“Hunger Games”: Read This Great Book Before You See the Movie
As far as fitting a novel that was about 200 pages into a 2 hour movie I think it did the book justice.
The movie showed all of the important main events from the book and also included some of the details that made people fans of the book—Katniss’ relationship with her younger sister and the way she feels about the other person from her district, Peeta.
But for someone who didn’t read the novels it can be confusing.There is vocabulary in there that has to be explained.
Overall I would recommend reading the book before seeing the movie to have a clear idea of what is going on.
If you still want to see the movie go here to find more show times.
“Hunger Games”: Read This Great Book Before You See the Movie
As far as fitting a novel that was about 200 pages into a 2 hour movie I think it did the book justice.
The movie showed all of the important main events from the book and also included some of the details that made people fans of the book—Katniss’ relationship with her younger sister and the way she feels about the other person from her district, Peeta.
But for someone who didn’t read the novels it can be confusing.There is vocabulary in there that has to be explained.
Overall I would recommend reading the book before seeing the movie to have a clear idea of what is going on.
If you still want to see the movie go here to find more show times.
One Direction: Straight to the Top
The album “Up Al Night” is great. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys pop music and cute boys.
To me the best song is “Same Mistakes” because it is different from what they usually sing and slow and guaranteed to make you cry and feel their pain.
One Direction is a British boy band consisting of Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Liam Payne. They placed third in the seventh season of “The X-factor.” They released their first single “What Makes You Beautiful” in September 2011.
I Like the Dalai Lama’s Laugh
The man’s giggle is seriously infectious. I’m in Newark for the Peace Education Summit (you’ve never seen so many long haired sandal wearing men on New Jersey Transit so early in the morning).
Here are a couple of highlights of his Holiness’ message of peace for Newark (and the world).
“I am happy, very, very happy to be here,” his Holiness laughed. He smiled at the audience and revealed that his freedom with smiles has cast suspicion on him in other parts of the world. “Whenever I meet someone I always smile,” his Holiness said. “One occasion in Germany, one day a young lady I see from my car. I smile and a young lady got more suspicion. She said who is this strange person smiling at me.” But he smiled any way and that is the key to starting to encourage happiness in the world. “You must open your own gratitude, honesty and friendship. Honesty brings trust. Trust brings friendship. Friendship brings happy moments and creates happiness for life,” his Holiness said. “Any goal, anything should be realistic. If it is realistic then you will reach goal that you want you will achieve. So in order to have a realistic approach you must know the reality fully,” his Holiness said. “You must be objective. If you have a calm mind then you can investigate and then you can be objective.” He added, “Peace of mind and wisdom is something you cannot buy. It comes only from your own effort…to have a happy society we must be active. Through action we can change our society.” His Holiness punctuated his talk with another belly laugh. “That’s all…I think. Thank you.”
Pulling The Goalie For Fame
Top Ten Charlie Sheen Quotes From Monday
Charlie Sheen continues to be the media gift that keeps on giving.
I wrote three stories about him today alone.
As he glad handed his way from NBC to ABC to TMZ and anything else with a three letter abbreviation he spewed out some gems for the ages. We all have our favorites. Let’s get some t-shirts made.
1. “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it once you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.”
2. On curing his addiction: “I closed my eyes and made it so with the power of my mind.”
3. “Sorry my life is so much more bitchin than yours. I planned it that way.”
4. “I’m extremely old fashioned. I’m a nobleman. I’m chivalrous. I believe that chivalry is not dead, it’s just been in a coma for awhile.”
5. On whether he regrets his kids learning about his drug use. “Talk about an education. This and that’s the guy, and that’s our dad and we can get the answers and the truth. WINNING!”
6. On his war with CBS: “Defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock.”
7. “I don’t know what I did wrong except live a life you’re all jealous of.”
8. “Rock bottom is like a fishing term.”
9. On Ambien: “It’s a bad drug.”
10. “If you follow my plan, everybody wins.”
Alas, Fall/Winter Fashion Week came to a close last Thursday and I am just becoming human (clean apartment, regular yoga, drinking things other than Frappaccino and Skinny Pepsi) again.
But I loved the project I worked on for FW, my series for the Wall Street Journal on the unsung heroes of Fashion Week, from the man who lifts the tents, the dapper guys who toss out gatecrashers, the woman who herds celebrities over to Darryl Nipps who carries a Ziplock bag of nude thong underwear when he dresses models, the professional golfer who checks coats all day, the ice sculptor who prayed it wouldn’t get warm and the man who powders the models breasts (for which Jezebel called me creepy).
I was sitting in the director’s booth at Nicholas K. with Kelly Cutrone when a model ate runway. Kelly was pissed. I got to chat with NPR about the whole thing, which totally gave me this weird nightmare where Terry gross asked me a question and I got tongue-tied. I was not actually interviewed by Terry Gross.
All in all, this was my favorite fashion week piece since that time I live blogged the Marc Jacobs show and snuck into his after-party with a trannie. This was different.
This week I am doing a series of posts for the Wall Street Journal’s Metropolis blog about the unsung heroes of fashion week. Not the designers, not the models and not the girls with the clipboards, the real folks who make the magic happen. Come with me. I promise it will be a pretty good time.
