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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...
...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...
Instead of being a person able to walk into Bungalow and perhaps make a casual acquaintance or recognize a familiar face, Jessica walks in, downs her cocktails, and remains in her bubble. She makes sure to show off her Cavalli dress and perhaps say hello to fellow superstars Jake Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst. When she leaves, she is hurried into a deep tinted “inconspicuous” large SUV and driven back to her hotel where she takes the back entrance to avoid paparazzi staking out the front entrance...
Adam P. Schneider ’07, a Crimson associate magazine editor, is a government concentrator in Quincy House. For the rest of the summer, you can catch him scouring the star maps in his native Santa Monica and getting arrested for continuing to stalk Jake Gyllenhaal...