In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
No, this book is not about an owl’s adventures. It doesn’t open with owls swooping around in search of prey or with a description of an orchestra of owls making a racket in the dark night sky. In fact, owls aren’t even mentioned until about halfway into the plot.
Albeit that this book is funny and eccentric, in typical Hiaasen fashion, I’m not all that sure it is all that award-worthy. I mean, it’s readable, but not fantastic. It teaches some good lessons revolving around bullying and standing up for what you believe in, but it’s not like a super-dee-duper monumental jump ahead in children’s literature. It’s got a good message, entertains the reader and is a satisfactory expedition into the twists and turns of a small-town juvenile mystery.
Roy Eberhardt is the new kid in town ? once again. It’s becoming second nature to him, not feeling like he 100% belongs anywhere. With all of the moving he and his parents do, he’s now hesitant to make himself comfy at all, because the chances are high that the suitcases will be packed and they’ll be heading to the next state before his next report card is distributed. He misses the mountains of Montana. He longs for a real place to call home. He crazes excitement in his life. And soon, he gets it.
Trace Middle School. Coconut Grove, Florida. It’s all brand new to him ? and not at all very welcoming. He sits at a table by himself at lunch, no real friends, only bullies to push him around. But Dana Matherson’s bullying served a good purpose for Roy. If it hadn’t been for him mashing his face against the school bus window that fateful morning, he may have never seen the running boy. And if he had never seen the running boy with a backpack and no shoes, then there’s a possibility that he may never have met the scrawny but tough, Beatrice, which means he would have never discovered the burrowing owls living in the lot on East Oriole Avenue that was in the midst of being transformed into a pancake house. If weren’t for the owls, there wouldn’t have been an adventure of a lifetime and he probably would have continued with the same boring and excruciatingly painful routine ? and he would’ve never made any friends or saved any owls. Thanks to a bully’s actions, Roy ended up on TV, in the newspapers and praised all around for standing up against capitalism and being an animal rights activist. Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House was not going to be built on top of these cute little owls’ homes, not if he had anything to do with it.
Regardless of whether or not the adults in charge of this project are ignoring the burrows of tiny owls that will be buried by the bulldozing equipment, Roy insists they are living there and that they need to be saved. His parents tell him he can’t win against such a big company. But Roy does his research and it turns out the company hadn’t filled out all of the necessary permits. Ah ha, loophole. So Roy, Beatrice, and her refuses-to-give-his-real-name, step-brother Mullet Fingers, outwit Officer Delinko, the police officer whose duty is to protect the site, and Curly, the foreman responsible for construction of the site. Entertaining but engaging, but still lacking the childish joie-de-vive every good novel geared toward this age group should contain.
It was a good attempt on his part, but I don’t think Hiaasen has the knack needed for children’s literature. In my opinion, he’s better off writing his farfetched tales of wonderfully twisted and tragically weird fiction for adults. It was interesting, but I still say he should stick to his niche. He’s too bitter to write children’s books. His ‘somewhere-between-amused-and-disgusted’ attitude toward the world just doesn’t really work for young readers. They don’t get it. It’s wasted on them.
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Genre: Young Readers/Mystery
