Ellen Pompeo's 'amazing' Moonlight Mile experience and Jake Gyllenhaal's to do list

One thing's for sure, Brothers is definitely getting released some time or another, and I get the feeling that things may be hotting up, albeit at the rate that empires rise and fall. Today there is another release date - this time, IMDb records that France will get Brothers on 4 March. At this rate, I may be drawing a pension before we get full global release information but at least things are progressing.


I have a fondness for all of Jake's films, with the possible exception of one (it's about mathematics), but I have a particular affection for Moonlight Mile. It was good today to hear that Jake Gyllenhaal's co-star in this, Ellen Pompeo, has stated for the forthcoming issue of Allure that Moonlight Mile remains her favourite acting experience: 'That movie was, to date, my best experience ever acting. It was a really monumental time for me, and I was absolutely terrified, but they all helped me through it, and it was amazing.' And it shows, not least in the tender chemistry between Ellen and Jake.


We're missing Jake and so today I thought I would take a quick look at just some of the things that Jake himself may be missing while he's away in the desert, although, hopefully, he will have enjoyed his break from life lived in the public eye and is, fingers crossed, ready to get back into it.

There's nothing like unwinding with your adoring four-legged friend and the Orange Thing.


Seeing friends and family and not having to explain why you're bare chested, wearing three belts, huge leather boots, hair extensions and bracelets from all four corners of the ancient world.



Having a drink in the bar and trying to keep up with your sister's intake of red wine.


Shopping. Jake is a shopper and sometimes you want to buy more than carpets and saffron - ideally, kitchen products, jumpers and next year's Nike Shox.




I doubt there are too many Starbucks out there in the Kasbah (although who knows these days?), so it may be a relief to get back to ordering a Grande Iced Caffe Moche to go.


Food you cook yourself.


No doubt, life on the Prince of Persia set has been arduous with long, hot days and shooting going on into the night or starting before dawn. Sometimes you just want a lie-in.


And there are also times, when you've been busy for a while, committed to the task in hand, you want to experience a little of what it's all about.


And finally...

I must thank IHJ for the new old pictures of Jake, some of which, taken in 2002, show Jake and Maggie with a very special heroine of mine and Mr WDW, Debbie Harry.



Includes pictures from IHJ.