Thursday, October 24, 2019

Ace Comic Con 2019: Fast Times in Rosemont IL with Jake Gyllenhaal - Pt II


Part I under this link
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On Thursday, Oct 17, Jake spent time in a very valuable way, by participating in the Headstrong Annual Gala (formerly called Words of War).  The Gala is an evening of dinner, entertainment and auction to raise money for the mental health treatment of post 9/11 (Iraq and Afghanistan) war veterans.  Assistance is confidential, cost and bureaucracy free.  Headstrong Project serves the states of New York, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Illinois and Colorado. 

Here is the history of the Words of War / now called Gala since its inception, with Jake involved from the start:


Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - Jake attends w/ Anna Chlumsky and
                                           Anthony Edwards at IAC Building
Wednesday, Oct 1, 2014 - Jake attends w/ Seth Meyers and Adam
                                         Driver at Tribeca 360
Monday, Oct 19, 2015 - not attended by Jake. Seth Meyers, Chris
                                       Rock, Olivia Wilde in attendance at One 
                                       World Trade Center 
Monday, Oct 17, 2016 -  Jake attends w/ Seth Meyers, Adam 
                                        Driver and Caleb Wells at Pier 60
Monday, Oct 16, 2017 - Jake attends w/ Seth Meyers and Chelsea
                                       Clinton at Pier 60
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018 - Jake attends w/ Seth Meyers and Joe
                                        Quinn at Pier 60
Thursday, Oct 17, 2019 - Jake attends w/ Seth Meyers and singer
                                         Liz Callaway at Pier 60


Fans of Jake will recognize what have become annual pictures with the founder/former executive director and now current chairman of Headstrong Project, Zachary Iscol.



A U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war, Zachary Iscol has some shared ties with Jake and those in his personal or professional circles. 

• Iscol grew up in Pound Ridge, NY.  Remember, Pound Ridge is where Ryan Reynolds and his beard, I mean "wife" Blake Lively are supposed to live. Pound Ridge, aka the 'burbs'.  Back in 2017, Reynolds blabbed too much and told Michael Strahan on Good Morning, America that he & Jakers had become the best of friends during Life filming; that they "hung out all the time". "Up in the 'burbs".  LOL!  Start this clip at 02:00 and watch Reynolds soon stammer over confirming how Jake lives next door to him out in the suburbs of New York.  Pound Ridge.  Classic. 




• Iscol, his wife and two small children have a vacation home on Martha's Vineyard.  The home is a guest house that used to belong to his parents.  Zachary's parents are good friends of former President William Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, and he with their daughter, Chelsea.  His mother Jill served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for New York Senate's Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton for President's 2008 Financial Committee.  Father Ken has owned and operated mobile and personal communications businesses.  He is deeply involved with Cornell University, serving on advisory councils and is a Life Member of the Cornell University Council.  Both Ken and Jill Iscol have been so involved with Cornell that the University Board of Trustees have recognized them as Foremost Benefactors.

Jake's family spent many summers and holidays on the Vineyard and depending on which source you choose to believe, Jake dated Chelsea Clinton when they were teenagers at the encouragement of their parents OR...Jake and Chelsea were both invited to dinner at Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen's.  

Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are also good friends of the Clinton family.  The Clintons attended Ted and Mary's wedding, and then Ted and Mary attended daughter Chelsea's wedding.  Both Chelsea and Zachary Iscol attended Sidwell Friends School...the ties are endless and include who else?  Jake's man of 17 years, Austin Nichols.  How is this?

Ted Danson is very involved with Oceana and in fact, co-wrote (with Michael D'Orso) a book called Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do To Save Them.  The book published in 2015 and Ted spoke about the subject and his book as part of the Ken and Jill Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture series at Cornell University. 


Danson founded the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to ocean abuses. In 2001, AOC merged with Oceana, which works to show citizens how they can participate in protecting and restoring marine resources. - Ted Danson to deliver Iscol Lecture April 20 (2015) - Cornell Chronicle






So now, having learned this, is it surprising any longer to see how Austin became involved with Oceana?



 











And in this Iscol-Danson-Clinton-Gyllenhaal Friendly Neighbors kind of way, Danson has helped out Jake and Austin.






















Ted Danson, Chlo Bennet and Austin at Oceana 2014





















Ted Danson, Hassie Harrison, and Austin Nichols allegedly at Oceana 2018


• Zachary Iscol and his wife (the former Meredith Melling) were first introduced to each other by Ariel Ashe.  Ariel also played matchmaker for sister Alexi and her future husband, Seth Meyers.  And we all know how often Seth Meyers has been helpful to, I mean affiliated with Jake.  ;-)

All kinds of additional six degrees of separation going on, isn't there?  The Iscols no doubt are part of the Gyllynichols inner circle of trust.  

The final nail in this coffin would be the fact that Zachary Iscol's gala event now annually occurs around Baby Tile No. 1's birthday.  Narnia has discussed this subject before.  If it isn't precisely on Baby Tile's birthday of Oct 17, it's the day before, two days after.  On its inaugural date, the event was held in May.  Then, in 2014, it was Oct 1, which was inching closer, wasn't it?  Since that time, this Gala has provided a place and commitment in New York City for Jake to be placed while his significant other Austin is GPS-placed in either Los Angeles or Austin, TX.  



The Headstrong Project started out small: helping veterans in smaller numbers and limited territory (New York City metro, San Diego, Houston).  Now, years later their territory has grown, as has the number of veterans assisted and help provided.  Notice the venue growth in the timeline at the top of this page.  The inaugural year, the Words of War was held at an office building called the IAC Building, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC on 18th Street.  The next year, it was held at Tribeca 360, which is considered a premiere NYC venue with breathtaking views of NYC and a capacity of 700 guests.  In 2015, the event moved again to One World Trade Center which is also known for its views of the city and the 11th most expensive building in the world.



Since 2016, the Gala has been located at Pier 60, NYC's largest waterfront wedding and event venue.  Last year in 2018, the Gala raised over $2 million.  A selfie with Seth Meyers and Jake auctioned off for $25,000.   Very impressive.  Yes, the Headstrong Project is doing a lot of good, helping many well-deserving veterans.  No one is ever going to downplay or criticize this.

These folks are generous of their time and desire to help.  The donors are absolute do-gooders.  All hearts are in the right place.  

How many of the attendees however, do you think are aware that Jake has a son who was turning 12 on October 17, the night of this year's Gala?

Usually when a fundraiser becomes popular or successful enough to become an annual event, whether it be a 5K/10K walk, church chili supper, holiday craft show, or auction, it's recommended to hold it around the same time each year (i.e. first Monday of May) so that donors have an idea when to expect it.  In the case of the Headstrong Gala, the date is down pat; regardless of the day of the week it is.





















Iscol, Jake, Adam Driver in 2016, Oct 17
















Jake, Iscol, Seth Meyers in 2017, Oct 16
























Seth Meyers, Iscol, Jake in 2018, Oct 18

















Jake, Seth Meyers in 2019, Oct 17

















Iscol, Jake in 2019, Oct 17


This past weekend, Austin was scheduled for Walker Stalker in Atlanta, GA.  Austin doesn't attend as many Walker Stalkers as he did when he was an active member of the show.  But the one Walker Stalker he has done is this year's Atlanta convention.  Normally, Austin works the Saturday and Sunday's of the conventions.  This year?  Jake's Team sent him to work on Friday, Oct 18.  The day after Baby Tile's birthday.   The convention's autographs started at what time on Friday?  3 p.m., eastern time.
 
In other words, Management wanted it to appear that Austin needed to be in Atlanta by morning, possibly even flying out the night before?  Which would have made departure on Baby Tile's birthday, the 17th.  As if to prove this very point, the first picture of Austin with a fan posted on Twitter at precisely 16:01 in the afternoon, 4pm CT.  


and later,


The need for Jake and Austin to be visibly active with others on special days has been a trademark pattern of public relations, with one of their more notable exercises being the three (3) straight years that Jake was papped with Marcus Mumford during the time surrounding Austin's birthday, which is April 24.

2011 - Jake traveling with Mumford & Sons during their 
           famous Railroad Revival Tour, April 22-27
2012 - Jake allegedly attending Marcus Mumford/Carey Mulligan's
           wedding, beginning April 19 in the UK ending up in NY on
           April 24
2013 - Jake appearing with Mumford and Mulligan on April 20 at
          the Tribeca Film Festival and April 23, with Marcus at the
          Knicks/Celtics game in New York.

See how that worked?  Three years in a row around Austin's birthday.  And counting five years in a row on or around Baby Tile's birthday.  The purpose to show that no father would rather be attending fundraisers instead of spending time with their family on one of their children's birthday.  No boyfriend or spouse would rather spend time going to an NBA game or wedding of a friend instead of being with their significant other on their birthday.  Therefore, Jake couldn't possibly be a father.  Nor could he possibly be involved with Austin. [sarc]

This is the thinking mind of a publicist to come up with these kinds of schemes and calendar maneuvers.  And since the evening of Oct 17 was "occupied" this year, the 19th featured a new story to "book" Jake during the middle of the same day.




at "about 10:20 Thursday morning".  Thursday?  Let's see, that would be October 17.  Jake had the Headstrong Gala starting at around 6-7 pm and beforehand he's reported to be wandering the streets of NYC with time to rescue a Dalmation around 10:30-ish.  No mention of him setting down a birthday cake before reaching for the dog's leash, so kind of doubtful he would be sauntering around if he had a party to prepare for.  And that is why we were given the Dalmation Story.  When People is used to publicize a story, that is a sign of elevation and Public Relation's approval-stamped narrative deemed necessary to peddle.




Prior to the Dog Story, Mara's Team had been busying Jake's social media with another viral story, this one designed to 1) help promote the pairing of Spiderman and Mysterio for probable future films and 2) to maintain and upkeep the public burial of real-life spouse Austin.   

The awkward-at-times Ace Comic Con panel and the casual approach to the obligatory con selfie were not reflective of the message soon-to-be published on Jake's Instagram account - that he and Holland were getting married.  Zero to sixty indeed!


Notice in the visible comments to the right, who added "They say the couple who dresses the same...💓".  This shipping comment came from Jake's Source Code co-star Michelle Monaghan., whose reply starts a long thread of arguing amongst other accounts between those who don't like the joking tone, those who really believe Jake and Holland are seriously involved, and those who argue how these two men are straight.  

Imagine if they knew the real truth?  Excluding Monaghan, who of course would likely know Jake's in a legal relationship, but her account is used to post in negligence and distaste of this fact.

This activity will only continue and intensify as filming for the next Spiderman flick approaches because, well - this is Sony. The combination of power-abuser Sony and ruthless publicist Mara Buxbaum has already shown itself to be a super highway without painted lanes.  The irony of a fake gay "straight up romance" being used to hide a real-life marriage and family scenario between two actors could not be better exemplified than by this sampling of twitter accounts which were the ones selected to promote the "Getting Married" proclamation.  Notice the trend. Of course, Queerty is first.






















Towelroad.














 

Pride.com























The Fat Greek, managing editor of Towleroad News, former Sr. editor of The Advocate & HIV Plus magazines.





















Account belonging to a proud transgender individual.





















LGBT educator and editor:




















Gay podcaster and author's account:






















Musician and member of the LGBTQ community:














And on. And on. And on.   In a publicist's mind, having a client who is married and with a family, calls for secrecy.  Gay is okay as long as the promoted relationship or pap pictures involve anyone but the real life partner.  Holland being marriage material is "hot".  Austin and children?  Apparently, "terribly taboo".  

For gargantuan money, the publicist has no issue with romantically pairing that same client with another young man.  After all, movie studios and television networks are now aiming to appeal to the LGBTQ high disposable income market.  Hence, all of the "bromances" and contracting of meards.  And for this particular before-mentioned publicist, her client has been committed to a pre arranged ship marriage with a young man who is the Golden Boy of Sony, aka Tom Holland.

This same Golden Boy who himself uses a film set as an off-leash playground.



 
 Gomer Pyle is not quite so Gomer Pyle.  


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

In an entertainment industry where publicists and celebrities knock themselves out with elaborate, fake weddings (with the latest trend being to have two ceremonies, as if one isn't enough!) and "scandals" of cheating, rape, Deadbeat Dad, pedophilia, or wide age-gap relationships with the opposite sex to "prove" heterosexuality, that a real relationship of love and desire to have a family would actually be the forbidden taboo?  



Oh indeed, we know, Ted.  We know.

This author acknowledges that long ago, Jake was reported to want to lead a more open life, but was talked out of it by those surrounding him in his close circles.   The public saw a bit of a different young man with a frequent smile, one whose activities were more personally oriented.  Much has changed and now there are no more on-location filming pictures, frequent public appearances are conducted and motivated to help provide GPS locations rather than where Jake chooses to spend his down time, and if one looks at his social media, you might wonder why anyone is a fan when his publicity team purposely plants twitter memes such as:


 


Okay.

  
And after that, as we try to restore some semblance of propriety instead of serving as a petri dish for a Beavis and Butthead culture, we'll perform our own train switch and end with some encouraging, touching moments from Jake's experience at Ace Con.  Because whether or not Jake was truly "into" the whole experience, he fulfilled a commitment and was professional as always when making a public appearance.



Signed and posed,



was kind to the fans who had paid to see him.  I saw nothing but glowing words about his politeness and kindness (and I read a lot of accounts).  These were some of my favorite fan accounts, most of them longtime fans of Jake who were absolutely thrilled to meet him.



Aaaah yes....holding the Prince of Persia DVD.  ;-)  #BrowniePoints






















According to this fan's account, Jake enjoyed meeting his baby.  Gee, we wonder why???  :-)




This man was beyond unabashedly thrilled and I don't know, their picture is just really cute. 





This was wonderful - Married couple Andrew and Josh with Jake.  The young man on Jake's left kind of looks like Tom Daley, doesn't he?  sort of? 



 





















And a couple of funnies.  Remember back in the day when girls always said Jake smelled "so good" of cologne?  Welllllll...how times have changed.  Now it's of something a bit more domesticated, lol.





And how quickly they were all shuffled through the line:



Jake introverted?  How times have changed!  lol




And finally, last but not least (at least we can keep updating the post because who knows what the next update will be about this Dog Story) - a "correction".   This dog rescue story is like Laffy Taffy - it is stretching out quite nicely, isn't it?  Talk about getting your money's worth!




We at Narnia will always hope that Ted Casablanca's words don't prove true, that Jake and Austin's love story does not turn into "a tragedy".  Although it seems that many of my/our Jake/Austin posts center around the eccentric, the far-fetched, melodramatic and cringe-worthy, I will be the first to admit that sometimes too much blame has been placed on either Jake or Austin.  And not unlike the treatment that Sony/Syco or Simon Cowell have laid upon members of One Direction or PR minimalizing Jared Padalecki, Jake and/or Austin have also been the subject of social media posts or interviews speaking for them, planted memes or internet rumors which unfairly reflect badly on them, or made them attend events which they would never have forgone a special personal day for, had they been given the choice.  

While unpleasantries will continue, as the Ace Comic Con showed, there were still nice moments, insightful ones, and always something new to learn about either man.  That's why Narnia is still here and will continue to be.  This train track has one speed and one path as long as we're capable:  steady and onward.




For the most part, anyway.  ;D


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                     Know Your Meme
our playlist:  How Do You Do - Mouth and MacLean
                     Don't Cry - Asia
                     Hero - David Crosby and Phil Collins
                     Wonderful - Everclear
                     Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
                     Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

 

Ace Comic Con 2019: Fast Times in Rosemont IL with Jake Gyllenhaal - Pt. I


Author's Note:  Warning for explicit language used in posted social media.  My apologies! But I have to post them in their original form.

Good morning/day/evening!  Who threw that helmet for Mr. Jones to autograph?  lol.  PG has a day off of work today, so y'all get this post.  ;-)  Let's get this started.

So, Ace Comic Con started on Friday, Oct 11 and Mr. Jakers made his appearance the next morning, all bright eyed and bushy-tailed.  Well, let's say that he did after kind of a slow and sluggish start as he was looking a bit curmudgeonly in many of the first released photos.  Curiously, this twitter fan seemed to point out Jake's non-creative expression:



But no, no, as one would expect, Jake takes to theater and one could say that posing for photo ops is sort of like theater, involving cosplay and creative posing.  He "came around" and loosened up as time went on, posing with fans' signs/props and interacting.  Some were long-time fans and there were numerous glowing remarks about their conversations with Jake, which is great to read.




























Goofing around, trying to help the fans fulfill their ideal photo op:



This gal got a real dandy.  Very nice!



Oodles and oodles of photos, enough to fill a photo album. I mean, countless.  In fact, several days passed before the final trickle ceased. 



lol, Jake's been physically closer to this fan below, than he has been so far with Jeanne Cadieu.  LOL!







Did this fan below know of Jake's love for ice cream and frozen yogurt?  I think that sundae must've been real - it sure brightened up those blue eyes, didn't it?  ;-)  Aww, very nice!!




Seems this fan is playing off of the social media meme of Jake treating his vintage wired earbuds like a string of licorice.  I like their pose, too.



PG votes the photo op below as Best Pose!



Goodness, if you were a Jake fan or a Holland fan, there was a photo op pic out there for you!  :-)  Those weren't even a drop in the bucket.

Meanwhile, back home, the head of the household, Austin, was tabulating all of those credit transactions from autographs and photo ops....



Health insurance premiums, Costco-sized boxes of kale chips, gallon jars of peanut butter, pallets of Wet Wipes, 12 (+ 1 pr free!) packs of Buster Brown socks, 170 oz. jugs of Dreft, birthday and Christmas presents, and piano lessons for all the Baby Tiles!!  That makes both Daddy and Papa GyllyNichols very happy. 


There were others at the Ace Comic Con; Chris Hemsworth (Thor) for one.


Austin's former co-star Norman Reedus from The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones' Kit Harrington and Elton John star, Taron Egerton. 

Kit in plaid at his panel:



Taron Egerton is adorable.  So animated and he really looked like he tried his best to give every fan a great photo.


Jake and Holland had a panel on Saturday, early evening.  Questions about heroes, future projects, what did Jake think about the Marvel fandom and what kind of project would Jake/Holland like to work on together were just a few that were posed to the actors.  Compared to pre-Far From Home promo, the panel itself was surprisingly bland and conservative, almost awkward at times.  This fun selfie with the monstrous-sized audience however, was a misleading cue to what would later follow.



Saturday sounds like it was a long day since their panel was supposed to start at 6:15 in the evening, but ran about an hour late.  Jake's schedule on Sunday started at 11 am, so not a whole lot of time to rest his feet.  Hopefully, Austin and his Big Sis-in-Law Maggie were able to handle the "curfew chaos" [aka bedtime] at home, so Jake could catch some winks!   After all, his last scheduled event for Sunday was to be at 4pm for an autograph session.  And it was a good thing, too because there were a few folks who thought that Jake was "looking tired".  






"Very tired" "I understand you're tired. Your face showed it." Perplexing, to be sure.  Four-five o'clock would no doubt come soon enough.  Not quite so fast, though.  At three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, there was some possible drama:















































On and on and on.  As this particular author had seen the first tweet and the following rapid-fire tweets and suspected misleading information, I used my social media to make some observations:





And then it was revealed that the "rumor" had been "a joke".



And the tweet train pulled a railroad switch and proceeded to spread the word that it was a JOKE.



Ridiculing, followed by...










The airwaves then grew quiet and but for a solo alleged O'Hare airport sighting,


And Austin, who had been silent all prior week and AceCon weekend, suddenly was back on social media.



Looks like someone is still sporting their This Close head of curls:


 
And now that Papa was home, Austin had some time to catch up on a bit of "me" time:



But did this mean that it was time for Jakers to enjoy a bit of laying low time?  Well, not if you used his social media activity as a barometer of family time.  

Convenient photos of Jake with the beard Jeanne Cadieu appeared on the 16th with the fan Instagrammers making sure everyone knew the pictures were from Wednesday, the 16th and placing him in The Big Apple:




With cup and lid in hand, the two took a brief walk that probably covered half of a street block and took less than 3 minutes to do.  

And just think - the most entertaining content was yet to come.

Continue to Part 2 of 2 under this link:

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our playlist:  How Do You Do - Mouth and MacNeal
                     Don't Cry - Asia
                     Hero - David Crosby and Phil Collins
                     Wonderful - Everclear
                     Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
                     Cat's In the Cradle - Harry Chapin