# 98 | African Girl"She called me wicked, I called her spoilt. She called me unfeeling, I called her a pot overflowing with emotions…..sufficing to say, we are not on speaking terms right now….lol"Aaah, so you figured out on your own how to get out of being a maid of honor? Or am I jumping the gun? Boy, I didn’t even get to telling you my scheme to sabotage your duty either. # 111 | malibumom Rotten Tomatoes has a collective rating of 68%. Nothing great. Where it counts - the box office, it has earned only $6 million in 3 weeks of staggered release according to Box Office Mojo. To be fair, it’s playing in only 991 theatres as of last week. I still wouldn’t expect it to do gangbuster business. In Box Office Mojo, the readers have given it a C+ rating so far. Hear that? Bad word-of-mouth! # 293 | the real tita"Her obsession with looking good in front of the camera by just letting them shoot at a better angle will keep her actions limited."And there’s no existing lighting that will make her look good on film either…unless they consider filming in the dark. Mind you that apparently was the bone of contention on the early set of Rumors Have It, with the cinematographer fired after only 10 days of work. Sheesh, even Michaelangelo couldn’t sculpt a pretty statue of her. No one is that talented.

# 153 | dolphingirlShe’d say, "I’m only a beautician, not a magician!"That’s a funny anecdote. May your aunt RIP. She must have been quite the character.

# 86 | African Girl |How’s the recovery going? Sounds like you are back to normal. Thank JAH. It was so hard to report that awful story. Now about that Lake Forest gig…. Good News. Lake Forest is closer to Wisconsin than downtown Chicago. it is up their North BY you. Now calm down before you start having heart palpitations. Keep an open mind. Put in the Video tape of the Today Show in just for prevention. If it will be life threatening ,by ALL means I would not want you to be an assistant here to me at JJPBS. Your health is a always the priority. However…… I thought that perhaps you could just take a drive down Lake Shore Drive..south from Wisconsin…not far to drive to Lake Forest. Vince Vaughn’s parent DO live there ( no lie) Vince went to Lake Forest High-school. It’s OK though. I know people all along the North Shore that could do this deed for me. In fact my brother ( no lie) owns a store in Lake Forest. My sister in-law and nieces would be more than HAPPY to roll on by ole Mr. T’s house. I can just ask them if they could do a little reporting on the front yard trees.( wink wink) It was a BIG story in the neighborhood when Mr. T moved in. Sorry if I made you feel that I was asking you to put your life in jeopardy. I had envisioned lending you my van with wall to wall posters of BAMZ +1 Pics wallpapered to every inch of the interior. My seat covers are leopard and I have a JJ flag of RED GREEN & BLACK (African colors) with their pics on it waving off my van’s super sonic antenna. I have a DVD player stocked with movies NO ANISTON FLICKS!!) and you could watch all of the Jolie & Pitt films EVER made….. while slowlydriving down the street admiring the beautiful homes there. Or you could enjoy the quadraphonic stereo system that plays all the Bob Marley and Reggae hits you’d ever could imagine. BUT!!!! if you saw Jennifer out their "visiting" Vince and walking that little doggy of hers I wouldn’t want you to put that genuine and loving heart in ANY danger. Like I said. My sister in laws and my nieces would have NO problem lurking around theirextended neighborhood for some exclusive stories and photos.Think about it. The Van might help prevent any possible setback.But if you really feel it’s not a good idea…and would put you at risk…well I truly understand. I will send my Tomb Raider sister in laws and my nieces. I just wanted to offer it to you first.Rest well. That "Liz" chickadee had some perplexing statements today. Could make a great editorial. Hmmmmmmm.

Yep, just like I thought. FWM is a 2 star movie and I never and I mean never watch movies below three stars. Not worth it. Here’s the review from Free Press. Terry Lawson knows his movies.’Friends with Money’• **out of 4 starsRated R; language, sexual situations, drug use1 hour, 28 minutesIn terms of production values and star power, "Friends with Money" is an obvious step up from the first two independent films directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, who did 1996’s "Walking and Talking" and 2001’s "Lovely & Amazing."Yet this story of four female friends in Los Angeles — three with money and husbands and one with neither — never really engages the way those earlier, less-polished films did. It’s not only because the characters are harder to identify with than those in the earlier pictures. It’s not that it doesn’t make its points about female relationships, modern marriage and unacknowledged class lines in America. It’s because it makes them with such open-ended, sitcom suppleness that it is more like a pilot for another HBO series — or for a major network, if the cleverness and insight were stripped away.Holofcener does deserve credit for alerting the world at large to the prodigious talent of Catherine Keener, who appeared in her previous films and is one of the moneyed marrieds in this set of "Friends."She’s Christine, who writes screenplays with her husband, David (Jason Isaacs), when they aren’t arguing or socializing with angrier-than-she-ought-to-be fashion designer Jane (Frances McDormand) and her English-born ballast of a spouse, Aaron (Simon McBurney), and socially conscious Franny (Joan Cusack) and her film producer partner Matt (Greg Germann).The odd woman out at their power tables in L.A.’s hippest restaurants is Olivia (Jennifer Aniston), who is not only single but also hovering near the poverty line. A former elementary school teacher and unrepentant pothead, she is now self-employed as a maid, a situation that on the surface bothers her friends more than it does her.Although Olivia’s lack of interest in upward mobility is a source of much concern to the others, they also have their problems. Apparently, what’s been whispered is true: Money doesn’t buy happiness. Though Jane’s latest clothing line is a huge hit, she’s a bundle of rage, one of those people who will not tolerate anything she considers bad behavior, including lane cutting in the grocery store and faulty parking lot manners.Then there’s the fact that everyone is convinced her husband is gay, mostly because he’s extremely well-groomed and exceedingly polite.Christine and David make an argument of everything, whether it’s the motivation of one of the characters in their script or the motivation of their friends or the motivations of each other. Complicating things further is a stressful home addition project that has alienated all their neighbors.As for Franny, who occupies herself with one fund-raising event after another, she has some free-floating anxiety about her own marriage. Her preoccupation with helping others is viewed here as her character flaw. It’s represented by her hooking up Olivia with her personal trainer (Scott Caan), who turns out to be an insensitive mooch. Naturally, Olivia falls for him.Although much of the humor is Los Angeleno-centric (as in the way housing prices make residents of the more expensive neighborhoods determined to retain their addresses even after they outgrow their homes), there’s nothing here that will confound those who shop at Target as opposed to the boutiques that carry Jane’s clothes.What is somewhat more difficult to comprehend is exactly what Holofcener is looking to say about these people that isn’t obvious.Holofcener spends her time between film projects working on classier TV series, including the late "Six Feet Under" and "Sex and the City" and "The Gilmore Girls," which is probably the reason "Friends with Money" is shaped as it is.It takes place in a world where issues are not wrapped up neatly, but where some sort of resolution is assured. Those shows, of course, engage us through characters. We want to know what will happen to them after the week’s dilemmas. Movies, on the other hand, should feel complete unto themselves, and "Friends with Money" is not a finished portrait, just a disposable snapshot of people we’re less than invested in.

I would love to know why Tom Cruise is so often referred to here as GMD. Anyone know?

Just saying what I’ve read and heard.. still not going to see it myself but only simply as it doesnt interest me. Brad has lost whatever he once had. As for MMSmith, heard it actually went rather crapply against initial expectation?As for boycotting Jen movies? Well dont blame you there either, they suck! (I’m not a Jen fan nor am I a BAMZ fan)

hes so handsome