One Direction

Simon Cowell is the master of THE BOY BAND. These guys survived the band bootcamp of 2010's X-Factor. And they've been smiling ever since and leave the girls screaming for more.

Despite being put together as a boy band at the bootcamp stage of "The X Factor", they progressed the furthest out of all 4 of the acts in the "Group" category (all of whom were mentored by judge Simon Cowell), finishing in third place.
Each member of One Direction auditioned for the 2010 season of "The X Factor" as soloists and made it to the bootcamp stage. However, the judges felt they were too good to throw away, but not interesting enough to make it as soloists and were given a lifeline to proceed in the competition as a group.-imdb

Band consists of Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Harry Styles and Zayn Malik. Liam is the oldest while Niall is the only Irishman and of course wonderful Harry is the youngest.

These guys have fans everywhere. They truly have the moves and the harmonies to go with their songs. So if you haven't listened to any of their music yet, I'm sure you will soon.

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One Direction Music

One Direction US tour diary

The Carrie Diaries

“So it’s weird, you know? To be friends with someone for so long, and then they do one thing, and it’s over. And they weren’t a bad person before. Or at least you didn’t think they were. So you have to wonder if that bad thing was always there, waiting to come out, or if it was just a one-time thing, and they’re still a good person, but you can’t trust them.”

—	Candace Bushnell (The Carrie Diaries)

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Candace Bushnell (The Carrie Diaries)

Its in the works! You got it at the CW. The prequel of Sex in City. Its from producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage of GOSSIP GIRL.

This time around Carrie Bradshaw will be played by AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘s Violet Beauregarde).

Even Vanessa Hudgens is going for Austin. Some were hoping she'd get the lead in THE CARRIE DIARIES.

Her love interest at school will be Austin Butler last seen stirring up trouble on SWITCHED AT BIRTH. Butler will be Sebastian Kydd, a brooding heartthrob whose presence at Carrie’s school shakes things up.

"That’s right! There’s going to be a spin off of the hit show Sex in the City…and this time it’s all about a young Carrie! Before the ladies nights and all the boyfriends."-teenhollywoodtake

The show will take place in the 80's. Of course it will be full of questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan.

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Fiction Tuesday- Bohemian Girl

Who you be really?  He says in the wait, until he looks around for an answer from somebody else. 

Nobody else is what he sees.   A beaver of a badger at best, relocating themselves downriver.
I work at a word.  Camphor, I say.
I have that, he laughs.  That’s not your name.
I could read it on a box, when I could read, I say.
A reader, he hmmms.  He begins to put out what he’s brought in his load.  Well, missus Reader, this here is soap, this here is dry goods.  I never met a lady who could resist dry goods, especially one in a bonnet on a hot day with nobody to talk to.-Bohemian Girl

Paul Iacono as the peddler.

 

My First thoughts: I absolutely love this book. Possibly, it has to do with the syntax of it, than anything else. Actually, its a very old story that happens in our area west of here on the prairie back in the 1860's. Its about a girl who was given to an old Indian to pay her father's debt. We don't really know for sure if her name is Harriet, but decides to call her self this after losing a close friend Harriet that she met who was one of the Indian's slaves. Harriet killed herself with bad mushrooms. She'd been previously scalped by the Indians and left by her father on the prairie because he couldn't be reminded of the misery that happened there. Its a moving story and written by a Nebraska native that lives in New York City. The author was inspired by a Willa Cather quote, "You remember how her eyes used to snap when we called her the Bohemian Girl?"

Troian Bellsario would be the main character in my movie.

Wes Studi as the Indian who needed slaves to make his mound.(my dreamcast)

This is a story about the power of men. Yet, it was women who were the backbone of the west. The main character does manage to find her purpose in life even if it might be accidentally.


As the story starts, she has a doll make from a tree limb, but somehow it gets lose from her and floats down the stream. Of course, she has to endure time and all it has to offer. Bad people. Bad weather and even landing in a town during a bad time. Along the way she's handed over a baby to take care of.

(more dreamcasting)Jackson Rathbone as Henry who comes home to his mother after the civil war, but he has a few secrets of his own. 

Also, the story keeps bringing back the theme "its a small world". She keeps meeting the Jewish peddler who is peddling his goods along the prairie. Finally, after the war, she meets Henry. She minds the general store. All the while, she still gets mixed up with the old Indian who once took her a slave.


Also, her past comes back to haunt her. But what is worse is how the town's women decide that the boy who is with her might need to be taken away to a special school because he won't speak. Of course, he speaks to her.

Nolan Gould as the boy who she raises that doesn't quite seem to be like other kids in town.(Just one more to add to the dreamcast)

This novel it in the nature of True Grit. But I loved the voice this author gave this girl. I loved the way the story came full circle.

This has to be my favorite literary book of 2011. 

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Truly, with a top notch cast comes Shakespeare as you've never seen him before. As if he might as well have been a glorious actor who didn't even know how to write with a quill.

This is the story about Queen Elizabeth and all those that surrounded her to make her life quite lonely. Of course, she did love arts. Even so, doesn't mean much in its own time, but centuries later we marvel at the wit and perhaps more realism to those poet's words, than we might never know.

Edward..played by Rhys Ifans(older) and Jamie Campbell Bower(younger), comes to life the soul of Shakespeare. Of course, a wicked story comes this way through, politics, religion and all of Queen Elizabeth's bastards. Weave in a wonderful Will S. (Rafe Spall) and even more bitter Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armesto) through the theater and you have so many stories going on. You might not get it completely straight.

  
Ben Jonson: Politics? My play has nothing to do with politics. It's just a simple comedy. 

Earl of Oxford: It showed your betters as fools who'd go through life barely managing to get food from plate to mouth were it not for the cleverness of their servants. All art is political, Jonson, otherwise it would just be decoration. And all artists have something to say, otherwise they'd make shoes. And you are not a cobbler, are you Jonson.

Joely Richardson as the young Queen Elisabeth while Vanessa Redgraves played the queen as she was older.

But as in those days, there was a lot of cat and mouse. Hush hush parenting and a few slipups which makes a remarkable soap opera of sorts. Even so, such a sexy Jamie Campbell Bower who could definitely deliver a line, a scene and even more in this movie.

Personally, I was also wanting more of Sebastian Amremsto as well. Then even more eye-candy I could only wish who would have know the truth of their heritage, Earl of Southhampton(Xavier Samuels) and the Earl of Essex(Sam Reid).- Ellie

Young Earl of Oxford: [after sword gets knocked into young Robert Cecil's chess game] You were losing anyway.
Boy Robert Cecil: [had been playing alone] I was also winning!
Young Earl of Oxford: [tosses a piece back at Robert, who misses it] Really?

Oh, and those villians, the true rulers of the age! David Thewlis and Edward Hogg as father and son...The Cecils.

Its hard to say if you'll buy this version of the come about of Shakespeare's plays. Even so, I love the scene where Edward tells his wife how he heard voices and he would go mad if he didn't write it down. Of course, he truly never got the credit of his passion.

If you want to see a rewrite of history that might have more truth than told in the history books, please take a peek at this wonderful period piece movie. Lots of wit and twist and turns in this film. The costuming was divine, as well.

STORYLINE: The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

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