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HELPFUL HINTS

This article was published today at 3:23 a.m. LITTLE ROCK DEAR HELOISE: Some folks have a Global Positioning System stuck to the dash of the car. Rather than unplug the GPS every time my dad runs an errand, he just takes off his hat and plops ...

From HELOISE, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Movie Review: Precious

Cornered by poverty, darkness, Harlem, flatiron buildings, and close-set eyes, Precious survives. Lee Daniels directs Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mo'Nique, and Mariah Carey, among others, who make up the stellar cast of Precious, based on the book ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Paula Patton,  Lee Daniels,  Gabourey Sidibe,  Mo'Nique,  Mariah Carey

Book Review: Push by Sapphire

Push the novel is pure poetry crafted by Sapphire about a girl who never gets the guy, instead she gets HIV and two babies, one with Down’s syndrome, from her father. How does one tell such a sad tale based loosely on the life of one of the author’s ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  14 Nov 2009

Book Review: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

One expectation of literature is that it transport the reader. It must have the ability to relocate the reader from his limited domestic bliss to an inflated universe of ideas filled with people, places and things that he will probably never meet or ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Elizabeth Gilbert,  Julia Roberts

Twelve of the Thirteen Dead at Fort Hood Were Soldiers

Yesterday afternoon there was breaking news that 11 people were dead and 31 wounded at Fort Hood,  which is near Killeen, Texas. That death toll now stands at 13, with many others in critical condition. Twelve of the dead are reported to be soldiers; ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: 7-Eleven

DVD Review: VIrtual JFK

Every time history repeats itself, the price of the lesson goes up. — Anonymous From the title Virtual JFK I expected a synthetic pseudo-documentary about how the world would be changed if JFK had lived and not expired when his first term did. Instead, ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John F. Kennedy,  Ngo Dinh Diem

“…For What, What For?”; Conservatives and Liberals Alike React, Decry Obama Peace Prize

This morning the president and his wife woke up to a Swedish surprise. It was not the 3:00 a.m. call that everyone dreaded rather a 6:00 a.m. call no one saw coming. Obama won the Peace Prize for 2009--who knew? I rushed up to a colleague and told him ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Sean Hannity,  Sarah Palin

Celebrity Secrets For Sale

The last photo of Michael Jackson taken through the ambulance window as he lay dying (or already dead) was probably one of the luckiest photos of the decade. It sold to the highest bidder. But that was just a drop in the paparazzi bucket. MJ died this ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  8 Oct 2009
Related Topics: John Travolta,  Michael Jackson,  Sarah Jessica Parker

Movie Reviews: A Serious Man and An Education at the Modern Film Festival

This past weekend the Modern in Fort Worth played host to modern cinema with a festival of eight films. I missed the Precious buzz (an early packed house) but I got A Serious Man with An Education. There are many similarities between these two films. ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ethan Coen

Obama Cares: Talking Down to the Fired Up

Roger Simon said: “If Obama can’t sell government as a force for good that is who he is, and if he can’t sell that then he can’t sell his presidency.” Before President Obama made his media blitz this past Sunday he went on the road. He played host in ...

From HELOISE, Blogcritics.org,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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