Jake Gyllenhaal's culinary tour of DC continues - ice custard? What next?

Many thanks to IHJ for posting the picture below of Jake Gyllenhaal from last night, which is beautiful and inspirational. It merits a second post of the day.


IHJ have also given us new pictures of Jake and Reese driving around Washington DC on 22 June...


...and judging by Jake's outfit (although Reese's is different), one wonders if this was one of those trips to Rita's during which Jake and Reese posed with fans. I googled Rita's and I discovered it sold ice custard. Frozen custard? Can custard be frozen? Is ice custard a good thing?


Talking of food and drink, because there's been a bit of that, during the DC sojourn, there was this account today of Jake and Reese watching the first Nats game on Tuesday. They were 'Tuesday evening at the Potenza bar, sitting close to each other while they watched the Nationals game. Dressed supercasually, the pair drank Rosa Regale while enjoying the Margherita pizza. They later went over to the Potenza wine shop where they purchased a half case of wine.'


(Witherspoon’s fellow star, Jack Nicholson, picked up a to-go version of the same pizza Saturday. After all, if you can’t trust Jack with a food recommendation, whom can you trust?)

Today: 'Jake Gyllenhaal is on M St in Georgetown w/ Reese Witherspoon right now. They were just in Hu's Shoes. Both wearing baseball caps.'


Pictures from IHJ and here.

[Updated] Jake Gyllenhaal watches the Red Sox beat the Nats last night and Jake on set again

The Red Sox beat the Washington Nats last night in DC and Jake Gyllenhaal was there to watch (or chat) looking so hot my eyeballs have melted. No sign of any hat pledging allegiance but, judging by the red t-shirts behind him, Jake was hopefully cheering on his old Boston favourites as they won 6-4. Many thanks to the Washington sports blog for spotting Jake behind the nets.





Updated to add... pictures of Jake on a second visit to the set of How Do You Know? taken last night. The hat is back. This time there are also pictures of Jake with Paul Rudd. And more information on the crossword breakfast here.






PoP sizzles and teases in Amsterdam

At a Cinema Expo Presentation in Amsterdam 'May opener "Prince of Persia" from Jerry Bruckheimer was teased in a sizzle reel.' Let us hope that we see the reel and get our own sizzle teased in the not too distant future!

And finally...

And on an entirely off topic note - I roamed over some local Roman villa remains yesterday evening and thought I'd post a piccie or two, courtesy of the Get Jake to Oxfordshire Tourism Branch of WDW Productions.



Includes pictures from here, GG and WDW.

Puzzle with Jake over 57 down and one of the Sexiest Men on the Planet!

Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon have been spotted all over the place in Washington DC over the last couple of days, in National Gallery cafes, looking at Cezannes and Monets, in restaurants (with Jack Nicholson and the lovely Paul Rudd, no less), watching Angels and Demons(?), drinking Margaritas, and doing crossword puzzles over the morning pastries. This photo helps to set the scene.


We hear 'Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal doing the New York Times crossword together over breakfast yesterday morning at Georgetown's Le Pain Quotidien -- gym clothes, shades, baseball caps (Jake's with a Nats logo!). And then, hmmm, what do you know, they just happened to leave the paper behind ... and they filled it out in ink. And mostly got it right! The Monday puzzle, but still. The movie stars (she's shooting here) seem to have struggled with 57 Down, "Workplace watchdog org." (Answer: "OSHA"; a few more weeks in D.C. and they'll ace that stuff.)' Now, you too, courtesy of an aesthetically pleasing and professional bodge by WDW Operations Ltd, can do the same crossword puzzle... Click and it shall be embiggened to print.



Should you wish to cheat, you can find the answers here.

Top 100 Sexiest Men on the Planet

Heat Magazine has this week published its Top 100 Sexiest Men on the Planet list. And despite having had little film exposure over the last couple of years, Jake is on the list, so look below to seek him out. As is proper when presenting a survey, I have included here the entire results for serious and scientific analysis and comparison.






Number 1 is not a surprise in these vampire and twilight days...but I don't agree with the result at all and so I've shrunk him.


Includes scans from WDW and picture from IHJ.

Jake and Reese leaving the gym 22 June and stars in DC

I get back home after a workout at the gym and what do I find but pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon going home after a workout at the gym? And while my workout has left me looking like a complete wreck of a human being with distressed hair, severe leg cramps, and in dire need of a stiff gin and tonic, Jake and Reese look as fresh as daisies dancing in a cool summer's breeze. I'm clearly not doing it right. Jake also has a new hat. Please note how I'm not mentioning the matching gym outfits.


These pictures at last prove true several days of twittering. Jake has been spotted, with and without Reese, in various Starbucks, cafes, restaurants, theatres and launderettes (I might be making that one up), predominantly in NW Washington DC and especially in Georgetown. Off topic but many years ago, I spent some hours on set with Tom Hanks in Georgetown. He put a young English girl totally at ease, sitting me in his special chair to watch him film the same scene over and over and giving me my love of the movies.


MY favourite sighting was posted at Jake-g-fans: 'I was working at the Georgetown farmer's market in Washington D.C., and then he was there buying vegetables. He bought $25 worth of cherries and strawberries and greens from our stand. And he was so sweet and gorgeous and conscientious and amazing and ohmygod, I SWOOOOOON. I was like, "you look just like Jake Gyllenhaal!" And he was like, "ahh, about that. That's me." And I almost fainted. But then I wouldn't have been able to sell him cherries! He walked around for a long time going from stand to stand. I wanted to ask him for a picture or autograph but I could tell he was trying to be low-key about it, so I didn't. But I wanted to! And he was asking tons of questions about the vegetables because apparently he loves to cook and HE COULD NOT BE MORE PERFECT.'


This is such a good sighting and almost makes me forgive Jake for buying, and presumably eating, cherries, which are the most horrible, horrible excuse for a fruit and which make me feel giddy just at the thought of them.


Off topic (again) but today in Oxford I noticed that filming was taking place at one of the colleges. It turns out the college had been taken over by Bollywood! I took two steps backwards.

Thanks to IHJ for the new pics.