Cozy places, warm clothes, heat at hand

Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as John and Jennifer Grogan in "Marley and Me" (2008)
"Granny fashion is definitely in this year. Cable knit, oversized, warm and snuggly jumpers and cardigans are a comfy-clothes lover's dream. Paired with skinny jeans or a dress and tights, this relaxed and dressed down look was seen a lot on the Fall/Winter catwalks.Katherine Heigl is renowned for her love of a chunky cardigan and stylists for Jennifer Aniston's new film Wanderlust had her wrapped-up warm on the Los Angeles set in a long grey knit jacket with pockets". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

"A longtime knitter, she fantasized about a cozy spot where knitting was the backdrop and visitors could take it from there. When she opened Knit Cafe, little did she realize it would become a pit stop for some of the town's grooviest players.Many of the folks who write and produce the television shows ''Friends'' and ''The Gilmore Girls'' are regulars. Clients of Ms. Hershberger's salon sidle in through the back door -- sometimes with foil and chemicals in their hair. Which perhaps helps explain why, whether you are packing chenille or Baby Cashmerino, knitting at Knit Cafe feels hip. Ms. Greer, who visits daily when she is not out of town on a movie set, may have something to do with that. The actress -- knowing the mousy stigma that can attach to those who make their own woolen goods -- has come up with a rule about knitting in public. ''You can do it, but only if you look really hot'', she said". Source: www.nytimes.com

Cheryl Cole wearing a white Burberry scarf
Cheryl Cole wearing an Aubin & Wills grey wool cap.
Taylor Swift holding a cup of coffee.

If you warm your hands by holding a cup of hot coffee, you will have “warmer” thoughts about the people you meet. Even more importantly, you can train your hands (and other parts of your body) to become warm and/or relaxed with people.

Taylor Swift wearing long gloves.

Lady GaGa - Atsuko Kudo (Latex Rubber Ladies Driving Gloves)

"One of the effects of global warming in the sci-fi film is a totally ice-packed New York City and 20th Century Fox thought we warm West Coast journalists deserved a little taste of a what the East Coast has been suffering. Not too sure what to expect, I pull up and wonder why there is an urn of hot chocolate outside on a table. Jake pulls up in a Mercedes wearing a short-sleeved white tee and asks. "Do you think I'll need a sweater?". Uh, yeah, think so, Jake. The actor was given a long-sleeved sweatshirt and a heavy parka.

Me, my big fur-lined coat and hot chocolate joined Jake and others inside a huge icebox room like a meat locker without the meat, where a big block of ice will act as the screen. We sit on carved blocks of ice topped with some anti-slip material and Jake stands up and looks around.
  "I'm in this movie with Dennis Quaid, Sela Ward, Ian Holm and a great new young actress named Emmy Rossum".

TeenHollywood: Was it actually cold filming it?

Jake: When we filmed the movie we were on a pretty warm stage and faked a lot of cold. You guys are getting it worse here than we were when filming. Source: www.teenhollywood.com


Body Heat After Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) emerges from underwater, Laura (Emmy Rossum) uses her body heat to warm him. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

  Laura (Emmy Rossum) is under a blanket and wears scarf and gloves, she holds and kisses Sam seeking more heat in the library scene.

Taylor Swift's prom wish list doesn't include Jake Gyllenhaal

"When asked which celebrity she'd want to take to a prom, Taylor Swift names a few dream choices. Taylor Swift attended Katy Perry’s birthday bash on 24th October 2009

"It would be a group, and it would be a really fun group," the singer, 21, says on the Jan. 3 episode of the Rachael Ray show. Katy Perry and Russell Brand in New York City on 24th December 2010

"Because all these different reasons. Well, Katy Perry would be so much fun. She’s just like crazy fun and like spontaneous". Source: www.people.com

Scan of Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal in Seitenblicke (Austria) magazine (2010)

Hottest Celebrity Hook Up:
1. Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift

2. Halle Berry’s and Olivier Martinez

3. Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough

4. Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy

5. Avril Lavigne and Brody Jenner

Source: www.theprovince.com

Merry Christmas In a Lonely Place

Humphrey Bogart with Lauren Bacall and son Stephen on Christmas Eve in their Beverly Hills home, 1951. Humphrey Bogart was born on 25th December, 1899 in New York City (Happy anniversary, Bogie!)

"It is unlikely Bogart was ever more frightening, and he doesn’t even touch a gun. Nor was he ever so pathetic, so vulnerable, so damaged. His Dixon Steele lashes out at the universe for the success it took from him, and for the wisdom and sensitivity it refuses to recognize—primarily because he is so quick to temper with those he can’t stand, which is most of the world. In other words, Dix is Nicholas Ray.

Maybe even more impressive is the bringing to life of Gloria Grahame. A wooden and catty actress in her 40s work, In a Lonely Place is her greatest performance, rivaled only by her turn in Minnelli’s The Cobweb. Laurel Gray is calm, composed, collected. Grahame jams her hands in the pockets of her skirt, or knowingly half-smiles at Bogart in a manner suggestive of someone who is as comfortable as she is controlled. Every facial movement is precise and meaningful. Laurel Gray is a failed actress, and like all great Ray protagonists, acutely aware of her own failures.

Dix is an outsider, a man not meant to travel in the comforts of normal society. Unlike Ray’s other protagonists, however, his individuality destroys him. Rather than define his strengths, that marginalization is his greatest weakness. He and Laurel’s loneliness is quelled by their union for only 16 of the film’s 93-minute running time. Their isolation is too powerful to keep them together. In a way, from how she keeps Dix at a distance, and how she faintly wishes their love could have lasted, Laurel knows their fate from the beginning". Source: mubi.com

My favorite films of Bogart are "In a lonely place", "The Big Sleep" and "Casablanca". If I choose "In a lonely place" (based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes that dealt with misogyny written in 1947) is because Dix Steele is in my opinion his most brilliant and devastatingly humane performance. Although John Huston was Bogart's best comrade among all the filmmakers with whom he'd work, Nicholas Ray is behind the camera the poet of love (he was called by François Truffaut "the poet of nightfall", Jean-Luc Godard said even more, identifying Ray with the cinema itself: "the cinema is Nicholas Ray"), and some critics think that Ray was capable of tapping into Bogart's personal anguish, deep disillusionment, moral dilemmas and his own Hollywood image which he'd created time ago.

Being Bogart and Ray second colaboration, the film also reflected indirectly the humilliation Bogart had suffered in the anti-communist hearings by the HUAC. As Dix, a once-glorious, now-struggling screenwriter, he stands for the contradictions he'd faced throughout his career and his fear of loneliness, of not controlling the outer reality and his worst impulses, and Gloria Grahame is Laurel (she was Ray’s wife at the time), a failed actress, the woman who loves him for the decent, intelligent man who really is beneath that terrifying façade of cynicism. One of the themes that Ray perfects echoes in the film is the societal pressure and its fatal consequences over sensitive, dislocated souls as Dix and Laurel.

The dialogue is incredible: "I make it a point never to see pictures I write", "There's no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality" an specially "I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me."

Bogart plays an antihero who drinks too much, who can love but cannot connect and who is capable of dismantling the false values of the film industry itself. Louise Brooks wrote in her essay "Humphrey and Bogie": "he played one fascinatingly complex character, craftily directed by Nicholas Ray, in a film whose title perfectly defined Bogart's own isolation among people. That film was In a Lonely Place. It gave him a role that he could play with complexity, because the film character's pride in his art, his selfishness, drunkeness, lack of energy stabbed with lightening strokes of violence were shared by the real Bogart."

Jake Gyllenhaal - UK Trailer For Source Code

Jake Gyllenhaal - In (Germany) magazine
Jake Gyllenhaal in Skip (Austria) magazine

UK Trailer For Source Code www.BleedingCool.com

Jake Gyllenhaal would do Julianne Moore on screen

Juliane Moore posing as Hera for Pirelli Calendar 2011


"Jake Gyllenhaal has admitted that if he had to have onscreen sex with anyone, he’d pick A Single Man actress Julianne Moore.

“I really think I would do Julianne Moore, kinda hands down. She has great movie sex,” Jake tells us in our video interview.However, when his Love And Other Drugs co-star Anne Hathaway suggests she’d like to partner up with Viggo Mortensen onscreen, Jake’s having none of it.
Jake Gyllenhaal visiting The Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick, Australia

“I’m kind of jealous,” Jake says to Anne. “I really have just devoted my onscreen sex to you. So it’s weird. I’m fine with it. I just care about you.”“I care about you too,” Anne says, “I just care about a lot of people.” Source: www.handbag.com

Michelle Williams opens up about Heath Ledger's death (video interview)

Over two years after his tragic death, Michelle Williams is finally opening up about losing ex-fiancee Heath Ledger.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling at the screening of "Blue Valentine" (on 2nd December 2010)

The 'Blue Valentine' star appeared in an interview on Nightline Tuesday night to promote her film, but also talked about how she reacted immediately after the death, and in the years following. Turns out, in some ways, it was easier then.
"In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone," she said. "It didn't seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I'm sad to be moving further and further away from it."
Williams met Ledger on the set of their film, 'Brokeback Mountain' and had a daughter together. Now, in 'Blue Valentine', she plays a woman suffering from heartbreak again, this time with Ryan Gosling. The film will be released on December 29th. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams coy about dating rumors

Michelle Williams And Ryan Gosling Still Coy About Dating Rumors:
"Despite the fact that they have had many months and approximately one billion press junkets to clear it up, apparently rumors that Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling are dating are exactly what the Blue Valentine stars are aiming for. In an interview airing tonight on ABC News Nightline, host Cynthia McFadden straight-out asked Michelle and Ryan if they are romantically entangled. The answer they gave is half-middle-school, half-mime, and totally unsatisfying.
First Ryan whistled and looked around, pretending as if he hadn’t heard the question. People can see you through the television screen, Gosling! Michelle just grinned silently while Ryan, after calling Williams a “sexy cowboy,” drapes his arm around her and shakes his head while grinning smugly. Whaaa? If we were Gosling’s other alleged girlfriend Blake Lively, we wouldn’t know if we should storm out of Ryan’s life forever or write him a love note.
Unless… maybe that’s the idea? We swear, if this is just a ruse to get us to see Blue Valentine, then it is working perfectly!" Source: www.thefablife.com

Jake Gyllenhaal questioned what is real love making "Love and other drugs"

Jake Gyllenhaal with a fan at Paragon Sports Store in New York City, on 21st December, 2010 (c) paragonsports

"Jake Gyllenhaal accepted a role in Love & Other Drugs because he was questioning his feelings about love. He told BANG Showbiz: “I just think there comes a time in different people’s lives where they say do I have real love? Do I want real love? What is real love? With the script I seemed to be in a time when that was a pressing question. “
He explained: “With this, I very rarely have a moment where I get excited and I go, ‘Somebody wrote this for me and they don’t know it.’ And I felt that way when I read this the first time and I was loving the character at first and then I was crying at the end because I felt like when he says, ‘Sometimes your life doesn’t go the way you expect it too’, and usually it doesn’t.

“And if you follow life and not really think it should be that way then it’ll all work out in the end. That just really moved me to the core and I couldn’t not do it.” - Bang Showbiz Source: www.iol.co.za

"Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift have been voted Hottest Celebrity Hook Up of 2010. The budding romance between the country singer and the 'Love And Other Drugs' beat Halle Berry's romance with Olivier Martinez and Kate Hudson's relationship with Muse singer Matt Bellamy to top the category in 'The X List' poll by gossip website x17online.com" Source: www.nationalledger.com

Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway - Romantic Chemistry in Entertainment Weekly

Scan of Bunte Beauty magazine, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Javier Bardem and Gerard Butler

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Entertainment Weekly, December 2010

"Jake Gyllenhaal has joked that he was attracted to his role in Love and Other Drugs because it involved being in the nude with Anne Hathaway.He jested to Cover Media: "It was out of pity and I was, like, the 45th actor to be offered the role. After everyone heard they had to be naked with Annie they just started turning it down... just kidding.
"It was just a lot of different things [that drew me to it]. I've always wanted to get naked in a movie with Annie again and I felt like this was an opportunity to help her."
"Essentially knowing Ed was at the helm was the biggest thing. I have wanted to work with him over and over again and auditioned for his movies many, many times." Source: www.digitalspy.co.uk

Christina Ricci says Robert Pattinson is a really good kisser in "Bel Ami"

Robert Pattinson intimating with Reese Witherspoon in "Water for Elephants" (2011)


Clip of Christina Ricci on Rachel Ray show. Christina Ricci says Robert Pattinson is a really good kisser in "Bel Ami"