This middle school novel’s theme is secrets. Just like in real life, everyone in this book has them. Kathy Harmon, the new kid in town because she just moved to Warner, North Carolina, an island town on the outer banks, has them. One of her secrets is what happened to her left hand that causes […]

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Throughout his professional career, Joe Camp, filmmaker and author, has walked against the grain in many instances. He says that independent streak may have started when he was just a boy, growing up as an only child. “There are some advantages to having siblings,” he says. “But there are also advantages to growing up without. […]

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Barney the purple dinosaur and his band of friends are back with a brand new pal!
Starting this May 6th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment is the latest compilation of amazing adventures from an established and beloved dinosaur.  Barney – Hi! I’m Riff! is now ready to be […]

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The Dream Team of children’s television is back with an all new seasonal selection of incredible episodes.
Starting this May 13th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment comes the latest grab bag of amazing summertime adventures!  Summertime Fun! is ready to be brought home and enjoyed whenever you wish.  […]

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Bob the Builder and his Can-Do Crew are back!
Starting this May 13th, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment is the latest release from the best building crew in all of television land.  Bob the Builder – The Three Musketrucks is now ready to be watched at home whenever […]

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Travel writing is incredible.  It mixes together two incredible things, travel and writing, and manages to create a hybrid which maintains the greatest aspects of each component.  Two shining examples of the genre which have a had a great impact on my own life are Che Guevara’s Motorcycle Diaries and Bill Bryson’s A Walk In […]

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Offensive is never necessarily funny.  Just because you might be baiting the Pharisees does not mean that you are going to be hilarious.  Some television shows are able to do that quite well.  The Simpsons and South Park are shining example of both offensive material and profoundly humorous material at the same time.  Family Guy […]

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A comedy taking a look at nature shows should be hilarious!  Nature shows are becoming staples of early morning Saturday television and there are opportunities galore for mockery and satire.  Animals can be funny, the charismatic host is usually hilarious, and the people who end up being interviewed are simply beyond belief.  This should be […]

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History and long buried secrets are themes once again and are apparent from the first page. Cory Wilde is back and the small town of Troy, Louisiana seems almost entirely united against him. Of course, if things had gone the way the good people of the small town had expected twenty-nine years ago, he would […]

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Rushmore McKenzie returns in this fourth novel in the series as does crime, murder, violence and politics. In most books they would be just themes but in the hands of David Housewright they take on a life of their own and become characters in their own way.
While heading out to buy a dining room set […]

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It’s all about Tony Stark, the billionaire weapons designer and CEO of Stark Enterprises.  He’s a womanizer, but you’d still let him date your sister.  He’s everything you hate about everything you stand against, and yet he oozes charm so that you just don’t care and you want to like him. More importantly, you want […]

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Jonah Gray is the youngest member of a four member team at Platinum Commercial Building and Land (PCBL). Located at the Chrysler Center in New York City, the company handles commercial real estate in the city. They make a lot of money and do whatever it takes to get business done. Jonah Gray continues the […]

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ACCLAIMED ‘Scrubs’ star Zach Braff never seems to stop; when his not filming one of the now 8 seasons of his hit TV sitcom Scrubs, the 33-year-old is not only starring in but also writing and directing beautifully crafted and inspiring films [you might remember 2004’s Garden State opposite Natalie Portman or more recently […]

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We’ve all seen cringe-worthy sports moments.  There the soccer play who gets a ball right to his, the football player who gets them stomped on by a 350 pound man wearing cleats, the fan who goes to vault a fence and only gets one leg over before coming to a manhood crushing stop.  Although they […]

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By Honey Gillard
What does Victoria’s Secret Aussie Angel Miranda Kerr dream of? An environmentally-friendly home and three kids, se revealed in an exclusive interview with A Current Affair.
“Ten years from now hopefully I’ll be living in a solar-powered house with my vegetable garden out the back,” she said.
“And I’m hoping it will be somewhere […]

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There is a local channel in my area, Channel 45, which plays all sorts of reruns from old shows.  But late at night, well after midnight and around the time when you would suspect that Frasier would start to get hilarious, they play this horrid Canadian cop show.  I do not remember the name of […]

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By Honey Gillard
The past few days have seen much controversy strike the name of 15-year-old ‘Hannah Montana’ star Miley Cyrus; following the release of somewhat ‘racy’ photos. But actress Jamie Lee Curtis has stood up for the young actress saying that she wishes “her guardians had protected her”.
Curtis, who has also been in the line […]

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By Honey Gillard
TEEN billionaire-to-be Miley Cyrus is reportedly embarrassed by a ‘racy’ photo spread in the upcoming June issue of prized magazine ‘Vanity Fair’.
The photo shoot shot and planned by highly-esteemed photographer Annie Leibovitz was presented to Cyrus as ‘artistic’, with the 15-year-old initially claiming the shots to be artsy and not at all skanky.
Disney’s Hannah […]

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For Police Chief Jesse Stone, the return of Wilson “Crow” Cromartie is a bit of a surprise. When last seen, he was fleeing Paradise, Massachusetts with a lot of cash and leaving wreckage, dead bodies and shaken hostages in his wake. While he wasn’t responsible for all of it, he was there and he was […]

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It’s early April, 2003 and Major Jamie Richards (Chaplin) is driving a Humvee as part of a six vehicle convoy in Iraq. They are part of the Fifth (V) Corps and their mission is to support the troops with vital supplies such as water, ammunition and fuel as they battle towards Baghdad. Their little six […]

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By Honey Gillard
MIRANDA Kerr seems to have it all - the boy (Orlando Bloom!), the career (Victoria’s Secret Angels), the health, the life - and it seems the young girl knows this, as she is looking to share the life around with the help of a little book.
The just-turned-25-year-old model is apparently searching for a […]

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It’s not great literature, but it is a fun read. Fifi Cutter could be a diminutive reincarnation of  Sara Paretsky’s  V. I.  Warshawski with the same smart mouth, wry humor and excellent comic timing. She is also smart and resourceful as she investigates a man who hijacked a small plane and crashed it, killing all […]

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I know next to nothing about my family tree.  If I try real hard and do some digging, I could go back maybe five or six generations.  But I already know what I’d find.  Some doctors and lawyers, then farmers in America, then farmers in Belgium, Norway, and all over Europe.  Then there would be […]

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By Honey Gillard
‘FRIENDS’ star Jennifer Aniston has apparently gone under the surgical knife, for both medical and cosmetic reasons.
Aniston has publicly confirmed statements that she has had surgery on her nose - placing the surgery down to ‘medical reasons’.
“I had a [deviated septum] fixed,” she has said, calling it the “best thing I ever did.”
However, […]

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Indiana Jones is coming out with a new movie.  It looks somewhat interesting, but I would be more interested in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Gerontology, a movie set it very well might have been shot on.  Indy has always been very cool, with his witty one liners, occasionally getting the girl, fighting Nazis […]

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By Honey Gillard
Everyone seems to be hot for Aussie angel Miranda Kerr right now, but who is she hot for? (Besides Orlando Bloom of course). Well it seems the young model is keen to take the leap from model-town to Hollywood.
“At this stage I’m really enjoying where I’m at doing the modelling but if an […]

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To lose control or use of your body would be a terrible feeling.  That feeling of being trapped, the complete loss of influence over what is central to us being us, that would be one of the most incredible parts of life to overcome.  Now there is another story about that struggle to find yourself […]

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My roommate grew up in South America.  He once said I would make a great South American, something I still hold as one of the highest compliments I have ever received.  South America is now a land of political extremism and American oppression.  Yet back in the day, South America was viewed in the way […]

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I grew up loving Israel unquestioningly.  I come from a Christian fundamentalist background, so, much the Wahabi, I believed what I was told.  It was not until I saw Paradise Now, the groundbreaking Palestinian film, that my opinions on the matter become more open.  This is a film about that happening in the life of […]

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I love movie trailers.  I always make sure to get to the theater in time to see all of the previews.  I am even disappointed when I get a DVD and it does not have any previews on it.  It’s a great way to decide what movies you are going to see and what ones […]

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