Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch and Chris Marquette in "The girl next door" (2004) directed by Luke Greenfield
"Sure, we had Can’t Hardly Wait and American Pie, Clueless and Ten Things I Hate About You, but it feels like the genre is still strangely empty. And then I remembered 2004’s The Girl Next Door. It’s not your conventional high school movie — it’s filled with gratuitous nudity, copious swearing, drug use, and all kinds of other fun stuff. It’s one of those films that I feel oddly guilty about liking… no. Fuck that. I love this flick.
The story is rife with cliches, and perhaps worse, it fails to tackle any of the difficult choices or themes that are so obvious given the subject matter (Matthew is never bothered by Danielle’s sexual history and it doesn’t touch on any of the harsh realities of the adult film industry). And yet, it works.
That success is in large part due to Stuart Blumberg’s breezy, banter-filled and heartfelt screenplay. Blumberg, who also co-wrote this year’s excellent The Kids Are All Right and is currently working on adapting Jonathan Lethem’s outstanding novel Motherless Brooklyn, injects the film with just the right balance of raunchy sex humor and sweetly honest charm.
It’s a weird combination that, with a few flashes of brilliance, works in spite of itself".
Source: www.pajiba.com
Still of Emily Browning as Baby Doll in "Sucker Punch" (2011)
"It's not hard to get the "incoming metaphor" message, so we're obliged to use a couple of brain cells to figure out the symbolism of placing a young woman in a mental institution that becomes a whorehouse that becomes a series of increasingly cheesy action movies.
Jena Malone plays Rocket in "Sucker Punch" directed by Zack Snyder
A few possible interpretations are:
1. Insane people and sex workers are interchangeable.
2. Women can only triumph over adversity in their dreams.
3. Action movies spring from the imaginations of enslaved, mentally unstable prostitutes.
Source: io9.com
"Everyone has by now heard about the manic, tough-talking Charlie Sheen, the sitcom actor who publicly insults his bosses and makes T-shirt-ready boasts of "winning" and having tiger blood.
But former porn star Ginger Lynn says she got intimate with another side of TV's top-earning actor.
"There's a side of him that I don't think many people hear about" Lynn said -"Especially because right now, everyone's focusing on the negative. I have the soft, the considerate, the sensitive, the warm, the scared, the encouraging sides — I have all these sides of Charlie that no one's talking about."
A hand-written note "To Ging, From one Druggie to Another. Love- C," by Charlie Sheen is inscribed on a page inside the 1991 Consumer Report, The Complete Drug Reference, a gift from Sheen to Porn star Ginger Lynn after her drug incarceration.
There is a baseball cap from his beloved Cincinnati Reds, with Sheen's inscription on the brim. A signed, self-published book of Sheen's poetry. Intimate letters. A vest the actor wore in a film. A strand of pearls he bought her during a trip to Japan.
"Charlie has a very specific, individual, warped sense of humor, which I love", Lynn said from behind the desk of her home office in her spacious house on a Woodland Hills street dotted with handsome, $1-million-plus properties. But their relationship ended a long time ago. "I don't know Charlie today. I haven't seen him in over 15 years."
Referring to the items up for auction, she said: "There's someone out there who's going to appreciate these more than I do today."
Sheen — already a movie star thanks to acclaimed performances in "Platoon" and "Wall Street" — was smitten and pursued her aggressively, she said. But she agreed to a first date only in a group setting.
In August 1990, Sheen showed up unexpectedly at her house with a playful love letter he'd written in rehab (now one of the items to be auctioned): "I'm sitting in bed writing to you from my penthouse suite at the Hotel du Cap. The view up here is incredible. I can see the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, Riverfront Stadium … and I can see you as well, which happens to be my favorite sight of all." He added: "I must admit that I cannot go through this alone. And so far you've been with me every step of the way." The couple decided to enter rehab together.
Lynn insists that despite numerous allegations of Sheen violence against wives and female companions, he never abused her.
"Not one time did he raise his voice", she said. "No violence".
Source: articles.latimes.com
"Tickets to Charlie Sheen's one-man show, Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth, are selling briskly – and, in some cases, selling out –
"Charlie has hired some sort of coach to take his ramblings and form them into something more structured", the source adds. "He's also hired a musical director". Although Scoleri says Sheen, 45, remains "big on his manifesto", he won't be alone with a microphone on the stage. "There'll also be video components to the show, too", Scoleri reveals.
Still unclear – just how involved Sheen's so-called goddesses, Natalie Kenly and Rachel Oberlin, will be. Oberlin's rep tells PEOPLE that she will be taking part in the performance, though would not reveal details. Meanwhile, Scoleri says he "can't confirm or deny if [Sheen will] have the goddesses on the show, but he likes having them around".
Scoleri does say about Sheen, "He's one of the most creative people I've ever met in my life. If you want Charlie Sheen, you'll get vintage Sheen with this show. The guy's a media juggernaut".
Source: www.people.com
Plus, Michelle gave five people she'd want to ride on a train with and Jake explained what he'd do for a girl on a first date. (It's actually a pretty cool date idea!)
“He is an army pilot, and he has tremendous training,” said Gyllenhaal last week while promoting the film. “He knows not always to trust his instinct; he knows to trust instruments in an emergency. But somewhere that instinct kicks in. His (human) instinct is saying don’t go this way ... don’t do that. But then he has to listen to his instruments, as he would as a pilot, and keep his cool.”
Gyllenhaal thinks it’s going to be a treat for audiences to watch similar scenes multiple times – each one just a little different, a la “Groundhog Day.” “I found that the exercise in variation, when forced by the constraints of repetition, is fascinating and kept all of our minds always going,” he said of his fellow actors and director Duncan Jones (“Moon”). 
“When we came to doing the scenes on the train and then coming back to it, we made the choice to kind of make each one, each source code, like its own chapter in a book. So each one had its own name, had its own intention. Within each story, we could improv and vary it. We made lots of different choices all over the place.”
“The screenplay was so taut and tight and so strong when I first read it,” he said. “It really started to change when Michelle was cast and when Duncan came on.” Putting a spotlight on the film’s love story was a big question for everyone. “There’s a sort of very emotional romantic aspect to the choice the character makes,” he said. 
“Duncan, Michelle and I worked on that. It was basically a guy who moves from not being able to ask this girl out for coffee to a guy who can ask this girl out for coffee.” He laughed and added, “He has to get blown up a number of times in the process, but it feels like that when you have to ask out somebody that you’re into.” Source: www.enterprisenews.com
Gyllenhaal, who is plays Colter Stevens, is one of the hottest actors out there right now. He’s done drama, action, comedies and romantic films, but “Source Code” combines them all, and adds a healthy dose of science fiction. “The script that Ben Ripley wrote was so well written that it allowed for variation. It allowed us to play with different things at different times,” Gyllenhaal said. “It was really fun for me.
“We tried to think about almost everything. But we didn’t want to answer everything because we wanted the audience to participate.” Monaghan said she and Gyllenhaal had not even met each other before “Source Code.” “We really hit it off,” she said. Source: www.azfamily.com
"Men forgot the men he played. Women, those who could stand the rakish, insulting representations of their supposed heart's desire, whittled their expectations as he tripped from one gorgeous, spoiled, obtuse version of a man to another.
Matthew McConaughey as Rick Peck in "Tropic Thunder" (2008)
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves arrive at the 'The Lincoln Lawyer' LA Screening at ArcLight Cinemas on March 10, 2011
Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller in "The Lincoln Lawyer" (2011)
"I like quips," he says. "I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive. I also don't think it's half as funny as real behavior — as action, as falling on your face when you're trying to tackle something."
That I want to write down. I have the recorder running, but I pull out a pencil and take a single note. "I haven't seen you touch a pen to paper all weekend," he says.
Jake Gyllenhaal bike riding with Matthew McConaughey in Malibu on 26th July 2006
Jake Gyllenhaal out with a friend in Los Angeles, on 26th March 2011
Stills of Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in "Water for Elephants" (2011)
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play Dean and Cindy in "Blue Valentine" (2010)
"Gyllenhaal hopes moviegoers will respond to his love story with Michelle Monaghan, set on a speeding train bound for destruction.
“In the end, it’s romantic. The choice for this guy is not like, ‘Oh, am I really going to save the world?’ The choice is that he starts as a guy essentially in someone else’s body who is nervous to ask this girl to get a cup of coffee and then has to get blown up eight times to realize that maybe he’s got to ask this girl out for a cup of coffee. So I do relate to that". Source: www.bostonherald.com
Jake Gyllenhaal leaving a motorcycle shop in Los Angeles on 25th March 2011
"Reese Witherspoon married Jim Toth early Saturday evening at her 6-acre ranch in Ojai, Calif., UsMagazine.com has confirmed.
Wearing a custom-designed Monique Lhuillier gown, the actress, 35, exchanged vows with CAA agent Toth, 40, in front of 120 family members and friends (including Renee Zellweger, and Alyssa Milano, and Tobey Maguire) in the front courtyard of the Ojai house. 
Witherspoon's best friend, Heather Rosenfield, served as matron of honor, and her kids with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe -- daughter Ava, 11, and son Deacon, 7 -- took part in the ceremony. The Oscar winner's young nieces served as flower girls.
Reese Witherspoon dating Jake Gyllenhaal in 2009
Still of Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in "Water for Elephants" (2011)
The star's rep confirmed their engagement to Us on Dec. 28, 2010. "They are extremely happy", the rep said.
About a week later, Witherspoon debuted her engagement bling -- a 4-carat, $250,000 Ashocka cut diamond ring from William Goldberg -- at a Laker's Game". Source: www.usmagazine.com
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal surprises students at the Harvard Westlake’s Film Festival event, co-sponsored by New York Film Academy. On Friday, March 18, 2011 The New York Film Academy awarded scholarships to the deserving filmmakers in an effort to encourage them with their storytelling efforts. Based on the films at the festival, they’re well on their way to becoming great filmmakers!
Jake Gyllenhaal with Jimmy Kimmel at Jimmy Kimmel Live show on 23rd March, 2011
Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch and Chris Marquette in "The girl next door" (2004) directed by Luke Greenfield
The story is rife with cliches, and perhaps worse, it fails to tackle any of the difficult choices or themes that are so obvious given the subject matter (Matthew is never bothered by Danielle’s sexual history and it doesn’t touch on any of the harsh realities of the adult film industry). And yet, it works.
That success is in large part due to Stuart Blumberg’s breezy, banter-filled and heartfelt screenplay. Blumberg, who also co-wrote this year’s excellent The Kids Are All Right and is currently working on adapting Jonathan Lethem’s outstanding novel Motherless Brooklyn, injects the film with just the right balance of raunchy sex humor and sweetly honest charm. 
It’s a weird combination that, with a few flashes of brilliance, works in spite of itself". Source: www.pajiba.com
Still of Emily Browning as Baby Doll in "Sucker Punch" (2011)
Jena Malone plays Rocket in "Sucker Punch" directed by Zack Snyder
"Everyone has by now heard about the manic, tough-talking Charlie Sheen, the sitcom actor who publicly insults his bosses and makes T-shirt-ready boasts of "winning" and having tiger blood. 
But former porn star Ginger Lynn says she got intimate with another side of TV's top-earning actor.
"There's a side of him that I don't think many people hear about" Lynn said -"Especially because right now, everyone's focusing on the negative. I have the soft, the considerate, the sensitive, the warm, the scared, the encouraging sides — I have all these sides of Charlie that no one's talking about."
A hand-written note "To Ging, From one Druggie to Another. Love- C," by Charlie Sheen is inscribed on a page inside the 1991 Consumer Report, The Complete Drug Reference, a gift from Sheen to Porn star Ginger Lynn after her drug incarceration.
There is a baseball cap from his beloved Cincinnati Reds, with Sheen's inscription on the brim. A signed, self-published book of Sheen's poetry. Intimate letters. A vest the actor wore in a film. A strand of pearls he bought her during a trip to Japan.
"Charlie has a very specific, individual, warped sense of humor, which I love", Lynn said from behind the desk of her home office in her spacious house on a Woodland Hills street dotted with handsome, $1-million-plus properties. But their relationship ended a long time ago. "I don't know Charlie today. I haven't seen him in over 15 years."
Referring to the items up for auction, she said: "There's someone out there who's going to appreciate these more than I do today."
Sheen — already a movie star thanks to acclaimed performances in "Platoon" and "Wall Street" — was smitten and pursued her aggressively, she said. But she agreed to a first date only in a group setting.
In August 1990, Sheen showed up unexpectedly at her house with a playful love letter he'd written in rehab (now one of the items to be auctioned): "I'm sitting in bed writing to you from my penthouse suite at the Hotel du Cap. The view up here is incredible. I can see the Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, Riverfront Stadium … and I can see you as well, which happens to be my favorite sight of all." He added: "I must admit that I cannot go through this alone. And so far you've been with me every step of the way." The couple decided to enter rehab together.
Lynn insists that despite numerous allegations of Sheen violence against wives and female companions, he never abused her.
"Tickets to Charlie Sheen's one-man show, Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth, are selling briskly – and, in some cases, selling out –
"Charlie has hired some sort of coach to take his ramblings and form them into something more structured", the source adds. "He's also hired a musical director". Although Scoleri says Sheen, 45, remains "big on his manifesto", he won't be alone with a microphone on the stage. "There'll also be video components to the show, too", Scoleri reveals.
Still unclear – just how involved Sheen's so-called goddesses, Natalie Kenly and Rachel Oberlin, will be. Oberlin's rep tells PEOPLE that she will be taking part in the performance, though would not reveal details. Meanwhile, Scoleri says he "can't confirm or deny if [Sheen will] have the goddesses on the show, but he likes having them around".
Scoleri does say about Sheen, "He's one of the most creative people I've ever met in my life. If you want Charlie Sheen, you'll get vintage Sheen with this show. The guy's a media juggernaut". Source: www.people.com
