Elf

My favorite movie is Elf with Will Ferrell. This is my all time favorite movie because Will Ferrell is halarious! He plays Buddy the elf really well. I can watch this movie and recite most of the lines. My favorite line is, "You're not Santa. You smell like beef and cheese." haha it cracks me up every time I hear it. I really do not have anything in common with the story plot; An adopted baby by an elf from the north pole going to New York in search of his biological father when he is a grown man. I don't even celebrate Christmas considering I was raised Jewish. The movie is just really funny. It also reminds me of the last thanksgiving I had in Chicago with my whole family. My sisters and I ran to blockbuster in the below zero degree weather to rent Elf and made our whole family watch it. They are all Jewish too so it made it a lot funnier. My sisters and I also quote the movie. One of my sisters still lives in Chicago and whenever we're bored we just send each other text messages with quotes from the movie. Our favorite one is "bye Buddy. I hope you find your dad". 

When I want to see a movie, I love to see it in my own house on my nice 70 in. screen t.v. (well my dad's t.v.). I prefer not to go to the movies since people in the audience have no respect for people who actually like to watch the movie. There's always that one person who has to sit next to you that crinkles their candy wrappers, chews with the mouth open, and talks during the movie. Oh and takes over your arm rest. Then there are those people who like to rest their feet on the back of your chair. That makes me made; so watching a movie in my own home is what I like to do. There are disadvantages to watching movies at home though. You can only rent movies that have already been in the theaters. You have to wait to see a movie until it comes out on DVD or BlueRay. Sometimes I will go to the  movies to see a film that looks very interesting, otherwise I'll stick with my home made popcorn and lazy boy. 

 I did watch the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 22. I thought Hough Jackman did an amazing job hosting! He is a very talented man. I didn't know he could sing, dance, and act. I knew him in the movie Australia but that was about it. Seeing him as the host made me give him a lot more respect as an actor. I thought that the stage settings were amazingly well put together. There were a lot of different stage settings that had to have a lot of time put into them. As usual there were beautiful dresses along with some hideous dresses. What I didn't enjoy about the Academy Awards was the way they started with the best supporting actress and actor leaving the best actor and actress not a mystery. My favorite act during the Awards was Ben Stiller acting like Joaquin Phoenix. Mr. Stiller did a great impression of Mr. Phoenix.  I also enjoyed Tina Fey and Steve Martin's act. 

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Home Depot Clinics
By Danie Lipschutz

Orlando - Argh argh argh. Tim the Tool Man Taylor wouldn’t even electrocute himself with Home Depot’s helpful clinics.

Saint Cloud’s Home Depot holds clinics for any home project you could imagine from installing lights to laying tiles to putting in crown molding.

This past Sunday’s clinic was how to install interior lighting led by employee Victor (Vic) Catalano.

These clinics are not class room style. Instead, Catalano walked around the store and showed examples of every different kind of interior lighting you could have: recessed lighting, track lighting, general/florescence, wall lights, and ceiling lights.

Along with showing different types of lights, Catalano discussed safety and tools necessary to help install lights.

As helpful as these clinics are, “it’s becoming more of a one-on-one type deal”, Catalano stated, “and more for specialized purposes only”.

In the past these classes had more attendance, but with the economy falling people are reluctant to spend money on home projects.