Jake - 'anybody who spends any time with women knows how extraordinary that particular sex is'

Two quotes from Jake have just popped up. In the first, Jake reveals that, a couple of years ago, he took a few days off from his world to don chef's clothes and work with his best friend in a restaurant kitchen. "I've always loved cooking. My best friend is a chef and we've cooking together for years. I love food. A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and my friend was working in a restaurant there. Because he works such crazy hours, the only time I could hang out with him was when he was working. So I put on some chef's clothes and worked with him for four nights. It was the best time I'd had in a long time." If only there were a picture or two of Jake in his white chef's jacket, cap and checked trousers. In the meantime, I'll settle for a picture of double-handed wine-drinking Jake.


In the second quote, Jake pays tribute to the power of women, an attitude he developed because of the strong women with whom he grew up, Naomi and Maggie. 'Well, between my mum and my sister, I definitely grew up with a particular sort of woman. They are strong women who really know what they believe, and I like that. They also taught me to respect a woman's mind. Growing up with them, I've always known about the power and the energy that women hold - anybody who spends any time with women knows how extraordinary that particular sex is!" I think a large number of that particular sex find Jake rather extraordinary as well.


With filming on Nailed due to start in only two weeks, a Columbia paper has outlined the difficulties facing the South Carolina film industry and the concerted and dedicated efforts of local officials to draw an ever-growing number of projects to the streets and beaches of the state, including Nailed. This also reminds me of the similar efforts that have had such success in New Mexico, as we saw during the preparation for, and filming of, Brothers.


We now have more pictures, thanks to IHJ, from Jake Gyllenhaal's Mexico spring break. But these come from the beginning of the trip, showing Jake, Reese and entourage passing time by browsing the shops, possibly avoiding eye contact with the magazine covers and treading the First Class carpets of LAX on 24 March.



A theatre workshop beginning in Los Angeles on 7 April features four new musicals and one of them, reports Variety - I could hardly believe it - will be a musical adaptation of Bubble Boy, Tuner. 'Based on the 2001 pic of the same name, "Bubble Boy" follows Jimmy Livingston, who was born without immunities and is confined to a plastic bubble room. After he finds out the girl of his dreams is getting married, he builds a bubble suit and sets off on a cross-country quest to stop the wedding. Tuner, with a book by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio and music and lyrics by Paul, bows April 9 and is presented again on April 28.'


Includes pictures from IHJ.