Ricky Martin, "Me" book signing, November 2010There is something beautiful in witnessing a major celebrity in the throes of profound and real transformation. A week before we meet, Ricky Martin had made a surprise appearance at the annual Human Rights Campaign national dinner to pledge his support. “Something as simple as standing at that dinner and saying, ‘I’m gay,’ creates so may emotions I’ve never felt before,” he admits. “I didn’t do it earlier because of fear, and, bottom line, it was all in my head. I was seduced by fear, and I was sabotaging most of my life -- my music, my relationships with my friends, with my family, with everybody. That’s something I need to share because I know that a lot of people are going through what I went through, no matter what their age, and fear cannot control us.”
Ricky Martin is about to share big time -- with his new memoir, Me, a remarkably heartfelt account of his journey from teen group Menudo to fatherhood, delivered in a frank, conversational style that doesn’t economize on the truth. It includes accounts of his first passionate affairs -- with men and with women -- as well as his struggle to reconcile his conflicted yearnings with his rapid ascent in America. The pivotal year is 1999, at which Martin performed his World Cup anthem, “La Copa de la Vida,” at the Grammys. Largely unknown in the United States beyond Hispanic audiences, he left the stage as a breathless Rosie O’Donnell (the evening’s host) exclaimed, “Who was that cutie patootie?”
It was connecting the dots that led directly to Martin’s tweet last March. In his memoir, he recounts how friends and colleagues remonstrated with him to hold off: “I ignored all their recommendations, and by the end, when they came to me with the argument that I shouldn’t do it during Easter because it might offend my Christian fans, I said: ‘What part of ‘I can’t take it any more’ do you not understand? What about me?’”
Above all, he says he worried about Matteo and Valentino having to answer for their father’s untruths. How would they respond as they grew older? Would they have to lie on his behalf? “How could I teach my kids to lie?” he asks. “How could I teach them not to be themselves?” And, as simple as that, he realized he couldn’t and wouldn’t. “My children will grow up with no prejudice,” he says. “As parents, we need to create a new way of thinking for our kids, in which we accept, and we love, and we can vibe with everybody.”
Source: Out Magazine, Out 100: Ricky Martin
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 800 of 1867 Newer› Newest»Btw, Anne said that she and her boyfriend want to start a family in the near future.
The LAOD promo, the interviews, the interaction between Jake and Anne made me more certain Jake is gay. I like them together, they have cute chemistry.
Adam accompanied Anne to London too, if you take a close look you can see him in some of the London airport pics. He was also at the LAOD London screening. He and Anne are tight.
I like them together, they have cute chemistry.
Yeah, they make a good team. :)
I just don't like Adam Shulman a lot since Ted reported that Adam supposedly beat up a fan to "protect" Anne. And he stole that portrait that he gave back later. Despite everthing, Anne still seems to love him, so. :)
^^Not a portrait, but some painting.
"I just don't like Adam Shulman a lot since Ted reported that Adam supposedly beat up a fan to "protect" Anne. And he stole that portrait that he gave back later. Despite everthing, Anne still seems to love him, so. :)
I supposed if the fan were to hurt Anne, you would had blame Adam for doing nothing. Ted doesn't know what was said or done by the fan to Anne, and the fact that Adam had to hit the pretty says it wasn't a fan. Did the fan filed charges? It was probably a nut case stalking Anne.
"Nah, a lot of people don't care about Harry Potter "
Yep who cares about HP, $125 million opening means nothing.
Huh? There are no drug rumors about Anne.
Yep who cares about HP, $125 million opening means nothing.
Which part of "a lot of people don't care about Harry Potter" you don't understand?
Btw, Anne said that she and her boyfriend want to start a family in the near future.
I hope that was just a bad joke.
Ted doesn't know what was said or done by the fan to Anne, and the fact that Adam had to hit the pretty says it wasn't a fan.
Adam Shulman is an idiot in my book, only an idiot would stole the painting he doesn't need.
...
In a separate skit, Hathaway did a send up of Katie Holmes.
Speaking in breathy tones and constantly tucking her hair behind her ear, the actress had the audience in stitches as she played Tom Cruise's wife.
She even managed to keep a straight face as she looked coyly up and down and cocked her mouth to one side while speaking.
...
Anne Hathaway reopens the Princess Diaries as she plays Kate Middleton in a VERY racy Saturday Night Live skit
Hopefully the SNL episode or some funny skatches from the episode will be on youtube soon.
Mr. Zwick speaks of the sex scenes in his new film as a kind of dramatic icebreaker: the ingredient necessary to “break down the wall” with which contemporary audiences guards their emotions.
I must say that I don't understand Mr Zwick - why did he turn LAOD into a silly romcom?
Gyllenhaal still loves returning to New York, if only for his regular black-and-white cookie fix. "I'm a connoisseur," he laughs. "And I love the one at Nussbaum & Wu — that's one of my favorite black-and-white cookies in the city."
"Jake knows all the best health food places, so I'm trying to use his knowledge," Hathaway adds. Raised in New Jersey, she was born in Brooklyn and she's still a proud New Yorker and fervent gay marriage advocate. Her mom is on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. "My first good memory of New York is revealing of me to be a bit of a spazz," she says. "I remember eating sand at the Dolphin Park in Carroll Gardens."
Seasoned stage actors, both would relish the chance to hit Broadway, especially in a musical (Gyllenhaal's pipes were good enough to get him down to the final three for the lead part in "Moulin Rouge" that eventually went to Ewan McGregor).
"I would do a musical on Broadway in an absolute heartbeat and I'm constantly looking for the opportunities to do it," Anne says. "I don't mean to slam musicals, but the problem is that, a lot of times, in the classic shows, the songs are heavenly but the book doesn't offer the acting challenge that you hope."
"You need to be able to do it more than 100 times," Jake adds.
For now, though, they have more personal than professional projects to focus on: birthdays. Anne turned 28 on Nov. 12, a crucial time, according to Hathaway, who has said, "A lot of actresses start kicking ass between 27 and 30."
She's sweetly poetic when explaining what that really means. "There's a great line in ‘Alice in Wonderland' where the Hatter says to Alice, ‘You've lost your muchness'. And I feel like I am the age where I'm more able to easily identify what my muchness is and be more fierce about protecting it."
Jake turns 30 on Dec. 19, a milestone he's keen to honor. "I was talking to my sister the other day about being 30 and celebrating the life you've had up to this point," he says. "I feel there's a massive sort of sea change coming in myself and I'm psyched."
To commemorate the date, he's taking the family on a trip to the Arctic Circle to scuba-dive with walruses. "The only reason I'm doing it is I wanted to do something that absolutely terrified me — killer whales and walruses and freezing cold water? That seems absolutely terrifying."
But as long as he has Anne Hathaway to watch his back, whether stark naked on a set or in scuba gear in subzero temperatures, Gyllenhaal will likely be just fine.
'Love and Other Drugs' stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway reunite (& undress) in daring romance
The LAOD promo, the interviews, the interaction between Jake and Anne made me more certain Jake is gay. I like them together, they have cute chemistry.
Yep and yep :)
Jake turns 30 on Dec. 19, a milestone he's keen to honor. ... To commemorate the date, he's taking the family on a trip to the Arctic Circle to scuba-dive with walruses. "The only reason I'm doing it is I wanted to do something that absolutely terrified me ...
Jake, how about coming out on your birthday? We know that absolutely terrifies you!
Cinema Blend: positive, but not a rave.
Review
Jake, how about coming out on your birthday? We know that absolutely terrifies you!
LOL.
^from the Cinema Blend review:
"...Love and Other Drugs puts Jake Gyllenhaal's toothy charm front and center..." :)
LOL :)
...When Mr. Gyllenhaal was in town, trips to the supermarket would invariably inspire fellow shoppers to pull out their cell phones in the middle of the produce aisles and aim them in the same direction.
"I think we live in a world where people who are in the public eye have to know that what they do is going to be documented. There is definitely an ability for privacy, but most of the time, you just have to accept that that's what it is.
"And I think you have to be who you are and do what you love, and I think most of the time, people are pretty respectful and when they're not, they're not."
He says he loves his fans and making movies and the attention that comes with it.
When it's suggested that 99 percent of the population can run out for coffee or stop for gas without checking in the mirror, he says, "So can I. It just depends on what you believe. If you want everybody to see you looking a certain way, then if that makes your life happy, then that's great. That would make me miserable. If you're aware of it all the time, I think you're not living.
"People are going to make mistakes, they're going to have amazing times, hard times, just like everybody, and people might document that and say whatever they're going to say, but ultimately it's just life. You can take a picture of it or not, but you gotta live it."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cinema Blend: positive, but not a rave.
Review
"Love and Other Drugs puts Jake Gyllenhaal's toothy charm front and center,"
Oh c'mon, we all know that Ted's Toothy is based on Jake G.
It's funny that someone else than Ted uses toothy for describing Jake though. ;)
Someone who is in the closet it not living it.
It gets a little tiresome listening to Jake talk in platitudes.
LOL "toothy charm" said...
Cinema Blend: positive, but not a rave.
Review
"Love and Other Drugs puts Jake Gyllenhaal's toothy charm front and center,"
Hard to tell if they are refering to Jake as toothy or just stating a fact that Jake toothy smile gives him charm.
I wish the main stream would start coming down on Jake. Of course thats when he shits himsels and marries the first girl he sees.
Anne: Hathaway says that Gyllenhaal went out of his way to make sure she always felt comfortable on the set. "He's a very strong person, so he likes to give a lot to people, and sometimes I do worry about him giving too much.
Jake:"I don't think another two people could have had the same thing, or me with someone else or her with someone else. We have something very special, I think, and I cherish that."
USA Today
He says he loves his fans and making movies and the attention that comes with it.
I do think he's being honest that he loves the attention that comes with making movies. I think being famous and being a heartthrob is a big part of the allure of being an actor for him. I don't see him as one of those actors that just does it for the love of his craft. (Yeah, I think there are some actors like that.)
LAOD predicted 53% rotten rating.
CB
Joe Jonas likes to touch penis
Has Jake moved to New York permanently? He has only been to LA once in the last few months. I know there less paps in NYC.
I guess he's spending the holiday with Mags and family in NYC. Is she and Peter back yet?
As long as Austin is based on the east coast Jake will find a reason to stay mainly on the east coast.
"He says he loves his fans and making movies and the attention that comes with it"
A certain columnist said this about a certain blind item.
Just saw Adam Lambert's biography on AE. That boy gets lots of attention from women of all ages.
I wish actors/actresses would just realize most fans don't care about their sexuality in reality. In the long run they are just a fantasy for fans, its that simple. I would not stop having fantasies about actor because he's gay, its a fantasy whether he's gay or not. Do you women stop having fantasies about Brad Pitt because he's with Angelie Jolie?
Does that make sense?
^^^I meant "do women"
"As long as Austin is based on the east coast Jake will find a reason to stay mainly on the east coast.
"
Austin is in LA with Sophia probably making the trip to Tejas or her family's home.
There is no reason for Jake to stay in L.A. except for business.
His family has always been based on the East coast, his father is from PA and he has family there and his Mother is from The LES/Brooklyn and he has family there.
Maggie, Peter, Ramona and his Mom are in Brooklyn, the only family Jake has left in L,A, is his Dad.
Mom, Sister, Brother in law, niece, aunts, uncles, cousins all on the East coast in the NY/PA area vs L.A. and crazy Pop.
Why would he want to stay there if he doesn't have to.
BTW, whrn OTH wasn't filming Jake was in NY and MV and Austin was hanging with Sophia in L.A., TX, MI and on occasion, NC,
Jake hanging on thr East Coast has nothong to do with the OTH filming
http://twitpic.com/38y1h8
How naive are you. Jut because you dont see Toothy and Goose together does not mean they are not. Jake appears suddenly in a city all the time without being seen.
Jake was born and raised in LA and owned a home there, possibly still owns it. Both parents had roots in the east but most of their adult life and career has been spent in LA, not NY. Naomi did not move east until the divorce. Financial problems were the biggest reason.
Jake is in NY because he hates L.A. and feels more at home amongst his family which live Pennsylvania and New York.
Jake's parents are kaput in HW, Mom lives with Maggie and Co and crazy Pop is lucky to be getting gigs directing episodes of mediocore TV shows.
Jake is a grown man and IMO he has chosen to basically live in NY be cause L.A. sucks moose balls.
There was a blind not that long ago that said that Taylor and Jake were not dating just rehearsing for a possible movie pairing. After the negative reaction to them as a couple sounds like they were dropped from consideration.
They were never attached to NYE, Reese and Zac Efron were.
Someone with a IMDB account, removed Zac and Reese and replaced them with Jake and Reese, any "fan" can make changes, usually the IMDB mods catches it and fixes it.
The only reason why I think a "fan" did it was because Taylor was in VD, they should have just added Jake's name to Rock of Ages, at least there was talk about him or Zac doing that unlike NYE.
They were never dropped for concideration because they were never attached.
Next time a "fan" decides to pull shit like that they need to make sure that there is actual talk about it, and there wasn't. It sounds like they wanted it to fit something, cough.
Perhaps they chose NYE because Anne was in VD and they became confused, LOL!
Didn't that weirdo Jack used to post on IMDB like an unbalanced stalker? LOL!
Someone with a IMDB account, removed Zac and Reese and replaced them with Jake and Reese
Could have been the gigglebabblers, UV & FL, desperate for Reese and Jake to get married so that they could wear their matching floral frocks they whipped up for the "wedding of the decade".
^^^ ^^^
That should be they changed it to Jake and Taylor not Jake and Reese.
Very sloppy and obvious. Again no chatter about either being attached to NYE like other rumored Jake projects.
So either some IMDB mod corected it or the "fan" was afraid their little prank would and could be traced back to them and they would have their account deleted so they fixed it themselves.
And it was a Jake "fan" that did it as they made the rounds of the Jake blogs informing everyone of it as soon as they made the change, LOL!
Too bad it wasn't up longer to make the google and twitter rounds as they hoped, they got spooked, LOL!! Oh well better kuck next time!
This sorta reminded me of that "fan" that was pushing that half naked Jake in bed photoshopped pic a few months back , they really tried hard to make that happened, even made twitter and other site, fortunately it was exposed as a fake.
When Jake said that he liked his fans im sure he wasn't talking about the online fans, LOL!
7:16, I don't think so. I made a type-o, I meant Jake and Taylor, not Jake and Reese. If it was them, they would have just deleted Zac's name and added Jake since Reese and Zac's name were originally there.
No, IMO the "fan" did that to fir that BI that was floating around and got spooked. They were either too dumb or lazy or both to realize that all she had to do is add Jake's name to ROA since Taylor is rumored and their was actual talk last yeat of Jake being interested.
Dumb as a box of dirt, that's a Jake "fan" for ya!!!
Has Jake moved to New York permanently? He has only been to LA once in the last few months. I know there less paps in NYC.
1/5/10
Dear Ted:
Now that Jake has broken up with Reese, I would have thought his good friend Austin Nichols would be spending some quality time trying to cheer Jake up. But if tweets leading up to a well-timed photo of Jake just flying into L.A. this week are to be believed, these two amigos are never in L.A. or any other place at the same time.
—Twitter Skeptic
Dear East Coast Lovin':
They cheer each other up more often than you think.
Jut because you dont see Toothy and Goose together does not mean they are not. Jake appears suddenly in a city all the time without being seen.
We KNOW that in the last 5-6 months (24 weekends Jake and Austin were in the same city at the same time 2 or 3 times.
We know that they don't spend time together.
You seriously know where Austin is every weekend? I want dates and locations. As far as I remember there are only a handful of weekends when we know where Austin is.
There is no other reason for ]ake to sdpend so much time on the East Coast. Even when Maggie was pregnant and relying on Jake for help because Peter was filming Jake would spend a few weeks in NY, then a few weeks in LA.
Once Austin got the permanent gig and a bigger role--meaning more time working--Jake has stuck largely to the East Coast.
Jake is spending his East Coast time with Gyllenhaals, Chris, Anne, Taylor Swift, female friends, alone - we have hundreds of tweets about Jake being out during weekends in NYC so we know that Austin wasn't there with him and we know that Jake didn't visit Austin.
I want dates and locations.
ALL dates and locations are posted and discussed - read previous comments.
Once Austin got the permanent gig and a bigger role--meaning more time working--Jake has stuck largely to the East Coast.
Jake doesn't care about Austin's working schedule - before OTH filming commenced, Jake left Austin in LA and went to MV and he spent his summer with Maggie, Peter and Chris.
There is no other reason for ]ake to sdpend so much time on the East Coast.
I don't know what goes on between J&A and what kind of relationship they have, but this is simply not true. His family lives in New York, mom, sister, brother-in-law, niece, extended relatives. Those people alone are good reasons for spending so much time on the East Coast. It doesn't make sense to simply dismiss his family as one of the reasons he is there. Makes you sound desperate, tbh.
Jake has the family he was born into and his own family now. No desperation, tbh.
It sounds like desperation because you are always eager to dismiss Jake's NY family, ties, play them down or pretend they don't exists.
It's like you pretend that Austin's family doesn't exisits when you always try to make a NY/Jake family connection and totally dismissing the fact that Austin's parents, sister, brother in law , niece and nephew live in TX and that he has spent more time visiting them there than going to L.A. or even NY
Austin wasn't hatched out of an egg, he has his family in TX.
Jake would spend time with his own family if he had one - he doesn't spend any time with Austin and is spending too much time out for a man who raises a kid on his own.
Out 100: Ricky Martin, Nate Berkus, Johnny Weir Among The Gay Honorees At Out Magazine Bash (PHOTOS)
Notably missed this year were Ricky Martin, named "Entertainer of the Year" and featured most prominently on the magazine's cover, as well as The Kids Are All Right star Julianne Moore and young Glee actor Chris Colfer, whose portrayal of theatrically tortured teen Kurt Hummel provides much of the hit show's dramatic heft. Though Weir says he texted the pop star in the days leading up to the event in hopes his pal might make an appearance, Martin "just wanted to hang with his kids."
Huffington Post
another LAOD review (negative) abcnews.com
LAOD is now 38% rotten on RT with 8 reviews. Tangled is 100% fresh (9 reviews) and Burlesque is 60% fresh (5 reviews). Faster has no score yet.
Happy Birthday,
Terry Gilliam!!!!
.....jerk.
I didn't mean to say Jake had no reason to be on the East Coast, just not a reason to spend all of his time there, which IS a big change for him.
Austin has only been in Austin a few times this year, and we never get tweets of him unless he is with Sophia or in NC. There are plenty of weekends and weeks for which we have no idea where he was.
To not even acknowledge the above shows how desperate you are to show Jake is not with Austin.
You wouldn't gloss over the holes if you were so confident.
As Always, Taylor Swift Lets Music Do the Talking
For a singer-songwriter who pours out her heart in song to near transparency, Taylor Swift is tightlipped when it comes to having probing discussions about her personal life.
..."The one thing that allows me to sleep at night is knowing that I've never confirmed who I write my songs about," the lanky blonde says with a sly smile.
And what about those strolls through Brooklyn with Jake Gyllenhaal? "I don't want to talk about it," she says, with typical sweetness.
link
There are plenty of weekends and weeks for which we have no idea where he was.
Not true.
Austin is working, he doesn't have weeks off.
There are only a few weekends in the last MONTHS when Jake and Austin had a chance to be together.
For a reasonable person that's enough to see that they don't care about being together ergo they aren't a couple any more.
You wouldn't gloss over the holes if you were so confident.
HOLES???????
You are suggesting that possibility of spending few days together from time to time can be used as an argument that Jake and Austin are together and raising a child? Are you?
..."The one thing that allows me to sleep at night is knowing that I've never confirmed who I write my songs about," the lanky blonde says with a sly smile.
What a totaly phony. Please. If she's so worried about "sleeping at night" she wouldn't be writing these dopey, phony songs to begin with. ffs, everyone KNOWS which guys she's been "coupled" with - does she really think she's being mysterious and that it's so hard to figure out? She can write whatever she wants, I just can't stand the hypocrisy and the phoniness. "Sly" smile, lol.
Dear Ted:
Just wondering what's up with all this swapping spit Young Hollywood has going on, especially the Disney crowd. Nick Jonas dated both Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus, and Joe Jonas dated Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato. And after all is said and done they "all remain close friends." Sorry! Not buying it! Can't these kids find dates outside each other!
—Spit Swap
Dear Tween Scene:
It's like any group of young adults these days. You date around and sometimes that means dating your friend's exes or smooching with a close pal. In Hollywood, the eligible spit-swapping pool is a lot smaller though, hence the overlap. I wouldn't buy the "remaining close friends" crap though. Or there wouldn't be the kind of Disney drama we all heart so much.
Dear Ted:
We all know that nobody is really innocent in Hollywood. But in your humble opinion, which B.V. star deserves a little sympathy and why?
—BubbleYumSteph
Dear Sympathy for the Devil:
Hard to stay, Steph. See, I feel bad for a lot of ‘em. They're not able to always be who they want to be in H'wood, and sometimes this leads to not-so-noble actions, but it's a crappy sitch. I guess I feel bad for a lot of the closet cases, to be specific. The cheaters and divas are a whole different crowd.
Dear Ted:
Just a question about your thoughts on the Sexiest Man Alive. You mention it's always about promotion and timing; however, doesn't that also mean that the recipient has to want the title? Isn't it possible that a lot of guys like Ryan Gosling or Leonardo DiCaprio may view it as selling out? And guys like R.Pattz may view it as potentially damaging if they're already thought of as simply heartthrobs? Basically, would People give the title to a guy who doesn't want it?
—Sarah
Dear People Centerfold:
I don't think any of the dudes you listed are above being named People's Sexiest Man Alive. Just look at the alumni: George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon. All actors taken seriously by the public and their peers. They just weren't hot enough by People's bizarro standards to nab the top spot.
Dear Ted:
Taylor Swift seemed (or seems, if you go buy the lyrics form her new CD) pretty heartbroken about her breakup with Joe Jonas. Was this romance as hot and heavy as she is trying to make it seem, or is it all fake publicity for CD sells? Was he more into her then Demi, or vice versa? Did Demi and Tay ever have a run-in over him?
—Marie
Dear Swift Answers:
No, yes and no.
Dear Ted:
You mentioned before that Priscilla Desert had more experience with boys than Parrish Maguire. Were you just assuming that? I mean, I get why one would assume that. If she's who I think she is, I think everyone assumed that she had given up her V-card long ago.
—Nini
Dear Moral Mirage:
Just because Pris hasn't gone all the way, doesn't mean that she hasn't racked up some horny action with the opposite sex. But she's definitely had more experience dating guys than Parrish. Hell, Priscilla has dated more gay guys than most gay guys have.
Bitch Back
New York Magazine Review
[Review of "The King's Speech first]
Check out Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway on the cover of Entertainment Weekly looking nekkid nekkid nekkid—a great come-on for Love & Other Drugs, and not even false advertising. In the movie he is nekkid, and she is even nekkider, and they are very beautiful together in the nekkidness. The movie’s first half is a state-of-the-art Zeitgeist sex comedy, even if it’s set in 1996. It was morning in our brave new psychopharmacological world, and Big Pharma salesdude Jamie Randall (Gyllenhaal) is at its hub, sweet-talking (and more or less bribing) physicians (and receptionists) into prescribing his SSRI (Zoloft) over an even slicker rival company’s (Prozac). He’s such a supple, smooth-faced, blue-eyed cutie that his transparently fake ingenuousness is more winning than other people’s genuine ingenuousness. And when word percolates up that his company has found the Holy Grail, the “fuck drug,” and called it “Viagra,” he really has the world by its gonads. Even better, he’s seeing gorgeous artist Maggie Murdock (Hathaway), with her dark eyes and swarm of dark ringlets and insatiable compulsion to get nekkid with him and then kick him out: She’ll be disappointed, she says, if it turns out he’s not a “shithead” and wants to commit.
This is gratifyingly slick and manic and mood-elevating. But Maggie has early-onset Parkinson’s (incurable, even by Big Pharma), and pretty soon you get the feeling she’s so commitment-averse because she’s afraid to show her deep-down, little-girl neediness. You also get the feeling that director Edward Zwick—who started with Thirtysomething and moved on to Oscar-bait war movies—has rediscovered his inner Jason Reitman. Like the charismatically irresponsible heroes of Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air, Jamie must develop a social conscience and learn to love.
Love & Other Drugs is crazily uneven, jumping back and forth between jerk-off jokes and Parkinson’s sufferers sharing their stories of hope. It’s the sort of movie in which half the audience will be drying their eyes and the other half rolling them. In the first hour, Hathaway is impressive. She seems finally to have grown into those enormous features; her face no longer looks like a Disney Channel Halloween mask. But Zwick should have dialed her down a notch. By the end she’s a painful reminder of Liza Minnelli, another overeager, oversize-featured actress who tried to do too much with her too-muchness and left us crying for less.
Love & Other Drugs -
Sex Sells
Social Satire Comes Up Wanting
Drawn from the same murky well of Hollywood ethical ambiguity that gave us "Thank You for Smoking" and last year's "Up In the Air," "Love & Other Drugs" audaciously defines its slick anti-hero protagonist as beyond reproach. Jake Gyllenhaal's Jamie Randall is a sex-addicted stud whose effortless ability to bed women anytime/anywhere gets him fired from a peppy job selling electronics equipment to women of all ages during a bustling 1996 economy. Jamie's seduction skills are given greater consequence at his new position hawking drugs for Pfizer. Partnered with old-hand Big-Pharma peddler Bruce Winston (Oliver Platt), Jamie utilizes his mythologized appendage to help better place samples of Zoloft on the backroom shelves of doctors all over Pittsburg. Sleeping with doctor office receptionists has fiscal benefits. He has no ethical qualms about posing as a medical intern to "shadow" Dr. Stan Knight (Hank Azaria), an especially hard-sell who shares a similar free spinning moral compass. It's a line-crossing stunt that introduces Jamie to Parkinson's disease-suffering patient Maggie Murdoch (Anne Hathaway) via her exposed spider-bitten breast. Jamie and Maggie are commitment-phobes whose combustible sex life together is articulated to preclude any actual devotion of the heart.
Based on Jamie Reidy's memoir "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman," the by-committee script--from Charles Randolph, Marshall Herskovitz and co-writer/director Edward Zwick--bounces between comedic, dramatic, and indie genre conventions like a magnetized pinball. The grab-bag satire is so riddled with out of place irony that its artificial characters achieve an "uncanny valley" effect characteristic of robots who too closely exhibit human characteristics. The filmmakers are clearly banking on the allure of nude sex scenes between Gyllenhaal and Hathaway to attract audiences. While some blue-haired ladies might imagine the film's eroticism to possess some radical sensual style of integrity, there is nothing here that scratches at the intimate degree of pornographic expression in "Blue Valentine," which stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.
Jamie is a card-carrying stud to Maggie's status as a would-be-suicidal free spirit, i.e. slut-for-a-medical-reason. We get an early point-of-information alert about Big Pharma's third place on the Fortune 500 List as being worth all of the remaining 497 put together. These are shark infested waters. Jamie starts living the high life selling Viagra from the start of its popular launch. Unfortunately, Maggie's condition demands that Jamie take her on an active search for proper medical treatment.
"Love & Other Drugs" wants to lampoon a corporate milieu of medical industry corruption that promotes and sustains America's ongoing health care crisis. But it does it all wrong. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway look too perfect naked together to be anything other than art. We accept the light-hearted entertainment like drinking a spiked cocktail. So what if Gyllenhaal's character is a reprehensible cad, he looks great and just so happy with that health-challenged Venus of a lass.
An example of where it will but it won't comes when Maggie attacks Jamie in the hospital parking lot after pegging him as an opportunistic drug sales rep rather than the intern he pretended to be during her physical examination. She pulls out a Polaroid camera and takes his photo as if prepared to litigate against him for his illicit activity with Dr. Knight. But nothing comes of the dangled plot-thread. So it is that the movie is laden with such absurdities that work against the eventual love story that the movie shakes out to be.
The film's worst transgression is the inclusion of a nerdy-but-filthy-rich younger brother for Jamie in the guise of a completely inappropriate Josh Gad. A masturbation gag involving a personal amateur sex video drops like a sack of sand on the film's lumpy tone. It's sickening to see such layers of irredeemable gloss shellacked over a story that should infuriate its audience.
With Pfizer coincidently in the headlines for corruption involving doctors paid enormous paychecks to lecture on specific drugs, "Love & Other Drugs" may have an unintended consequence of prompting a forum for people to discuss a medical system hamstrung by pharmaceutical companies. More likely however, it will do its ostensible purpose of acclimating citizens to the idea that we should like, respect, and lust after corrupt people, or at least embrace them for being people--yes even horny--people too.
Rated R. 113 mins. (C-) (Two Stars - out of five/no halves)
t's sickening to see such layers of irredeemable gloss shellacked over a story that should infuriate its audience.
All those test screenings and they didn't cut that scene out? There are some things I'll never understand.
All those test screenings and they didn't cut that scene out? There are some things I'll never understand.
Sounds like Zwick and the screenwriters could've used some Ritalin, lol.
5. Love and Other Drugs
Ed Zwick’s Jake Gyllenhaal-Anne Hathaway romance “Love and Other Drugs” is getting pretty mixed reviews, with folks coming down hard on the film’s made-for-TV tone and manipulative sentimentality. That said, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway are basically naked for the entire film, so if the presence of “manipulative sentimentality” is less important to you than some sexy distraction from Thanksgiving’s general unsexiness, “Drugs” might be for you.
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Jake is listed again in "New Years Eve" cast on IMDB.
LOL, someone is determined to make him look bad! :)
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LOL. So, basically, forget that it's pretty much an R-rated Lifetime movie - it's got good looking NAKED PEOPLE!!
1:38, Now go back and delete or you will e banned!
So is it true that anyone with an account can add anything they want at IMDB? Like Wikipedia? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
"Hell, Priscilla has dated more gay guys than most gay guys have."
I was going to say that Priscilla could be Demi because of the drugs/alcohol rumors about her but Demi hasn't had that many boyfriends.
Someone should asked Ted if Priscilla and Reese's blind item have a gay actor in the closet common? I can't remember the BI name.
"Just saw Adam Lambert's biography on AE. That boy gets lots of attention from women of all ages.
I wish actors/actresses would just realize most fans don't care about their sexuality in reality. In the long run they are just a fantasy for fans, its that simple. I would not stop having fantasies about actor because he's gay, its a fantasy whether he's gay or not. Do you women stop having fantasies about Brad Pitt because he's with Angelie Jolie?
Does that make sense?"
Sorry, I am late, but yes, you make perfect sense.
I saw Adam last week over here live and he is such a great guy, the concert was fantastic and the girls (and guys) loved him.
There is not one false move or uncomfortableness. I predict he will be one of the greatest singer and entertainer one day.
On the other hand it looks like Jake is fading into insignificance. LOAD reviews are mixed at best and at the moment the BO predictions are bad too.
Priscilla is Taylor Swift. Ted could hardly be more obvious. There are no drug rumors about Priscilla. The "alcohol" rumor is just that she used to like to drink with her friends in high school. Ted's making a joke because Taylor S. has "dated" Taylor Lautner (Parrish MacGuire), Joe Jonas (don't know if he has a BV name, but lots of gay rumors) and now Jake (Toothy). He even refers to her and Joe Jonas in another question in the Bitch Back.
The reviews for LAOD are disappointing. Even most of the positive ones have reservations. I guess I was hoping and expecting more because of that really early buzz about how great it was, how great Anne was, and how it wasn't a typical romcom. Whoever it was that warned it was too early for that kind of praise was right. :/
All ingredients seemed good so it was easy to get hopes way up.
Would a major scandal help sell LAOD? Jake taking BT wearing "Yes, I know I look like my daddy!" for a walk in Central Park? Jake?
Someone should asked Ted if Priscilla and Reese's blind item have a gay actor in the closet common?
No need :) Ted already connected Taylor S and Reese directly last week.
"How very no-nonsense, Taylor! Like a mini Reese Witherspoon."
Jake taking BT wearing "Yes, I know I look like my daddy!" for a walk in Central Park?
LOL! I think that might just do it!
Oscar Predictions, Week 5
ONTD - Joe Jonas likes to touch penis!
The reviews for LAOD are disappointing. Even most of the positive ones have reservations. I guess I was hoping and expecting more because of that really early buzz about how great it was, how great Anne was, and how it wasn't a typical romcom. Whoever it was that warned it was too early for that kind of praise was right. :/
Jeffrey Wells was the first predicting Anne for an Oscar nod. He started the rumor first. What an idiot.
2:17, Yes, it's true and they don't seem to care unless some PR person complains or some intern conected to an actor/studio stumbles across it.
First off, Tomas Mejor from Chud didn't seem to like Source Code particularly much IMO.
There is a new post by him where he agrees with a poster who critisized the SC trailer:
by Diva
It's like the writers couldn't figure out how to make two hours of sleuthing work, so fell back on tried and true movie tropes.
by Tomas
I like this quote.
Chud
Now to my question, I don't quite understand what Diva meant, can someone explain (I'm not a E. native speaker, so I don't understand everything)?
Jeffrey Wells was the first predicting Anne for an Oscar nod.
Jeffrey Wells didn't change his mind after watching LAOD.
In the local ABC piece, the guy talks about Jake dating Taylor Swift.
That got me to thinking that Jake will never come out as gay. Disclaimer here, that is if he's gay. It would make him a bad guy for using Reese, Taylor etc. I know they agreed to it but still I wouldn't trust either one of them not to play "I tried really hard to love him, to change him" card. Jake will never step up because basically he can't. I also believe in karma, when a person with a conscience knows they are doing something wrong, the universe can't help but turn on them.
The only way Jake will ever be out is if someone finally comes forward or he gets caught by a everyday person with a twitter, i-phone etc. IF he is indeed gay or bi or whatever.
But this is a fact, the boy is aging quickly.
In a Friday night appearance promotion for his upcoming film I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey called David Letterman on a dumb line of questioning.
Asked Dave: "And, in terms of a leading man, a heterosexual playing a homosexual, do homosexuals say 'well, that shouldn't have been a homosexual' or do you worry about your image as a heterosexual leading man playing a homosexual?"
Replied Carrey: "Boy, we haven't grown at all, have we? We haven't grown at all.... We're still children in the schoolyard. Honestly. No offense Dave, for god's sakes, have you ever seen a gay man? Are there gay people in Indiana? Is it ok to be gay there, is what I'm asking. There's not a policy against gay people there or here?"
Towleroad - video
If Taylor is Priscilla and dates gay guys, wouldn't she know that Joe was gay? So Ted's reply below doesn't make sense to the first question:
"Was this romance as hot and heavy as she is trying to make it seem, or is it all fake publicity for CD sells?"
Ted's answer:
No...
Which part of the question is no?
^ I think the 'NO' is for the first part of the question. This is how I read it:
Was this romance as hot and heavy as she is trying to make it seem, NO
or is it all fake publicity for CD sells? YES
Was he more into her then Demi, or vice versa? Did Demi and Tay ever have a run-in over him? NO
Ted called Priscilla in her blind items the "A-list beard" who happily agrees to be the People magazine cover beard for her gay 'boyfriends' and it's all arranged by their handlers. She knows the guys she 'dates' are gay, she just want the publicity.
Taylor had a completely new look at the AMAs yesterday to appear more mature and sexy. Many sites that posted her pictures are using this to say her relationship with Jake is behind this transformation (Lainey included). It’s all calculated PR to pimp the bearding.
^^^she has worn straight hair before and no one cared until Jake came into the picture. She is obviously trying for an older fanbase because she knows her fanbase now will outgrow her.
I compare her to Justin Timberlake, he did the same thing with cutting his hair and getting rid of the curls. Leaving his band and getting an A list girlfriend like Cameron Diaz help to acheive an older fanbase.
Taylor and her father are not stupid.
Was this romance as hot and heavy as she is trying to make it seem, NO
or is it all fake publicity for CD sells? YES
Was he more into her then Demi, or vice versa? Did Demi and Tay ever have a run-in over him? NO
Yes, that's the order.
Taylor had a completely new look at the AMAs yesterday to appear more mature and sexy.
Bieber Bust: AMAs Hit All-Time Ratings Low
"... the telecast stands as the lowest-rated AMAs yet....
ABC pointed out the show was up 12% in teens and 19% among kids 2-11, if only that was the network's target audience."...
Taylor and her father are not stupid.
Too bad we can't say the same about Jake and his PR.
Chud
Now to my question, I don't quite understand what Diva meant, can someone explain (I'm not a E. native speaker, so I don't understand everything)?
4:23, "movie tropes" are over-used themes or cliches, so I guess Diva is saying SC looks like a lot of other movies he's seen before.
Jeffrey Wells didn't change his mind after watching LAOD.
Did you read the new slew of reviews? David Edelstein i.e. even dissed Anne's acting and mocked her looks, her too big facial features.
That doesn't change the fact that Jeffrey Wells thinks LAOD and Anne are fantastic.
If you check out Hollywood Elsewhere, Jeffrey Wells has scratched off Anne from his Oscar prediction list.
What are the reviewers saying about Jakey in LAOD?
Fantastic, unforgettable, fabulous and hot as hell!
Rotten Tomatoes--LAOD is now at 36%--14 reviews counted--9 rotten.
"Rotten Tomatoes--LAOD is now at 36%--14 reviews counted--9 rotten."
Will you stop already, the only numbers that count are box office? Just wait until next week and then you can really be as negative as you want.
Rotten Tomatoes--LAOD is now at 36%--14 reviews counted--9 rotten."
And thats not alot of reviews, most probably hate romantic comedies.
LAOD will make money worldwide, it will more than make its budget. So this will not ruin Jake or pull him out of the closet. So far Jake does not have the "stink" from his movies that did not do well domestically.
It was a double edge sword for Anne, it was too much praise early on and the negative reviews seem to be about her or the script itself. Once again Jake will smell like a rose no matter how the film does stateside.
Boxofficemojo predicts $38 million cumulative--and the film was budgeted at $30 million. Not a huge hit but it'll recoup a bit. Remember, it has VERY BIG competition (Harry Potter, Tangled) and that Burlesque film might end up being a minor camp hit.
38 mil versus 30 mil costs plus marketing. another fail for Jake.
Ive watched at least 20 or 30 interviews with Jake now. He is sabotaging himself by not being real. People can smell a phony a mile away. Answer the goddamn questions Jake. With a real response from your own heart. Stop hiding behind humor. Come out and get it over with. Your spirit and soul will never regret it. Your publicists may. But not you.
This is the first film for which I think Jake may take the hit. Excuses abound for the others. POP was drivel and poorly directed. Brothers was tedious. Rendition dull and torturous literally. But LAOD. Taylor Swift backlash. Aimed right at Jake.
And thats not alot of reviews, most probably hate romantic comedies.
Can't blame them because I hate romantic comedies too :)
But I'm sure I'm going to love LAOD ;)
See actors and singers have to make choices when they get into the business....do they want to play the game by the rules or go against it.
Most play by the rules because they want to become famous and rich.
I myself did it for over 10 yrs faking heterosexuality - i appeared and acted straight that was the best acting ive ever done. I mean i even had my first kiss with a girl when i was doing a tv commercial as a teen.
It has been in the last 5 yrs that i said- fuck it and im openly out.
Sure producers and agents, managers,publicist will advice you to better say "your bisexual" than to say your gay or lesbian because its more socially acceptable.
But as we have seen recently with Ricky Martin and Sean Hayes....its not easy hiding, pretending etc
Part of me was pissed that they waited so long but i also understood why they did it, because they were afraid of losing their careers and money.
In the end you have to decide if the sacrifice is worth the benefit... are you happy with the trade off?
I was not and so sure ive lost work because of it but i no longer have anxiety and panic attacks and stress over getting "outed".
"And thats not alot of reviews, most probably hate romantic comedies."
Unfortunately it is at least a strong indication - on IMDB the films rating is at 6.5 at the moment. Thats not a good sign.
"500 Days of Summer" from last year is at 87%, even 89% with the Top Critics.
When Jake Gyllenhaal called me a few weeks ago to talk about his new movie, Love & Other Drugs, I knew we'd have a fun conversation, but I had no idea the actor (who turns 30 next month) would speak so frankly about his steamy scenes with costar Anne Hathaway and his overwhelming admiration for director Ed Zwick -- or reveal to me that playing a cocksure Viagra salesman wasn't much of a stretch for him.
...
Love, Drugs & Jake Gyllenhaal
LAOD will make money worldwide, it will more than make its budget. So this will not ruin Jake or pull him out of the closet.
I can't see why an underperforming movie or even a movie that fails would "pull" Jake out of the closet. He's not going to come out whether the movie is a huge hit or a failure or anywhere in-between. He probably sees no reason to come out and tons of reasons to stay in.
4:23, "movie tropes" are over-used themes or cliches, so I guess Diva is saying SC looks like a lot of other movies he's seen before.
Thanks.
Rotten Tomatoes--LAOD is now at 36%--14 reviews counted--9 rotten."
Really? I thought they'd be mixed at least, but rotten? Jesus, the early buzz was WAY misleading.
It would take more than Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway naked to make this watchable
new rotten
'Love and Other Drugs' is not all that addictive
review
There are many other new reviews and all of them negative. :(
Viagra Falls: Unless You’re Taking Potent Meds, Love and Other Drugs Is a Snooze
...preposterous yawn...no drug strong enough to get me through another movie like Love and Other Drugs.
NY Observer review
Outch. Another fail for Jake. :(
He's just not able to choose good moives anymore.
He's just not able to choose good moives anymore.
Maybe Jake is the problem, not the "movie"?
I wonder, maybe it's not him choosing bad projects, maybe it's just him being offered only bad scripts? SC is looking very cheesy too. He needs to star in something original again.
I am surprised by the negative (or at least very indifferent) reaction that the Source Code trailer had on the sites that was posted. I think the movie looks interesting, but most of the comments didn’t seem impressed at all and remarked that it looks average.
Maybe Jake is the problem, not the "movie"?
You mean directors think Jake is not good enough to be cast in good projects?
In a new interview Zwick said he wants to work with DiCaprio again soon. No director ever wanted to work with Jake again.
I hate to agree with some who said that his career is over.
Anne will survive this turkey though.
I am surprised by the negative (or at least very indifferent) reaction that the Source Code trailer had on the sites that was posted. I think the movie looks interesting, but most of the comments didn’t seem impressed at all and remarked that it looks average.
It looks very generic and it probably is. This won't be getting good reviews either.
It's good that Jake is taking a break from acting.
Maybe the NYE movie isn't such a bad idea. Maybe he's better suited for those kind of movies?
I have a strong feeling Jake took LAOD with Anne in an attempt to make people forget he played gay in BBM. Jack finally turns straight and has a happily ever after with Lureen. BAD MOVE, Jake.
I think the problem with Jake is his desperation to become a Hollywood star. He is following a rational strategy (probably designed by his PR) choosing movies that on paper sound like vehicles to become a star (but when they are done they have no value at all), instead of choosing with his instinct interesting projects that stretch him as an actor and that in the long term would give him a longer career. His manufactured tabloid image and the showmances also show his priorities.
Well, at least he didn't fuck Anne on the BBM set and dated her up until BBM promotion was over to show everyone how straight he is. A la Heath with that stupid, brain fucked Michelle.
But Heath WAS straight.
Still used Michelle straight or not. ;)
Btw, there were bi rumors about him too. And a BV where he supposedly hooked up with a call boy.
Heath didn't use Michelle, there was NO reason for that - there were no gay rumors about him and he dated tons of girls before Michelle.
And, of course, unlike Jake, Heath wasn't gay so there was nothing to hide and no reason to pretend.
At least Heath did great with his films after BBM and the "Brain fucked" Michelle Williams is getting raves for her new film with Gosling.
When was the last time Jake got raves for anything?
Ok. You have your opinion I have mine. I think she was very convenient of a hook up. As rebound and as someone who'd prevent speculation about his sexuality.
And yes, there were bi rumors about him too, I remember perfectly well.
But whatever, it's water under the bridge now.
And a BV where he supposedly hooked up with a call boy.
That was 2,5 years after Heath and Michelle got together.
Maybe the NYE movie isn't such a bad idea.
NYE movie is a terrible idea.
At least Heath did great with his films after BBM and the "Brain fucked" Michelle Williams is getting raves for her new film with Gosling.
When was the last time Jake got raves for anything?
BBM? I realize he's not in the same league as Heath, MW or Gosling. But he is better than what he has showed us in the past years. His old work speaks for itself.
His old work speaks for itself.
That's true. But the list of lemons is growing rapidly, and he can't rely on performances from 5 or more years ago.
But the list of lemons is growing rapidly, and he can't rely on performances from 5 or more years ago.
Can't argue with that.
And yes, there were bi rumors about him too, I remember perfectly well.
What rumors (not the blind item)? The only place I ever read about gay rumors about Heath is WFT2 and some silly stories on DL that didn't sound believable at all.
8:06, wtf does Heath have to do with anything? Why would you bring him into the conversation at this point other than to demonstrate hatred and resentment for a guy who has been dead and buried for almost three years? I don't get this at all. As soon as someone says something negative about Jake, which is their right, someone has to try and say something more negative about Heath or try and make Jake look good in comparison. jfc, how immature. Heath was genuinely admired as an artist by other great actors and Michelle is getting raves for Blue Valentine. Sorry that pisses you off, but that's the way it is.
I have a strong feeling Jake took LAOD with Anne in an attempt to make people forget he played gay in BBM. Jack finally turns straight and has a happily ever after with Lureen. BAD MOVE, Jake.
He pretty much admitted as much, didn't he, with the comparisons to BBM and how he hopes people realize it was acting b/c in LAOD his character has sex with Anne's character 16 or 17 times, lol, as though that wasn't acting, too.
It's ridiculous that Heath is dragged into things that have absolutely nothing to do with him, like LAOD being a failure is his fault. There's no need to take out your frustration on a dead guy.
So many of the reviews call Josh Gad's character "inappropriate," "unnecessary," "obnoxious," "icky," but in the HuffPo interview Jake refers to him as "the engine in this film" and "a force to be reckoned with. He brought all the humor and energy to the movie, and was a huge influence on me, and an inspiration in terms of comedy. He's a great actor."
I'm going to give Jake the benefit of the doubt and assume he was trying to be kind to one of his co-stars. I do think it's awfully hard to objectively judge a movie that you're in (or that you wrote or directed). Also, considering how inappropriate a lot of reviewers think Gad's jerk-off scene is, it's ironic that Jake said "Because we love the genre, we wanted to give it more respect than people have in the last little while." Hmmm....
ITA with 2:17's post about Jake sabotaging himself in interviews and with 8:05's post about Jake's choices bering driven by the desire to be a star. The current crop of male "stars" are doing action films and romcoms.
Also agree that coming on top of other films that have not performed, and given the nature of romcoms, Jake will take some blame, especially behind the scenes.
ITA with 2:17's post about Jake sabotaging himself in interviews
I can hardly listen to or read them anymore. Same old pretentious b.s. that tries to sound lofty and philosophical but, in reality, says nothing.
That's all your fault, you said that I make a lot of Freudian slips!
The things I didn't like about LAOD are pretty much the sam things critics are complaining about.
Reviews usually do not matter so much for romcoms, most get horrible reviews. But I think that on paper the fil was one that would appeal to older audiences--and for them reviews matter more. I also think the problems include things thrown in to get a younger audience, but do not think it will be enough to draw them in.
"Zwick films Gyllenhaal and Hathaway in multiple couplings. But there's no heat between the performers, no intensity. Truly erotic onscreen couplings — Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris, say, — require actors willing to come unhinged before our eyes. These two just seem like well-lit models in a soft core Cinemax fantasy."
Wow. I suspected as much (I've seen Last Tango several times so I understand what the critic is saying). Speaking of Heath, can you imagine HIM in those kind of love scenes? Whatever you think of him--he was sex incarnate.
So what does he do after LAOD promo and before Source Code promo? Wouldn't that be a good time to shoot another movie?
"The film isn’t sensual, it’s creepily blunt. And blunt always kills the miracle of silver screen love."
Seems like Jack and Ennis' make-out in the tent in BBM is probably a lot more sensual than the 15 sex scenes in Love and Other Drugs.
This critic liked Jake but HATED Anne and her character:
Love and Other Drugs” awkwardly combines drama and comedy but has no laughs to distract from Maggie’s unlikeability, which makes Jamie’s attraction to her seem all the more based on Maggie’s heavy sexual appetite. Hathaway’s smugness, suggesting that Maggie thinks she’s much more interesting than she really is, puts a major damper on both the movie’s lightness and sad set-up, which is redeemed only by Gyllenhaal’s remarkably charismatic performance. If he weren’t already a movie star, this movie would make him one.
But THAT was acting, Anne and I HAD SEX 17 TIMES!!!
9:50AM, could you provide either the link or the name of the reviewer? Thanks :) Nice to see a good review for Jake. I agree that he usually brings a genuine likeability to his characters. I'd rather have a critic call him a great actor than a "movie star," though.
Speaking of Heath, can you imagine HIM in those kind of love scenes?
You should watch Candy.
The love scenes aren't many or that explicit but they are very sexy and convincing. Heath and Abbie Cornish have great chemistry in it. It's a great movie with great acting all around.
Anne Hathaway wants to join the growing list of stars to make guest appearances on Glee, only the actress has already created her own part — she wants to play Kurt's (Chris Colfer) gay aunt.
“I’d want to play Kurt’s long lost aunt – his mother’s sister – who is also gay, who comes back to help him deal with his sexuality,” she said while promoting her new movie with Brokeback Mountain costar Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs.
Hathaway added that she'd want to sing the Stephen Sondheim song "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods.
http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/11/23/Anne_Hathaway_as_Kurts_Gay_Aunt/
How about Kurt's young and hot guncle! ;)
It's good that Jake is taking a break from acting.
Huh? Where did you read that?
Not surprised about the bad reviews showing up on RT. If they thought they were going to be favorable there would have been no need for withholding them. Terribly disappointed for Jake though. How many duds in a row is this now.
Reviews in HR and Variety came out weeks ago. It is not a matter of "holding" reviews on orders of the studio but rather newspapers and magazines not wanting to run them before the film opens because most people do not want to read reviews of thing that have not opened yet.
RT is now at 32%. Oy vey.
Well, shit. Not what I was expecting. I don't suppose there's a chance that every single remaining review will be glowing ....
Yes, there is! :)
I must admit that Rex Reed review from the NY Observer is a masterfully written pan. Could he have disliked the movie anymore?
BTW, Reed LOVED BBBM.
BTW, Reed LOVED BBBM.
Yeah, I remember. This is not a case of people just not liking Jake or Anne or even Zwick. Among other things, Josh Gad's character seems to have really missed the mark.
Gad's character sounds vile. Bleech.
Anonymous said...
"The film isn’t sensual, it’s creepily blunt. And blunt always kills the miracle of silver screen love."
Seems like Jack and Ennis' make-out in the tent in BBM is probably a lot more sensual than the 15 sex scenes in Love and Other Drugs.
That kiss was not acting.That kiss was pure beauty.
than the 15 sex scenes in Love and Other Drugs.
I said 16 or 17 SEX SCENES, dammit!
Jake said...
But THAT was acting
Should we ask Ang Lee about it? He already told us how into it you were. Better zip it. ;)
Gad's character is vile, and came off to me as a misguided attempt to throw in elements of The Hangover or an Apatow movie. Yet another example of a movie trying to be too many things to appeal to as many people as possible. Movies that do that rather than being true to the story are never good.
I thought it was good when I saw that Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune had given it a "fresh" and upped the rating to 35% but there's a mix-up b/c when I clicked on the review, it was for "Tangled." Has he reviewed LAOD yet? I can't find it.
But there's no heat between the performers, no intensity. Truly erotic onscreen couplings — Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris, say, — require actors willing to come unhinged before our eyes.
What is the point of comparing apples to oranges, or silly romcoms to love dramas?
I can't recall any sexy or erotic romcom scenes.
The Star Market: Can Failed Prince Jake Gyllenhaal Ever Wear the Box-Office Crown?
Thanks to the ubiquity of promotional materials for this weekend’s romantic comedy Love and Other Drugs, we've been seeing a lot of a half-naked Jake Gyllenhaal. Sitting there chiseled, blue-eyed, and shirtless, an equally unclothed Anne Hathaway clutching his arm, he sure looks like a movie star. And he’s been carrying himself like one to boot (at ease, likable, charming the pants off David Letterman, and allegedly Taylor Swift). But is he the real deal? Though he’s amassed an impressive and varied body of work for a 29-year-old, he’s still without a hit to call his very own. His bald attempt to leap from serious Oscar bait to a big popcorn franchise, Prince of Persia, was an audible flop. Now he's going for the wide-appeal romantic comedy. Is Gyllenhaal a bankable movie star just waiting for the right project? Or a character actor trapped in a leading man’s shirtless body? On the eve of Other Drugs' release, we asked industry insiders these questions, plus the old standby: If Jake Gyllenhaal were a stock, should you buy, sell, or hold?
full article: NYMag
Not surprised about the bad reviews showing up on RT. If they thought they were going to be favorable there would have been no need for withholding them. Terribly disappointed for Jake though. How many duds in a row is this now.
Same. 4th dud in a row, btw.
It was very telling when the movie wasn't accepted at any of the big film festivals though.
3:56, Michael Phillips' review of LAoD is on RT. He didn't like the movie. He praised some of Anne's work but seemed less enthralled with Jake.
RT is now at 29% (24 reviews - 17 rotten)
Who is Michael Phillips?
RT is now at 29% (24 reviews - 17 rotten)
So what? We already know the movie will be a turkey. Reviews suck and no way in hell they'll beat Harry Potter on opening weekend. And like all of Jake's movies, except for BBM, LAOD will stay 2 or 3 weeks in the top 5. Everyone who has been following Jake for years, expects and knows this.
So I say, relex and go watch the movie if you want. I sure do. I even liked PoP and most of the people i know who saw it liked it too. It was a solid b.o. hit success outside of North America. :)
Even Burlesque has a higher RT rating than LAOD.
WoW EW gave it a bad review. Why the hell did they want Jake and Anne on the cover? Don't they do covers only for movies they consider to be good? Baffled!
EW
Anon Said
Or a character actor trapped in a leading man’s shirtless body?
Very very smart statement. Jake so much wants to be the leading man. Maybe Jake needs to relax a little and rethink things. He is so damn obbsessed with proving he is Hetero that it is hurting his acting and decisions. I truly believe this now especially after what he said about BBM being acting and that is why hw made LAOD. I don't think he was joking at all.
I'm surprised the masses aren't breaking out the champagne after that NYMag article. It confirms all your hopes and dreams for Jake; that he's a failure at the BO.
COME ON! LETS PARTY!!!!!
5:18 PM - projecting much?
Our hopes and dreams for Jake are for him to be himself and do roles that he will be successful in, not to be some hyped up faux hetero tabloid star careening from one bad movie to another that he has probably taken because it fits into the mold of what he and his people thinks he needs to do to be a STAR.
I truly believe this now especially after what he said about BBM being acting and that is why hw made LAOD. I don't think he was joking at all.
I agree, destiny. In another video interview the interviewer comments that Jake and Anne had hetero sex once in BBM too and Jake says something like yeah but we have hetero sex many, many, MANY times in this one. Hmm.
According to twitter Jake has cancelled an upcoming interview.
Lisa Schwarzbaum is an excellent critic too. I'm sorry but the more I read about the brother, the more I want to puke.
L.A. Times gave it a positive and N.Y. Times a negative review.
I don't know what the hell 5:18PM is ranting about. The NYMag article was fairly written. It wasn't a slam against Jake at all and it made some good points. It even ended up with the positive note that if he were stock, they would "buy." I don't see anyone celebrating or wishing for anyone to fail.
From EW review. The second reviewer to specifically mention Jake' teeth, lol:
"Jamie is an impressive bed-hopper with believable skills, given Gyllenhaal's charm and his excellent white teeth"
I'm sorry but the more I read about the brother, the more I want to puke.
Me too. It's frustrating, because from the reviews it sounds like it had the potential to be a great movie but Zwick apparently decided to roll the dice on crude and stupid.
The NY Times critic Tony (A.O.) Scott actually liked the first hour (I think NY Mag critic also liked the first hour) and then said it fell apart in the second half.
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