Going off of the blog prompt that Professor Larabee posted a couple of weeks ago, I would like to discuss the Lindsay Lohan/E-Trade baby commercial lawsuit. Apparently, Lindsay Lohan is suing E-Trade for using her name in their commercials. Below is a link to the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZ2hfD3bU
Lindsay Lohan thinks that the "milkaholic" baby that the boy baby and his "girlfriend" baby are arguing about is modeled after her. She is apparently suing E-Trade for $100 million dollars for her "pain and suffering." First of all, what pain and suffereing? The baby isn't even modeled after you. There are more people in the world with the name Lindsay than you. It was stated that she said she is suing because her name is now on the level of "Madonna" or "Oprah." Really? No, I don't think so. How many Madonnas do you know? But I can name you ten Lindsays that I know right now. Secondly, a$100 million dollars? Who asks for that amount of money when no physical pain or actual slander was caused?
Looks to me like Lindsay Lohan has ran out of money because we all know she hasn't made a movie in quite awhile, not a good one at least. (We all know the last good movie and last movie she looked good in too was Mean Girls.) I smell somebody getting desperate.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
In Memory of Jay Polhill
Last week the Polhill family of Lena, Illinois experienced what can be called nothing less than a tragedy. Jane and Rick Polhill's youngest son, Jay, was found deceased Wednesday night in Chicago. I attended the funeral this weekend to support the friends and family. I am basically writing this post in support of the family and the community. A good guy was lost this week, too young and too soon. If you would like to find out more there have been articles about Jay and the tragic situation in the Chicago Tribune. Also, if anyone would like to donate to a scholarship fund set up in Jay's memory (He attended Columbia College in Chicago) by Janna Rains and Erica Yeager, the link is:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3D7MAL9D5N8JMMC&h=b14ce4b1c003b1b6758bcf443a6dbae5
All donations are appreciated by the family and friends. Our prayers go out to Jay's family and his friends in this rough time.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_s-xclick%26hosted_button_id%3D7MAL9D5N8JMMC&h=b14ce4b1c003b1b6758bcf443a6dbae5
All donations are appreciated by the family and friends. Our prayers go out to Jay's family and his friends in this rough time.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Movie Review of "Shutter Island"
*POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT*
"Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese, is another brain teaser and sure hit, but how can you go wrong with Leonardo DiCaprio as the leading man? As a forewarning, I am a huge Scorsese and DiCaprio fan. If you are not a fan, be ready to disagree this whole entire post.
First of all, this is the PERFECT movie for English majors. The plot of the movie begs to be explicated and analyzed. (Plus, it makes you feel extra smart when you figure out what's going on before your friends.) It's filled with unreliable narrators, "bad readers," symbols, metaphors, and motifs. Every detail contributes to the story and means something more than the obvious. The movie is a great discussion starter, never lacking material to talk about to keep the discussion going. Scorsese never disappoints in his endings. He leaves the audience with a perfect one-liner, poetic and witty, which keeps the audience thinking even after the movie has ended.
The one issue I had with the movie is the ending was predictable, at least to me. My two roommates were totally shocked by the ending, but I always saw it as a possibility. It really reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe's twisted tale, "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," using some of the same plot twists. I think Scorsese is a secret Poe fan, which makes me like him even more, sharing the same appreciation for the Gothic and the grotesque.
All in all, I really enjoyed this film. It was no "The Departed," my second favorite movie of all time (only second to "Goodfellas") but there are two separate shower scenes with Leo DiCaprio, shirtless, so how can you really go wrong? I'd probably go as far to say I'd even pay the $7 to see it in theaters again.
"Shutter Island," directed by Martin Scorsese, is another brain teaser and sure hit, but how can you go wrong with Leonardo DiCaprio as the leading man? As a forewarning, I am a huge Scorsese and DiCaprio fan. If you are not a fan, be ready to disagree this whole entire post.
First of all, this is the PERFECT movie for English majors. The plot of the movie begs to be explicated and analyzed. (Plus, it makes you feel extra smart when you figure out what's going on before your friends.) It's filled with unreliable narrators, "bad readers," symbols, metaphors, and motifs. Every detail contributes to the story and means something more than the obvious. The movie is a great discussion starter, never lacking material to talk about to keep the discussion going. Scorsese never disappoints in his endings. He leaves the audience with a perfect one-liner, poetic and witty, which keeps the audience thinking even after the movie has ended.
The one issue I had with the movie is the ending was predictable, at least to me. My two roommates were totally shocked by the ending, but I always saw it as a possibility. It really reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe's twisted tale, "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," using some of the same plot twists. I think Scorsese is a secret Poe fan, which makes me like him even more, sharing the same appreciation for the Gothic and the grotesque.
All in all, I really enjoyed this film. It was no "The Departed," my second favorite movie of all time (only second to "Goodfellas") but there are two separate shower scenes with Leo DiCaprio, shirtless, so how can you really go wrong? I'd probably go as far to say I'd even pay the $7 to see it in theaters again.
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