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Monday, August 30, 2010

Movies addictive as dope, drug tests

Jake Gyllenhaal visiting a friend's cabin near Los Angeles on 28th August 2010. Pictures by Iheartjakemedia.com

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Jamie Randall in "Love and other drugs" (2010)

"A loyal Film Experience reader who wishes to remain anonymous also saw a recent screening of LaOD and sent a few thoughts: The movie is well above average in the world of romantic comedy, and rest assured, that's what it is. As you could clearly note from the trailer, it has all of the usual romcom trappings and succeeds primarily due to the strength of Jake & Anne's chemistry - which is ENORMOUS and immensely satisfying.Anne Hathaway as Kym in "Rachel Getting Married" (2008)

Kym is released from rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend her sister Rachel's wedding. The home environment is always challenging for a recovering addict, no less so when the visit if only for a few days.

"I must admit, and then dodge anything you might throw my way, that I'm not a big fan of Rachel Getting Married, or Anne's performance in it. So, given that, I'd have to say that this is her best performance. It's really a perfect role for her, as it's mostly comedic (which is where she excels) with tinges of drama.Jake pulls off the smarmy-but-charming almost George Clooney-esque character incredibly well, and his character's transformation as he becomes more involved with Anne is not necessarily written as well as it could have been, but he's great. And he ultimately sells one of the rather cliché romcom moments far better than anyone had any right to. It's really all about the two of them, so the supporting cast's screen time is quite limited, although Oliver Platt steals every scene he's in.

P.S. Jake & Anne spend like half the movie completely naked". Source: filmexperience.blogspot.com

"In any other American home, an answering machine would have limited my suffering. Not in the Reidy house. Maintaining their perfect record of ignoring technological advances -we had been the last family on the block to get cable, a VCR, or a video-game system -my parents owned no such newfangled gadgetry. On one of those mornings, my career in pharmaceutical sales got started." -extracted from "Hard sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman" Copyright 2005 © Jamie Reidy

"Movies are as addictive as dope, but they are far less injurious to health and they ought not to be as expensive", "America is more like the movies than you ever dreamed" -quotes by English writer Quentin Crisp

Ben Stiller as Jerry Stahl in "Permanent Midnight" (1998)

"Why shoot heroin?" our Jerry asks. "So I can get up in the morning and shave." Neither the overrated patron saint of junk, William Burroughs, nor the smacked-out Scottish punks of Trainspotting could say it with more magnetic ambiguity. And the character of Jerry Stahl is nothing if not ambiguous. His self-loathing is matched only by his self-aggrandizement, and both are coated in a glaze of black humor. So whenever this cautionary tale threatens to make a stumbling, shameful fool of its principal, the moviemakers quickly turn him into the witty, vaguely self-righteous anti-hero who's got the balls to snort and tell, smoke and tell, shoot and tell.
Ben Stiller as Mel Coplin in "Flirting with Disaster" (1996)

For Stiller, late of Flirting with Disaster and The Zero Effect, Permanent Midnight provides plenty of room to emote. When you're gobbling Percodans by the fistful in one scene, scrubbing your dead mother's blood off the kitchen floor in the next, and recalling the fateful missteps of your life to a pretty stranger (Maria Bello) in a cheap motel room in yet another, you've got latitude. Stiller takes such good advantage of it that we almost come to like his Jerry". Source: www.houstonpress.com

Lindsay Lohan arriving at the Santa Monica courthouse on 30th
August 2010


"Following her 22-day stay at the UCLA Medical Center, TMZ reported that, at a hearing Wednesday morning (August 25), Judge Elden Fox said Lohan must not only continue submitting to random drug and alcohol tests twice a week, but also attend a 12-step program, participate in a minimum of four psychotherapy sessions a week, reside in her current home until November 1 and attend behavior therapy sessions twice a week.
"If Lohan flunks a drug and alcohol test, she will go back to jail for 30 days". Source: www.mtv.com

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Robert Pattinson - Sex on the brain

Robert Pattinson in "Another Man" magazine (outtakes)Robert Pattinson in "Details" magazineRobert Pattinson on the set of "Water for Elephants"
Scan of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson ("Eclipse") in Entertainment WeeklyKristen Stewart as Mallory in "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010)


Quick tribute to Rob and some of his recent photoshoots. Big thank you to Setje, Tess and Pattinsonlife for most of the pics used. Absolutely stunning photos.

Ben Stiller ("Then He kissed me") video


A video featuring scenes starred by Ben Stiller and his female co-stars in Flirting with disaster (Patricia Arquette, Tea Leoni), Keeping the faith (Jenna Elfman), Permanent Midnight (Elizabeth Hurley, Maria Bello), Mystery Men (Claire Forlani), Meet the fockers (Teri Polo), Duplex (Drew Barrymore), Along came Polly (Jennifer Aniston) and Greenberg (Greta Gerwig).

Songs "Then He kissed me" and "He's sure the boy I love" by The Crystals.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal at Leo Little's Big Show - 'Prince of Persia'

Jake Gyllenhaal in DVD Release Disney Movie Surfers: 'Prince of Persia' Featurette (#2)
Jake Gyllenhaal in Leo Little's Big Show - 'Prince of Persia'

Ben Stiller (If not for you) video


A musical video featuring scenes from films and tv shows starred by Ben Stiller ("Along Came Polly" with Jennifer Aniston, "Curb your enthusiasm" with Christine Taylor and Larry David, "Arrested Development" with Will Arnett, "Happy Gilmore", "The Suburbans" with Jerry Stiller, "Tropic Thunder" with Robert Downey Jr, etc.)

Songs "If not for you" & "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan and "That's how strong my love is" by Otis Redding

Friday, August 27, 2010

The use of smoking in Hollywood movies is declining

Jake Gyllenhaal (with Tobey Maguire) in "Brothers"Jennifer Aniston on the set of "The Good Girl"Robert De NiroLeonardo DiCaprio (cigar + ice-cream)Ben StillerJessica AlbaChristina HendricksAmber HeardPenélope CruzWynona Ryder in "Reality Bites"Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan - Tyler Shields photoshootLiv TylerElizabeth HurleyRobert Pattinson ("Another Man" outtakes)Robert Pattinson in "Vanity Fair" magazine
Me reconnecting with a lonely cigarette at Les Gavarres solar

Audrey Hepburn in "How to Steal a Million" (1966)

"A new study in the U.S claims that the use of Tobacco in Hollywood movies has fallen down comparatively, but people involved in the study claim that too many movies still use Tobacco to attract the audience. Keira Knightley in "Atonement" (2007)

The study was based on the blockbuster movies made in Hollywood during a span of two decades starting from 1991 to 2009. It included the number of times the use of tobacco was shown to influence the viewers.
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain"

The authority at the Centre for Disease Control said, “There’s a declining trend which is good to see. But we haven’t made nearly enough progress.”Stan Glantz, who is heading this study said, “The report showed Hollywood was “perfectly capable of making movies without as much smoking and people still come see them”.
Movies play a great deal in influencing the minds of young people, who tend to imitate what is projected in a film, and calling it a style statement". Source: uktodaynews.com