Our generation's James Dean

James Dean on the set of "Giant" (1956).Jake Gyllenhaal as gay cowboy Jack Twist in "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).This is a good moment to look back some of my most beloved posts about James Dean & Jake Gyllenhaal: American Rebels, James Byron and Jake, Jimmy and Jakey, etc.

"The trim actor says what has happened to him has been "pure luck." After all, handsome Henry Cavill, who made a dashing impression in TV's The Tudors as Henry's friend, the Duke of Suffolk, had been Twilight author Stephanie Meyer's original choice to play Edward Cullen, the lovelorn vampire who falls in love with the human Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart).Pattinson also could relax because he has a smaller role in New Moon. This time werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) takes centre stage. In the third movie Eclipse, the two have to jostle over who wins Bella's heart – if she still has one by then.Pattinson seems the most unlikely heart-throb material as he really has grungy tastes and disdain for the high life. But, while he maintains he doesn't like fast cars (his father used to sell them) and that he is single, he was photographed driving a Porsche leaving his co-star Kristen Stewart's house. Maybe they were learning their lines or it could even be a set-up. It wouldn't be the first relationship created to sell a movie.He says he doesn't have a perfect girl, though admits, "she would have to be down-to-earth." So is there a celebrity he's adored? "Um", he stutters, struggling for an answer to yet another trite question. "I like Patricia Arquette in True Romance. She was always my pin-up. I like Linda Blair [from The Exorcist] as well." Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

This generation's James Dean?
"Well, Edward Cullen at least. But we kind of think Robert Pattinson continues to channel James Dean long after Twilight filming is done for the day. Robert Pattinson is definitely following in James Dean's teen heartthrob footsteps. We like to call him the James Dean of this generation".Robert reminds us how much Twilight is like one of James Dean's most popular movies. He says, "Rebel Without a Cause was a big influence on the first [Twilight film] - it influenced the hairdo and stuff... In lots of ways, it has a very similar character arc: An everyday girl brings this relatively strange individual out of his slump." Source: www.limelife.com

Ladies James Dean T Shirt by American Classics by www.honcho-sfx.com"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done." -James Dean, quote about acting.

"[James] Franco studied and admired Dean long before the role came along.

"If I respect (Dean), then I should give him everything that I can," he says.Rydell says he was ready to cancel the project because it was so hard to find someone to play Dean. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Stephen Dorff were considered for the role as the movie languished at Warner Bros. for seven years. Rydell, who got involved with Dean in early 2000, says Franco was hesitant, but he persuaded the actor to take the role.Franco admits he was afraid he might be typecast forever if he captured Dean too convincingly. "It just took fate and confidence on my side to say, OK, this is one facet of me. Obviously, it's not me. I had to do a lot of research to get it. I am somebody different."

His authentic portrayal already has had a major impact on his career. After watching a snippet of Dean, Robert De Niro tapped Franco to play his drug-addict son in City by the Sea, due out in October". Source: www.usatoday.com

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Robert Pattinson emulating his idol James Dean in "AnOther Magazine" - Autumn/Winter 2009.James Franco played legend James Dean in TV film "James Dean" (2001).

James Franco - Black Book photoshoot, (DEC-JAN 09).
James Franco and Emile Hirsch at "Milk" screening by The Cinema Society & Details, Bowery Hotel NYC, on 19th November, 2008.
Marlon Brando with James Dean.

Marlon Brando - "A streetcar named Desire" (1951) poster.Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild" (2007).
Emile Hirsch at "Milk" screening on 19th November 2008.

Emile Hirsch would more than a reminder of Marlon Brando than James Dean (projecting more carnality on-screen, and besides Hirsch personally considers Brando his classic favourite actor): Emile Hirsch - portrait session by Jeff Vespa.Emile Hirsch - Flaunt photoshoot by Michael Muller.

Twilight's chemistry and fanatical fans

"There’s a natural chemistry going on with Kristen. Even doing this sequel, it’s so easy…""He’s always talking in the first one. “I need to make the right decision. I need to do stuff for you, for you, for you.” And he makes a decisive move, which is to leave her, and he completely believes it’s for her own good.But in his heart, he obviously realises it’s completely wrong. And it takes him the whole movie to realise the profundity of his mistake. So that’s what his arc is.
The world forces him to realise he needs to be with Bella, and there’s no way around it".

The Twilight fans are like… I don’t even think ‘devoted’ is the right word. They’re fanatical"."I don’t really care. Everybody in my life knows what’s real and what isn’t. Apart from my mother, who seems to believe every negative thing that’s written about me! Source: www.totalfilm.com

Happy 27th Birthday: Patrick Fugit!

Patrick Fugit as Evra the snake boy in "No parents" clip from "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" (2009).

Patrick Fugit as Corey in "Horsemen" (2009).Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon as Zia and Mikal in "Wristcutters: A Love Story" (2006).Shannyn Sossamon, Patrick Fugit and Leslie Bibb at "Wristcutters" Hollywood premiere on 9th October 2007.

Patrick Fugit and Olivia Wilde in bed together in "Bickford Schmeckler's Cool Ideas" (2006).Emile Hirsch and Olivia Wilde as Johnny and Angela in Glen Capri motel's bed in "Alpha Dog" (2006).

Alison Lohman and Patrick Fugit as Astrid Magnussen and Paul Trout in "White Oleander" (2002).
Patrick Fugit with Jena Malone in "Saved" (2004).

-Mary (Jena Malone): Well, thank you for the ride, Patrick.

-Patrick (Patrick Fugit): Any time. Do you wanna go out sometime?

-Mary: What--are you gonna take me out on your scooter?

-Patrick: Come on. I'm, like, totally adorable.

Jena Malone and Jake Gyllenhaal as Gretchen and Donnie in "Donnie Darko" (2001).-Donnie: Well look, um... uh... you wanna go with me?
-Gretchen: Where do you wanna go?
-Donnie: No, I mean like go with me, like you know... like, that's what we call it here... going together...
-Gretchen: Sure

Twilight Cast talks between takes video

The cast of "New Moon" talks about the best way to pass time hanging out in Vancouver.

MTV: What was your favorite “New Moon” scene to shoot?
Ashley Greene: Of course, the Porsche was incredible, the whole experience of filming [that scene]. Working with Michael Sheen, it was just really funny how he created this whole atmosphere out of the scene and could switch it up. Everything that he did was a little bit inspired, and so the whole Volturi scene with him was really fun to do. [I also love] the whole Cullen scene, when Bella gets a paper cut and Jasper goes crazy — you haven’t seen that side of him yet. The performances are great, and the whole dynamic is really great. That was one of my favorite scenes to watch.

MTV: You guys have become such good friends and have so much downtime between takes. What sort of things do you talk about when the cameras aren’t rolling?Greene: Between takes? Gosh, everything. YouTube was a big topic of conversation; we were sharing YouTube videos. Which was kinda funny, because [we’d be filming a] really intense situation, and then they would yell, “Cut!” and we would have 20 minutes and we’d break out “Kittens Inspired by Kittens.” It’s this little girl reading a kittens book. [Laughs.]
Source: twilightersanonymous.com

Richard Kelly - Going back to Virigina suburbs in The Box

"At the beginning of Richard Kelly’s new film, “The Box” a mysterious parcel is delivered to a suburban family’s doorstep. Inside is a device with a button, which Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) soon learn will earn them $1 million if pressed. It will also cause the death of someone they don’t know.Mr. Kelly, a University of Southern California film school graduate, earned cult status with his first feature, “Donnie Darko”, a 2001 psychodrama about a sleepwalking teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal, then unknown) who receives messages of the pending apocalypse from a man in a giant bunny suit. In person Mr. Kelly comes across like a former fraternity guy, his torn jeans and gelled hair complementing a T-shirt that reveals an obsessive weightlifter. “My dream is to be able to have thought-recognition software that, as I’m exercising, will just write the script,” he said.
His Twitter feed (with more than 5,000 followers) has revealed his love of University of Southern California football, beer pong and the Coen brothers’ movie “A Serious Man.” (“Oy vey! This goy is beyond smitten!” he tweeted.)

Everyone interviewed for this article mentioned the dissonance within Mr. Kelly. “A contradiction would imply something that would be understood”, Mr. Gyllenhaal said, “two things that would be a yin and a yang. He’s not that.” Mr. Gyllenhaal then took a moment to formulate an accurate description. “I sometimes feel like he’s out of the mind of John Hughes. He’s like the missing character in ‘The Breakfast Club’.
Though “The Box” is intended to be a crowd-drawing thriller, it returns Mr. Kelly to the setting and some of the themes found in “Donnie Darko”: Both are set in upper-middle-class Virginia suburbs (Mr. Kelly grew up in Newport News and Richmond) and pose questions through tales of a traditional family in an unusual circumstance. “The suburbs are emblematic of the life we pretend to enjoy”, he said. “All those houses that look like a gigantic machine just squirted them out. Obviously some people do enjoy that life, others do not, but they all try to pretend to.”“I decided to take this gift of a short story and make it about people I care about and respect,” he said. “I’m not interested in telling a story about a couple of selfish jerks who push a button.”“Richard has really commercial taste,” said the producer of “The Box” Dan Lin, a former production executive at Warner Brothers, which has a tradition of making mainstream movies with artistic directors, like Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Oceans Eleven” series. “He can elevate the material without selling out. He still has his own style.”Getting the go-ahead for the movie was helped along immensely by Ms. Diaz, the star of “What Happens in Vegas” and “In Her Shoes”, among others, agreeing to sign on. A close friend of Drew Barrymore, who produced and had a supporting role in “Donnie Darko”, Ms. Diaz was dating Justin Timberlake while he was shooting “Southland Tales,” so she was familiar with Mr. Kelly’s work. “I loved ‘Donnie Darko,’ ” she said. “Richard is an artist; he has such huge ideas.”
And having Ms. Diaz on board helped ground Mr. Kelly. “Cameron would police me,” he recalled. “She would say, ‘Richard, now you need to keep this focused, you need to explain this because this logic doesn’t work.’ Mr. Gyllenhaal has his own take on Mr. Kelly’s willingness to work inside the studio system. “I think what Richard’s saying is, ‘I kind of have to wake up every once in a while, live in reality and not just explore my dreams.’

“I’m amazed by Richard’s courage by how he really believes in something and even when he’s doing something for the studio, he can’t do something not from who he is.”
“I would like to stay in the studio business,” he said, naming Christopher Nolan, who’s moved from “Memento” to “The Dark Knight” as a model. “Because having to depend upon a film festival and trying to get a distributor, having acquisition executives hem and haw over this and that — I’ve done it, it’s scary and I just don’t want to do it anymore.” Source: www.nytimes.com

Matilda Ledger's first school day

Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda, who turns 4 on Wednesday, were spotted arriving at JFK airport in New York City on Saturday (October 24). Source: celebritybabyscoop.com

Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda Ledger before taking a flight at LAX airport, on 23rd October 2009. Pictures by celebrity-gossip.net

"And dating with a kid? "I obviously don't know how to do it." But she's not complaining. "I'm falling more and more in love with her," she says of Matilda, "and I think she deserves the bulk of my attention. We're lucky. I can work. She can go to a good school. There's a lot there for her. And she can know her dad in so many ways, and so many of his friends who will be able to tell her so many stories. His friends, his family—they were a big part of his life, and they will be a big part of her life". Source: abcnews.go.com

Michelle Williams still misses Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams Showbiz Report video