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These Hips Don’t Lie

These Hips Don’t Lie

April 1, 2013 | By | 1 Comment

I’m back in the US after spending a week in Colombia. This is another journal of my trip. Here was the first in case you missed it. The combination of winding roads, high elevation and Mario Andretti wannabe drivers made me super nauseous every time we got in a cab. Incidentally, if […]

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Aladdin

Aladdin

March 28, 2013 | By | Add a Comment

We’ve come to the sixth member in our Princess Diary series. Aladdin came out in 1992 – three years after The Little Mermaid and one year after Beauty and the Beast. Let’s take a ride on that magic carpet.  1:30 – This movie opens with a sinister looking man singing […]

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Life on Another Planet

Life on Another Planet

March 26, 2013 | By | 7 Comments

I learn firsthand something I’ve suspected for a long time. There are, indeed, people who live outside of the United States of America. The life is different. So different, I feel as though I might as well be on another planet. In this case, that planet’s name is “Colombia”. I […]

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I Love Cyndi Lauper

I Love Cyndi Lauper

March 8, 2013 | By | 2 Comments

I love Cyndi Lauper. (It feels so good typing that, I’m going to type it again.) I LOVE CYNDI LAUPER! (Oh yes! The freedom in professing my love! I know girls just want to have fun, but I’m coming right out with my feelings, Cyndi. You know where I stand. […]

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Loving Your Enemies

Loving Your Enemies

February 1, 2013 | By | Add a Comment

The love for equals is a human thing–of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing–the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, […]

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

November 18, 2012 | By | 2 Comments

Beauty and the Beast came out in 1991 – two years after The Little Mermaid. Here is the backstory for those unfamiliar: Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle.  Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, […]

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Enchanted

Enchanted

November 12, 2012 | By | 4 Comments

I’m taking a break from all my princess posting to present… a princess post! This time, one of my friends approached me telling me I had to write about Enchanted. I told her I knew nothing about the movie. She replied, “It’s like the movie Elf, but with a Disney […]

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The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid

November 10, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

After polling my friends, searching more than a handful of libraries, and combing every used movie store I’m aware of, I finally found a copy of The Little Mermaid. But here is the best part: it was being sold for only … $42.49! Yes, that is a 4 and a […]

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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

November 8, 2012 | By | Add a Comment

Snow White (1937) and Cinderella (1950) have already been taken care of, which brings us to Sleeping Beauty (1959). So far, I’ve been impressed with how well these movies hold up after all these years. Let’s see if Sleeping Beauty can keep that trend going. 1:00 – A song about […]

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Cinderella

Cinderella

November 7, 2012 | By | 2 Comments

In order to rent this movie, I drove to one of three remaining Blockbuster videos in the state of Massachusetts. When I got there, I learned of a Disney “vault” where apparently Disney only re-releases certain movies every so often and even then only puts a limited amount of copies […]

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