September 7, 2008
AfterElton.com - first annual poll of the best gay male movies of all time:
1. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Ferragamos or Birkenstocks? Mojitos or good ol’ beer? Gay men don’t seem to agree on much. But by a wide margin of nearly two-to-one, you chose Brokeback Mountain as the greatest gay movie of all time. And how could it be otherwise? “It’s not ‘gay,’” said some, trying to broaden the film’s appeal, “it’s a ‘universal love story’!”
But is it really? Plenty of heterosexuals have had the experience of hiding a love affair, but how many of them know what it’s like to be forced by society to deny themselves the very possibility of love? This is the daring and fundamentally “gay” question at the heart of Ang Lee’s 2005 masterpiece: can two men simply allow themselves to love each other? And though the movie is set in the past, it is, ultimately, the very choice that every gay man still must make.
Jake Gyllenhaal is flawless as Jack Twist in arguably the movie’s most difficult role. But Heath Ledger’s heartbreaking portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, a walking cautionary tale of homophobia’s logical end result, is a revelation — a total acting transformation made all the more tragic by Ledger’s death earlier this year. But the indignities and injustices that Jack and Ennis faced did not end at Brokeback Mountain’s closing credits. Upon the film’s release, the movie’s makers and fans were subjected to a six-month orgy of tasteless jokes from clueless comedians and bile-filed commentary from right-wing pundits. All of this negativity culminated when the movie, long considered the Oscar front-runner, lost Best Picture to a fine but unremarkable movie called Crash, perhaps the most egregious upset in Oscar history and almost certainly the result of lingering homophobia in Hollywood’s old guard.
But that fusillade of ridicule and outrage is already fading into the gloom of a bigoted past while the movie’s artistry and quiet power shines brighter than ever. Let’s face it: this isn’t just the greatest gay movie of all time, it’s one of the greatest movies ever.
Source: AfterElton.com, The Fifty Greatest Gay Movies!
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 516 of 516There are gonna be Jake with Reese pictures, Jake with Reese pictures and Jake with Reese pictures.
We are discussing life after Reeke.
There are gonna be Jake with Reese pictures, Jake with Reese pictures and Jake with Reese pictures.
We are discussing life after Reeke.
Some seem to think that Reeke will last forever. It won't.
Right, it's not about Jake being single, it's about Jake being himself. Not being dragged around looking like a doomed man attached hip to hip to a woman who appears to be
childish
sexless
controlling
greedy
vengeful
rejected
unattractive in all ways
terrible taste in clothes
makes ugly faces for paps
smirks
is half his size
is on the rebound
who declares her primary concern
is her children
just show me these two having fun!
take a look at Bardem and Cruz on vacation - compare! ! !
All those Spanish stuntsmen yum yum! The guy from Iceland...
The guy from England:
Q: So what have you got next?
Tony Kebbell: I’m doing Prince of Persia, playing a Prince of Persia, head of the Persian army and I’ve got a brother who’s going to be the future king if our father dies. Then there’s Jake Gyllenhaal who’s the Prince of Persia (from the title). It’s great. We’re shooting in Morocco and it’s hot and continuous days.
I’m in a full set of armour it’s tough, but it’s great too. I get to learn to ride a horse, it’s phenomenal. It’s the hardest work I’ve done – that’s like moaning about my diamond shoes being too tight – but it’s great fun to do. I do all the things you wanted to do as a kid - wear armour, scream around the place and so on. I’m loving it really.
Toby Kebbell - IMDb pics
Right, it's not about Jake being single, it's about Jake being himself.
Absolutely.
It's raining men in Morocco, for sure!
More than you can imagine!
Is this film gonna provide major erotica for all the 12 year old boys with braces?
Only for gay 12 year old boys.
P.S. There will be nice Disney love story for straight 12 year old boys.
I guess you take what you need. Lov'd Batman/Robin erotica as a 12 year old, and Im not even a guy!
Go figure!
Even at that tender age you were a slasher at heart. (I'm a late bloomer :)
5:31 haha yes I guess embarassing!
Matilda Ledger’s Doggy Days
Matilda Rose, the 2-year-old daughter of Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger, takes a neighbor’s dog for a a morning walk around Brooklyn, New York City on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Michelle, who turned 28 last week, gave her first sit-down interview with The New York Times since the passing of her ex-partner Heath Ledger back in January. Here’s a snippet:
“I thought a lot about what you look like when you think nobody’s looking at you, when you feel completely invisible,” Ms. Williams said of her character Wendy. “Your entire life happens inside because you don’t think anyone notices you. Which is very different from me. Not that I don’t have any inside life, but I feel watched, all the time.”
As she spoke over a long lunch at a restaurant near her home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, Ms. Williams occasionally paused and smiled wryly as if to acknowledge the unspoken connections with her off-screen life. “It’s all so personal, isn’t it?” she said. “It’s hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don’t want to talk about my personal life, but it’s on my mind, and it’s in my work.”
JJared
Dear Ted:
I think you are lovely and amazing. But why must you tease us so with the ongoing saga of Toothy Tile? Must we guess every actor in Hollywood until you have eliminated all but one? Since the answer is probably yes, I'll contribute a guess: Milo Ventimiglia. He went out with Alexis Bledel, and who better fits the description of "superannoyingly perfect" than the younger Gilmore? And Tile could be a contraction of "Twenty Miles," which his surname translates to. Alexis, Hayden P....With his tastes in beards, one could say Toothy has led astray the good girl, no?
—Jane, Australia
Dear S&M Wannabe:
Because torture is so delicious. And no on Milo, think even more famous a player.
Dear Ted:
Has Toothy curbed the public nooky sessions? Also, do his parents know he's gay?
—Angela
Dear Det. Debauched:
Yes and yes.
Has Toothy curbed the public nooky sessions?
Huh? Could someone please translate into plain English.
Translated into regular person speak: Has Jake stopped smooching his boyfriend in public?
Thanks 6:40 PM.
'Brokeback' author says says film is source of 'constant irritation'
By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
AP
Annie Proulx, 73, the Pulitzer prize winning author said she had been pestered ever since by "pornish" mail sent by fans offering their interpretations of the story
It was an Oscar-winning film lauded for its sensitive portrayal of two lovelorn cowboys and their illicit passion in America's homophobic Midwest. But despite the success of Brokeback Mountain, starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, the author on whose story it was based has complained that the tale has become "the source of constant irritation in my private life".
Annie Proulx, 73, the Pulitzer prize-winning author whose short story was made into the Hollywood film in 2005, said she had been pestered ever since by "pornish" mail sent by fans offering their interpretations of the story.
When the story was published in 1999, it was praised for its delicate handling of homophobia in the ranching country of Wyoming. But her fans feel she could have gone further in her descriptions of the love shared by the two central characters.
She told The Wall Street Journal: "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it.
"Brokeback Mountain has had little effect on my writing life, but is the source of constant irritation in my private life."
The film, directed by Ang Lee, received critical acclaim and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three.
Proulx's story appeared in a collection of short stories called Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which were set in a rural landscape and detailed the often grim lives of the protagonists. "Brokeback Mountain", a 64-page novella, was the most acclaimed story in the collection.
But while Proulx might be seeking distance from her story, she returns to the region in her new collection of nine stories, Fine Just the Way It Is, based on the lives of the women on the ranches. "In a real sense, women on ranches are secondary citizens. But many, if not most, would be furious if you said that out straight, They see themselves as mythic Western women," said Proulx.
She added that this would be her last collection of Wyoming stories because she did not want her writing to become too closely associated with one region.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/brokeback-author-says-says-film-is-source-of-constant-irritation-933036.html
Pretty rude of her to say that imo.
Fine Just the Way It Is - Annie's title of her new book of short stories is significant, and says it all I think, her story is fine just the way it is.
It's ok if people enjoyed the story so much they'd like to reinterpet it for their own peace of mind and for the enjoyment of others (with a disclaimer), but to send manuscripts and suggestions to Annie and expect praise? Also, not to infringe on her copyrights by trying to publish stories plagiarizing her ideas. That's what rude and the height of arrogance.
LJs authors have sent her their slash stories?
LJs authors have sent her their slash stories?
LOL. If it was them, they shouldn't have done it. Some stuff is very...graphic.
^^That's the impression I got, that some writers have sent her their slash stories, she called them pornish rewrites. :(
What sane rational person would send a 73 year-old woman slash?? Using characters that she created? That to me is tasteless and arrogant. No writer appreciates their characters being used in other writers work even if the popularity is flattering but add to that using them for erotica and you would be crazy not to expect the writer to be annoyed.
What sane rational person would send a 73 year-old woman slash?? Using characters that she created? That to me is tasteless and arrogant. No writer appreciates their characters being used in other writers work even if the popularity is flattering but add to that using them for erotica and you would be crazy not to expect the writer to be annoyed.
IA.
Well, good to know Jakes parents know he is gay, not that I doubted it in the first place. A screen writer and a director would have to understand the human condition and be keenly observant. How could they not know. They probably knew before he did.
I love fan fic authors, but you have to be a pretty ballsy to mail an "improved" fic to the original author. Hopefully noone from DC forum or Brokebackslash sites is involved.
I'm sure Jake and Tobey will not only get Oscar nods but win the trophies and Brothers will go down as the best film of this year (if not the decade).
11:52
You live in a fantasy world
Posted on OMG
Buzzfoto Blind Item: Faux Love
We hear about fake celeb relationships all the time so it should be no surprise to any reader that this blind item is about a fake celeb couple. This couple is well known, they have lots of folk rooting for them, and they spend a lot of time together. However, it might surprise you that rumor has it that only one of the pair is in on the gig. That’s right, one is there because of their publicist, and the other thinks the affair is the real deal. It’s funny how far some stars will go for the fame because this star is willing to do whatever it takes to make the world, and their partner, think that it’s love. And let’s just say it isn’t just our couple who will suffer from the hoax.
Hint: It’s not this couple…or Hayden and Milo!
Faux Love
"You live in a fantasy world"
Ah, don't we all.
I wish I could afford living in a fantasy world.
She told The Wall Street Journal: "There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for 'fixing' the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it.
Dear Annie, thank you so much for Jack and Ennis.
With all due respect, I hope that countless people will continue to try to "fix" your story.
I'm sure Jake and Tobey will not only get Oscar nods but win the trophies and Brothers will go down as the best film of this year (if not the decade).
What exactly have you been smoking cause I want some too?
Drinking, taking drugs and reading slash ... we are bad. ;)
ent lawyer
Today's Blind Items - Jackass
I guess this actor would be considered A list because he does have a franchise. I would call him more B+ list. He is not married currently. He has really begun to change from the funny, sweet guy he was always portrayed in the media to be. Lately though he has snapped at people quite frequently. A couple of weeks ago there was a prime example of this. Our actor took his car to be washed. Well, at this particular car wash, the attendants vacuum and do other things prior to the car going through the wash. Most patrons just go inside and wait. Not our actor who stayed with them every second and made them do everything three or sometimes four times. The lines of cars backed up because of the actor was about 20 deep. After he was satisfied, they moved the car into the wash. The actor went inside to watch through the viewing window. That lasted as long as it took for the car to actually go through the jets of water. After that, the actor went inside the washing area and made sure the attendants got every spot washed and wiped and clean. What should have been ten minutes turned into 30, all because this actor was out of control. Finally, someone in management noticed the line of cars and ordered the actor out of the area. When he refused, they moved his car out, and told him to leave and never come back.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/09/todays-blind-items-jackass.html
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Q: You said earlier that you were pleased with Heath Ledger's performance. Did you feel that way about the whole cast?
Annie Proulx: The whole cast was magnificent. There wasn't anything not to be thrilled with, in anyone's performance. They were all extraordinary. And by singling out Heath Ledger, I didn't mean to slight Jake Gyllenhaal in the least, because he's an extraordinarily versatile, quicksilver, accomplished actor. Really, quite marvelous. And I think he went from Brokeback to Jarhead, and that is the kind of jump that is, like, "Oh, really?" And he did both with ease. Very expert ease.
All of the actors were just superb.
They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it.
Mrs Proulx didn't get it - slash fiction CAN fix everything.
Ms Proulx is a difficult woman. She'll never write something like BBM ever again. She should be glad so many people are interested in her story.
Drop the attitude lady and get a grip.
Ledger's bar to be a celebration
IT WAS supposed to be the Brooklyn bar in which Heath Ledger would be most comfortable - a place in which the late actor not only invested, but that he helped conceive.
Only those who knew him well will discern the Heath touches: the engraved, granite-topped bar tables were his idea, as it was to have his favourite tattooist, Scott Campbell, from nearby Williamsburg, do the engravings. It also was Ledger who wanted one table engraved as a chessboard. He played the game his father taught him at a nearby chess club and often beat the city's street chess hustlers, although he declined to take their money, his business partner, Jud Mongell, said last week. Also engraved on the chess table is a scrawled love-heart, replicating one Ledger left on a note to a friend not long before his death in January.
The nautical theme - the space is furnished with deckchairs and fitted with a steel, bow-shaped bar to create the impression of being at sea - was an idea Mongell and Ledger had together. The bar's name, Five Leaves, is a Ledger family decision, recalling an album by Nick Drake and a reference to the warning found near the end of a packet of Rizla cigarette papers.
This week the bar will finally open, not as a tribute to Ledger but as somewhere he would belong. "We're 50:50 partners still," Mr Mongell said. "Heath is still my partner. He was fingerprinted for a liquor licence for the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration]. He was going to DJ, bartend; he was not like some removed investor. At one point he put a bid in on the whole building. He was going to live upstairs. "Heath was a very good chess player. He wanted a chessboard or two in here, so we could never not do that."
The bar has been completed because the actor's father, Kim, agreed to see it finished. "Heath always intended helping Jud get into the restaurant business, so he put his money where his mouth was and committed to the lease and committed to the plans," Mr Ledger said.
"He just wanted to be involved with his mates. He was just the kind of young man that gave a lot of people opportunities, all his friends, wherever they were in any part of life. That's just how he was." He said he it was satisfying to see that something his son envisaged had been finished. "Our family has suffered openly more than other families, in a way, because it's so public, but at the same time we're no different to other families that have lost children. It's heartbreaking."
Mr Ledger said the finished bar, with its rustic and recycled decor, was precisely the sort of place his son would have designed.
Mr Mongell, 35, is married to an Australian and befriended Ledger at a wedding on the Mornington Peninsula two years before the actor's death. They hit it off, becoming, as Mr Mongell said, dudes who hung out together. They had in common the fact they were both returning to New York. They also had other shared interests in tattoos and food; they both liked Bills in Sydney and Cafe Gitane in Manhattan.
"I brought him over here and he liked it right away," Mr Mongell said. "I took him skateboarding around the neighbourhood, showed him a lot of places for lease. "He is still very important to all of us."
In contrast to Ledger's lonely death from an overdose of medicine in a Soho apartment, the bar hummed with activity last week during a function. "I would just say it's a place where his friends swing by," Mr Mongell said. "It's just more a place where the Australians in his life will continue to be around. We're still here; it's just Heath's no longer with us."
Ledger's bar to be a celebration
^^^
"Heath was very into food. He used to go to the Spotted Pig (on Manhattan's Lower West Side) and one foodies' night he was there he met the woman who is now our chef here," Mongell said amid the bar's half-finished chaos last week.
^^^
Brooklyn bar Five Leaves, named after the Nick Drake album Five Leaves Left, was bought by Ledger prior to his death with his business partner Jud Mongell and is set to open to the public on Wednesday [today].
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.
So I don't think Reeke is the answer to the above BI:
"It’s funny how far some stars will go for the fame because this star is willing to do whatever it takes to make the world, and their partner, think that it’s love. And let’s just say it isn’t just our couple who will suffer from the hoax.
Hint: It’s not this couple…or Hayden and Milo!"
"Rachel Getting Married and Wendy and Lucy among the best in Toronto.
Anne and Michelle
So I don't think Reeke is the answer to the above BI...
Reeke is most definitely not the answer to that BI. It's a reminder that fake relationships are "normal" in Hollywood:
"We hear about fake celeb relationships all the time so it should be no surprise to any reader that this blind item is about a fake celeb couple."
Anne and Michelle
These girls will get nominated this year. Mark my words.
I'm sure Jake and Tobey will not only get Oscar nods but win the trophies and Brothers will go down as the best film of this year (if not the decade).
I'm not sure the film will have so much attention because it's a remake. The Departed, also a remake, got plenty of attention though. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
If the movie does well and if Tobey is really as good as some who've seen it say, he might get an Oscar nom.
Anne and Michelle
... this year some of the festival's best movies were among them:
Rachel Getting Married
I'll have to admit that the new film from Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) wasn't on my must-see list. He's a respected filmmaker, but his latest film, the story of a woman getting married, gathering with her extended family, and clashing with her sister, sounded a little too much like Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding. But I stepped into the screening on a lark and was stunned not only by Demme's patient and unadorned approach but also by Anne Hathaway's razor sharp, painful, quivering performance as the bride's sister. Demme injects melodrama into the story at regular intervals, but he observes the results like a documentarian huddling in the corner with a small, handheld camera. The rehearsal dinner plays out in near real time, complete with speeches from moms, dads, cousins, crazy uncles, and poetic troublemakers, and the gathering feels so honest that I was cringing along with the guests when the sweet, emotional moment threatened to collapse, and I felt their sigh of relief when it mostly didn't. The rehearsal dinner is one set piece; the other is the wedding itself, a jubilant, eclectic affair in which Robyn Hitchcock and Fab 5 Freddy show up to perform. In between those tent poles is a harrowing roller-coaster that may vaguely resemble the films of Noah Baumbach but has significantly more heart and soul.
Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt, whose previous film, Old Joy, was one of my favorites of 2006, returns with a quiet melodrama called Wendy and Lucy. Wendy is played by Michelle Williams, Lucy is played by a dog named Lucy, and together they're on the road, headed to a job in the Northwest with a few dollars, a few clothes, and a car with a bad serpentine belt. Reichardt says she wanted to explore the idea of bootstraps, so often recommended but so rarely examined, and in the modern world she finds daily demands that pass unnoticed by people with money but lie like pernicious traps for anybody living at the edge of existence. Wendy keeps track of her funds and miles-to-go in a notebook, but the entire film takes place at one stop, mostly outdoors, in a town where her lack of safety net is tested at every turn. Williams is excellent in a simple film about a surprisingly complicated world.
These girls will get nominated this year. Mark my words.
Fingers crossed!
Zodiac - Director's Cut
This title will be released on September 29, 2008.
Keep in mind that Reese's people could be giving her an escape route. If Jake ever gets caught or comes out she needs to be able to claim complete ignorance so this breadcrumb could be part of laying the groundwork for her. Just in case she needs it.
That BI is not about them. It says that one is there because of their publist, the other thinks it's the real deal.
Don't they have at least the same manager and are both repped by CAA? And who thinks it's the real deal? It sure ain't Reese.
If Jake ever gets caught or comes out...
I'm sure Reese can make up 5 different lies for that occasion. After all her public persona is a big fat lie.
Bad girl!
"Anne Hathaway kept nipping out for secret cigarettes at the Hollywood Life House at the Toronto Film Festival. A spy says, "Her people don't want anyone to know she smokes."
"Anne Hathaway kept nipping out for secret cigarettes at the Hollywood Life House at the Toronto Film Festival. A spy says, "Her people don't want anyone to know she smokes."
Jezz, Witherspoon hides she smokes, Anne hides it. Why?
At least Michelle Williams doesn't hide it. She gets flak for it from fans though.
PR - Perfect girls don't smoke. Smoking is a dirty habit.
"PR - Perfect girls don't smoke. Smoking is a dirty habit."
Aha. Right, she's a good girl. And of course she didn't know anything about her boyfriend's criminal activities. How perfect she is.
Sorry, today's my bitchy day.
I'm bitchy every day.
"I'm bitchy every day."
Good. It's relieving.
Stop Sending Annie Proulx Your Extended Gyllenhaal-Ledger Fantasies
Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx isn't a fan of Brokeback fan fiction. She gives her thoughts on it to the Wall Street Journal in a recent interview:
WSJ: What effect did the success of "Brokeback Mountain" have on your writing life, if any?
Ms. Proulx: "Brokeback Mountain" has had little effect on my writing life, but is the source of constant irritation in my private life. There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for "fixing" the story. They certainly don't get the message that if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Most of these "fix-it" tales have the character Ennis finding a husky boyfriend and living happily ever after, or discovering the character Jack is not really dead after all, or having the two men's children meet and marry, etc., etc. Nearly all of these remedial writers are men, and most of them begin, "I'm not gay but…." They do not understand the original story, they know nothing of copyright infringement—i.e., that the characters Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar are my intellectual property—and, beneath every mangled rewrite is the unspoken assumption that because they are men they can write this story better than a woman can.
They have not a clue that the original "Brokeback Mountain" was part of a collection of stories about Wyoming exploring mores and myths. The general impression I get is that they are bouncing off the film, not the story. There's more, but that is enough, ok?
Last week I posted about Proulx's new collection of stories, one of which visits similar two-lonely-cowboys-in-a-pup-tent territory.
Towleroad
Nearly all of these remedial writers are men, and most of them begin, "I'm not gay but…."
They do not understand the original story, they know nothing of copyright infringement...
... beneath every mangled rewrite is the unspoken assumption that because they are men they can write this story better than a woman can.
Huh?
Gyllenhaal-Ledger Fantasies
Let the people fantasize about them, but don't send your fantasies to Annie. She does not appreciate it.
Nearly all of these remedial writers are men, and most of them begin, "I'm not gay but…."
Straight men write BBM slash?!? Really?
Straight men write BBM slash?!? Really?
I think straight women mainly write slash.
Most of the slashers are straight women, that includes BBM, LOTR, etc.
I think Brothers is going to be this year's unsung masterpiece. I think Tobey is going to be a real threat to Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn and Jake might snare the Best Supporting Oscar away from Josh Brolin and even, Heath.
If Brothers gets award attention, Tobey will be supporting and Jake lead, I read.
Based on what 9:27 AM #2? Did you see Brothers?
If that's the case then Jake will definitely be a threat to Rourke and Penn. (Jake is just as good as they are) and Tobey will be a threat to Brolin and...yes, Heath.
Most of the slashers are straight women, that includes BBM, LOTR, etc.
It's been like that from the beginning (Star Trek slash).
If that's the case then Jake will definitely be a threat to Rourke and Penn.
Did you see Brothers?
If that's the case then Jake will definitely be a threat to Rourke and Penn. (Jake is just as good as they are) and Tobey will be a threat to Brolin and...yes, Heath.
Did you see the film?
So, it could be that Jake, Heath, Anne and Michelle will be nominated this year. That would be awesome.
You know, I had a feeling Brothers would turn out good.
Most of the slashers are straight women, that includes BBM, LOTR, etc.
True.
"...beneath every mangled rewrite is the unspoken assumption that because they are men they can write this story better than a woman can."
How could Mrs Proulx make such a huge mistake?
So, it could be that Jake, Heath, Anne and Michelle will be nominated this year. That would be awesome.
Right now, I think it's only Anne who will most likely be nominated.
9:27 AM, if you have seen it, please tell us more! Is Jake's role much bigger than Tobey's?
How is Natalie?
I think Annie assumes they are men because I have a feeling that the fans that are sending her that stuff aren't being truthful. I think they use male names when sending it to her, maybe they are a bit embarrassed that they are women writing that or maybe they think that they would get a response/sympathy if she knew that it was men writing it and were inspired by her characters.
It's different online and on the LJ's where it's excepted that women write most of the slash, but outside of that world it's different.
There is a difference in what Annie wrote and writers like Patricia Nell Warren write and the women who write slash.
Can't you just say yes or no to the question if you saw the freaking film 9:27 AM?
Top 10 perfomances you're underestimating for Oscar
It's different online and on the LJ's where it's excepted that women write most of the slash, but outside of that world it's different.
I can understand that, but sending your story to an established author, hoping for a reply, and lying about your identity doesn't make sense to me. OK, someone might do that but why would "nearly all" do it?
Top 10 perfomances you're underestimating for Oscar
Every year it seems there are a number of performers in the thick of an Oscar hunt that don’t get the same attention as the expected heavy-hitters. It’s no surprise, of course, that Oscar prognostication would lean toward the anticipation of what lies ahead, unseen, unproven. The mystery stays in tact, if for precious few moments. But a number of nominated actors and actresses, year after year, tend to bank on the underestimation of the masses, allowing those heavy-hitters to fall by the wayside and provide just the opportunity they were waiting for all along.
Here, then, is an attempt to shine a light on 10 stealthy contenders that seem to be flying low on the radar so far this season:
10. Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”
9. Tobey Maguire, “Brothers”
Jim Sheridan’s Susanne Bier re-make “Brothers” has been so quiet that even yours truly forgets it is out there waiting in the wings. It remains to be seen whether MGM can sustain any reasonable Oscar campaign for the film, but one thing that seems to be standing out is Tobey Maguire’s performance as a P.O.W. in Afghanistan thought to be killed in action. The narrative recalls Bier’s “Things We Lost in the Fire,” and could be awards fodder for Jake Gyllenhaal as well, but Maguire is said to be the one to watch…and nobody’s watching him.
8. Clint Eastwood, “Gran Torino”
7. Elizabeth Banks, “W.”
6. Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”
5. Liev Screiber, “Defiance”
4. Elsa Zylberstein, “I’ve Loved
3. James Franco, “Milk”
The initial expectation of Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic was that Josh Brolin would be a stand-out as the assassin Dan White. Bigotry and homophobia can go a long way toward owning the scenery when such a character is on the screen. But it seems, from a read of the script and hearing things here and there, that James Franco’s performance as Milk’s lover, Scott Smith, is going to be the one to watch as he enjoys much more screen time than Brolin and obviously has more of a supporting connection to the main character throughout.
2. Michelle Williams, “Wendy and Lucy”
The lead actress category is spinning heads this season. It has been some time since the field was so heavily stacked with more than a dozen leading ladies proving their cases left and right. But one Cannes favorite is flying way under the radar as a campaign begins to build behind the scenes from those who believe in the portrayal. Michelle Williams reportedly carries “Wendy and Lucy” through it’s emotional narrative, raising eyebrow after eyebrow along the way. A prominent role in Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” will keep her on the map and — let’s face it — it would be something of a fairytale to see her ride the awards circuit alongside Heath Ledger’s inevitable notices.
1. Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”
Jim Sheridan’s Susanne Bier re-make “Brothers” has been so quiet that even yours truly forgets it is out there waiting in the wings. It remains to be seen whether MGM can sustain any reasonable Oscar campaign for the film, but one thing that seems to be standing out is Tobey Maguire’s performance as a P.O.W. in Afghanistan thought to be killed in action. The narrative recalls Bier’s “Things We Lost in the Fire,” and could be awards fodder for Jake Gyllenhaal as well, but Maguire is said to be the one to watch…and nobody’s watching him...
... because nobody saw Brothers!
... because nobody saw Brothers!
There were previews and most of the people liked it.
Thanks for posting 10:22 AM.
Can we now say that there is some good buzz about Brothers?
Can we now say that there is some good buzz about Brothers?
I think so. I never heard anything negative about it in the first place tbh.
There were previews and most of the people liked it.
It's just hear-say, only 2 persons bothered to post some kind of review (1 good, 1 not so good).
I think Tobey is going to be a real threat to Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn and Jake might snare the Best Supporting Oscar away from Josh Brolin and even, Heath.
WOW.
10:44 AM, it's just poster's hunch, no need to get excited :)
You guys are truly dumb beyond belief. Talk about NOT understanding the nuances of irony.
I posted that overwrought nonsense about how Brothers will be this year's masterpiece and how Jake and Tobey are going to be this year's upstarts and take the trophies away from the favorites because I was wondering who among you would be perceptive enough to know I was full of crap. The way you go on about Jake, a passable but overrated actor is totally self-delusional. If he wasn't good-looking (ala Tobey), you wouldn't give two shits.
Gyllenhaal will never become a great actor because he doesn't care about it--it's not top on his list. He wants to be a movie star. But I'm sure you'll find enough dumb excuses for that like the stupid obsequious fan-sheep you all are.
11:13 AM
Why didn't you read our replies to your post?
11:13 AM, that's your opinion.
11:13 AM
We didn't believe you and we gave you the benefit of a doubt:
11:52 You live in a fantasy world
What exactly have you been smoking cause I want some too?
Did you see Brothers?
Can't you just say yes or no to the question if you saw the freaking film 9:27 AM?
Its traditionally been straight women who write porn perhaps because these do not have opportunity to act out as have men.
If Annie P doesnt know about the slash world it's because she's busy working, not because she's naive.
Let's see, what else on my mind: oh, yeah - the script to Brothers is out and about. Follows the original film, no surprises. Its a good solid story, worth re-doing because there are lots of families dealing with returned traumetized vets.
Let's see, what else on my mind: oh, yeah - the script to Brothers is out and about. Follows the original film, no surprises.
Do you have the script?
11:47 yes. dont know how people pass these around and if there is an etiquette involved. ? ? ?
I know how to pass it ( www.sendspace.com ) but don't want to read it - it would spoil the movie for me.
I wanted to ask what you liked and didn't like about Jake's role.
12:24
Thot it a terrific role for Jake, and a piece of cake.
p.s. I much admired the Danish original and feared they'd Hollywoodize the story. Apparently not.
Nice to hear that, thanks.
Towleroad, reader's comment:
Dear Annie, can you please return in the self-addressed envelope, the following manuscripts I sent you:
CHOKEBACK MOUNTAIN
BROKEBACK FOUNTAIN
BAREBACK MAN FUN
JACK TWISTED
and
PUTTING THE 'P' IN ENNIS
On Sunday, out Torchwood and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon star John Barrowman hosted a concert for 400,000 people honoring the birthday of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is best known for unleashing Cats and Phantom of the Opera on an unsuspecting theatregoing public. Idina Menzel, Jonathan Ansell, Joss Stone, Jason Donovan, Denise Van Outen and more also performed.
Proulx's First Book Since Brokeback Movie Again Includes Gays
Released Tuesday, Annie Proulx's new collection Fine Just the Way It Is contains at least two stories with gay or lesbian characters.
"Them Old Cowboy Songs," is a heartbreaker about a teenage married couple, Archie and Rose, struggling in the unyielding West of 1885. Archie leaves Rose alone and pregnant while he goes to cowhand on a ranch whose owner won't hire married men and whose foreman is gay. The sexual tension in the all male setting is constant, and seemingly expected:
Later Sink took the kid aside and put the boo on him, told him the facts of life, said that old Lon would bull him good if he ever agreed to get in a bedroll with him, said that the leathery old foreman was well known for bareback riding of new young hires. Archie, who'd seen it all at Peck's bunkhouse, gave him a look as though he suspected Sink of the same base designs, said he could take care of himself and if anyone tried anything on him he'd clean his plow good. He moved off. When Sink came in from watch at the past-midnight hour, he walked past the foreman's bedroll but there was only a solitary head sticking out from under the tarpaulin; the kid was somewhere far away in the sage with the coyotes. Just the same, thought Sink, he would watch Lon the next time he got into the red disturbance and started spouting that damn poem about Italian music in Dakota, for the top screw was a sure-enough twister.
Re-reading the lesbian-inclusive story of a tough young woman, "Tits-Up in a Ditch," I couldn't help but wish Kimberly Peirce had waited to make this rural America / Iraq narrative her follow-up to Boys Don't Cry rather than Stop-Loss.
Whereas many mainstream authors ignore gay people altogether, or write about gay characters once then never again, Proulx is a great rarity for making gay lives an ongoing part of her panorama: "Negatives," The Shipping News, "Brokeback Mountain," "Them Old Cowboy Songs," "Tits-Up in a Ditch." She's also a master. Make sure to buy the book.
http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/bandofthebes/2008/09/proulxs-first-b.html
So Annie doesn't like slash but still loves gays. Oh well, you can't have everything.
Sex sells everything!
Megan Fox Opens Up About Lesbian Fling
Megan Fox has nothing to hide. The candid 22-year-old "Transformers" star, who's currently engaged to actor Brian Austin Green, opened up to GQ about her love life, telling the magazine she was once in love with a female stripper. Fox, who appears on the October cover in a black bikini, said she was in the relationship when she was 18 and first living in Los Angeles alone.
"Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me, and I decided _ oh man, sorry, mommy! _ that I was in love with this girl that worked at the Body Shop," said Fox. "I decided that I was going to get her to love me back, and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl, a stripper named Nikita." Fox said Nikita would do "these beautiful slow dances to Aerosmith ballads." The actress also said she would bring the Russian stripper gifts and try to inspire her to quit her line of work.
Fox's publicist, Dominique Appel, confirmed the contents of the GQ report Monday.
Despite the brief relationship with a woman, Fox said she does not identify herself as gay. "Look, I'm not a lesbian," said Fox. "I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl _ Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. And lately I've been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but ... oh boy."
Fox also defended Miley Cyrus and Vanessa Hudgens regarding their racy photo scandals and said that she doesn't like Disney because they take "these little girls, and they put them through entertainment school and teach them to sing and dance, and make them wear belly shirts, but they won't allow them to be their own people. It makes me sick."
http://www.gq.com
Top 10 perfomances you're underestimating for Oscar
7. Elizabeth Banks, “W.”
Talking to Elizabeth Banks
This month Banks can be seen in two very different movies portraying a loving woman to two such lottery winners. In Oliver Stone's W., she's Laura Bush to Josh Brolin's George; in Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno, she's Miri opposite Seth Rogen's Zack.
...
What's your most mortifying Hollywood moment?
"Oh God, there are a few. But Jake Gyllenhaal once approached me in a valet line, and I thought he thought I was someone else. I was confused and frosty and I'm sure I was very off-putting, and he had to remind me that we had met, that we had done a partial reading of Romeo and Juliet. I don't have a good memory for names and faces, so my husband now calls it 'The Gyllenhaal.' Like if we go to some luncheon and meet new people, he tells me, 'Don't Gyllenhaal these people.'"
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/elizabeth-banks-interview
How could she forget Jake's face? What is wrong with that woman? lol
Sex sells everything!
Megan Fox Opens Up About Lesbian Fling
I think this kind of confession just trivializes f/f relationships and ends up hurting our cause.
Ent Lawyer is not impressed:
When Publicists Invent Things
So, you are Megan Fox, and no one really cares what you have to say, they just want to look at you. Face it, most guys think she is sexy as hell, although don't understand why she is dating/not dating/engaged/not engaged to Brian Austin Green.
Her GQ was going to be a big seller anyway just for the photos, but she wants people to know she is more than a pretty face, she is also willing to make up stories about loving a stripper, and trying to capture the stripper's heart. Umm, except it is all crap. In the issue of GQ out this month, Megan says that she was in love with a stripper named Nikita who worked at a strip club. She told the magazine that she bought her gifts, tried to get her to quit her line of work, and just wanted to love her and be loved back.
Such a bunch of crap. Allegedly Megan wanted her to quit stripping but would go to the club everyday and Nikita would dance to Aerosmith ballads. Uh huh. All this interview is, is an attempt to get more publicity and to make Megan a bigger sex symbol. Lets face it. If not for Transformers, no one would care about Megan Fox. I put her in the same league as Jessica Alba and for some Jessica Biel, although it remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time how anyone except her own parents can find Jessica Biel attractive.
The thing is Megan didn't need to make up the story. Pictures of her in a black bikini, definitely going to be a big seller. The story just makes her look desperate to please. The problem is that now people are going to continually ask her about it, and I have a feeling that she lost touch with Nikita, doesn't know Nikita's first name, can't remember how she ended up in the strip club in the first place, and maybe Nikita is even dead. A tragic death, and unrequited love.
One good thing about the interview. Megan takes a shot at Disney for sexing up their singers when they want them to sell albums while pretending to be a wholesome company. So, score one for Megan.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/09/when-publicists-invent-things.html
Her GQ was going to be a big seller anyway just for the photos, but she wants people to know she is more than a pretty face, she is also willing to make up stories about loving a stripper, and trying to capture the stripper's heart. Umm, except it is all crap.
Hm... the story is a bit odd and over the top.
Director David Fincher on the making of ‘Zodiac’
‘Zodiac’ is released soon as a director’s cut on DVD. David Fincher tells Tom Huddleston about directing this true story of a US serial killer investigation
David Fincher’s epic thriller ‘Zodiac’ is more than just an account of a police investigation. It’s also perhaps the finest ‘journalist procedural’ movie since ‘All the President’s Men’, depicting in gripping detail the discoveries and disappointments inherent to any investigative newsmaking venture. Steeped in the iconic style and frenzy of a 1970s newspaper office, the film follows cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he loses himself in obsession over the infamous Zodiac case.
‘I thought it’d be great to make a newspaper movie in the guise of a serial killer movie,’ Fincher enthuses. But while he enjoyed the investigative aspect of the script for ‘Zodiac’, the 46-year-old director of ‘Seven’ and ‘Fight Club’ recognises the pitfalls in making a movie centred on a journalist.
‘Aside from having to work extra hard to generate sympathy?’ he laughs. ‘No, even really good movies about journalism use the character as a kind of shorthand. A lot of people use it just to make things easier. But what Jamie [Vanderbilt, the screenwriter] has done, and what Graysmith described [in his book], is a guy who’s a cartoonist; he’s not in on anything. His particular vantage point is not that special. And I liked that.’
According to Fincher, the Zodiac case was an important turning point in the relationship between the American media and the police. ‘If we hadn’t had Zodiac, you wouldn’t have the kinds of policies you have today with regards to what you’re allowed to tell the press. They learned the hard way.’
He also recognises that the police and media often worked against one another on the Zodiac case. ‘I won’t say that the case was botched, because I think the people who worked on it deserve better. It was about trying to control the flow of information and in some cases keep stuff back. It’s tragic that it turned out the way it did. But I think that in that time and place,it was destined to happen.’
‘Zodiac’ is a mystery movie with no solution. ‘This may be my particular perversity, but for me, those films are the most interesting. I don’t think we’ll ever know the answers.’
So does Fincher suffer from the kind of obsessive behaviour that crippled and galvanised reporters like Graysmith? He’s currently editing his new film, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, for a Christmas Day release in the US. ‘I don’t think of myself as obsessive,’ he says uncertainly. ‘But you only get so many hours to make a movie. If you want to make it as good as you can, you may have to stay late.’
‘Zodiac: The Director’s Cut’ is released on Sept 29.
http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/5700/director-david-fincher-on-the-making-of-zodiac.html
I don't have a good memory for names and faces, so my husband now calls it 'The Gyllenhaal.' Like if we go to some luncheon and meet new people, he tells me, 'Don't Gyllenhaal these people.'
Jake will be delighted to hear that! lol
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Brokeback Bitch
Annie Proulx, the author of the short story that inspired the Oscar-winnning Brokeback Mountain - starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger - claims that the tale has become a "source of constant irritation."
Why????
According to her, fans are constantly plaguing her with "ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story" intending to "fix" the story.
Ingrate!
They just don't know how to quit you.
Perez (Picture of Jake)
Totally irrelevant to the previous post but Perez is an ass. How he's so successful is a mystery to me.
Heh. It's the first time I've ever agreed with him. ;)
There's a first time for everything :)
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