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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Smoking provokes cancer, guilty glamorous smoking pics

Jake Gyllenhaal walks passing an anti-smoking warning while visiting the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital on 27th December 2010

Acting like a bad boy, smoking non-chalantly is cool on-screen (see Jake Gyllenhaal's character Tommy Cahill in "Brothers" with Natalie Portman) but in real life cancer isn't cool at all, Jake is a healthy role model in real life (I don't see him smoking in any recent paparazzi picture that I remember), but yeah, these people (see below) looked so glamorous smoking, maybe you feel a bit guilty:
Edie SedgwickKristen StewartRobert PattinsonIda LupinoJane GreerRita HayworthJoan BennettLauren BacallHumphrey Bogart in "Kid Galahad"John HustonScarlett JohanssonCatherine DeneuveIngrid BergmanCarole LombardAnn SheridanMarilyn MonroeEva GreenAva GardnerRock HudsonLindsay Lohan
Marlene DietrichJean Seberg in "À bout de souffle"Matt Dillon in "Factotum"Sienna MillerAudrey Hepburn

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Jake Gyllenhaal went to Fela! on Broadaway solo, has a thing for blonds

Jake Gyllenhaal visiting The Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital on 27th December 2010
Jake Gyllenhaal on the closing Night of 'Fela!' on Broadway on 2nd January, 2011

"Though they celebrated Thanksgiving together, Swift, 21, was reportedly solo when she rang in the New Year in Nashville, while Gyllenhaal, 30, went stag to a closing party in New York for Broadway’s “Fela!” the following day.
Though the pair’s age difference raised eyebrows from skeptics, the couple never seemed to have a problem.According to Us Weekly, Swift was “smitten” with the actor, who in turn liked how “sweet, low-key and very easy” the singer was to be around.
Gyllenhaal has always seemed to have a thing for blonds – he previously dated actresses Reese Witherspoon and Kirsten Dunst. Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal isn’t the first older guy Swift has gone for – her romance with John Mayer was allegedly documented in her recent hit song “Dear John.” Source: www.celebritymound.com

Watch a video with Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift in video.msn.com

Scan of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Cinema (Germany) magazine
Scans of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Fotogramas (Spain)

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will attend People's Choice Awards 2011

"Robert Pattinson will join Twilight Saga co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at the People’s Choice Awards, a rep for the show confirms to Gossip Cop.
But wait, there’s more…

Gossip Cop is told exclusively by a source close to Pattinson that the actor is flying from the Breaking Dawn set in Louisiana to the awards show in L.A., just “for an hour, then back to the set.”
We have a gut feeling Pattinson won’t be leaving the People’s Choice Awards empty-handed.

The show’s expansive guest list also includes Taylor Swift, Natalie Portman, Katy Perry, Zac Efron and dozens of other celebs.
The awards will be broadcast live on Wednesday from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles at 9:00 p.m. on CBS. Source: www.gossipcop.com

Ennis and Jack ("Brokeback Mountain") in the top film characters of the 2000's

(2003) Capt. Jack Sparrow

Johnny Depp almost single-handedly saved the lavish Jerry Bruckheimer-produced theme-park-ride movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" with his flamboyant portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow. Despite giant pirate ships and intricate sword fights, Depp's stumbling and mumbling Sparrow was by far the most eye-popping effect in the film and instantly became a classic.

(2005) Ennis and Jack

The tent. The look. Ennis and Jack (the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, respectively) struggled to maintain a forbidden relationship in "Brokeback Mountain," which won Oscars and racked up box office dollars. The lead actors' performances bled into mainstream consciousness as Jack's line "I wish I knew how to quit you" entered the general vernacular.
(2006) Borat

Sacha Baron Cohen originally created this bombastic Kazakh TV reporter for a British comedy show in the mid-'90s, but most people discovered him when he came to the big screen in this " documentary" about life in the United States. Deftly blurring the line between fiction and reality, Cohen used the character to goad unsuspecting people into behaving in ridiculous ways — usually to point out the underlying racism and/or hypocrisy.

(2007) Juno

There were movies in 2007 that grossed more money and won more Oscars, but the pregnant, wisecracking teenager played by Ellen Page in director Jason Reitman's "Juno" captured filmgoers' imaginations. As the films around her got bigger, with the effects often dwarfing the humans, the simplicity of Juno's predicament reminded everyone that the movies are about people more than things.
(2008) The Joker

Ledger's death cast a long shadow over his final completed screen role in Christopher Nolan's " The Dark Knight." But this did nothing to diminish the power of his performance as Batman's archnemesis and probably added to the haunting quality of a character with no past, no morals and one of the creepiest smiles in cinema history.
Source: www.latimes.com

Are Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift over?

Scan of Jake Gyllenhaal having brunch with U2's Bono and The Edge,in US Weekly, on 5th December 2005.

"Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal are starting 2011 single.
"They're over", a source tells PEOPLE about the short-lived relationship. "It ended last month."
No reason was given for a split, and the stars reps didn't have immediate comment, but the two spent the holidays – and their birthdays – apart.
Swift, 21, rang in 2011 in Nashville, solo, at a party, while Gyllenhaal, 30, was in New York, where he attended a closing party for Broadway's Fela! on Jan. 2. While in the Big Apple, Gyllenhaal was also spotted dining with his mother at the Spotted Pig.
After spending Thanksgiving weekend together, the two were last seen publicly together on Dec. 9 in Los Angeles.
Gyllenhaal and Swift were first spotted together in October backstage at Saturday Night Live – followed by a brunch in Brooklyn". Source: www.people.com

"Tonight, Taylor Swift sans her former flame, Jake Gyllenhaal, took a 2011 People's Choice Awards win early in the program.

The Speak Now singer, who will probably be speaking through song about Jake very soon if the past is any indication, won Favorite Country Artist". Source: www.examiner.com

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Government in California, real injuries, Sacramento

"Speaking before an estimated 3,000 people in Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium — an audience that included former governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — Brown drew parallels between his first term in office and the present day.

"Then, 1975, it was the ending of the Vietnam War and a recession caused by the Middle East oil embargo," Brown said. "Now… it is our soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and our economy caught in the undertow of a deep and prolonged recession". Source: www.latimes.com


Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped down after seven years as California's governor on Monday, leaving the state struggling with a fiscal crisis that has pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy. His successor, Jerry Brown, has warned of "painful" budget cuts.

"Brown speech - to no one's surprise - centered on the budget. He spoke passionately about the need to transcend Sacramento's partisan political culture and stop using "delay and denial" when making tough budget choices.

He laid out three principles for his budget proposal: 1) Speak the truth on budget challenges; 2) No new taxes without the vote of the people; 3) Bring authority closer to the people (aka "realigning" core government responsibilities to local governments).
In a speech that didn't delve into specifics, it's notable that Brown singled out clean energy policy as a great economic opportunity for California. Expanding investment in cleaner energy, he said, can help lead us out of the state's 10th recession since World War II". Source: www.sfgate.com

Humphrey Bogart joined the Navy in 1918. It is said that during the World War I bombing of his ship, the U.S.S. Leviathan, Bogart received the injury that would become his trademark scar, although there are other versions, as a bar room brawl that might have been the actual cause of Bogart's lip damage, according to Louise Brooks's account.

"Himself, he never took too seriously—his work most seriously. He regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart, the star, with an amused cynicism; Bogart, the actor, he held in deep respect… In each of the fountains at Versailles there is a pike which keeps all the carp active; otherwise they would grow overfat and die. Bogie took rare delight in performing a similar duty in the fountains of Hollywood. Yet his victims seldom bore him any malice, and when they did, not for long. His shafts were fashioned only to stick into the outer layer of complacency, and not to penetrate through to the regions of the spirit where real injuries are done... He is quite irreplaceable. There will never be another like him." -John Huston's eulogy

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Natalie Portman - "Black Swan" videoclips

Scans of Natalie Portman EW photoshoot

FOR REFERENCE:
White/Gray scale- White Swan/Flashbacks
Blue- The Black Swan's transition into/from the White Swan's perspective/Flashbacks
Normal Colors- Reality/the Black Swan

This video, deals with the Black Swan, but at the same time, the White Swan. As the Black Swan dances, her opposite personality, the White Swan, is terrified that her other side has come out of herself, because it's the side of her personality she has tried to hide away. Thus, while dancing, the White Swan (represented by white gray scale) looks upon the Black Swan, who has now completely taken over, leaving the White Swan to watch hopelessly. The video ends how it starts, with the Black Swan fading into the light.
THE COOL THING WAS, when I was overlooking the Black Swan and White Swan ballet scenes, there is one part in particular when the White and Black Swan mimic each other, when they are 'flapping their wings' which made me go, "Wow, I can't believe I caught that!"


Song: Miss Murder
Artist: AFI
Clips: Black Swan


A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more. Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Greta Gerwig, etc.

Released:
USA - 21st January 2011
Hungary - 10th February 2011
UK - 11th February 2011
Malaysia - 24th March 2011
France - 6th April 2011


The Other Woman Trailer, starring Natalie Portman, directed by Don Roos.