I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today
Bad Moon? Bad Math? or Just Bad Work?
The current story that is spun back up is about Jake and Ellen Pompeo, but it's roots all the way back to 2002.
(And you wondered where they get the 10 years ago line)
The original version of this story came from an interview that was published way back in September 2002, and which according to Pompeo the “meeting” took place in March 2002, in a parking lot behind Joan's on Third. That was when Jake supposedly knocked on her car window in the parking lot, all nervous and shy. Then according to Pompeo he blurted out, "I just want to tell you that you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my entire life." At that point, Jake tried to run away. Of course Perez Hilton has a twist on it "Three weeks later they met at the audition for Moonlight Mile.
But guess what ... the whole thing... the whole story could not have happened. Why?
Because Moonlight Mile (then called Baby's in Black, and later Hello, Goodbye before officially becoming Moonlight Mile) was filmed in Massachusetts March and April of 2001!How do we know? It was all over the local papers in MA. And Pompero being a local from Everett (MA) there were additional tie-ins for all the stories.
"In April and May 2001, you couldn't walk down the street on the North Shore without hearing about the latest Dustin Hoffman or Susan Sarandon sighting. Hollywood had come to the North Shore to shoot a movie, and for a short period it seemed as though every neighbor knew someone who had met one of the stars. " (Boston Globe October 3, 2002)
There were stories in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and the Patriot Ledger about the movie production between March and the beginning of May that primarily took place in the North Shore towns of Gloucester, Marblehead, and Swampscott , with a few scenes shot in the South Shore coastal town of Cohasset.
"Murderous times: Dustin Hoffman will star opposite Sarandon and Jake....." in 'Baby's in Black' Set in the 1970s, the drama centers on ....a young man grieving over the death of his slain fiancee. Living with her parents (Hoffman and Sarandon), he causes concern when he is newly smitten by a woman who works in a bar owned by her boyfriend, who has disappeared. . . . " (Boston Globe March 11, 2001)
Including this one where Jake "popped by Salon Mario Russo at Louis, Boston the other day for a coiffing before being snapped for the June/July issue of Flaunt maggie. Jake was groomed by Mario himself and then was outfitted in Louis designer duds." [He] "is Flaunt-ing his stuff in the Disney flick with Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon, which continues to shoot all over the North Shore and Cohasset." (Inside Track, Boston Herald May 3, 2001.)
You want video? Here it is, with a cartwheel and a "ta-da"
If you go to You Tube and read the description they too say the filming was in 2001.
Need more proof?
Well remember the story of Dustin Hoffman encouraging Jake to go on the stage? Well that had to happen BEFORE he did. And when did Jake debut on the professional stage? March 2002 in London, where he joined Hayden Christensen and Anna Pacquin for This is Our Youth. Previews for the play were Mar 2nd -14th, and the play opened March15th and ran (with that cast) until April 20th. (Another tidbit you might not have known, Hoffman bought Jake a book on acting from a Marblehead (MA) bookstore, while they were filming. The book? `Stanislofsky on Acting'
So if Jake was in London March and April 2002 how did he knock on Pompeo's window?Hmmmm.....
Now why create a story like that in the fall of 2002? Well maybe to boost up the love story in the movie that debuted that September.
But what else happened in 2002? Jake met Austin, and while things had been casual about Jake prior to that, 2002 was the beginning of a more concerted effort to give him romantic stories that were far from the real romance that was happening in his life.
Why? Maybe because it looked obvious from the get go with the guys, this was different, this was something serious, this was no flirtation and those around them knew it.
Why is it being re-tread now? Because Pompeo is with WME and Jake is still with Austin? Or is it easier and less complicated to link back to the past , and avoid the situation of a complicated faux in the present and future?
And you gotta wonder what Austin wrote in his movie journal about this movie.
Thanks to M&M, Boston Public Library, Minuteman Library Network, Old Colony Library network for assistance in research & access to free newsbanks. And IHJ for pictures.