Word: jakes
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...Jake Steinfeld, whose L.A.-based company, Body by Jake, firmed up a generation of celebrities, launches business ventures as easily as he lifts weights. In his new book, I've Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked, and They've Got Nothing on You!, Steinfeld, 47, shares the secrets that helped him create FitTV (sold to Fox/Liberty Networks for $500 million) and Major League Lacrosse. Time lifted a fork with Steinfeld...
...always been a believer in parlaying success. You don't want to stay too long at one party. You have just a certain amount of jokes, and everyone thinks you're funny. But you stay too long, you don't get invited back. I didn't want to become Jake LaLanne...
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...Proof, about a woman whose life is almost the direct opposite of Paltrow's. She plays Catherine, whose years of caring for her mentally ill, math-genius father (Anthony Hopkins) have left her bitter, maybe nutso. After her father dies, she falls for a winsome former student of his (Jake Gyllenhaal) and gives him a brilliant mathematical proof that no one believes she has written...
Director John Madden is generous and fair to all but one of the lead actors. As Catherine's father, Anthony Hopkins gets at the heartbreaking semblance of clarity in a great mind gone astray. Jake Gyllenhaal, as a student who beds Catherine, has the cagey grace to make us both fond and suspicious of him. Hope Davis is Catherine's businesslike sister; it's a cold hand, stacked against her, in a movie that exalts intuition, that sees higher mathematics as no less an art than Beethoven's, and commerce as a craft no subtler than accounting...