Jake Gyllenhaal almost the world's sexiest man, LAOD has another premiere and Source Code gets its rating

So much going on today, I don't even have the time to brew a cuppa in my Prince of Persia mug or take a swig from my Prince of Persia water bottle. There's not even the time to hang my Prince of Persia Christmas decoration. So without any more beating around the proverbial, time to whip out the flipchart and dust off my laser pointy thingie. A lot to get through. First off, People magazine needs to hire a maths tutor because as sure as night follows day it most certainly cannot count. For some reason, Jake Gyllenhaal was not listed as the world's sexiest man even though he clearly is. Having said that, the names 'Ryan Reynolds' and 'Jake Gyllenhaal' are extremely similar and I can see where confusion could arise. As compensation, they did give us a gorgeous picture.


Star magazine has also been voting for the world's sexiest male and it did marginally better by Jake, placing him at No 6.


Star also devoted a page to Love and Other Drugs, revealing that Jake was made to memorise a 50-page pdf of the side-effects of Viagra. That is an awful lot of side-effects. Many thanks to Gyllenhaalisgr8 for the scans!


Proving true the well-known adage that you can never have enough premieres, there was another premiere of Love and Other Drugs in NYC last night, this time it was the DGA premiere and yet again it provided Jake with the perfect opportunity to look short.


It also gave Jake and Anne Hathaway another chance to display their incredible chemistry together. I think that Anne looks sensational here, absolutely sensational. And Jake doesn't look bad either - nice tan!


There is a great account here of the afterparty and the devastating effect of the Jake Gyllenhaal Charm Offensive. 'Jake was not dressed by the designer but still looked good enough to give several groups of women at the after-party a case of the giggles. While I usually consider myself a grown-up and a professional, I was reduced to a 14 year old girl who couldn't wait to scribble his name in bubble letters on the imaginary trapper keeper which holds my sexual fantasy material. If you enjoy him on the big screen, you would likely feel the same.' Without doubt.


Anne also spoke a little last night about her nervousness with the nude scenes. 'Anne, 28, appeared calm and collected during one of the most embarrassing moments on set even though her stomach was secretly spinning. “One of them was the scene where I have to remove my trench coat and be nude underneath,” Anne said. “And I thought we were filming, but it turned out we were just rehearsing and I got unnecessarily naked in front of a lot of people.” “I just did my job,” Anne explained. And apparently she did it well. Not even the film’s director, Edward Zwick, could tell that Anne was nervous. “She was not nervous at the sex scenes at all,” Ed said to us. “I think she was remarkably collected.”'


Jake had this to say: '“It’s a naturally awkward thing to be having fake cinematic sex with anybody, so I feel like with an actress (a woman in particular) when you’re on a set and dealing with what is usually a majority of men on a movie set, I always feel like it’s my responsibility to kind of protect and make sure that she feels comfortable because they tend to be more objectified,” He continued, “So to ease her and make her feel comfortable, I was always like, ‘Where do you want me to go? What do you want me to do? What do you feel comfortable doing?’ Anne was always like, ‘You do your thing and I’ll do my thing. I’m fine on my own!’”


'This wasn’t the first time Jake and Anne worked together on such intense scenes — their first sex scene together took place in Brokeback Mountain. “I had to sort of resist it in the last movie,” Jake said. “And this time I could go for it!” “There are all different types of love in this movie — romantic, familial, and friendship,” Jake added. “What I think I learned most of all was when making a movie, particularly a love story, in order to have a great creative process and be open and ready and game for anything, you kind of have to fall in love with everybody involved. I certainly did in some ways with Ed [Zwick] and Anne. We all did. What we share as a result is really special.”'


For pictures of some of the other stars in attendance last night, take a look here.

Source Code Rated PG-13

Source Code has received its rating and it's PG-13 'for some violence including disturbing images, and for language.' A good rating for a film that hopefully a lot of people will see.


And finally

Am I the only one to be disturbed by this pigeon?


Many thanks to IHJ for the pictures (many more there) and to Gyllenhaalisgr8!