Sunday Musings: It's All in the Prep Work for Adam Levine

 

 

It's Fall Harvest time and it sure looks like there are folks in Hollywood and in the sports world laying down some prep work for their new crops of activity.  Lots to do, lots to do!  Narnia jumped on our sightseeing tractor and decided to take a ride around.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a few sights that caught our attention:

 

• After Adam Levine's final appearance on The Voice in May 2019, he has not been in the Hollywood news much, although his group Maroon 5 did release their album Jordi in June of 2021 and the group toured the album throughout the summer.  They are going to be serving a residency at the Park MGM in Las Vegas from March 24, 2023 to August 12.  In the meantime, leading up to this announcement, these noticeable (and high profile twitter trend) events have taken place:

• Sep. 06 2022 - Just Jared reveals that Adam and beard Behati Prinsloo have announced they are "expecting" again:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 • Barely two weeks later, Adam is trending on Twitter for several days due to a "cheating" scandal with an Instagram influencer named Sumner Stroh. Supposedly she had text message "receipts" of him asking her if she minded if he and Prinsloo named their upcoming baby after her.  The story was absolutely ludicrous, yet so many people lapping up the garish tale like Mike and Ike's out of the box. Tabloidish headlines and Just Jared post updates followed the fiction like a soap opera.  Suddenly, there were additional accusations to pad his het history. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five individuals thus far...

 

 

• September 27 - Maroon 5 announces a residency in Las Vegas in the spring of 2023.

 

That is one short, super-scripted and predictable timeline. By predictable, I mean that when you saw the baby announcement followed by a high-profile cheating scandal, you knew that something else was coming - a new project of some variation.

What's disappointing about this route being taken is that Adam's representation comes from where?  His own production company and Irving Azoff.  

 

Variety - March 23 2018

 

So, Adam is part of his own team.  This "cheating scandal" comes from one of his team's barnstorm meetings.

The residency and "scandal" has provided an excuse for alleged outings with the "expectant" beard.

Here's Adam going through his long-time friend Jake Gyllenhaal's "Southpaw" phase:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, this is the same guy! Quite the study in contrast, don't you think? Or should we say image overhaul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Fluffy Pants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same guy.

 

 

It just makes one wonder why the heavy-handedness with the hetero push, right?  

And so as usual, we will continue to watch for further developments to see what is really happening behind the scenes.  🔎🔎 😉

 

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Two other individuals that Narnia has our eyes on are, as always, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.  It can be noted that their team is still in the midst of graaaaaaadually un-joining their public attachment to one another.  The process has been going on already for a couple of years and it's like watching syrup pour on pancakes, right?

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

But these things take time, especially since Jared and Jensen were always known to be very close and are still headlining fan conventions periodically, so 1) they still need Gold & Silver packages sold and 2) want to attract fans to their individual television shows and projects.  So it's a precarious tightrope they are walking.  

But Mgmnt has gradually been separating them on the Saturday evenings of their convention weekends, which previously used to find them together strolling the streets of whichever city they were in.  Now, either man is caught up in "filming" obligations so they're supposedly coming into town at the last minute and separately.

Mgmnt has also been involving both men with their own new group of co-star friendship circles or promotion work with their prequel projects.  

And once in awhile, they have to feed Hellers with a Milkbone or two, to keep their money coming in for conventions or for purchasing merchandise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orchestrated and scripted theatrics that were way over analyzed by fans, but served their purpose, Narnia reckons.  Which is all their teams cares about.

All we can do here at Narnia is bypass dropping any coins into their hats.  😉 😄 smh.

I can say that the guys were in my hometown city (sort of - I'm in the burbs of) of Kansas City!!  I enjoyed their chatter in the Gold Panel about the great BBQ debate of whose is better - Texas or Kansas City's?  Of course it's Kansas City's, come on, fellas!  😀  And the Gold Panel even contained a beanie-less Jared, how about those apples? Both guys looked great and I hope they enjoyed their stay. Here is the notorious, ever present beanie just in case some are unfamiliar with his obsessive attachment, come rain, or come shine. Indoors or out.

Jared at the hotel of KC Con 2022 - walker-290

Of course, there always has to be something that doesn't make any sense and the Kansas City Con was no exception.

Here's Jared managing to make the trip to nearby Lawrence, Kansas (where the family home of Sam and Dean Winchester's parents is located, according to their origin story), but who does he take the photo with?  Glorified "bodyguard" Cliffie Kosterman.  Makes total sense, right?  smh  (Jensen's probably cropped out, standing on the other side of Jared 😉)

 

While we're here and having to look at Kosterman, let's remember what he really is not and that's a bodyguard.  Here Kosterman was, holding the door for Jensen and Jared at DC Con this year,

 

 

while the real bodyguard brought up the security caboose in the J2 train...

Uh huh!  This shows all we need to know about Kosterman's chaperone stunt role in Jared and Jensen's narrative.  It's always been a snow job, but the real bodyguard bringing up the rear really finished driving that nail home.

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And while we're on the topic of Jared, on Thursday, we saw the latest episode of Walker air, one which Austin Nichols directed, (Third Season, Episode Two).  It was another episode like previous Supernatural shows in which writers and directors seem to get off on physically abusing Jared and Jensen. Maybe some lightweight BDSM? 

During the airing of the show, Austin talked live on Instagram with several of the actors from Walker.  But not Jared.  LOL!  No, Mgmnt was afraid there would be too much gay innuendo flying around so they made sure Jared had an "event" to attend to.  

Narnia is here to point out Petty Management! 😂

 

 

Who saw that coming?  😉  I do believe the sun came up the next morning, so that's what is important.  🌄  We're just thankful for rare Austy content!!  [Who keeps trying to look a bit deranged these days, but as always, we find him looking as handsome as a deranged man can look. 😉]  Jakers is one lucky guy!  There are too many photos and tweets to post, but we have a few.

Oh, look!  Here they are!!  Working together!

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the same frame!  Yes, I know, Jared is standing behind Austin and in the last photo, yes, I know, we can't really see Austin's face at all... 😕

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aw, darn it all, gee whiz!!  Eye contact, but we can't hardly see Austin's face.  Then, we can see Austin's face, but no eye contact.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Austin tags Jared!  And we see Jared's hands!  But not the rest of him.

And then....and then....lo and behold....

Oh noooooooo, perfectly posed, both facing the camera, arms around each other in working friendship, and then...the camera person moved.  Or the camera did.  

 

Wellllll, nice try, guys!  We appreciate all the efforts and we're just going to hope that someday, some way...it can still happen!   Because you two are just the work-friend train that can!!  Yes, you can!  Narnia knows you can.  Some day over the rainbow perhaps.  

 

Indeed.  Indeed.   But we got many more photos of Austin with everyone else!  So thank you to Walker, Jared, the Walker cast and Walker's official twitter account for helping us out here.  More Austin content to come later because he's been a little busy all of a sudden!  😍😍😍

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I know there has been much more happening with our faves, but alas, this post must end.  But not before we offer our annual Happy Birthday wishes to who?  

To the legendary Baby Tile, Number 1 Son who turns fifteen (15) years old on October 17, 2022.

And while Narnia thought that we were past his parents' GPS shenanigans during his birthday week, they seemed to be feeling nostalgic this year and have tried some ol' Gyllynichols Flim Flam to try and steer our attention away from the annual celebration!  I think we know better, fellas.  But thanks for the grins!

Papa Jake is trying to tell us that he is still in the Dominican Republic filming Roadhouse even though the location shoot seems a bit protracted since its August "leaks" from the set. Out of the blue, we have new cast photos.  Here's the scamp suddenly wanting to be seen!

"in the Dominican Republic today"

 

"in the Dominican Republic today".   Got it!   And then, there's Austin - he's supposed to be in Austin, TX at the Austin City Limits music festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And in case it wasn't totally clear that Austin was really there in the flesh with the ladies, well, they tweeted again.

 

 

Aaah yes, "thanks for chatting with xx and I today at ACL."   Jake supposedly in the Dominican Republic...Austin in Austin, TX...just before Baby Tile's birthday.  Again, think we've got it, fellas!

You know, it's been a little while since I took the Little Tyke car for a spin.

 

 

lol!    Thanks for the scenic ride, guys. 😄

Just some Narnia humor.  Let's have a couple of throwback memories...

 

Baby Tile #1 w/Jake, beard & nanny [to the right] in Paris, Jul 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jake w BT's sonogram at the medical bldg in Sept 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you believe so many years have passed?   Happy Birthday on October 17, Baby Tile!

See you soon!   And have a good week at the ol' salt mines.  😊

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Aaah Yes, T'was another August

 

😂  The little baby penguin just cracks me up.

Well, depending on who you follow, the summer season can sometimes mean a dearth of content. 

In the case of Jake and Austin, they aren't seen much at all, but it's for a nice reason!   They are living their lives with their kiddos in what seems to have become the annual Summer of Gyllynichols.

That is, until the arrival of August, the month of Baby Tile Leadville's birthday and anniversary of Jake & Austin's romantic celebration of his birth under the guise of attending the Leadville race in 2010.  When August comes, we can usually expect to be pleasantly surprised by one or both men poking their heads out to say, "See, I'm not with Jake and the kids!" or in Jake's case, "See, I'm not with Austin and the kids!"  And "See, there's no Baby Tile Leadville!"

This year, we were blessed with appearances by both.

Austin let us know that he was asked to direct Episode 2 of season 3 of Jared's show, Walker.  His Instagram account posted several stories; this one was posted on Monday, August 8.  Here's the mad scientist, lol - er, I mean Austin:

Hard to say when exactly the episode was truly filmed as there was an awful lot of hinky announcements and smoke & mirrors surrounding Walker's filming status.   And surprisingly, this time around, there was not any play-by-play social media ballyhoo indicating that they were at any time, filming.  Since the tumblr/twitter "word" was that the show was filming three (3) episodes at once, well, it would be understandable that there was no time for anyone to be on their phones.  Noses were constantly to the grindstone in order to get all this delayed filming caught up and completed!

 

Following Austin's social media appearance, his Main Squeeze was photo-shopped, I mean "seen" with his beard, allegedly in New York City back on August 2nd.   Here's the lovely "couple".

Is there even anything in that Walgreens bag?

And the reason we're doubting this outing is because unless Jake has come up with a new way to make the face mask an intravenous feed, uh... the left side of the string disappears into his ear lobe, or what is supposed to be.  In fact, the ear lobe seems to have practically disappeared!  Crazy!

 

 

 😁  We're also looking for his left eye as well.  

And there's a point to be made for the line of skin-tone merger that you can see running down the middle of the neck, in the left photo, it's at more of an angle. While to the right, the line is straight up and down.  A total difference in skin tone and no, the discrepancy is not caused by "shadows".

Come on, Visuals Effects Team! Or, is the crew called the Image Manipulation Unit?  Either way, step it up, please.  Dropping the ball like that is unprofessional. 😉   It is interesting to note the fish on the ball cap - a leftover souvenir from last year's family Mammoth Springs summer vacay, perhaps???

 

NONE-theless, it was nice to see both men make their annual appearance just around Baby Tile Leadville's birthday. A day that Narnia is getting a strong feeling might be able to be nailed down to August 8, as has been speculated before.  Let's see, that would mean Baby Tile Leadville turned twelve (12) years old this year.  We wonder if Busy Philipps will be baking another one of those baby monkey birthday cakes to post to her Instagram account?

Goodness gracious, Jake and Austin have another kiddo approaching teen-hood, can you believe that?  Driving permits, teen idol wall posters, and Claire's Boutique shopping are getting to be closer to the future than Fisher Price is in the present, for the Gyllynichols household, aren't they? 😊

A trip back through memory lane:  Remember back in 2013 when Austin was spotted at a Ralph's Grocery store and a friend of his wondered if the "adorable kid" he was with, was his son?  Perhaps the tot was Baby Tile Leadville, who would've just turned three years old at that time.

 

 

 

He must have looked quite similar to Austin, huh? In any event, it's always bittersweet to remember the early days. Snips and snails and puppy dog tails. *Sniff*  They just grow up so fast.

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•  Oh look, yet another convention cancellation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less than two weeks before the convention.  Once again, it was Jared.   And look at the use of the word "gutted" by the Jib account, intended to be a direct reference to Jared's tweet over the alleged "prequel-gate" nonsense.  A big clue that his cancellation was scripted to happen. 

There was some blah-blah nonsense about film delays being caused by COVID (how many positive outbreaks has that set had, anyway?), filming is running behind, and so forth and so on. Supposedly filming three episodes at once, boy, the Walker set was just in a frenzy of filming and executive producer Jared couldn't take a few days off for a commitment that is made annually?  Not only that, but for a commitment where fans saw this convention previously cancelled several times due to what?  Due to COVID restrictions and risk.  

 

And of course, there was the fan police to scold the fan who was understandably upset over the cancellation.  

 

 

According to a good handful of employees, ahem, I mean fans, Jared couldn't leave filming due to COVID-caused delays, and the show had to film three (3) episodes at once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three (3) episodes at once!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who started this COVID reason anyway?  Why do these three guys (Jared, Jensen & Collins) always have flaky multi-stories floating around?  The more confusion, the harder it is to determine the truth, perhaps?  Oh look, Jared "clarified" things during one of his Zoom call-in's at JIB.

 

 

 

The hospital could only be reserved for three days (I thought it was abandoned? lol) and those three days fell all around and over JibCon12.   Darn the luck.  So much for Jared Padalecki being an Executive Producer in charge of schedules. 

 

What power does executive producer have?

Television. In television, an executive producer usually supervises the creative content, plans and schedules the filming with the producer and team and may be involved in the financial budgeting of a production.

 

Pardon Narnia if we raise our eyebrows yet again with this crew.  And we can't help but smirk at this tweet:

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We don't have all day to work with all of these "leads".  Perhaps as time goes on, it might become more clear what road Jared and Jensen are on as far as these too-frequent cancellations are concerned, but at this point, they are happening too often with "filming" and "scheduling conflicts" given as reasons. Their track record for stunt-related convention cancellations speaks for itself. 

Filming three episodes at once, abandoned hospital limited for filming...yet somehow, Jared managed to work in a couple of Zoom call appearances to the Jib convention panel stages.  One of the calls was even in the middle of his day - around 11 a.m. in the morning.  Right smack dab in the middle of the day.  In one video, he appeared during Collins' panel on Saturday (gee, that makes so much sense, doesn't it, with Collins? *eyeroll*) and in the other, on Sunday with guest Adam Rose (who appeared on Supernatural twice) and Ruth Connell.

So, the show runner(s) of JibCon could have worked out at least on one of the days to give the fans a Jared appearance on one of co-lead Jensen's panels, but apparently no can do!  Nope!  Stands out like a sore thumb, doesn't it?  

Seems to us at Narnia that an old wooden roller-coaster is more stable than these stories from Jared, Jensen, Collins, and Co. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• All of this being said, this particular question and answer posed to/answered by Jared and Jensen during their recent Washington D.C. Convention was very interesting, if you are paying attention.  Because both of their answers for the other partner was a direct contrast to their public images when asked if they could write a role for the other, what would the role be? (the question/answer starts at 15:30 in this You Tube video)

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See what they did?  Jensen, who their team portrays as anything but a father figure, desired by all, working all the time, away from his children - Jared would like people to see him portray a dad.  And Jared, who their team portrays as this highly volatile, fragile, "big dumb friend" of Jensen's - Jensen would like people to see him as intellectually driven.  I do think fans have been very gullible to fall into these PR team traps.  Although both men have gleefully at times, played right into those roles, so...which comes first, the chicken or the egg?  It's really a bad carnival ride that doesn't ever stop.

 

•  And one more note to end on, back to our other previously mentioned couple.  One, an old/unseen photo of Austin popped up.  On Tumblr, of all places.  

And with him in the middle is Wimbledon co-star Paul Bettany and on the left is another former co-star from the same movie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.   You always wonder who the account holder really is when you see a never-before-seen photo like this because it's a personal one.  If you notice in the photo, there is a partial glimpse above of other photos, they look like they could be of Austin as well.  Interesting, interesting...

And his other half, Mr. Jakers, is letting everyone under the sun know that filming has allegedly begun on his latest film, the remake of Roadhouse.

Filming has begun!  Day One!  Why was it trumpeted so? 😉

 

Is that a current pic of Jake?  We here at Narnia are just wondering. 😉  That's his director Doug Liman he's posing with.  What's more interesting, is where they're supposed to be filming - the Dominican Republic.   For any longtime Jaustinites, that small country rings a bell because it is where the uber private Tortuga Bay Resort is located and where Jake & Austin are believed to have spent time together.  

The Dominican Republic is also the only place where the stone larimar is found.  Like the larimar stone in Austin's ring, dubbed "Big Blue" by the Grand Poobah, Special K, herself.

Could there be some reminiscing and re-visiting going on in addition to some filming, eh???

Hopefully, they're not having a Lost Daughter re-enactment, but rather, one of these...

 

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