Take a trip to the moon and Anne's defining moment

It's time for the Martha's Vineyard Dreams auction again - last year, you might remember, there was the chance to bid to build sandcastles with sandcastle-building champion himself Stephen Gyllenhaal. This year, the Dreams auction gives the lucky bidder the chance to spend quality time with someone who's not a million miles removed from Stephen Gyllenhaal in lineage - Jake Gyllenhaal.


'TAKE A TRIP TO THE MOON WITH DOUG LIMAN AND JAKE GYLLENHAAL…Count on gravity to keep you earthbound for an out-of-this-world VISIT TO THE SET of Bourne Director DOUG LIMAN'S upcoming untitled movie about the colonization of the moon starring the Island's own JAKE GYLLENHAAL. The Lucky Dreamer and a guest will meet Doug and Jake for a photo op, and will also receive an autographed screenplay and two tickets to the premiere.'


Other Dreams include one Jake might well bid on himself - watching a Red Sox game from the owner's box. Another is spending the morning with Diane Sawyer but Jake's already done that. Golf, fishing, prehistoric paintings in France, cooking treats and theatre outings all feature, but it's difficult to get past that one listed at the head of the page with one of MV's most well-known and certainly one of its sexiest islanders, and I'm not talking about Bill Clinton.


But what is also interesting about this is that it yet again brings The Unnamed Moon Project - otherwise known and beloved as UMP - to the foreground when it has been very much pushed to the background by director Doug Liman himself. From recent accounts, the script is being rewritten and is far off, to say the least. So, this auction lot either means that the MV organisers have been given information that makes this a reliable lot to bid on, or there's a bit of wishful thinking going on and who knows what the winner will get - maybe even his money back. But the winner last year did get to build sandcastles...


But, on the plus side, it's always good to get little nuggets of information about future projects because, after all, this is often all we get and then the next thing you know there's Jake riding around an English stables with a big grin on his face and a scimitar in his hand. Talking of which...



Cover girl Anne remembers Brokeback

The lovely Anne Hathaway is on the cover of Marie Claire for August and in the issue she discusses Brokeback Mountain, clearly a major turning point in her flourishing career. 'After auditioning, Hathaway landed the role of Jake Gyllenhaal’s wife. The first time she saw the film, at the 2005 Venice Film Festival alongside Lee and co-stars Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger (when asked about the tragic death of her co-star and good friend, she describes it as ‘devastating’ and ‘a shock to us all’), she almost didn’t make it through. ‘I’m not in the movie until, like, 45 minutes into it,’ she explains, ‘and I start to get sick to my stomach, thinking that I’m gonna be the one to fuck it up. So, right before I come on, I run outside because I can’t handle it.’'


'Eventually, Hathaway came back in and watched without incident – until the last scene, when she burst into tears. ‘Didn’t stop for an hour. And Kirsten Dunst, who was going out with Jake at the time, was like two rows behind me, as was Maggie [Gyllenhaal], and we were all crying,’ she recalls, laughing.'


Last month, when Anne arrived in Australia for the premiere of her film Get Smart, she had this to say: 'But there was one other role she considers a personal breakthrough - playing Jake Gyllenhaal's wife in Brokeback Mountain. Hathaway said she had sobbed for an hour after seeing the film. "That was the film that I decided I wanted to be an actor," she said. "I didn't know if I had the chops for it. It was the first time I really came up against my own limitations and surpassed them. I remember thinking if this possible once, it's possible again and it's worth spending the rest of my life trying to get back to this place. Before then, I was having a lot of fun acting but it didn't feel inevitable."'


Pictures from IHJ and Marie Claire.