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This Just In!: Breaking News with Meg Cabot
| The latest on the Insatiable vampire invasion has been released.
For book previews and other Overbite goodies, please click here.
Overbite (the sequel to Insatiable), is scheduled to come out July 5. Is anyone else counting down the days?
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Julia Roberts's 'Duplicity' Comes in Third at the Box Office — Why?
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The actress gets great reviews for ‘Duplicity,’ her first big role in years. But does she still have star power?Julia Roberts | Today 11:40 am
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Usually when a big Julia Roberts movie opens, you expect it to rule the box office. And &q...[Read on] |
A Warning: The 2011 True E-Book Challenge Story
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Thanks to Juju at Tales of Whimsy, I’ve joined a challenge! If you haven’t heard of it (or more rightly, guessed) it’s the 2011 E-Book Challenge which is totally right up my alley.
A lot of the freebies on Amazon are romance novels. And I personal...[Read on] |
"Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind" -- THE MOVIE!!!
| These days, in the wild west of book promotion, a book video trailer is a very useful tool -- mine is up on YouTube, featured as "Book Trailer of the Day" in Shelf Awareness, a great independent publishing site, and entered in a contest for ForeWord Revie...[Read on] |
Booze Reviews: Jose Cuervo Silver
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Rating: ★★★★☆ I’d be lying if I didn’t say this was one of my top choices for clear tequilas.
A smooth, distinctive tequila, Jose Cuervo Silver is perfect for mixed drinks.* It’s masterful process of distilling the agave make for a hint...[Read on] |
Women & Wine - A novice's guide to learning how to find and buy wine that you love
| I've probably mentioned before that I'm one of the few people I know who love wine who take a picture of the label of every bottle with my cell phone that I'm interested in buying after I've tried a glass.
There's just too much information out there that...[Read on] |
Dissecting Amelia
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Amelia grossed about $ 4 million at about 818 theatres this weekend at the box office. Not that good. But the fact that it grossed almost $5,000 per screen even with the bad reviews shows that there is a desperate need for films that appeal to older w...[Read on] |
A Letter to My Life
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To the various things in my life that I would like to bitch about — because I can.
To my first condo: I cannot wait to move into you, I really can’t, but there are many things to do and buy and I lack either the knowledge or the time to accomplish e...[Read on] |
Women&Wine: A Novice’s Guide to Learning How to Find and Buy Wine
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I’ve probably mentioned before that I’m one of the few people I know who love wine who take a picture of the label of every bottle with my cell phone that I’m interested in buying after I’ve tried a glass.
There’s just too much information out ...[Read on] |
Booze Reviews: Stiletto Vodka
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Rating: ★★★★★ If the woman on the bottle doesn’t allure you, the taste will.
I recently got to try Stiletto Vodka this past weekend and after one sip I was hooked.
I’m not going to lie: this isn’t your run of the mill vodka. It’s t...[Read on] |
The Proposal tops Sex and the City
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This kind of snuck up on me. The Sandra Bullock film The Proposal has now surpassed Sex and the City in its domestic gross. Sex and the City earned almost $153 million and this week The Proposal passed $155 million and its still going.
Interesting.
I ...[Read on] |
The Proposal: To See or Not To See
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The Proposal, Sandra Bullock’s first movie in two years opens today on a little over 3,000 screens. That is a mega wide release. We are talking big mainstream Hollywood film release numbers. I haven’t seen the film. I tried but couldn’t get ...[Read on] |
Going Backwards
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It’s beginning to dawn on me that I have an unhealthy habit of picking up a series… out of order. I know, I know, it’s slightly blasphemous in some circles but I can’t help it. I see cool font on a spine or shiney cover with an intriguing plot and...[Read on] |
Is Hallmark the new Lifetime but for older women?
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I never used to watch anything on the Hallmark Channel. But lately it seems that they are doing some interesting movies of the week like the kind that used to be on network TV. I’m not saying that these are high drama or always even that good, but m...[Read on] |
Book Review: The Cinderella Deal
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Author: Jennifer Crusie
Pages: 288
Date Started: 9/22/10
Date Finished: 9/24/10
Simple Summary: Daisy and Linc are total opposites. Linc needs a fake fiance for the weekend to impress the university’s dean and thinks of Daisy. Unfortunately for Linc, to...[Read on] |
A Former Preschool Teacher Reviews Where the Wild Things Are
| There’s only one movie theater in the neighborhood where my boyfriend and I are living in New Orleans this fall, a single-screen old pile called The Prytania. This means, we haven’t been able to see every good-bad film that we ordinarily would, alread...[Read on] |
Reflections on the Observe and Report Date-Rape Controversy
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I’m traveling this week so there will be very few posts. Here is the piece I wrote for the Women’s Media Center on the date-rape controversy surrounding Observe and Report.
Rarely does a film incite responses as diametrically opposed as the new ...[Read on] |
Sad Broadway News: The Miracle Worker to Close
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Just read the news that The Miracle Worker starring Abigail Breslin and Allison Pill is going to close next Sunday. It didn’t get the greatest reviews, but a friend who saw it said the audience was full of girls who adored it.
I think it was hard to ...[Read on] |
What Happened to Sex and the City 2?
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When Sex and the City 2 opened last week it did $3 million on overnight shows from Wednesday (a 20% rise from the original), and the Thursday total was $14.2 million including the overnights. It also did decent business on Friday.
Then it sank and mana...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Films for the Feminist Classroom
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Check out this great new resource for gender studies professors and feminist facilitators, an online journal called Films for the Feminist Classroom. It's being edited and produced by the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Cultu...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Women missing on A.O. Scott’s list of great films
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This is just another reason why I have such trouble with the NY Times reviews. A.O. Scott put his subjective look at the “great” films from 2000 to now, and not surprisingly, only a lone female filmmaker (Claire Denis), and not one female centric ...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Jennifer's Body and feminism in horror flicks
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My colleague Alexandra Gutierrez reviews the much-anticipated Jennifer's Body and -- surprise! -- concludes that it's not a worthy heir to horror's feminist traditions
In their efforts to create a feminist horror film, [Diablo] Cody and [Karyn] Kusama ma...[Read on] |
BarkBuckleUP Reviews the 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4
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The 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4 has been reviewed by pet travel safety experts (and AskPatty.com partner & contributor) Bark Buckle UP and put to the test with Betty & Princess (dogs) on city streets, highways and dirt roads. In their two part video review, ...[Read on] |
Sofia Coppola Wins Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
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This is why awards matter.
When Somewhere premiered at Venice to mostly indifferent reviews it was pretty much dismissed as not as good as Lost in Translation which earned Coppola an Oscar Nomination.
Now a week later the film has gained some serious ...[Read on] |
Green car buying on a budget?
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It seems that everyone we talk to is on a tighter budget these days, and most of them tell us watching their pennies has become more than just a hobby. It doesn't matter whether it's groceries, clothing, or gas, we're all looking for the best deal whenev...[Read on] |
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