully we will see more of her in the future.The story is made pretty clear in the trailer: a soldier goes to the middle east and supposedly gets killed. His wife becomes a widow, and the soldier's brother becomes close to her. Then, just as their lives seem to fall back into place, the wife finds out that her husband is still alive. He returns, but has a serious case of post-traumatic stress.While the performances are excellent throughout the entire film, there is a scene towards the end (that I'm positive will be talked about by everyone who sees the movie) where Toby's character (who plays the brother with post-traumatic stress) has a complete mental breakdown. Without giving anything away, I will say that it is EXTREMELY intense, and contains the best acting I've seen all year. It's unforgettable, and makes the movie worth the price of admission alone, even though it's hard to watch".

Source: moviemasterheadquarters.blogspot.com

'Brothers' Press Conference in N.Y.

Jim Sheridan, directing the kitchen scene with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brothers" (2009).
Mare Winningham and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman in "Brothers".Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Brothers' Press Conference - New York City, November 21, 2009.


GYLLENHAAL: I think you just described me as a crazy person. ‘Jake has no idea of reality’.
QUESTION: IS THAT A TRUTH ABOUT YOU, JAKE?
GYLLENHAAL: Well, I can say that I think watching Tobey in the movie, that’s sort of the most extraordinary truth of it, watching somebody do something like that. I can only speak from personal experience but I have been blessed to watch actors who people didn’t feel were a certain way or could perform a certain thing do that. I’ve been honored to watch that. It’s always nice to see when people, journalists and people who never thought of someone one way, and then seeing them that way. I watched him go from the first part of the movie [BEFORE MAGUIRE’S CHARACTER GOES OVERSEAS] and then we had a Christmas break inbetween and then he had another week and when he came back he was another person and he was another person than what he was in the first couple of weeks that we started shooting. That was an extraordinary transformation, not only to watch as an actor but as a person and as an audience member. And now watching the movie I feel that way, too. I think that’s what we could talk about. I mean, I could talk about Natalie, too, but then I think she would probably freak out. I’ll stick with Tobey".
Source: www.bostonherald.com

The "Brothers" premiere will be on December 3rd, 2009
Time: 8:30 PM Eastern
Channel: TVGN

"New Moon" book Birthday-scene

"Bella?"

It wasn't Gran who called my name, and we both turned to see the addition to our small reunion. I didn't have to look to know who it was; this was a voice I would know anywhere—know, and respond to, whether I was awake or asleep...or even dead, I'd bet. The voice I'd walk through fire for—or, less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold and endless rain for.

Edward.Even though I was always thrilled to see him—conscious or otherwise—and even though I was almost positive that I was dreaming, I panicked as Edward walked toward us through the glaring sunlight.What was he doing? The whole reason he lived in Forks, the rainiest place in the world, was so that he could be outside in the daytime without exposing his family's secret. Yet here he was, strolling gracefully toward me—with the most beautiful smile on his angel's face—as if I were the only one here.

In that second, I wished that I was not the one exception to his mysterious talent; I usually felt grateful that I was the only person whose thoughts he couldn't hear just as clearly as if they were spoken aloud. But now I wished he could hear me, too, so that he could hear the warning I was screaming in my head.Edward—still smiling so beautifully that my heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest—put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.With a dizzying jolt, my dream abruptly became a nightmare.

There was no Gran.

That was me. Me in a mirror. Me—ancient, creased, and withered.

Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen.

He pressed his icy, perfect lips against my wasted cheek.

"Happy birthday", he whispered.I woke with a start—my eyelids popping open wide—and gasped. Dull gray light, the familiar light of an overcast morning, took the place of the blinding sun in my dream.

Just a dream, I told myself. It was only a dream. I took a deep breath, and then jumped again when my alarm went off. The little calendar in the corner of the clock's display informed me that today was September thirteenth.

Only a dream, but prophetic enough in one way, at least. Today was my birthday. I was officially eighteen years old.I'd been dreading this day for months.

All through the perfect summer—the happiest summer I had ever had, the happiest summer anyone anywhere had ever had, and the rainiest summer in the history of the Olympic Peninsula—this bleak date had lurked in ambush, waiting to spring".
Copyright © Stephenie Meyer (2006).