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2009/11/19

Julie & Julia

一部简单温馨的电影,仅仅是关于两个女人的生活。我看它最初的动因,只是因为两名女主角都是我所喜欢的,Meryl Streep,Amy Adams,Streep也是廊桥遗梦、The Devil Wears Prada的女主角,后者则是Enchanted,Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,June Bug,今年还有博物馆奇妙夜。

电影中的时空是平行的,虽然两位女主角的生活相隔了几十年,但又因为厨房而交错在一起。Streep在里面似乎有些傻傻的,呆呆的,又十分爽朗的气质,同Devel wears Prada全然不同,她随在大使馆工作的丈夫生活在法国,但对于时装、制帽等皆不感兴趣,但却对烹调法国菜情有独钟。又不畏艰难,去上专业烹饪班,最终历时七年多为没有可以指使的仆人的美国太太写出一本如何烹饪法国菜的书籍。Amy则是现代的都市女性,厨房是在一天忙碌而可能是失落的工作之外,能够忘记外部的一切,聚精会神的地方,她喜爱Julie的书,用365天的时间,尝试了524道菜。当然,影片少不了网络的元素,Julia将365天试菜的过程都写在博客上,也拥有了自己的粉丝。

故事的来源竟然是真实的,但是Julia最终也没有与Julie会面。

到最后,这仍然是一个最最简单,最最温馨,最最没有什么特别的教育意义的影片,如果期待着像在闻香识女人里面一样,两个主角交错生活为彼此找到自己和寻回生活的信心,作为观众恐怕会失望。但这样的生活才是真实的生活,平平淡淡,我们寻找一些事情让自己完成,大家都可以以为将会发生一些什么,但它就是这样普普通通地向前走,结果可能什么也没有发生。或许麦兜说的才是真意,“并不是砰的一声,变成其他什么东西,才叫做奇妙。那个走的很慢,但一直在走的钟,本身就已经很奇妙了。”

BTW,略略有些不习惯Meryl Streep在影片中带法国口音的英文,但电影完成后,还是觉得十分亲切和有印象。

2009/8/31

Mcdull

    Mcdull系列到第四部,讲麦兜到武当山学艺的故事,当中有许多有趣的东西,也仍然延续了让人笑中带泪的效果。

    麦兜不聪明,吃得多拉得也多,教授说他不是蠢,他只是善良。他晚上用工学习的样子,真是得意极了。他长得横看竖看也不像刘德华,不像周润发,也不是很肋仔。他做事情慢吞吞的,还常常做些吃饱了撑的东西出来。

    这集故事是说,同样不是很成功的母猪的麦太,为了闯出一番事业,带麦兜北上,自己去上海闯荡,将麦兜放在太乙春花门学太极。

    麦兜当然没有学会打太极,但是大家都好像顿悟到了一点什么,也许是那个同样吃饱了撑的麦兜的十八代祖先麦子名兜字仲肥,发明的那个一年才动一下的钟让大家都顿悟到了一点什么,又好像都差了一点什么,就像麦兜默书差小小就拿了A一样。

    但是,并不一定是要“叮”的一声,变成其他东西,才叫做奇妙。那个走的很慢,但一直在走的钟,就已经很奇妙了。对于阿May,如果在十年二十年以后,那个麦兜,还是那么胖,还是那么善良,还是吃的多,力气很大,如果真是这样,那么奇妙的事经已发生。

    有影评说,麦炳活在过去,麦太活在未来,只有麦兜,活在现在。

    看麦兜故事的我,也好像顿悟到了一点什么。

2009/8/17

栋笃笑

    上海周立波很红,香港的黄子华已经红了很久了。

    黄子华给电影节主持节目,董建华坐在台下,黄子华讲,香港人对政府都有小小迷茫,搞不清楚是《向左走?向右走?》

    黄子华又讲,去投胎,阎罗王问你,为什么要给你去投胎啊。嘿嘿,因为我还要去供楼。

    在大部分的时候,和亦舒、林夕一样,黄子华都有一种香港人追求健康又积极的态度。他的栋笃笑里面加了许许多多生活的元素,都是普通人的日常生活,以及常常见得到的社会现象,听的人享受和一个口才极好的人分享对日常生活的观感,且他又读过许多书,学问也好,表达能力极强,表现能力更不必说,这一场下来,物有所值。

    上海周立波也有类似的特征。大家都契合那个方言所对应的群体的特征。周立波说,大家花钱来看表演,笑的多的人就赚了,你笑得少,你就吃亏了。所以观众应该要多笑,这样才能让自己的钞票物有所值,不吃亏,有赚头。黄子华就不大能对着港人说出这一番话来。黄子华会听着男观众喊“我爱你”时说,我们这里很自由的,接受同性恋,所以,I love you too.

    黄子华也好,周立波也好,他们在舞台上都魅力十足,黄子华是没有稿子的,周立波也不大看稿子,一两三个小时下来,好像不曾间断,表演又不见背书痕迹。看到高兴处,我常想,这个要怎么准备?准备多久?还有,一个人在舞台上这样落力演出表演幽默,在做回舞台下的自己的时候,他会是什么样子呢?

    要一个人七天二十四小时都是精神抖擞精力十足是很困难的吧?黄子华恐怕还是舞台上镜头前最好看,现实生活中恐怕是顶顶严肃的人。看周立波接受采访时,应当也是如此。

    栋笃笑这样的表演,一年里面只能做数得出来的场次,好像凡事都是一样。演员有了一部新片,之后总有沉寂许多时间。时时都活跃在镜头前面的明星,回忆起来的时候不晓得会有些什么作品。

2009/8/13

回忆积木屋

    十二分钟的短片。

    我们的人生原是在一片汪洋大海之中,在小小儿时建造第一层楼房,时光如水蔓延,逼迫我们建造第二层,第三层。

    到后来,我们就像里面的主人公,已经十分习惯砌第十层、第十一层的房间,但我们的世界越来越小,水光一片中周遭景象亦不复当初。那些回忆,被深深藏在时光之海深处,就在我们身后,却静谧而遥远。

    当有一天为了寻找遗失的旧物,背上沉沉的潜水器材,层层潜入旧时的时空,方能回忆起暮色苍茫时候的伴侣,儿女成家立业的喜悦,新婚家庭的喜气洋洋,以及郎骑竹马来,绕床弄青梅的两小无猜。

    坐到最初的小房间,默默无语。

    我们只有这摇摇欲坠的一生,所有美丽的一切都只能被封存,因时间的波涛涌来,如不放弃,必被吞噬。

    上一层有着什么样的经历?下一层已被淹没。

 

    但是如果,如果我能够坦然地在时光之海中窒息,也能够坦然而熟练的砌造又一层的房间。

2009/7/21

Half Blood Prince

《哈利波特与混血王子》上映后,能看得到的评价里,好评的少。可能是因为这一部更多的像是在为第七部铺垫。它总得让我们知道魂器是什么,跟大家打比方说,就像写博士论文,有了这一张才算有分析框架,然后才能将全文串联起来,否则显得松松散散……分析框架未必很好看,但没有分析框架,全文就不精彩。

哈六让我们知道Tom的日记本是怎么一回事情,最后应当如何去毁灭这个似乎不死的伏地魔。还埋下伏笔,也有线索显示斯内布(布好像用的不是这个字,但我懒得找了)是卧底。比如邓布利多为什么要在回到霍格华兹后让哈利找斯内布教授。哈利其实不应该忘记,食死徒贝拉…也是会索命咒的,小天狼星也死在她的手下,所以当时即便斯内布教授不出手,邓布利多在武器已经被解除的情况下也难逃厄运。而且他喝了那个水之后,已经变得十分虚弱了。让斯内布出手,却能够使得伏地魔信任他,是卧底混进去执行任务的非常好的办法。

许多影评说,哈六里面哈利他们除了恋爱什么都没有做。我觉得这倒是没有关系的,本来哈利波特们就是在成长,何况青春期爱情是那个年纪最美好的东西之一,总不能期望他们真的在抓小鱼吧?我比较不高兴的是,原著里面对卢平的爱情似乎着墨还是比较多的,但是电影里面基本上没有表现,我觉得那个爱情十分动人,反倒是荣恩和赫敏之间的第三者,电影呈现的不是那么美好,还有金妮也是。赫敏为什么不能和哈利在一起呢?顺便提一下,马尔福的妈妈在开头也为第七部的结尾埋下了伏笔,她那么爱自己的孩子,一直说,可是他只是个孩子,这和她的姐姐贝拉大不相同(他们亲戚关系真复杂)。也就是这点爱子情深,她才能在大结局的时候为了自己孩子放过哈利一马。

哈利的魔法究竟是怎么学的呢?如果不教黑魔法本身,黑魔法防御又应该怎么教授呢?而且,如果那些魔法那么邪恶,为什么不干脆把书统统烧光,还要放个禁书区,好像专门要给人看一样的。我觉得十分神奇,这就是看原著不够仔细的缘故了,不过我不大记得原著里怎么说,中文翻译都很奇特,英文看着又太累。

伏地魔本人的故事,我觉得颇有点悲剧,如果我们都能够宽容一些,多给人一点关爱,也许伏地魔就不会变成伏地魔。至于马尔福的悲剧,我想多少有哈利波特的因素,为什么要有天生的救世之星呢?马尔福被黑魔头选中的时候有知遇之恩的感觉,他渴望被信任,这真是悲哀的故事。当然和他本人也有关系,但有时候我们的内心是很不强大的,我觉得很难怪责一个少年渴望被认可的心情。不可原谅的是杀掉小天狼星的贝拉(?这名字我一直记不全,演员本人在查理的巧克力工厂里面演小查理的妈妈,哈哈哈哈,感觉是贫苦人家的良家妇女,结果在哈利波特里面是个大坏蛋),我觉得她是没有什么原因作食死徒的,也可能是故事没有交代的缘故吧。讲到演员,演荣恩爸爸的卫斯理先生在Stardust里面演被女巫由羊变成的旅店老板,而乌姆里奇的演员则是在Nanny McPhee里面演那个老年厨娘的,但因为哈利波特系列的缘故,在其他地方看到他们,也还是会觉得,啊呀,这个就是荣恩的爸爸……斯内布我是很喜欢的,而且因为哈利曾经侵入斯内布记忆的那个片段,我对哈利爸爸老波特的印象一般,他也是一个欺负斯内布的人。lily则好像是没有缺点的妈妈。斯内布能够忍辱负重做卧底,真的很不容易啊,而且他最后也为了哈利献身了,斯内布的死我觉得比小天狼星的更让我悲伤,起码前者在生的时候哈利是爱他如父亲的,可是斯内布却没有能够享受到一些温暖,他真是一个很好的人呢。邓布利多令斯内布处于一个非常危险的境地。

到哈六,我觉得这故事已经十分恐慌。四处有蔓延开来的黑暗势力,这比刀枪碰撞的战争更让人觉得恐惧。读第七部故事的时候,大夏天有流冷汗的感觉。哈1到哈5,虽然有许多值得恐惧的部分,但每一部里面的坏人,第一步是奎若教授,第二部是密室的日记,第三部主要是摄魂怪吧,小天狼星是好的,虫尾巴没有什么杀伤力,重在解谜,实际上是非常温馨的一部,第四部开始有一些坏的因素,虽然坏人被制服,但伏地魔的复活,以及塞德里克的死亡,都昭示着黑暗势力将重新在魔法世界出现。但这时候还不是最恐慌的,凤凰社的时候也觉得起码有一个组织能够抵抗黑暗势力,尤其是最后,虽然小天狼星死的时候我真的很伤心,但起码哈利对着伏地魔说你才是软弱的人,以及邓不利多和他被沉冤得雪,大家开始相信黑魔头回来的时候,还是觉得有点高兴的。但第六部开始,啊,我真的觉得黑暗的势力在蔓延,可能哈利骗荣恩说他喝了幸运水——帮助朋友重塑信心是很好的,但除此之外,我觉得整部片子不能给人很大的快乐。

我只能默默地期待哈利波特第七部(电影)快快出来吧,彻底消灭伏地魔(为什么他们不可以让伏地魔的一个灵魂受到洗礼重新生存,然后得到爱和友情呢?)。

为什么这么沉浸于哈利波特的世界,我也不晓得。似乎对构造一个自成体系的逻辑的世界十分喜欢。所以喜欢魔幻系列电影,如果黄金罗盘出来第二部,或者纳尼亚有三,都会叫人期待很长一阵子。

2009/7/4

竞逐镜花美丽

    上半年有一部叫做Coraline的电影,讲小小的不快乐的女孩儿,被镜像中的女巫设计诱拐又逃出生天的故事。

    看完的时候想,若镜中女巫也愿意用无边的爱和十分的尊重来努力诱拐我,其实我是十分情愿跟她走的,哪怕是女巫也在所不辞。

    最难得到的是爱和尊重,懂得用这最宝贵东西来谋取我性命的女巫,她即便要谋害我的性命又何妨?

    有时候会同友人怨叹生活中许多不得意的境遇,然而这并不全然正确。我若不是为着从这社会中得到些什么,又怎么会因为它而觉得伤神呢?大凡只有在不那么在乎一件东西的时候,它高矮胖瘦,颜色鲜艳还是灰白,是崭新还是残旧,是不会影响到我的情绪的。

    有时候为着得到一些些的爱和尊重,会忙不迭地顺从、讨好,最终都还是失败。

    渴望其他人的给予,像竞逐镜花美丽,太过于对等地思维了。我们所能拥有的,多不过付出的一切,再怎么对人好,他人也还有不同等回馈的理由,这是没有道理的。

    我应当常常提醒自己,不为着得到什么,能够使得自己真诚待人,已经是最难得的幸福,可知我们常常连诚实地面对自己都不愿意,十分地爱惜自己也不记得。

    且不管他人如何,先恪守自己教条。

2009/3/31

哥哥

    张国荣是完美男性。

    张国荣说,人除了要懂得爱人之外,最重要的是要懂得欣赏自己。

    也是林夕唱词,“我就是我,是颜色不一样的烟火;天空海阔,要做最坚强的泡沫”。可是这话从张国荣口中说出来唱出来才够说服力,普通人不够胆讲,也不会想着去讲。

    可是我们大概也很难就这样总结说,特立独行不把观众当回事情就能是张国荣。因为这里的因果关系没有那么确定。不如说,张国荣总是经历过咸鱼白菜的日子,才好不容易有那么一点空间去表现自己的内容。

    我一直都不是哥哥的粉丝。可是看到张国荣五官就总忍不住让目光停留,当然,在他还在的时光,也都看过那些小报八卦——免不了猎奇内容。

    然而相比倪匡成天说“我都快要死了”,张国荣已经死了,成就不死传奇。

    可是死的人那么多,张国荣叫人忘不掉,总有过人之处。

2009/3/22

叶念琛

    有叶念琛爱情三部曲,Love Is Not All Around, L for Love, L for Lies, 以及Marriage with A Fool.

    都是精致背后有无限的残酷,“看见的未必是真的,真的你却看不到。”

    推介它们的人说,正如香烟盒上赫然写着“吸烟有害健康”。看到爱情残酷虚伪如此,也不见得就是蒙上眼睛,从此拒绝了。

    比较了下,还是诚实更好,至少拥有一半快乐。骗人者,连自己那一半的真实也失去了。

2009/3/10

Celebrity Apprentice S0802 and My Sunshining life

The Men's team lost again and what's worse is I can't get any signal that they have this ability to win. On the contrast, there are really many stars in the team Athena, except Mellisa Rivers and Annie Duke. And Khloe did do an amazing job, as project manager.

This week's task is about design a comic book to represent Zappo.com. The CEO of this company may be from Korea or Japan, or anywhereelse of Asia.The point is, he seldem smile and this made him not charming as Araon, the beautiful executive women. She appeared in the previous Apprentice and delivers the information she is a very good friend of Donald Trump.

This task is just like before and however both team did terrible job in so many details. As the CEO of Zappo, Tony clearly pointed out that don't care about what Tony wants, but what the customers want, both team forgot how important the focus group is. We should never ever forget what the target is, this is such an important principle, not only in business but also in daily life. This afternoon I went to conduct a class to the undergraduates, even in lessons we can use this principle: I would always remember what the students' need, and how can I deliver the information to them. I've tried to find out the reason why the celebrities are so easily to unremember this point. And I found they are Olympic champions, MCs, Models or sth like that. And this makes the whole thing understandable.

My life is full of sunshine, cause I'm much braver. Joanna's song are full of hopes and this makes her really different from Cheers. Meanwhile, the Lounging & lazy makes the music not like Stefanie's, the later one is full with energy.

Four new books comes to me today and after having a glance on them, I am now very excited cause they are proved to be good. And do help me in my writing and now I am totally confident that I will write the greatest paper I have ever did.

Sometimes the feeling about unfairness still comes to me, however, this is a competitive world and the one has higher ability will be appreciated, here or there. Enpowing myself will be the most important thing cause there are no one else except me myself I can rely on. And always rememer, nobody has this duty to grant me anything and I'd better earn what I really want by hard-working. No complain since it wouldn't work, just phurase my best on the most valuable things. (Remember, Never learn from that kind of person who only knows to complain in the back, and what makes the whole thing funny is the person being complained so much dosen't know anything and believes the person being the best one.One has the quenstionable quality and another is, somehow, woefully. I should keep an eye on both of this kind of people and avoid to be any of them.) For those who helped me in my life, even that is tiny I should keep that in mind.

After making the resume of myself, I now have a much clearer object about what kind of person I wanna to be. I know exactly what I really want and the next step is to make sure how can I have this object achieved.

Best regards for myself. Every single day shall be sunny.

2009/3/3

Celebrity Apprentice is back!

Truly a shock. I was thinking that Donald Trump may get troubles in the financial crisis and we would never watch this program anymore. Well, on March 1st, he's back. How ever, since he's been pay back last season as inviting the celebrities and won the high audience rating, this season is about celebrities again. And now we are going to hear the familiar words "You are fired", haha.

Last season we've got Gene Simons, who's really clever and charming man though he's been fired very early. Luckily Carol Alt and Piers Mogen stayed for a long time and Piers won finally. Really impressive celebrities. Let's see who we have this time.

Ivanka and Donald Junior still play the role as eyes and ears of Mr Trump, in the foreshow I've seen Piers and wondering when he will be show up. This season's style is Men Versus Women, again. In the Women's team, just like last season, they have some pretty women and hard-working ones. The play mate of the year still show up and this time seems to be tougher. Brande Roderick is totally different from Tiffany and the PM believe she's the best team member in the first task.  And we have model, Claudia Jordan, I don't know if she's strong and smart like Carol. The point is we've got mother and daughter in the same team.Jonh Rivers and Melisa Rivers. They are Comedienne and TV host. And based on the age, the mother is the Project Manager for the first task. Without the terrible Omorosa, the whole appearing of the Women's team is much better now. Well, quarrels do exist in the team and I guess Annie Duke, the poker player won't stay long in the team.

Not pay enough attention to the Men's team, for the moment. At first sight, there's nobody catch your eye like the women's team have. However, in the celebrities we can always find  out the men has much more power than the women do. So, we shall wait.

I was about to writing what the first task about and then found the LESSON LEARNED on the web site "BE A TEAM PLAYER IF YOU WANT PERSONAL  SUCCESS" and I think this is really inspiring and everyone can get some information from there.

This week the teams created, baked and sold cupcakes from mobile sales vans that they designed(Quite like last season, I'm wondering where is the innovation, or maybe the Naked Cowboy? Ugly.) The team won the most money wins. The bonus is, the cupcake will be tasted by the owners of Crumbs Bake Shop in New York. The winner of the taste test would get another 15000 dollars as reward. And not very surprisingly, the women's team Athena win both of the test and as team leader, Joan Rivers got 121000 dollars for her charity, God's Love We deliver. Well, within the reward there are 15000 dollars from Donald Trump, and now we know the Finical situation is still really good for him.

The celebrities learn from the last season cause they both bring their address list out to raise money. Gene is the first one who came up with this idea. Well, now this is not important where this idea came from, the point is we shall learn from the experience. However, sometimes I just forget it.

Now, every week we will have this entertainment and I guess this will last 4 months. let's see who will stay to the last moment.

The picture from the web of NBC. Pretty women, aren't they? The show started to produce last October, and this shows, the earth is still running.

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2009/2/1

睡前童话

  看电影名称还以为是多么浪漫温情的剧情,结果看了就发现,男主角并不讨人喜欢。亚当·桑德勒是美国喜剧明星,可是像小丑多一些,还有一部电影貌似叫做神奇遥控器,也说是喜剧,可剧情都不讨喜。喜剧么,起码像艾尔文和花栗鼠一样,虽然各类影评说,“可爱,黄金罗盘里的恶魔都比他可爱”,但是起码小观众和追求轻松愉悦享受的观众会喜爱。而这部睡前童话在放到一半的时候我就已经很想睡觉了。幸亏电影里面有两个可爱的宝贝,相当Cute,于是忍耐着看完。

   最近迪士尼出的电影都喜欢用立体书作开头和结尾,一页一页翻过去,十分有趣。可惜国内的立体书还太贵,也没有地方去储存,若有小孩子,买一些来给小朋友讲故事真不错。

  安妮 海瑟薇的电影精彩的多,不关事轻松的公主日记,魔法灰姑娘,穿Prada的恶魔,还是历劫俏佳人,或者成为简 奥斯汀,都演绎的很不错。最近又有两部片子获得好评,一个是蕾切尔的婚礼,比较沉重,影评说安妮演的十分出彩,还有一部新娘大战,相对轻松一些,更商业化吧。都和婚礼有关,可惜2008年她自己的情感似乎并不顺利。然星途光芒四射。这两部电影都应该找来看看。

   已经回到学校,下午蹭车回来,十分顺利。到了寝室即洗洗衣服,一下子把衣服几乎全部洗了,等收回来的时候,清香扑鼻,穿上去走在阳光里会觉得更幸福。

   我也要睡觉了,睡前的童话,名字真不错。若每天都能够编织一个Happily ever after的美好故事,梦都会甜的腻出来吧。

2009/1/27

仙境之桥bridge to terabithia

    2009年新春上映的新片,讲的是两个少年之间的友情,Leslie的出现像青葱少年Jess生命中的一抹阳光,她充满想象,因赛跑和Jess结缘,运用想像创造出一个叫特雷比西亚的王国,他们不再被真实世界发生的事情所困扰,而是用想像力经营着这个魔幻之地。让Jess走出现实生活的过分现实,在对现实不满的阴霾中走出来,进入一个构想出来的童话世界。

    在新春上映的介绍中将这部影片例如奇幻系列,这实在是很不应该的归类,他更属于美国校园青春剧的范畴。奇幻电影的奇幻并非是仅存于脑海之中,他是电影世界中的真实情境,具有一个完整的逻辑架构。像黄金罗盘关于Dust,每个人都拥有一个灵兽,两者无法分离,与女巫、北极熊的交流方式;需要衣橱或号角才能进入的纳尼亚世界,在那里人类和各种生物和平共处,海狸先生能够说话;还有最最看不得的潘神的迷宫,女孩的黑暗童话,少儿不宜的童话故事。电影外是虚构的,可以他们本身构成电影中的实体。而在这部仙境之桥中,尽管也存在巨人,存在善与恶的斗争,但这是Leslie与Jess想象中的童话世界,那个仙境,是Leslie与Jess在现实世界以外构想出来的故事。它就像Duff的《Raise Your Voice》中的歌唱一样,是少年维特排解烦恼的寄托。

    但是借助了奇幻的名号后,比一般的青春校园剧更加能够吸引票房吧。且在情节设计上,一边是奇幻世界的幻想,一边是在学校、家庭中逐渐摆脱阴霾,然而影片并没有像一般的青春电影一样拍摄他们如何走向青春火焰的光芒,而是在女教师邀请热爱画画的Jess前往博物馆的那个早晨,独自前往想象中的仙境时不慎死亡。

    仅从故事塑造的角度来看,我有些不明白这样的剧情安排究竟是为了说明什么。在那个时候,Jess已经开始逐渐走出生活负面的部分,Leslie的死亡似乎只是为了促进Jess和他妹妹的和好,推进Jess的成长和成熟。然而一定要经历那样的痛楚才能够成长么。还是,为了迎合观众的口味,令已经日益麻木的观众的心灵也受到一次巨大的震荡?

    总体而言,猜想《仙境之桥》并不是会在中国市场带来许多票房的电影。因为据说票房很高的喜羊羊和灰太郎成为了春节期间的一匹黑马,害我花了时间去搜寻和观看,最终认定我的品味已经开始脱离潮流,走向落寞。被影评人兴高采烈用来凸显喜羊羊与灰太狼的对手《马达加斯加2》,和1之间的情节联系紧密了一些,同时其故事与人民群众喜闻乐见的喜羊羊故事相去甚远,即便画面音乐对白都十分精彩,票房上输掉也没有什么好惊奇的。不过幸亏赤壁2上映的时候已经有影评人说了,这年头,票房和电影本身的质量是没有什么相关性的。以故事情节、价值取向等多种因素共同考察,仙境之桥很难在喜庆的春节以略显沉重和犹豫的故事打动中国观众。

    Ps,片中Leslie的演员笑起来有一点像2005版Pride & Prejudice里面伊丽莎白的扮演者Keira Knightley(她去年下半年还有一部The Duchess,很精彩),让人看了很喜欢,再一查她还出演过《查理和巧克力工场》,大惊,AnnaSophia Robb,93年出生。在巧克力那个电影里面是扮演跆拳道的小姑娘,那个时候还小,影片里一个劲嚼口香糖,很刁钻,只能算女配。现在长大了更漂亮了。93年这个比较惊人,不过Gossip girl里面的小J94年,更惊人。

          同时,在这部片子里面扮演Jess和Leslie音乐教师的是Zooey Deschanel,她是2007年下半年NBC迷你剧The Tin Man里面DG的扮演着,很漂亮的蓝眼睛,Tin Man本身被称作《绿野仙踪》的后现代版(虽然我看不出来后现代在何处)。

    zooey-deschanel贴一张Zooey的照片

     本来想选的是Tin Man里面的剧照,可惜这剧在Zooey本人的介绍中也不占很重的位置,搜了下没有特别好的照片。只好换这张比较多见的。

      两个女演员都喜欢,可惜Jess的扮演者Josh Hutcherson太不帅了,不过这种电影里面的男主角很少有帅的,即便是大学新生里面和Amanda配戏的Taylor也就觉得一般般,尽管已经是最帅的男主了。他还出演过类似影片消防狗,很感人的电影。奇怪的是他还出演了上年度的《地心游记》,都没有什么特别的印象了。

     Josh和Anna都是90年代生人了,现在一代比一代强。当年在这个杀手不太冷里面惊鸿一瞥的Natalie Portman已经成长为好莱坞当前的大明星,猜想Anna也不会令影迷们失望。就男孩而言,按照好莱坞男童星们一贯成长的方式,长残是不可避免的,程度是可以控制的。

2009/1/23

动画世界

    正式进入假期。昨晚窝在被子里读小说到半夜,《孪生》,这故事关于两个同胞兄弟,也就是亦舒的故事。

    马达加斯加2很精彩,狮子Alex阴差阳错回到出生的非洲大草原,与父亲重逢。这故事并没有俗套到说这狮子从跳舞回复到勤奋练习搏击,如何重新成为森林之王。近期的一些动画都好像轻松的很。Alex最终重新寻回水源,也是因为他在纽约曼哈顿动物园练就的跳舞本领。导演真有想象力,让动物世界的规则从暴力变成勇于承担、富有同情心等等。

    画面最精彩是企鹅们开飞机。

    2008年下半年还看过几个印象深刻的动画,除了中文译名叫鼠来宝的,还有The Horton hears a Who's。这故事说,一只南半球的大象,听到一粒尘埃上有人的声音,最后和尘埃上的小镇镇长获得交流,霍顿在人类世界保护苜蓿上的尘埃,而镇长在尘埃世界寻求大家的支持,发出声音让人类世界听到。也是喜剧结尾。

    做动画编剧真幸福,可以将儿时的猜想都落实出来。我小时候也曾经想过,不知是否真的有拇指姑娘,若有,我的床头柜可以让出来给他做美丽的卧室,我愿意从每天的食物中拨出许多和她分享,还有,可以用洋娃娃的衣服与她做新衣裳,还可以每天和我一起上学。甚至想到,怎样才能不被老师看到。云云

    还想过,是不是有一天回来可以抽开抽屉一脚踩下去找到我的哆啦A梦。结果也是失败。

    还有,想过若有飞碟造访,我该如何捍卫地球安全,成为宇宙英雄。

    幸亏都一一落空了,若不然,天下大乱。

    窝在被窝里上网,看电影,听歌的感觉真好。可以慵懒整天整天。

 寒假了,可以认认真真看一篇篇小说,然后来写写读后感。正在读的《葡萄成熟的时候》,也是不错作品。

2008/12/30

梅兰芳

    一直都很喜欢黎明,可是这电影里头,这主角的光芒虽盛,却不足以叫人心动。导演似乎太过于强调他之于时代的价值了。这样一种正统的价值观念虽好,也找不到不爱这演员或角色的理由,可难让人怦然心动。

    十三燕,还有孟小冬,真让人印象深刻。

    梅兰芳叫十三燕爷爷,心里不是不尊重的,可是在那样一个时代,我们总喜欢说历史滚滚向前的车轮是不可以阻挡的。在一个变革的年代,十三燕和梅兰芳,代笔了传统与革新,传统必将被革新替代,这像是群体价值观念的转变,道理可以有一大堆,却未必真的全是道理。冲突最早始于改戏,从电影的对白,改戏必定不是头一次,梅兰芳是勇敢的,也是幸运了,他站在时代前进的方向上,变革的时代推了他一把,大获成功。于是便有了打擂台。

    十三燕的精彩正在于此,他并不畏惧与梅兰芳的擂台,有时候我们会不喜欢那些顽固的因循守旧的人,可是在这里十三燕却不叫人不喜欢,他可以仍然时时刻刻念叨着前朝皇太后赏赐的黄马褂,一丝不苟的每天擦玻璃,可是他也同样真心认同自己所从事的艺术。他又有人格高贵和尊严的一面,他说,输不可怕,怕才可怕。所以就算第二天已经输了,他仍然坚持要唱第三场。

    这第三场的打击何其大,到最后,台下已经空无一人。然而仍到曲终人散。

    十三燕是一个时代的印记,他或者梅兰芳的大伯,都是梨园行的人,心底总忧心着这梨园行的人是下九流的行业,但是又有人格上追求高贵和受尊重的要求,所以就算面对没落的时候,也仍然能够坚守。他所坚守的不仅是这行将就木的范式,还是一个人的追求与梦想,可能还包括一个人的人格尊严,等等。

    十三燕让我想,如果我们免不了要失败,要没落,大概也可以做的好看一些,精彩一些。

   

    章子怡演孟小冬。第一次喜欢章子怡。

    孟小冬初出现,给梅兰芳撑伞。两个正好对调了的舞台上的角色,男唱旦,女演生。孟小冬唱一段,忍不住笑出来,没上妆,怎么看你也是个男人。

    两个人的性格也正好倒过来的,女子勇敢利落,男子温和内敛。孟小冬勇敢,又骄傲。海棠花给梅兰芳,不许说谢谢,说了我就拿回来。结果梅兰芳仍然说了,她也只好说一句,不客气。

    又说,这飞的不够高。梅兰芳说,这上面刻有两个人的名字。不依不挠,哪两个人的名字?答,梅兰芳和孟小冬。又觉得不够大声,再问,谁?

    可惜这两个人在历史上,大概也和这电影里头差不多,是不能太大声的。

    孟小冬勇敢,勇敢到有人拿枪指着她仍然毫无畏惧,要离开梅兰芳?那你现在就可以杀了我。又骄傲的一定要离开,再不见梅兰芳。特特去查历史,梅兰芳和孟小冬,孟小冬要大声的名分,而梅兰芳却总是渴望选择温和的两不伤害的方式来处理芝芳与她的关系,叫孟小冬怎么受的了。

    孟小冬不是将你成功当我成功的女子,也不是那些可以安安稳稳在你背后识大体的女生。这样的勇敢建议,因不在我身边,亦非我的女人,于是不能不爱。若也是男人,碰巧遇到这样一个女人,叫人有什么办法,再爱恐怕也要放弃了。

    正好累了,不写了。最近一些日子总算读书有所进益,难得见到好电影。聊聊写下来。

2008/3/8

The Celebrity Apprentice EP10 & other films

The celebrity apprentice, Two weeks, nothing very interesting. Marilu's  being fired made me a bit unhappy. And Tito left. Keep on waiting and waiting, This week, Haha, Omarosa's been fired.

To be honest, I was shocked last week, when saw Omarosa asked Tito the question if he would be the PM after Donald Trump said the PM for the losing team will probably be fired. She pushed him to be fired and showed herself not confident. However, this week Omarosa stepped up and she now has to fight directly to Piers. This weeks task is about arts. The same task Omarosa was fired in the first season.

With Piers as the PM, hydra has Carol, Lennox. This team picked the artist who's  products can be sold for several times. This team worked so well, they not only chose the right artist and Piers showed his connection with all those wealth friends. Carol was always calm clear, and did great in promotion, she even sold pieces to the customs invited by Stephen, for the enemy team. Lennox was Ok. Finally they raised up more than 160,000 dollars. Empresario, terrible, Omarosa always believed art was important and lost the target was selling products. The only way they could is to force Trace and Stephen to call their friends, or call her friends, even like Trump to buy products. But she never do things like that, she didn't learn from the first task since the Celebrity Apprentice began, as tiffany been fired. You should use the resource of these Celebrities. And of course, Empresario lost.

No more comment, but have to mention Baron, the 18 month baby of Donald Trump is so cute. Beautiful mother, and beautiful baby.

Other Films. I've watch "Hitch", "Enchanted" and "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", films like that. Hitch is some kind of love story and the last one is about magic. Enchanted, love story combined with fairy tale.It may be very stupid and naive for a 23 years old girl still love watching film like that. Those stories are warm, sometime so moving and make me crying. The optimistic people like me believe in these beautiful thing would really happy in our daily life. Nowadays, hard for me to find someone and tell him or her I do like reading fairy tale and love stories, most importantly, I'm still waiting such things happen to me. They must think I've been mad by thinking like that. We all live for other people, form some angle.

The only way to express my feeling, is like this, cause not many friends would read so carefully.

Life is always beautiful, I take care of it everyday, enjoy now, care about future, sometimes have a bit daydream. Never give one of them too much. The way to have a happy life is simple, enjoy now, never forget tomorrow and believe you are always lucky.

The novel of Yi Shu, makes me sad and depressed. However, that kind of bad things would never happened to be. Why, because I'm an ordinary people and you can't even find me in the crowd.

2008/2/21

Scent of Women

    谁能够不爱这样的一个Al Pacino,即使从此要生活在黑暗中,即使他时不时的蹦出那些个很黄恒暴力的词汇,即使他的骄傲让他一生都在不断的刺痛周围的人,然而依旧是无可遏止爱上这样的Al Pacino。

   谁是Scent of Women的主角?Chris O"Donnell当是时的青涩,在Al Pacino精湛的演技下,使得年轻所应当占据的优势全然殆尽,盲眼的中校,将我的心都掏空了。

    影片的情节安排巧妙,有影评说,这故事恰到好处的将两个同样处在十字路口的人交汇到了一起,而彼此的互补将他们都引致了一个完好的结局。从这个角度来看,似乎中校与查理是处于同样的重要,可是Al Pacino那样精彩,生生的令注意力全部聚焦起来。舍不得放开。

    是什么能够如此富有魅力?不同的人有不同的答案,对我,那是骄傲。

    Scent of Women在我看来,是关于让已经几乎丧失了周围人尊重的骄傲的中校的故事。曾有的战绩,如今的退伍,还由于生活在黑暗中,不仅丧失了自己为之付出的事业,甚至连生活起居都开始需要他人的帮助。对那样一个人来说,这些都是最大的伤痛吧?是的,就在看到他那样倔强的不要查理的帮扶,“只能我扶你,你不能来扶我”,他不需要别人同情的眼光,他需要的是全世界的舞台聚焦,真正的尊敬。

    所以要计划一次回光返照式的纽约之行,在最光鲜的一段旅程后,以一个军人的方式,那是他值得骄傲的过去,来结束自己的生命。于是那飞驰的法拉利,那技惊四座的探戈,用绚烂的笔墨让我们想象他曾经有过的光辉岁月,更加将现实,哥哥家的亲人们对他的忌惮与若隐若现的厌恶,侄女对他的爱护中同情成分多于尊敬成分,这灰暗的事实如何加诸于他?要他怎么承受?

     以为美国电影不会有这样的英雄。对一个成功至上的典型商业社会而言,也许卡耐基的人性优缺点这样的成功之书才应该大行其道,而不是这个在现实社会中不会赢得你我喜爱的盲眼中校,tired。我们感动,因为我们都有自我的英雄情结,对英雄落寞、美人迟暮的同情油然而生,然而他并不悲情,他只是骄傲。他比你我接受自己盲眼的事实,他只是无法忘怀曾经的光鲜,他并不是为失去那奢华的生活懊恼而选择自杀,他只是为了自己无法再如以往那般证明自己的价值,也无法得到他人认可他曾经有过的,价值和功绩。不被理解的痛楚,让他孤独与寂寞,不能接受冷嘲热讽,同样不能接受哪怕是来自家人的对弱者的同情,他不是弱者,他需要的是尊敬,当影片最后的政治老师对他说,“感谢你的高见”,这不是对末路英雄的同情和怜惜,这是理解与尊重,是证明,你,中校,你即使不在军队,不再称为幕僚,你即使已经强壮不再,即使双目失明行动不便,然而你的思想却还是一样深刻,你的经历让你对世情看的透彻,也让你的见解如此独到。我来找你,不是为了表达对你过往功绩的崇拜,也不是因为现在的你是弱势群体而表达同情,而是因为欣赏当下的你,富有魅力的人格。

    只是中校不曾给亲人们以机会真正理解他尊重他,如果他的亲人,看到他的探戈。他的飞驰的法拉利,他赢得满堂掌声的演讲,是否也愿意给他一点理解与尊重?

    当暖暖阳光下美丽的女教师望着中校远去背影,我们无需再为他的未来担忧,因世界上仍然存在对他理解与尊敬的人。

    而看客如我,只怕在我过去和未来的岁月中,竟然不能给予出现在我身边的人以机会,给予真正的理解与尊重。

    这样说的理由,全然在于我本身,已经不可能成为英雄式的人物,学会太多入世的艺术,骄傲越来越渗入骨子里,却不敢显露出来,控制自己,控制情绪,控制行为,控制言语,控制一切的一切,只为了一个幸福的生命,要造就一个中校,需要多少懂得迁就的人群?我只愿自己能够成为其中一员。我只是喜爱这样的性格,被这样的魅力所折服。

   尤其是在自己不敢潇洒,只能小心翼翼,精心营造生活的时候。红色法拉利奔驰的瞬间,将心也飞扬起来,将那罗曼蒂克的飞扬与跋扈,自由自在没有负担的勇敢和毫无拘束,全部期待让一个暖暖的安全的手掌,能够将易破碎的心情,稳稳当当的保护起来。

    原来我一直都倾慕这种个性的感觉。

2008/2/16

Celebrity Apprentice EP07

I can't wait to write this comment!

The first feeling of watching this task is just like "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD". As Empresario lost so many times, it's now time for team re-construction, and you can guess the outcome, haha ,Donald is an evil as he put Omarosa and Piers at the same team. Piers and Omarosa started to quarrel with each other, they never stop doing it.

The new Hydra now have Piers, Omarosa , beautiful Carol and Lennox while the other team has Trace, Marilu, Stephen and Tito. The new Empresario is now a dream team. Sometimes the TV show would do anything to keep the rating, this time I do believe this. You can't say, Oh, these are two even team by putting Piers and Omarosa together. That is totally a disaster.

The task for this week is run Carriages in Central Park, the team makes the most money wins. Hydra has Piers as the PM and Trace is Project Manager for Empresario. Trace did so good job during last 6 weeks, he is the reason Hydra win so many tasks. For example, he came up with that romantic idea of the living window show for Vera Wong. And when they got the task this time, they soon clearly understand what they should do. Everyone tried their best to use their celebrity resources to bring in money. The next day, Marilu got champagne from her sister's restaurant, Tito's girlfriend came and donated 1000 dollars, Trace's friend, another country star and Stephen's another brother showed up and brought in money.They performance well as a team and Trace said later, this is the most wonderful day from the show start.

But new Hydra, can I use the word chaotic? Piers was the PM and he negotiated with Omarosa that they would work their best to win the task and do it just business. But after Omarosa  spelled Piers's name wrong and denied that Piers was her boss. Omarosa and Piers started to quarrel  again and Piers is now truly angry cause Omarosa started to speak about his family. The carriages of Empresario kept on running around the central park but the Hydra just stayed there, listening to Piers and Omarosa quarreled each other.

Actually,  after the very begging of this task, I was A Hundred Percent sure that Trace would lead this team to win. So the only reason for me to watch on is wanna to know what would happen between Piers and Omarosa. The producer of this TV show, congratulations ,you do your job so well. In the boardroom, Omarosa and Piers continue fighting. I was so eager to know who would be fired and when I finally  found that Empresario lost again! Everybody hates this result. I never like Omarosa and after this task I hate this woman more. Piers has been "Di" so frequently and I believe he really unhappy with those dirty words said by Omarosa. Omarosa is that kind of person would fight for herself, don't forget the truth that in the First Season it's Omarosa, as the financial manager lost the money and finally made Kristi, the Pm was fired.

Those things happened next to the lost team is much better. Trace, as well as all the teammates, though they lost, nobody said a single negative word to other teammates. All four people in Empresario, Trace, Marilu, Tito, Stephen, they know exactly why they are on this TV show, it's not personal, it's all for charity. No body would resign volunteer. George was happy he wouldn't make this decision. These are four boundless energy celebrity. They are hard working, they are smart people, they work well as a team and they were forced to tell who did the worse job in the team but nobody gave the answer. Marilu said she would fired Piers or Omarosa, we all want it but the fact was Hydra won the task. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME DONALD DO IN THE BOARDROON, HE FIRED NO ONE.

Nobody is fired. Next week, Marilu and Omarosa will exchange their position. What would happen?

And congratulations, Piers, I am very happy you win more that 60,000 dollars for your charity.My favorite celebrities, Gene, Carol, Stephen, Piers, you did you job. Next, I hope Trace and Marilu would finish their job.

2008/2/12

The Celebrity apprentice: EP06

This time it begins with Omarosa pouring a glass of champagne on the head of Piers(Surprised!), and Stephen didn't want to work with Piers based on the decisions made by Piers that Vinney be a Spy to Empresario. Maybe without Gene Simmons this TV show has to do such things in order to keep the rating. Or just because the celebrities are much more frankly with each other and all with bigger temper, for last six seasons all the candidates had to work with people they didn't like and this would be a great chance to show there leadership. Every single detail in Apprentice has changed a lot.

However, we can get other things from this TV show, besides knowledge of management.

This week, as Stephen goes to Empresario as a team member, the teams's task is to create a live window show of the products from Vera Wong. The Apprentice with the weeks task being based around Vera's mattress line. Each team were to create a “Living window“ using actors and actresses in a shop window to promote the new Vera Wang mattress line by Serta.Vera Wong is so great in the world of Fashion. Born in 1949, she must be the first generation of ABC. Worked in those most biggest world famous Fashion Magazine for so many years, make her being one of those most powerful, professional and respected women about fashion all over the world. In 1989, when Vera Wong got married in USA, there were no bridal suite can make her feel satisfy and after that, she decided to create her own brand "Very Wong" to produce Bridal suite. Now, she's famous in this field and even Mr.Trump's girl friend Melanie would want the wedding gowns designed by VERA WONG. Vera is now 58, but on the TV show, she smiles elegantly, seems to be only 40.

Back to the Apprentice. After got the task, Omarosa steps up to be the PM, while Lennox Lewis was the PM of Hydra.I have to say the idea Omarosa had is a totally "inside the box" idea."Perfect Wedding"! Hey, Wong clearly told the team the show shouldn't be only bridal and should be "outside the box". Of course she wouldn't just have a perfect wedding. No matter how perfect wedding Empresario would present the show: have Carol to be the bride with those beautiful but ordinary wedding gowns......Ordinary bridals would like it, never Vera Wong. She said at the first moment: Creativity is the most important thing. Empresario only has to notice one thing and they wouldn't use this idea anymore: Vera Wong, this Brand is not for those ordinary ones but women like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Garner, Sharon Stone(Beautiful and sexy), Uma Thurman, Holly Hunter, Campbell Brown,[2] Jeri Ryan,[3] and Karenna Gore,[4] among others.Empresario deserves to lose this task. Omarosa is just not as ugly as before but still can't be a creative and good leader.She's ok, just ok.

Refer to Hydra, Lennox as the PM had a special style of leadership make Piers feel uncomfortable. But, they won clearly and the show they created was fantastic. So we have to say this style of leadership is tough and useful. The box star is, er, good as a leader, now. It's all about win, isn't it?

Omarosa brought Nely and Marilu into the boardroom and Nely was fired. Donald Trump must have wait this opportunity for a long time,:Empresario's lost, the PM has taken Nely into the boardroom. Haha, the first time he wanted to fire Nely is EP03, but Gene didn't bring Nely into the boardroom no matter how much Donald Trump said. And when Marilu lost the task about selling tickets, she didn't bring Nely in because Nely did do a good job in bringing in money.This time, Omarosa supposed to take Stephen instead of Nely but Trump said to her directly that it would be a wrong decision to bring Stephen back. Omarosa must realize that Donald wanted to fire Nely and then made the Brilliant decision. Nely, bye bye.

Trace Adkins is so intelligent guy, always stay at a corner quiet but comes up with amazing ideas. But, he never step up to be a leader, this make me disappointed. On the contrary, Piers is a intelligent guy but speaks a lot. I guess these two guys would stay a long time. But now, I'm a bit worry about piers cause he seems to have conflicts with other teammates.

At the end of this week's show, Donald said to Omarosa: Step up, Piers's beat you down. Haha, What's next?

2008/2/7

Celebrity apprentice, should be written last year

Celebrity apprentice, EP05. The Men's team came up with an idea that they will send Vincent to the girls' team as a spy! And they did it! This week is so terrible that there were nearly nothing about how to finish the task. Every single detail is about the "spy". Vincent didn't like Piers for sending him to another team and making him be a rat. He quarreled with Piers. Stephen didn't support the PM because of this decision obviously, as he would prefer to keep Vincent than Piers. Tracy, who had a great sexy voice, I like it very much, surely can't say he would agree with Piers.

However, I still believe Piers is a strong candidate in this season, and at the same time, I do like him very much. I'm wondering if Piers was told to do this, to make the rating higher, or he just confused the role Vincent has played and the true personality he has. The terrible decision and a great guy.

The girls' team, after lost 4 teammates, finally won the task. Carol is a strong team leader, she is beautiful, tough. I still remember at the very beginning of the TV show, she said to Omarosa:"Never ever use that word to me." I like Strong woman.Nely, after Gene's fired(Maybe I should insist it's Gene fired the Apprentice), realized that herself was so dangerous to be fired and now works hard, donates very much in the task. Marilu, show her intelligence from the very beginning, is just like Ivanka said,"She should be there if we want the girls' team win". And I was deeply impressed by her attitude when Vinney told her the truth. All other girl show strong angry to him while Marilu just want to finish the task first. Marilu is those wonderful women who earn other people's respect by her personality. Omarose, haha ,the too self-confidence women in the first season, now is much lower-key. No much attention to her.

Just as what I wrote before, without the true competition and Gene's left, this show become much more boring. Then why I still watch it? 

I don't know, for memory, maybe.

2008/1/19

怅然若失

    Celebrity Apprentice,never about how to run business any longer. The canditates are just enjoying this process, ignoring Dounald Trump is still "firing" somebody everyweek based on the performance. But, Who cares?

    Gene Simmons has been fired this week basically because he made the wrong decisions: 1.Not meeting the two executives of Kodak so that he missed the target that the client want them to promote; 2. He didn't bring back Nely, who should take responsibility for this task. Donald Trump wanted to fire her, the executives of Kodak didn't like her and she did say too much while listen too little. Instead, he bring back omarosa and Jennie Finch, both of these two are not the reason they lost.

    The problem of this show, is the director also lost the target. The audiens like me, watch <Celebrity Apprentice >, do not want to learn how to be a leader from here as from Season1-6. Instead, we just want to watch the celebrities. So, keep the most attractive celebrity———Gene Simmons, it's he make this whole show interesting. Just read the comments on the NBC website! But it seems the director of this program can't agree with this.

    If the director do think that Donald should fire the celebrity based on the performance, the reason should be as follow:1. The candidate should take responsibility for the teams lost; 2.or, the candidate is the weakest link of the team. Then Gene shouldn't be fired too. Omarosa, she show infidelity to Gene, she should support the project manager, since Gene did do well in promotion. As a leader, Gene earn respect from the women except O. He has creativity, he is the man outside the box just like he said. I believe the moment Gene Knew the result that they lost he made the decision to quit. it's not Donald Trump fired him but Gene fired the hole show. He is so clear and made the comment to the women team that their capacity is far behind the men's.Based on the potential Gene have(like Trump always said before), it is Omarosa should be fired, not Gene.(Omarose is the negetive factor of the team and she never show any respect to any leader) And , I'm wondering if Gene's leave has been planed, since if Donald did want to fire Nely, he can made the decision without asked Gene to pick back two teamates. He did it in the former Apprentice, didn't he?

   As someone says, Gene has his own business to run and he already get money to his Charitable organizations. He has to deal with the E-mails until 4am in the morning. He has already show his charactistic in the TV program. Let's accept the fact that Gene's fired.

   What's on next?  The candidates, Nely is too weak and she will go home very soon, I guess. Omarosa, the too self confidence woman since First Season, too eager to show she is stronger than anyone else just cant get well with other celebrity well. She will be back soon. Other, e ,I think Carol, Piers, Stephen, Marilu, Trace Adkins, I hope thet will stay for a long time.Their schedule won't have conflict with the <Celebrity Apprentice>'s.

   By the way, in the first EP, Tiffany Fallon was fired because she is weak and not defend for herself, not because she's the reason they lost.How ever, Omarosa, the PM, made the terrible Decesion that she would never use the celebrity but business skill, cause their lost. Omarosa should be fired no matter which principle Donald takes _the business or celebrity. Tiffany was just too lovely.

   I don't know the rating of the TV show now. But without Gene Simmons, it will be down.