144 et 145

À Noël, j'ai eu deux nouveaux shooters pour ma collection.  J'ai eu mes 144è et 145è !!!

Le mois dernier, mes beaux-parents ont fait un superbe voyage en Australie ainsi qu'en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Ils m'ont rapporté 2 shooters de là-bas.  Les voilà:

J'suis vraiment contente!!!

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is a Janelle Brown's novel which I took too many months to finish.  I started it last April and couldn't really get into it then. And people kept telling me about that Eat Pray Love book. That I should read it - that it would change my life and all. So, I put Janelle Brown's novel aside and started reading Eat Pray Love. 

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Well, I have to admit that I didn't quite get into it either. I couldn't find that 'thing' that people kept telling me about.  So 3 weeks ago, I noticed the All We Ever Wanted Was Everything book on the table in the living room. I picked it up and started reading it from where I had started, and I really enjoyed it. Isn't this weird? Anyway, I don't know if it's because all the tv programs are over for the Christmas holidays, but I couldn't put the book down. I went to sleep really late these last weeks just because I liked the book so much.

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Here's a little summary:

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling postfeminist magazine. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut.

The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country-club ladies, their own demons, and one another, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for—even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is an original, utterly modern addition to the genre of suburban fiction.

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It's quite interesting to read about these three generations of women.  The traditional ideal mom staying at home, the almost-30-year-old daughter who had everything on a silver platter but managed to mess it up when leaving from home, and then there's a young teenager who has her deal of troubles: worries of fitting in, losing weight, having sexual experiences and idolizing Hollywood stars.
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I really liked the book, even if it left me hungry for more. I mean, I have to imagine the best or the worst for these three now!!! ;-)
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Rating:  8/10

The Tourist

Friday, straight after work, I drove to Sherbrooke, had some sushi and then I went to the movie theater.  Awesome! the movie I wanted to see is in English!!! I saw The Tourist - with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.

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Friday morning, at the show Salut Bonjour, the movie critic Daniel Daignault just demolished the movie.  He kept saying bad things about it. I'll spare you these comments. I had enough of this BS, so I turned off the tv. and decided I would make my own mind about it.

Synopsis:

Frank (Depp) is an American tourist visiting Venice, Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Jolie) is a woman who crosses his path in order to mislead all those following her former lover, Alexander Pierce, a criminal wanted in fourteen countries who has stolen 2 billion from a gangster (Steven Berkoff) and is being pursued by an agent (Bettany). Through Elise, he is introduced to the posh lifestyle of elegant hotels and high society.

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Here's the trailer:

So, here's what I thought about the movie:  

I loved it!!! 

I discovered how beautiful Venice is and I also enjoyed a magnificent Angelina Jolie (Elise Ward) wearing several haute-couture outfits. Just seeing her in these gowns and all, walking like a model - perfect body, impeccable face, luscious lips - that made my day!!!  Moreover, she had a British accent that was quite sexy!

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Her partner, Johnny Depp (Frank Tupelo) was also really good in his role.  Funny, romantic, clownish and... 'American', Depp was completely at ease in this character.

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I totally loved the technological aspect of this dramatic thriller.  All those gadgets they used to spy and to shed light on the mysteries are truly amazing.  I admit that the story doesn't have a huge Oscar screenplay, but who care?  There's a beginning, an intrigue, desire, technology, police officers and an end.  I think the storyline makes sense and I don't know why all the reviews I've read are so negative. 

 Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a happy person!!!  :-)

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I read in the magazine 7 Jours, that a sensuous shower scene was deleted after Depp asked the production to do so.  Apparently, Vanessa Paradis, Depp's wife, would not appreciate seeing her husband rubbing himself against Jolie.

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Finally, I think you should see the movie for beautiful Venice and those incredible actors (Jolie and Depp) who played together for the first time in The Tourist.

Rating: 9.5/10

Lance et Compte

Je suis allée au cinoche ce soir avec Éric et Marika. Nous avions essayé la semaine passée d'y aller à Sherbrooke, mais la salle était pleine pour l'heure que nous voulions.  On a bien fait d'y aller ce soir, ici à Lac-Mégantic, car il y avait beaucoup de places libres.  Nous étions assis derrière une équipe d'hockey Atome de Drummondville. Ils étaient bien comiques.

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Synopsis:

Suite à un grave accident d'autobus qui a décimé l'équipe après un match pré-saison à Roberval, le National de Québec doit se reconstruire. Recevant peu d'appui de la Ligue Nationale, l'entraîneur et directeur-gérant Marc Gagnon essaie de motiver ses joueurs en nommant le jeune prodige Guy Lambert capitaine. Mais les joueurs n'ont plus de motivation et l'équipe perd dix-neuf matchs d'affilée. Alors que tout semble perdu, le National doit se tourner vers son ancien héros Pierre Lambert afin de retrouver le chemin de la victoire. Suzie Lambert, elle, a pris sous son aile un groupe de travailleuses qui souhaite sauver l'usine où elles travaillent.

Première impression: J'ai beaucoup aimé.  J'aime ça le hockey moi!!! Évidemment, nous en avions tellement endendu parlé à la radio, dans les journaux ou même vu des bandes-annonces qu'il y avait certaines scènes qui ne nous surprenaient pas du tout. Le 'punch' du décès de certains joueurs qui nous a été dévoilé par les médias a enlevé un peu d'étonnement. J'ai quand même versé quelques larmes - c'était touchant.

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Les scènes de hockey étaient bien filmées. Ça ressemblait à ce que la série télé nous offrait. Il n'y a pas eu beaucoup de scènes d'amour, sauf à un certain moment.  Je dois vous dire que ça a été une partie très marrante, car presque tous les garçons de l'équipe d'hockey Atome qui étaient assis devant nous avaient les mains devant les yeux et se retournaient en soupirant des ''Aaarkk''. Je n'ai pas eu le temps de regarder la scène amoureuse étant donné que j'observais les jeunes hommes et me bidonnais.

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Le jeu des acteurs étaient très bien également.  Marc Messier (Marc Gagnon) est égale à lui-même. On ressentait sa douleur et sa fougue.  Marina Orsini (Suzie Lambert) était merveilleuse - émotive et combattante. Carl Marotte (Pierre Lambert) est plus beau que jamais. Disons qu'il ne fait pas ses 51 ans - il a bien veilli!!!

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À ceux qui écoutent la série depuis quelques années seulement ou depuis le début comme moi, je vous conseille d'aller voir le film. Je ne crois pas que vous serez déçus.  J'espère sincèrement que la série se poursuivra à la télévision l'an prochain.

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Rating: 9/10