The first dose of Love and Other Drugs on the way? And WDW Cornish Interlude Part 5

Love and Other Drugs approaches. Admittedly, not with a great deal of hoohaa and fanfare as yet, but what the film lacks in posters and trailers it makes up for with great reviews and buzz - already you can smell Jake's scent Oscar Fever all over it. Many thanks to Silver for discovering that ET will be showing a preview tonight! And so the publicity begins (hopefully)... (Note: the Oscar Fever, as many of you will know, is an allusion to Jake's Heart FM radio interview for Rendition, when host and interviewee seemed to spend much of the time sniffing that Oscar Fever while the young Harriet flirted outrageously with Jake Gyllenhaal - 'he's a keeper'. Jake even offered to buy her dinner and not steal it. Here's the relevant post.)


I appear to have digressed... Oh yes, another person fortunate enough to have seen a preview of LAOD, the type of prescreening where men in suits hand around questionnaires, has posted more very positive comments while, in another comment, drawing attention to Anne Hathaway's nudity in the film as well as the uncovering of Jake's bottom. But obviously that's not what interest us... (Note: these new old pics from IHJ show Jake with Gemma Arterton at the Moscow PoP premiere.)


'There's very little to say about this movie other than it nails everything it tries to do. There are a lot of subplots but I believe audiences will be completely with it for the entire lengthly runtime. There were 2 moments when the theater exploded into so much laughter that a few quick jokes might have been missed due to the deafening roar. The whole theater applauded and quite a few people were verbal about their appreciation for it. After the theater everyone was talking to each other about the movie and if you have been to other screenings, it remains pretty quiet while everyone fills out their surveys. The "suits" were twiddling their thumbs and murming to each other in delight at the crowd's reaction.'

'Inception was a good film but could have been better in some respects. I don't believe Love and Other Drugs could have been any better. But be warned it has a different approach to its directing style. The movie feels unlike the movies we see now.' Very exciting! Now, there's a word that doesn't do it justice.


WDW Cornish Interlude Part 5

For much of the day I have been dressed as a North Sea trawlerman, complete with orange waterproofs, life jacket and a wobbly demeanour. Fortunately, nobody there knew me. I was even relieved Jake wasn't there. Nevertheless, I was tipped onto a small catamaran and I was sailed out for hours past scenes of lifeboat disasters, shipwreck disasters and smuggling tales of skullduggery. It was a small boat. I hung on while my feet dangled over the edge - shark bait. Yep, today was sailing day and we were not to be put of by Force 5 gales and waves as big as your house.


Unfortunately, dolphins and sharks had too much sense today and stayed indoors. Grey seals were less fussy about the conditions and so we did see quite a few of these. They even posed.




We also saw diving gannets, guillemots and all manner of seabirds (most of which were called cormorants). We also saw people, perched on the cliff face. This was the glorious 1920s Minack Theatre built above the sea on the cliff like some stunning Greek amphitheatre placed on the peak of a Turkish mountain. They were clapping. Possibly not at us.


After this blowy adventure, I had lunch in a pub decked out like the inside of a pirate's vessel and then headed out to do something I'd not done for a few hours - drive for miles and scale steep cliffs. I went to Sennen Cove, the home of white sandy beaches, rock pools, surfing schools and bad coffee. The car parks are always positioned in such scenic places, on top of the cliffs, and then it sinks in that you've got to move your little legs all the way to the bottom and then back up again.


I was supposed to return home tomorrow but this place is too beautiful to hurry back from it (especially on Friday the 13th) and so I'm staying an extra day. St Ives tomorrow!

Pictures from IHJ and WDW.