Chris Colfer came to the Grove and all the girls came too.

My husband has been trying to dowload these pictures from his phone all day. Well actually he tried in the morning and it didn't work and then all day he has been telling me he would try again.Ahem! So finally, here are my Saturday Snapshots. Saturday Snapshots is a fun, mostly un-bookish meme where we share photos. Alyce over at  At Home with Books hosts it and to play along, post a picture you took (don't just swipe it from the net) and...

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The first Life of Pi Trailer is here!

Anyone who has read this book has got to be intrigued with this film. It's one thing to read about a boy sharing a life boat with a tiger, quite another to see it.I was left with some many questions after reading Life of Pi - my biggest one being WTF? What was that about? I mean really about. So I'm excited to see Ang Lee's version and I have to say, it looks pretty darn stunning. It comes out in November. Did you read the Life of Pi by Yann Martel;...

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                        REST IN PEACEVictims of the tragic Colorado Theater Shoot...

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My Wondrous Words Wednesday words today come from Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. To play along, visit Kathy who hosts this fabulous weekly meme over at her BermudaOnion.net blog.First off: THIS BOOK IS SOOOOO GOOD!  Flynn has written Gone Girl in a most arresting way. It seems simple, Amy, disappears on her 5th anniversary. Her husband, Nick, will most likely be the prime suspect. But the way Flynn  tells us the story is so...

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Wicked IS FINALLY coming to the big screen! Who will play those witches?

There has been talk swirling around about the mega hit musical Wicked being adapted for the big screen for years. In fact I read somewhere (I honestly forget where!) that producer Mark Platt wanted to adapt Gregory Maguire's best selling novel as a film initially, but produced the stage version first due to lack of investor interest. Well, now, according to the news out of Comic-Con, not only is Universal doing it (Platt has a deal there) but...

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In Celebration of Bastille Day: Les Misérables TEASER TRAILER

C'est July 14! Bastille Day.  Vive La France!I was actually in Paris for Bastille Day in 1989 - the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. I have amazing memories and a scar to remind me. It was incredible. There was a huge parade and afterward the streets were thrumming with people singing and tossing tiny firecrackers. Tiny but still dangerous. I got hit in the leg and had to visit one of the many Red Cross stations set up throughout the city. So in honor of Bastille Day, instead of a Saturday Snapshot I'm posting this teaser trailer...

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Gone Girl, Fifty Shades of Grey,Sharp Objects, Dark Places: Fiction for Females?

So who has been reading the freshly published Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn?  A ton of you must have read it and loved it as it tops the NY Times Bestseller List for the second week in a row. And now, in a seven figure deal,  20th Century Fox has acquired the book which will be produced by Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon. Gillian Flynn will write the screenplay based on her novel about a woman who disappears on her 5th anniversary...

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Wondrous Words Wednesday : The Art of Fielding

Another week when my reading didn't introduce me to a new word! But not because the book is overly simplistic. While it is a relatively easy read, The Art of Fielding from Chad Harbach is completely compelling. Please note I'm not a particular baseball fan; I have no idea who is currently playing first base for the Dodgers or a point of view on whether the Mets or the Yankees are the better team. The book isn't really about baseball....

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jena Malone Join Hunger Games: Catching Fire

I guess even Oscar winning actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman want to be part of guaranteed box office success sometimes. EW.com reports that Hoffman - who I love - has signed on to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, as Plutarch Heavensbee. Heavensbee is the politically crafty Head Gamemaker who oversees the 75th Annual Hunger Games.According to EW, "Hoffman is the first new actor to officially join the wildly popular franchise, alongside...

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Russell on the corner of Russell and Vermont

I'm posting this picture of my son Russell as part of Alyce's Saturday Snapshot meme over on her At Home with Books site. To participate, post a picture that you or someone you know took and add your link to Alyce's Mr. Linky.Notice that Russell is standing under a street sign that says Russell? When he was little and we saw a Russell street sign I would always try to take a picture. Just one of those silly things we parents...

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SAVAGES opens July 6

SAVAGES opens tomorrow. Right now there's no real consensus as to how good or bad it is.  There are not enough critic reviews to say that the current fairly rotten Rotten Tomatoes score will hold. It's 67% right now. On the other hand 87% want to see it,  I know there's a lot of interest out there from the sheer number of  people visiting my site looking for info. It's not clear whether they are fans of the book by Don Winslow or simply...

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JACK REACHER - FirstTrailer for Tom Cruise next action flick

Jack Reacher, the TOM CRUISE movie based on Lee Child's One Shot doesn't come out until December but the studio has just released an early teaser trailer. It seems fairly typical to try to start building buzz for an action flick in the summer months when all the young dudes are paying attention. I also wonder whether they are capitalizing on the TomKat divorce buzz publicity - or even whether the divorce is part of the planned publicity. There...

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Night Terrors Update

I haven't been able to stop by my fellow bloggers Saturday Snapshots because today was my son, Russell's last day of shooting his movie (Night Terrors). That's him in the center of the picture looking down through the camera. The actors sitting at the table are Katherine Canipe and Michael McCormack.Mark and I drove out to the set at Lake Malibou in Agoura (this is about an hour north of Los Angeles). We got some tubs of Stone Fire Chicken, Pasta...

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