Second, I detest her half-baked politics. She gives middle-class liberals a bad name. I loathe her hypocrisy, her cowardice. She cringes far too easily. Her mental laziness repels me, and so does her preference for image over substance. She’s left her intelligent daughter struggling in her shadow and her son—who’s more his father’s son than hers—almost completely bewildered when it comes to women.
And yet! And yet! She and I have something in common.
I’ve kept this item in my Shared Files from a Martha’s Vineyard web newspaper for a couple of years now:
What womanly heart would not be stirred by tenderness for a such a man?
Possible Dreams Auction in Martha’s Vineyard (The Island’s Helping Hand Since 1961) under Auction Category—Celebrity:
There will be no sand in the sandwiches...when you and your guests join director Stephen Gyllenhaal for one of his family’s favorite pastimes—sandcastle building and a beach picnic in Chilmark. Stephen has sandcastle building secrets that will be revealed only to you! You will learn to build spires that rise four to five feet high, steps that a tiny person can actually climb, balconies, windows, and bridges. In short, a real castle that will draw everyone on the beach before your masterpiece is complete!
There was a moment back in 1973—a moment I’m probably going to be spending the next few years trying to pinpoint—when Stephen, Naomi and I, though coming from vastly different backgrounds, worked within such close proximity to each other (at 1 Lincoln Plaza, me at ASCAP, Naomi on the staff and Stephen freelancing at CTW) that a chance meeting in an elevator could have made all the difference in the course of our lives.
I was eighteen. I wasn’t ready to be his mother-substitute then, but I am now.
GET THE GOODS ON THE INDIE WORLD. GET CANTARANEWS.
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Go for it, girl!
You can see one of Stephen's sandcastles in a photo in "The Day After Tomorrow".
Her "story" of Jake's mother on her blog is very subjective, and she couldn't possibly have "been there" during that time period unless she's lied about her age. Large grain of salt needed.
http://ohmygodot.blogspot.com/2008/10/movie-magic-mystery-and-madness.html?showComment=1223157540000#c6869407252969367647
Re cantara, yea, my 6th sense says something is up there. Even back at the time of the jake watch fiasco, something seemed off about the way she wrote about Stephen. She was way too interested in him. Whether he reciprocated is unknown.
http://ohmygodot.blogspot.com/2008/02/g-i-jake.html?showComment=1202962380000#c2034887485468998447
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