We Like Jake -- From USA Weekend

Now, with back-to-back Oscar-caliber movies, the actor with the difficult name is establishing himself as a marquee player who's willing to tackle bold subjects. (Maybe when they read his nominations, they won't trip over his name.) Next Friday, he stars as a third-generation enlistee who becomes an elite Marine sniper in Sam Mendes' "Jarhead." In December, he will appear opposite Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain," a tragic story about two cowboys who meet and fall in love in 1960s Wyoming.

"People will have problems with it," Gyllenhaal says. "But it's kind of hard to disagree with what the movie is saying. It's a story about people struggling with how to love each other."