![]() ![]() Betty McCabe and Maggie Atwood are two women (Daughter and mother) who form the two prongs of the trinity, the third being Maggie’s mother Caroline Atwood – the matriarch of this horse-loving family. Patterson ventures into new territory, a dramatic story of two women Horse riders. ![]() Co-authoring with Mike Lupica for this venture, Mr. My Rating – 4 out of 5 Plot Summary (Storyline) – The Horsewomanįrom the master of the page-turning thrillers – James Patterson – comes this sports drama as his first offering of the new year. Read the Goodreads Review of The Horsewoman here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Joe Gillis is a down on his luck screenwriter who meets Norma while he's fleeing men who are trying to repossess his car. Norma Desmond lives her present in the past when she was in her heyday as the most celebrated actress of her generation. ![]() It is a film about a movie star of the silent movie era who is left behind as she ages and films become talkies. is one of the best movies ever made about Hollywood. DeMille, iconic gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, and even silent star Buster Keaton appear in the film as themselves. ![]() The film was written and directed by the legendary Billy Wilder and starred William Holden as struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former star of silent films who desperately wants to transition into talking pictures, and Erich von Stroheim as Max von Maylerling, her loyal butler. Sunset Boulevard(or Sunset Blvd.) is a classic movie still taught in film classes today, 72 years after its release. ![]() ![]() Miss Kelly is able to diplomatically affirm the self-confidence of both boys in their individual appearances. When Andrew returns to class with no freckles, Nicky now wants the Freckle Remover recipe. His patient teacher, Miss Kelly, offers him her secret recipe for Freckle Remover. When freckles do not appear, Andrew draws them on his face with a blue magic marker. ![]() Most of us get upset stomachs, too, when we realize we have fallen victim to a financial scheme. After mixing it up and drinking it very quickly, Andrew suffers from an upset stomach. She claims that her family does not have freckles because they have the recipe which is a mixture of common ingredients most people have in their kitchens. Sharon offers to sell Andrew a secret recipe for fifty cents that will cause him to develop freckles. ![]() ![]() This desire leaves him gullible to Sharon, another classmate, who after observing Andrew ask Nicky how he got his freckles, decides to capitalize financially upon the situation. ![]() It wasn’t in Andrew’s genetic make-up to have freckles, but he had come to greatly admire them on classmate Nicky Lane’s neck as he daydreamed about how they would make his own life so much easier if he had them on his neck, too. First of all, human beings always seem to desire what we can’t have. Judy Blume exposes several fallacies of the human race in her story for second graders, Freckle Juice. ![]() |