"On April 16, 21-year-old Azariah Southworth, the host of a Christian music television show called The Remix, came out publicly as a gay man to the Nashville-based gay publication Out & About. Since his brave decision, Southworth has seen a groundswell of support from the gay press and gay fans, and silence from the networks carrying his show, Christian media, and his show's fanbase.
AE: Was there a straw that broke the camel’s back? What made you decide to actually go forward and come out publicly?
AS: Well, it’s been a long time coming, as I said. I went through some things this past year and did a lot of research about what the Bible really says about homosexuality and did a lot of prayer, and I finally came to the conclusion that, you know what? This is okay. For me, this is okay. And I became confident in that and confident in who I am.
I knew the risk I was taking, but I found that it was going to be better to live my life authentically and honestly rather to continue to do what I was doing, building a career and suppressing feelings and being in denial. Because careers will always end, but who I am as a person goes further beyond that and the legacy that I want to leave is not one of denial and suppressing anything. I want to be honest and authentic with people.
AE: If you have any words of advice to any folks out there, young people or Christians who are struggling with their sexuality, or anyone else, what advice would you give them?
AS: That you’re not alone. You’re not abandoned. That God loves you unconditionally and that means that he loves you without any requirements. He doesn’t need you to meet any requirements or standards. That he loves you as you are and for who you are, right now. Reach out to someone that you can trust and that you feel will listen to you. You are loved. I mean, that’s the main point that I want to make to people, to let them know that they are loved and accepted, and I hope that they find that.
Source: After Elton, Interview with Azariah Southworth
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Dear Ted:
Got to ask…is Toothy Tile the obnoxious Spencer Pratt? Not that I think he, Heidi, Lauren and the group are actors by any means, but he and Heidi sure seem to be putting on an "act" with all the lovey-dovey fake photo moments. Seems like they have the perfect fake relationship. Also, what's up with Audrina? Every picture that girl takes has her eyes rolling up into her head...gross!
Kathi
Mundelein, Ill.
Dear Hills Headache:
There’s nothing we know (or care) less about than the intricacies of the epic melodrama that is The Hills, except, perhaps, what goes on—or not—in Hugh Hefner's boudoir. That said, one thing we know for certain is that Spencer is no Toothy, nor will he ever be.
Dear Ted:
Does Toothy's girlfriend know he's fond of boys, too?
Marcia
São Paulo, Brazil
Dear Naive:
Sim, my São Paulo peach. Just like the last one.
Source: Ted Casablanca's The Awful Truth
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AE: Have you found that the world of Christian broadcasting in general or Christian media is not hospitable for gays? Do you think there is a place for gays to be working openly in that environment?
AS: As long as Pat Robertson is alive, [laughing] I don’t think there will be. As of right now, I think there are so many gay people in the Christian industry, it’s ridiculous. Either people know about it and they just don’t speak about it, or they don’t care ... as long as it’s hush-hush and you’re not living it out and you don’t act upon it and you just are very quiet about it, it’s okay. So, I know people in bands, I know people in the limelight and behind the scenes in the Christian industry that are gay. I think that if we all just kind of came out together, people wouldn’t know what to do and they’d have to accept it.
Someone told me that Jan Crouch said that if all the gay people at CBN stopped working there, CBN would shut down.
AE: It sounds like Hollywood, pretty much!
AS: Yeah, so true.
Wonder why he's a silent backer? Is he embarrased by it? Plenty of actors have production shingles for this kind of thing. Why isn't he putting his name to the film as a producer if he's backing it?
Because he likes the script and Kristin Gore is a pal (more forum gossip)?
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Some bloggers are reporting he went home due to the death of his grandmother. No way to know if this is true or not.
Q: Many of my friends saw Shelter this weekend. Though one local gay theater critic panned it, my friends & everyone from the softball-playing gays to the Sondheim-worshipping gays & loved the movie. One friend commented he has not thought this hard about a gay movie since Brokeback Mountain. So the question is what other projects does here! have to follow up this success? They might actually be able to single-handedly turn the gay film genre around. – Bill, Minneapolis,MN
A: The Flying Monkey completely agrees with you about Shelter. Alas, it saddens me to report that here!’s next movie, Kiss the Bride, which opened in theaters April 18th (and will debut on here! next month) isn’t nearly as good. It stars Tori Spelling, who is wasted in her first gay flick since 1999's Trick (which is one of the Flying Monkey’s all-time favorite gay movies). The two male leads are so bland and interchangeable, it wasn’t until about halfway through the movie that I started being able to tell them apart. To my surprise, Kiss the Bride is by the director of Latter Days (2003), another movie I liked a lot.
Still, the Flying Monkey recently wrote a full article on the innovations that here! is bringing to the gay movie marketplace. If things go as planned (and assuming there aren’t too many more stinkers like Kiss the Bride), I think you’re right, and they really could turn the indie gay film genre around.
http://www.afterelton.com/askmonkey/4-22-08
A White Prince of Persia?
Super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer is planning for a new movie based on the videogame Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Big-screen adaptations of videogames are usually crap but as Sands of Time actually have a story in the game, I think this adaptation is worth to see.
Unfortunately, the rumored prince will be played by the very white Jake Gyllenhaal! Now I think Mr. Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Rendition) is a pretty solid actor, but when the title is ‘Prince of Persia: Sands of Time’, surely an actor as white as Jake Gyllenhaal is not the guy you choose. The prince has to at least look Persian, right?
But then we are talking about Hollywood, where a big, black guy can play Kingpin (see Daredevil). Luckily the actor hasn’t accepted the offer yet. I hope he never will.
http://hardhitting-nobs.blogspot.com/2008/04/white-prince-of-persia.html
Seems there's a lot of rumors floating around about Jake Gyllenhaal. Are his PR trying to lift his profile? Yea, I'm a cynic when it come to JG. He's a total publicity whore.
One charity lunch, fauxmance photo ops and Prince of Persia rumors.
What publicity?
Hip-Hop Stars To Be Outed…
The hip-hop scene’s about to be rocked!
Well, that’s if you believe Terrence Dean’s book publicist. The former MTV executive will soon release Hiding In Hip-Hop, which will allegedly expose the genre’s biggest homos. From the release:
“Hiding In Hip-Hop” uncovers a hidden and well-known unspoken secret. Deep within the confines of Hip-Hop is a prominent gay sub-culture. A world that industry insiders are keenly aware of, but choose to ignore.
According to Dean, “This book is filled with intrigue, sexy celebrity bed partners, abundance of drugs, and of course, the down low/gay men and celebrities in the entertainment industry.
...
Queerty
Someone on DL posted that on the set of Nailed are a lot of drugs! Hope Jake stays away from them, although according to Ted "Toothy" is also fond of the white stuff.
"From the set, friend is a costumer:
Jake is a silent backer of the film and "has his moments". But, he's been cool with her since she said "i met you on october sky". the male costumer, though, says he's too big for his britches.
Biel is completely sheltered off from everyone and has her own costumer. My friend hasn't even seen her off set.
Pee Wee Herman and Catherine Keener are her favorites, lots of fun and very nice.
James Caan got into a fight with David O. Russell, threw a cookie at the wall and stormed off the shoot.
Lots of drugs, apparently, making everything more paranoid and weird."
Look at that picture WDW posted on her blog:
HeathandJake
James Caan got into a fight with David O. Russell, threw a cookie at the wall and stormed off the shoot.
A cookie?
A COOKIE?!?
Oh, how embarrassing Mr Caan! LOL!
HeathJake2
James Caan got into a fight with David O. Russell, threw a cookie at the wall and stormed off the shoot.
The funniest thing I will read all week, by far!
Heath and Jake photos
The look of love
Is in your eyes
The look your smile can't disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away
HeathJake3
Walk down memory lane over! WDW inspired me! ;)
"The look of love
Is in your eyes
The look your smile can't disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away"
Aww! So true! ;)
Thanks 10:21!
You want to make us cry, but thanks anyway!
You want to make us cry, but thanks anyway!
Sad and beautiful memories of better times!
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
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IMDb post by sbrobin:
Biel was throwing her wardrobe out of her trailer the other day and has been complaining about unwanted attention from bystanders and how she wishes everyone would leave her alone. Granted, that's a reasonable request, but I wouldn't say she's being "delightfully friendly" at all.
Ted C. thought he saw something, made a BI out of it and blew it out of proportion. I'm talking about the TT tale. The TT stories became incredibly popular and he continued writing about TT aka Jake, but mostly made up stories. It brought him attention and Jake became one of the most talked about celebs on the net. Since Ted C. and Jake like the attention, Ted continued the BI's and Jake isn't bothered by it.
Now I'm not saying Jake isn't bisexual, but at the moment he is with Reese. If it'll last or not is another question. He is still young!
April 22, 2008 1:53 AM
A poster on DL says he'll marry Reese later this year!
The photos of Jake and Heath are really nice, but I wouldn't mistake them as romantic, but there certainly was a fondness.
They likely didn't remain close and Jake's actions and reactions after Heath's death don't suggest they were close friends, like many still want to believe.
He's very much into Reese at the moment. Jake once said when he was with Kirsten he used to neglect his friends and family, I think the same happens now with Reese!
^^^ We've heard that a few times before.
11:44 AM
We've heard that a few times before.
11:48 AM #1
Please, tell us you are joking!
We've heard that a few times before.
I guess we will all find out by the end of the year!
Ted C. thought he saw something, made a BI out of it and blew it out of proportion. I'm talking about the TT tale.
If you believed Jake is really dating a woman you wouldn't care about Ted and TT.
If you believed Jake is really dating a woman you wouldn't care about Ted and TT.
I do believe he is dating Reese, but I didn't say he's exclusively dating women.
He probably experimented with guys, but I believe the majority of Hollywood stars experimented with the same sex! They are more open-minded than the average Joe or Jane!
12:23
Sorry 12:23 PM, not buying it - your actions speak louder than words.
Sorry 12:23 PM, not buying it - your actions speak louder than words.
What exactly do you not believe?
12:28 PM
What I said before: If you believed Jake is really dating a woman you wouldn't care about Ted and TT. Or WFT2 and OMG.
What I said before: If you believed Jake is really dating a woman you wouldn't care about Ted and TT. Or WFT2 and OMG.
When I found out about WFT, I started reading it regularly, I find the blog quite entertaining and fun. Sometimes I have the urge to participate in the debates and add my 2 cents! ;)
DON'T BE NICE!
Now I can't ask you to leave! lol
DON'T BE NICE!
Now I can't ask you to leave! lol
LOL!
Neil Reveals all to Howard Stern
For over a year now, I've written about Howard Stern's positive impact on the gay community, and his interview today with openly gay "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris was perhaps one of the best examples to date.
It's probably the most interesting interview Harris will do in his life. Harris spoke in-depth about his sexuality, but Stern wanted more -- and Harris was more than game to reveal details. Below are some highlights: (Note -- the Stern show is on Sirius Satellite, and therefore uncensored.)
Harris said he began to think he was gay when he was 13, but hadn't "formulated it in his brain" at that time. He said he continued to date a lot of Hollywood women, including actress Christine Taylor. Here's what he said about Taylor: "She's like the coolest, nicest chick ever. She's an absolute catch, and I thought if I'm not going to feel the super sparks with her, than it probably means that I'm gay." He estimated he'd been with between 12-15 girls before he came out of the closet.
He had his first same-sex encounter in New York when he was doing "Rent." Harris said he was seduced by a gay male "Rent" cast member: "I think I was a conquest. I was that 'straight guy' that (they thought) might be gay, that they were really hoping could be the one."
Howard: "Ever been with a black guy?" Harris: "I've made out with a black guy, but never fooled around. It just never happened."
When he told his parents he was gay: "I think their main concern was one of safety. Because their big worry was that it meant that I was going to be on crystal meth and get AIDS and have crazy sex with all sorts of random people."
On the topic of Perez Hilton trying to out him: "He (Perez) was sort of on a witch hunt to out me. He started posting things saying 'If you've ever fooled around with Neil to please send pictures.' He was really trying to get some scandal going. So rather than have to repsond to that, I'd rather just respond to the topic at hand." When asked if he'd ever confronted Perez on the issue, Harris was diplomatic. "Well it's a tricky subject because people decide they want to be out in the open whether in a public forum or in their family at their own time. But Perez is from a generation that feels like (being out) is a non-issue. It's offensive to him when people don't declare that, because in his world, it's always been a part of who he is." (Stern then discussed how much he disagrees with Perez outing people.)
Harris said that he and his boyfriend are monogamous and he doesn't believe in open relationships under any circumstances. He also talked about being with his boyfriend for four years, and loved the relationship. "The best part about being in a relationship is like, going through phases and having things being great and things being not-great," he said. "I don't know that once your gay you get this card that says that if things aren't going great you can go fuck other guys." He also said the great part about being in a guy-guy relationship is so sometimes you could be a top sometimes you can be bottom.
Little knonw fact: Harris said he was so self-conscious of his big ears after "Doogie Howser" that he had surgery on them so they wouldn't stick out so much. And speaking of Doogie, he said he lost his virginity to a college girl who "wanted to have sex with Doogie." He said it was over very fast...
Howard then wanted to play a game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill," and Harris gladly obliged. Here were the choices:
Sylvestor Stallone, John Travolta and Tom Cruise: "Hmm...I'd probably..well, they're all creepy. I'd probably fuck Stallone, he seems more like... a guy. I'd probably marry Tom Cruise, because of all the money and I'd kill Travolta." He said he sensed a "creepy, weird vibe" with Travolta that he couldn't quite figure out, and that he "looks a little odd." He then raved about Travolta in "Hairspray."
Conan Obrien, Jay Leno and David Letterman: "Oh wow! Ok --I'd fuck Conan. I'd kill Leno. And I'd marry Letterman." Howard: "Would you rather fuck Conan or have Conan fuck you?" Harris: [Laughing] "I would fuck Conan, that would be hilarious. Just to watch his hair move around in the front!"
Howard Stern, Fred Norris (Stern show cast member) or Gary Dellabate (Stern show producer): "I'd probably fuck Howard." (Howard's response: "Thank you!") "I'd probably marry Fred, and I'd probably kill Gary." When he found out Fred was uncircumcised, he changed his mind. "Oh -- in that case, I'd kill Fred!" he joked.
One more memorable moment of the interview was when infamously homophobic cast member Artie Lange talked about what he'd do if his son came out as gay. "I joke around about this stuff a lot and talk about it in my act, but I'm being dead honest right now," said Lange. "If my son ever did that (told him he was gay), the first thing I would do would be to give him a hug and tell him there was no way I have a problem with this and I love you."
For Stern fans, this was the most shocking part of the interview...
http://www.gaytvblog.com/2008/04/neil-reveals-al.html
LOL!
Neil, you naughty, naughty boy!
James Caan got into a fight with David O. Russell, threw a cookie at the wall and stormed off the shoot.
I knew it!
I knew it!
Caan throws like a girl!
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IMDb post by aal7-1
I was there at the state Treas. Office last Wed and saw nothing to indicate that Jake or Jessica were anything but professional. They were particularly nice to the kids on set. In fact the entire crew went out of their way to help the kids and make them feel special.
James Caan did not walk right off set. He hung around trying to work things out. He seemed upset but not the crazed lunatic depicted in these posts.
Ang Lee making another gay film-this one about the Woodstock music festival. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24262368/
Ang Lee is again teaming with Focus Features CEO James Schamus to direct the gay-themed Woodstock memoir "Taking Woodstock."
Focus will produce and Schamus will adapt Elliot Tiber's 2007 book, "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life":
"Before there was a Woodstock Concert, there was Elliot Tiber working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York hotel, the El Monaco. It wasn't easy. The Jewish clientele who had returned to the Catskills year after year had discovered Florida, and the upstate hotel business was dying.
Tosave his family's livelihood, Elliot put on plays, musicals, and local festivals. In the process, Elliot became the area's official issuer of event permits–not that anybody else wanted that position. Elliot even worked weekends as an interior design artist in New York City, all in the hopes of helping his family.
Inthe summer of 1969, Elliot Tiber's life changed in a way he never could have foreseen. Greenwich Village had become the mecca for gays in America. There, Elliot had socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Andy Warhol, and a talented young photographer named Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet had managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then on Friday, June 27, Elliot walked into the Stonewall Innand witnessed the riot that would galvanize the gay movement in the United States. And on July 17, when Elliot read that the Woodstock Concert promoters had lost their license to stage the show in Wallkill, he called to offer his help in finding a new venue. In the days that followed, Elliot found himself swept up in a vortex that would change his life forever.
Theevents that unfolded during that hot New York summer have come to be recognized as major turning points in our cultural history. Few, however, have enjoyed Elliot Tiber's unique view of those events. Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of the man who enabled Woodstock to take place. It is also the personal story of one man who took stock of his life, his lifestyle, and his future. In short, Taking Woodstock is like no history of Woodstock you have ever read."
Got to love Ang. :)
I wonder who's going to play Elliot Tiber.
Please let Joe Levitt play Eliot Tiber... please god...
Wow, what intersting items today. Loved the interview with NPH and I had never heard the background info re Woodstock. I second the motion re Joe G Levitt to play him. Terrific actor.
If Jake ever marries Reese, that does it for me. I don't think Ted made anything up or embellished. Straight guys do not go 2+ years wihtout dating. Jake was in a committed relationship during that period. With Austin, I believe. If they broke up, I can see him killing time with a woman to help out his career, but to go so far as to marry one, I dont think so.
Joe Levitt is a great idea!!! Wow.
Jake was supposed to get engaged on Reese's b'day. Didn't happen. Won't hold my breath on the wedding!
"Because he likes the script and Kristin Gore is a pal (more forum gossip)?"
So, again, why isn't he putting his name to it as a producer if he's providing money? What's with the sneakiness?
"Lots of drugs, apparently, making everything more paranoid and weird."
*gasp* Surely St. Jake wouldn't do drugs! Only losers like Heath the dirty dead druggie do stuff like that!!
So, again, why isn't he putting his name to it as a producer if he's providing money? What's with the sneakiness?
Sneakiness? lol
Is the public entitled to know movie financing details?
James Caan exits movie over cookie controversy
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - James Caan has left the political comedy "Nailed" after a dispute led him to storm off the set, and it all seems to have centered on a cookie.
The trouble started last Wednesday on the first of Caan's two days of shooting the role of a U.S. speaker of the house who chokes to death on a cookie. Director David O. Russell asked him to cough as he choked, but Caan argued that the character couldn't cough and choke to death at the same time.
Russell suggested that they shoot it both ways, but the veteran "Godfather" actor expressed distrust that his version would be considered and left the South Carolina set. A spokesman for Caan wouldn't confirm or deny the specifics of what happened but said with a laugh that there were creative differences and the departure was amicable.
Producer Douglas Wick said the discussion was "part of an ongoing creative conversation between the actor and director" and that Russell has behaved professionally throughout the shoot.
Caan's part is being recast. The shoot began April 15.
"Nailed" stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Biel, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, Tracy Morgan and Olivia Crocicchia in the tale of a woman who gets a nail lodged in her head and travels to Washington to fight for better health care.
Russell has a reputation for on-set battles. He had well-documented differences with George Clooney (in which the two came to blows on the set of "Three Kings") and Lily Tomlin (in heated verbal exchanges on the set of "I Heart Huckabees" as seen last year on YouTube).
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN2337701620080423
Chokes to death on a cookie!?!
Nailed sounds like fun!
Defamer
Jake Gyllenhaal Suffers David O. Russell Induced Breakdown At LAX
While running through LAX yesterday, temperamental star Jake Gyllenhaal made a call to both his manager and agent to complain about the size of the airport. Gyllenhaal felt that the airport was too big and that more airports should have a downhome feel like John Wayne does. Gyllenhaal then complained that the security officer who helped the actor through the airport spent too much time asking him how his flight was and not enough fending off the paparazzi. Gyllenhaal then demanded that his agents set up a meeting with Diablo Cody, mainly because he wanted to see how long it would take for him to get her naked. Gyllenhaal then paused for a moment to catch his breath and, when he did, he finally came to his senses and fell directly to the floor. Once on the floor, Gyllenhaal rested in a fetal position and whispered into his phone: "I can't do work with David O. Russell anymore. I can't. I want Fincher back. I want to do take after take for ten hours straight."
[Photo Credit: Bauer-Griffin]
http://defamer.com/382425/jake-gyllenhaal-suffers-david-o-russell-induced-breakdown-at-lax
I wonder who's going to play Elliot Tiber.
Picture of young Elliot Tiber, from 1969:
Elliot Tiber
Caan's cookie monster antics disrupt film shoot
James Caan has reportedly quit the set of David O Russell's new film following an argument about how best to choke on a cookie.
Nailed is a political comedy about a woman who travels to Washington to fight for better healthcare after she gets a nail lodged in her head. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessical Biel, James Marsden and Catherine Keener.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the veteran Godfather actor was hired to play the US speaker of the House of Representatives, and had only just started on the first of his two days of shooting. The script called for Caan's character to choke to death on a biscuit. But when directed by Russell to cough as he choked, Caan reportedly refused, arguing that it was impossible to cough and simultaneously choke to death. Despite Russell's suggestion that they shoot the scene both ways, Caan apparently walked off the set.
Caan's publicist has insisted that the departure was amicable, while producer Douglas Wick has already stepped in to defend Russell's behaviour on the set, which only began on April 15, as thoroughly professional. However, film fans will remember Russell's turbulent track record. He and George Clooney reportedly had an altercation on Three Kings and YouTube records for posterity the name-calling that occurred between him and Lily Tomlin during the filming of I Heart Huckabees.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2275606,00.html
Russell suggested that they shoot it both ways, but the veteran "Godfather" actor expressed distrust that his version would be considered and left the South Carolina set.
Robert Downey Jr - Sometimes it's really hard because it might not feel collaborative, but ultimately filmmaking is a director's medium.
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David O. Russell Will Not Stop Until He Insults & Attacks Everyone In Hollywood
Noted lunatic director David O. Russell has pissed off another actor. Allegedly, you can now add James Caan to the growing list of people Russell has alienated in the movie business. According to the New York Post Pop Wrap blog, James Caan has, for the first time in his acting career, walked off the set and quit the production of Russell’s next movie, “Nailed”. The reason cited for Caan’s departure is “creative differences”. You can read Defamers take on it here. They also talk about Jake Gyllenhaal acting like a diva on the set of the same movie.
David O. Russell has made a living so far of insane behavior. While directing the movie “Three Kings”, he reportedly got into a fistfight with George Clooney. Clooney pretty much confirmed that it really happened in a Playboy interview. Then, Russell is rumored to have attacked director Christopher Nolan at a party in Los Angeles. Allegedly, it was because Jude Law was going to leave the production of “I Heart Huckabees” to star in Nolan’s “The Prestige”. Lastly, you have the Lily Tomlin incident in which Russell called her probably the most foul word in the English language. You can watch that clip over here. Thanks to Mr. David “All Class” O. Russell, that clip is definitely not safe for work.
So the final tally so far for David O. Russell is George Clooney, Christopher Nolan, Lily Tomlin, and James Caan. Gee, it’s a good thing they are all hacks huh Dave? Those people aren’t that talented at all.
http://cinematicallycorrect.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/david-o-russell-will-not-stop-until-he-insults-attacks-everyone-in-hollywood/
I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it.
Jennifer Aniston
News from Bahrain
'Root out gays in our schools'
SCHOOL students could soon be spied on under a campaign to stamp out homosexuality, under demands made by MPs yesterday. Parliament also demanded that the Interior Ministry stop granting any residence permits to foreign homosexuals.
Any already here should be deported as soon as they are detected, MPs said at parliament's weekly session. MPs also called for regular inspections to root out homosexuals at massage parlours, health clubs and hair salons. It also called for monitoring in schools and for pupils who veer towards homosexuality to be punished. They voted in favour of an Al Menbar bloc proposal to oblige the government to prepare a study to determine how widespread homosexuality is in Bahrain.
The proposal has been studied by the foreign affairs, defence and national security committee, which recommended it. Committee members also included their own demands, which they want the government to fulfil. Amongst these are obliging the Industry and Commerce Ministry to monitor massage and hair salons to ensure that they have no closed rooms and that violators be prosecuted.
The committee is also demanding that the Education Ministry carefully monitor students and punishes those veering towards homosexuality. MPs urged the ministry to raise awareness amongst students, possibly through lectures given by visiting health specialists, psychiatrists, or sociologists.
Committee secretary and Al Menbar MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid Mohammed said that people were complaining about homosexuals entering the country to work in massage or hair salons. "Those people are either from the Philippines or Thailand and they come for these two jobs, which they use as a curtain for their homosexual behaviour and immorality," he said.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=215343&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=31034
Star Jones Finally Divorces Younger, Gayer Husband
The rumors about Al Reynolds sexuality have dogged him and Star Jones since before they even got married, and now it’s all over. There’s no telling if Al’s rumored extracurricular activities are what caused Star to finally file for divorce a month ago, but who are we kidding? Here’s what she said to Entertainment Tonight:
“Several years ago I made an error in judgment by inviting the media into the most intimate area of my life. A month ago I filed for divorce. The dissolution of a marriage is a difficult time in anyone’s life that requires privacy with one’s thoughts… I have committed myself to handling this situation with dignity and grace and look forward to emerging from this period as a stronger and wiser woman.”
This statement is filled with good advice for publicity hungry celebrities (I’m talkin’ to you, Eva Longoria-Parker) — if you don’t want the press to cover your possible future divorce, you shouldn’t invite them all to the wedding.
http://www.stereohyped.com/star-jones-finally-divorces-younger-gayer-husband-20080423/
He [Neil Patrick Harris] had his first same-sex encounter in New York when he was doing "Rent".
Neil was 24.
He estimated he'd been with between 12-15 girls before he came out of the closet.
A late bloomer :)
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Where has everyone gone? Only spammers seem to be here.
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"Austinnicholsfan.com has been down for a bit and Dani (Danielle) said it would be down till summer, but is updating at the Austin Nichols myspace -- Some of the stuff in the update under 4/11/08:
* INFORMERS, is being edited now. Apparently, Austin does sex scenes with Kim Bassinger, Amanda Heard and a guy. (All separately)
* Austin is talking to David Milch about a new HBO or TV series, cop story.
* He is also talking to producers about a new movie, EARTHQUAKE WEATHER.
Great news about Austy-poo's upcoming love scenes ;)
Who's the guy Austin is having a sex scene with????
Seriously, is that hot or what? Watch, it's Billy Bob Thornton. Yuck.
Thornton? Don't even go there! I'm still trying to forget that Monster's Ball sex scene with Berry. LOL!
Until further notice I'll presume it's going to be Austin and some really hot guy.
Happy birthday to you, this is your day.
On this day for you we’re gonna love you in every way.
This is your day, your day, happy birthday to you, to you, to you.
Happy birthday to you, you’re still young.
Age is just a number, don’t you stop having fun.
This is your day, your day, happy birthday to you!
Birthdays Thursday April 24th, 2008
Poet Robert Penn Warren was born 103 years ago (died in 1989).
Director William Castle was born 94 years ago (died in 1977).
Singer Barbra Streisand turns 66.
Actor Cedric the Entertainer turns 44.
Baseball player Chipper Jones turns 36.
Baseball player Carlos Beltran turns 31.
Actor Austin Nichols turns 28.
Singer Kelly Clarkson turns 26.
Austin is talking to David Milch about a new HBO or TV series, cop story.
January 21, 2008
HBO Picks Up Milch Cop Show
Landing his third drama pilot at the network n five years, HBO has picked up David Milch’s Last of the Ninth. After exploring the worlds of the western (Deadwood) and surf culture (John from Cincinnati), the new show will return Milch to his NYPD Blue roots. The drama will be set in 1972 New York.
“It is about an older detective’s mentoring of a young detective returned from Vietnam in a department fiscally crippled, under attack by revolutionaries, and which has been brought by allegations of systemic corruption into public disrepute,” Milch said.
Milch co-wrote the show alongside his fellow NYPD Blue executive producer Bill Clark, who was a former New York homicide detective. The duo wrote the pilot before the writers strike and will executive produce the show after the strike is settled.
This is the first development from Milch’s new development deal with HBO, of which he signed this past August.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/hbo-picks-up-milch-cop-show/
Dlisted
Birthday Sluts
Eric Balfour (31)
Kelly Clarkson (26)
Austin Nichols (28)
Derek Luke (34)
Chipper Jones (36)
Melinda Clark (39)
Dijmon Hounsou (44)
Cedric the Entertainer (44)
Eric Bogosian (55)
Jean-Paul Gaultier (56)
Barbra Streisand (66)
Shirley MacLaine (74)
Richard Donner (78)
Michelle Williams ‘haunted by Heath Ledger’s ghost’
Heath Ledger’s former fiancee, Michelle Williams, claims she is being haunted by the tragic actor’s ghost.
Williams told friends that Heath, who died aged 28 of an accidental drug overdose in January, had twice visited her as a “shadowy apparition”.
The first time, she was woken at night after hearing furniture move. In another “visitation”, she said the ‘Brokeback Mountain’ star apologized to her for not being there to help raise their two-year-old daughter, Matilda.
Williams, 27, claimed the hauntings helped her grieve.
http://www.showbizspy.com/2008/04/23/michelle-williams-haunted-by-heath-ledgers-ghost/
^ Yeah right.
You don't believe in life after death? :)
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor Have a Gay Ol' Time
In town filming I Love You Phillip Morris, based on the true story of a Texan convict who fell in love with his celly, Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo Santoro were spotted doing some field research at Edison Farrow's Martini Tuesdays party at Halo, the gay bar off Lincoln Road, where they were hanging out at a table, drinking champagne (water for Carrey). Said McGregor, "Jim's character is a con artist and an escape artist, who escapes from prison to be with me. It's an incredible story."
If you live here on South Beach that story is more typical than incredible, but we'll take it.
http://blogs.herald.com/scene_in_the_tropics/2008/04/jim-carrey-and.html
You don't believe in life after death? :)
I do but I don't believe she would share something like this with such untrustworthy friends who would leak it to the tabloids in a heartbeat. Michelle is famous for her aversion towards the media. This story sound fake.
That's one rag story I would love to be true! To me life after death sounds too good to be true, but hopefully someone or something will change my mind about it.
Austin is doing very well, good for him. Noticed his name on the birthday list. He's moving up on the celebrity echelon. Thanks for the info on I Love You Phillip Morris, sounds like it's going well. On 20/20 this Friday a report on how gay couples kissing in public are treated by bystanders. Looks interesting.
"That's one rag story I would love to be true!"
Me too.
Oh boy!
Connor Cruise, the adopted child of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, has won the part of playing the young Fresh Prince Will Smith in the upcoming drama Seven Pounds, costarring Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson and the underrated Barry Pepper, whose brush with Scientology in the past produced Battlefield Earth. He should have better luck this time around.
Method Acting?
The Miami Herald had a report this morning that highlighted the night of Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, and Rodrigo Santo who were spotted at Halo which is a gay bar in Miami. The trio are in town filming a movie about a guy who falls in love with his jail cellmate. True story by the way. This could have been research. As you probably know, gay bars are filled with men who have been jailed and fell in love with their cellmate, or jail turned them gay, or gays want to go to jail so they can be with their own kind, or any other stereotype which comes to mind.
Honestly, when I first read it I thought the boys had discovered what I already knew. Gay bars are the best place to pick up girls. Yes they are. You see, gay guys have lots of straight female friends. They go out, and generally go to a gay bar rather than a straight bar. Girl sees nothing but guy after guy after guy, and realizes none of them want him. Perhaps the bartenders are earning tips by wearing next to nothing. Then along comes 400 pounds of fun. Hell at that point, they will jump on anything straight. OK, so this only happened to me once, but honestly, the story has been good for 20 years.
What made me realize that something was amiss was the fact that McGregor and Santoro spent the entire night drinking champagne. Hip hop videos aside. No guys go out with other guys and order champagne. The champagne of beers, Miller maybe, but not just champagne. You would lose your man badge right there for that one. Now, Jim did just drink water, so no conclusions can be drawn to that. Well, actually I could, but they would take us down a long and winding road. So, guys only night is drinking champagne ok? When your significant other comes home from poker, and you ask him what he drank, does he say,"champagne." OMG, Bob had a lovely Krug Clos du Mesnil that was to die for while we watched porn and played Hold Em.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/04/method-acting.html
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Giusi's Happy Birthday Video for Austin
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Am I the only one who doesn't think Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor will have any chemistry as lovers? OTOH Ewan and Rodrigo would be super hot.
As far as I'm concerned Jim Carrey is totally asexual - as an actor and a person. On the other hand Ewan McGregor could produce sexual chemistry with any person or object. With a bit of luck that will be enough to pull it off.
As far as I'm concerned Jim Carrey is totally asexual - as an actor and a person. On the other hand Ewan McGregor could produce sexual chemistry with any person or object.
ITA on both counts.
"Supernatural" goes gay with tonight's reality TV parody, "Ghostfacers"
Is it just me or has the CW gone totally gay, lately? Not that I mind, of course, but the young-skewing net has certainly gotten us to pay attention to their shows lately. So in addition to gays showing up on Gossip Girl, Beauty and the Geek and Reaper, we're hearing rumors that tonight's Supernatural includes "a gay love story".
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"Supernatural" goes gay
I was reading through the The Dark Knight board on imdb, there is a discussion going on namely if Heath did a good job and got nominated for an MTV award whether Jake or Michelle would pick it up for him, then the poster decided that it probably would be too hard for Jake and Michelle. Even the straight fanboys connect Heath to Jake. LOL!
In reality there is no evidence whatsoever they saw each other very much in the last few years. Man, people will always connect them, forever, because of the film!
Man, people will always connect them, forever, because of the film!
Of course they will, or at least I hope so. Jake and Heath are and will continue to be part of something beautiful and extraordinary.
I was reading through the The Dark Knight board on imdb, there is a discussion going on namely if Heath did a good job and got nominated for an MTV award whether Jake or Michelle would pick it up for him, then the poster decided that it probably would be too hard for Jake and Michelle.
Wow some people are totally delusional. Isn't Jake's behavior proof enough of how much he cared about Heath? Too grief stricken to pick up Heath’s award lmao, poor fanboys living in la la land.
7:19 PM, I don't think they really follow/ed Jake's and Heath's personal lifes. They just know they did BBM together and that Jake is the Goddaddy of Heath's kid (you can read that in Heath's and Jakes biographies on imdb). So they automatically assume they were close!
It's odd that no one has ever said anything about how Maggie Gyllenhaal has never commented about Heath. When Jack was at Cannes last year, he said he was going to see Maggie in London. She was filming TDK with Heath. So Jack must have seen Heath, Michelle and Matilda. Then Maggie filmed more of the movie in Chicago with Heath and Maggie lives a few blocks away from Michelle in Brooklyn.
Yes, she did comment on Heath when she and Christian Bale were at ShoWest last March. She was asked about Heath and she said it was amazing to work with him.
When I said last March, I meant last month.
It's odd that no one has ever said anything about how Maggie Gyllenhaal has never commented about Heath."
This again? Yawn
She DID comment about Heath at ShoWest. She gushed about him. See above.
Last of the Ninth sounds really awesome!
"So Jack must have seen Heath, Michelle and Matilda."
You mean Jake. And he might not have have seen Heath at all - Heath might not have been filming at the same time or on that, day etc.
And if anyone was going to pick up a MTV award for Heath, it would be someone from TDK, not Michelle and definitely not Jake.
And if anyone was going to pick up a MTV award for Heath, it would be someone from TDK, not Michelle and definitely not Jake.
Jake is without a doubt out of the question and Michelle is unlikely to do so but I don't think it necessarily has to be someone from TDK, could be his sister or one of his close friends.
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JAKE GYLLENHAAL - GYLLENHAAL PLANS RESTAURANT VENTURE
Closet chef JAKE GYLLENHAAL is developing a new organic restaurant venture with top cook CHRIS FISCHER.
Sources claim the movie star once promised himself he'd open a top-end eatery if his acting career took off by the time he was 30. He's 27.
And Gyllenhaal, who has made regular appearances on top chef Mario Batali's hit U.S. cookery show Molto Mario, is getting serious about cooking up a restaurant.
A pals tells America's Life + Style magazine that Gyllenhaal and pal Fischer are looking at real estate in Los Angeles - with a view to opening their own place.
The insider says, "Cooking is his (Gyllenhaal) big hobby and his passion." Reports suggest Gyllenhaal is even planning a summer vacation cycling tour of food-lovers mecca Tuscany, Italy with his girlfriend Reese Witherspoon - to seek inspiration for his new restaurant.
He'll be the latest in a long line of Hollywood stars who have opened restaurants - Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Jeri Ryan, Ashton Kutcher and Tara Reid are just some of the celebrities who have tasted success as restaurateurs.
25/04/2008 07:28
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/gyllenhaal%20plans%20restaurant%20venture_1066822
When Jack was at Cannes last year, he said he was going to see Maggie in London. She was filming TDK with Heath.
Thanks for the reminder :)
Last of the Ninth sounds really awesome!
Yes, it does! I shudder when I think about 70's hairstyles and clothing, but David Milch could write another classic cop show.
Ted mentions Jake
Firm Disbeliever
Loved Jeanne Wolf’s Parade piece about Patrick Dempsey having “pec envy” over Grey’s Eric Dane. Patrick went to great lengths to tell J.W. how he doesn’t want to be ripped for TV or anything like that. Is that so? Dude’s spent many a sweaty sesh right next to my not entirely ripped ass (don’t go there, folks), preening and pumping away. Dempsey’s as self-obsessed as the rest of us, no more, no less.
Except, maybe for Jake Gyllenhaal. Mr. G used to strut and stretch right next to Dempsey, me and Tobey Maguire, all at the same pumping station. Dempsey outdid us all, particularly the half-butt workout Jakey, no question. P.D. never stops. He be fibbin’ to poor Jeannie!
http://www.eonline.com/gossip/awful/?uuid=49bbc9a4-ad16-4563-a29c-fa9afb351c13
Students across America take part in 'Day of Silence'
Today thousands of students across America will take part in a 'Day of Silence'. The National Day of Silence is a day in which students take a vow of silence to bring attention the bullying that LGBT students, teachers and other staff face in schools across the US. The National Day of Silence is coordinated nationally by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
An estimated 500,000 students from nearly 5,000 junior and high schools in all 50 US states and Puerto Rico have participated in the National Day of Silence in past years and more than 6,000 schools have registered this year.
This year the 'Day of Silence' will take on special significance because of the murder of Lawrence King on 12th February 2008.
Lawrence, who was fifteen at the time of his death, was shot in the head by another student, allegedly because of his sexual orientation and because he sometimes wore feminine clothing.
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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7489.html
Heath Ledger's friend raises money in his memory
AfterElton.com reader Kevin of Seattle recently got in touch with me to tell about something called The Great Walk to Beijing, a twenty-one day walk across China that's a fundraiser organized by Olivia Newton-John to raise money for a cancer treatment center. One of those participating is Adam Sutton, best known as the friend of Heath Ledger.
After reading the script for Brokeback Mountain, Heath reportedly talked with Sutton about life as a closeted Aussie cowboy (Sutton is now out) and he even visited Heath while they shot the movie.
Kevin says he thinks the gay community can do a better job of supporting Adam and asked me to help spread the word. As for Adam, he says:
I hope to get a lot of support from the gay community because I want to represent the community as best I can. Also, I've decided to do the walk in my mate Heath Ledger’s honour and to donate the money I raise for the appeal in Heath's name. Anyone who was touched by Heath's life looking for a way to honour his memory, here is one small way to do it and I know he'd be rapt.
So if you'd like to help out Adam, get a page over on where you can sponsor Adam !
After Elton
A pals tells America's Life + Style magazine
A pal as usual! and Life + Style! I'll believe when it opens. lol!
Still flogging the dead donkey "his girlfriend Reese..." does anyone believe this anymore?
As usual jake the flake wants all but with minimum effort, even in the gym!
JAKE GYLLENHAAL is developing a new organic restaurant venture with top cook CHRIS FISCHER...
Gyllenhaal and pal Fischer are looking at real estate in Los Angeles...
Very old news.
Someone reported that more then a year ago (IHJ forum).
As usual jake the flake wants all but with minimum effort, even in the gym!
LOL very true.
Jakee wants to be a big star but he doesn't want to work for it. Reeke is his newest ploy to seek fame. Bad news is that he's no longer interesting to the media or public unless he's with Reese. Talk about a plan backfiring.
Talk about a plan backfiring.
Not really. Straight women love him for hookin up with an older woman who already has kids.
8:41 ITA
Straight women love him for hookin up with an older woman who already has kids.
You're agreeing with what I said. The public isn't interested in Jake; they're interested in Jake only because he's with Reese.
Does anyone have a link to the interview this quote came from? All I know is that it's from last year when Jake was at the Cannes Film Festival (I got it from WFT at the time but I don't have the link, I think the interview was in German).
"I still have a lot to learn about love. One thing that is difficult is when I am in love with a person but they love someone else".
"I still have a lot to learn about love. One thing that is difficult is when I am in love with a person but they love someone else."
Who could these persons be?
He once stated he "stole" his friend's (from a band) girlfriend.
Maybe he also fell for Reese while she was married?
When he says person, maybe he fell for a man too who was already in another relationship?
Well, this happens to many people!
Who could these persons be?
I have no idea who the person could be but I assume it's a man hence the gender ambiguous "person". I found it while going through some old stuff and though it was very intriguing. I'd really love to read the whole thing but I don’t know where it’s from, maybe someone can help.
* thought it was very intriguing
Straight women love him for hookin up with an older woman who already has kids."
Au contraire. I'm a straight woman and I certainly don't love Jake for hooking up with Reese (whom I can't stand) just because she's older and has kids. I just don't like her because she's a stuck up, self-entitled, overbearing snob who thinks she's god's gift to the world (as does Jake). Perfect pair.
If the story is true (which I dont believe) that he is planning to bicycle in Italy, then he did not take the Prince role. That is scheduled to start shooting in June in Morocco. I guess Reese would toss the kids over to Ryan for the summer.
I guess Reese would toss the kids over to Ryan for the summer.
Not Reese, the perfect mother. How will she explain that away? I don't think this biking trip will happen any more than the Hawaii vacation happened.
Who could these persons be?
The easiest answer would be
thiscuteweirdo
"The easiest answer would be"
hehe he's so cute in that pic. Yep, could be him.
hehe he's so cute in that pic. Yep, could be him.
Who'd blame him? ;) I think Heath was incredibly sexy and hot. His sex appeal was totally underrated while he was alive.
Maybe he also fell for Reese while she was married?
ROFLMAO!
On "A socialite Life" website Neil Patrick Harris talks about being outed.
The public isn't interested in Jake; they're interested in Jake only because he's with Reese.
The public isn't interested in Jake; Reese's fans are interested in Jake only because he's pretending to be her boyfriend.
If the story is true (which I dont believe) that he is planning to bicycle in Italy, then he did not take the Prince role. That is scheduled to start shooting in June in Morocco.
I'm sure that "trip to Italy" is standard Life&Style crap - a way to put Reese in the picture.
Prince shooting in June? I don't think so. For this kind of movie casting is finished months and months before the production.
After Nailed he'll go on vacation then promotion for Brothers will start. After promotion he'll start shooting his next project, whatever that will be!
Who'd blame him? ;) I think Heath was incredibly sexy and hot. His sex appeal was totally underrated while he was alive.
I wholeheartedly agree he was very hot but sometimes he was just pure sex.
On "A socialite Life" website Neil Patrick Harris talks about being outed.
Neil Patrick Harris On Being Gay
Doogie Howser is my homeboy. How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris went on Howard Stern and talked about everything. And I mean everything. Apparently, he's known he liked boys since he was 13, is a switch hitter (meaning he tops and bottoms), doesn't believe in open relationships (boring!), and thinks Perez Hilton is a complete douche for spending so much time on trying to out him last year. Ok, he didn't say "complete douche" but it's Perez Hilton, douchery is implied.
Harris was on Stern's Sirius radio show and told Howard that he knew he was definitely gay when he wasn't into Ben Stiller's wife Christine Taylor's body. He was dating her when he was a teenager.
"She's like the coolest, nicest chick ever. She's an absolute catch, and I thought if I'm not going to feel the super sparks with her, than it probably means that I'm gay," he said. Harris told Stern that he'd been with between 12-15 women before he was definite on the queer. You tell Stern EVERYTHING. I'm surprised there's not a rectal exam.
Stern asked Harris if he'd ever confronted Perez Hilton for outing him, and Harris was kinda/sorta not willing to answer it. I hope this queen got evil and sent him a Jenny Craig package or something.
"Well it's a tricky subject because people decide they want to be out in the open whether in a public forum or in their family at their own time. But Perez is from a generation that feels like (being out) is a non-issue. It's offensive to him when people don't declare that, because in his world, it's always been a part of who he is," he said.
Doogie also told Howard that he's "versatile." Harris has been in a relationship with actor David Burtka for four years, and apparently they like to switch it up. For my straight readers, that means you take and receive, depending on mood and hemorrhoid status. Ok, I didn't just say that. Alright, I totally did but I'm back in Boston and I think I have that jet lag thing and I couldn't sleep well last night and it might be affecting my tact.
More photos of Neil and David at the airport after the jump.
Neil Patrick Harris On Being Gay
Who could this person be?
See 5:38 and 7:59.
Who could this person be?
See 5:38 and 7:59.
5:38 AM - JAKE GYLLENHAAL is developing a new organic restaurant venture with top cook CHRIS FISCHER
7:59 AM - JAKE GYLLENHAAL is developing ...a new organic restaurant .... Very old news. ...
One thing that is difficult is when I am in love with a person but they love someone else.
Oh.
Oh.
Best reaction EVER. LOL
People: Jake 'really loves' Reese.
Don't bother clicking on the People link. Here's the article:
Producer Pal: Jake 'Really Loves' Reese
By Brian Orloff
Originally posted Friday April 25, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
Photo by: Flynet
Just how serious is Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon's relationship?
"I just think he loves her," Gyllenhaal's producer pal Ryan Kavanaugh told PEOPLE at the 23rd Annual "Salute to Youth" dinner in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Kavanaugh produced the actor's upcoming film, Brothers, which he calls a "passion project."
"[Jake] has obviously had his fair share of dating," Kavanaugh says of Gyllenhaal's romantic life. "I think eventually you come to a place where you know what you want and seeing what we saw on the set, he was certainly completely devoted to her and really loves her."
Over the course of the film, the producer really got to know Gyllenhaal, 27. "He's awesome," says Kavanaugh. "He's a true artist and a really good guy. We used to workout every morning before going on the set so he became a good friend, too."
• Reporting by ALONDRA HERNANDEZ
^^^ Wow, how nice of Mr Kavanaugh to share "inside" info about Jake's fair share of dating and details about his romantic life with People magazine!
LOL!
So what was People Magazine's question?
Mr Kavanaugh, do yo think that Jake (really) loves Reese? Did he sleep around on the Brother's set?
I wholeheartedly agree he was very hot but sometimes he was just pure sex.
I agree! I think he got even better with age!
Chef Jakey?
Jake Gyllenhaal is supposedly opening up a restaurant. Click here for more details.
Needless to say, this will do nothing to dispel those maybe gaybe rumours.
Still… for some Jakey’s culinary interests illustrate yet again that he’s not a typical Hollywood party punk. That he likes staying at home with Reese Witherspoon and her kids. That he will cook and clean and walk the dog and NOT stay out til all hours of the night with his boys and walk around at the beach in beater tanks with his carb face hanging out. More importantly, Jakey isn’t a cheater, unlike that cheese dick she used to be married to.
Call me Cruise, even though they certainly do pimp out their love when it helps to sell a movie, but in the case of Jake and Reese… I totally believe. Call me Cruise…
Lainey
What does she mean with "Call me Cruise"?
Jakey isn’t a cheater, unlike that cheese dick she used to be married to.
Lainey, you stupid bitch, get over it!
What does she mean with "Call me Cruise"?
Lainey Glossary of Terms:
Call me Cruise (LaineyGossip Original)
Call me crazy, Call me Cruise…
Is dopey Lainey suggesting that opening up a restauraunt and cooking = gay? I was curious that she didn't bother at all mentioning Jake's
hissy Fit" last week, but most of the mainstream rags didn't either, mamybe it didn't happen.
I see she is still busy pushing Jake as the perfect husband material/stepdad.
She's a moronic homophobe. Yes opening a restaurant means you could be gay.
Idiot.
She's a moronic homophobe. Yes opening a restaurant means you could be gay.
Idiot.
Even if Jake had a hissy fit, it pales in comparison to the Caan/DOR fight and Caan leaving the set!
Question, why would Kavanough lie about Jake and Reese? He has no reason at all!
3:34 Babbler give it a rest.
3:43, do you have and answer why he would lie for Jake? Your "give it a rest" doesn't answer the question!
Question, how would Kavanough know the truth about Jake and Reese?
Kavanough is just being nice.
3:47 PM
Do you really think Kavanough would blow Jake's cover? Don't be silly!
One Tree Hill costars Sophia Bush and James Lafferty were spotted in a corner, “looking very cozy,” reports the Post."
What happened to her and Austin?
As Kavanough produced Brothers, he's protecting his investment. See it as damage control against diva behaviour and hissy fitting.
3:50 she called Austin as gay as glitter, they're still friends (as witnessed at NY fashion week).
Austin and Sophia never dated, she is on record as saying so. Austin lied when he said they did.
Kavanough is a filthy rich producer and most likey friends of both Jake and Reese. He saw her on the set of Brothers a few times.
re Lainey...she's is a slick regurgitator of news. She hates (-ed) Heath (too bohemian and unwilling to play the media game) and adores Jake (such a nice straight-arrow, entitled, plus so media-friendly). She buys Jake and Reese because she knows her market segment.
Her "scoops" are the sort of stuff hotel cleaning staff will say for 50 bucks. (Ryan Philippe slept with some waitresses in Vancouver. She's been milking that "news" ever since as if it's the biggest reveal since Watergate.)
Like many purveyors of smut, she is holier-than-thou about other peoples' morals.
He saw her on the set of Brothers a few times.
Yeah, right!
I'm sure you know all about it because you were there too! lol
She buys Jake and Reese because she knows her market segment.
Not sure about that. I'm only sure she's trying to sell Reeke.
hissy fitting.
lol
Why does everything about Jake recently seem so disingenuine?
Why can't our one remaining cowboy be as adorable as he was a couple of years ago?
The jury is still out!
4:27, Because he is disingenuous and that was a fantasy from a few years ago. This is the real Jake.
It's interesting about Lainey. She rails against people like Katherine Heigl (whom I kind of like), Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner (also kind of like), etc because they're minivan darlings. She doesn't think Jake/Reese are minivan darlings??? Are you kidding? They're poster children for the minivan whom she claims to detest. Apparently, she doesn't and for someone who likes to rail against the minivan majority, she really is a holier-than-thou sanctimonious moralistic prude, isn't she? And she's a homophobe. She said early on that Jake couldn't be gay because he's a bad dresser!! She's an idiot.
This is the real Jake.
Jake pretended to be the good guy for more then 6 years and Reeke gave him the chance to stop pretending?
I don't think so 4:42 PM.
She said early on that Jake couldn't be gay because he's a bad dresser!!
LOL!
Michelle Williams stars in first movie since Heath Ledger's death
Michelle Williams is back on screen, just three months after ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger, the father of her daughter, was found dead in his SoHo apartment.
Her new film, "Deception," opens in theaters on Friday, April 25. It also stars Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor.
In the movie, Williams plays S, a sexy singer/songwriter, who seduces McGregor's character, Jonathan, a Manhattan corporate auditor so immersed in his business, he has no time for pleasure. That all changes after he meets Wyatt, played by Jackman, who introduces him to a mysterious sex club. Soon Jonathan finds himself the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
Part thriller, part murder mystery, part fight club, Williams has never looked better in her role as a sexy temptress. First widely acclaimed for her role as Jen Lindley in the teen series, "Dawson's Creek," she also stared in the films "Dick," "Prozac Nation," "The Hottest State," and "Brokeback Mountain," which also earned her an Oscar nomination and a relationship with Ledger.
Williams recently spoke about Ledger for the first time since his death, telling Interview magazine in their April issue, "He had uncontrollable energy. He buzzed - his mind was turning, turning, turning - always turning."
Ledger's cause of death was determined to be an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and other prescription drugs, according to the New York City medical examiner's office in February.
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4:27, Because he is disingenuous and that was a fantasy from a few years ago. This is the real Jake.
We have a winer!!!!! lol
Not so fast 6:01 PM! lol
I'm still waiting for some kind of argument to 'back up' 4:42 PM assumption.
Maggie is on the cover of Interview for the new issue. The pics inside are great. Maggie talks about working on "The Dark Knight" and she says she's eager to work with actresses like Michelle Williams and Kate Winslet.
No Reese?
Maggie ain't stupid! LOL!
Austin and Sophia never dated, she is on record as saying so. Austin lied when he said they did."
Didn't Sophia say that because she was still legally married to Chad at the time (although separated)? Sophia was seen with Austin a lot during that time. She even went with him to the LA premiere of "Glory Days" where she was photographed with Austin and a co-star.
Judging from the recent pics of Austin and Sophia at NY's Fashion Week in February, maybe they're friends with benefits?
"Kavanough is a filthy rich producer and most likey friends of both Jake and Reese. He saw her on the set of Brothers a few times."
I could have sworn I read a post by a blogger who worked on "Brothers" that she saw Jake and Reese having an argument and she referred to Reese as a bitch.
I could have sworn I read a post by a blogger who worked on "Brothers" that she saw Jake and Reese having an argument and she referred to Reese as a bitch.
Reese is a bitch, but there is no reason to believe everything you read on the Net.
Maggie is on the cover of Interview for the new issue. The pics inside are great.
Few pictures are online:
Interview Magazine
*applauds 10:26*
The statement that undermines the credibility of People's jake loves reese is "he's done his fair share of dating". Really? Except for Kirsten, who else has he dated until Reese. High school, giving Natalie tulips on the street or one double date with Chris with someone he obviously just met doesn't count. Big void between Kirstin, which ended in what 2004 and then Reese. We know who filled the void.
3:59 PM, truer words have never been spoken about lainey. She's the female equivelant of perez hilton.
Aww PR magazine - oops I mean People magazine - has a new Phoneyspoon article. How convieniant for them that they just bumped into someone willing to talk about reeke's true love!
Au contraire. I'm a straight woman and I certainly don't love Jake for hooking up with Reese (whom I can't stand) just because she's older and has kids.
Well that's because you have taste. ;) And also because I think that straight women concerned are the ones who already love Reese. The ones who believe the articles about Reeke, the ones who belive that Ryan was the bad guy and that Reese is just a perfect southern gal with perfect family values. The ones who go see her crappy rom-coms. This is the fanbase Jake wants badly. The mini-van majority, as lainey calls them. It's a pity he failed at the godfather thing - Jakey the caring godfather would have gone down perfectly with them!
Go to Popsugar if you want to see this kind of fanbase.
Reese probably thinks that Jake has given her a "cool sexy, edgy mom" vibe because he's a younger man. LOL......
"Go to Popsugar if you want to see this kind of fanbase."
Believe it or not, up until the pics of Reese with Atticus, everytime Popsugar had pictures of Jake or Reese, the comments were all about their sweetness and true love. When they had the staged pics of Reese and Atticus, seems that most of the comments were about how staged the pics were. Since then, half of the comments when their pics are posted are about they phonymance.
It's a pity he failed at the godfather thing - Jakey the caring godfather would have gone down perfectly with them!"
He didn't even try the godfather thing.
This is the fanbase Jake wants badly. The mini-van majority, as lainey calls them.
It's not about Reese's redneck public - it's about being seen as straight.
This is what someone who claims to have insider info said about Jake, Ryan and Austin on ONTD's jake/reese People Mag article:
"..trufax, Jake and Ryan hooked up.
So this is really strange and bizare.
And Austin is very very bitter and angry about all this."
Do we believe this? If so, no wonder Ryan finds Jake/Reese strange. And I'm very sad for Austin. He deserves better. He's a gorgeous guy--any girl or guy would be happy to be with him. I bet he'll get TONS of overtunes when "The Informers" comes out.
Jake and Ryan hooked up
When?
If so, no wonder Ryan finds Jake/Reese strange.
Hookup or no hookup with Jake, I'm sure Ryan knows about the showmance.
10.51, that sounds like a Reese fan trying to kill three birds with one stone. lol!
As for Lainey saying Ryan cheated and Jake wouldn't... for heaven's sake this is HW, right? Is there anyone here who hasn't cheated?? lainey is a Reeke ass licking idiot!
Interesting that in the absence of pics and sightings we have all these silly articles coming out. Gotta keep in the news people, gotta keep in the news.... those f--king projects are so damn hard to get!
10:05 when popsugar no longer buys this I think you are basically f**ked.
Hope Austin isn't too bitter, move on man, there's plenty better than Jake out there.
Hope Austin isn't too bitter, move on man, there's plenty better than Jake out there.
What about Ted and Jake's "well-concealed domestic life"?
Yep, "G2 is along for the ride"? Also Ted.
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Bret Easton Ellis is sooo over being a famous writer whose novels get made into movies
I failed to mention in my previous post, the two book-related interviews in the current issue of V. First, Bret Easton Ellis chats with pal T. Cole Rachel to promote his film-adaptation for The Informers, set to release in October of this year. The cast includes Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Mary-Kate Olsen, Billy Bob Thornton and the late Brad Renfro, which already seems like a strange amalgam no? The inclusion of Renfro (who died earlier this year of an accidental heroin overdose) seems disturbingly apropos for a BEE project though. Rachel put it best when he says that Ellis’ work makes the unsettling statement that “we are fucked.” A collected of losely intertwined short stories, The Informers, was first published in 1994.
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On film adaptations of his books (which he didn’t adapt):
As well-made as American Psycho is, I don’t think it really did that. I just think that American Psycho is an un-adaptable book that was turned into a perfectly serviceable movie.
On the current film adaptation of The Informers (which he adapted):
It is, by far, the most expensive film adaptation that’s ever been done for one of my novels and from what I’ve seen it’s the most beautiful looking.
On what the story is about (my fav quote in this piece):
The movie is really about the end of the ‘70’s and the beginning of the ‘80’s. It’s about that moment when we realized that everything the ‘70’s had been about was going to be wiped away—by AIDS, by drugs, by Reagan-era politics. It’s about that moment when this cultural shift took place and everything suddenly felt completely different.
http://homoneurotic.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/bret-easton-ellis-is-sooo-over-being-a-famous-writer-whose-novels-get-made-into-movies/
AMERICAN INFORMER
BRET EASTON ELLIS MAY BE THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL, UPSETTING, DANGEROUS, AND CRITICALLY DISREGARDED WRITER IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. HE MAY ALSO PROVE TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT. AS HE WRAPS UP WORK ON THE FILM ADAPTATION OF THE INFORMERS, HE TALKS ABOUT THE MANY LIVES OF HIS BOOKS
At the time of its publication in 1994, Bret Easton ElIis’s The Informers was a polarizing topic in the literary world. As has been the case with all of the 44-year-old writer`s books, the story collection seemed to engender glowing, it somewhat reluctant, admiration or vehement disdain. Most of the time, it was the disdain that won out. The thirteen loosely interwoven stories of desperation, decadence, and general despair in early ‘80s Los Angeles proved too nihilistic - and perhaps too prescient - for many critics. Despite having been deemed "empty writing about empty lives" by Kirkus or, even less kindly, “as cynical, shallow, and stupid as the people it depicts" by The New York Times` Michiko Kakutani, The Informers has, over the years, continued to attract its own cultish fan base. While the book is certainly not as celebrated (or reviled) as Ellis‘s other best-sellers - 1985's Less Than Zero, 1991's American Psycho, and 1998's Glamorama - The Informers is arguably one of his masterpieces. Buried under the spare, almost mercilessly sharp prose lays a very genuine sadness and, even more overlooked, a wicked sense of humor. Ellis is much more than a master stylist. His best work makes a very clear statement about what it means to be human, even if that statement is a generally unsettling one: we are fucked.
It's not surprising then that The Informers is the next book in Ellis's back catalog to be given the Hollywood film treatment. Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film‘s ensemble cast includes Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Mary-Kate Olsen and Billy Bob Thornton. While the author has remained largely disconnected from previous film adaptations, he's served as a screenwriter here to help bring one of his most seemingly un-filmable books to the big screen. Maybe it has taken a decade for the ironies of Ellis‘s work to become clear to us. (T. Cole Rachel)
T. COLE RACHEL: One of the first questions that people must always ask you is what you think about the movies that have been made from your books.
BRET EASTON ELLIS: Yes. It’s weird. When I'm writing, I'm not thinking of the books as movies, I‘m thinking of them as purely literary experiences. When I‘m writing a screenplay it's obviously very different. So, I find the idea of adapting my own work for the screen - or seeing it adapted—very disorienting. There are always problems.
TCR: Such as?
BEE: Well, I remember that the people who wanted to do Less Than Zero were caught in a regime change at the studio where the movie was being done. There were a lot of conflicting ideas by everyone involved about exactly how that book should be made into a film. The end result was a very compromised film that was much different than it had originally been envisioned. That movie was also very affected by the times in which it was made. There was no independent cinema then, which is where a movie like that should have gone rather than become a huge, glossy 20th Century Fox production. Also, there are no scenes from the book that are actually in the movie. It’s totally different. Saying that, however, I see that movie late at night sometimes on cable and I actually have a lot of fondness for it. The cinematography is beautiful. It’s really one of the only movies of its kind that captures however tacky the youth culture of L.A. at that time. It’s the only movie l can think of that shows what L.A. was like at that moment, for better or worse.
TCR: Which of the film adaptations do you think most accurately captures your own sensibility?
BEE: The only one that really does it is The Rules of Attraction. It`s also the most divisive movie - not only among fans of my work but probably among fans of movies in general [laughs]. I watched it again recently and I think it`s kind of a marvelous adaptation.
Regardless of what Roger Avary kept from the book and what he threw out - and he kept a lot - it got the essence of the novel. As well-made as American Psycho is, I don't think it really did that. I just think that American Psycho is an un-adaptable book that was turned into a perfectly serviceable movie.
TCR: I know you‘ve done lots of screenwriting, but was The Informers the first time you took a shot at adapting your own work for the screen?
BEE: Not exactly. I did a version of The Rules of Attraction years ago. I did a draft of American Psycho for David Cronenberg when he was attached to direct it. Neither of those versions was ever used. The Informers is the first time that l did an adaptation of one of my books that was actually shot.
TCR: It seems like the least adaptable of all your work. There is a certain loose connectedness to the book, but ifs still essentially a collection of short stories.
BEE: Yeah. there is a kind of cohesiveness to it...you know, the stories get darker as you move through it, certain characters pop up again in later stories, or certain details about characters are revealed. But still, it doesn't easily lend itself to this kind of treatment. It was written when I was going through a very brief phase of writing short stories - which lasted about five years - and I was just interested in the form. I don`t think I've ever been interested in it since. I haven’t actually written a short story since 1986. What happened was that I had gotten stuck on Glamorama and I owed a book to Knopf. It became apparent that Glamorama was going to take a long time to finish, so my editor suggested that we do a book of stories. I looked at all the stories I'd written and I liked the L.A. stories the most. I arranged them in a way that they seemed to make the most sense - like the way a musician might arrange tracks on an album - and then it just felt like it worked.
TCR: So much of your most memorable work is set in L.A. and now you’re living there again alter nearly two decades in New York. Does the city still hold the same kind of creative sway over you?
BEE: It's funny. I'm not really sure that it ever did. My work tends to be about wherever I am at the moment, it kind of goes where I go. L.A. just happened to be where I was most of the time. I was writing Less Than Zero when I was in college and it was about college students. I spent half of my time in L.A., half in Vermont. A lot of Less Than Zero comes from the two novels I wrote when I was in high school. I wrote about L.A. because that's where I lived and that's what I knew. The same goes for Rules of Attraction. American Psycho was written when I moved to New York. Glamorama was the result of traveling around Europe so much.
Lunar Park was written mostly in Los Angeles, but that book isn’t so much about the suburbs or a particular place as it is about getting older. The book I‘m writing now is set in Los Angeles, out it`s not so much about the city itself.
TCR: You‘ve been very involved with the production of The Informers - from working with the director, Gregor Jordan, to visiting the set and talking to the actors about their roles. Has this experience changed your perspective on what it means to make movies?
BEE: Completely and totally. You know, it was always boring for me to begin with. When I as a kid I knew people whose parents made television shows and movies. I went to a school where most of my friend’s parents worked in the entertainment industry. So it wasn't unusual alter school to go visit a set because someone's dad was Michael Landon and they were shooting Little House on the Prairie. It's kind of horrible to say, but at an early age you become very jaded about stuff like that because you understand how completely boring and tedious it is most of the time. I was on the set of American Psycho a couple of times – boring, did not want to be there – and once it was actually by accident. I walked down the street and literally stumbled across the film crew who was shooting near my apartment. With Informers there were a couple of times when the actors requested dialogue revisions, so I came down to the set to do that. But, you know, for whatever reason, perhaps my age, it doesn`t really excite me. However, there was a moment on Informers when I watched these four young actors shoot a very complicated scene and totally nail it every time. I realized how much better they actually made the scene and it was exciting to see the thing just come to life. That's when you realize that making movies is truly a collaborative experience, while screenwriting isn't. As a screenwriter you're giving them a map - a compass - and the rest is up to everyone else.
TCR: Capturing the look of the early '80s is actually much harder than people probably think. There’s a fine line between looking authentic and beautiful and lust having it look like a bed episode of Dynasty.
BEE: Exactly. This movie really needed to have an almost Antonioni-esque sheen to it in order to work and they really went all out to achieve that. It is, by far, the most expensive film adaptation that’s ever been done for one of my novels and from what I‘ve seen, it’s the most beautiful looking. We talked at length about how the people would dress. This book takes place in 1983, so it was just before things got really tacky. Armani was very big at the time and all the guys I knew would wear a lot of streamlined Italian clothes. The mullet hadn't appeared yet, nor had shoulder pads. Girls hadn`t gone insane with their hair yet in terms of giant perms or whatever. It's just before that all started to happen. We looked at a movie like The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, even though that movie is actually set in the 1930s, for an idea of how these young people should look. We also wanted to capture the kind of laid-back, So-Cal glamour that kids I knew growing up were into. We weren't making Fast Times at Ridgemont High. We didn't want to make a parody of 1983. The movie is really about the end of the '70s and the beginning of the `80s. It's about that moment when we realized that everything the '70s had been about was going to be wiped away - by AIDS, by drugs, by Reagan-era politics. It's about that moment when this cultural shift took place and everything suddenly felt completely different.
The Informers is out in summer 2008 from Senator Entertainment
http://www.vmagazinedigital.com/vmagazine/2008spring/
That is a great interview with Ellis. I haven't seen any of his movies, though I have heard of them. After reading this interview, I look forward to watching the Informers. I liked when he says characters from an earlier story pop up later in a different one. I also hope to see more about the new Milch drama for HBO. Austin certainly picks good projects.
"It's not about Reese's redneck public - it's about being seen as straight."
What's the difference?
"Hope Austin isn't too bitter, move on man, there's plenty better than Jake out there."
Austin is lucky that Jake even gave him the time of day.
10:51 PM, do you have a link to that ONTD post?
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