Jessica Biel is Jessica Rabbit

Here's Justin Timberlake as he is seduced by cartoon character Jessica Rabbit - played by his girlfriend, Jessica Biel.
The U.S. singer made a surprise appearance on U.S. television comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live.Jessica Rabbit, the seductive wife of Roger Rabbit in animated fantasy film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was last week named the sexiest cartoon character by Cadbury's.
Viewers cheered as Timberlake, who is reportedly set to wed Biel this summer, made his cameo on Saturday night's show."During Weekend Update, Timberlake and Andy Samberg spoofed the comic strip Cathy -- Samberg playing Cathy and Timberlake playing her adoring husband Irving. "I swear on Charles Schulz himself, if Jessica Rabbit walked in here right now I wouldn't even blink," Irving says.

Biel then walks in dressed as Jessica Rabbit wearing a tight, red dress and long purple gloves -- she asks Irving to take a walk and he immediately accepts. "Sounds good, later fatty," he says to Cathy.

"SNL" spoofed the comic strip characters after a recent survey from Cadbury Daily Milk ranked the sexiest cartoon characters leaving Cathy off the list". Source: www.etonline.com

SNL - Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel video:

Defensive masculinity

"Alpha Dog lives up to its title as one of modern American cinema’s most powerful evocations of the tortured, defensive masculinity of the lower-class young male. Every character (including the victim) is desperate to prove his manhood – or at least that they’re not the “bitch” or “faggot” of the bunch. However, the same tough dudes who beat each other senseless with Fight Club-level brutality reduce themselves to diva-worthy temper tantrums and crying jags whenever the consequences of their impulse-control-challenged behavior sinks in.
Timberlake is top-notch – it’s hard to imagine any but the absolute cream of Gen-Y actors (Bale, DiCaprio, Gyllenhaal) playing his part any better. His final major scene with young Zack in the rocky caves of Joshua Tree is emotionally devastating in every sense of the word. The film’s gangsta soundtrack and original score (with several contributions from the rock/rap group Lowd) is very effectively applied, with the mordantly in-joke choice of “Goodbye to Hollywood” as the closing song. Nick Cassavetes’ writing and direction is appropriately discomfiting, with his technique kicking up several notches as the storyline progresses, in what is obviously a labor of love. And for a movie about such grim subject matter, Alpha Dog actually manages to have a (dark) sense of humor without indulging in simpering, cutesy irony or making inappropriate light of what ultimately happened". Source: www.filmstew.com

In the movie Jarhead, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a young US marine who has followed the path of his father to the military duties.
In the article “Modernism and Masculinity” by Gerald Izenburg:
“It gave him (men) a means of resolving the persistent inner tension by turning the battle outward against an external enemy, and identifying wholly with soldiers--literal, rather than literary, warriors. Turning the battle outward, he (men) could also split off and project his internally threatening femininity outward onto the enemy…”

The word “alpha” describes an individual to be the dominant or top ranked and also shows the dominant aspect of a marine’s wife. The Marine Corps jargon “alpha unit” is used to describe the spouse of a Marine. Another term that is also used would be Delta Whiskey, which stands for "dependant" wife.

International Women's Day

"International Women's Day is celebrated in countries throughout the world with festivals, parades, and special events. Hostelling International is bringing the celebration to Boston with the International Women's Day Film Festival.

The mission of the Boston International Women's Day Film Festival is to promote a greater understanding of the extraordinary lives of women around the world through relevant and thought-provoking films and discussions.

This is the second year of the festival, sponsored by Hostelling International. The goal of this festival is to showcase films honoring the struggles, victories, and remarkable experiences of women around the world. Through this event, we aim to celebrate the lives and contributions of women from all corners and walks of life". Source: www.hinewengland.org

"On February 3, 2009, Break the Cycle, an organization aimed at empowering youth to break the cycle of domestic violence, addressed Congress. According to them, at least 17 states have introduced or passed legislation to try to take on the problem of teen dating violence.
Sadly, a necessity in a society where teens think Chris Brown was justified in beating Rhianna or that she must have done something to deserve it. A society in which teens believe that violence is not only normal, but sometimes even laughable and the butt of sad jokes.

According to Kathy Doherty, executive director of Between Friends, a Chicago based group which goes into schools to help educate teens about domestic violence, educating young people is the key.

“When we first get there, it’s not unusual for kids-both boys and girls-to say it’s OK to hit your girlfriend or boyfriend. By the time we’re done, they say, yes, it is abuse, and, no, we shouldn’t do that.” Souce: 20-forty.com

"At the same time, as part of this process, men are indoctrinated into violence as a means of protecting themselves and others, to solve problems and conflicts, and assert their perceived positions as men.

In many parts of the world, we are constantly fed images of men being violent. Through films, books, television, magazines, video games – we see men being violence and violent men revered as role models and even heroes. So an equation embedded in dominant masculinity becomes - to be a man, a strong successful leader, you also must be ready to fight, and if you don’t happen to be in the right social group to be a successful leader, you still have to be ready to use violence…perhaps even more so.Thus, dominant forms of masculinity encourage personal violence in men, and they help to legitimize other forms of violence as well. Part of gender-based violence as a “policing mechanism” is for men to establish, assert or protect their masculine identity. But men’s use of personal violence also permits and legitimizes the use of other types of organized violence – and visa versa. It is a vicious cycle of violence, a culture of violence into which men and women are socialized.

However, seeing masculinities as socially constructed does not mean that men are merely passive beings being shaped by “society” or “culture”. Men and women are active in producing gender discourses and acting them out. Men are responsible for their violence, and are part of the problem when they allow for violence – especially violence against women and girls - to exist in their communities.

We can further identify broader notions of responsibility when gender-based violence is placed within the social structures and histories of violence that both men and women have created and reproduce. Here, we can move beyond the interpersonal violence of men to examine the violence that lies at the heart of masculinity's stratifying of difference - the misogyny, homophobia and racism that are embedded in discourses of masculinity. It is here we begin to understand the relationship between ideals of masculinity, gender-based violence and other uses of violence as a means of establishing and maintaining power relationships and structural inequalities such as those based upon race, class or religion, etc. Violence, privilege and injustice are intimately linked". Source: toolkit.endabuse.org

New Affiliate: EdwardHeartBella.com

We have a new affiliate here in Weirdland: Edwardheartbella.com, a resource on the Twilight saga, Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) and Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan). Jake Weird is in the Male celebrities affiliates list. Check out their updates, news, gallery, etc., related with "Twilight". Thank you very much, EdwardHeartBella.com Staff!

The Prince of Persia promotional stills

Pictures courtesy of Iheartjakemedia.com

This is a veritable Prince, so Zac Efron can start to take notes in his metrobook.

"High School Musical couple Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens portray a scene from the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty as Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip.

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz snapped the photo, as re-posted on Stitch Kingdom".

Source: Justjared.buzznet.com

Emile Hirsch (Since I don't have you)

A video featuring some stills of Emile Hirsch in "The girl next door", "Imaginary heroes", etc. Songs "Since I don't have you" by The Skyliners and "Summertime blues" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.

Jake is made of muscle

"Jake Gyllenhaal was out and about LA earlier this week before strapping on a helmet for a bike ride with his friend Austin Nichols yesterday. He's been looking particularly hot lately, and working out is only helping the cause. Plus, all Jake's exercise means getting to indulge in cookies and wine on date nights with Reese". Source: www.popsugar.com

Wedding Bells in 2009?

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Rafaeli.Cameron Diaz and Paul Sculfor.Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer.Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon.

Will these couples be making the walk down the aisle this year? Which couple will be the first? You decide! Check out these photos of the hottest couples in Hollywood! Source: www.theinsider.com

"Rihanna and Chris Brown have apparently got married. Upon hearing this, seismologists put any recent earthquakes down to the reaction to the ‘if any person present’ part of their service.But it’s by no means certain yet, because Rihanna is apparently unwilling to press charges against Chris Brown. And in news that’s completely, definitely, 100% utterly unconnected with this, Rihanna and Chris Brown have apparently just got married".

Source: www.hecklerspray.com

Twilight - All Extended Scenes video

Twilight (2008) - All Extended Scenes (HQ)

"As for ‘New Moon’, which she’s about to start filming, Kristen says she’s “really excited,” but it’s “a big job.”

“It’s a lot different, also, from the first,” she adds. “It’s a very different story. A lot happens: [Bella] doesn’t have [Edward] anymore, and she’s also in a place where she has to step up and kind of become more mature, and to see her deal with life without him is going to be interesting. … It’s all very epic and convoluted.”
In theaters March 13, the quirky, lighthearted drama ‘The Cake Eaters’ casts Kristen as Georgia, a small-town teen who, despite grappling with a disease of the nervous system that causes her to shake and slur her speech, just wants to experience love for the first time. Featuring ‘Tadpole’ star Aaron Stanford and Oscar nominees Bruce Dern and Melissa Leo, the film fest favorite was helmed by Mary Stuart Masterson in her feature directing debut".
Source: edwardheartbella.com

Twilight Love Bite Deleted scene and gifs

Robert Pattinson reveals the New Moon scene he's most looking forward to shooting:

"The scene where we temporarily break up. On one hand, it's completely impossible. And on the other, it sets a very different tone to the series. I think it will be good." Source: www.dose.ca

Access Exclusive: Deleted ‘Twilight’ Scene: Robert & Kristen’s Forbidden Love Bite, featuring Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart, off of the DVD, which hits stores March 21! Watch the deleted scene from "Twilight" at www.accesshollywood.com

SOME "TWILIGHT" GIFS:

Mumblecore nights and weekends

Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig in "Nights and Weekends".

"Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig, the costars, cowriters, and codirectors of “Nights and Weekends”, spend a good part of their film naked. At the film’s outset, while in a long-distance relationship, James and Mattie enter the former’s Chicago apartment and promptly make love on the floor; toward the end of the film, after a year and an off-screen break-up, they fleetingly try something similar in a hotel in New York. In between, the film often pauses to ponder the many levels of these characters’ self-exposure: showering, sitting on the can, dressing and undressing themselves and each other, critically scrutinizing themselves in mirrors and photographs.

Shot in an unflatteringly fleshy digital video, “Nights and Weekends” is often uncomfortably close, an inquest into (or even postmortem of) the life of a couple. But, as Mattie at one point quips, “A couple of what?” Even in their days of romance, small squabbles and controlling tendencies inevitably arise. At their most intimate—eating together, practicing trust falls, and engaging in frank conversations about their past love-lives or whether either has said “I love you” and not fully meant it—there is always an undercurrent of uncertainty, as if the emotional nakedness that one demands of the other requires a minute-to-minute anticipation of each person’s needs.What if this love ends? How will each remember the other in years to come when they’re busy having children with other people? “Do you ever think about that?” Mattie asks a taciturn James. “What’s going to be your sound bite for the next person?” It is a question that anticipates both the end of their current relationship and how it will be perceived, rationalized, and remembered—an acknowledgement that, in some sense, the nature of their bond has already passed into that of a performance or ritual, no longer a spontaneous “present us” so much as a lost and eulogized “past us”.Gerwig’s gutsy, expressive performance really comes to the fore in this latter part of the film. Swanberg’s James, on the other hand, is aloof, laidback, and slightly manipulative in a somewhat familiar “guy” manner, his own feelings left quite literally in darkness by the end of the film.

Mattie is the more unique and involving character, and her fluctuating emotions always remain just below her unstable public facade. This makes Gerwig’s turn the ideal quarry of a raw style of shooting familiar from many decades of American independent filmmaking, from Cassavetes’ “Shadows” and Peter Emmanuel Goldman’s “Echoes of Silence” to Bujalski’s “Mutual Appreciation” and Cannon/Lerman/Cannon’s “Natural Causes.” But if “Nights and Weekends” distinguishes itself from other films of its kind (and of its admittedly white, urban, yipster demographic), it is because of its surprisingly structured depiction of this relationship and its many private rituals and performances, which the film’s unforgiving style continually strips bare". Source: www.indiewire.com

NEW FILM episode with Joe Swanberg video:

This is an episode of NEW FILM, featuring an interview with Joe Swanberg, director of "Nights and Weekends" and "Alexander the Last".

Bedrooms on sale

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner as Mark and Vanessa Loring in "Juno".

Mark Loring: "Why does everybody think that yellow is gender-neutral? I don't know any guy with a yellow bedroom."
Vanessa Loring: "It's for babies. I'm thinking more custard, just with this light. I don't know, maybe I should paint a larger swatch or just try it on a different wall."
Mark Loring: "Or you can wait a few more months. Not like the baby's going to come storming in here demanding desert-colored walls."

Bedroom sets:
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Dining room furniture:
Belle Noir Dining Room Set: A sophisticated onyx finish, and romantic Art Nouveau-inspired patterns visible through subtle differences in surface shine, for a look that is both confident and inviting. Profiles are characterized by voluptuous tapered feet and legs and custom-designed antique pewter hardware.

Kids furniture:
Makeover your kid’s old Celeste Kids Bedroom, a modern version of a complete smart-n-functional unit. Platform Bed in cherry finish with Aluminum legs.

Harvey Milk Day

Sean Penn and California Senator Mark Leno during a press conference announcing legislation to create a Harvey Milk Day in California March 3, 2009 in San Francisco, California.
"Penn, who won the Academy Award for best actor for his portrayal of the first openly gay US politician to win high office in Gus Van Sant's Milk, will appear at a news conference in San Francisco to express his support. California senator Mark Leno is behind the bid to have 22 May recognised as a "day of significance".

State governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same bill last year, suggesting that Milk should be honoured only in his home city of San Francisco, where the camera shop owner became known as the "Mayor of Castro Street" due to his influence in the city's gay district.

Leno, the first openly gay man to serve in the California senate, believes Penn's Oscar success suggests that Milk's life and work is of interest to people beyond San Francisco and the community he represented. "Given California's fiscal crisis, the bill was written to have no cost to the state, and state workers and school employees would not get the day off from work", he said in a statement.
Activist Cleve Jones, who was played by Emile Hirsch in Van Sant's film, will also appear at the conference, as will Milk's nephew Stuart Milk. Harvey Milk himself was assassinated in 1978 by Dan White, a fellow city supervisor who had recently lost his position". Source: www.guardian.co.uk