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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal and his foodie scruffy look

Jake Gyllenhaal at Le Fooding, A Culinary Festival in Queens, NY on 24th September, 2010 (c) EOnline

"Jake Gyllenhaal was in New York over the weekend and took his new scruff out on a date to Le Fooding, a culinary festival in the city.
Jake Gyllenhaal as a scruffy Prince Dastan in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (2010)

Despite J.G.'s chin warmer (we like you clean, baby!), we're told Gyllenhaal was hardly hurting for female company as he cruised the festival solo.

"Jake chatted with a group of young women who were all looking enamored with the handsome actor", a witness at Le Fooding tells us. With Gyllenhaal's new movie, Love and Other Drugs (which we hear is pretty fab), we got used to the ladies' man looking all business-man clean, not hipster wannabe.James Franco attending "Howl" New York Screening on 22nd September 2010

I mean, this look is so Jon Hamm meets James Franco meets Brad Pitt meets so three hunks ago". Source: uk.eonline.com

Another bearded hottie fresh today, Robert Pattinson:
"Robert Pattinson arrived at LAX last night after flying from London with Tom Sturridge. The Twilight star's facial hair has grown since his last appearance a month ago at the Emmys afterparty. Rob's been keeping a low profile back home in England, after his PDA-filled stay in Canada with Kristen Stewart". Source: www.popsugar.co.uk

"Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson: blood-sucking vampire or werewolf?
It appears the once clean-shaven poster child received the wrong memo when he stepped out at the Los Angeles airport on Tuesday.

Channelling his inner Jake Gyllenhaal look, the star has sprouted a full, scruffy beard". Source: www.vancouversun.com

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal, Humphrey Bogart, gender issues

"A bearded Jake Gyllenhaal blended into the hipster-heavy crowd at Le Fooding, a culinary festival at PS1 in Queens, N.Y. The plaid-clad actor sipped some Veuve Clicquot champagne and also chatted with a group of women, who all looked enamored of the actor. Gyllenhaal also sampled dishes from star chefs like David Chang and Robert Newton. Also there: Amber Tamblyn, who hung out by the deejay booth". Source: www.people.com

"From the controversial dramas to the light-hearted stories of love, the Women’s Center continues its tradition of Tuesday movie nights with its fall semester film series “Real Women, Real Men, Reel World.”

The series aims to address and understand gender issues.
Still of Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg in "Nights and Weekends" (2008)

“Students can pop in between classes,” said events coordinator Jerri Freeman. “It’s a place to relax and catch a movie.” The movie series focuses on a wide range of issues such as human trafficking, sexual abuse, racism and domestic violence. The center has disclaimers to warn viewers of possible graphic and brutal scenes. “We try and hit cultural, historical accomplishments and relationship issues,” Freeman said. “This semester we have very sad and tragic films.”.Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in "Brothers" (2009) directed by Jim Sheridan

Brothers, Precious, Invictus and Love Actually are a few of the films scheduled as part of the series. “I would want to watch the films and be involved,” said Kathleen Raymundo, a criminal justice student.
Sin by Silence, the only documentary to be shown this semester, tells the story of battered women who are in prison for killing their batterers. “We try to hit heavy and light topics,” Freeman said.
Jake Gyllenhaal kissing Natalie Portman (Tommy Cahill and Grace Cahill) in "Brothers" (2009)

The center tries to tie in films to match a month’s theme if there is a one. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee a film showing for Native American Awareness Month and Brothers, featuring Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal, will be shown during Veterans Awareness Month". Source: www.dailytitan.com

Lauren Bacall and Jake Gyllenhaal attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (2006)

Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe

"On the silver screen he was tough, cool and sophisticated; in real-life, one of Hollywood's legendary lovers. Sexually voracious and habitually unfaithful, Humphrey Bogart had three unhappy marriages before he met the love of his life, Lauren Bacall.
Now it has emerged that before marrying her in 1945, Bogie had bedded an estimated 1,000 women including Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman - but still feared he might be gay.
The extraordinary claim is made in a new biography of the actor, best known for the movie Casablanca. It suggests that during his second marriage to American stage and film actress Mary Philips, Bogart became riddled with uncertainty that made him impotent and question his sexuality - and even drove him to consider suicide.Humphrey Bogart with his third wife Mayo Methot in 1944
Humphrey Bogart with Lauren Bacall at Club Mocambo in 1947

[Mary] Philips insisted on openly maintaining her previous relationships, even spending the night before their marriage in 1928 with a friend of Bogart's 'as a farewell gift'.According to the unflattering new book, Bogart told another friend: 'If only Mary didn't make it worse. When I can't perform she mocks and ridicules me. I should never have married her.'
He is said to have confessed to another confidante to thoughts of killing himself. 'But I never get beyond the thinking stage. I just can't see myself taking a razor to my throat', he reportedly said.
It suggests his mental turmoil stemmed from his childhood. His father, who was a surgeon, beat him and split his lip, then stitched it up so badly that Bogart was left with a permanent lisp.
Gladys George and Humphrey Bogart in "The Roaring Twenties" (1939)

He ran away to Broadway, where during the 1920s he found fame and fortune - and began his incredible catalogue of sexual conquests.Bogart married his first wife, actress Helen Menken, in 1926. Porter claims she had 'a lot of lesbian affairs' and he was 'keeping score with her' - and even that they were sometimes both chased by the same women.
Joan Blondell, an on-off girlfriend of Bogart's, said: 'The zipper was invented in 1926. Bogie demanded one be sewed into all of his pants - sex was a lot faster that way.'Some of his seductions were brief affairs.

Bogart's marriage to Menken lasted only a year. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1937. The next year he wed wife number three, Mayo Methot, who once stabbed him with a butcher's knife. They were known as the 'Battling Bogarts' during their seven year marriage.
Bogart found what Hollywood magazines called 'true love' with Lauren Bacall on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944, and made her his fourth and final wife.It was a happy relationship, although he conducted a long affair with his hairdresser, Verita Peterson. Bogart died of cancer aged 57 in 1957". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Chlöe Sevigny photographed by Terry Richardson for Purple Fashion

Jake Gyllenhaal and Chloë Sevigny as Robert Graysmith and Melanie in "Zodiac" (2007)
Chlöe Sevigny photographed by Terry Richardson for Purple Fashion #14 Fall/Winter 2010

Monday, September 27, 2010

Enchanting cottages for holidays


"A remote cottage on the New England coast is a setting intended to be romantic and haunting. Mildred Natwick plays the owner of the cottage, a lonely widow with an austere manner and seeming intuitiveness for unexplained phenomena, who invites Dorothy McGuire to work as a maid. Miss Natwick’s character displays a kind of sixth sense about people, but we are never given an explanation as to why or how she deftly manipulates the fortunes of those around her, but she has shut herself off from all people until a handsome Robert Young shows up wanting to rent her cottage.

Dorothy McGuire as Laura Pennington in "The Enchanted Cottage" (1945)

Young’s mother and stepfather return to visit, and the camera lets us see, if we haven’t figured it out before, that there is no enchantment in the cottage that made them beautiful, that they are beautiful only to each other.


Perhaps this is what today’s old movie buffs see in this film, when it is taken as an allegory for all the outcasts among us. The possibility of being loved for who you are remains as irresistible as ever". Source: anotheroldmovieblog.blogspot.com


Radio was the place where actors who never performed in a film together, could be paired off like Humphrey Bogart and Dorothy McGuire in “The Valiant” on Screen Guild Theater, a play that had been written by another actor in the show, Robert Middlemass.


Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Middlemass {the Play's Author} & Pedro de Cordoba in "The Valiant" for the Screen Guild Theatre's Radio Programme. September 17th 1945.

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" (1942)

"Casablanca, a largely French colonial creation, is Morocco's economic capital, a grid of wide boulevards and stucco municipal buildings mostly built less than a century ago. Locals and guidebooks alike argue that it's a westernised city, warranting just a brief inspection, before you flee to the more "real" Moroccan pleasures of Fez or Marrakech. Yet even though I visit the country regularly, what struck me - at least initially - was just how Moroccan Casa (as everyone calls it) actually is.
While every large city is a jumble of rich and poor, nowhere seems to embody this tension - and it can feel tense - quite so much as Casablanca.
"Authentic is the word", says Kathy Kriger, a former US Embassy staffer and confessed eccentric who moved here in 1998. Sitting opposite me at Rick's Cafe, the mythical saloon from the Bogart film that she has brought to life in a beautifully restored riad, she continued: "When I arrived in Casa I was overwhelmed by its authenticity. It's such a complex city, and very anonymous because of its economic power. But it's the real deal, like Marrakech was more than 10 years ago." Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan in "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", which was filmed in Morocco, around Ouarzazate, Marrakech and Merzouga.
OSTRICHES — Typical warnings on call sheets in Morocco: 'PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE OSTRICH ON SET TODAY' or 'BEWARE – SNAKES & SCORPIONS CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LOCATION UNDER AND AROUND THE ROCKS. BE CAUTIOUS.' Source: www.lonelyplanet.com

Riad El Nour, middle of Medina Marrakech
The riad El Nour will surprise you with a calm and peaceful atmosphere right in the middle of the crazy Medina of Marrakech. It is only 2 mn from the museum of Marrakech and the Markets 'souks' and 8 mn from the Place Djemma El fnaa.

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