[Update] Bon Dieu - Jake and Maggie ARE in Paris! Seventies chocolate fondue chic, and when was Jake in Cardiff?

Update: 'They've been working on separate projects, but newlyweds Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Skarsgaard have been enjoying time together in Paris – and even made time for their extended family. While Gyllenhaal rushed off for interviews about her 2006 film SherryBaby, she entrusted daughter Ramona to mom Naomi, who babysat. Meanwhile, Skarsgaard spent the afternoon lunching with his brother-in-law, Jake.' Skarsgaard?

Maggie Gyllenhaal is in Paris to publicise Sherry Baby, which, rather surprisingly (and rather slowly - even for a Gyllenhaal film), had its French premiere this week. And yes! You've guessed it - hot on the tweets of Jake being in London, twitters are now tweeting that Jake has followed Maggie to Paris and he too is now in the city of lights! Bon Dieu!!!



And in the immortal words of Douglas Freeman 'Give me pictures, I love pictures'.

Chocolate fondue chic

To commemorate the inclusion of Withnail and I in the Sunday Times this morning (which almost made worthwhile the accompanying 2.5 metric tonnes of newspaper), it's time to take a step back - back to the decade that taste forgot. The decade when black was brown, neck collars reached your knees and when hair was best not looked at - The Seventies. Jake Gyllenhaal has spent much of hs career recreating the 70s, with all of the sartorial misery that this suggests, but his consolation? Having been born in 1980, he didn't actually have to live through the decade himself.


In the words of Robert Graysmith: 'Jake is wearing the same lousy clothes I wore -- the lousy sweater vest and corduroy jacket.' And patches on the elbows, I'm sure I saw patches... It could have been a lot worse, as David Fincher asserted: 'I wanted the '70s to look real and like they felt to me. But at the same time, I didn't want to make a movie about sideburns. I didn't want to make a movie about plaid and flared pants, bell bottoms, and platform shoes. I didn't want it to be kitsch.'


Nevertheless, Jake wasn't impressed by the shirts: ''I remember everyday as I put on my shirt to play the the character, I'd be like [big sigh] 'I hate this shirt' but it worked for me - and not just for the movie - to push myself through that.' I doubt Jake was impressed by the Parker either, which he had tried to lose in Brokeback, along with the moustache, but it had still followed him to the San Francisco Chronicle.



In this video from Zodiac days we can hear more on Jake and Mark Ruffalo's opinions on the 70s. 'If you remember it, you didn't live it...'


In Moonlight Mile, Jake bore the full brunt of the 70s. If you listen to the commentary, you'll hear that Jake wore so much brown he was nicknamed on set 'Doo-doo boy'. An article in the Boston Globe back in 2001, described how Dustin Hoffman 'ditches his character's stifling socks for a pair from his personal stash - a bright red set adorned with smiley faces. This earns him a few amused smirks from the film's production designers, who, to capture the story's 1973 setting, have gone to great lengths to make the clothes, cars, and storefronts along Main Street look as brown as chocolate fondue.' And here was I thinking a chocolate fondue was a good thing.


And finally...

I was bemused to see this description of a club in Cardiff: 'Formerly known as Soda, the bar was also a favourite drinking spot for international stars such as Hollywood heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal and Prince Albert of Monaco.' Answers on a postcard please... I never thought I'd see Jake, Prince Albert of Monaco and a Cardiff bar in the same sentence.


PS...

Please say this isn't true - Zut alors.


Includes pictures from IHJ and links.