For me, I can't say that anything raised and brought back the musicals popularity anymore. I would have to say it is in the middle. Like It's not insanely popular and it's not extremely hated by everyone. It fits just perfectly in between for me. If the majority of people would stem way from the violent music being produced nowadays, musicals could gradually increase in popularity and become amazing once again. However, in my personal opinion, i do not think that will be happening anytime soon. Which, I could imagine, can be very heartbreaking for those musical and broadway lovers out there!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
That's Entertainment!
American Teen
Now, focusing on the issues Hannah had, these are most definately some issues a few highschool girls would go through. Dating a guy for such a long time, then later on something bad happens, such as feelings change and the dude no longer wants you, and before you know it, they are finito! Typical, typical, typical! However, I don't think many girls would ever react in the same manner as Hannah did. I mean, who realistically would miss so much school and risk their grade 12 year over a stuid boy? I don't know actually, some people just make the weirdest decisions! I'm just glad her dad somehow tried to convince her to go back to school, and just act normally and to keep her head up. She certainly did that, she went about with her year and as she graduated and finished from highschool, she then moved to San Francisco to live on her own their and to eventually go to college, get an education and lead a success life for many years to come.
"...We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about. "
As the movie started to progress, i would have never imagined to ever come across the funniest 'couple' in this movie. At most times, as i was sitting and watching this movie, it was extremely hard for me to believe that these were just actors plaing their role. Sherri Ann (played by Jennifer Coolidge) and Leslie Ward (played by Patrick Cranshaw) Cabot with an accompany of their standard poodle named Rhapsody in White (a.k.a. Butch), a two-time winner of the show in the past. Sherri Ann is a big-breasted blonde, having the elderly Leslie as her "sugar daddy" (a parody of the marriage between Anna Nicole Smith and that really old man whom no one knows his name). She is primarily worried about giving Rhapsody a makeover; however, her dog trainer Christy Cummings (played by Jane Lynch) makes sure the dog is ready for the show, while Leslie stays utterly oblivious and apathetic. Over the course of the film, the fake couplehood between Sherri Ann and Leslie crumples while Sherri Ann's romantic involvement with Christy becomes apparent.
Overall, before i was about to watch this movie, i was thinking to myself and saying that this was going to be a miserable and torcherous hour and a half of my life, however... little did i know this movie was filled with a bunch of comedians! I actually enjoyed the movie. Although, in all reality, i would never ever watch a dog show. It would just simply bore me to death.
"five, six, seven, eight..."
I think that the school personally chose to enroll and get those children involved in a ballroom dancing program because you honestly don't see a whole lot of schools, or any schools at all really, start a ballroom dancing program and it would be a change and something completely unique. Living in an atmosphere like how those kids were living in, in a few years, one would predict that the majority of those kids, once all grown up, would be either drug dealers, or to just generally say... criminals of some sort. Therefore enrolling the kids in a sophisticated program such as this, as the kids grown older and older they would learn to appreciate the art of dancing and perhaps continue on and possibly all become famous dancers or something of that nature. In my opinion, having a ballroom dancing program would be incredibly fun, however it is too bad our school will never provide us with any expensive and entertaining program like this.
Reality TV & Documentaries
In many reality television shows, the viewer and the camera are passive observers following people going about their daily personal and professional activities; this style of filming is often referred to as "fly on the wall" or as "Factual television". Usually the "plots" are planned situations, or therefore contructed via editing of all sorts. Within a documentary-style reality television are several variants such as Special living environment, Celebrities, and Professional activities.
Special living environment- In this type of documentary-style, programs place cast members, who in most cases previously did not know each other, in artificial living environments. For example, Big Brother is probably the best known program of this type in the world with different versions produced in many countries around the globe.
Celebrities- Another subset of fly-on-the-wall-style shows involves celebrities. Often these show a celebrity going about their everyday life. Examples of this can easily be The Osbournes and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.
Professional activities- Some documentary-style shows portray professionals either going about day-to-day business or performing an entire project over the course of a series. Absolutely no outside experts are brought in to provide any help or anything. An example of this would be Miami Ink.
As a whole, I personally think reality television beats documentaries by far. Reality televsion simply keeps the watchers hooked on and it shows the viewers whats happening in other peoples lives and how they go about with their own lives.