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Taylor Swift is everywhere these days! She was on the Teen Choice awards last week. See the video below of Taylor Swift on The Tonight Show with Jummy Fallon, doing a segmant of the Ew Skit! She plays Natalie Benson - she is 13, and she likes to chill out all the time and eat apricots. She drew a Pegacorn! It's part Pegasus and part Unicorn. Taylor Swift is quite a cute little nerd girl with braces!

5 years ago, Taylor Swift gave us one very romantic song and video, "Love Story". It is about two young people who meet at school, prompting Taylor Swift to have a flasback to the early 1800's. She dances with her new found friend in her flashback, much like Mister Darcy would dance with Elizabeth in the Jane Austen classic, "Pride and Prejudice". In the song, the characters are named Romeo and Juliet, so there is the allusion to that Shakespeare play as well. Juliet's father tells Romeo to stay away from Juliet, but they do sneak off for romantic rendezvous. It all works out in the end!

In addition to a brand new album, Taylor Swift is also in a movie that just hit the big screen, "The Giver" in which she plays the role of Rosemary. This social science fiction film just came out on August 15th, is based on the book of the same name from 1993, and stars Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. You can watch the The Giver Official Trailer on YouTube, here.

Labels: books, eBooks, Ew!, Jimmy Fallon, Love story, movie, swift, Taylor, Taylor swift, The Giver, Tonight show

posted by KennyCrane at 8/15/2014 12:53:00 AM 0 Comments

In the 80s and beyond, Robin starred in many popular movies including Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs. Doubtfire, The World According to Garp, Patch Adams, Awakenings, The Dead Poet Society and many more. Robin performed stand up comedy at break neck speed, improvising often and going off on extended joke sprees at the slightest trigger. He appeared often on late night shows leaving the host and audience gasping for air after laughing heartily.

Recently Robin Williams was a performer on American Idol Gives Back, a charity show with the American Idol judges. He played the role of the winner of Russian Idol, and did several minutes of jokes and improv. Today we present two representative videos from the long laugh filled career of Robin Williams. The first video is the pilot episode of Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber, with guest stars Henry Winkler as The Fonz and Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fasio. The second video is of Robin Williams on American Idol. Watch, laugh, and celebrate the life of Robin Williams.

Labels: actor, comedian, comedy, funny, joke, jokes, laugh, movie, Robin Williams, TV, TV Show

posted by KennyCrane at 8/12/2014 06:02:00 AM 0 Comments

If you have not read at least the first book, then grab a copy from Amazon and see what everyone has been talking about the last few years, and see why the upcoming movie is already causing a lot of buzz even though it isn't due out until Valentine's Day 2015. There are a few related books below, so if you've read the 50 Shades series already, you will most likely enjoy these other books!

So if you don't know, then you may ask, What is Fifty Shades of Grey about? Well it is about SEX! Actually, it is about an adult couple in love with each other, who are very sexually attracted to each other. The man is named Christian Grey. He is a very wealthy business man who has been through some sexual ordeals as a boy. He has a need to be a dominant sexual partner and therefore needs a submissive sexual partner to complete this consensual partnership. Ana Steele happens to walk into his life, and she is his "type" so there is an immediate attraction. He is a powerful and good looking man, and she is attracted to him as well. While he is fully into this BDSM lifestyle, she is very sexually innocent. She wants to keep some control over their relationship but he longs for her to submit to his every command.

While this is indeed a sex book, it isn't the sole focus, and readers report that they enjoyed the dynamics in Christian and Ana's relationship. Since this book does contain a lot of sex scenes, it is not for children and probably not for some young adults. However, this book started out as a Fan Fiction story written using the characters from the popular Young Adult book and movie series, Twilight! Yes, that's right, Christian = Edward and Ana = Bella! Both male characters are strong and controlling, and have a life that very few others ever experience. Both females are innocent and somewhat awkward and less than perfect, although they are eventually equals in the relationship.

So who has been cast to play Christian and who has been cast to play Ana? Dakota Johnson will play Anastasia "Ana" Steele. Jamie Dornan will play Christian Grey. There was some talk at one point about casting Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the Twilight stars! You can read more about the Fifty Shades of Grey movie on wikipedia.

Now, enjoy the trailer for the upcoming February 2015 movie, Fifty Shades of Grey!

Labels: 50 Shades, Ana, Bella, book, Christian, Edward, Fifty Shades of Grey, movie, trailer, Twilight

posted by KennyCrane at 7/24/2014 09:49:00 PM 1 Comments

Everybody is reading the Twilight series of books, written by Stephenie Meyer. If you are too, you know that there are three books out so far. The fourth and final, "Breaking Dawn" will be released on August 2nd. I bought all four books! Of course I just have a coupon for the new one but I plan to be at the book store at Midnight to pick up my reserved copy. Even though I bought the first three, I've only read the first and now I'm half way through the second one. I can take my time because I won't get to read the new book when it comes out next week - I promised it to my niece, she gets to read it first. :)

Twilight is about a 17-year-old girl (Bella) who falls in love with a guy (Edward) who is over a hundred years old! But, he's still in High School! How can that be, you ask? Edward is a vampire! Now if you are a parent and you're worried about your teen reading these books, don't be. There is no sex and very little violence here at all. What there is, is a captivating story of young love with a twist!

Don't like to read? Watch the movie! Twilight fans know that the movie version comes out 12-12-08. Here is the latest version of the trailer for Twilight:



There are several groups of Twilight fans on YouTube who have banded together to make Twilight related videos. One of the best is TeamTwilighter. They got started in May and already have over 500 subscribers and 39 videos. Check out one of their earliest videos that tells about the group. Then, if you love Twilight, subscribe to TeamTwilighter!

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posted by KennyCrane at 7/23/2008 01:59:00 AM 1 Comments