Full Frontal: Hysteria
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
With the release of the trailer for ‘Hysteria,’ Valeria offers her ideas for hypothetical Hollywood hits based around gynecology.
Crossing the Medium: Awesome Book Adaptations
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Book Week
Let’s celebrate those successful adaptations of books that not only worked commercially, but were also met with critical acclaim.
Harry Potter’s Literacy Legacy
Categories: Pop Culture
Even as the HP film franchise comes to a close, the bright imaginations of young readers have no end. Hollywood, however, may monopolize magic.
Fairy Tales: Coming Back to a Theatre Near You
Categories: Arts & Entertainment
Some our favorite bedtime stories have become the newest wave of the Hollywood blockbuster machine. The theme du jour? Fairy tales.
Hump Day Celeb Gossip Roundup
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
Anne Hathaway gets cast in the role of a lifetime. Angelina makes a scene applying lip gloss at the Globes. Weezy looks totally uncomfortable on the cover of Rolling Stone. Holly Madison’s new beau is fugly! And guess which pop princess got wasted and passed out?
They tried to make me go to rehab, and I said, ‘Yes, Please!’
Categories: Lifestyle
What is the message the media is sending us about rehab? The people America idolizes — rockstars, superstar athletes, film goddesses, pop princesses — make it look like everything it’s not.
Upcoming Hollywood storylines are influenced by social media
Categories: Technology
If art is a reflection of life, it’s about time movies began focusing on the most important thing in our lives right now: social media. In the next few months, three movies directly or indirectly based on Facebook and YouTube will hit theaters to much fanfare and anticipation.
(Dead) Celebrities and their influence on drug abuse
Categories: Drug Week
Hollywood has long been plagued with drug abuse overdose, which has been a problem since before Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley were popular. Recent celebrity abuse scandals and deaths have brought more attention to the growing epidemic as the stories spread on Twitter, via text, and through more new media sources, all of which Gen Y is actively engaged in. But how do celebrities’ actions really influence our decisions?
Hollywood’s highs and lows: Drug use in films
Categories: Drug Week
Filmmakers have thrown themselves right into the vortex of the national drug debate, and the use of drugs that appear in movies primarily targeted at Gen Y varies so greatly it makes you spin in circles until you think you’re on an acid trip.
The United States of LA
Categories: Cities Week
This post is part of a TNGG series on cities. Los Angeles is a big city. You obviously know that, but I meant in terms of surface area. The city encompasses so much land that one can’t just say, “I live in Los Angeles.” A fellow resident would look at you and say, “And… where [...]
