Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal have split, a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE. No further details were given.
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The National Board of Review has kicked off the official Up In The Air bandwagon by giving Jason Reitman's film four major awards -- Best Picture, Best Actor (actually a tie vote between UITA's George Clooney and Invictus's Morgan Freeman), Best Supporting Actress (Anna Kendrick) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Reitman, Sheldon Turner).
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http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/12/up_in_the_air_n.php
"What's self-bearding?"
Self-bearding : a closeted gay man suggests that he was aroused by (or really enjoyed rubbing up against) various women (actresses, models and fans).
I see, thanks 9:29 PM.
Jake Gyllenhaal's writer mother Naomi Foner is campaigning for her son to become the new Danny Kaye.
Mother and son used to watch Kaye's movies when he was a child and Foner is always trying to convince the actor to revamp the iconic funnyman's most famous roles.
He says, "(We'd watch) Five Pennies, The Court Jester and Hans Christian Anderson... My mother was a big Danny Kaye fan and would always play me these movies. She is, in fact, the person who always calls me up and is like, 'You should redo The Court Jester!'"
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1262626/
I watched Jimmy Kimmel last night and I kept thinking when Ashley Greene was on (I LOVED the bit about her being obsessed with her dog who was outfitted in a cheerleader outfit--and then there was pic of her dog wearing a birthday hat) if Jake was really straight, he should date someone like Ashley! She's young, cute and has no baggage.
Another beautiful woman who's a very good actress (but a very odd person) is Angelina Jolie.
Ted said on Twitter tonight he was going to do a Toothy BI but it got trumped by the Oprah BI (oh it's her--come on) that he ran today. He said Toothy BI will run next week.
fadewave: Headline on People website: "Jake Gyllenhall drops the G word." The 1st G word that came to mind was "gay".
about 10 hours ago
LOL the Pittsburgh Steelers have a longstanding rivalry with guess who - the Dallas Cowboys. They've played each other in three Super Bowls, a record for the most times that two teams have met there. In fact the feelings against each other are so strong that the Pittsburgh/Dallas rivalry served as a backdrop to the 1977 film Black Sunday, parts of which were filmed during Super Bowl X.
Hmmm, perhaps after so many years of being with each other and getting to be a routine, Jake figured a little sports rivalry with Austin might thrust their sex life into high gear again!
He said Toothy BI will run next week.
How can Oprah be more important than Toothy?!? :)
Well, Oprah IS Oprah. Ted feels she trumps Toothy.
I don't think so--at least not in the BI universe.
10:09 PM,
Oprah will kick your ass! :)
Jake's birthday is coming up on the 19th. Remember, Ted LOVES to post juicy Toothy blind items near or on Jakey Poo's birthday! Last year's were confidentiality agreements with guys giving him hand jobs in his trailer, and making a girl hooker snort coke off his dick then her giving him a blow job and he couldn't come i.e. "painfully unnatural and not exactly enjoyable" ~ lol I wonder what's in store this year.
Hmmm, perhaps after so many years of being with each other and getting to be a routine, Jake figured a little sports rivalry with Austin might thrust their sex life into high gear again!
That could explain why Jake decided to have lower back tattoo ;)
It couldn't have anything to do with Pittsburgh and the Steelers' fans being crazy to the point of obsessive about their NFL team could it? I think it was nice homage to the people of Pittsburgh. Nothing more.
It couldn't have anything to do with Pittsburgh and the Steelers' fans being crazy to the point of obsessive about their NFL team could it?
Nah.
I HATE the Steelers. Every time I see their name it makes me want to give them a good pounding.
I want Aural's drugs.
Did anyone see "Brothers"?
New pics at IHJ Brothers Q&A at the Arclight
^^^ Pictures from Thursday? Is that press conference rags are talking about?
To my folks, a tattoo is a sign that one has gone to prison or comiserated with the prison crowd. It's not somebody very intellectual - educated - elevated etc. who sports tattoos.
Idk, IHJ has it filed under "Public Appearances, Various Events" - not Press Conferences or Premieres.
To 9:02 and everyone else: the tattoo was a temporary wash-off tattoo and it was a joke, people. Sheesh
The Arclight is a theatre in LA. The press conference, wasn't it mentioned it took place in a hotel?
It was a joke Jake decided to make, so that tramp stamp tattoo does mean something to Jake. Merkins and tattoos.
The press conference, wasn't it mentioned it took place in a hotel?
Please keep in mind that press conference info came from rags and that different rags "reported" different things about it.
9:19, I doubt anyone would call the Arclight a hotel.
9:23 AM
Rags don't care about facts, and you should read posts first:
Grazia, Australia: Just 10 minutes after walking into a Beverly Hills hotel suite to talk about his new film, Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal uses the one word that finally ends rampant speculation about his private life: he refers to Reese Witherspoon as his “girlfriend”. ... Jake, 28, was happy to talk to Grazia about the children in his life...
People magazine: Amid reports of "are they or aren't they still a couple," Gyllenhaal, 28, used the buzz word of the week – girlfriend – shortly after arriving at a Beverly Hills Hotel suite Thursday for a press conference for his new film Brothers.
Us Weekly: "Merkins aside, Gyllenhaal proved his maturity at a press conference earlier that day when he talked about growing up because of the children in his life.
9:37, WTF does that have to do with the Arclight?! I'm going by what IHJ has for the pic caption - and nobody would mistake a theater for a hotel. Lol more than 1 event can take place in 1 day and at more than 1 location, you know.
"you should read posts first"
9:37 you should take your own advice first.
9:37, WTF does that have to do with the Arclight?!
Why don't you read posts?
Please note question marks in "Pictures from Thursday? Is that press conference rags are talking about?" ?
I'm going by what IHJ has for the pic caption - and nobody would mistake a theater for a hotel.
Tabloids would twist facts as they please -see 9:37 AM post.
LOL the person asking about "pics on Thursday?" was asking about the new IHJ pics and if they were from the press conference. The pics are captioned as being from the Arclight and are filed under Public Appearances, Various Events" - not Press Conferences. You obviously have a problem reading posts and understanding that I am just relaying info as it is displayed on the IHJ media site.
10:00 AM
I suggested that TABLOIDS used the opportunity and turned "Brothers Q&A at the Arclight" into a "press conference where Jake talked about his "girlfriend"".
Yeah right..tabloids changed the well-known historical Arclight in Hollywood to the Beverly Hills Hotel or some other hotel in Beverly Hills. And ONLY ONE promo event per day for the Brothers movie is allowed. Heaven forbid they have two different events at two different places, or if IHJ misidentified the pics. Horrors!
Why are you playing stupid?
Do you have info about other promo events?
According to twitter there was a Brothers press conference Thursday in LA:
RossiPR: 9 am @starlightonline with @followbailee and @corbinbleu at Shriners Childrens Hospital, then HFPA "Brothers" Press Conference @followbailee
1:20 AM Dec 3rd from UberTwitter
http://twitter.com/RossiPR/status/6298810897
RossiPR
RossiPublicRelations
Bio Publicist/Producer
IHJ misidentified this pics.
According to twitter there was a Brothers press conference Thursday in LA
Thanks. Did you see any articles about the press conference, any new info about Brothers or actors?
Yeah right..tabloids changed the well-known historical Arclight in Hollywood to the Beverly Hills Hotel or some other hotel in Beverly Hills.
Are you saying that tabloids care about facts? LMAO!
Variety Screens 'Brothers'
Actors Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal and producer Ryan Kavanaugh attend a Q&A following the 2009 Variety Screening Series presentation of 'Brothers.'
More pictures of Jake and Tobey
10:15 if you have a problem with the pic description/info on the pics and their location, then take it up with IHJ. All I did was provide what what given as the caption. You're exhausting. You make people like me, who provide links and supply the accompanying info, not want to do it anymore. Not when people like you nitpick and have a chip on your shoulder and have to argue about the subject - I'm just the fucking messenger. Got it? Jeezus. Good bye and good riddance.
There was also a screening of Brothers followed by a Q & A. At Arclight Theater. On Thursday. There were several tweets about it.
10:24. WTF would be the purpose of changing the location of the press conference from the Arclight theater to a hotel? Also btw, Grazia is NOT a tabloid.
Tobey looks younger than Jake in those pictures.
Actors Tobey Maguire (L) and Jake Gyllenhaal attend a Q&A following the 2009 Variety Screening Series presentation of 'Brothers' at ArcLight Cinemas on December 3, 2009 in Hollywood, California.
Jake really shouldn't have his hair so short. LOL I thought he had a big bald spot on the side of his head when he was on Kimmel. In the Variety pics he has a matching bald spot on the other side.
All I did was provide what what given as the caption.
We are grateful for the link.
I have no idea what you expect from posters here - not to comment info you provided?
Also btw, Grazia is NOT a tabloid
Grazia, Australia IS a tabloid - latest cover story: "Jen & Orlando: More than just friends?".
I guess there must be some sort of major language barrier here since people can't grasp the notion of doing a press junket in a hotel suite and a question and answer session following a film screening in a cinema.
Still playing stupid, 10:41 AM?
The tattoo was only temporary, created for his talk show appearance in consultation with the show's producers during a routine pre-interview that also settled on a story he told about meeting a fan at a Steelers game.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09339/1018660-471.stm#ixzz0YpVBmlUw
^^^
Mr. Gyllenhaal told Mr. Kimmel that he knew he was in Steelers country upon his arrival at Pittsburgh International Airport, where he saw a woman on the tram to baggage claim with Steelers tattoos on both ankles.
The actor is loosely attached to star in a long-in-development movie biography of Beaver Falls native Joe Namath.
During his stay for filming of "Love and Other Drugs," which also stars Anne Hathaway, Mr. Gyllenhaal was spotted all over the city, visiting restaurants, coffee shops and jogging through Downtown. He was on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to promote the movie "Brothers," which arrived in theaters yesterday.
^^^
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal, in Pittsburgh for three months this fall while filming the movie "Love and Other Drugs," showed his affection for his temporary home on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" early yesterday when he showed off a tattoo of the Steelers logo on his lower back.
:)
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal, in Pittsburgh for three months this fall while filming the movie "Love and Other Drugs," showed his affection for his temporary home...
I think that was a nice touch :)
I think that was a nice touch
It sure was!
11:12 AM - LOVE when trolls are pissed off! lol
Kimmel Tattoo Boys are awesome! And they all have warm hands!
Hands?! He doesn't know we used our tongues?
Dear Ted:
I've been reading your column for a couple of years now and I think I finally have all of the lingo down! Totally love you. Anyway, when reading about Toothy and all of the other beards out there in H'wood, there's something I just don't get. Are all the photos showing the "happy couple" together just staged photo ops? Do they actually live together but go do their "thing" with somebody else each night? Do they meet up once a week for a jog and/or requisite tall latte for a good paparazzi encounter so they can have photos posted of them with the opposite sex? And does the public/Industry really care if Toothy et al swing the other way? I care more that they live a lie in the public eye instead of just coming out with it—is that not the general consensus? And why?
—Mh
Dear Tough Guesses:
Yes—time with the beard is to help sustain their double life. Photo ops very much help keep up appearances. Gotta look all domesticated, ya know?
Dear Ted:
Do you think now that Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon have broken up, Toothy Tile will come out to the public?
—You'reClearlyNeverGoingToPrintThis
Dear Dare Me:
What do the three have to do with each other?
Bitch Back!
Hands?! He doesn't know we used our tongues?
What a dedication! Looking forward to hanging out with the boys!
Odd that Jake stayed after his time in the limelight on Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel Live - LOL picture
What's he doing with his left hand? :)
Playing with his little Jakey!
There is nothing little about my Little Jakey!
Actors Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal and producer Ryan Kavanaugh attend a Q&A following the 2009 Variety Screening Series presentation of 'Brothers.'
fflow: OMG Jake Gyllenhaal reveals his sexuality:
http://i45.tinypic.com/10wqvdk.jpg
5 minutes ago
Ok post it correctly. I would love to hear that interview.
Which interview?
"Brothers" reviews
58 % Tomatometer
Reviews Counted:78
Fresh:45
Rotten:33
Average Rating:6.2/10
Both NY Times and LA Times paned it. Major critics gave Brothers negative reviews.
Maguire, who soared as the clever crime-fighting Spider-Man, has a tough time moving from model soldier to major head case at the pace Sheridan has set. And the cloying menace that served him well in "The Good German" and might have helped fill in some of the missing emotional pieces in "Brothers" eludes him.
Softness comes naturally to Gyllenhaal -- particularly nice are Tommy's moments with the kids, whose sibling spats serve to remind him of his own -- but it's not a particularly good fit for Portman. She is somehow more believable the colder it gets, whether head sheared and battle ready in "V for Vendetta" or tightly corseted with claws out in "The Other Boleyn Girl."
In "Brothers," she seems more girlfriend than wife, more baby-sitter than mother, and the will-they-or-won't-they with Gyllenhaal is so without fire that any thoughts of bed are more likely to be about sleeping than sex.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-brothers4-2009dec04,0,2149118.story
CelebSightings: RIGHT NOW: Reese Witherspoon & huge Nordic-lookin guy in liquor store across from Abbot's Habit - Venice) (Fri 10:29pm)
http://twitter.com/CelebSightings/status/6374479006
Liquor store?! LOL, I don't think so.
Friday's opening weekend numbers:
1. The Blind Side (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,326 runs] Fri $6.8M, Est Wkd $21M
2. New Moon (Summit) Week 3 [4,124 runs] Fri $5.1M, Est Wkd $16M
3. Brothers (Relativity/Lionsgate) NEW [2,088 runs] Fri $3.6M, Est Wkd $9.5M
4. Armored (Sony) NEW [1,914 runs] Fri $2.4M, Est Wkd $7M
5. Old Dogs (Disney) Week 2 [3,425 runs] Fri $2.0M, Est Wkd $7M
6. 2012 (Sony) Week 4 [3,220runs] Fri $2.0M, Est Wkd $6M
Deadline Hollywood
I'm surprised by the NY Times. I don't remember if the same critic reviewed "Brokeback Mountain" (the review was the BIG reason why I ran to see BBM--it was rapturous--plus I did like Ang Lee).
As he showed with “In America,” Mr. Sheridan has an especially good touch with children, and the scenes with Ms. Geare and Ms. Madison — grieving, playing, fussing with each other — are the finest and truest in the movie. Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Portman, whose role is frustratingly if unsurprisingly underwritten, draw nuances out of the charged air between them. But the characters in “Brothers” are more shadows and ideas than flesh and blood. They lack specific gravity, a sense of rootedness in family and social reality that would give ballast to the film’s intense emotions.
These explode into view once Sam comes home. It turns out that he was not killed at all — a somewhat improbable plot development — but rather held hostage and treated with unspeakable cruelty by his captors. Haunted by what he has seen and done, he walks through his house like a ghost and convinces himself that Tommy and Grace were sleeping together during his absence. Mr. Maguire’s performance is disciplined but also strained, as he tries to convey the anguish of a man whose personality has been thrown off balance by circumstances.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04brothers.html?scp=1&sq=brothers%20movie&st=cse
Hmmm. Remember Ted's digidance post the week of 10/15/07? Jake and Austin in NY, Jake was in NY doing promo for Rendition. Jake did the Letterman show among other shows that week. Ted claimed that someone followed Jake from the Ed Sullivan theater to whever and saw them. Well these pics of Austin dated 10/16/07 while going out to dinner with a cast member while filming Informers was posted o n spooky's LJ. Idon't know what dates the 15th or 16th was but if it was a Monday and a Tuesday, wehre was the informers being filmed then? I thought it was LA/Uruguay, not NY. Ted's post appeared at the end of that same week, the 17th? IHJ has Jake at the Sullivan theater on the 15th for taping, so one would assume that it was the same week. Why would Austin fly to NY while in the middle of shooting? Unless Jake was at the Sullivan theater another day and Austin had a break in filming but Ted posted that the same week a Friday, so he had to have the "tip" Wednesday the latest because I signed up to get Ted's column the night before, i got that on a Thursday.
Was Austin in NY one day and back on set the next? And his hair, that wasn't mentioned at all in the "tip".
Curious.
http://spooky2th.livejournal.com/152794.html
October 15, 2007 - Monday
October 18, 2007
Jake Gyllenhaal sure as hell lives to get the gossies in gonzo overdrive. Why, just this week, right after J.G. did Letterman, all shy 'n’ stuff, he pulls the same don’t-look-at me routine down in the Village—almost.
Desk Stealth just followed J.G. and his gorgeous amigo, a dead ringer for Austin Nichols (would just go ahead and say it was A.N. here, but, like, maybe Jakey’s pullin’ a Natalie Portman, choosing to hang with an Austin doppelgänger just to throw us snit-snoops off the mark?) for several blocks.
Mon, 15 October 2007 at 10:43 pm
Jake Gyllenhaal hypes up his new film Rendition at the The Late Show with David Letterman taped at NYC’s Ed Sullivan Theatre on Monday.
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2007/10/15/jake-gyllenhaal-letterman/
I wonder if the huge nordic looking dude with Reese is this guy who is always with Ryan?
http://x17online.com/gallery/view_gallery.php?gallery=Phillippevilla070909_X17
I swear he's a body guard or something because when Ryan is out clubbing he is always with him.
The chin buying booze for Ryan? LOL
So it was a monday and the pics on Spooky's journal are dated 10/16 and they are from L.A.
So either Austin was in NY on Monday and flew back to L.A. the next day or the sighting was BS.
Obviusly Austin had his hair that way and yet that was not mentioned. If he was wearing a hat, that would be mentioned. They would have saud a deadringer except for the hair. He couls have been in NY for the weekend-Monday but the hair got me. He was in the middle of filming a movie.
I think someoen fowarded a BS sighting to Ted based on the lenght of his pants the day he was filming Letterman, period.
Ted didn't check because like other Jake and Austin sightings at the time : The trailer and Jar/TMZ and Jar/Defamer, were the sightings legit or did they know that Jake's handlers have a history of not resonding or complaining abiut stuff like that and that was more than ok with the E lawyers because they knew there would be silence on his end.
Just thinking. Also that "sighting" of Reese at a liquior store is most likely false but I do remember tweets of Reese in Venise solo a few weeks back and the nordic almost sounds like one of those big gusy Jake and Reese were seen with in Venice earlier in the year, the one with the wool hat and looked like John Lithgow.
Was Austin in NY one day and back on set the next? And his hair, that wasn't mentioned at all in the "tip".
A blonde haired Austin, having diner with Amber Heard and Lou Taylor Pucci, oct 16, 2007.
Austin Nichols Journal
Anne and her boyfriend:
JustJared
Austin would have been in NYC during the weekend including Monday 15 and be back in LA on Tuesday 16. It's perfectly possible.
So his hair wasn't blonde on Monday? We need the shooting schedule for informers for that week, the fact that his hair wasn't mentioned makes me suspicious.
That link doesn't work 2:28. Why would shw be in Venice buying booze? They have plenty of booze stores in Brentwood/LA/SM. Wasn't Jake always spotted there when he went bact to LA recently?
Probably BS.
True, 2:44PM but I would think the "tipster" recognizing Austin right away would have mentioned his hair instead of is jeans, cough.
Unless he was wearing a hat and that wasn't mentioned either.
I think Ted took a risk well not really, Jake's people never complain to E about anything.
I also think the "jeans tipster" took a chance because they didn't know where Austin was then and took a chance that it would never come up. They stil have that Monday to fall back on but now that I have the source of that pic I can always look further.
So his hair wasn't blonde on Monday?
Ted's post - there was no reason to describe someone's hair.
Anne and her boyfriend:
JustJared
They seem to love each other. Look how they are holing eachother's hands! AWW! :) For all the JIS/JIB believeers and Jake/Anne lovers...J/A probably will not happen. I wish Anne and Adam good luck. I hope he won't end up being a dissapointment like her stealing ex.
2:50 Why not? His hair would be such a shock to someone who ecognized Austin since he never as far as I know never had his hair like that before.
Wouldn't they say he looked like AN but his hair looked like Billy Idol??
Just odd but not surprising.
2:50 Why not
Baseball hats? I'm sure Jake and Austin wanted to stay incognito.
So to stay incognito they wouldn't wear baseball caps , ok.
They would, because that way they could hide their eyes.
3:08 PM, wearing bags over their heads wasn't an option.
J&A could have been wearing hoodies, I remember there was a sighting from what, 2006 I think, of Jake and another guy in hoodies in the Village that people at the time speculated could have been Austin.
As for the photos in LA, we all know the dates on photos are often the dates they get released/posted, not the dates they were taken.
Finally, later that week is when there was all that chatter from that JJ guy about a baby being born, and some people who believe in BT and thought the guy might be onto something speculated that Austin headed back to LA for that while Jake headed on to Rome.
Jake wouldn't miss THAT :)
IHJ - 'Brothers' LA Press Conference
^^^
"Brothers" Press Conference
12/03/2009 - Four Seasons Hotel
Beverly Hills, CA United States
WireImage
"Brothers" Press Conference - Four Seasons Hotel, 12/03/2009
People magazine: ... Gyllenhaal, 28, used the buzz word of the week – girlfriend – shortly after arriving at a Beverly Hills Hotel suite Thursday for a press conference for his new film Brothers.
Two "Brothers" press conferences in LA on Thursday? I don't think so, People magazine is lying.
The Four Seasons hotel is in BH. People magazine was qouting from Grazia, who only described it as a BH hotel suite. Grazia was one of the news agency that was there I assume.
Since we now know there was a pres conf. we should be getting a transcript. They said that he made the comments 10 minutes into the news conf.
5:00, some advice. Don't try to make a living by being a PI. You'll starve.
People magazine was qouting from Grazia
No, People magazine was greedy so they changed
- "Beverly Hills hotel suite" into "Beverly Hills Hotel suite"
- "Jake, 28, was happy to talk to Grazia" into "a press conference"
Grazia asked Jake the question at the news conference so they were the one that posted it on their site, People picked it from there rushing, lazy and not bothering to find put which BH hotel suite the press conf. was.
You can't be that stupid. There was a newsconfeence, they probably were told them no personal questions but IMO Grazia found a way to sorta ask by framing a question related to the movie.
Jake took the bait, made the comments about his GF and sister but then shut down any further questions by talking about news cycles and he doesn't have to comment on them.
geez
There was a newsconfeence...
... and the only entertainment reporters were from an Australian tabloid? Really?
So Grazia was lying ABOUT BEING AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE?? lol!!
No, Grazia didn't mention press conference.
"10 minutes after he walked into a BH hotel suite to talk about his movie Brothers" I guess you are so dumb you need to have it spelled out to you. I guess he was wandering BH and just walked into a hotel and blurted it out and Grazia was there!, LOL!!
We will hear more about the press conf. Grazia just ran and posted that part ecause of the rumors and he answered them directly because THEY asked him.
Quit while you are ahead.
6:10 PM
The only entertainment reporters at the press conference were from an Australian tabloid? US tabloids and entertainment TVs weren't interested in Brothers press conference?
Review in a Hurry: War is a hell that's contagious. That's the theme running through this tale of a family nearly ripped apart by the Afghanistan conflict. But deft acting—hello Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman—saves the flick from wallowing too deeply into melodrama.
B+
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/movie_reviews/b156397_review_afghan_war_killer_performances.html
he answered them directly because THEY asked him
Yeah, right, Jake decided to forget about "no personal questions" just for them.
Friday's opening weekend numbers:
Deadline Hollywood
Which brings us to Relativity/Lionsgate's newcomer Brothers and the many things going against it box office-wise like a grim storyline cursed by its Afghanistan/Iraq war connection. But that was supposed to be offset by the lure of the combined starpower of Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man), Natalie Portman (Star Wars prequels) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Day After Tomorrow), all directed by Jim Sheridan. The pic ended Friday with a gross just under $3.6 million from 2,088 plays. But the paltry per screen average of $1,700+ indicates little audience excitement for the Oscar-touted sparks among this quartet. Sad that, though the grosses took a huge spike around 6 PM PT indicating that the film's under age-25 core audience came out for the late shows. It's possible there'll be a Saturday bump. If so, then Brothers should end the weekend with $10+M. Let the debate start over how much better or worse this movie would have done had it starred an older generation of actors.
Mad-Dog Maguire
Tobey Maguire becomes a rage hound when he comes home from Afghanistan in Jim Sheridan's Brothers. Consumed with self-hate over having chosen to save his own life over a comrade's and convinced that his wife (Natalie Portman) has been doing his younger brother (Jake Gylllenhaal), he turns into something feral. His eyes go white and he uncorks it like Bruce Dern did in Coming Home, only more so.
It's thrilling and terrifying at the same time, like molten lava pouring out of a volcano and people running for dear life, but you can't turn away. By the end of the film Maguire's Spider-Man thing has just given up and scampered out the window. At the end you're thinking, "wow...didn't know Maguire had it in him." It's the best performance he's ever given.
Otherwise I had believability problems with two major story points in the film.
This remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 original is about a younger "bad" brother (Gyllenhaal) stepping into the familial shoes of his older "good" brother (Maguire) after the latter disappears during an enemy skirmish in Afghanistan. My first problem was with the military officially telling Portman that her husband is dead when in fact he's M.I.A. because -- hello? -- there's no proof of death. The military doesn't provide unsubstantiated information to families of servicemen, period, so this is bullshit.
All Sheridan and screenwriter David Benioff had to do was (a) have the military report him as M.I.A. and then (b) persuade us that Portman and Gyllenhaal believe that Maguire probably won't return due to his probably being dead. That's all it would have taken.
The second problem is that I don't believe Maguire's character could ever find peace with a deed we've seen him commit -- something he felt forced to do while a prisoner in Afghanistan in order to survive. Maguire's is one of those acts that require only one of two responses -- suicide or abandoning your family and country and going off to Asia to live like a Joseph Conrad character. At the end of Brothers Maguire confesses this act to his wife, but are we supposed to assume he'll never tell anyone else?
And why isn't there a military debriefing scene when he comes back from Afghanistan? He would be shown lying, of course -- denying, covering up -- but the scene should have been in there regardless.
Hollywood Elsewhere
Dear Ted:
Do you think now that Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon have broken up, Toothy Tile will come out to the public?
—You'reClearlyNeverGoingToPrintThis
Dear Dare Me:
What do the three have to do with each other?
What does this mean? :(
Regarding the second question raised by Hwood Elsewhere, and assuming that the act is either a rape or a killing of a fellow American soldier, my guess is that Sheridan didn't want to insult the military by showing him lying/ covering up. He inserted some sugar (political correctness) into the script. Without it, it would have been an imprevisible (read: European) movie.
What does this mean? :(
It means that Ted can't answer that question without outing Jake as Toothy, so Ted avoided answering the question by asking a question.
My first problem was with the military officially telling Portman that her husband is dead when in fact he's M.I.A. because -- hello? -- there's no proof of death. The military doesn't provide unsubstantiated information to families of servicemen, period, so this is bullshit.
Oops!
How was the death mistake done in the original?
This is the first time I've read about M.I.A. plot hole.
PRINCE OF PERSIA POSTER PERFECT FOR DENTIST’S OFFICE
The poster for Jerry “Antichrist” Bruckheimer’s Prince of Persia is out, and though I was sure they’d go the usual horrendous pun tagline route, it looks like they opted for dentist’s office motivational poster instead. Nothing against Jake Gyllenhaal, but he’s no hang in there kitty. Nice attempt with the fur, but no overalls, no deal.
Bad Film Drunk boys
Jerry “Antichrist” Bruckheimer
LOL
The original took place in another country. Their military policy may be different re notification.
I find Ted'a response very curious. He could have chosen not to respond to this email at all. And he is enough of a wordsmith to answer in a way that would still implicate Jake as Toothy.
So why didn't he? Is it possible we could be wrong about Jake being Toothy (not necessarily about Jake being bi or gay)?
Toothy is a fantasm !
I find Ted'a response very curious. He could have chosen not to respond to this email at all. And he is enough of a wordsmith to answer in a way that would still implicate Jake as Toothy.
It's ironic - which is more difficult to convey in print.
Imagine it said archly with a raised eyebrow.
Is it possible we could be wrong about Jake being Toothy (not necessarily about Jake being bi or gay)?
Toothy is Jake. I've being reading this since the first BI and there are no other candidates.
Fuck!
^^I doubt Jake cares too much about Ted's BI's.
Toothy is a fantasm !
He's real.
If English isn't your first language it may be hard to understand the nuances in Ted's answers.
it may be hard to understand the nuances in Ted's answers.
There are no nuances in the "what the 3 have to do with each other" answer. It's in your face!
... because there are only 2.
:)
I find Ted'a response very curious. He could have chosen not to respond to this email at all.
Ted published the question because it connects Toothy and Reeke. His "Dear Dare Me" answer was a tease because he can't out Toothy.
Fuck yeah, Jewish men
2:20.. I find Ted'a response very curious...etc
Can't work out whether you are being obtuse or just plain thick. I'll give you the benefit and go with obtuse, but really, its a Ted C answer you're analysing not Tolstoy. A two celled amoeba could probably pick up in the irony in that answer.
Bad Film Drunk boys
Bad, bad boys! I wish there were more comments.
Asked about his trim physique, he attributed his newfound interest in the gym to the image-conscious exhortations of Tom Ford, who directed him in (and wrote the screenplay for) the forthcoming film “A Single Man.”
“He told me I looked good, but I’d look better if I had a personal trainer,” Mr. Firth explained.
Perhaps the conversation went a bit differently. “I told him he was fat,” Mr. Ford recalled later.
Colin Firth - He Wears a Revealing Sort of Restraint
A look at the dramatic competition lineup for the Sundance Film Festival 2010.
'Blue Valentine' - A portrait of an American marriage that charts the evolution of a relationship over time. With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman
link
I'd bet all the money I've saved that in the next couple of days we'll see Reeke pics out and about and that the break up rumor was a PR stunt. And I bet most posters here expect the same.
A look at the dramatic competition lineup for the Sundance Film Festival 2010.
'Blue Valentine' - A portrait of an American marriage that charts the evolution of a relationship over time. With Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman
link
If Michelle is lucky and Blue Valentine and esp. Shutter Island are well received, either critically or commercially or both, she'll get a huge career boost. 2010 could be "her" year.
And I bet most posters here expect the same.
I think all options are open.
Reese is a cheap publicity whore, it wouldn't surprise me if she used People magazine to make the fauxmance look more like a "real relationship", to get publicity and tabloid interest - rags ignored Reeke for a long time.
Or it could be Reese's way to spoil Jake's moment in the spotlight after he decided to quit reeking.
"He's real.
If English isn't your first language it may be hard to understand the nuances in Ted's answers"
I know Ted loves using nuances!!The guy is the king in that matter.
But you had followed Ted since long time enough ( since the start of his career in fact) , you would know he has also two "sources" : his imagination and his pen.
"that the break up rumor was a PR stunt."
Yes. Too bad that Brothers got a rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes and box office is poor. So what did Jakey get out of all the publicity?? He's stupid beyond belief!
That, he is.
I'm sure Jake did not use Reeke PR stunt, it doesn't work for him.
10:42 AM
LOL! Why are you reading Ted all this years?
My problem with the TT story is that when it started TC said TT was A list. Jake wasn't A list when it started. No, I don't have quotes.
No, I don't have quotes.
You'll find it here if Ted really said that:
Toothy Tile Archive
I'd bet all the money I've saved that in the next couple of days we'll see Reeke pics out and about and that the break up rumor was a PR stunt.
New Reeke pictures wouldn't necessary mean that Reeke isn't done.
Remember Jen and Brad?
ONLY DAYS AGO...they [Jen and Brad] spent two weeks in Anguilla with Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette and acted like "they were in love," says an observer. What gives?
The couple took a private plane to the Caribbean isle Dec. 27—after deciding to split—and checked into Exclusivity at Captain's Bay, a 15,000-sq.-ft. villa. After spending New Year's Eve at Anguilla hot spot RumZa, the foursome ferried to the small island of Scilly Cay on Jan. 2. The next day they switched villas, moving to Altamer, a resort near the island's southwest tip. Cox brought along 7-month-old daughter Coco; Aniston joined them for beach strolls and couldn't stop coo-cooing at the baby. Meanwhile Pitt (below, with Arquette) took a spin on a moped.
Pitt and Aniston wore their wedding rings, held hands and hugged. Was all of that real? "They're good actors," says a skeptical observer.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20146636,00.html
"LOL! Why are you reading Ted all this years?"
Because he is fun! You don't have to "drink" his words to admit he has talent in the gossip section.
But I followed a lot of these stories by the past and well....have a guess the end.
Because he is fun!
Are you a TB or a troll?
"Yes. Too bad that Brothers got a rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes and box office is poor."
Put glasses,critics are mixed but the majority praised the acting of the leads , as for the box office, not so bad for a such movie, it's even good!!
Pitt and Aniston wore their wedding rings, held hands and hugged. Was all of that real? "They're good actors," says a skeptical observer.
Wedding rings? That was tacky.
as for the box office, not so bad for a such movie, it's even good
BO will be OK if they manage to make 50 mill or more.
"Are you a TB or a troll?"
I am not a troll cause I hate Reeke and don't take part of any jake'straight campain. I am not sure to be TB either, Jaustin couple is attractive but being TB suppose you completely believe Ted's tale and I don't.
Posted on OMG by Prairiegirl:
Okay, guys!! I stopped at my local Hy Vee store this morning and had to peruse the ol' People magazine. Let me tell you right now.
If you're going to open and read that article, as someone has phrased it before: You better ask the store for a sick bucket while you stand there and read it because the huge, full page Reeke pic they have in there, the big ol' spread they have on what is known as REEKE is plastered alllllll over the inside of that thing.
It's truly a piece of crapwork and you can tell it has been spun by IM's people. This is all for her, it's all about her, and it makes Jake sound like he's hounding after her, begging for her, on his hands & knees for her. It seems to put alot of the blame on him, that he's demanding and she's "just not ready". Bullcrap, I say!
An absolutely hilarious, barf worthy comment by some insider says they have a, and I quote here, "a huge attraction between them".
And if that doesn't speak for the rest of the content of this contrived, totally made up piece of you know what, I don't know what does.
The timetable of their relationship is shown in small pictures and I love how they picked what they thought were the best of the lot. Obviously in the birthday dinner picture, they did not pick the one that Jackie of WFT2 so appropriately & expertly picked for their cover post right now.
LOL. I about tossed up my salad when I opened that thing. It's a real joke.
And now seeing this article is only strengthening my belief that yeah, we very well are probably seeing the end of Reeke. They'll probably come out with the confirmation within a couple weeks. That's how these things go. And they could prove me wrong but this big ol' spread is so obviously from her & her people and the title is "What Went Wrong".
Not "What is Going Wrong". It's not about a little "rough patch". The title itself of the article is in the affirmative past tense. And the whole tone of the article seems to hint that there is no going back on this split.
"BO will be OK if they manage to make 50 mill or more."
A small film with such subject make rarely 50 mill.
being TB suppose you completely believe Ted's tale and I don't
Being TB is about believing Jake is Toothy / Jake is gay.
BTW, you might notice that some TBs don't believe in BT.
A small film with such subject make rarely 50 mill.
Well, they need at least 50 mill to return the investment.
This article isn't new, it's the one saw on people blog few days ago.
This article isn't new, it's the one saw on people blog few days ago.
Print edition is different because it has more info and details.
"Well, they need at least 50 mill to return the investment"
Did this movie cost more of 50 mill?
25 mill + marketing
When I see all the flop serious movies made, unless a miracle 50 mill will be hard to reach.
You have to play in New moon to make big hit...sadly.
"25 mill + marketing"
Ok thanks.
Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere - After following "Brothers" for 2 years, why Jeffrey didn't bother to write a proper review?
You have to play in New moon to make big hit...sadly.
Not true, look at The Blind Side, budget: 29 mil, made 116 mil so far (in 2 weeks).
^^That's because Sandy Bullock rocks! ;)
@theawfultruth where is our new Toothy blind?
1:07 PM Dec 4th
@ILuvJakeRyan he's next week, babe--Butter trumped Toothy this week, nervy, huh?
3:07 PM Dec 4th
http://twitter.com/theawfultruth
Sandra Bullock is 100% likeable person and actress :)
She will probably get an Oscar nomination too.
I wouldn't bet on that, the movie is too successful :)
Yeah, it involves what was mentioned on Sunday. But I'm telling you, this article is full page spread. It's a very good sized article.
Although all it does is rehash all of the classic Reeke moments that we've already seen; Cockroachella, his birthday, their Paris trip, blah blah blah.
But of course what's funny is the pictures they choose to use. And the birthday picture is definitely not the one that graces and thoroughly entertains at the beginning of this current post.
LOLLL! Man, I wish they could've used this one because it's classic.
The article is big when you consider it's People and not Star magazine.
And People does leave the door cracked a bit but the way it speaks throughout really hints to me that Reeke is done. I could be proven wrong but after a production like this article? It would be hard for me to see Reese doing a U-Turn and reuniting.
Has anyone else here seen it yet? I think it just came out.
Prairiegirl, thanks for the report!
What an odd coincidence that of all the press outfits who attended this conference, and wished to ask Jake about his bearding fiasco, it was some fourth rate gossip rag in Australia who managed to get the big quote. I guess that Jake has run out of American and British gossip rags to flim-flam over this mess, so he had to find some rag on the other side of the world.
And what an odd coincidence that the quote happens after two years of public silence from Jake, just as the entire charade is collapsing around his feet. Now if you believe that these two facts are just coincidences, then there's a bridge in NY I'll sell you for ten dollars.
This is what happens when you beard with a certified sociopath like Witherspoon. And the added controversy did little to drive movie tickets sales as well.
This bearding was a PR nightmare when it began, and it's going to be a pr nightmare to unravel, which is exactly what's happening now, regardless of what Jake is saying. Well, at least it gave Jake something to talk about besides Sesame Street, PoP action figurines and the best coffee houses in LA.
The suitcase situation is the only part of this that means anything.
Suitcase situation - what's that?
IMDb Brothers comment:
I myself could not stop laughing whenever Tobey's character started to yell or get angry. This is because before I saw this movie, I saw a video on youtube of Tobey yelling at paparazzi.
The famously gay Tom Ford said:
"Then there's the relationship between George and his former lover, played by Julianne Moore, who's forever disappointed George is gay. "That's my relationship with a lot of women in my life," Ford says. "I've had very heterosexual periods in my life. I'm perfectly sexually attracted to women, but I fall in love with men."
Tom, darling, keep it up and you'll have to return your gay card! lol
'American Idol' runner-up Adam Lambert landed in trouble for locking lips on ABC, with his controversial same-sex kiss on the recent AMA broadcast. This time he's smooching the network itself, as ABC plays a little kiss-and-make-up with Lambert following the singer's dismissal from multiple ABC appearances. PEOPLE is reporting that Lambert will appear on 'The View' Thursday.
http://www.popeater.com/2009/12/06/abc-reconciles-with-adam-lambert/
Did you notice that Brothers made over 9 million as of Saturday night? It is making decent money per screen and is on top for all new movies. I'm not saying hit, but it is a decent start.
I don't know if it was mentioned but in this weeks EW BBM was ranked #2 for movies of the decade.
2:52: The X1online lie that claims that a bunch of their paps that just so happened tobe camped outside of Reese's place and saw one of his PA's go in and take 2 of his suitcases back to his plCE, lol!!
Of course they forgot to take pictures of this event through Reese's gated community and I guess that they knew irt was Jake suitcases because they saw his initials on them,LOL!! Reese was in Nashville on Sunday, like she would let anyone in her place while she wasn't there, worse fanfic ever!
It didn't happened. Plus bby all indications, he doesn't live in HH anymore, some speculate he moved to Venice, CA. I guess they follwed her there, right.
X17 is just engaging in fasnfic likr the rags Thanksgiving BS.
BTW, P. Girl left out one bit from that People article and it was already posted here: They have claim that when they asked another source if they broke up, they said that they were still together, they then asked them did they have a recent breakup, they source claimed not officially.
I read that fanfic as they had broken up but it was never officially announced, but since then are back together working on their "problems". When did the alleged breakup happen? People makes it sound like around March because they say something like they were seen attending Coachella which was in April. It has to be more BS becasue their are pap pics of them before April, People seems to have forgotten about him tagging along in Europe while she was promoting MVA in March.
The onlyrag that has them compeletly broke-up is Star and the only rag that has them happy as clams is Us, the rest are in between.
People backtracked big time and that crap on the newstand is proof, what rubbish.
No wonder they were the first to post the Grazia quote.
When did the alleged breakup happen? People makes it sound like around March ...
No, People magazine said fee weeks ago.
People backtracked big time and that crap on the newstand is proof, what rubbish.
People isn't backtracking. People is working with and for PR, they published split up news because PR wanted that announced.
When did the alleged breakup happen? People makes it sound like around March ...
No, People magazine (online articles) said few weeks ago.
The 9.7 million estimate for Brothers is for the whole weekend.
Tom, darling, keep it up and you'll have to return your gay card! lol
He's not the first self-confessed gay man I've heard say this.
They can have relationships with woman but something is missing, and no, it's not dick.
They simply don't fall in love with women.
3:42: The "article" on the stands is claiming a lot earlier around March from the sounds of it, which is BS. They are implying that they did break up but are now back together and that the earlier break up wasn't official because it wasn't announced and that that maybe the few weeks ago breakup was probably had info. and they were just having problems a few weeks back. The crap on the stands is revised from the crap that's online because they had to find away to save face w/o admitting that Jake and Reese's PR fed them the info in the first palce and then went arounf denying it to all the other outlets except them. Their denial story from the rep eas somerhing they picked up from the other outlets because it doesn't look like PR went to People with the denial.
Now why would PR go out of their way to do that to People? Only time will tell.
Weekend Estimates: December 4 to December 6, 2009
1 The Blind Side $20,440,000
2 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $15,704,000
3 Brothers $9,700,000
http://boxoffice.com/numbers/
The "article" on the stands is claiming a lot earlier around March from the sounds of it, which is BS.
Reeke is BS from day one, so any break up date is as good as any other.
The crap on the stands is revised from the crap that's online because they had to find away to save face w/o admitting that Jake and Reese's PR fed them the info in the first palce and then went arounf denying it to all the other outlets except them.
Save face?! LOL, People magazine published what PR wanted, it's just business and getting publicity for their clients.
9 mil for the whole weekend is nothing + it did so against 2 films already out for weeks. You can make an excuse against Twilight given its teenager loyalty, but not against The Blind Side. The first week opening is generally the best a film will do, so its all down hill from here. As more time passes,more bad/mediocre reviews show up on RT.
chelsaya: I'm calling that jake gyllenhaal's disastrous steelers tattoo cursed this weekend in pittsburgh sports.
3 minutes ago
you 're too funny!! and a bit pissed off I guess Brothers is on top 3.
"The blind side" is a biopic about a football player : a subject much much more mainstream and above all not as depressing as Brothers!
Among war movie or more serious movie like "precious" "the hurt locker" ... Brothers isn't so bad.
Brothers isn't so bad, but it looks like it's going to be a flop.
But Precious and The Hurt Locker got GREAT reviews, both over 90 on RT.
Jake,
You gotta work like a soul inspired until the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired, but you be a man, my son.
Will you remember the famous men who have to fall and then to rise again,
So take a deep breath,
pick yourself up,
dust yourself off,
and start all over again.
But Precious and The Hurt Locker got GREAT reviews.
Sorry for the double post.
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