Girl meets boy (reluctantly), boy meets girl (willingly), first boy dies, second girl goes crazy (unrelated to first boy dying), and party of the first part and party of the second part fly back to America.

Let’s use our decoder rings, shall we? The first girl, (actually woman) is Vinnie Miner, a middle-aged professor of Children’s Literature who is flying to her beloved London to spend many months researching nursery rhymes through first hand observation. On the plane, she meets Chuck Mumpson, an apparent rube from Oklahoma. Vinnie dislikes Chuck and determines that he is not the sort of American she’d have anything to do with.

Fred Turner is a colleague of Vinnie’s who is also in London working on an academic project and trying to forget his wife, from whom he has recently split. Vinnie is also in a bit of a tailspin because her work has been criticized as inconsequential in Atlantic Monthly, by a professor who turns out to be Fred’s wife’s father! Coincidental, a bit, but no more so than Vinnie running into Chuck several times in London, until she decides that he really is an OK sort, (pun and double meaning intended). Although Vinnie begins to appreciate Chuck’s directness and inquisitiveness, she remains mildly embarrassed by him, even as she falls in love with him.

Fred, moving in the same social circles as Vinnie, meets a famous English actress several years his senior and begins a high-intensity affair with her. The friends, the social engagements, and the parties are amusing (for the participants and the reader) and Rosemary and Fred, in parallel with Vinnie and Chuck, seem to be falling in love. When Fred asserts that he can not stay in London beyond his intended return date, so he can teach summer school, Rosemary becomes incensed and behaves strangely to say the least. In fact, the double identity, crazy as a loon, desperation scene, strains the reader’s ability to suspend disbelief. Fred is bereft at his loss, but is shed of his enjoyable but inconvenient entanglement. He really wants to teach summer school!

Meanwhile, Vinnie, who is described as small (Miner, minor, children’s lit, get it?) and not attractive, begins to fret that she has not heard from Chuck, who went south to dig into his ancestry, having extended his trip to England to do so and to be with Vinnie, knowing that his wife won’t miss him. Vinnie’s insecurities surface and she fears that Chuck no longer cares, or never truly did. When she finds out that Chuck has actually died climbing  a flight of stairs in a home his ancestor once lived in, she is devastated and relieved at once. The scene in which she meets Chuck’s daughter, who is none too bright and who is in London to make arrangements, is one of the better moments in the novel.

Finally, Vinnie, having changed from the closed, self-contained, almost selfish person she is painted as earlier, takes on a final assignment in London. Through yet another convenient coincidence, Fred’s wife reaches Vinnie by phone, professes her love for Fred, and asks Vinnie to find him, deliver her message and facilitate their reconciliation. While Vinnie contemplates not complying as a way to indirectly strike at her literary tormentor, Fred’s father-in-law, the new and improved Vinnie thinks better of it and wanders out in the night to Hampstead Heath where Fred is attending a Druid walk with friends on his last night in London. Vinnie find Fred, after much wandering, delivers his wife’s message, and Fred and Vinnie head home – Fred to his wife and presumably happier times and Vinnie to an uncertain, but almost certainly brighter future, having seen and felt the good in herself and in Chuck.

Foreign Affairs is diverting and amusing, satirizing academia, movie stars, snobbery, extra-marital affairs and more. But there is no true emotional connection with these characters. Vinnie is not an especially appealing character around which to build a novel. Her strengths are not potent enough and her faults are not grand enough. We care a little, but not a lot, about Vinnie and the rest of the characters and  finally we don’t care much about the book. Read Foreign Affairs if you ever find yourself on a long flight to London, otherwise leave Vinnie and Fred to their own devices.

RogerRater Score: (1-5) 3.8

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You know, when this first came on the news, I thought so what, who cares. It’s none of our business and it shouldn’t be news. Tiger Woods! I figured something was up. Who’s driving like that in their driveway in the early AM like that but figured, hey, we all fight with our spouse from time to time. Leave him alone for heaven’s sake. Let them have a fight in private!

But, sadly we all know now, he’s messed up pretty good and I personally feel he’s a fool to have texted and left his voice on voicemail and sent emails. Even the great and powerful Tiger Woods can’t get past technology.

I didn’t really think to much of it until I watched The View this morning and pretty much all the ladies had a different view of things and it did leave me wondering what the heck!

One of them (Whoopie Goldberg) thought be it celeb, sports star, musician or movie star, all have a right to privacy and the right to live their lives the way they want to and they didn’t ask anyone to fall in love with them and choose them to model their life after. That no matter what, this is nobody else’s business. Okay, I agree with that.

Then another (Shari Shepard) said that being an athlete like this, many young kids watch him/them and emulate them and want to be like them so why would they break the moral laws of life and that they are setting a bad example to their young fans. Okay, I agree with that too!

Then another (Joy Behar) said she knows that if she wears a bikini to the beach, someone is going to take a picture of her big ass (her words, not mine) so she just knows better than to wear a bikini to a beach. She avoids it because she is a celeb and knows what will happen. Once again, I agree. I’m really flip flopping now!

These were the three main views and the other two (Barbara Walters and Elizabeth Hasslebeck) were a combination of all three. It took me back to when my boys had role models. They were Hershel Walker, Walter Payton, Bo Jackson, Michael Jordan and many MANY Viking players and baseball and basketball players over the years. While I think yes, these are just mortal men but I do have to say, I wanted them to be a good role model to my children. People who lived life right and obeyed the laws of man and God. But did they “owe” me that? Was it their “fault” my kids looked up to them? Did they “owe” them anything? We put them on a pedestal but was that our choice or theirs and if they chose this kind of life, should they be expected to behave in a certain way?

I do feel we are “owed” a little. It’s our money that’s going to pay for the tickets to watch them play. It’s our money going to buy their jersey’s or albums or whatnot. Do they owe nothing to society or are they just doing a job like you and I?

Do you feel that anyone, celeb or musician or athlete should have to behave in a certain way because young people are following them or do you feel they owe us nothing?

I’l tell you one thing, I wouldn’t want one of my kids or grandkids to have a Michael Vick jersey.

Ok, I’m tiptoeing back from being a bad blogger. Slowly. Here’s a beautiful man to help ease me back into the process.

Just gaze upon Streetcar-era Brando and forget all about my sins.

Hollywood! Now say that all musically and stuff….

In California right now. We got here yesterday at one o clock approx. Plane ride was a bit bumpy but not too bad. Our Captain’s name was Bob and somehow that amused me. Took a shuttle to our hotel, and it’s actually quite decent. The pool is a decent size as are our rooms.

We’re two blocks down form Hollywood Blvd. Therefore, the boy and I wandered around Hollywood Blvd a bit yesterday and looked at the stars prints at the Chinese Mann theatre. Meryl Streep has large hands and tiny feet. However, I have the same size feet and hands as Frank Sinatra. He was a tiny man apparently. And Johnny Depp.. well he’s got big hands and big feet.

Apparently the Kodak Theatre is attached to a shopping mall and I have no idea how I didn’t know that. Somehow, it’s changed my perception of the Oscars… seems much less glamorous now. The CNN Heroes award show was there last night hosted by Anderson Cooper. Didn’t see him though as we were there earlier in the day.

We wandered around for a bit and hunted down a tiny purse so I don’t have to carry my big bag round. Eventually found one, but everywhere was advertising Black Friday sales. Which, I will be in attendance at a few today. Good thing we’ve been working on checking in derby. Mwa haha….

Apparently on Thanksgiving a lot of places close… imagine that. Including In N Out Burger and California Pizza Kitchen, both of which I am hoping to have while here. So did Johnny Rockets instead. Had a chili dog and fries. Ryan had the Route 66 burger which is mushroom and swiss. Today, I hope to try In N Out… animal style. Didn’t end up having Thanksgiving dinner somewhere here. But that’s okay.

Came back to the hotel, tried to decide on a movie to see. The movie theatres here look fantastic… one of them even has a live show before it! We’re going tonight to one of them… just need to decide which one.

Anyways… must get ready and go out! It’s sunny and warm here. It’s lovely.

A girlfriend (thanks Angela/Debbie Reynolds) sent me this quiz in email the other day.

If you have a few extra moments to doodle about with a funny quiz over the holiday weekend, check it out.

There are only 10 questions so it doesn’t take long.

I took it and the result was this…

Number your paper from 1 to 10, then answer each question with the choice that most describes you at this point in your life , and then add up the points that correspond with your answers.

1. Which describes your perfect date?
a) Candlelight dinner for two
b) Amusement Park
c) Roller blading in the park
d) Rock Concert
e) Have dinner & see a movie
f) Dinner at home with a loved one

2. What is your favorite type of music?
a) Rock and Roll
b) Alternative
c) Soft Rock
d) Classical
e) Christian
f) Jazz

3. What is your favorite type of movie?
a) Comedy
b) Horror
c) Musical
d) Romance
e) Documentary
f ) Mystery

4.. Which of the following jobs would you choose if you were given only these choices?
a) Waiter/Waitress
b) Sports Player
c) Teacher
d) Policeman
e) Bartender
f) Business person

5. Which would you rather do if you had an hour to waste?
a) Work out
b) Make out
c) Watch TV
d) Listen to the radio
e) Sleep
f) Read

6. Of the following colors, which do you like best?
a) Yellow
b) White
c) Sky blue
d) Teal
e) Gold
f) Red

7. Which one of the following would you like to eat right now?
a) Ice cream
b) Pizza
c ) Sushi
d) Pasta
e) Salad
f) Lobster Tail

8. Which is your favorite holiday?
a) Halloween
b) Christmas
c) New Year’s
d) Valentine’s Day
e) Thanksgiving
f) Fourth of July

9. If you could go to any of the following places, which would it be?
a) Reno
b) Spain
c) Las Vegas
d) Hawaii
e) Hollywood
f) British Columbia

10. Of the following, who would you rather spend time with?
a) Someone who is smart
b) Someone with good looks
c) Someone who is a party animal
d) Someone who has fun all the time
e) Someone who is very emotional
f) Someone who is fun to be with

Now total up your points on each question:

1 a-4 ; b-2 ; c-5 ; d-1 ; e-3 ; f-6

2. a-2 ; b-1 ; c-4 ; d-5 ; e-3 ; f-6

3. a-2 ; b-1 ; c-3 ; d-4 ; e-5 ; f-6

4. a-4 ; b-5 ; c-3 ; d-2 ; e-1 ; f-6

5. a-5 ; b-4 ; c-2 ; d-1 ; e-3 ; f-6

6. a-1 ; b-5 ; c-3 ; d-2 ; e-4 ; f-6

7. a-3 ; b-2 ; c-1 ; d-4 ; e-5 ; f-6

8. a-1 ; b-3 ; c-2 ; d-4 ; e-5 ; f -6

9. a-4 ; b-5 ; c-1 ; d-4 ; e-3 ; f-6

10. a-5 ; b-2 ; c-1 ; d-3 ; e-4 ; f-6

Now, calculate your total and find out which Movie Star you are:

(10-17 points) You are MADONNA:
You are wild and crazy and you know it. You know how to have fun, but you may take it to extremes. You know what you are doing though, and are much in control of your own life. People don’t always see things your way, but that doesn’t mean that you should do away with your beliefs. Try to remember that your wild spirit can lead to hurting yourself and others.

(18-26 points) You are DORIS DAY:
You are fun, friendly, and popular! You are a real crowd pleaser. You have probably been out on the town your share of times, yet you come home with the values that your mother taught you. Marriage and children are very important to you, but only after you have fun. Don’t let the people you please influence you to stray.

(27-34 points) You are DEBBIE REYNOLDS :
You are cute, and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and seldom have your own feelings hurt.. Life is a breeze.. You are witty, and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of back stabbers, and you are worry-free.

(35-42 points) You are GRACE KELLY:
You are a lover. Romance, flowers, and wine are all you need to enjoy yourself . You are serious about all commitments and are a family person. You call your Mom every Sunday, and never forget a Birthday. Don’t let your passion for romance get confused with the real thing.

(43-50 points) You are KATHERINE HEPBURN:
You are smart, a real thinker. Every situation is approached with a plan. You are very healthy in mind and body. You don’t take crap from anyone. You have only a couple of individuals that you consider ‘real friends’.. You teach strong family values. Keep your feet planted in them, but don’t overlook a bad situation when it does happen.

(51-60 points) You are ELIZABETH TAYLOR:
Everyone is in awe of you. You know what you want and how to get it. You have more friends than you know what to do with. Your word is your bond. Everyone knows when you say something it is money in the bank. You attract the opposite sex. Your intelligence overwhelms most. Your memory is the next thing to photographic. Everyone admires you because you are so considerate and lovable. You know how to enjoy life and treat people right.

I don’t know about all the psychological insights, but I’d take these cheekbones any day!

Jeep has a great new ad series with the tag line, “I live, I ride, I am” and I absolutely love it.  Completely ties in with everything I’ve been screaming.  Don’t live vicariously through movie stars, get off the couch, discover your interests and live life already.  Very inspirational…kudos to the marketing folks at Jeep.  “There’s no rerun when you are living in the now so while you tune in, I’ll be somewhere getting out.”

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954. His parents, Charles and Lee-lee Chan named him Chan Kong-sang which means “born in Hong Kong.” Jackie weighed 12 pounds when he was born and his mother required surgery to deliver him. Jackie’s parents were so poor that they had to borrow money from friends to pay the doctor.
Although Jackie’s parents were poor, they had steady jobs at the French embassy in Hong Kong. Charles was a cook and Lee-lee was a housekeeper. Together, the Chan family lived on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. When Jackie was young, his father would wake him early in the morning and together they would practice kung fu. Charles Chan believed that learning kung fu would help build Jackie’s character, teaching him patience, strength, and courage.When Jackie was seven years old Charles took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia. He felt that it would be best for Jackie to stay behind in Hong Kong to learn a skill and so enrolled him in the China Drama Academy where Jackie would live for the next 10 years of his life.
During Jackie’s time at the school, he learned martial arts, acrobatics, singing, and acting. The school was meant to prepare boys for a life in the Peking Opera. Chinese opera was very different from any other kind of opera. It included singing, tumbling, and acrobatics as well as martial arts skills and acting. Students at the school were severely disciplined and were beaten if they disobeyed or made mistakes. It was a very harsh and difficult life but Jackie had nowhere else to go, so he stayed. He rarely saw his parents for many years. While at the China Academy, Jackie made his acting debut at age eight in the Cantonese movie “Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin Bar.” He later teamed with other opera students in a performance group called “The Seven Little Fortunes.” Fellow actors Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao were also members. Years later the three would work together and become known as The Three Brothers. As Jackie got older he worked as a stuntman and an extra in the Hong Kong film industry.

When Jackie was 17, he graduated from the China Drama Academy. Unfortunately the Chinese opera was no longer very popular, so Jackie and his classmates had to find other work. This was difficult because at the school they were never taught how to read or write. The only work available to them was unskilled labor or stunt work. Each year many movies were made in Hong Kong and there was always a need for young, strong stuntmen. Jackie was extraordinarily athletic and inventive, and soon gained a reputation for being fearless; Jackie Chan would try anything. Soon he was in demand.

Over the next few years, Jackie worked as a stuntman, but when the Hong Kong movie industry began to fail, he was forced to go to Australia to live with his parents. He worked in a restaurant and on a construction site. It was there that he got the name “Jackie.” A worker named Jack had trouble pronouncing “Kong-sang” and started calling Jackie “little Jack.” That soon became “Jackie” and the name stuck.
Jackie was very unhappy in Australia. The construction work was difficult and boring. His salvation came in the form of a telegram from a man named Willie Chan. Willie Chan worked in the Hong Kong movie industry and was looking for someone to star in a new movie being made by Lo Wei, a famous Hong Kong producer/director. Willie had seen Jackie at work as a stuntman and had been impressed. Jackie called Willie and they talked. Jackie didn’t know it but Willie would end up becoming his best friend and manager. Soon Jackie was on his way back to Hong Kong to star in “New Fist of Fury.” It was 1976 and Jackie Chan was 21 years old.

Once Jackie got back to Hong Kong, Willie Chan took control over Jackie’s career. To this day Jackie is quick to point out that he owes his success to Willie. However, the movies that Jackie made for Lo Wei were not very successful. The problem was that Jackie’s talents were not being used properly. It was only when Jackie was able to contribute his own ideas that he became a star. He brought humor to martial arts movies; his first success was “Snake in Eagle’s Shadow.” This was followed by “Drunken Master” (another blockbuster) and Jackie’s first ever directing job, “Fearless Hyena.” All were big hits.
Jackie was becoming a huge success in Asia. Unfortunately, it would be many years before the same could be said of his popularity in America. After a series of lukewarm receptions in the U.S., mostly due to miscasting, Jackie left the States and focused his attention on making movies in Hong Kong. It would be 10 years before he returned to make Rumble in the Bronx, the movie that introduced Jackie to American audiences and secured him a place in their hearts (and their box office). Rumble was followed by the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon series which put Jackie on the Hollywood A List.

Despite his Hollywood successes, Jackie became frustrated by the lack of varied roles for Asian actors and his own inability to control certain aspects of the filming in America. He continued to try, however, making The Tuxedo, The Medallion, and Around the World in 80 Days, none of which was the blockbuster that Rush Hour or Shanghai Noon had been.
Jackie’s lifelong devotion to fitness has served him well as he continues to do stunt work and action sequences in his films. In recent years, Jackie’s focus has shifted and he is trying new genres of film – fantasy, drama, romance – and is spending more and more time on his charity work. He takes his work as Ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS very seriously and spends all his spare time working tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those in need. He continues to make films in Hong Kong, including the blockbuster drama New Police Story in 2004.

Jackie has been married to Lin Feng-Jiao since 1982 and has a son, actor-singer Jaycee Chan. To learn more about Jackie you can read his biography, I Am Jackie Chan.

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Boredom happens around the water cooler at work.  How do we kill some time until lunch rolls around?   Today, we debate about who are the hottest celeb ladies over 40.  Here are my top ranking Ladies over Forty:

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Edward Woodhouse: ’sustained a “brave spirit and wonderful humor” throughout his illness’.

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In this song, the writer is slamming society by making references to all of its fallacies.  From greed to shallowness to narcissism. 

I love the reminder to stay grounded when I listen to this song.  It is so easy to get lost in the pictures of a magazine with comparisons to supermodels.  Not to mention the temptation to keep up with the Joneses…by doing so, we lose ourselves. 

Listen to “The Fear” on Rhapsody

Lyrics:

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and i want f-loads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

And i’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
Cuz everyone knows that’s how you get famous
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah I’m on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars concussing each other
But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic
and that’s what makes my life so f-ing fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
And it’s not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah we’re on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything’s cool as long as I’m gettin thinner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by fear

Gerard James Butler s-a născut la data de 13 noiembrie 1969 în Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scoţia.

Filme celbre:

1997 Tomorrow Never Dies

2000 Dracula 2000

2001 Attila; The Jury

2002 Reign of Fire

2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life; Timeline

2004 The Phantom of the Opera

2005 Beowulf & Grendel

2007 300; PS, I Love You

2008 Nim’s Island

2009 The Ugly Truth

Proiecte:

2010 How to Train Your Dragon; The Bounty Hunter

2011 Coriolanus; Burns.

La mulţi ani pentru împlinirea vârstei de 40 de ani!

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Anne Jacqueline Hathaway s-a născut la data de 12 noiembrie 1982 în Brooklyn ,New York SUA.

Filme celebre:

2001 The Princess Diaries

2002 Nicholas Nickleby

2004 Ella Enchanted; The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

2005 Brokeback Mountain

2006 The Devil Wears Prada

2007 Becoming Jane

2008 Rachel Getting Married

2009 Bride Wars

Proiecte:

2010  Valentine’s Day; Alice in Wonderland; Love and Other Drugs; The Fiancé

2011 Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

La mulţi ani pentru împlinirea vârstei de 27 de ani!

1. Riya Sen Photoshoot
2. Aaja Nachle Bollywood Song
3. Aladdin Movie Trailer
4. Sexy Bollywood Actress
5. Asin Lessons with Ajay
6. Hadh Kar Di–Comedy Scene
7. Dhamaal Aeroplane Scene
8. Salman’s fondness for Asin

1. Bollywood Movie Scean
2. Actress in Sexy Sarees
3. Sexy Mallika gets a Lip Job
4. Movie 3 idiots – 1st look
5. Hottest Bollywood Kiss
6. Kissing Scene Rani Abhishek
7. Aishwarya Rai Nude Scean
8. 3 Idiots – Official Trailer
9. Best Bollywood MIMICRY

From http://www.hindustantimes.com:

Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman is usually tight lipped about her personal life but the actress opened in an interview, saying that her experiences of love range from “mundane” to “strange sexual fetish stuff”.

The 42-year-old actress, currently married to country singer Keith Urban opened about her experiences in an interview to GQ magazine, reported Daily Mail online. “I’ve explored obsession. I’ve explored loss and love, I’ve explored strange sexual fetish stuff. I’ve explored the mundane aspect of marriage and monogamy,” she said.

The ‘Moulin Rouge’ actress who posed in black underwear and thigh-high boots for the magazine’s cover, described her present marriage as “raw” and “dangerous”. “You work on it. It’s a very extraordinary, adventurous place to be, incredibly raw, incredibly dangerous and you’re very much out at sea. You’re exposed. You could drown. When you commit to someone like that, you live and die together by that decision,” said the actress.

She has remained tight-lipped about her 10 year marriage to actor Tom Cruise and vows to keep her secrets. “I became famous very young. I became very famous because I was the wife of somebody. I want to honour that marriage for what it was, and there is nothing I would go into about that. I have never discussed the intricacies of it and I never will,” the actress said. Kidman, who has a 1-year-old daughter Sunday Rose with Urban, will next be seen in the star studded musical ‘Nine’.