Films

Hailey Hurowitz
12/17/12
1A

Movie: The Guilt Trip
Summary: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
-  I think this movie will be great because two of my favorite jews are in it, Barbara Streisand and Seth Rogen.
Movie: The Impossible

Summary:Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas fun the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her.  The family must find each other again after this horrible storm.

-This movie seems like a great family movie that will be very moving.
Movie: Django Unchained

Summary:Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave.
-This movie seems like a good Civil War type of movie.

Movie: Monsters Inc. 3D
Summary:After exploring the worlds of toys and bugs in the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, the award-winning computer animation company Pixar delves into the realm of monsters with its fourth feature. Hulking, blue-furred behemoth James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) and his one-eyed assistant Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) are employed by Monsters, Inc., a scream processing factory. It seems that the denizens of their realm thrive on the screams of kids spooked by monsters lurking under their beds and in their closets. It's the job of Sully, Mike, and their co-workers, including sarcastic Randall Boggs (Steve Buscemi), crab-like CEO Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), and lovely snake-headed receptionist Celia (Jennifer Tilly) to keep the frights flowing. When Sully and Mike are followed back into the monster world by a very unafraid little human girl named Boo (Mary Gibbs), they are exiled to her universe, where they discover that such a modern-day mythological specimen as the Abominable Snowman is a fellow refugee.
-This movie is definitely a movie I would love to see because I remember watching it in theaters when it first came out as a little girl.  This will brings memories back to many.
Movie: Jack Reacher
Summary: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter-a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right-and soon the slam-dunk case explodes. Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning-and then beat him shot for shot.
- I think this movie will be a great movie to watch, and I already want to know who it is killer.
Movie: Parental Guidance

Summary: Old school grandfather Artie (Billy Crystal), who is accustomed to calling the shots, meets his match when he and his eager-to-please wife Diane (Bette Midler) agree to babysit their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents (Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott) go away for work. But when 21st century problems collide with Artie and Diane's old school methods of tough rules, lots of love and old-fashioned games, it's learning to bend - and not holding your ground - that binds a family together.  The grandparents have one more chance to parent all over again.
-I think this movie will be charming and also really funny from the trailer.

Album Releases

Album Releases
Hailey Hurowitz
12/13/12
1A

Artist: KE$HA
Title: Warrior
Summary About Album: Warrior is the second studio album by American recording artist Kesha. It was released on November 30, 2012 through Sony Music in Australia and New Zealand, while being released on December 4, 2012 through RCA Records in the United States.
About Ke$ha: Kesha Rose Sebert was born on March 1, 1987, and she is an American pop singer and songwriter.  Her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single "Right Round."  Her debut single, "Tik Tok" was released in August 2009.  It reached number one in eleven countries and set the weekly  records for the most digital downloads of a female artist and of the total Top 40 Mainstream airplay records in the US.  The song also became the longest running number-one debut single by a female artist since 1977.  Debby Boone's 'You light Up My Life' set the record 33 years ago by holding the #1 position for 10 weeks.  Her debut album, Animal, was released in early 2010 and debuted at number one in the US. 
Top Song: "Die Young"



Artist: Bruno Mars
Title:Unorthodox Jukebox
Summary About Album: Unorthodox Jukebox is the second studio album by American recording artist Bruno Mars, released on December 6, 2012, by Atlantic Records.

About Bruno Mars: Bruno Mars is born Gene Hernandez, and he was born on October 8, 1985.  He is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.  He was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, and Mars began making music at a young age. 
Top Song: "Locked Out of Heaven"

Artist: Singing Adams
Title: Moves
Summary About Album: This second album from Steven Adams and the alt. country quartet he formed post-Broken Family Band starts off sounding like an understated Beautiful South.  But it's soon apparent that, compared to the South's Paul Heaton, Adams uses a little to much melody and artfulness to conceal his psychological wounds.  There are no re-enacted emotional breakdowns here, nor is there much evidence of Adam's wit-a defining feature of Broken Family Band's wry English take on Americana.  This album will be something you won't forget. 
About Singing Adams:  It is a band consisting of Steven Adams, Matthew Ashton, Melinda Bronstein, and Michael Wood.  They are a British/English Rock band.
Top Song: "No Rock Song"

 

Artist: Beans On ToastTitle: Fishing For A Thank You
Summary About Album: Fishing for a Thank You album by Beans On Toast was released Dec 11, 2012 on the Xtra Mile Recordings label. .2012 release, the fourth studio album from the Folk singer/songwriter. A career defining record that, in his own amiable style, deals with such matters as protests, love, drugs, religion, Wetherspoon's pubs and Angry Birds with his perfected witty social commentary.
About Beans On Toast: Beans On Toast began playing in 2005, rising from the London folk scene. 
Top Song: "Microwave Popcorn" 


Artist: Jack Beats 
Title: Somebody To Love
Summary About Album:Jack Beats released Somebody To Love, the second in their series of mini albums, on December 2nd through Columbia/Deconstruction in the UK. This release follows their Careless mini album released on September 10th.
About Jack Beats: They are a hip hop group that remixes songs.
Top Song: "Just a Beat"

Entertainment

Hailey Hurowitz
12/11/12
1A
Justin Bieber is Getting Worse and Worse

       Justin Bieber has turned into a mean machine.  Yesterday, he chucked a plastic water bottle in the paparazzi's direction on his way out of a store in Miami yesterday.  No further drama occurred, but Justin was pretty lucky the cops were not there because they could of made him pay a littering fine, or could of made him pick up trash, or "perform other labor commensurate with the offense committed."  It's unclear what provoked the reaction, other than the paparazzi's general appearance, but perhaps a curious "papa" asked how Justin was feeling after being shut out of the Grammy nominations.

     Now, Washington, D.C. should watch out for Justin Bieber next because he has just announced his tour of summer 2013 called the "Believe World Tour."  He was in town tonight to headline Hot 99.5's Jingle Ball concert.  Justin Bieber better watch out because people will stop "beiberbelieving" in him.

info from: http://www.eonline.com/

DVD Release

Hailey Hurowitz
1A
12/11/12

Movie: Ted
Summary: Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings his boundary-pushing brand of humor to the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice star of Ted.  In the live action/CG-animated comedy, he tells the story of John Bennett(Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish, and has refused to leave his side ever since.
Grosses: This movie made  $469 million.
-I think this movie will be high on sales, but low on rents because everyone that saw this movie seemed to love it.



Movie: Gayby
Summary: This movie is about a gay man and a straight woman in their 30s that have been friends since college, and they decide to have a baby together,  The thing is that the woman wants to do it the old-fashioned way.  The man, is easily persuaded.  But after setting up that proviso and providing the requisite awkward sex scene, the movie drops the idea and moves on to oddly weird sexual things.  The movie also shows the gay date nights between them.

Grosses: This movie's world wide gross is $11,558 million.

- This movie seems super dumb, so I think it will be high no rents but low on sales.



Movie: Dreams of a Life
Summary: This movie is about how nobody noticed when 38-year-old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003.  When her skeleton was discovered three years later, her television was still on.  Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce's life, not even a picture.  This movie tells the story of who Joyce Vincent was, and how this could happen to someone in our day and age.  This movie is Carol Morley's journey to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be so forgotten.
Grosses: This movie's gross is $6.6K.
- I think this movie will be high on sales, but low on rents because this movie seems really interesting, and this summary really wants to make you know what happened to Joyce Vincent.


Movie: Why Stop Now?

Summary: This movie brings together the comic talents of Academy Award-nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan in he summer's wildest comedy.  Eli (Eisenberg) is a piano prodigy.  Today is the audition that will determine his future.  Will he launch his career and take off into the world,? or will he stay stuck, caring for his sister and mother (Leo) who, despite her cheerful, loving disposition, is a drug addict.  The only obstacle to a seamless transition into his future is dropping off Mom off at the center where she will enter rehab, but a glitch in the system forces sends them off to enlist the help of an unlikely ally, her drug dealer Sprinkles (Morgan).  The day spirals downhill quickly, and the hapless team must collaborate every step of the way to battle their own demons and get Eli out of the rabbit hole.
Grosses: This movie's gross is $1.6K.
-I think this movie has amazing comedic actors, but I don't think the movie will be that good, so I think this movie will be high on rents, but low on sales.

Movie: Mansome
Summary: Executive Producers Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Ben Silverman bring us a hilarious look at men's identity in the 21st century.  Models, actors, experts, and comedians weigh in on what it is to be a man in a world where the definition of masculinity has become as diverse as a hipster's facial hair in Williamsburg.  This funny movie of men's idiosyncratic grooming habits are thoroughly combed over as men finally take a long hard look in the mirror.
Grosses: This movie's gross is $18.4K.
- This movie seems like a funny movie, but I think it will still be high on rents, and now on sales because this movie doesn't seem like a "great" movie people would buy.

info from: rottentomatoes.com

Movie Release

Hailey Hurowitz
12/7//12
1A
Movies

Movie: Playing for Keeps
Summary: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid star in Playing for Keeps, a romantic comedy about a charming, down-in-his luck former soccer star (Butler) who returns home to put his life back together.  Looking for a way to rebuild his relationship with his son, he gets roped into coaching the boy's soccer team.  But his attempts to generally become an adult are met with hilarious challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him to every turn.
-I think this movie is going to be funny, and Gerard Butler is in it, so it has to be good:)
Movie:Waiting for Lightning
Summary: This movie is the story of Danny Way, the skateboarder whose dream was to jump The Great Wall of China on a skateboard.  It's a movie about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive, the challenges life brings, and how high and far dreams can go to.  In his journey for greatness, Way continues to shape the very sport which helped save his own life.
-I think this movie seems great, but a little bit gruesome. 
Movie:The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez
Summary: Retired radio DJ, Rex Page (Ernest Borgnine). always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy.  After suffering a back injury, Rex finds himself recovering at Rancho Park nursing home, a facility held in the villainous grip of local businessman Mr. Walker (Barry Corbin) and his evil henchman, Dr. Dominguez (Tony Plana).  At first, Rex is helpless in this lawless world, but when the Latino staff realizes that Rex once met their icon, Vicente Fernandez, Rex becomes a local celeb.  And like the cowboys from his dreams, Rex discovers the love and respect of his family and the staff when he faces down the tyrannical owners of Rancho Park this homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of yore. 
-This movie doesn't seem that good to me, but it seems like a good cheesy film.
Movie: Heleno
Summary: Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s.  As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs threatened his career.  Featuring an Awards-caliber performance by Rodrigo Santoro (300, What to Expect When You're Expecting), Heleno depicts the thrilling life of the world's first sports superstar.
-Honestly, this movie does not seem like a good movie to me at all, but I think it will amuse some people in the world.






info from: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

DVD Release

DVD Releases
Hailey Hurowitz
12/5/12
1B

Movie: The Dark Knight Rises
Summary: It has been 8 years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive.  Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good.  For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.  But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda.
Grosses: Dark Knight's total gross was $448.1M.
- I think this movie was low on rents, but high on sales because everyone seemed to love this movie.
Movie: Hope Springs
Summary: Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband.  When she hears of a couple's specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy.  Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough-the real challenge for both.
Grosses: Hope Springs's total gross was $63.5M.
- I think this movie was low on sales, but high on rents because this movie just seems okay, and not great enough to buy. 
Movie: Unforgivable
Summary: Francis (Andre Dussollier) is a successful crime writer who moves to Venice to work on his next novel.  When he meets model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith (Carole Bouquet), he is instantly infatuated.  Francis and Judith eventually marry and move to a remote house on Torcello Island but Francis' new found happiness hinders his writing.  Obsessing over what Judith does while at work, he hires a young-exconvict to investigate.  As Judith's sexual past is revealed both men become increasing fixated on the mysterious woman.  Set against the beautiful backdrop of Venice, Unforgivable examines the consequences of unresolved past relationships and their far-reaching effects into the future.
Grosses: Unforgivable's total gross was $0.2M.
- I think this movie will be low on sales, but high on rents because it doesn't seem like a movie that people will love enough to buy.
Movie: The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Summary: Director/writer Peter Hedges brings enchantment to the screen with The Odd Life of Timothy Green, an inspiring, magical story about a happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green, who can't wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like.  When young Timothy shows up on their doorstep one stormy night, Cindy and Kin, and their small town of Stanleyville learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life's greatest gifts.
Grosses: The Odd Life of Timothy Green's total gross was $51.6M.
- I think this movie will be low on rents, but high on sales because I have actually seen this movie and this is a movie that no matter what age you are, you would like it.
Movie: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Summary: In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a 6 year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood.  Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.  Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Grosses: Beasts of the Southern Wild's total gross was $11.2M.
- I think this movie look a little bit confusing, but I think it will be low on rents, but high on sales because it looks really good and interesting.
Movie: Silent Night
Summary: A loose remake of the horror classic Silent Night, Deadly Night, Malcolm McDowell and Jaime King star as a small-town sheriff and deputy on the hunt for a murderous Santa Claus terrorizing their community on Christmas Eve.  But with the streets full of Santa's for the annual Christmas parade, the killer is hiding in plain sight.  He's made his list, checked it twice, and the naughty are going to pay with their lives.
Grosses: Silent Night's total gross was $9.7K.
- I think this movie will be low on rents, but high on sales because it is Christmas/Holiday season, and this movie is about Christmas time.  If it wasn't holiday season, I think it would be high on rents, but low on sales.

Info From: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

DVD Releases

DVD Releases
Hailey Hurowitz
1A
11/29/12


ParaNorman:
Summary: The 3D comedy is about a small town that comes under siege by zombies.  There is a misunderstood local boy named Norman who is able to talk with the dead.  In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on hosts, witches, and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries old curse.  But, this local boy whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Grosses:This movie made $98,996,793 n the box office worldwide.
-I think this movie will be high on rents, but low on sales because it seems like a dumb movie to me, but little kids might like it.

Lawless:
Summary: This is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers.  The brothers are bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia.  In this great gangsta tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel "The Wettest County in the World," the loyalty of 3 brothers is put to test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Grosses: This movie made $52,877,214 in the box office worldwide.
-I think this movie will be low on rents, but high on sales because it seems like a good movie that would be great to watch.
It would be interesting to learn about prohibition, and follow these brothers in their loyalty.

The Apparition:
Summary: When frightening events start to happen at the young couple's house of Kelly (Ashley Greene) and Ben (Sebastian Stan), they discover they are  being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment.  THe horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run.  Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, Patrick (Tom Felton), but even with his help they may already be doomed.
Grosses: This movie made $6,909,667 in the box office worldwide.
-I think this movie will be high on rents, but low on sales because not many people like scary movies like this.  People usually like to see  scary movies once because its really scary to watch again.  I don't really like scary movies either, so thats really why I think it would be low on sales.

info from: http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/the-apparition-2011
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_apparition/

International News

International News
Mexico with America
Hailey Hurowitz
11/27/12
1A

     Mexico's new leader has a message for U.S. officials as he visits Washington this week: Ties between the neighboring nations must go beyond the drug war.  Just four days before his inauguration, Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday.  He says he wants to reshuffle the list of priorities the U.S. and Mexico share.  A crackdown on cartels was a hallmark of President Felipe Calderon's 6 year tenure, and the U.S. gave its support, offering $1.6 billion to aid in the fight.  Pena Nieto said he plans to focus more on reducing violence, but he's offered few specifics about that approach.

     The 46-year-old former governor, who won Mexico's presidential vote in July, has said a top priority is to deepen economic ties with the U.S.  The U.S. is Mexico's largest trading partner.  The two countries share billions of dollars in imports and exports and a border that stretches nearly 2,000 miles.  For the first time in more than a decade, economic issues are likely to dominate the agenda shared by Mexico and the U.S.  This is because drug-related violence appears to have plateaued and illegal immigration in the U.S. from Mexico had dropped dramatically.  Tuesday's meeting could signal a new approach to the relationship between the two countries.

     Some people have said Obama neglected Latin America during his first term, and lambasted the U.S. president for not bringing up Mexico or other countries in the region during last month's foreign policy debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.  At a forum, Obama said the U.S. is committed to continuing to work alongside Mexico to fight organized crime.

     At a forum hosted by the Spanish-language Univision network in September, Obama said the United States is committed to continuing to work alongside Mexico to fight organized crime.  Both the White House and Pena Nieto's transition team have said security will be a key topic during Tuesday's meeting, and U.S. officials should continue to push for justice and human rights reforms south of the border.  Immigration also is likely to come up Tuesday, since the topic is important to residents on both sides of the border.  Topics also like, education partnerships between the two countries and global issues could also be on the table.

info from:http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/politics/mexico-president-us-visit/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

CNN.com The Arts

CNN.com....The Arts
Hailey Hurowitz
11/27/12
1A

performing arts(puppet guy)
article I got this info. from was dated to be July 28, 2012

     

       On Ronald William Brown's website, posed with puppets, was really excited about birthday party performances and offered workshops for school groups.  Now the 57-year-old Florida man is behind bars, and he is facing federal charges of conspiring to kidnap a child and possessing child pornography.  The authorities accuse the puppeteer of having graphic discussions online about abusing, kidnapping, killing, and even eating children.  He was arrested in Largo, Florida, last week, and appeared in federal court Tuesday.  A 29-page criminal complaint filed in federal court includes transcripts of several online chats and details of what investigators found when they searched Brown's home.  A CD found in his bedroom dresser's sock drawer was child pornography, images of what appear to be deceased children, and a missing-child flier.

    Brown told investigators he had discussed kidnapping, killing, and eating a boy from his church but said, "it was just a fantasy and he could never, and would never hurt anyone."  Brown still thinks he is innocent.  Durning a 1998 traffic stop, a sheriff's deputy spotted boys' underwear between the front seats in the car Brown was driving.  Brown told the deputy he used the boys' underwear for puppet shows.

   Brown also told investigators that he helps out in the children's area of his church, and that a group of children from his neighborhood came to his house every Wednesday for pizza before he gives them a ride in the church van.  A resident of Brown's, Laura Schate said that Brown would never hang out with or speak to any adults.  Some neighbors also said that the children were always eager to talk with Brown.  Brown will be in jail for a very long time.

info from: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/25/justice/florida-puppeteer-porn/index.html

CNN.com Entertainment

CNN.com/Entertainment
Hailey Hurowitz
11/27/12
1A

     The Rolling Stones began their 50th anniversary tour with the biggest bang on Sunday night as a host of special guests joined them for a packed show in London's O2 Arena.  Former Stones friends, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor returned to the ranks, while Mary J. Blige and Jeff Beck were also on hand to help with the celebrations.  Wyman left the Stones in 1992, and he was greeted with an applause and a handshake from Keith Richards as he returned to play bass on "It's Only Rock and Roll" and "Honky Tonk Women."  The biggest cheers came for Taylor, who hasn't been a Stone since 1974, he played trademark blues guitar solos on an extended version of "Midnight Rambler" and looked like he was enjoying every second of it.
     Bilge brought a gospel feel to "Gimme Shelter," trading vocals with Mick Jagger, and Beck did a flashy guitar turn on 1969's "I'm Going Down."  The evening remained very much about the Stones' main members and their remarkable career though, with the set spanning from their second-ever single, 1963's "I Wanna be Your Man" to their latest, 2012's "Doom and Gloom."
    The event ended up pretty much like anyone else's 50th birthday party: there were some old friends, some laughs, some tears, plenty of memories, and a lot of embarrassing dancing.

All Info From: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/26/showbiz/music/rolling-stones-anniversay-tour-rs/index.html?hpt=en_c2
      

CNN.com (Sports)

CNN.com Sports
Hailey Hurowitz
11/27/12
1A

        Spain's football duopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona has become so dominant that sponsors have lost interest in backing other Spanish clubs.  Real Madrid is the richest club in the world by revenue -- $695 million -- and second only to Manchester United in market value.  Meanwhile, Barcelona widely recognized as the best football team in the world with a pedigree of stars such as Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta: is the second richest club in the world by revenue.  The presence of these two football behemoths combined with billions of euros of debt - estimated at $4.5 billion for Primera Division teams -- and liabilities has meant Spanish football clubs can no longer cope with this burden.

       Traditionally local governments in Spain have had a role to play in the financial management of football clubs. In the past, teams such as Valencia and Madrid, as sporting institutions, have received subsidies from local authorities.  But in the current economic climate, state investment in football clubs is not a high priority for many politicians as the central government in Madrid grapples with a spiralling national debt and chronic unemployment of over 25%.  Spain, the eurozone's fourth largest economy is likely to be the next bailout casualty of the debt crisis in the 17-nation currency union.  The government in Madrid has already requested a rescue package for its ailing banks, which require almost 60 billion euros ($76.4 million) in support following an audit in September.

      Spanish football the financial situation is even more dire, so much so that one Spanish club in the third division, Real Oviedon has turned to football fans for help.  Earlier this month the Asturias-based team launched a campaign, whereby fans could effectively buy shares at approximately 11 euros each in exchange for a token stake in the club.  Word of Real Oviedo's plight went viral on Twitter and football fans across the globe responded by purchasing shares and raising more than one million euros in nine days.  Gay de Liebana argued that the current state of Spanish football clubs is the result of poor financial regulation and supervision.

INFO FROM: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/16/business/spain-football-clubs-sponsor/index.html?hpt=ifo_bn2

Movie Release

Movie Release
Hailey Hurowitz
11/20/12
1A


Hitchcock Summary-Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville.  The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho.  This movie is a true story behind the difficult production of the famed Alfred Hitchcock classic, which brings insight to Hitchcock's fascination with the real-life serial killer who served as the inspiration for Norman Bates.
-This movie is defiantly a movie i would love to see because I am a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock. 

Rust and Bone Summary- Rust and Bone, is about a struggling single father who helps a beautiful whale trainer recover her will after a trrible accident that leaves her confined to a wheelchair.  Lonely and destitute, Ali leaves the north of France for his sister's house in Antibes after becoming the sole guardian of his estranged five-year-old son, Sam.  When Ali lands a job as a bouncer in a nearby nightclub, things quickly start to look up for the father and son.  Then one night, after breaking up a fight in the club, Ali meets Stephanie, and slips her his number after dropping her off safely at home.  Though Stephanie's position on the high end of the social spectrum makes romance an unlikely prespect for the pair, a tragic accident at Marineland robs her of her legs, and finds her reaching out in desperation to Ali.  Her spirit broken by the same tragedy that took her legs, Stephanie gradually  finds the courage to go on living through transcendent moments spent with Ali, a man with precious little pity, but an enormous love of life.

-This movie seems like an okay love story that I would probably rent, and watch it with a couple of my friends. 









The Central Park Five Summary- in 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park.  News media got on the case, calling it "the crime of the century," but the truth about what really happened didn't become clear until after the five and spent years in prison for a crime they didn't commit.  With the central park five, this story of injustice finally gets the telling it deserves.  Based on Sarah Burns' best-selling book and co directed by her husband David McMahon and father, the beloved doc filmmaker Jen Burns, this great film tells the riveting tale of innocent young men blamed for a crime they didn't do, and it serves as a mirror for our times too.
-This movie seems like a great movie that I would love to see in theaters.









The App Killer Summary- A killer uses different cellphone apps to attract potential victims.  When a 20 year old tourist meets a guy through a popular app for gay men, it will become the worst nightmare he could have ever imagined.
-This movie seems like a movie that will be on TV in less then a year, and I would probably watch it when it comes out for rent or on TV if it does.

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Movie Release

Movie Release
Hailey Hurowitz
1A
11/16/12


Cafe de Flore Summary-“Cafe de Flore” is a love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in the 1960s in Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal. What binds the two stories together is love - euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love.

-I think this movie will be a great movie that will be very entertaining.

28 Hotel Rooms-Both traveling for work, in a city in which neither lives, a man and a woman have a one-night stand. Months later, in another city, they run into each other in a hotel restaurant and sleep together for a second time. Though she's married and he has a girlfriend, they decide to keep meeting. This begins an unexpected love that slowly evolves into a profound relationship and threatens to impact everything else in their lives.

-This movie seems like a very good love story to watch.

Holy Motors Summary- Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, he’s a ninja warrior transformed by cutting-edge technology into a reptilian sex g-d. Next he’s a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then he’s the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia...Holy Motorsis all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur Oscar’s epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.

-This movie seems like an awesome movie that everyone should get a chance to watch because this movie seems like a movie no one has seen before.

Price Check Summary-Pete Cozy does his best juggling family life, rising debt and a dead end job, but when his new boss, Susan, a sexy, powerful, human dynamo shows up, Pete is pulled into the maelstrom that is her life and made to work harder than he ever has before. Suddenly, money and opportunities come his way, but at what price?

-This movie seems like an okay movie, but not that good to see in theaters. 

Info all from: http://www.movieweb.com/movies/2012/week