Maggie in the spotlight, an actors' roundtable, an octopus and WDW Interlude continues...

In all the excitement over the release of Brothers in the US this week, it's been easy to overlook that Jake Gyllenhaal's sister Maggie had the premiere for her new movie Crazy Heart this week and it too is getting a very loud Oscar Buzz. Jake didn't walk the red carpet, leaving Maggie in silver in the spotlight, but he did go to the screening.


You can read a full report of the premiere and see pics here (but alas none of Jake but I bet he looked dapper).


Talking of Oscar Buzz, another family member is also getting some - Peter Sarsgaard. And he is part of a fascinating cross-discussion about the art of acting hosted by The Hollywood Reporter.


'Nicolas Cage ("Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call -- New Orleans"); Colin Firth ("A Single Man"); Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"); Peter Sarsgaard ("An Education"); Stanley Tucci ("Julie & Julia," "The Lovely Bones"); and Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds") -- whose work has been lauded as among the year's best.' I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I did.





This Saturday, Jake will be presenting the most prestigious award of best game at the VGA in LA for Spike. Geoff Keighley, a host on Spike TV, tweeted 'Besides the Prince of Persia game reveal at #VGAs, we will show you an exclusive new clip of the film introduced by Jake Gyllenhaal.' I'm wondering what kind of clip - and I can't wait.

Tomorrow is Sesame Street day at long last and here's hoping we get more than a two minute clip of Jake simply pulling a happy octopus of his head to explain 'separate'. Talking of octopuses...


WDW at Sea World Interlude

Yesterday was Sea World day, hence the Pacific Octopus. This means a day of walking around smelling of fish - I fed fish to the stingrays (and a bird), I fed fish to the dolphins (no bird this time) and I fed fish to the sealions (and a bird). I was informed that the sealion fish was called Smelt, at which I delivered a joke that I'm sure the fish provider had never heard before - or, at least, not in the preceding two minutes.


I stroked an alligator, deciding not to feed that critter. I was fearless - however it was only about a week old. A big guy refused to go near it as he said it would have his hand off. Bear in mind that the baby alligator's mouth was the size of this guy's finger. Could have had a fingernail off, I suppose. But the dolphin moment was the best.


I saw the most boring animal on the planet - the manatee - and one of the most exciting - the killer whale or Shamu.


Here's a ride I didn't go on. Not even Jake would go on this ride...


Includes pictures from IHJ, WDW and links.