Jake batted his baby blues at the Producers Guild Awards the other day. The nice thing about Jake is he's also got brains to back up his good looks. He and Maggie both went to Columbia University where they were crafty enough to finagle a class with Uma Thurman's dad who is a professor of Eastern philosophy at the university (how random is that?). Evidently Uma's pop is pretty tough - but Jakey says he and his sis are too. Here's more:
"The first class I took was Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism," he says, "My sister and I took that together; she was a senior when I was a freshman. And the first thing Professor Thurman says is 'All freshmen, out.' Maggie grabs my arm and says, 'Stay.' I whisper, 'He said freshmen out!' She's like, 'Yeah, yeah.'...So then he says, 'Sophomores out.' Then, 'All Juniors not majoring in Eastern religion, out.' And by now, I'm saying to Maggie, 'I've got to go!' She just kept telling me to stay."
"Eventually, he got through seniors-and she said, 'Now go up and talk to the TA. Beg him.' So I went up and begged and the guy said, 'Of course, no problem. The other people were just stupid and they left.' So we took that class, and it was wonderful. Maggie just knew. She's tough!...We're both pretty tough."
It's so cute that he and Maggie are that close. We always love hearing stories about the two of them together. For more pics just read more
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lol that was funny:P
1AWWW...so cute that they love spending time with each other!
2I love them.. and if given the chance I would like to express my love to him personally.
3lol Ima
4Talk about a scare tactic! Nuts!
5That is stupid. Why would you leave the class? You paid for it.
6how cute the are the gyllenhaal sibs?
7it was scarey yet funny:P
8uma's dad is pretty much the preeminent eastern religions prof. in the country; he's even met the dalai lama a bunch of times. that's where uma karuna thurman's name comes from.
9interesting, thanx for the info slashy!
10good story!
@ Ima
11reminds me of this proff, some students decided not to attend the final and they came back the next day they had a flat tire, he was like ok no problem il give you the test tomorrow instead.. so the next day he gave each of the 3 students the paper with one question and he was supervising the class, the question was which tire was it? loool
12I love that story. I love the professor's sneaky manner of making sure all his students REALLY wanted to be in the class, and I love how Maggie made Jake stay in class.
13yes it was cute:P
14glad to help out, fantasia! my dad is a retired columbia prof so i met thurman once or twice. never uma, though. i was a columbia brat; not only was my dad a prof, but my mom was his student!
15prof thurman is SO fab. he visited my college and spoke and was inspiring. like this story from jake, he was very playful. during his speech i recall he refered to uma a few times in a candid way like we all knew her (we did -- at least her public persona), and not in a bragging way, but a personable way. he ROCKS. i live very close to columbia u and now i totally want to see if he is giving any public lectures any time soon...
16slashy hehe wow!
17good looks? I have never found him to be attractive...
18They're cute.
19I've seen Prof. Thurman interviewed on TV and he seems so worldly and wise. Uma must have had quite a remarkable upbringing.
20That's a cute story.
21That just makes me want to be friends with those two even more! They both seem like they'd be fun, normal people to hang out with.( Loved her in Stranger Than Fiction.)That's the close, loving relationship with my younger brother I never had-haha.
22It's cool how Jake & Maggie are so close!
23i love these two, they're like cool bffs!
maggie must be such a cool older sis for jakey - he's always going on about her. that's nice.
oh ima, u are hilarious!
but atleast you speak the truth!
24Jake = bedhead. Like Jake and Maggie, he needs a haircut.
25That's a really cute story and it's great that they're so close. Reminds me of myself and my little brother.
26HE IS ADORABLE!!! LUV HIM
27too much cuteness
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