Drugs and lovely pathological relationships

Love and Other Drugs Trailer 2010 HD

Jake Gyllenhaal as Jamie Reidy in "Love and Other Drugs" (2010)

Anne Hathaway as Maggie Murdock in "Love and other drugs" (2010)

"Talk surrounding Anne Hathaway's chances at securing an Oscar nomination for her performance as Maggie, a woman with Parkinson's, has been swarming for quite a while now as the trailer for Love and Other Drugs with Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai) has just arrived.
Charles Randolph (The Interpreter) adapted the script from Jamie Reidy's nonfiction book "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman", which centers on Reidy (Gyllenhaal), a drug rep for Pfizer in the late 1990s who eventually wrote a memoir that shined a light on the practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Reidy begins a relationship with Maggie while on one of his sales calls. Their love story plays out in the political and social context of the time.

Hank Azaria and Ben Stiller in "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" (2009)

Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad and Gabriel Macht co-star"
Source: www.ropeofsilicon.com

Ben Stiller, Maria Bello and Jerry Stahl at "Permanent Midnight" Premiere, on 15th September 1998 in New York City.

Drugs can be inspiring for pathological relationships. Let's read some fragments from "Pain Killers" (2010) revolving around Manny Rupert, an ex-addict undercover private eye and his investigation at San Quentin prison:

"On top of which, it now looked like the real reason we split was so she could free herself up for a studly convict. An Aryan brother she could bone in a prison pump-wagon . . . Love! I’m leaving out some details. I had a sixteen-year-old daughter from an earlier marriage. Lola wrote occasionally to ask for money in her mother’s handwriting. She lived with my ex-wife, Donna, who did public relations for pharmaceutical firms. I was in love with her samples. Donna caught me riffling her bags for painkillers on our honeymoon. That was before I cleaned up. I talked my way out of it by saying I needed a Kleenex. Then she caught me again, stealing sample packs she was supposed to distribute to doctors".
Excerpted from "Pain Killers" Copyright © 2009 by Jerry Stahl.

Read more about "Pain Killers" & "Permanent Midnight"

"When last seen, Jewish ex-cop, former addict, and three-time-liver-transplant-recipient Manny Rupert was married to Tina, who had dispatched her former husband by adding ground glass and Drano to his breakfast cereal (Plainclothes Naked, 2001). Now they’re divorced, and Manny, missing her desperately, is hired to go to San Quentin to determine whether a 97-year-old inmate is Josef Mengele. What follows is a truly black and bizarre mix of the horrific and the hilarious: Mengele really is Mengele, and he spends his time experimenting on inmates for Big Pharma. He is also a still-dangerous, preening egomaniac who believes his “research” should be celebrated by a jaded, corrupt America. And only jaded Manny and Tina (yes, she is back) are there to mete out justice. Along the way, Stahl takes intriguing and often funny shots at prison chic, reality TV, various aspects of prison life, Nazi “science”, and Christian porn Web sites. And, as the title suggests, Manny enjoys a staggering array of dangerous drugs and toxic substances" -Thomas Gaughan (Booklist)

Maria Bello as Kitty and Ben Stiller as Jerry Stahl in "Permanent Midnight" (1998)

From Jerry Stahl's first and seminal non fiction book "Permanent Midnight" (published in 1995): *warning: adult content*

"I had never been with a woman straight. Never. Even when I was a kid, my first time, at fifteen, I was at least potted up. Half drunk. Something... Without drugs, for me, it was like simultaneously trying to enjoy yourself and watch yourself blown up to scoreboard size, every little move and murmur exaggerated and blasted back in your face. 'Oh, God', she whispered, pressing her other hand to my face as she spoke. 'Oh, God, do you remember that feeling when you just pushed the plunger?'... We were both breathing fast. Starting to sweat. 'You know', she went on, half gasping, accompanying her words with earnest, upward thrusts of her hips, 'When the stuff's inside you, but it hasn't hit yet'. Her voice sank to a throaty drawl. 'But you know it's just about to explode... You've got those first, like, tingles... you know the rush is about to hit... You're holding on, you're holding on'... 'And the light goes funny', I whispered, lips brushing the faint hairs of her ear. 'And the paint on the walls starts to pulsate, like suddenly you can see the air'... 'But you know in, like, three seconds it's going to shoot up your spine, your heart's going to explode'... 'Like Nagasaki', I groaned, 'like Hiroshima, behind your eyeballs, inside your brain', 'And you could die', she whispered, maneuvering, shifting so that she lay poised beneath me, letting go her own fresh-shaved pussy to work my cock with both hands, to open herself and guide me up inside her, 'you could die from the pleasure... you want to...' Rocked with pain and numb with ecstasy. There and not there, fucking her c unt but feeling the needle, making love with my muscles but shooting up with my mind, letting her words, her insane narcotic narrative, lift me out of my body, out of both our bodies, into some savage blend of memory and sensation and crippling, frustrated desire for an orgasm that couldn't come from sex, could come only from drugs and madness and injecting our selves to death..."
Copyright © 1998 by Jerry Stahl

Ben Stiller (I got sunshine on a cloudy day) video

A musical video featuring scenes from films starred by Ben Stiller: Mystery Men (with Claire Forlani), Zoolander (with Christine Taylor), Meet the Parents/Meet the Fockers (with Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Barbra Streisand), Keeping the Faith, The Heartbreak Kid (with Michelle Monaghan), Tropic Thunder (with Robert Downey Jr.), Greenberg (with Greta Gerwig), etc.

Songs "Diamond Dogs" by David Bowie and "My girl" cover by The Jesus & Mary Chain.

Love and Other Drugs trailer screencaps

Screencaps and stills of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in "Love and Other Drugs" trailer, courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com

Emile Hirsch: "The Darkest Hour" halts production

Emile Hirsch at the screening of "The Tillman Story"
Actor Emile Hirsch attends a special screening of The Weinstein Company's 'The Tillman Story' at the Pacific Design Center on August 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

"The movie I've come to work on, an alien apocalyptic thriller called The Darkest Hour, decided no more than forty‐eight hours ago to halt production for a minimum of two weeks." -Emile Hirsch

On the Road: from New York to Texas

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac (The Original Scroll)

"Why don't you go down to Texas and see Burroughs and Joan?"

"With amazement we saw great structures of light ahead of us "Texas, it's Texas!"

"Texas, Texas, so you see man, my soul, the state of things, my position - you notice I get quieter". Yes, that's true. Neal had grown quiet in New York".

"Neal concluded his business with his girls and the two boys, giggling happily, took off for Texas on the road. Someone in Denver saw them going down South..."

"Ah" sighed Neal, "the end of Texas, the end of America, we don't know no more". It was tremendously hot, we were all sweating buckets" - from "On the Road" (Neal Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, he was characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road).

Kristen Stewart characterized as Marylou on the set of "On the road", on 12th August 2010

"Kristen Stewart will be traveling On the Road with some high-profile company. The Twilight beauty, who's currently filming the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's classic novel in Canada, has just been joined by two new co-stars. (Sadly, no, neither of them are named Robert Pattinson—though her Twilight co-star did pay Stewart a sexy visit on set yesterday.)

Robert Pattinson visiting Kristen Stewart on the set of "On the Road" in Montreal, on 12th August 2010

"The Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen and Enchanted actress Amy Adams have both signed on for the Walter Salles-directed adaptation, which is slated for release next year. Mortensen will portray Old Bull Lee, a character inspired by Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, while Adams will play Jane, based on Burroughs' wife, Joan Vollmer.
Stewart is portraying Marylou, based on LuAnne Henderson, the first wife of Neal Cassady (dubbed Dean Moriarty in the book/movie, and portrayed by Garrett Hedlund)". Source: www.celebuzz.com

If you considerate you're in the mood for a change of residence and are seeking solutions for cross country movers, you'll need to find a moving company that fits your demands, depending if you are moving in a hurry and do not have too much time, or you're wrapping your possesions in boxes.

In case of a transfer to Houston, there are some interesting data about the the 4th largest city in USA (and 2nd largest port):
-Summers in Houston are very hot, with highs reaching over 90°F
-As a result of the stifling humidity, it's probably that Houston is the most air conditioned city in the world.
-Houston houses the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical center in the world. Over 50,000 employees work at the Texas Medical Center.
Austin is the capital of the state of Texas, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 15th-largest in USA. Austin is emerging as a hub for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Austin hosts the annual Austin Film Festival SXSW.

In addition to packing and labeling your boxes carefully, you'll have to hire Austin movers or Houston moving services: it is a good idea if you compare from different places so you can get affordable prices for packing services and fees on your move.