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Esquire Magazine - December 2007

Esquire Magazine - December 2007

The December 2007 issue of Esquire celebrates “Performances of the Year” with two sexy covers circulating!

Cover stars: Denzel Washington from American Gangster, Cate Blanchett from I’m Not There, Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men, Robert Downey Jr. from Zodiac, Emile Hirsch from Into The Wild and Jake Gyllenhaal from Rendition.

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I like the cover and the actors.
My favorites are Denzel, Bob and,of course, Jake!
Unfortunately, for while, I watched only ZODIAC but to me the trio in the cover is enough!
Viva Gyllenhaal! Beside great actor, he´s still a greek god!

Sebastian @ 11/21/2007 at 1:41 am

oh no! he looks adorable on the cover,Jakey is the hottest.

I am delighted that Javier is finally being recognized for his great acting talent. No need to say anything about Robert Downey Jnr - always superb. But how can such a list not include Viggo (Eastern Promises), Chris Cooper (Breach) and the one and only Benicio del Toro (Things were lost in the Fire). Is it because they appeared in smaller films? And don’t believe that Esquire (which I read every month) doesn’t act under outside influences, in this case studio pressure for the upcoming awards season.

Boy do I hate those covers…..

They´re always aiming to look so casual and relaxed, but always come across loking posed.

(Jake is getting chubby)

Good for Cate this year she has to win the main AWARD (oscar). She’s in “I’m not there” and I saw “Elyzabeth the golden age” she was just great.
Why Jake G is on this cover?????????????

Phoenix Rendition got a lot better reviews than Elizabeth, so why shouldn’t Jake be on there.

Love the cover!! Amazing Actors!! :)))

talula says: Reese saw a paycheck in Jake. You know all that loving fakery ain’t cheap.

Geez, where’s your brain, talu? SHE is the one with the money; his movies don’t make much on average and he isn’t paid much. She getse 20 million a movie now; he got 3 million for Jarhead. In him she’s got a toyboy and a butler, nothing more.

Esquire is clearly under studio influence here. Nothing interesting about these choices.

Just me... @ 11/21/2007 at 7:13 am

My favorite are Denzel Washington…he’s amazing actors!!
He’s the only best on this cover!
Love You Denzel :D

The reviews for Rendition were mostly negative or mixed in the USA. In the UK and Canada the movie got mostly positive reviews and Jake’s performance was mostly praised. A big Italian newspaper “il Corriere della Sera” said that the performances in Rendition make the movie worth seeing and they praised Jake’s performance. There are other reviewers out there not just American.

remember da truth @ 11/21/2007 at 8:19 am

Famous, anyone who says “I seen” and “miscasted” automatically has their opinions made laughable and irrelevant! You obviously don’t have the common sense or education to discuss anything intelligently, so scram while the adults talk.

Recently saw Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls, the movie based on the memoir by exiled Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. He was FANTASTIC. I hope to see more films with Javier Bardem.

LOL! (aka Cristiane Vallim fan @ 11/21/2007 at 8:47 am

The third is a film that he has not seen the script for because it hasn’t been written yet; when it is written it will be by a woman who has never written a script before, and is only able to get support to do this because of who her father is. If he has not read the script yet, why does he want to do it; because he is a true actor or because he is just a cheap celebrity? Also the plot sounds ridiculous.

This relationship with Reese Witherspoon, real or not has put him in a bad light and contradicts the things that he has said in the past. He will never recover from it, I promise you! If he can’t even live by his own rules….. Reese Witherspoon is nothing. She is a bad actress and a bad mother. Her husbands’ side of the bed wasn’t even cold before she wheeled Jake in there to play happy families. She was a ‘has been’ before she hooked her name to his. His star was shining the brightest. Maybe she could command more money, but that just comes from being nice to the right people as we know. She doesn’t even have beauty on her side. Yet with her smoke and mirrors she tries to act like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth when she got married only because she was already pregnant with her first child. They want us to feel inferior to them when they are frauds (Do as I say not as I do). It has always been that way in Hollywood. I wouldn’t break wind over her or her movies. I don’t watch them and I never have. Before she hooked up with him, if you asked me to name an actress her name would not come into my mouth, really. I would name actresses from the 40s, never her.

He is now a member of the school of smoke and mirrors. His goal is to manipulate people so that he can get rich off them. This is the same school of thought that brought in the injecting of livestock in order to make them fatter so that they can get more meat off them and battery hen farming. It is the school of thought that has brought us mad cow disease and bird flu. This is the school of thought that creates goods that are only made to last a short period of time, in order to ensure that we the consumer are back in their filthy shops in a few months buying things that we can ill afford. I thought that he was one of us, but he is one of them. He has the mark of the beast on his forehead.

There is a war going on in this world and it is the war between good and evil. Jake had gone over to the dark side.

I thought that his family was decent. People from the 60s who wanted to make a difference, but in reality the 60s was a con. They sold us out and now it is just AT&T, Time Warner and AOL. Those who would not play ball ended up dead.

As I sit here with my pockets empty because I will not play their game (I will not have sex to keep my job, I will not help to destroy others, I will not manipulate), it has brought tears to my eyes to see a man that I respected go this way. He does not come from a poor background; he doesn’t have to play the game in order to have a roof over his head. In fact he could never work again and still live a life of luxury. It is insulting to someone like me who is suffering so much!

The people who are advising him in the school of smoke and mirrors do not care about him or his career. They care only about lining their own pockets. When they have squeezed as much cash out of his name and image as they can, they will toss him away like a soiled tissue and move on to the next person and then he can shed tears instead.

I live in Scotland and Rendition reviews here were not good. I only saw two or three but they all said pretty much the same thing (that it was a good movie to skip).

LOL! (aka Cristiane Vallim fan), wow you really sound insane.

I think the performances in Rendition were okay, some quite good. The movie didn’t do well in the USA because Americans don’t like to be reminded how evil their government is, that it tortures people. Americans always thought that only Nazis and Communists tortured people. Then they didn’t like they way it showed that the US is sleazy and dishonest and lying and when it wants to avoid torturing people here in the US for some reason it ships them where it knows they will be tortured, under its instructions. The movie shows what a despicable nation the US has become, and Americans want to believe they are wonderful and so on and so forth when they are NOT.

“but he [Jake] has yet to be brilliant in anything”!!

Oh come on, be sensible. He was great in October Sky, marvelous. And also in The Good Girl. He was not as good as Ledger in Brokeback but still very very good. You are silly and addle-brained to say that he hasn’t been good in anything. NONSENSE.

#63 LOL… I agree completely with you… I was a huge Jake fan before he got together with Reese. I see now that he’s with her that what I thought I knew about him was all wrong. He is as you say now a member of the school of smoke and mirrors. My heart was broken by it.

and for all those that say it is because I’m jealous or because I wanted him to be gay or whatever, that has nothing to do with it… I am simply so sad that he is not the person I thought he was.

It´s unbelievable like a person, who must not nominated, spend her precious time talking very very bad about a talented and gorgeous actor! In my opinion, basically, there is only one explanation… not correspondent crush!

That cover is effing insulting. Jake? Emile? Please.

Julianne Moore, Savage Grace? Viggo Mortenson, Eastern Promises? Julie Christie, Away From Her? Tang Wei, Lust, Caution? Casey Affleck, Eastern Promises? *ALL* far more critically acclaimed.

Who got paid for this cover?

Robert Downey Jr. is son of filmaker Robert Downey Sr. There is another nepothist in this photo too.

That is Hollywood at present full with son of film director like Jake Gyllenhaal…filmmaker like Robert Downey…actor John Voight father of Angelina Jolie…Kate Hudson daughter of actress Goldie Hawn, Drew Barrymore granddaughter of actor John Barrymore etc…It is a invation of relatives in their films!!! If we have oportunity to see this list of nepothism in this industry we must spend lot of time!

Look at the difference between Hollywood in the past and this industy at present. The film of Cate Blanchett!!! I like this actress very much and historic films too but I can’t watch this character more. Betty Davis did this character “Elizabeth” very well. In the past the writers of film haven’t fear to ask the teachers of history…The film “Land of Pharaohs” (Joan Collins and Howard Hawkins) por example. The writers ask the archeologists about this unknow period of history of Egypt. The most part of this film would be maked in studios! And look at the films today. The actors and actresses use the studios to have sex adventuries like Jake Gyllenhaal, Angelina Jolie etc. And worse the audience must pay for their sexual parties
not their films because they are a garbage! The profissional actors and actresses must make old characters and old themes like leathers of mafia, assaults, robbers carees…violents films! And later they must work in films whose mix pornography with normal films because the Hollywood industry would like win the competition against pornographic industy whose has lot of profit.
Hollywood must update! All this industry!

Leathers of Hollywood give a importance for people whose work hard. Ok! It is time to look the actress and actors whose have been working in theaters around the world. Forget their lovers and your sexual satisfaction. For you is a sexual satisfaction… for the audience is a permanent terror and feeling that we are fooling!!!

Aka can you open a blog. I have tryed but without success!

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