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As Barack and Michelle Obama get ready to celebrate their 17th anniversary–their first as President and First Lady–on October 3rd, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen claims they are “the most real, down-to-earth, quintessentially American First Couple we’ve ever had in the White House. Whatever your politics, it’s almost impossible not to admire them on a personal level.”
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Filmmaker goes all the way there in latest e-mail blast to promote ‘Precious.’
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster
Released: September 22, 2009
ISBN: 781439158906
Studio: Lionsgate
Plot: Three siblings realize they’ve picked the wrong house to rob when they come face-to-face with the quick-tempered matriarch Madea.
Cast: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White, Mary J. Blige, Hope Olaide Wilson, Kwesi Boakye, Freddy Sigla
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: ***
Studio: Universal Pictures (2 hours 32 minutes)
Plot: A group of Jewish American soldiers wage a brutal guerilla war against Nazis.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Jacky Ido, Til Schweiger
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ****
Meet much loved Michigan author Beverly Jenkins, as she talks about her 2009 release Bring on the Blessings
Fragments
Studio:PeaceArch Entertainment
Plot: A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a diner.
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Josh Hutcherson
Rating: R
Bottom Line: **
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
“Can his pals cheer him up?
Will his pout ever end?
Is there something he can learn
From an unexpected friend?”
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Studio: 20th Century Fox (1 hr. 27 min.)
Plot: The Ice Age gang (Scrat, Sid, Manny, Ellie and Diego) discover a lost world of dinosaurs under the ice.
Cast: Vocal talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah
Rating: PG
Bottom Line: **