Sexy Stubble Day or Bring Your Bear to Work Day? Time will tell...

So! Is today Sexy Stubble Day or is it not? While we wait to hear about tonight's New Yorker chat in NYC (10pm EST), here is a short interlude post. Firstly, Jake Gyllenhaal has been seen today in the Big Apple and it was on another train. Duncan Jones certainly didn't put Jake off trains by blowing them up through Source Code. And for that the environment is no doubt grateful.


But on to more serious matters. Jake wasn't just seen on a subway train, he was also seen with a bear. 'I just saw Jake Gyllenhaal on the subway in NYC, bear and all. He looked at me and seemed afraid I'd say something. All good man, live your life.' So, bear...? Are we talking Grizzly, Polar, Black, Brown or Panda here? Something tells me, it's Grizzly. Hopefully not Polar. This post is going for a clean-shaven look in terms of photos - as a last-minute incentive.


Jake was also seen with Maggie yesterday. The bear wasn't mentioned so clearly it was behaving itself. Maggie was also seen out for a bite to eat this week with Sam Mendes, her past director and Jake and Peter's (plus a local boy round these parts). Sam does look like he may have heard this one before - maybe it was one of Jake's old jokes.


Tonight, with or without his bear, Jake will be talking with Ed Zwick and the New Yorker about Love and Other Drugs. After not having heard much at all from Ed on this movie, suddenly he can't hold back. We've been talking here about our favourite Jake movies and it appears that Ed has been giving them some thought too. Here are some words of his on his leading pair from Blast Magazine: '“You have to look at an actor’s body of work,” Zwick said. “I’ve been watching Annie’s work in the last couple of years. Increasingly, the braver she gets, the more she takes chances and the better her work. She’s clearly someone who is ambitious and serious and coming into the height of her power. I thought, well gee, nobody has seen how earthy and tough and funny Anne really is.”


'“And Jake, really when given the right script has been extraordinary. Some choices are less good than others I think, but when I got to know him, I saw something nobody else has seen, just how funny he is, and how charming and open and attractive in this way. Nobody has seen Jake be that seductive bad boy, and I said let’s show audiences parts of these actors they think they know but don’t.”'


Personally, I think this is something that David O'Russell saw in Jake too and we will also see this side of him in Nailed - hopefully.

Do keep your own top tens coming in the comments. I'm really enjoying reading them and I'm not the only one. Includes pictures from links, IHJ and a WDW scan.