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Teachers: See Freedom Writers for Free!
Lest you think that getting the summers off is the only perk about being a teacher, AMC Theatres is hosting a very cool promotion around the Hilary Swank movie, Freedom Writers. Starting this weekend and going through Feb. 1, teachers can see the movie for free at any theater in the AMC system.
Patrick Didn't Let Dyslexia Stop Him
How cute are these two? Patrick obviously doesn't let Grey's get in the way of spending time with his daughter Tallulah Fyfe. He spent his birthday taking a ride with her.
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- TVgasm completely slays me with its recap of a Lifetime Original Picture.
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- The Movie Blog has the trailer for the new cop movie from the geniuses who brought us Shaun of the Dead.
- Idolator makes me nostalgic for college by posting an oldie-but-goodie of a Helium song.
Hilary Gets Her Own Star
Hilary kicked off the new year by getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's quite an accomplishment for the girl who slept in a car with her mom when she first came to Hollywood. She says that's partly the reason she was attracted to her new film Freedom Writers.
Music Video: Common and Will.i.am, "I Dream"
Movie fans are making inevitable comparisons between Hilary Swank's new teacher tearjerker, Freedom Writers, and the Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds. But while the latter had Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," the Freedom Writers soundtrack has a new single from Common and Will.i.am called "A Dream." Given the subject matter, the song and the music video are a bit on the earnest side, but man, Common is just too smooth to resist.
Hilary Writes for Freedom
Hilary and Patrick celebrated the opening of their new film Freedom Writers last night in Westwood. In the film Hilary plays a teacher who attempts to breakthrough to her hardened students at a gang-infested Long Beach high school. Patrick Dempsey plays her husband.
What's Buzzworthy? Tearjerker Teacher Movies
I enjoyed Hilary Swank's latest movie, Freedom Writers, about an idealistic young teacher who combats gang violence by having her students read Anne Frank. But I'm definitely a sucker for movies about extraordinary teachers inspiring troubled youth, from 1955's Blackboard Jungle to the Michellle Pfeiffer vehicle Dangerous Minds.
But I want to know: What are your favorite tearjerker teacher films?
Freedom Writers: Nothing New, But Still Moving
In my preview of Freedom Writers, I said it was the kind of movie that would either make you weep or roll your eyes. So I should probably confess that I'm one of the weepers; Freedom Writers had me reaching for the tissues more than once.
I may be a sucker, but at least I'm a sucker for a pretty good movie.
Movie Preview: Freedom Writers
Depending on your taste in movies, the trailer for Freedom Writers could make you weep or roll your eyes. Hilary Swank stars as real-life heroine Erin Gruwell, a teacher at an underprivedged school who teaches The Diary of Anne Frank and encourages her students to keep their own journals. Check out the trailer and let me know what you think, then tune in on Friday for my review of the movie.
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Johnny Depp Shares His Island and Happiness With Vanity Fair
Johnny Depp is on the cover of July's Vanity Fair, and inside he opens up about his new movie, Public Enemies, his family, and his private Caribbean island called Little Hall's Pond Cay. He took one of the magazine's writers along for a trip to the area, sharing details about the joy he finds just being there. Here's more:
- On his private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay "I don’t think I'd ever seen any place so pure and beautiful .
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