Happy Bastille Day

I've always wanted to be in France on Bastille Day. Jake was there in 2008. Some photos of that trip, as well as his other Paris jaunts. Watching the Bastille Day fireworks:

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In fireworks of a different kind, Jake and End of Watch costar Michael Pena were at the scene of a gang shooting in L.A. last night. The pair were doing a ride along as research. Ironically, the shooting occurred at Summer Lights, an anti-gang event:

 

Longer (and more graphic) video here.

It's been a suspense-filled week for Jake!

(Jake photos courtesy of IHJ. Fireworks photos courtesy of LBS Images and nightflymemories

Paris en famille

Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard (aka Skarsgaard) make a visit to the Saint-Ouen Flea Market outside of Paris:


You start out happy and full of energy.


Then you run out of gas.


I'm not going in there.


Okay, I guess I am.


You said just one more at the last place.


Sigh.


How do you say "noogies" en Francais?


Je vous vois.


God, that Maggie is such a publicity hound. I know that flea market, and there are never paps there. (Langue firmly dans la joue.)

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Ah, Paris. I hope Jake enjoyed himself.




It feels like a while since I've said this, but pics courtesy of IHJ. Paris photo courtesy of John Althouse Cohen.

Just another day

New, though unexciting, pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal. It's been a while since we've seen anything more than the side of Jake's face, so it's cause for a new post!







I think there's the hint of a Gyllensmirk in the middle there, I'm not sure. Among the frowns.

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Found some new video of Jake and Reese, including the Paris dress-up day. Short but sweet.



No idea what the narration says - any translators out there?

(Photos courtesy of IHJ.)

Nine out of ten

Usually a good rating. But not in this case. Jake Gyllenhaal, naturally, made Fox's list of the 30 Hottest Dudes Under 30. Quite unnaturally, he was not number one. You can click if you want to find the undeserving eight.

But let's focus on Number Nine, who is hot when laughing:



Even hotter when smirking:



He's hot when he's dressed up:



Or dressed down:



In Rome:



Or at home:



You get the idea :)

(Photos courtesy of IHJ and Socialite Life

Rue the You!

If it's Saturday it must be Paris. Bonjour, Paris!

I think there's an old Parisian folktale that says if you have the same name as a street in Paris, you are required to walk down that street at least once in your life.

Jake and Reese strolling down Rue Jacob in Paris le samedi 14 mars.





Oh girlfriend, we feel that exhaustion!


Courtoisie de photos d'IHJ.

Encore: Vive la France !

Reese Witherspoon is Vogue's November cover girl, and there are a few Jake Gyllenhaal tidbits in the story. Plus some gorgeous photos of Reese.





Along the Avenue Montaigne again, this time at Theyskens's atelier, where Reese is dressed in a bustier-like Nina Ricci dress that, aside from being sexy, is a work of art. The mirrors of Theyskens's office have become a spiraling prism of Reese Witherspoon in black, complemented by Olivier's long, raven-black hair. She is talking about dinner the night before, when her boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal (who dropped by during makeup), wrote cute remarks in the restaurant's guest book (something about French melons), which his girlfriend found charming, her smile now bubbling like champagne in a black crepe flute. "He wrote, 'Vive la France!' " she says, laughing. Ah, Paris and love!


On Bastille Day, Reese is at another café. She has done her share of cafés in Paris. "It's the first time I've taken my kids," she says. She believes in taking the kids. "My girlfriend was saying the other day that it's like that famous Mark Twain line, about how travel is fatal to bigotry and narrow-mindedness—I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like that." Travel is also good for discovering croissants, crepes, and macaroons. Also for introducing her son to the toy boats at the Jardin du Luxembourg, or the French sewer tour. And then there's the Métro, a five-year-old boy's thrill. "He goes from one stop to another; it makes his day," Reese says, beaming. And on that very evening, as the French celebrated, she and Monsieur Gyllenhaal would take her nine-year-old daughter out late to see the fireworks—the Seine glowing, the Eiffel Tower a sparkler.



As far as the boyfriend goes, she doesn't like to talk about him so much, and it can make you feel a little tabloid about asking. Still, this is Paris, city of light and love, and if you've heard the song by Carla Bruni about French president Nicolas Sarkozy—"I give you my body, my soul, and my chrysanthemum/For I am yours/You are my lord/You're my darling/You're my orgy/You're my folly"—then you figure, what the heck, it's Paris. You ask. "He's very supportive," she says. You press her. "Suffice it to say, I'm very happy in life, and I'm very lucky to have a lot of really supportive people around me who care very much for me, and, you know, that's all you can hope for in life. I am very blessed in that way."




She will tell you that she was with the guy she'd rather not blab about some weeks earlier—in Rome, speaking of beautiful cities—and that one night they went out to see the Trevi Fountain. It was late, it was beautiful, and she threw a coin in and made a wish. What did she wish for? Come on. Do you really think she's going to tell you that? "If I tell you," she says, "it won't come true."


(I know it's not the Trevi, but hey, they managed to go unpapped on the trip she's mentioning!)

And because I can't resist:



(Pictures courtesy of Vogue and IHJ and flickr.)

Mélange

ETA: IHJ got the full set of the Luxembourg Garden pictures. Some of these are priceless. Thanks, Stephanie!






Le Scruff!

"How you doin?"

"Is that a hand in my pocket or is she just happy to see me?"

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Not much happening on the Paris front today. It seems as if the idyll is indeed over, and Jake Gyllenhaal has left the City of Light for the Red City. But there were some fun shots of Jake that we didn't get to use in the avalanche of pictures, so the travelogue rolls on.

Some captions, for your amusement, j'espere.


"I didn't mean to order the frog's legs! Please, no!"



"Oh, that's how you say 'Don't touch the toad!' en français!"



"I'm not scared!"


Seriously, what is going on in those photos? At first, Jake seems very worried, but then he's downright jaunty! (One can only use 'jaunty' if there's a hat involved.)

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"Hmm - I wonder if Sass would like a present from Harry's?"



"Damn, what is her e-mail address again?"



"Merde! This map is too small. I'll never find Avenue Montaigne!"

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"That 'Kick me!' trick is always funny!"



"Never fails!" ***



"Just act innocent - they'll never know it was you."



"I crack myself up."

Okay, I was running out of ideas by the end there. But Jake is so expressive, and these Paris pictures so much fun, I couldn't resist.

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Maybe the end of the Paris series?






*** The real caption for this should be, "Can I be any more beautiful?!" Look at that smile. It's such a shame Jake is so unhappy these days, isn't it?!

(Photos courtesy of IHJ and flickr.)