Sunday, October 18, 2020

Sunday Musings: The Swiss Cheese and Happy Clouds from OTP-Land Pt. 1

2020 is the kind of year when you never know what's around the corner.

 

lol, the spin on that dog...and isn't that just like a cat?  I sometimes watch a cat who bats his sister just like that.  

But enough about cats and their batting ways!  As we were saying, 2020 has been a year already and right now, we don't ever know what's coming around the corner.  Here are a few of Narnia's recent eyebrow raisers though, in no particular order.

• Before we get down to the down and dirty, real quickly, first - let's start off with a chuckle raiser.  Nothing has made me smile this year like the Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce saying "rollercoaster tycoon".

 

 

And thanks to Travis and Google, I now know that Rollercoaster Tycoon is a video game. πŸ˜‰

 

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And now for the Swiss Cheese Nods of the past couple of weeks.  In other words, these stories and narratives from PR teams are shot full of holes.  


 

 

 

 

 

• Narnia's first slice of Swiss cheese for the snack tray -

 Which one of these Chiefs players is not on the current starting squad, wasn't on the starting squad for the 2019 playoffs or Superbowl, yet once again made the practice squad (fourth season in a row) for the 2020 season?  Here he was joining Chiefs starters as they all wished the Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes  birthday greetings?  We'll give you one guess.

 

 

Dieter was signed by the Chiefs in 2017 as an undrafted free agent.  Since that time, he has signed, been released, resigned, waived, etc. ever since. From Pro Football Reference, this is the breakdown of the roster changes:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting, isn't it?  In 3 1/2 NFL seasons, Gehrig Dieter has appeared in six (6) games, all six confined to two seasons (2018, 2019), and has one regular season pass reception of 22 yards and one playoff reception of 11 yards, in addition to special teams play.  

But he has an abundance of social media "air time", as noted above in the Happy Birthday video to the point where one assumes he must be on the regular starting roster instead of the practice squad:

 

The following extensive baby announcement was made on October 5, after he had been cut by the Chiefs and nine days before being signed to the practice squad, yet again.

 

 

Tweets which acted like he was on the Super Bowl squad, when he wasn't - he was on the practice squad.


At the Super Bowl (even though there are a certain number of practice squad players who accompany the team in case of injury), hanging with the first squad-ers.

 

 

This Chiefs Training Camp 2020 video even though again, he did not make the regular roster:


This is but a wee bit of sampling, but you get the drift.  Get used to his name around these Narnia parts because he seems to be destined to be around for an extended time.

 


 

 

 

 

 

• Our second slice of Swiss Cheese

By the end of September, it would appear members of the Gyllynicholsgaard Squad are possibly already moving into position in preparation for October 17, Baby Tile #1 Son's birthday.


Austin appeared out of nowhere, allegedly motorbiking through the Ozarks (from Texas) and we're supposed to notice how he's recklessly passing on a double line.  You don't reckon he could possibly be a father by driving so recklessly and laissez-faire, do you?  And so who was in the truck filming???

 

And then by the next day, Austin was in Michigan along with the bro-in-law and nieces and nephew (with no sister Ashley in sight).

 


 

 

 

 

 

• Our third slice of Swiss cheese:

 From the other side of the Gyllynicholsgaard family, here was Maggie bike riding with ex-husband Peter while she's supposedly filming The Lost Daughter in Greece.  Rather interesting, isn't it, to be riding a bike while wearing a long, billowy gauze dress?  Maybe this was a deleted scene from Il Postino??


Earlier, here was Twitter telling us on September 28 that Maggie was going to be tied up filming her directorial debut for 28 days,

 
 

"The shoot is expected to last 28 days."

28 days?


 

 
 
But...October 17?!!  What about...what about Baby Tile's ascension into teenage-hood on October 17???  Why, that means Aunt Maggie would miss this most momentous milestone birthday! Why, I...I...

Ohhhh....


 


 
 
Shhhhh, we get it now!  πŸ˜‰

 


 

 

 

 

 

• Our fourth slice of Swiss cheese

Goes to the trio of marketer Jacquelyn Dahl and her star client Patrick Mahomes for staging an engagement AND a baby announcement (not in that order), with "high school sweetheart" Brittany Matthews. Both of these stories coming during a global pandemic as well as the NFL football season.  Dahl knows how to stage a splashy headline on the heels of spotlight events.  Take the engagement, for example.  When did this usually personal and private life event take place?  The same night that the Chiefs team received their Super Bowl rings at Arrowhead Stadium, an event that was live streamed on You Tube by the Chiefs.  And so what was a team event became a personal event for the star QB1.  Here below was one of the stadium suites "decked out" for the moment.


Complete with a video of the special moment and photos provided by and credited to a professional photographer.


As you can see at the bottom, giving a business plug while they were at it:


This People.com, TMZ and social media feedbag was followed  by a Thursday Night game with the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 28, a competition that was touted and lauded as a Mahomes vs. 2019 NFL MVP Lamar Jackson duel for the ages.  Both teams were undefeated.  Well, Lamar Jackson came up short under the pressure and Patrick had an excellent game; he had never looked sharper.  Number 15's performance was topped off on the field with another Patrick digital countdown captured by the cameras, this one meant as a smack on the hand to the rest of the league's players for ranking him 4th on the NFL Top 100 Players poll.

 

Yes, we agree, Patrick.  It was indeed a quite questionable ranking.  But what wasn't needed was Brittany Matthews returning to her tasteless social media ways, ones which are a poor reflection on an organization which seems to pride itself on professionalism.  We apologize to our readers for the NSFW and offensive gesture, but one has to wonder why this kind of behavior is not reined in by anyone, particularly Patrick, who's supposed to be "the face of the NFL".

 

 

Aah well, what do we know about public relations and marketing?  Amazingly, the very next day, after the big win and that "pristine" flip-off move, the following announcement was made, 

LOL! From flipping the bird to the NFL masses to Glamour Shot.  So after a couple of seasons of this,
 

 

and more helpings of such, 


to lace and baby blue.  See how that's done?


 

after allegedly spending seven years together and becoming betrothed, a "detour" is made?  During a pandemic?  But it's because of a pandemic, that some Hollywood "couples" have decided it's the perfect time to suddenly become pregnant or spring "Guess what, I had a baby!" news on their fans.  For some, like actress Michelle Williams, it means they don't need to be seen and don't have to worry about a Beyonce baby bump fail.

 


 

 

 

 

An announcement can be made and the parties don't need to be saddled with pap walks.  Of course, baby bump pictures are still a must, however, so Instagram is the way they are distributed.  With Instagram, the pictures are under the publicist/celebrity's control. The lighting is perfect, perhaps black and white is used to help hide manpulation, and much decreased chance of a visual slip up.

Perhaps Narnia's fave Travis can provide more heads-up tips in the future, like he did back in August when he seemed to be providing a winky-wink to the future.  Listen to him at 00:04, when he addresses Patrick.

 

 

"How're the wife and kids?"

Ha!  Not exactly low key, was it?  That was too easy! Next time, maybe not so obvious.  Besides, it doesn't look like Patrick was quite seeing the funny in that joke. πŸ˜‰



 



 

 

 

 

• One more slice off of the brick of Swiss Cheese goes to double-winner, Maggie Gyllenhaal, for her and WME's use of brother Jake to help draw attention to her movie, The Lost Daughter, which was or has been filming in Greece.  How did she do that, you might wonder?  When a meme theme keeps running through Jake's social media search of how much he looks like an actor named Oliver Jackson-Cohen.  



This particular tweet even shoehorned a Narnia subject (from 2018, mind you!) from years past, Calgon "Caglar" Ertugrul, into the tweet. This is a good time to mention that our 2018 post about Calgon (and how Jake's people used this "doppelganger" theme to flood Jake's twitter search with a fake meme) as you can see now, somebody went through and deleted alot of Calgon's Instagram content that we had used for evidence.  LOL!! Talk about Swiss cheese.  They riddled that post with deleted pictures.  But that's okay.  It was a tough lesson to learn and this author knows better now. 

and one more for good luck (although this isn't even a tip of the iceburg of how many tweets there are like this),
 
In all languages, with all sorts of "photographic evidence" of the incredible "likeness", all the while repeating Cohen's name over and over and who is in Maggie's movie, The Lost Daughter?   Oh, that's right, Oliver Jackson-Cohen.  Big Sis once again using her brother for clicks and future paying viewers.  

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And finally, since it's no secret that I have commented on Spn Goss since 2014, where I was first drawn to do so after the "shoulder injury" stunt at JibCon and driven to share my own thoughts, unpopular as they were.  It's always been a hate-hate relationship, lol.  But when one can't even admit when a picture is clearly photo-shopped, one should question what's going on.  It started with my comment regarding the news of Genevieve Padalecki joining Jared's new show Walker and playing his late wife, which led to the accusation by one of the posters who said my belief that Jensen and Jared were the ones really raising the children, was "far from reality". 

And if the belief is that "far from reality", then why does their team need to photo shop the ladies into "family photos"? Seems like a reasonable question, right?  This photo right here which was discussed in our post, Step Up to the JibCon Bar - Denials for Everyone! from May 2019,


Which, if you look at it on a cell phone or Ipad, you are probably going to miss that it is indeed photoshopped.  Let's take yet another look at Danneel's two hands where the conjoining of two different people's hands/fingers is taking place.

 

And I'm clearly told by a photoshop "artist" that I couldn't have been more wrong that the photo above was a composite:


" 'no, dude. Just no."   Oh?

 


LOL!  But then, it got even better when a long-time nemesis also told me how bad my eyes were, I guess.


 


 "They were posing for a happy family bearding picture, of course the beard is going to be in it."  

 

 

lol.  Oh, she was "in it" alright.  Like a Colorform®.


Well, this post could go on into the night, but it's been going on long enough.  After all, we've got even better and certainly more gentle "stuff" in Part 2.  On to the gentler sharing, yes, let's do that. 

 

For Part 2, you can click right here.

 

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                      A Whole New World - Zayn Malik and Zhavia Ward

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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Please Be Kind and Recycle: The Padalecki's and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Doing Their Part


Well, a couple of Narnia's faves were in entertainment announcements recently and both parties could be said to be making Green-minded decisions.  What do I mean by that?  

• Recycling -

 

Hoping to capitalize on the release of a trailer for Denis Villeneuve's new film Dune, Jake's publicist will not pass on a chance to associate her client's name with the current top trend.  In this case, we have word that Jake is also now working with Denis, who was his director for Prisoners and Enemy.   You remember Denis, set up via interviews to have likely been the "co worker" in Ted's Blind Vice:  Toothy Gets Slutty With Room Service:

"T2 had the nerve to not exactly discreetly hole up in a fancy hotel room recently with a co worker.  From one of his movies no less." - eonline March 23, 2012. 

And according to Jake, now in 2020, they're working on a "secret project".  Sometime.  Some day.  In the future.  If you can't say anything definitive about the project though, why is there an "announcement" on a "some day", "secret" project?  

As opposed to this announcement which quietly came one day after the Denis hint-hint:


via Deadline. 

The Guilty will shoot in November in a single location in Los Angeles, following rigorous sanitation and safety protocols. The production has secured COVID-19 insurance. - Deadline

 

*WARNING: The Guilty Movie Spoiler* 

Certainly the details provided in the Deadline article look 100% more definitive and out-in-the-open than the Denis "secret project". 

Regarding this newly announced film of Jake's:  don't be deceived by the seemingly "innocent" description of the movie, The Guilty, a flick which, according to Wikipedia in this total synopsis, is a "crime thriller".  If you were to have read the tweets, it sounds intriguing, everyone loves a crime thriller right?


Well, without going into detail, but knowing this is a giveaway anyway, again Narnia warns of a *movie spoiler*.   

An unexpected death which occurs in a screenplay which shows no redeeming quality as it is, looks to be a driving force for Jake and his people to accept this role.  The cause behind the death sounds like too many real-life story headlines on a Yahoo or Daily Fail news page, the more gruesome and tragic, seemingly the more desired.  In this case, it's the identity of the character who dies which seems to be highly suspect.  Shock value.  

This follows a long trend of movie roles for Jake since signing with WME/Endeavor, which promote him as "drawn" to the "dark and edgy", the OTT, the "chaotic", the "slimy and sleazy", along with the repetition of death, broken relationships, and loss of spouse. 

In other words, the roles, the scripts, the press junket questions and interviews, and the magazine covers commonly center around how he doesn't have children, wishes he had children, and is ready to have children, although at the present time, he is not a father. Who could forget this moment on the show with enabler Willie Geist, Sunday Today?  Right at :30.

 

"You know...I am not a father."  - July 2019

Obviously, it was of utmost importance to Jake's publicist that he make this public statement "for the record".  And he obliged quite emphatically.  

Too bad we have an entire Masterpost,  Jake, which is comprised of overwhelming and impossible-to-deny clues that you have and continue to blow into a Canadian wind.

And now with the plot twist in his future movie, it seems Jake and his team keep wanting to take it up a notch in the hope of trying to prove he couldn't possibly be domesticated and enjoying raising a young family. All Narnia can say is,

 







 

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And then, there was this announcement a couple of weeks ago.

 


This was a mostly unexpected turn of events; beard Genevieve Cortese Padalecki seemingly unable to let go of Jared's coattails, will be appearing in his new show, Walker - playing his deceased wife. 

She had already appeared in his previous show, Supernatural.  There was also that guest stint at the Supernatural Jus in Bello fan convention in 2016, where she served a dual role as major-occupant-of-Jared's-time, freeing up Jensen so that he and Misha Collins could feed the Destiel/Cockles fans with their annual pandering show.  Fans also saw Cortese on the red carpet at the anniversary episode parties of Supernatural.  Charity events. Running marathons. Hockey games. Blogs and podcasts.  Instagram overload.  Even inside the walls of the Texas Capital while advocating for David's Law in 2017 - how many of these people knew of the pretense going on here?



"Wife" "Mother"  "Wife" "Mother"  "Wife" "Mother".  

 

10+ years of sandwich-boarding "Wife of" and "Mother of Jared's children".


With Supernatural ending and a new chapter beginning for Jared, one would think there wouldn't continue to be a need for.....oh.


LOL!!!

Yep, there she is again!  Like an engorged tick.  How obvious is this?  The wedding band?  Not enough.  Three children?  Not enough.  

And get a load of this tweet reminder from Sept. 14.


That tweet was a split arrow.  1) Another reminder that hey, she's Jared's "wife".  But did you notice this one?  

2)  Management is also trying to bury this infamous, legendary slip of Jared's real SO, Jensen Ackles at a fan convention, after Jared commented that Jensen knew all the stars of the Supernatural show.  And Jensen replied to his cast mate that he could do one better than that.


 

Oh, yeahhhh.  He did that. πŸ˜‰

But, see how they do that?  Publicist teams love to take an organic, love-bandana shared between an OTP and duplicate a phony version with a beard, thus forever tainting the original and in some cases, switching up the Google search.

But, sorry Genevieve, your tweet is missing that ornery, telling giggle of Jensen's, you know that way he has when he knows he's done a naughty.  Like he did in 2017, in this deleted Instagram.



 

His face is just a crack up.

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Nonetheless, there we go.  Recycled and Repurposed Genevieve Padalecki.   But she's safe, right?  She knows Jared and Jensen's secrets. 

And while she will at times be in Austin, TX for the filming of Walker when her character is needed, will she and Jared also be storing up videos and photos, ones which the children can be manip'ed into, while they're under Jensen/nannies' care?  The tricky part will be whenever Jensen's new show The Boys, begins to film.  But Jake and Austin know all about making the situation of two filming parents work and undoubtedly could offer some sage advice.

Isn't it interesting however, that Jared taking this new lead role in Walker totally contradicts what he had said on a convention stage back in January 2018.

 

 

"I cannot wait to stop acting."

Huh.  Wonder what happened since 2018?  That was a pretty adamant statement he made, wasn't it?  At the very least, maybe he intended to merely take a break.  Instead, he signed on to take the lead role in another television series as soon as Supernatural was ending and only COVID-19 has delayed the filming until at least January 2021.

COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the deeply closeted entertainment artists, whose teams try to plan many of their roles or albums well in advance.  Concert tours and filming have been pushed back, many clubs and bars are closed, and the desperate ones are seen making repeated Just Jared posts leaving restaurants in masks and gloves.  Certainly not one's most glamorous look, but for those who feel they need to be seen and not forgotten, they're out there daily.

For those like Jared/Jensen and Jake/Austin who are not only deep, deep in the closet, but are raising a family together, it would appear their publicist teams feel that despite a global pandemic, it's as important as ever that fans be reminded and shown who the men are quarantining with and who they are not with.  

And one of the easiest, smartest and inner-circle-safe ways to do this is to recycle in their public lives those who already in-the-know and are more than willing to lend their name.  One thing to also remember is that most of those willing to help out?  Are hiding secrets themselves and this is a main reason why they're willing to lend a hand.  

So, we repeatedly will see some of the same faces, a kind of recycling, if you will.  πŸ˜‰

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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                     Feel It Again - Honeymoon Suite

                      

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