Now I know how Cinderella felt

      I saw the movie 'Ever After: A Cinderella story' and thought to myself this had to be one of the best portrayals of the Cinderella story since the original Disney cartoon adaptation of Cinderella.

  Then ''Cinderella III: A twist in time" came out. It seemed like there was a connection between those two movies.

   One stepsister was a bitch to Cinderella while the other was trying to find love and cared more about her feeling and Cinderella's then following her evil mother and sisters footsteps.



In Ever After, Jacqueline plays the kind, gentle though timid and scared to stand up to her evil sister and mother. 
   She cares about Danielle and knew all along that she was the true Cinderella. She, along with a few of the house maids, hid the secret until it was revealed during a mask ball. The Bareness (played by the talented Angelica Houston) revealed that Cinderella was nothing but a servant. Feeling he was born to privilege, the prince threw her out of the mask ball, she ends up being sold, and he ends up saving her.
  Jacqueline eventually tells the truth to the King and Queen, revealing her mother and sister lied and eventually they get their just deserts by working for the new queen, Danielle.



   In Cinderella, it's a little different. There are two evil step sisters in the beginning. Drizilla and Anastasia.
  They were both rude, nasty and treated Cinderella like garbage, ripping her gown in pieces and Cinderella gets help from a fairy godmother and well.... we all know what happens.

            In the sequel "A Twist in time" it seems Anastasia becomes kinder, only wanting one thing, love. But her evil mother wants to rule the palace. They find the fairly godmother's wand and change the cores of history, when the slipper fit Anastasia. Deep down, she doesn't know if it feels right, but the prince is hypnotized and he only thinks he loves Anastasia.

  By the end, he realizes who Cinderella really is, but Lady Tremaine has one evil trick up her sleeve.  Making Anastasia look like Cinderella, eventually, Cinderella returns when Anastasia that she doesn't want to marry the prince. She wanted to love somebody for who she was.

It got me thinking. So many movies have done their portrayal of "Cinderella" Some good some bad. But sometimes, there can be one of them that has a certain gem that makes it a good movie. What could it be? Could it be the actors portraying the characters, the writing or maybe it's just a good story about an out of luck girl trying to find her happily ever after.

   We all need a happily ever after in our lives and how we can find it, not just by dreaming but by achieving it.  And with the help of a bitchy step-sister turned nice, or a fairy godmother, we know there is a spark in all of us wanting something good to happen in our life. Love, confidence what not. It's all there and knowing these movies have one good and one evil step sister might make a reason why I like these Cinderella movies more than others. Ciao Bloggers, and find your happily ever after.

Harper Lee

  She is no longer with us, but her story and movie of "To Kill a Mockingbird" will live on in generations to come.

  She was an amazement with her story of a tomboy girl named Scout. Motherless, her father a juror trying to defend a black man raping a white woman which was rare back in the days of segregation, but he did the best he could Tom Robinson's innocents. Even though he lost the trial, and Tom Robinson was gun down, and the right person was injustice all from what appeared to be an accident caused by Boo Radley in an accident when he was trying to save the Finch Children.

   Gregory Peck portrayed Atticus Finch in the 1962 rendition and he was marvelous. Robert Duvall Was Boo Radley and he didn't speak any words but the actions he portrayed showed the emotions the character was going through. To quote Atticus: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

  Heavy words, portrayed by an author who had experienced so much in her life...

    Authors usually take stories from their life and point of views and try to inspirited it and make the history come to life.

Harper Lee was one of them.

   She didn't have a mother and her father was lawyer, but unlike Atticus, after he lost a case he went to drinking. Harper Lee never wrote another book again. But in 2014, she wrote another book that showed the adult side of Scout titled: "Go Set a Watchman"

  It wasn't as great as "To Kill a Mockingbird" was but it show she wasn't giving up in her writing and was living in Alabama, but sadly... passed away at the age of 89, giving people hope that there is a little Scout inside of all of us. That we can defend someone and not because of race and color. We don't judge a person at all, everyone is a human being.

  Harper Lee taught us that. And because of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Great wisdom and speeches, we can share not only an amazing movie that made Gregory Peck a star, but can teach a person to be human and not to judge someone because they are different.

                                   Thank You Harper Lee. We Will really Miss you.

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One Does not love breathing."-Harper Lee (1926-2016)

Are people just forgetting Black history month???

  This year is going by way too fast..... and with so many celebrities boycotting the Oscars this year, are many people also boycotting black history month as well??

   Maybe not, maybe so but it feels that some people are forgetting that February is after all black history month.


 Long time ago, it wasn't even taught in schools but because of trail blazers like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Malcom X and even Martin Luther King Jr. there are so many famous African Americans that have done the world an amazement. Even giving us our first African American President Barack Obama.

   But now I feel we are losing touch with what Black History has meant to us.
 When I was young, February was mostly focused on one thing Black History and now it just feels as if we are forgetting all the great African Americans that did all the great inventions, moments in history and bravery that all they done for us.

  I guess with what has been happening with this Oscar Boycotting, maybe had something to do with it. Not one African American was nominated this year for best actor or best actress and a lot of African American actors, actresses and even directors are not going to participate on the biggest night in movie history. Although It is ironic that there is a black guy hosting this year, but that has noting to do with it.

   I do feel so sorry deep down for all of them. In the heavens, I feel that all the great African Americans that have passed on, looking down thinking that every month should be a celebration of Black History and not just in February,

 Black History Month is special for every one who respect and honored what every African American has done weather it would be in Politics, entertainment or even if they were an inventor.

  Harriet Tubman got slaves safely to freedom. Rosa Parks sat on the front of the bus, wouldn't move and gets arrested for it, because she is not white. Malcolm X made speeches that rings in everyone ears still today  And Barack Obamana became our first Black President.

   So despite what is happening with the Oscars, it doesn't mean we shouldn't forget the most important moment in history in all the month of February. Black History.
 
To leave you with these words by Martin Luther King Jr.: "Peace is not mearly a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal"

  Never forget your history and your past because your future depends on it. Ciao Bloggers

Valentine's day chill/ Worst Commercials ever

Wanna give you two in the hole this time.


      First off... This Super bowl wasn't as spectacular as it should have been, and their commercials were not helpful. They were horrendous. I feel as if they were trying too hard, or just the opposite. How are these commercials going to be offering me cars or beer or Doritos?

     My five worst commercials had to be.....
            Number five: A snickers commercial with Willem Defoe wearing a Marilyn Monroe dress from a famous movie scene. Were they seriously out of ideas or did they just wanted to see the villain in the first spider man movie wear a dress?? I thought the Betty White Snickers commercial was funnier. I don't think that would be something Marilyn would love to see if she were alive.

           Number four: A Bud Light commercial starring Seth Rogan and *shutter* untalented Amy Schumer. Trying to promote a funnier campaign for Bud Light. It's a beer and because we're at the presidential campaign this year they just wanna make it stupider and use celebrities that are unfunny and not worth it. They can bring in Kanye West and make it look stupid I wouldn't buy it still. On the plus side, Paul Rudd was in it, on the minus side, only for a second.

   Number three: Christopher Walken scaring the daylights out of someone just for a Kia. I'm starting to get the feeling that I'm going to be disliking Super Bowl commercials. But this one is pretty interesting. He decides to scare someone when he goes into a walk in closet using socks and showing him a KIA. Well it's not as bad as those stupid hamsters looking like people driving KIAS but I didn't like it.


            Number two: It's for this sort of a beer commercial. We see this guy talking to a orange peel? Ok he might be high. But I think it has something to do with not drinking or driving or I don't know. It might be something forgettable which many of these people who thought of this idea will be forgetting. The product is called 'Shock Top' I don't know if it's a beer but this super bowl commercial is not as stupid, creepy or horrible as the number one ever.

     Number one:  I don't know what it is. Three boys are thirsty and soon what appears is an abomination thought up by a drunk member in the creative department. A dog head, monkey body and baby feet. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT????? I felt children would be having nightmares over this. I think I had nightmares over this. It was for mountain dew or something, but this is not meant for anybody to see. If I ever find out who thought of this idea, I should thank him for giving me nightmares for the rest of my life, or just kill him. But this is the worst that Super Bowl 50 had to offer this year.


   There was one that was hilarious. It was a Doritos commercials where a man and his wife are looking at a sonogram of their child and she's upset that he's eating Doritos but the baby in the wife's stomach wanted one too, when she threw the Dorito away, well let's just say... lol.



  Till then, enjoy a cold freezing Valentine's day Nature has for us to offer.... and hopefully you will be near a warm open fire with your love ones or love one and eating a lot of chocolate.
    Usually Valentine's day isn't suppose to be this cold, but it is after all winter. It is made for lovers and Italian food. Ciao for now and Happy Valentine's day!

Are Susan Ross and Maude Flanders the same???

  Ok, ok I should explain this one....

   If you ever are a fan of Seinfeld or Simpson fan, you would know they would kill off some of their characters.

Maude Flanders was from the Simpsons and Susan Ross was from Seinfeld. But I always thought to myself, do they have the same similarity trait from the show even in their death?


  Let's start off with Simpsons and Maude Flanders. The reason they killed off this character was mainly because of the voice actor, Maggie Rosswell. She didn't get much money in her paycheck and let's say they changed the voice of her characters like Mrs. Lovejoy, Millhouse's mom and Miss Hoover Lisa's teacher. Maude Flanders was Ned's first wife. They had two children, Rod and Todd.

   I thought she was the most boring character next to Otto the bus driver. But she was not seen in many episodes and when Maggie Rosswell left, the new voice actor appeared and Maude was just silent most of the time.  One episode, the last appearance of Maude, is when the Flanders family is at a nascar race and Maude went to get hot dogs. It took five minutes for Homer to taunt the t-shirt cannon girls to hit not him, but Maude with a barrage of t-shirts, letting her fall off the stadium and killing her on the ground.
  How quick was it to get hot dogs is what I wanted to know.

 Ever since her tragic death, Ned has been in sudden sadness, although remarried to Edna, but sadly Marcia Wallace passed away and the character of Mrs. Krabapple retired. But the character of Maude wasn't truly gone, it seemed that Maude has been seen in Simpson flashbacks and Maggie Rosswell has comeback to voice her once again.

   But I still find her, as well as the Simpsons now a days, a little irritating. She isn't the only one.

  For Seinfeld, we have Susan Ross. Played by Heidi Swedberg, Susan was introduced in season 4 when Jerry wanted to get his own tv show on NBC with the help of George. Although it never worked out, George took a shine to one of NBC executives Susan. She worked with NBC but sadly got fired when George stupidly kissed her in front of some of the NBC executives and they broke up, not before Kramer burned down her father's cabin and they found out her dad slept with John Cheever. She soon became a lesbian but sadly that didn't work out either.

   George loved her in Season 7 and asked for her hand in marriage. George loved and hated the idea he tried his best to postpone the wedding even as far as crying like a baby. He couldn't stand sleeping with her doll collection since one looked like his mother, and when his parents met her parents, they forgot to put the rye bread out and George's dad steals it back, so they had to fish hook it back without any of the Ross' knowing. But suddenly Susan dies by licking toxic envelopes because George was cheap or was he?

I have read that this character on Seinfeld was so annoying and irritating to deal with that they wanted to kill her off.  Weird, I always thought she was enjoyable. Maybe I felt sorry for Heidi or maybe I just was surprised they killed George's girlfriend but what the worst thing was at the end of the episode where Susan dies, he calls Marisa Tomei saying that he's not married anymore and wants to date her, let's just say that didn't work out well.

  I feel that both of these characters have a similarity on their life and their death scene, sad yes, but funny as well. We didn't know it was coming but we enjoyed every moment we enjoyed even if they were annoying at times.

  If I had to pick which character I relate to, I would say Susan. I'm demanding and I'm just somewhat like her, I wouldn't go licking toxic envelopes but let's say Heidi is an amazing actress and has done a lot since she left Seinfeld. Till then, the similarities and difference of these characters are like night and day. All they are, are actors. Caio Bloggers!