Jake Gyllenhaal relaxing chilling out into the wild with Bear Grylls

Why did you choose to take him to Iceland? Were you looking for a location that might be easier for him to handle?

I thought Iceland would be good because there's lots to do. I was like, "The weather will be cool and it should be pretty mellow. We'll do a bit of climbing, and we'll just kind of jump into it." But he was thrown right in on the deep end. We did have some crazy conditions -- some of the worst weather I've seen for years. The wind was so strong that they literally had a jumbo jet blown sideways at the airport. And there we were, 5,000 feet up on a mountain trying to get our backsides out of there in one piece. Jake was saying, "Where's the relaxing chilling out in the wild?"
I couldn’t believe that Jake decided to crawl across that rope. He was attached to you via a smaller rope tied around his waist -- if he’d fallen, would that have saved him?
That wouldn't have held him. That wasn't a safety line -- that was a helping line for him to balance. And if he ran out of puff, I could have helped him across with that. But I was pretty confident that he'd be OK. We worked out afterwards that it was the equivalent of doing 180 pull-ups. He must have had to sign every kind of contract imaginable before coming on the show. I always have to have kind of a weird conversation with these people's insurance guys, where they ask me, "Can you guarantee us that these actors will be safe?" And I go, "Well, no. I can't." Then there's a long pause on the other end of the telephone. But you can't predict what's going to happen in the wild -- that's what makes the show edgy.

Do you have a lot of Hollywood types approaching you wanting to be on the show in an attempt to prove their toughness?

A few people have asked to be on it. It's nice for actors to do something where they're not covered by safety ropes and helmets. There's a thrill for them to be able to do stuff that is very real.
Overall, what did you think of Jake’s performance in the wild?

You've gotta admire somebody when they step out of their comfort zone and put their life in somebody else's hands. I was very clear with him and said, 'Come on your own and trust me.' He did incredible. What I like about the wild is when you're squeezed, you see what people are made of. Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com



Starting July 11, 2011, watch Man vs. Wild Mondays @ 9PM e/p on Discovery. | http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/man-vs-wild/#mkcpgn=ytdsc1 | In Iceland, a brave but voice-crackingly anxious Jake Gyllenhaal faces his fear when he uses a rope to traverse a VERY deep ravine ... in a snowstorm to boot.


Jake Gyllenhaal guest appearances in Man Vs Wild (Season 6: Episode 1) Man vs. Wild Discovery - Men vs Wild With Jake Gyllenhaal Actor Jake Gyllenhaal helps Bear demonstrate survival techniques in Iceland.

New stills of Kirsten Dunst in "Melancholia"

New 'Melancholia' stills, poster and behind the scenes shots featuring Kirsten Dunst

Marilyn Monroe: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Marilyn Monroe in the unfinished film "Something’s Got to Give" (1962) by George Cukor

Marilyn Monroe arriving to sing Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy, 1962

"On April 10, 1962 - 17 days after her weekend tryst with President John F. Kennedy - Marilyn Monroe was due to have a meeting with Henry Weinstein, the screenwriter of her new film, Something's Got To Give. Alarmed, Weinstein called psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson, who had been treating Marilyn for what he believed was borderline paranoid schizophrenia, and the two rushed to her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. There they found her in bed, in a drug-induced coma.

After Dr Greenson began to treat Marilyn more intensively, he told colleagues that she'd begun to exhibit growing signs of borderline paranoid schizophrenia, just like her mother. Greenson shared with them his concern about borderline paranoid schizophrenia in the case of Marilyn.

Marilyn Monroe and Eli Wallach during the filming of The Misfits (1960) directed by John Huston

The list of drugs she was using by 1961 was staggering. She was taking the antipsychotic Thorazine for the borderline paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed by Dr Greenson, as well as the narcotic painkiller Demerol and barbiturates Phenobarbital, HMC and Amytal, along with large quantities of Nembutal, to which she was addicted, to help her sleep.

Frank Sinatra, with whom Marilyn had an on-off affair, invited the British actor Peter Lawford and his wife Pat to his resort, the Cal-Neva Lodge, for the weekend of July 27, 1962 - less than two weeks before she died. Joe Langford, a Sinatra security employee at Cal-Neva, recalled: 'When Frank saw Marilyn, he was pretty shocked at how depressed she was. 'As soon as he got her settled in, he got on the phone with her psychiatrist [presumably Dr Greenson] and started in on the guy.

"No one will mess with her if she is Mrs. Frank Sinatra. No one would dare", said Frank Sinatra, who considered asking Marilyn Monroe to marry him weeks before she died "in an effort to save her from herself", according to "Sinatra: The Man Behind The Myth" by J. Randall Taraborrelli.

Ava Gardner with Frank Sinatra (they were married 1951-1957)

Frank Sinatra in his Beverly Hills office ("Hollywood Candid" by Murray Garrett)

"What the hell kind of treatment are you giving her? She's a mess. Why isn't she in a sanitarium?" 'He [Sinatra] couldn't believe how broken down she was'. Marilyn's 'vitamin shots' alarmed them all". -Extracted from "The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe" by J. Randy Taraborrelli (2009)

On Capitalism: "Capitalism is schizophrenic because it is interested in profit and it must subvert/deterritorialize all territorial groupings such as familial, religious, or other social bonds. At the same time it relies on the continuous appearance/mythification of social groupings in order to continue functioning smoothly and to re-enforce social ordering needs. Thus, capitalism attempts to re-constitute the need for traditional/nostalgic, or, even, newer forms of social groupings or religious/state institutions.

This deterritorialization/reterritorialization and decoding/recoding is happening at the same time—thus the schizophrenic nature of capitalism. Does this schizophrenia of "consume, be an individual, be unique, may the best man win, the cream rises to the top, the romantic creative individual, mindlessly pursue your desires", etc. cause some of us to break under the strain of an absurd society?" -"Anti-Oedipus" (1972): Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari

Audrey Tatou in Marie Claire magazine, August 2011

For the day of the shoot, we constructed our very own studio in the middle of the hotel bedroom (pretending not to notice the gaffa tape on the Victorian wallpaper),' says Sophie. 'The plain backdrop was perfect to show off the Prada paillette sequins in glorious technicolour!' Source: www.marieclaire.co.uk

Happy 60th birthday, Chris Cooper! October Sky clips with Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Cooper and Jake Gyllenhaal as John Hickam and Homer Hickam in "October Sky" (1999)


Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal) invites his dad (Chris Cooper) to his last rocket launch and let's him know who his real hero is.


When Homer's dad (Chris Cooper) shows up for the Rocket Boys' last launch, Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lets him push the button.

Jennifer Aniston honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, hilarious in Horrible Bosses

Jennifer Aniston attending her Hand and Footprint ceremony outside the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, on 7th July 2011

On Thursday (July 7), Jennifer Aniston joined the rarefied company of actors like Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe when she left imprints of her hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

MARILYN MONROE WITH JANE RUSSELL ON CEMENT AT GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE, 1953

The Hollywood landmark has been a stop on the path to stardom since the golden age of Hollywood.
After an introduction from "Horrible Bosses" co-star Jason Bateman, Aniston greeted a crowd of well-wishers and said, "Man, I have to tell you, I never thought in my wildest dreams that I'd be sticking my body in cement, for a good reason". Source: blog.zap2it.com

Still of Kevin Spacey and Jason Bateman in Horrible Bosses (2011) directed by Seth Gordon

The bosses display an impressive array of vile behavior. In this well-cast movie, each one plays to the strengths of the actors portraying him. Consider Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey), a supercilious sadist who toys with his middle manager Nick (Jason Bateman). Few are better than Spacey at regarding others with contempt and humiliating them with pleasure. Many other actors, given his dialogue in this film, would seem unconvincing and over the top. Spacey demonstrates why he is getting praise right now in London for his work as Shakespeare's Richard III.

Still of Jennifer Aniston as Dr. Julia Harris, D.D.S. in Horrible Bosses

The second boss we meet is Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston), an erotomaniac dentist. Her target is Dale (Charlie Day), her dental assistant, who is engaged to be married, but so what? She wants him, and she will have him, indulging in blatant and aggressive sexual harassment The movie, directed with cheerful and wicked energy by Seth Gordon, is situation slapstick, much of it set (as many desperate lad pictures are) outside the houses of the targets, as the plotters peep and spy. There's a particularly ingenious series of scenes involving Kevin Spacey, one of them finding a legitimate excuse to recycle perhaps the single most famous shot of "Pulp Fiction."

Still of Kevin Spacey as Dave Harken in "Horrible Bosses" (1999)

Spacey is superb, but the surprise for many may be Jennifer Aniston.

Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal as Justine and Holden in "The Good Girl" (2002)

Her career has drifted into such shallows that it's possible to forget how good she was in a film like "The Good Girl".

Here she has acute comic timing and hilariously enacts alarming sexual hungers". Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com

Jake Gyllenhaal portrait by Fiery Sky, Fiery column in October Sky

Jake Gyllenhaal as Homer Hickam in "October Sky" (1999) directed by Joe Johnston

"The silvery cylinder burst forth in a fiery column of smoke and flame... racing the very wind as it soared into the sky... a messenger of these Rocket Boys of Big Creek. These boys who use their brains, not brawn... who play not football, but with Apollo's fire."

Portrait drawn by Fiery Sky Source: www.stars-portraits.com

Frank O'Hara:
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Marion Cotillard in new Dior bag campaign

Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard as Gil and Adriana in "Midnight in Paris" (2011) directed by Woody Allen

Marion Cotillard in Miss Dior advertising campaign, photographed by Mikael Jansson

Marion Cotillard’s latest campaign for Dior — co-starring the chain-handled Miss Dior handbag — breaks Monday in Italian magazine Amica, followed by Madame Figaro and British Elle on July 16. A range of September magazines are slated to carry the sun-dappled ads by Mikael Jansson, including Vanity Fair.