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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/6376619&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=107  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed3/192/1922283/48_2009/82b32827f71296fc_the-road1.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s not that I was expecting a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/The+road&quot; &gt;The Road&lt;/a&gt; to be happy sunshine - I just wasn&#039;t expecting it to seem so &lt;i&gt;possible&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The apocalyptic tale takes place in a wasteland in the future after most humans are gone. It&#039;s desolate, the sky is a brownish-gray, and the land seems to be covered with ash. Unlike showy &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/2012&quot; &gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;, this is an end-of-the-world tale stripped down, which makes it all the more realistic and chilling. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To see what I mean, just read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We meet Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a father and son making their way down south because they can&#039;t survive another Winter in this ominous setting. (Charlize Theron plays their wife and mother through a series of flashbacks). With a meager amount of food left on the planet, the select few people remaining (and there aren&#039;t many) will basically kill for supplies - or turn to cannibalism for sustenance. If this sounds like a horror film, it&#039;s because it pretty much is one. In fact, it&#039;s the worst, most plausible kind: one that explores the evils of humanity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m sure many viewers won&#039;t be able to (or won&#039;t want to) stomach the subject matter, but the film is worth seeing thanks to the relationship between the father and son.  In terms of plot, there isn&#039;t a ton that happens, and most of the action involves bumping into new strangers, like an elderly man (Robert Duvall) and a threatening gang. Some may find the lack of events monotonous, but this is why father and son are so important. Man is an average Joe who questions how far he&#039;ll go to keep Boy safe and what that means for his conscience; Boy is an innocent who still looks for good in people. The film obviously raises questions about the nature of who we are when tested - but the story is ultimately about their relationship.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Man, Viggo Mortensen gives a mesmerizing performance that should bring his name up around awards season, and Smit-McPhee as his son is a great child actor, especially given the dark subject matter. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you&#039;re a McCarthy fan or even just a fan of great acting, you&#039;ll want to check this one out. But, I&#039;d suggest saving it for next week - after you find your Thanksgiving warm fuzzies somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://popsugar.com/tag/new+moon&quot; &gt;dominating the promotional circuit&lt;/a&gt; right now, but they&#039;re not the only cast members with something to say about &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/new+moon&quot; &gt;New Moon&lt;/a&gt;. I had the opportunity to chat with costars Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene, aka Emmett and Alice Cullen, during their recent stopover in SF.  They chatted about their characters, the vampire craze, and what it&#039;s like to be a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/twilight&quot; &gt;Twilight celebrity&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;  Here are highlights:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On why so many people are crazy for the Twilight Saga:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Ashley:&lt;/b&gt;  I think this film in particular is highly relatable. There are a lot of situations that people can relate to. The love story - everyone can relate to being in love or being in lust. You add the vampire, and it adds that next level fantasy. Vampires are mysterious and sensual and dangerous and unattainable. And everyone wants what they can&#039;t have. I think on another level that this came together at the perfect time. All the elements just fit, the casting was spot on, and we&#039;re in a difficult time right now with our economy. That&#039;s why you never have a drop in ticket sales because everyone wants an escape, and this movie is very much an escape from reality.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Kellan:&lt;/b&gt; It&#039;s a good escape but also it deals with so many situations, on so many positive notes. Just looking at it from the vampire coven to the wolf pack. It just deals with everyday issues just on bigger levels, in a way. And you have Bella as the keystone in many situations. You can just all relate from different countries to issues within the United States. It&#039;s easily relatable.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;To read a lot more about working with three different directors and why they feel so lucky, just read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On how their portrayals of the Cullens are similar or different from the books:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Kellan:&lt;/b&gt; We got the jobs because we brought something new to it.  You can interpret the characters each their own, but I think it&#039;s what we did alongside. Just like Kristen said - she&#039;s playing Bella but she&#039;s putting her Kristen spin on it, just like all of us are. And I think that&#039;s what&#039;s making it unique. We&#039;re still following the cheat sheets that Stephenie created by making the books, and there&#039;s Wikipedia. We have a lot of information to go off of. But I hope it&#039;s what I did in my audition that set it apart from the other guys trying out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ashley:&lt;/b&gt; I think it&#039;s mannerisms too. People do fall in love with this book, but I think part of it is that they always want more. You can&#039;t write out every human mannerism. You can imagine it, but seeing the emotion in someone&#039;s eyes and seeing them be affected it - it was kind of easy to give something to it, because we were just being people. We kinda just got lucky.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On how much more of the Cullens we can expect in the remaining movies&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Kellan:&lt;/b&gt; Realistically, we stick pretty close to the books. Obviously us Cullens would love to be in the books a lot more, which would mean we&#039;d be in the movies a lot more. Talking &lt;b&gt;New Moon&lt;/b&gt;, the scenes that the Cullens - except for Ashley, playing Alice who gets to go to Italy and be a main lead in the movie - us Cullens, we have to stick really close to the books, and the scenes that we&#039;re in are really crucial to the story, as you know - the birthday scene, the voting scene. I don&#039;t know, it was kind of a tease. Chris Weitz is such an amazing director, and for us, for myself - I only worked about a week on that movie. And it didn&#039;t even seem like I really got a taste for what it was. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ashley:&lt;/b&gt; In the third film, you&#039;ll see a lot more of the Cullens because it&#039;s all of us collaborating and then getting ready to fight this war that&#039;s coming up. In the second one, my character got a much larger role because Alice is the Cullen, other than Edward, that really embraces Bella and they end up becoming best friends. In the beginning, you see her throw this huge party for Bella, and then Alice is the one who does, in fact, come back for Bella when everyone else decides to skip town. Alice is responsible for dragging Bella over to Italy, and she and I the whole time are fighting to save my brother&#039;s life. And then of course we get held up by the Volturi and stuff like that. My character got to grow a lot, which is really cool.  You get to actually see the relationship develop between Bella and Alice, where in the first one you didn&#039;t. The first one was very much about the romance and showing the audience why these two people are willing to die for each other.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On working with a different director on each film:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Ashley:&lt;/b&gt; Each director is going to be very different. They&#039;re artists as well, and I don&#039;t think any of them are quite the same. The books, when you read them, all have very, very, different tones. So I think it&#039;s highly appropriate that we switch directors each go. The first one is very much a romance and is a very scenic, beautiful film. And Catherine&#039;s really, really great at capturing that. She&#039;s very high energy and works well in chaos and stuff like that. And it was fantastic because we didn&#039;t quite know what we were getting ourselves into, and so it was nice to have her to guide us when we were freaking out a little bit. She was just so high energy, and it was really contagious. We were sad to lose her and move on to the second film, but then we got Chris Weitz and he&#039;s the complete opposite! But great as well. He&#039;s so giving and caring and collaborative and created this atmosphere that was kind of a safe haven for us. And it was really nice because we didn&#039;t know, switching directors, if they were gonna embrace us or if they had a completely different vision than what we created in the first one. It was nice that he was right there on the same page with us. And the second one is a warmer film, even from the color scheme. The first one is very blue tones, and the second one is much richer and warmer and I think he did a great job at capturing that. And we just finished shooting with David Slade, and I think he&#039;s highly appropriate as well. He just finished shooting &lt;b&gt;30 Days of Night&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Hard Candy&lt;/b&gt;, and they&#039;re both very dark, edgy films. And &lt;b&gt;Eclipse&lt;/b&gt; is very much that. It&#039;s all centered around the anticipation and us getting ready to fight this huge war. We just finished filming, we haven&#039;t gotten to see much of it, but I think it&#039;s gonna be fantastic. He is, technically, the most advanced director. The angles that he shot and how he knows that tweaking something can affect a whole scene and the lenses. He was really nice to work with.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On coping with the fan effect and being a &quot;Twilight celebrity&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Kellan:&lt;/b&gt; That&#039;s what blows my mind, &#039;cause I feel like it&#039;s really unearned in a way. The fans are making our careers. Without them, we wouldn&#039;t be working and doing the saga. There&#039;s so many times that trilogy books become a movie and the first one bombs, and then that&#039;s it. And you&#039;re always hopeful that you get to do them all. Especially since we&#039;re all in love with our characters. I love Emmett Cullen to death, he&#039;s my favorite character I&#039;ve ever played. It&#039;s just so cool to have made it this far, and I think we all hope that we get to finish this series and do &lt;b&gt;Breaking Dawn&lt;/b&gt;. This is such a blessing, it&#039;s every actor&#039;s dream to be part of something like this. It&#039;s not terribly hard either. We don&#039;t shoot halfway around the world; we don&#039;t shoot for a year of our lives. I know a lot of us have homes, we have pets, we have family. And it&#039;s really nice to shoot on the West Coast, either Portland or Vancouver, and have the chance to fly down if we need to. But it&#039;s definitely amazing to be part of something like this. And I don&#039;t think any of us knew how crazy it would be and how exhilarating it would turn out to be.  Going to the premiere, really just, wow. I don&#039;t even remember it because I was really just starstruck by how many fans and signs and cameras. It felt like I was just walking through a strobe light room. It&#039;s amazing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ashley&lt;/b&gt;: I still think we can&#039;t really wrap our heads around what&#039;s going on and what&#039;s happening. We&#039;re still in the midst of filming and kept very busy from one film until the next. It&#039;s only these brief moments where you sit back and are actually able to take a breath where you go &quot;Whoa. Wow. This is crazy.&quot; I mean, the amount of tickets they&#039;ve already sold for &lt;b&gt;New Moon&lt;/b&gt; - I&#039;m pretty sure I can&#039;t even get a ticket if I tried to see my film in Jacksonville and it&#039;s mind boggling.  We&#039;re just very lucky.  I went into this film thinking &quot;Oh my gosh, I got a job&quot; and the it turned into the biggest break of my life.  I think we all feel very blessed to be a part of this.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;On how it feels to be part of Twilight fan fiction:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Kellan:&lt;/b&gt; It&#039;s an escape, in a way. We do live in a trivial time period right now. There&#039;s so much depression that it&#039;s kinda cool to be a part of something where people use it to be an escape. In a way that&#039;s kinda what Stephenie did -she had a dream and just elaborated on it. It became a huge success and it&#039;s really encouraging that people are doing the same and just making up this journey.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ashley:&lt;/b&gt; That&#039;s why people love it so much I think. You can take it and make what you want of it. Before the demographic was teenage girls, but now it&#039;s women of every age and guys are starting to get into it, too. It&#039;s because there is that element of fantasy. If you&#039;re 8 years old you look at it one way; if you&#039;re 80 years old you look at it another. I think it&#039;s fantastic that we can draw such a huge crowd. The other thing is - it blows my mind but  people are making connections over this film and over this book. there are mothers and daughters and grandmas who can all sit and talk about the same story and all fantasize about it and I think that&#039;s a really cool thing. I think it&#039;s rare.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To see all of our &lt;b&gt;Twilight&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;New Moon&lt;/b&gt; coverage, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/twilight&quot; &gt;TwilightSugar&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
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            We talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.savvysugar.com/tag/love+and+money&quot;&gt;love and money&lt;/a&gt; quite a bit here on Savvy, and many of you have had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.savvysugar.com/3374630&quot;&gt;a go-round or two&lt;/a&gt; with your significant other about the topic. In a new relationship, resolving money issues means adjusting to each other’s spending and saving styles, and coming up with a system you can both live with. But as relationships grow and change, financial situations do too, and many couples find themselves having to adjust their approach to money after years of marriage. 
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&lt;b&gt;New York Times&lt;/b&gt; columnist Ron Lieber &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/your-money/household-budgeting/07money.html?ref=your-money&quot;&gt;recently offered up a list of five issues&lt;/a&gt; that can cause financial bickering even in established relationships. To see them, along with my advice for how to address them, click away.

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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geeksugar.com/6112708&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=119 height=160  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed2/192/1922507/46_2009/f8d02b507a0231e1_dating-text-messages.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the benefits of of digital technology is that every email, text, and voicemail is easily saved, stored, and relived. It&#039;s helpful when you&#039;re dating someone - I think it&#039;s both fun and cute to reread old messages. (Though I suppose this can get dicey when trying to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geeksugar.com/3108545&quot; &gt;cut your ex out of your digital life&lt;/a&gt;, but that&#039;s a topic for another day). When it&#039;s good - it&#039;s great! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hadn&#039;t thought too much about it until a recently engaged friend unearthed a years-long log of emails and text messages, starting with the first email her now-fiance sent the morning after they met. My other friends and I teased her at first, but then realized that reading through her saved emails was almost like reading a book of the history of their relationship. Plus, it&#039;s fun to look back one month, six months, or even a year into the past to see what was going on, even if they&#039;re mundane messages about what movie to catch or what to make for dinner that night.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To find out why I think it&#039;s helpful to save old messages, just read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides its historical significance, saving messages from someone you&#039;re dating is also helpful when you&#039;re starting a new relationship. Who hasn&#039;t sat with their girlfriends and gadgets and analyzed a string of text messages from a new guy or potential date? (See also my advice on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geeksugar.com/4841949&quot; &gt;decoding postdate texts and instant messages&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you save these bits of communication when you&#039;re starting a new relationship? What about when you&#039;re in an established one? And do you ever go back to reread them? I&#039;ve started doing it, and I must admit, looking back on emails or text messages from a few months before is both nostalgic and sweet. &lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Breaking News: Luella is No More</title>
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fabsugar.co.uk/6125063&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=106 height=160  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed2/258/2589280/46_2009/c14140ce8133dc6a_Picture_3.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I unfortunately have to break some very sad news to you as one of London&#039;s best loved fashion labels, Luella, is no more. The announcement came today as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/luella-ceases-trading-2367371?browsets=1257866378491&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;WWD revealed&lt;/a&gt; that the long term investor Club 21 have walked away from the design house. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to a statement, VSQ Limited who operated the Luella business have reluctantly “taken the decision not to invest further in its relationship with Luella Bartley Limited.” Bartley commented,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;This is a very disappointing situation for everyone involved with the brand…I very much appreciate the support that VSQ has given me, but it is upsetting not to be able to protect jobs in this difficult economic climate. We have a number of options open to us, and are considering these over the coming months.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just last year, Bartley scooped &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fabsugar.co.uk/2537730&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;designer of the year&lt;/a&gt; at the British Fashion Awards and her designs have a strong &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fabsugar.co.uk/3080734&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;celebrity following&lt;/a&gt;. You also voted Luella your &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fabsugar.co.uk/2617029&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;number one designer of 2008.&lt;/a&gt; Let&#039;s hope that somebody can save the brand. &lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5916760&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=91  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed2/192/1922283/44_2009/15b62a2865c6033a_office3.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This week&#039;s opening of &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/the+office&quot; &gt;The Office&lt;/a&gt; isn&#039;t necessarily a huge spooky surprise since we already got a peek at those &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5859785&quot; &gt;costumed spoiler photos&lt;/a&gt;, but I still laughed through every minute of the intro. Jim&#039;s &quot;Bookface&quot; costume? A-ma-zing.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I sort of wished the rest of the episode followed suit with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/halloween&quot; &gt;Halloween&lt;/a&gt; theme, but that&#039;s OK, because we still get a great set up with Michael, Jim, and a lobby koi pond - not to mention a ton of quips that had me cackling. Check out my list of faves, and weigh in with your own!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Kids, just remember suicide is never the answer . . . Why is Christmas the only holiday that can have a message?&quot;-Michael&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It&#039;s bad enough that Michael Scott has the D*ck in a Box costume, but to wear it - and hang himself - in front of children?! That&#039;s even more hilariously inappropriate than usual for him. And am I totally off base, or is Ryan trying to be Edward Cullen?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even more funny lines, plus that koi pond video, when you read more.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;I date models - face models. My girlfriend, on a scale of 1 to Gisele? A nine. Pam&#039;s carrying our surrogate, because my girlfriend needed to keep her figure for Fashion Week.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Andy and Pam are forced to make cold calls when their sales figures are low, and clients mistakenly think they&#039;re married. This is when things get &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; awkward, leading up to a belly kiss. We normally don&#039;t get much interaction between Andy and Pam, but I think they do well as foils.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;The custodian called again. Apparently a koi has died.&quot;-Erin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I don&#039;t know why a koi pond is so funny to me, but I was giggling at the random jokes about Michael&#039;s mishap - yes, even Phyllis&#039;s lame, &quot;Did you flounder?&quot; &#039;Bout time the employees took a few shots at their bumbling boss. Then, when he gathers them into a meeting to make his &quot;mocking&quot; board, the insecurity really flies. Dwight&#039;s upset over his small nose, Angela&#039;s worried that she eats like a squirrel, and Meredith says she&#039;s embarrassed because she . . . had sex with a terrorist? (Um, did I read that right?!)&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;The guy was like, Who are your five friends? And I was like, I don&#039;t even know . . . . I&#039;m a total loser. Loooooser. Too far.&quot;-Michael&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I died over this one. Michael tries to save his embarrassment over the koi incident by making fun of himself, and instead, he comes across as pathetic. But &quot;too far&quot; was the real kicker for me.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Jim is my enemy. But Jim is also his greatest enemy. And the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So Jim is my friend.&quot;- Dwight&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
When the staff watches the security tape from the koi lobby and witnesses Jim actually &lt;i&gt;letting&lt;/i&gt; Michael fall in, their loyalty swiftly changes. Dwight so confused, his mind gets blown. I am enjoying this new glimpse into the Michael and Jim work dynamic - by the end of the episode, it seemed like they might actually get along as comanagers. On the other hand, I have to say that I miss the days when Jim was the dude with a sweet crush who liked to pull pranks. Check out the actual video of Jim leaning out of the way:&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Oh, do you mean Marlon Wayans? Cause he is.&quot;- Erin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Way to go Erin! I&#039;ve always sort of viewed her as a background character, but she delivered several funny ones this week. (I&#039;m also loving her right now thanks to her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5907869&quot; &gt;Subtle Sexuality music video.&lt;/a&gt;) Do you think the writers are really going to set her up with Andy? Pam seems to be pushing it in that direction - even comparing Andy to Marlon Brando - and I think it&#039;s brilliant.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What&#039;d you think of this week&#039;s episode? Who wore your favorite costume? Would you like to see Andy and Erin take their relationship to the next level? (I wonder if Angela would get jealous . . . ) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And don&#039;t forget that you can always head over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-office.buzzsugar.com/&quot; &gt;The Office! group&lt;/a&gt; in the BuzzSugar Community to dish about the show!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tressugar.com/5758901&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=120 height=160  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ed2/301/3019466/43_2009/64963cd0ce470e24_sb10069425n-001.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can choose your friends, but you can&#039;t choose your family. This fact of life means that many of us put up with people we might not otherwise get along with. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/health/20mind.html?ref=health&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yesterday&#039;s New York Times examined&lt;/a&gt; what happens when certain family members, namely parents, cross the line from imperfect to completely intolerable. Critical, demanding, non-accepting, or verbally abusive parents sometimes prove too toxic to tolerate, leading adults to &quot;divorce&quot; the people who brought them into the world. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While many mental health professionals typically emphasize salvaging relationships, Dr. Richard A. Friedman wrote in the &lt;b&gt;Times&lt;/b&gt; column that in certain circumstances, it might be healthier to end the relationship altogether. Dr. Friedman compares cutting off contact with a parent to cutting off a limb in order to save the adult child&#039;s life. Painful, but sometimes necessary. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to handle toxic parents? Would you avoid them, cut them out completely, or try your best to deal with them?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5602260&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=102  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/192/1922283/42_2009/0bffb7003b3248f3_housephoto.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This week&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/house&quot; &gt;House&lt;/a&gt; continued to stick to the tried-and-true show recipe, and our favorite doctor was there pulling the strings - even if he isn&#039;t &lt;i&gt;technically&lt;/i&gt; in charge. The episode answered one or two of &lt;a href =&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5476192&quot;&gt;my previous questions,&lt;/a&gt; and while the writers quickly tied up the dilemma involving last week&#039;s death of the dictator (breathe a collected sigh of relief), I highly doubt that Chase and Foreman&#039;s shared secret is just going to be swept under the rug for good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I&#039;m curious to see how everything plays out, but for now, take a look at my questions (some spoilers!) from this week&#039;s episode and share your thoughts when you read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Foreman brings up a good point, when will House get back his license? I&#039;m interested to see how long they drag it out for, although I do kind of like to see him play the annoying backseat driver to poor Foreman.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why isn&#039;t Chase a little more nervous about the M&amp;amp;M presentation at the beginning? He seems a bit too cocky about getting away scot-free.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thirteen! Man, I love seeing her and House spar. Wilson is right - she&#039;s the only one who doesn&#039;t get sucked into the &quot;House vortex.&quot; I know she&#039;s boarding a plane at the end, but I think she&#039;ll be back, don&#039;t you? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5224434&quot; &gt;Once Jennifer Morrison leaves,&lt;/a&gt; it would be strange to have just Chase and Foreman debate the odd medical scenarios.&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Speaking of Cameron&#039;s departure, it definitely seems like the writers are going to use Chase&#039;s secret to cause a rift in their relationship. First, they keep showing her alone in bed night after night, but then she asks him what was going on, and he continues to dig himself even deeper into the lie. When she does learn the truth - I&#039;m thinking &lt;i&gt;soon&lt;/i&gt; - there&#039;s going to be a huge blow-up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Why is it that House&#039;s pervy comments always make me laugh?! I love this one that he said to Thirteen: &quot;I wasn&#039;t talking to you; I was spying on the MILF in the running shorts.&quot; Ha!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I think this episode really shows a softer side to House. It started when he tells Foreman, &quot;You&#039;re going to be a good boss, Boss.&quot; Awww, is that an actual tender moment from the crotchety doctor?! And then he goes on to save Chase and Foreman from their M&amp;amp;M review, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; he tries to bring back Thirteen? House may say his heart is &quot;three sizes to small,&quot; but he is spreading good will all over the hospital - well, good will for House at least.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anyone else find the &quot;Midas&quot; dad kind of annoying? I don&#039;t dig his cocky attitude, and I was actually more interested in how things were playing out between the doctors than the actual medical case in this episode.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Here&#039;s a real philosophical question for you: Do you think that in some karmic way, that the father getting rid of his fortune really does help his son? House seems to be deep in thought over it at the end of the episode - or maybe he&#039;s questioning taking over the team again?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I love the moment where Chase tells House that he will always be in the guy in charge, but perhaps House is doubting his leadership. He does tell Cuddy that the combination of puzzles and power proved to be a bad mix for him. Still, I&#039;m ready to see him running the place again, even if he pretty much already does.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What&#039;d you think of the episode? Do you think House may be turning into a softie? Will he take over the reins from Foreman? And how will Thirteen finally make her return (if she does)? I want to hear all your hypotheses!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If this didn&#039;t satisfy your &lt;b&gt;House&lt;/b&gt; hunger, head over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-group.buzzsugar.com/&quot; &gt;House Group&lt;/a&gt; in the BuzzSugar Community to keep the conversation going!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#039;font-size:10px !important;&#039;&gt;Photo courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fox.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>Couples Retreat: Not Exactly a Relaxing Getaway</title>
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5514314&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=107  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/192/1922283/41_2009/8337c38747d9a623_retreat2.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everyone loves a vacation, right? Beautiful scenery, tropical drinks, fun in the sun. Add a few of your closest friends and you could have the trip of a lifetime - or a romantic getaway gone horribly awry. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;To be fair, the four pairs in &lt;a href=&quot;http://buzzsugar.com/tags/couples+retreat&quot; &gt;Couples Retreat&lt;/a&gt; don&#039;t realize what they&#039;re agreeing to when they head to Eden East, a swanky resort on a remote island. But once the relationship boot camp begins, the friendships quickly break down, and it&#039;s often more depressing than hilarious. To see what I mean, just read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The movie&#039;s couplings range in age, family size, and personality, with Vince Vaughn and Malin Akerman at the epicenter. As Dave and Ronnie, they are perhaps the most &quot;normal&quot; of the bunch. Between Dave&#039;s demanding job making video games (hello, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geeksugar.com/tag/guitar+hero&quot; &gt;Guitar Hero&lt;/a&gt; product placement&lt;/a&gt;) and raising two young sons, Dave and Ronnie don&#039;t even realize their problems until they are forced into couples skill-building. Vaughn is his typical wise-cracking character, but a touch of sweetness makes his on-screen relationship with Akerman the most enjoyable to watch. You can actually believe that they love each other and aren&#039;t using the trip as a band-aid for a bullet hole.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jason and Cynthia (played by Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell), on the other hand, are a lot harder to relate to as two type-A personalities with an undying love for organization and PowerPoint presentations. Jason and Cynthia present the idea of the group vacation to their friends as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage (promising that the therapy sessions are optional, of course). Bell is her typical adorable self, but Bateman is insufferable. His character is painfully meticulous and overbearing, making the audience feel just as suffocated as Cynthia does.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Joey (Jon Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin Davis) represent the worst of the worst: the couple that&#039;s been together so long that they don&#039;t even notice each other anymore. The high school sweethearts take the trip not as an opportunity to re-kindle the flame, but to chase skirts (or in this case, bikini bottoms) and muscular yoga instructors. Favreau gets a few laughs with his quest to get to Eden West, the &quot;singles&quot; side of the island, but age-wise, Davis doesn&#039;t quite fit in with Bell and Ackerman. It&#039;s also hard to laugh at characters that embody one of the biggest fears for young couples, and their ice-cold relationship is almost too realistic to scoff at.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then there&#039;s Shane (Faizon Love), who&#039;s newly separated from the wife he still loves, but brings along his 20-year-old girlfriend for the ride instead. As Trudy, Kali Hawk steals a lot of the laughs as she yearns to drink and party all night long while her boyfriend would rather take a nap. One joke that never gets old: Trudy&#039;s insistence on calling Shane &quot;Daddy&quot; throughout the entire film.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With such a strong headline cast, it&#039;s disappointing that the supporting actors steal the show. I laughed the hardest at Dave and Ronnie&#039;s adorable boys (who get very little screen time) and at the motley crew of therapists and other wacky workers at the resort dedicated to making this the trip from hell.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the end of it all, you&#039;ll get a few laughs along with some very beautiful imagery, but you might just want to put your money toward your own vacation instead. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#039;font-size:10px !important;&#039;&gt;Photos courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.universalpictures.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Universal Pictures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:11 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>House Season 6 Premiere Rundown: &quot;Broken&quot;</title>
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 <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/5184873&quot;&gt;&lt;img  width=160 height=107  src=&#039;http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/192/1922283/39_2009/f58068fa74aa9094_house.large.jpg&#039;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;After an entire Summer without &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/tag/house&quot; &gt;House&lt;/a&gt;, you can believe I was ready for last night’s two-hour premiere. With &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/3143691&quot; &gt;House checked in to an asylum&lt;/a&gt;, we knew season six was taking us in to new territory. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the start they let us know that this was not your typical episode. If the removal of Massive Attack&#039;s opening music, replaced with Radiohead&#039;s &quot;No Surprises&quot; wasn&#039;t enough to tip you off, then maybe the washed-out, dream-like detox scene was. Did you watch, and are you ready to discuss? Find out some of the things I&#039;m dying to talk about (spoilers ahead!), when you read more.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Where was the medical mystery? I have to admit, while I loved this episode, I kept waiting for the medical mystery. Every time Annie (the catatonic cello player) was on screen, I would think, &quot;Oh he&#039;s going to solve this, surely she must have some rare disease.&quot; Then after superhero Steve becomes catatonic, I figured the same thing. And when neither of those panned out, I thought it would be Dr. Nolan&#039;s father who would be saved. However once the clock started ticking down, it dawned on me. This is the episode where the person who gets saved is House.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What did you think of the dynamic between House and Nolan? I think Andre Braugher is the perfect foil to House. Their dynamic seems so real, and I love that he essentially blackmails House into getting better and thwarts his attempts to trick Wilson.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Speaking of Wilson, did you notice that he is the only other cast member to appear? Did you miss the rest of the cast, or were you fine with the new faces? Do you think any of these faces will show up again? I think it would be a treat if Alvie turned up at Princeton Plainsboro with a rap for our favorite diagnostic team.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;While the tone of the episode is admittedly dark, two of my favorite moments had to be when House and superhero Steve are flying at the carnival, and when House joins Alvie on stage for the talent show. I don&#039;t think we&#039;ve ever seen House smiling unless it&#039;s to cause the frustration of someone else. How about you, what was your favorite scene?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How important do you think House&#039;s relationship with Lydia (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzsugar.com/tags/Franka+Potente&quot; &gt;Franka Potente&lt;/a&gt;) is? Do you think House would have been &quot;cured&quot; had she not been there?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Now for another somber moment. Were you also tricked into thinking superhero Steve actually died? I was glad to hear that he&#039;s still alive. I don&#039;t think House (or myself) could&#039;ve handled yet another death on the show.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There were a lot of great quotes during the evening. However, my favorite line of the night is when Alvie tells House that they broke him, and House replies with, &quot;They didn’t break me - I am broken.&quot; What was your favorite line?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do you think House has really been cured? Or do you think he&#039;ll be back to his old tricks and Vicodin pill-popping ways by next week&#039;s episode?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Really, there was so much to this week&#039;s episode. In fact, it felt like &lt;b&gt;House&lt;/b&gt; the Motion Picture, and I think it did a great job in covering the gap between last season and this one. I have no idea where the writers are taking us, but if the rest of the season is as good as last night&#039;s premiere, we&#039;re in for a treat!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To meet more &lt;b&gt;House&lt;/b&gt; fans and keep the discussion going, join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-group.buzzsugar.com/&quot; &gt; House Group&lt;/a&gt; on the BuzzSugar Community!&lt;/p&gt;
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