Who is the Real Jake Gyllenhaal?

It's been difficult to read the press releases and interviews on Jake for the past several years because frankly, it's just hard to tell when it's him speaking or when it's his media team.  Add to that, the fact that pictures of Jake doing "everyday" things just don't occur anymore.  A person can't be a long-time fan of Jake's and not admit that his public visibility has changed in a dramatic way since the years when I first started following him, back in 2008.  

And do we ever see the "real" Jake anymore?  What if one took away the sepia Instagram and magazine filters, the false dating history, the pleas for awards, the highly publicized stories (seeing a person bleed to death in front of his eyes during End of Watch filming and breaking a mirror and injuring his hand during Nightcrawler filming), and lastly, the frequent barnacle protection of publicists, Greta Caruso and bodyguards?  Who remains when the shoes come off inside the foyer, green cargo pants are swapped out for track pants, earbuds are shown the drawer, and Vitalis perhaps rinsed out for au naturel wisps?  What is uncovered that for the last several years has been hidden from view and deemed unmarketable?

It doesn't seem possible that Jake developed such a large following and fan base because of the color of his pants or a Detective Loki haircut.  What did everyone see?

Whadya think?  That's what caught my eye and attention.  And yes, the years pass and we all grow up, some of our likes and dislikes change.  Our home bases may change, circle of friends evolve and change.  But people's basic personalities don't undergo a complete overhaul.  They don't. The root system is established when we are young and the branches take off from that base.  And I like Jake's "old" roots.

So while we've gotten Southpaw Sandisks of this...

and mega TB flash drives filled with these...

and toss in a couple of these for toppers:

 Just remember, it's the underlying hard drive that contains the original mapping.  It's still there - inside that front or mudroom door, after the green cargos are tossed and pointing finger put away.  
:-)


pic sources:  IHJ, starwipe
song:  Someday Out of the Blue - Elton John from the El Dorado soundtrack
Love the One You're With - Luther Vandross

Harry Styles’ Instagram Activity September 25, 2016 – It’s been 105 Days…

The last time Harry posted on his Instagram, was on the day of the Orlando shootings. Wordless communications, filled with meaning and pride. Two simple rainbow images:

This morning, three months and thirteen days later at four a.m. PST, three additional posts are revealed. Three white spaces in quick succession:

There are no captions. No images.  No audio. No color.  Six hours later, the first white space post has received 593K likes. The second white space, 559K likes.  The third one, 557K likes. And, the tally keeps growing.  That’s right. THREE PICTURES OF NOTHING have over half a million likes EACH. Obviously, there is still a devoted audience waiting, watching, and responding to stirrings of life. 

Simon Cowell must be thrilled after all his attempts this past year to portray the group as fini, over, dunzo that so many people are instantaneously responding to Harry’s “Still here” statement. Nine months of over the top, hard sell Syco PR portraying these four guys as going in separate directions, instead of the pre-hiatus group-promised return as One Direction. Two members depicted as mortal enemies for years. One of the group presented as having a laddy lad “son,” and hitched to an itinerant “girlfriend” with suspect tastes in footwear.  Another member two months into the hiatus portrayed as loved up "like a chipmuck" (whatever that means), with a Simon Cowell mannequin 10 years his senior. The two apparently ready for procreation. The room for the nursery already selected. The Irish one roaming from concert to concert, golf course to golf course to push Modest's new business endeavor, even while being sold as going solo any minute.

That's right. We are to believe, according to Simon Cowell and a host of sycophantic minions, that a tight knit musical powerhouse group, sitting on top of the world at the end of 2015 with over $7.6 million total albums sold in just five years, worldwide ticket gross sales across the world in 2015 of $206 million, and their last album, "Made in the A.M." certified platinum in the United States only five months after release, have no desire to continue with their 1D careers? Young men 22-24 years of age, in the most creative and productive time of their lives suddenly want nothing more than to risk it all by walking away from global success.

Yet somehow, after months of this relentless “1D never coming back” narrative being splashed across the Internet in publication after publication, Harry suddenly decides to give the world not one, but three posts of white space. Prior to that Harry had been notably silent for 20 days.  The white spaces obviously symbolic of something, almost as if ready to be filled in like a blank canvas.   Three empty spaces needing some vibrant content to be completed:

 
You and me got a whole lot of history (oh)
We could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen
You and me got a whole lot of history (oh)
So don't let it go, we can make some more, we can live forever
                                    "History" by One Direction

 Update @ 6:15 p.m PST  Instagram post 1  643K likes;
                                              Instagram post 2  609K likes;
                                              Instagram post 3  606K likes

Song:  A Change is Gonna Come - Adam Lambert
            Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
            Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson