Jenny from the Blog

Movie Review 22
Troy (Rating: 4)

It is based on Homer’s stories. I forgot if it was real history or just a myth.

The story is quite simple. When Trojan princes Hector (Eric Bana) & Paris not Hilton (Legoras) visited Sparta for peace talking or something, Legoras fell in love with Helen, a gorgeous wife of Spartan king. Whether elf or not he is, Legoras took her to Troy and married her. Of course, Spartan king was so mad that he asked his brother King Agamemnon to attack Troy. However, in order to win the war, Agamemnon people needed a help by arrogant but greatest warrior, Achilles (Brad Pitt). He didn’t want to help that stupid kind, but his friend Odysseus (Boromir) convinced him to fight (like, you could be a hero!). The rest of story is war and Wooden Horse story.

After you’ve seen Return of the King, Troy’s CG battle scene might look weaker, but one-on-one battles were much more exciting than LOTR. Each character is also very profound. For example, Brad Pitt pumped his body like Greek sculpture or Governor of California. I decided I should start something to become like that. Orlando Bloom was really Legoras. Literally, Paris is good at bow. Sean Bean got stronger and cooler role as Odysseus compared to Boromir. He came up with the idea of Wooden Horse after all.

While the movie is evolving around the war, there are also some romances there. But do not expect anything emotional or touchy.

A guy, who fell from mountain bike.

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Anotehr attack by Avril!
Avril on the attack
5/23 Daily News

Whether you found hits like "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi" likable or ludicrous, it's indisputable that Lavigne challenged the jiggling girly-girls of the Britney/Christina/Jessica school.

Lavigne initiated a whole wave of assertive young female singer-songwriters, including Katy Rose, Fefe Dobson, Toby Lightman and Skye Sweetnam.

"I think I opened some doors for those girls," Lavigne says. Yet she adds that in listening to some of them - particularly Dobson - she finds herself thinking where has she "heard this sound before?"

Lavigne has made such swipes before. Early on, her dismissive attitude toward Britney helped define her. Lately, Lavigne has been spending more time lobbing bombs at her strongest competition, Hilary Duff.

"I don't really like her," Lavigne says, though she admits she has never met the 16-year-old singer-actress. "I can tell what she's like," Lavigne asserts. "She's too much of a kiss-a——. You can tell that she's a goody-goody."

Lavigne thinks it's unlikely she'll ever meet Duff. "She'll probably try to avoid me for the rest of her life," she says with a giggle.

Since Lavigne recently told the BBC that Britney "dresses like a showgirl" and dances "like a ho," she suspects she'll never meet her either.

Still, she says, if "Britney wanted to be cool and hang out, then I would put all ego aside."

Ugh!! So gross...

EBay Pulls Schwarzenegger's Cough Drop
Saturday May 22 (AP)

A seller on eBay tried to auction off a cough drop that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger allegedly used, then tossed into a trash can listing the item under the heading "Schwarzenegger's DNA."

But the ad posted on the popular Web site Friday was quickly yanked after eBay decided it fell into the category of "body parts," which the Web site will not list for sale.

The original listing was accompanied by two photos of a half-consumed cough drop and the words, "Own a piece of DNA from the man himself." The seller indicated she or he had seen Schwarzenegger discard the lozenge at a recent public event and had retrieved it.

"Like many people who collect items from international stars this is a must have," the ad stated.

Today's (5/16) Meet the Press featured Colin Powell, followed by Sen. Joe Biden and Sen. John McCain. It turned out like Saturday Night Live, where McCain hosted last year.

(First, interview with PowPow (who was in Jordan, interviewed against background of ocean & palm trees))

Russert: Finally, Mr. Secretary, in February of 2003, you placed your enormous personal credibility before the United Nations and laid out a case against Saddam Hussein citing...

Powell: Not off.

Emily: No. They can't use it. They're editing it. They (unintelligible).

(At this point, the camera turned from Powel to 'palm tree.')

Powell: He's still asking me questions. Tim.

Emily: He was not...

Powell: Tim, I'm sorry, I lost you.

Russert: I'm right here, Mr. Secretary. I would hope they would put you back on camera. I don't know who did that.

Powell: We really...

Russert: I think that was one of your staff, Mr. Secretary. I don't think that's appropriate.

Powell: Emily, get out of the way.

Emily: OK.

Powell: Bring the camera back, please. I think we're back on, Tim. Go ahead with your last question.

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Then, interview with McCain.

Russert: Senator McCain, it's the elephant in the room, the story that will not die. This is the front page of The New York Times yesterday. Headline: "Undeterred by McCain Denials, Some See Him as Kerry's No. 2... What do you think of Senator Kerrey's recommendation?

McCain: I'd like to have the camera move over to a palm tree to start with.

(At this moment, everyone cracked up and kept laughing.)
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(Next, by Biden after McCain categorically denied the Veep position.)

Biden: I think John McCain would be a great candidate for vice president. I mean it. I know John doesn't like me saying it, but the truth of the matter is, it is. We need to heal the red and the blue here, man, the red states and the blue states.... And I think that--I would still urge John Kerry to pick up the phone and call John McCain. He'll say no probably. But I think John Kerry has an obligation to do that for the way he wants to heal. And I know John will listen. He'll say no, but I'm going to tell you, I'm counting on him being a more loyal American than he is a loyal Republican. And, John (McCain), I'm not so sure you're so happy about the Senate. I'd like to see you president instead of the guy we have now.

(God, he is in love...)

McCain: I will always take anyone's phone calls but I will not--I categorically will not do it...

Russert: All right, Biden. McCain is out. Who is in?

Biden: I'm sticking with McCain.

(They cracked again:) )

Russert: What if John Kerry picked his vice president and also said, "I want Joe Biden for secretary of state and John McCain for secretary of defense?"

Biden: Well, if John will do it, I'll do it.

Russert: Senator McCain, do we have a deal?

McCain: No, no. No, no, we don't have a deal.

J.K. wants money. Give her money.
Ballet School Changes Potter-Like Routine
5/10 AP

There'll be no wave of the magic Harry Potter wand for the 3-year-old students of a ballet school in southern England.

Choreographer Valerie Le Serve said Monday she was forced to change a 10-minute segment based on the adventures of the boy wizard and his friends after author J.K. Rowling's agent pointed out a contract with movie giant Warner Bros. that bans rival productions.

Le Serve's production was scheduled as part of a variety show in November to raise money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and the Cleft Lip and Palate Association.

"I could not believe it. Friends said J.K. and her agents would not mind, but it appears they do," she said. "I am flattered that they consider us to be such a great threat to their plans in 2007."

Oh, that's enough!
Is Ben-essa in our future?
Daily News

Ben Affleck and John Kerry's daughter Vanessa had a long, lingering policy talk Saturday night after the White House Correspondents Dinner. Some female guests at the Bloomberg party griped that the 26-year-old Harvard med student was hogging the Oscar-winner.

Not that he seemed to be complaining about D.C. hospitality. One high-spirited woman told him, "You are [bleeping] gorgeous," and then flashed her breasts. (What!!!???)