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Coraline

Plot: Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

I went to see Coraline over the weekend. I would give it 3 out of 5 stars. The theater I went to did not have it available in 3-D and I've heard that it's much more fabulous that way. Still, it was very visually pleasing and much better than Corpse Bride, although still not as good as Nightmare Before Christmas, which is my measuring stick for all stop-motion animated movies. It is definitely not a movie for young children, as the story has some darker elements to it. The story stuck fairly close to the book, but did take a few liberties. I wasn't a big fan of the book, so this is one instance where I actually liked the movie more than the book.

photo: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/

Academy Award Nominees

Who will win?

http://www.oscar.com/nominees/?pn=nominees

2010 Master List - Rebecca Caudill Award

Amato, Mary Naked Mole-Rat Letters

Applegate, Katherine Home of the Brave

Bingham, Kelly L. Shark Girl

Dowell, Frances O'Roark Shooting the Moon

Freedman, Russell Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

George, Jessica Day Dragon Slippers

Graff, Lisa The Thing About Georgie

Hahn, Mary Downing All the Lovely Bad Ones

Hobbs, Will Crossing the Wire

Kent, Rose Kimchi & Calamari

Mass, Wendy Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Morpurgo, Michael The Mozart Question

Nuzum, K. A. A Small White Scar

Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday Wars

Smith, Roland Elephant Run

St. John, Lauren The White Giraffe

Stead, Rebecca First Light

Tarshis, Lauren Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

Urban, Linda A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Wolf, Joan M. Someone Named Eva

Giant Spider Attacks Liverpool, England!

Last year, a 50-foot robot spider, AKA La Princesse, clung to the sides of buildings, scuttled down streets, and frightened little children. Don't look if you have arachnophobia!

Cute Animals

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Bubble Gum Day - Friday, February 6th

• Cinnamon, spearmint and peppermint are among the most popular flavors of chewing gum today.


• Why is bubble gum pink? The color of the first successful bubble gum was pink because it was the only color the inventor had left. The color "stuck" and today bubble gum is still predominantly pink.


• The largest bubble ever blown was 23 inches in diameter. The record was set July 19, 1994 by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, CA. (Guinness Book of World Records 1998)
  Did you know that North American kids spend approximately half a billion dollars on bubble gum every year?

http://www.nacgm.org/consumer/funfacts.html

The Straight Dope

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Cecil Adams takes questions from the teeming millions, spewing forth correctness week after week.