Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

State of the Union

Word of the Day: Cuh-omfy

Cuh-omfy (cuh-yute + comfy) describes something that’s ah-dorable and comfortable all at once. As the PC knows, looking fabulous doesn’t mean you need to suffer – and Dylan’s got a closet full of cuh-omfy clothes to prove it.

Flats and jeggings are cuh-omfy x 10. What are your favorite cuh-omfy items?

Mini Shopaholic

Becky Brandon (dahulu Bloomwood) berpikir mudah saja menjadi ibu, dan putrinya akan menjadi teman belanja seumur hidup!

Tapi Minnie yang baru dua tahun ternyata memiliki pendekatan yang berbeda dalam berbelanja. Dia sering menjerit "Mauuuu!" tanpa pandang bulu, menciptakan kekacauan dari Harrods sampai Harvey Nichols, suka memanggil taksi untuk pergi ke toko, bahkan memesan baju di eBay tanpa bilang-bilang.

Sementara itu, negara mereka dilanda krisis keuangan. Semua orang melakukan pengetatan ikat pinggang--padahal Becky dan Luke masih tinggal di rumah orangtua Becky. Rencana untuk membeli rumah pun gagal. Untuk membangkitkan semangat, Becky memutuskan membuat pesta kejutan-- dengan biaya hemat. Tapi bukan Becky namanya kalau tidak terlibat dalam masalah yang lebih rumit.

Sanggupkah Becky mengatasinya? Apakah harapan rahasianya dapat menjadi nyata?

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund, are staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb during the final days of the second World War, while their older brother Peter is studying for his university entrance exams and their older sister Susan is traveling through America with their parents. Edmund, feeling upset with his status as a child when he was once a king, attempts to join the military, though he is turned away. After returning to their Aunt and Uncle's home, Edmund notices a wondrous painting hanging on the wall in Lucy's bedroom. As the Pevensie children speak of how very Narnian the ship is, Eustace begins teasing them about their secret country. After a brief argument between Edmund and Eustace, Lucy notices water coming out of the painting. Eustace pulls the painting from the wall, while the room floods. They swim towards the light, and find themselves in the middle of an ocean, with a large ship coming at them. Lucy recognizes her rescuer as Caspian, the King of Narnia. Eustace, Edmund, and Lucy are taken aboard the Dawn Treader.

The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries as King Caspian's Telmarine ancestors had never built ships as they had always feared the sea. Three years have passed since peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken an oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic and at odds with the talking Mouse Reepicheep, who has joined the crew in hopes to see Aslan's Country beyond the seas of the "utter East".

They first make landfall at the Lone Islands, Narnian territory which has become a heaven for slave trade . Caspian, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are captured as slaves. While imprisoned, Caspian meets one of the lost lords, Lord Bern, who reveals that those not sold are sacrificed to a mysterious green mist he and the others were investigating. When the Dawn Treader crew arrives during an auction, Caspian and Edmund manage to escape and free Eustace and Lucy, taking the Lone Island back from the traders. Caspian names Bern duke of the Lone Islands while given one of the seven swords the lords possess. Before leaving, a man whose wife was captured and sacrificed to the green mist, pleads to go with Caspian to find his wife. Though left in Narrowhaven with her aunt, Gael, the man's daughter, stows away to find her mother and is accepted by the crew.

At the second island they visit, Lucy is abducted by the invisible Duffers who force her to enter their oppressor's manor to recite a spell of visibility. While doing this, Lucy rips out a page from the spell book that details an enchantment to make her like her sister. Later Lucy and the others learn the oppressor actually cast the spell to protect the Duffers from the evil green mist that comes from Dark Island and is becoming stronger. To defeat the Dark Island before its evil can grow and consume Narnia, the crew must locate the other Swords of the Seven Lords and lay them in Aslan's Table on Ramandu's island. During a storm after leaving the Duffers' island, Lucy decides to read the torn page from the Book of Incantations that contains the spell to make her beautiful. She suddenly find herself as Susan, and back on Earth at a party, together with Edmund and Peter. Realizing that Lucy is not around, she's bothered by her conscience and decides to be herself. Lucy becomes herself again, and sees Aslan through a mirror who tells her that she mustn't lack self-value for she is beautiful just the way she is. Lucy wakes up, goes to Caspian and Edmund, who have also plagued by the green mist playing on their personal demons: Edmund's self-doubt assuming the form of Jadis, the White Witch and Caspian with his fear of not living up to his father's expectations.

The group then makes a stop at a volcanic island, with Eustace leaving the group to avoid participating in the work and finding a massive treasure that arouses his greed. He fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet from a corpse. Elsewhere, Caspian and the Pevensies find a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including Lord Restimar. As they obtain his sword they are almost tempted by the gold and Edmund and Caspian almost killed each other over it. Lucy manages to calm them both, and they return to the ship. Realizing that Eustace is missing Caspian and Edmund volunteer to find him. Soon after as they are about to leave, the group encounters a dragon which destroys some parts of the ship. Reepicheep injures the dragon, which then flees back to the island. Caspian and Edmund, who think that Eustace is dead (as they found his burnt shirt together with the corpse who was revealed as Lord Octesian and his sword), encounter the dragon, which abducts Edmund. The dragon takes Edmund to a place where words made of the dragon's fiery breath indicates that the dragon is Eustace.

They continue their journey, until a merperson warns Lucy about going to Ramandu's Island. After hours of struggle (caused when the crew finds it hard to move the ship towards the water), Eustace helps them out by pulling the ship. He and Reepicheep built a special bond. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. They also saw the three swords belonging to the three lords. They realized that this is Aslan's Table. Caspian guesses that what made them sleep is the food, which is served in front of them. Lucy sees the star, Ramandu's daughter Lilliandil, who tells them that the only way to awaken the three lords is by setting things right and reveals the last lord, Lord Rhoop, is on Dark Island itself. Lilliandil also tells them that the three lords' slumber was not caused by the food, but by their argument, which was forbidden in front of Aslan's Table.

At Dark Island, Caspian warned his crew about their temptations as they venture to the island. There they found Lord Rhoop, rendered half mad and desperate from his long solitude as Eustace had to carry him on the ship before. However, Edmund's fear-ridden thoughts manifest as a sea serpent. Though Eustace helps in fighting the sea-serpent, Rhoop fearfully throws his sword and it sticks in Eustace's back. Eustace flies back to Ramandu's Island, where he lands in a snowfield as Aslan appear and turns him back into a boy so he can place Rhoop's sword with the other six. That completes the magic to defeat the Dark Island as Edmund overcomes his inner demons and slays the sea serpent. The darkness and the Dark Island disappeared, leaving all the boats and boatfuls of people who had been sacrificed to the Darkness by the slave merchants and elsewhere.

Soon after, Caspian heads to the world's end with Reepicheep, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace, venturing in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. There they meet Aslan, telling them that beyond them is his country. Caspian asks Aslan whether his father is there, but Aslan said that the only way to know is to go there by himself though he may never return from there. Caspian decides not to go, as he cannot leave his kingdom which his father fought for until his death. Reepicheep gains Aslan's blessing to see his country, paddling a coracle up the waterfall to be never again seen in Narnia. Aslan then sends the children home, telling them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia and that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. However, Eustace, now a much nicer person from his time in Narnia, can return someday. Back in his world with his cousins, Eustace's mother calls him for he has a visitor, Jill Pole.

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The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund, are staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older brother Peter is studying for his university entrance exams with Professor Kirke, and their older sister Susan is traveling through America with their parents. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace are drawn into the Narnian world through a picture of a ship at sea. (The painting, hanging neglected in the guest bedroom that the Pevensie children were using, had been an unwanted present to Eustace's parents.) The three children land in the ocean near the pictured vessel, the titular Dawn Treader, and are taken aboard.

The Dawn Treader is the ship of Caspian X, King of Narnia, who was the key character in the previous book (Prince Caspian). Edmund and Lucy (along with Peter and Susan) helped him gain the throne from his evil uncle Miraz.

Three years have passed since then, peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken his oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic, as he has never been there before and had taunted his cousins with his belief that the country never existed. The Talking Mouse Reepicheep is also on board, as he hopes to find Aslan's country beyond the seas of the "utter East".

They first make landfall in the Lone Islands, nominally Narnian territory but fallen away from Narnian ways: in particular the slave trade flourishes here, despite Narnian law stating that it is forbidden. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Reepicheep are captured as merchandise by a slave trader, and a man "buys" Caspian before they even reach the slave market. He turns out to be the first lost lord, Lord Bern, who moved to the islands and married a woman there after being banished from Narnia by Miraz. When Caspian reveals his identity, Bern acknowledges him as King. Caspian reclaims the islands for Narnia, and replaces Gumpas, the greedy governor, with Lord Bern, whom he names Duke of the Lone Islands.

At the second island they visit, Eustace leaves the group to avoid participating in the work needed to render the ship seaworthy after a storm has damaged it, and hides in a dead dragon's cave to escape a sudden downpour. The dragon's treasure arouses his greed: he fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet; but as he sleeps, he is transformed into a dragon. As a dragon, he becomes aware of how bad his previous behaviour was, and uses his strength to help make amends. Aslan turns Eustace back into a boy, now a much nicer person. Caspian recognizes the bracelet when Eustace is finally able to get it off: it belonged to Lord Octesian, another of the lost lords. They speculate that the dragon killed Octesian — or even that the dragon was Octesian.

They make stops at Burnt Island; at Deathwater Island (so named for a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including one of the missing lords who turns out to have been Lord Restimar); at the Duffers' Island, where Lucy herself encounters Aslan; and at the Island Where Dreams Come True — called the Dark Island since it is permanently hidden in darkness. They rescue a desperate Lord Rhoop from this last. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. Ramandu, the fallen star who lives on the island, tells them that the only way to awaken them is to sail to the edge of the world and there to leave one member of the crew behind.

The Dawn Treader continues sailing into an area where merpeople dwell and the water turns sweet rather than salty. At last the water becomes so shallow that the ship can go no farther. Caspian orders a boat lowered and announces that he will go to the world's end with Reepicheep. The crew object, saying that as King of Narnia he has no right to abandon them. Caspian goes to his cabin in a temper, but returns to say that Aslan appeared in his cabin and told him that only Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep will go on.

These four named venture in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. Fulfilling Ramandu's condition, Reepicheep paddles his coracle up the waterfall and is never again seen in Narnia (Lewis hints that he reaches Aslan's Country). Edmund, Eustace, and Lucy find a lamb, who transforms into Aslan and tells them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia – that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. He then sends the children home.

In their own world, everyone remarks on how Eustace has changed and "you'd never know him for the same boy" - although his mother believes that Edmund and Lucy have been a bad influence on him.

State of the Union

Word of the Day: Tuh-weet

A tuh-weet is a 140 character post on Twitter – and Massie and the rest of the PC are total tuh-weeting fanatics. Twitter is the best way to get all the latest updates on your favorite celebs, designers, and books (including The Clique) ay-sap – and the Pretty Committee’s ah-bviously obsessed!

So, if you’re not already following @TheClique on Twitter, make sure to do so you can tuh-weet with us and join our weekly Twitter parties.

Tangled

An elderly woman named Gothel witnesses a single ray of sun hit the ground, creating a magical flower with the ability to keep herself young when she sings to it. Centuries later, the queen of a nearby kingdom falls ill while expecting a child. Her guards located the mysterious flower, hidden by Gothel, and bring it to the queen. The flower heals the queen and she gives birth to a girl named Rapunzel, who comes to inherit the flower's magic through her long golden hair. One night, Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and isolates her in a tower as her own daughter. However, every year on her birthday, the kingdom sends floating lanterns into the sky longing for their lost princess to return.

Eighteen years later, Rapunzel tells Gothel that she wishes to see these annual floating lights that appear on her birthday, but Gothel rejects her by telling Rapunzel that the world is a dangerous place. Meanwhile, the thief Flynn Rider and his twin thugs heist the tiara of the missing princess from the castle. As they flee, Flynn abandons the twins, allowing the pursuing castle guards to capture them. The lead guard's horse, Maximus, is separated from his rider and continues the search for Flynn on his own.

Flynn happens upon Rapunzel's tower to hide in, only to be held captive by Rapunzel and her pet chameleon, Pascal. Rapunzel bargains with Flynn that if he escorts her to the lights and back, she will return the tiara. Flynn agrees as Rapunzel is excited to be free, but is soon conflicted between the elation from the new experience and the guilt of disobedience. Later, Gothel returns to find Rapunzel gone, but finds the tiara hidden in a bag under the stairs.

The pair arrive at the Snuggly Duckling, a seedy pub filled with thugs. However, the thugs recognize Flynn from the poster and plan to turn him in, but Rapunzel confronts the men stating that she needs Flynn to complete her dream of seeing the lights. The thugs decide to help her as they too have unfinished dreams. Gothel watches through a window, but before she can do anything, the royal guards enter and pursue Flynn and Rapunzel to a wooden dam where the two hide in a closed-off cave. Maximus causes the dam to break and the surrounding area and the cave begin to flood. Thinking that they will die, Flynn reveals to Rapunzel that his real name is actually Eugene Fitzherbert, and she explains that her hair glows when she sings. Realizing that it would light the cave, she sings and the cave is illuminated as they swim to a loosened clump of rocks and escape the cave. Meanwhile, Gothel finds the thieving twins and offers them something worth much more than the tiara.

That night, Rapunzel heals Flynn's hand, which was injured in their escape, with her hair and explains that if her hair is cut, it loses its power and turns brown. As Flynn goes to collect firewood, Gothel appears and pleads with Rapunzel to return to the tower, but Rapunzel refuses as she now has a liking for Flynn. Gothel gives Rapunzel the tiara in the bag and says that Flynn is only interested in it and will leave Rapunzel after he gets it. The next morning, Rapunzel forces Maximus to strike a truce with Flynn as the group arrives at the castle for the princess' birthday festival. That evening, Flynn rows Rapunzel out in a small dingy to the middle of an adjacent lake to gain a good view of the lantern release. Rapunzel gives Flynn the tiara saying that she now trusts him. Rapunzel and Flynn almost kissed but, Flynn sees the twins on a different shore and tells Rapunzel that he will be right back. Flynn apologizes to the twins and returns the tiara, but the twins want Rapunzel instead. Moments later, the twins tell Rapunzel that Flynn has abandoned her for the tiara, when in reality the twins have tied Flynn to a boat after knocking him unconscious. However, Gothel betrays them to look like she's rescuing Rapunzel.

Rapunzel returns to her tower room and notices that a flag she collected at the festival looks exactly like the paintings she made all over the tower's interior. The sunburst design is an early memory from her life in the kingdom. Rapunzel realizes that she is the lost princess and confronts Gothel. Meanwhile, Flynn is arrested and is sentenced to be hanged, but is instead rescued by Maximus and the thugs from the Snuggly Duckling. Flynn and Maximus rush to Rapunzel's tower and find Rapunzel held captive by Gothel. Gothel stabs Flynn, but Rapunzel tells Gothel that as long as she lets her heal Flynn, she will go away with Gothel willingly. Since Flynn would rather die than have Rapunzel stay trapped with Gothel, Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair, causing all of it to lose its power and turn brown. As a result, Gothel quickly ages and falls from the tower, but disintegrates before reaching the ground. Dying, Flynn tells Rapunzel that his dream was her and as Rapunzel cries, her tears suddenly heal Flynn to return to life, overjoying Rapunzel, and leading her to kiss him. Later, Flynn returns Rapunzel to meet her parents and they eventually get married.

Confessions of A Teenage Bookaholic Boy: It Was About the Last Three Days

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Beauty and the Beast

In the film's prologue, an enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman offers a young prince a rose in exchange for a night's shelter. When he turns her away, she punishes him by transforming him into an ugly Beast and turning his servants into furniture and other household items. She gives him a magic mirror that will enable him to view faraway events, and she gives him the rose, which will bloom until his twenty-first birthday. He must love and be loved in return before all the rose's petals have fallen off, or he will remain a Beast forever.

Years later, a beautiful but unusual young woman named Belle lives in a nearby French village with her father Maurice, who is an inventor. Belle loves reading and yearns for a life beyond the village. She is courted by the arrogant local hero, Gaston, but has no interest in him.

Maurice's latest invention is a wood-chopping machine. When he rides through the woods to display the machine at a fair, he loses his way and stumbles upon the Beast's castle, where he meets the transformed servants Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts and her son Chip. The Beast imprisons Maurice, but Belle is led back to the castle by Maurice's horse and offers to take her father's place. When the Beast agrees to this and sends him home, Maurice tells Gaston and the other villagers what happened, but they think he has lost his mind, so he goes to rescue Belle alone.

Meanwhile, the Beast orders Belle to dine with him, but she refuses, and Lumiere disobeys his order not to let her eat. After Cogsworth gives her a tour of the castle, she finds the rose in a forbidden area and the Beast angrily chases her away. Frightened, she tries to escape, but she and her horse are attacked by wolves. After the Beast rescues her, she nurses his wounds, he gives her the castle library as a gift, and they become friends. Later, they have an elegant dinner and a romantic ballroom dance. When he lets her use the magic mirror, she sees her father dying in the woods, and, with only hours left before the rose wilts, the Beast allows her to leave, giving her the mirror to remember him by. This horrifies the servants, who fear they will never be human again. As he watches her leave, the Beast admits to Cogsworth that he loves Belle.

Belle finds Maurice and takes him home, but Gaston arrives with a lynch mob. Unless she agrees to marry Gaston, the manager of the local madhouse will lock her father up. Belle proves Maurice sane by showing them the Beast with the magic mirror, but when she says the Beast is her friend and calls Gaston a "monster", he becomes murderously jealous, arouses the mob's anger against the Beast, and leads them to the castle to kill him. He locks Belle and Maurice in a basement, but Chip, who hid himself in Belle's baggage, chops the basement door apart with Maurice's machine.

While the servants drive the mob out of the castle, Gaston finds the Beast and attacks him. The Beast is initially too depressed to fight back, but he regains his will when he sees Belle arriving at the castle. After winning a heated battle, the Beast spares Gaston's life and climbs up to a balcony where Belle is waiting. Gaston follows the Beast and stabs him from behind, but loses his footing and falls to his death.

As the Beast dies from his injuries, Belle whispers that she loves him, breaking the spell just before the last petal drops from the rose. The Beast comes back to life, and he and the servants become human again. The film ends as Belle and the prince dance in the ballroom with her father and the servants happily watching.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I

Rufus Scrimgeour gives a speech to the Ministry stating that it has and will always stay strong through these "dark times." Severus Snape, now the Headmaster of Hogwarts, meets with Voldemort and his fellow Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor where he then shares his intelligence about when Harry will be moved from his home. Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger know that their only hope is to find and destroy the Horcruxes before their enemy Voldemort restores his full powers by killing Harry. Voldemort is forced to borrow a wand since his is unable to kill Harry. The Order and Harry's friends show up at the Dursleys' house and turn all of his friends into decoys of Harry to move him to The Burrow, the home of the Weasleys. Once they're in the sky, they are immediately attacked by Death Eaters. Voldemort's borrowed wand fails to kill Harry, whose wand acts of its own accord. Mad-Eye Moody and Harry's owl, Hedwig, are killed during the battle. Despite the deaths during the attack, they manage to make it to the Burrow.

At the Burrow, The Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, arrives and distributes the items from Dumbledore's last will and testament: the Deluminator to Ron, his personal copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" to Hermione, and to Harry, the Snitch Harry caught in his first Quidditch game. Dumbledore also bequeathed Godric Gryffindor's sword to Harry, but Scrimgeour maintains that the Sword was not Dumbledore's to give. Also, the whereabouts of the Sword are unknown. Later, the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour is interrupted by Death Eaters. During the chaos, Ron, Harry and Hermione disapparate to London, where they are attacked again by two Death Eaters in disguise in a cafe. While planning not to return for their final year at Hogwarts, they head to #12 Grimmauld Place, where the house-elf Kreacher is hiding. They discover that RAB is Regulus Arcturus Black and that Mundungus Fletcher has stolen the real locket of Salazar Slytherin from the house. Harry orders Kreacher to apprehend Mundungus, who reveals that the locket is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. Using Polyjuice Potion, the trio break into the Ministry, retrieve the locket, and Disapparate to a forest.

Despite their attempts, they are unable to destroy the Horcrux, which makes its bearer experience deeply negative thoughts. They take turns wearing it in order to dilute its effects. Especially susceptible to its effects, Ron is overcome by suspicion that Harry and Hermione are getting close and departs from the group. His departure, combined with the tension of their situation, is a severe blow to their morale. Harry momentarily raises their spirits when he invites Hermione to dance with him as they listen to some music on Ron's radio. Harry sees a vision of Voldemort interrogating and killing Gregorovitch, an old wand-maker, and going off in search of a mysterious teenage wizard that Gregorovitch said robbed his shop many years ago.

Harry and Hermione go to Godric's Hollow to find Bathilda Bagshot, a magical historian who they think may have the Sword, which they have determined can destroy Horcruxes as it is impregnated with Basilisk venom, but they are nearly cornered by Lord Voldemort's snake Nagini who has killed her. Hermione identifies the teenage wizard seen in Harry's vision as Gellert Grindelwald.

Harry sees a Patronus doe, follows it to a frozen pond, and finds the Sword of Gryffindor. As Harry swims to reach it, the locket attempts to drown him, but Ron reappears and saves him. Harry convinces Ron to try and destroy the locket with the sword. It manipulates Ron's worst fears, but Ron successfully destroys it with the sword.

After seeing a strange symbol throughout their journey, they decide to visit someone who knows what significance the symbol has. Xenophilius Lovegood teaches them about the Deathly Hallows (an invincible Elder Wand, a Resurrecting Stone, and an Invisibility Cloak). Together all three items make someone a "master of death." Xenophilius betrays them to the Death Eaters as ransom for his daughter Luna. The trio escape and Disapparate back to the forest, where a group of Snatchers are waiting to capture them and take them to Malfoy Manor. Harry, meanwhile, has another vision and sees Voldemort finding Grindelwald who tells Voldemort that as a result of a long ago duel, Dumbledore is now the master of one of the Deathly Hallows, the Elder Wand.

At Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix imprisons Harry and Ron in the cellar, where she has also imprisoned Luna, the wandmaker Ollivander, and the goblin Griphook; meanwhile, Bellatrix tortures Hermione (by carving the word "mudblood" into her arm) to try to find out how they acquired the Sword of Gryffindor, which she had believed to be safe in her bank at Gringotts.

Harry, using a magical mirror, sees what he believes to be the face of Dumbledore and begs the person in the mirror for help. Dobby then appears and, at Harry's request, rescues Luna and Ollivander and returns to help Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook. During the rescue, Bellatrix kills Dobby as they Disapparate. Harry gives Dobby a proper burial on the beach. The first part closes with Voldemort breaking Dumbledore's tomb, stealing the Elder Wand and testing it's power.

James and the Giant Peach

James Henry Trotter, four years old, lives with his loving parents in a pretty and bright cottage by the sea in the south of England. James's world is turned upside down when, while on a shopping trip in London, his mother and father are eaten by a rhinoceros that had escaped from the zoo. James is forced to go and live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who live in a high, desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover. For three years Spiker and Sponge physically and verbally abuse James, not allowing him to venture beyond the hill or play with other children. Around the house James is treated as a drudge, beaten for hardly any reason, improperly fed, and forced to sleep on bare floorboards in the attic.

One summer afternoon when he is crying in the bushes, James stumbles across a strange little man, who, mysteriously, knows all about James's plight and gives him a sack of tiny glowing-green crocodile tongues. The man promises that if James mixes the contents of the sack with a jug of water and ten hairs from his own head, the result will be a magic potion which, when drunk, will bring him happiness and great adventures. On the way back to the house, James trips and spills the sack onto the peach tree outside his home, which had previously never given fruit. The tree becomes enchanted through the tongues, and begins to blossom; indeed a certain peach grows to the size of a large house. The aunts discover this and make money off the giant peach while keeping James locked away. At night the aunts shove James outside to collect rubbish from the crowd, but instead he curiously ventures inside a juicy, fleshy tunnel which leads to the hollow stone in the middle of the cavernous fruit. Entering the stone, James discovers a band of rag-tag anthropomorphic insects, also transformed by the magic of the green tongues.

James quickly befriends the insect inhabitants of the peach, who become central to the plot and James' companions in his adventure. The insects loathe the aunts and their hilltop home as much as James, and they were waiting for him to join them so they can escape together. The Centipede bites through the stem of the peach with his powerful jaws, releasing it from the tree, and it begins to roll down the hill, squashing Spiker and Sponge flat in its wake. Inside the stone the inhabitants cheer as they feel the peach rolling over the aunts. The peach rolls through villages, houses, and a famous chocolate factory before falling off the cliffs and into the sea. The peach floats in the English channel, but quickly drifts away from civilization and into the expanses of the Atlantic Ocean. Hours later, not far from the Azores, the peach is attacked by a swarm of hundreds of sharks. Using the blind Earthworm as bait, the ever resourceful James and the other inhabitants of the peach lure over five hundred seagulls to the peach from the nearby islands. The seagulls are then tied to the broken stem of the fruit using spiderwebs from the Spider and strings of white silk from the Silkworm. The mass of seagulls does indeed lift the giant peach into the air and away from the sharks, although the peach is badly damaged in the incident.

As the seagulls strain to get away from the giant peach, they merely carry it higher and higher, and the seagulls take the giant peach great distances. The Centipede entertains with ribald dirges to Sponge and Spiker, but in his excitement he falls off the peach into the ocean and has to be rescued by James. That night, thousands of feet in the air, the giant peach floats through mountain-like, moonlit clouds. There the inhabitants of the peach see a group of magical ghost-like figures living within the clouds, "Cloud-Men", who control the weather. As the Cloud-Men gather up the cloud in their hands to form hailstones and snowballs to throw down to the world below, the loud-mouthed Centipede berates the Cloud-Men for making snowy weather in the summertime. Angered, an army of Cloud-Men appear from the cloud and pelt the giant peach with hail so fiercely and powerfully that the peach is severely damaged, with entire chunks taken out of it, and the giant fruit begins leaking its peach juice. All of this shrinks the peach somewhat, although because it is now lighter the seagulls are able to pull it quicker through the air. As the seagulls strain to get away from the Cloud-Men, the giant peach smashes through an unfinished rainbow the Cloud-Men were preparing for dawn, infuriating them even further. One Cloud-Man almost gets on the peach by climbing down the silken strings tied to the stem, but James asks the Centipede to bite through some of the strings. When he does a single freed seagull, to which the Cloud-Man is hanging from, is enough the carry him away from the peach as Cloud-Men are weightless.

As the sun rises, the inhabitants of the giant peach see glimmering skyscrapers peeking above the clouds, and a sprawling urban city far below them. The inhabitants of Manhattan see the giant peach suspended in the air by a swarm of hundreds of seagull, and panic, believing it to be a floating, orange-coloured, spherical nuclear bomb. The military, police, fire and rescue services are all called out, and people begin running to air raid shelters and the New York Subway, believing the city is about to be destroyed. A huge passenger airplane flies past the giant peach, almost hitting it, and severing the silken strings between the seagulls and the peach. The seagulls free, the peach begins to fall to the ground, but it is saved when it is impaled upon the spike at the top of the Empire State Building. The people on the observation deck at first believe the inhabitants of the giant peach to be monsters or Martians, but when James appears from within the skewered peach and explains his story, the people hail James and his insect friends as heroes. They are given a welcoming home parade, and James gets what he wanted for three long years - playmates in the form of millions of potential new childhood friends. The skewered, battered remains of the giant peach are brought down to the streets by steeplejacks, where its delicious flesh is eaten up by ten thousand children, all now James's friends. Meanwhile, the peach's other former residents, the anthropomorphic insects, all go on to find very interesting futures in the world of humans...

In the last chapter of the book, it is revealed that the giant hollowed-out stone which had once been at the center of the peach is now a mansion located in Central Park. James Henry Trotter lives out the rest of his life in the giant peach stone, which becomes an open tourist attraction and the ever-friendly James has all the friends he has ever wanted. Occasionally one of his friends visits: the Old-Green-Grasshopper would pop by and rest in the armchair by the fire with a brandy, or the Ladybug would pop in for a cup of tea and a gossip, or the Centipede to show off a new batch of particularly elegant boots that he had just acquired. Always imaginative and creative, James becomes a successful author, writing his story in James and the Giant Peach - "the book you have just read!"

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Word of the Day: Ten

A ten is the rating assigned to a flawless outfits. If an ensemble is sub-seven, it's an ew-fit. Tens usually appear on special occasions, like proms or black tie parties, but it’s not impossible to score a ten on the car ride over to OCD!

What makes an outfit a ten?

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In                                                      Out

 GOING WAVY          MAKING WAVES

This fall, forget about causing any BFF rifts or making waves with your clique – you’ve got better things to do. Instead, set aside some time to experiment with your style. While messy breakups and fights are a total “no,” messy (a.k.a. perfectly tousled) hair is ah-dorable.

What’s your fave wavy hair styling product?

Disney's New It Boy Gregg Sulkin

Five years ago, Gregg Sulkin, fierce athlete and rabid fan of England's Arsenal, blew out his knee on the soccer field. "When the doctor said, 'Gregg, you can't play for a year and a half,' I thought he was joking," says the London native. "Soccer was my whole life." But life has a funny way of making other plans, and if the eighteen-year-old hadn't hurt himself, he'd probably never have the chance to play a werewolf opposite Selena Gomez in Wizards of Waverly Place or spend two months in New Zealand filming the new Disney Channel movie Avalon High.

"I didn't ever think about being an actor," he says. "But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is." As it turned out, his first film role combined both of his passions: In 2006's Sixty Six, he played a Bar Mitzvah boy whose party plans are dashed by the 1966 World Cup final.

These days Gregg is focusing on the small screen. He's working on the fourth season of Wizards, and TV movie Avalon High, in which he stars as a reincarnation of an Arthurian-age character opposite Life Unexpected's Britt Robertson, debuts in November. To prep for his role, Gregg learned American football and hit the gym ("to beef up," he says), but due to a last-minute decision, he had only two days to master the biggest challenge--an American accent.

His native lilt will be back in full force when he surprises his parents with a visit after spending almost a year away from home. "I was definitely a mommy's boy growing up. She's going to cry when I show up on their doorstep," Gregg says. "And I probably will too."

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

Years before meeting Wendy and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) meets nine-year-old Lizzy Griffins (Lauren Mote), a little girl with a steadfast belief in the power of pixie dust and the magical land of fairies. During the fairies' summer visit to the flowering meadows of England, Tinker Bell ends up getting trapped in a small fairy house Lizzy had built so she could catch a fairy. Tinker Bell is brought to Lizzy's house, where the two form a special bond with each other. However, when Lizzy's scientifically-minded father discovers Tinker Bell's presence in his household, he attempts to deliver her to the museum for study. When Tinker Bell's rival Vidia (Pamela Adlon) is taken in her place, Tinker Bell and her fellow fairies (Raven-Symoné, Lucy Liu, Kristin Chenoweth and Angela Bartys) launch a daring rescue to save her. Tinker Bell takes a huge risk, putting her own safety and the future of all fairykind in jeopardy.

Enchanted

Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in Andalasia, an animated fairy tale world with talking animals, characters breaking into song and "happily ever after" a foregone conclusion. Prince Edward (James Marsden), her designated true love saves her from a troll and they plan to get married the next day. Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon), Edward's evil stepmother, schemes to protect her throne. She throws Giselle into a portal that transports her to a world without "happily ever afters" -- modern (and live-action) New York City.

In New York, Giselle soon meets Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey), a hardened divorce lawyer. At his daughter (Rachel Covey) Morgan's insistence, he lets Giselle stay at his apartment. Giselle, following the ways of her fairy tale world, recruits urban animals—pigeons, cockroaches and rats to clean his apartment while she makes a gown out of his curtains. Robert's fiancé, Nancy (Idina Menzel), misunderstands the situation and begins to argue with Robert.

He decides to part with Giselle at Central Park, but rejoins her after seeing her give the money he gave her to an old woman. During their walk through Central Park, Giselle questions Robert on how he displays his affection for Nancy and spontaneously starts the musical production number "That's How You Know" with many performers in the park joining her. Giselle helps Robert reconcile with Nancy by sending an apology on Robert's behalf, along with tickets to the King's and Queen's Ball.

Meanwhile, Queen Narissa's henchman Nathaniel (Timothy Spall) follows Edward and Pip, a speaking chipmunk who is friends with Giselle, who have journeyed to New York to save Giselle. They stop at a motel, where Nathaniel questions his relationship with Narissa after watching a soap opera. He sneaks out to give Giselle a poisoned apple. Pip is unable to speak coherently in this world and has a frustrating time alerting the Prince of the minion's intentions. When Nathaniel fails twice to poison Giselle, Narissa becomes infuriated.

As Giselle and Robert spend more time together, Giselle discovers that the real world is much more complicated than she realized, while Robert is affected by her optimism and idealism. Edward continues to look for Giselle and eventually finds her at Robert's apartment. While Edward is eager to take Giselle home, they go on a date around New York at her insistence. To Nancy's chagrin, Giselle and Edward attend the King's and Queen's Ball. After Nancy and Edward pair off to dance, Giselle dances with Robert. During their dance, Giselle realizes that Robert is her true love as he, very softly, sings the lyrics of the song to her. Unbeknownst to them, Narissa has traveled to New York from Andalasia. Under her old hag's disguise, she manages to successfully poison Giselle, but is stopped by Edward before she can escape with Giselle's unconscious body.

A remorseful Nathaniel reveals Narissa's plot, admits his deeds and reveals that the spell of the poison apple has to be broken before midnight or Giselle will die. Robert realizes that only true love's kiss can revive Giselle, but it doesn't work for Edward. Desperate, Edward begs a hesitant Robert to try. Nancy gives her consent and Robert kisses the sleeping Giselle. Giselle awakens to Robert's kiss. Narissa uses the distracting moment to break free. She transforms into a dragon, deciding to write her own ending to the story. Taking Robert hostage, she lures Giselle out the window and up to the top of the Woolworth Building. With help from Pip, Narissa falls from the roof to her death, exploding into magic dust at street level. Giselle catches Robert, and they manage to keep themselves from falling off the roof. Edward and Robert are praised as heroes.

Nancy goes with Edward to Andalasia and marries him. Giselle opens a boutique in New York City, where she is assisted by both humans and animals. Both Nathaniel (in New York) and Pip (in Andalasia) become successful authors. The last scene shows Giselle, Robert, and Morgan playing together and living happily ever after as a family.

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Word of the Day: Witty

“Witty over pretty” is one of Kristen’s favorite expressions – and it couldn’t be more aw-nest. Alphas are known as much for their beauty as their wit, which means you’ve got to be on your (perfectly pedicured!) toes at all times. After all, clever conversation is essential when it comes to dominating at OCD.

The PC has a whole bunch – but what are your wittiest expressions?

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Clique Finale Countdown:
Weekly Twitter Parties! 

The rumor is true. Lisi Harrison's fourteenth Clique book, A Tale of Two Pretties, will be the last book of The Clique series. Lesser alphas might pout about it—but we double-dog heart The Clique so much that we're throwing a party every week until A Tale of Two Pretties arrives. And, ah-bviously, YOU'RE INVITED!

Starting November 7th, every Sunday at 4PM EST / 1PM PST @TheClique will host a Twitter party to discuss one of our favorite books in The Clique series. First, follow @TheClique on Twitter ay-sap so you can join the fun. Then check out the Twitter party schedule below—and make sure you and your friends have read or re-read the books in time to tuh-weet about them! 

Every Friday we'll post ten questions on The Clique blog, so you can think about your tuh-weet responses before the next party! : )

Time: Every Sunday at 4PM EST / 1PM PST

Place: Twitter.com/TheClique

Party Schedule:

11/07/10 – The Clique
11/14/10 – Best Friends for Never
11/21/10 – Revenge of the Wannabes
11/28/10 – Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
12/05/10 – The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
12/12/10 – Dial L for Loser
12/19/10 – It's Not Easy Being Mean
12/26/10 – Sealed With a Diss
01/02/11 – Bratfest at Tiffany's
01/09/11 – P.S. I Loathe You
01/16/11 – Boys R Us
01/23/11 – These Boots Were Made for Stalking
01/30/11 – My Little Phony
02/13/11 –Two Pretties pre-party
02/15/11 (Tuesday) – A Tale of Two Pretties in stores today!
02/27/11 – A Tale of Two Pretties

Ralph Lauren Largest Store

 

The lace this one will be a one stop shopping! Polo Ralph Lauren is going to open its largest women’s store in Manhattan! Precisely this store will occupy a mansion at 888 Madison Avenue and 72nd Street, with an area of 2044 m2, this store provides not only a fashion line, but also home collections, lingerie and jewelry. Shown with exclusive impression, it seems that this store not only make the middle-upper tourists and New Yorkers, as a target marketing. Classic design was intended to attract the attention of customers, to be able to see first hand the displayed collection. Brand owner, Mr. Lauren hopes the selection of a place at 888 Madison Avenue will help increase product sales. Well, even if not able to buy, could look around the largest store in Manhattan is enough to make it felt satisfied.

Eat Pray Love

Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.

 

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At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated and had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night crying on her bathroom floor. She has an affair, during which she separated from her husband and initiated a divorce, which he contested. The affair continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone. While writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, she met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, she spent the next year traveling. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She spent four months in India, finding her spirituality (Pray). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the two and found love (Love) in the form of a dashing Brazilian factory owner.

The trip was paid for in advance from the book deal for Eat Pray Love

City Style: A Field Guide to Global Fashion Capitals

So many books that discuss the city a tourist destination. Starting from its natural charms are cool, until the food is shaking his trademark tongue. For the fashionista, book this one so it fits really grip when going for a walk. City Style: A Field Guide to the Global Fashion Capitals, discusses the surrounding cities that became the world's fashion mecca. From start to New York, Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, Stockholm, Sydney, and LA. Besides they also have a discussion about the unique style in each city, the history of the establishment of a local brand that became global, going shopping guide where, interviews with designers, and of course fashion events held in these countries. Hopefully hell for $ 20 this book quickly enter Indonesia. So, you can get your copy and be on your way!

Kobi Levi's Awesome Shoes

Meet Kobi Levi, Israeli-born designer who attracted attention with his design, "Chewing Gum Heels". Apparently, these unique shoes are not only work of Kobi Levi. There is still a slingshot sandals with heels shaped slingshots, a pair of shoes that resemble a dog, also shoes with the human body shape. "The shoe is my canvas," said Kobi Levi, who made his own all his shoes. I'm sure with a pair of work shoes Kobi Levi, the wearer will be the center of attention or trendsetter. So, what is your favorite Kobi shoes?

B.T.R.

BTR is the debut studio album of the hit boy band, Big Time Rush, which was released on October 11, 2010. The track listing for the album was announced on September 1, 2010. The album includes the group's eponymous debut single as well as "City Is Ours" and "Halfway There".

1. "Til I Forget About You"     3:57
2. "Boyfriend"            3:21
3. "City Is Ours"             3:13
4. "Nothing Even Matters"       3:49
5. "Worldwide"             3:44
6. "Halfway There"         3:32
7. "Big Night"             3:16
8. "Oh Yeah"               3:24
9. "Count on You"             3:29
10. "I Know You Know"         2:55
11. "Big Time Rush"         3:17
12. "Stuck"             3:05
13. "This Is Our Someday"         3:03

Sonny with a Chance (Soundtrack)

Sonny with a Chance is the soundtrack album for the Disney Channel Original Series of the same name. It was released on October 5, 2010 from Walt Disney Records. It debuted at no. 163 on the Billboard 200.

Four out of the nine total tracks on the soundtrack are performed by the series' star, Demi Lovato. Co-stars Tiffany Thornton and Sterling Knight each perform two tracks. Hollywood Records group Allstar Weekend appears once on the soundtack. The theme song, "So Far, So Great", was written by Aris Archontis, Jeannie Lurie and Chen Neeman.

The music video for "Work of Art", starring Demi Lovato, can now be seen on YouTube. The video was also featured on the Sonny with a Chance "Halloween Special" on October 17, 2010 on Disney Channel.

Download here.

The Devil Wears Prada

Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite ridiculing the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands the job "a million girls would kill for": junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway  fashion magazine. Andy has to put up with Miranda's bizarre and humiliating treatment in hopes of getting a job as a reporter or writer somewhere else. At first, Andy fumbles with her job and fits in poorly with her catty coworkers, especially Miranda's senior assistant Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt).

During a dinner with her father who came to visit her in New York City, Miranda calls her: the airports in Florida where she is are all closed due to a hurricane but she needs to get home and orders Andy to get her home somehow. Andy tries every airline company there is, but none of them are flying out because of the weather. When Miranda does arrive back at the office she tells Andy she has disappointed her more than any other of her previous assistants.

Andy has a talk with Runway's art director Nigel (Stanley Tucci), who gives a whole new perspective of Miranda, her work and fashion in general. Andy decides to change and gradually learns her responsibilities and begins to dress more stylishly. Slowly but surely, Andy begins to sacrifice her personal life to her career. Miranda notices the change in Andy and gives her a new task: delivering "The Book" (a mock-up of the next edition's feature spreads) to her Upper East Side townhome. However, Andy is tricked by Miranda's daughters into going upstairs, where she inadvertently walks in on Miranda and her husband arguing. Mortified, she drops the book and leaves.

Miranda punishes Andy by giving her an impossible task: securing the unpublished manuscript for the next book in the Harry Potter series for her twin daughters to read on the train. Andy is just about to quit when Christian Thompson, a famous writer and acquaintance of Andy's informs her he has gotten it for her. Andy delivers the copies to a stunned Miranda and keeps her job, much to her boyfriend's disappointment.

When Emily falls ill, Miranda commands Andy to accompany the two of them to a charity benefit, where the two masquerade as partygoers while actually reminding her of important information about the people approaching her for a greeting. At the event, Andy saves Miranda from being embarrassed by Emily, who had forgotten one of the names; meets Jacqueline Follet, the editor-in-chief of French Runway and Miranda's rival; turns down an offer to meet a big publisher from Christian, but all the while misses her boyfriend's birthday party.

One evening, while returning The Book, Miranda informs her that she needs "the best team possible" for her Paris trip, which means stepping over Emily. Andy hesitates, as Emily has been boasting about going to Paris for months, but Miranda tells her that declining will send the message that she is not committed to her job or any future job at another publication. Andy has no choice but to accept. The next day Miranda then tells Andy to be the bearer of bad news to Emily who, meanwhile, is hurrying back to the office after purchasing scarves from Hermes of Paris for Miranda. Just as Andy is about to tell her, Emily crosses at a "no cross" point and is hit by a taxi. Andy has a rough day confronting Emily about Paris and then at her friend Lily's art gallery, where she accepts a kiss on the cheek from Christian. Lily catches this and berates Andy, to then confront her boyfriend about the fact that she is going to Paris. He realizes that they no longer have anything in common, and they break up.

In Paris, Andy attends the shows and even meets designer Garavani Valentino, being introduced as “the new Emily”. One night Andy comes into Miranda's suite only to find her in her bathrobe, undressed, and crying. While deciding on a seating chart, Miranda opens up saying that her husband is divorcing her, but that her biggest worry is for her daughters, who have lost yet another father figure. Later, Andy learns from Nigel that he has gotten a job as creative director at fashion designer James Holt's new company. Andy has dinner with Christian who figures out that she is single again. After a few glasses of wine she succumbs to Christian's charms and sleeps with him.

In his hotel room the next morning, while dressing, Andy finds out that Runway 's owner is planning to replace Miranda with Jacqueline Follet. Andy storms out to find Miranda and warn her. When Andy finally tells her, Miranda seems unfazed. At a luncheon in honor of James Holt, Miranda announces that Jacqueline will be the new creative director of James Holt's company much to the surprise of Andy and Nigel.

En route to another event, Miranda explains to a still-stunned Andy that she knew about the plan to get rid of her all along, but she found an alternative for Jacqueline and presented "the list" (a list of all the designers, stylists, company owners, and models that were "raised and nurtured" by Miranda and who have promised their loyalty to her whenever and should she ever leave Runway) to the owner of Runway, who realized that without those people, Runway would be doomed, was forced to reconsider. Miranda also says that she was pleased by Andy's display of loyalty and that she sees a great deal of herself in her. Andy says she could never do to anyone what Miranda did to Nigel. Miranda replies that she already did, stepping over Emily. Miranda tentatively comforts her, saying that those choices are necessary to live the life that she lives. At the event, Andy gets out of the car and simply walks away. When receiving a call from Miranda, she throws her phone into a fountain on the Place de la Concorde.

Back in New York, she meets her boyfriend for breakfast. He has accepted an offer to work as a sous-chef in a popular Boston restaurant. Andy is disappointed, but her hope is rejuvenated when he says they could work something out.

Andy goes to an interview for a newspaper job. The interviewer reveals that Miranda told him she was by far her biggest disappointment, but that if he did not hire her, he would be an idiot. Afterwards Andy calls Emily while walking past the Runway office and offers to send Emily all of the outfits Andy got while in Paris, Emily is a bit catty about this saying the clothes will "absolutely drown her" but accepts, after the call Andy then sees Miranda getting into her car across the street. They exchange looks and Andy smiles at her, but Miranda acts as if the two are strangers. Once in the car, Miranda gives a soft smile before angrily telling her driver, "Go!".

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The novel begins with its main character, Andrea Sachs, stuck in midtown Manhattan traffic, trying to remember how to use a manual transmission. She is driving a Porsche roadster that belongs to her boss, Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Sachs must deliver the roadster from the repair shop to Miranda's apartment in time for Miranda's family to go to the Hamptons for the weekend. While she is attempting to do this, Miranda calls Sachs on her cell phone  and excoriates Sachs for not doing her job properly. Miranda also tells Sachs to pick up her pet French bulldog (Persian kitten in British edition) from the veterinarian's office. Trying to comply, Andrea ruins some of the expensive designer clothing she is wearing. She wishes Miranda would die. But if that did happen, she reminds herself, she would lose the pleasure of killing Miranda with her own hands.

Sachs had recently graduated Brown with a degree in English when she left her home in Avon, Connecticut for New York City. There she moved in with her longtime friend Lily, now doing graduate studies in Russian at Columbia. Sachs, a longtime reader of The New Yorker, blankets the magazine publishing industry with her résumé, hoping to land enough experience somewhere to eventually get her a job at the prestigious weekly. She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark group and is hired on as Miranda's junior assistant. While she knows little of Miranda, she is told repeatedly that "a million girls would die for your job".

People at the magazine are afraid of finding themselves alone in an elevator with Miranda, or making critical remarks about her even to their close friends. Andrea dubs this attitude the Runway Paranoid Turnaround, as whenever one of her co-workers makes the slightest negative comment about Miranda, they immediately follow it up with a "turnaround" positive comment, due to their fear of their boss finding out about their attitude and firing them.

All the same, Andrea is told that if she manages to work for Miranda for a year, she can have her select pick of jobs within the magazine industry, so she valiantly struggles onward. Even in the present, the perks are generous — between Runway's notorious "closet" of designer clothes ostensibly "on loan" for photo shoots but rarely returned and often "borrowed" by the staff and the general obsequiousness she encounters as Miranda Priestly's personal assistant, she is able to acquire enough free designer clothing to fit in better with the rest of the fashionable Runway staff. Eventually, she develops an appreciation for it and stops incurring Miranda's displeasure. She gets a Bang and Olufsen phone for free when Miranda does not want it, and learns that Elias-Clark's policies regarding expense accounts are rather lax, to the benefit of herself and her friends.

She also goes to parties with celebrities. At one of them she meets Christian Collinsworth, a Yale graduate who has been identified as the hot (in more ways than one), up-and-coming writer of their generation. They become attracted to each other, complicating her relationship with Alex.

Sachs's job begins to affect her health; she starts to lose weight because she can't bring herself to eat. After years of being tall and fairly thin, Sachs finds herself the fat, lumpy dwarf of "Runway"'s office. Eventually, Sachs begins to rationalize her not eating by thinking thoughts like "Missing one meal won't hurt, and anyway, $2000 pants don't look so hot on a fat girl." She realizes that she has begun to adopt the Runway attitude for her own.

While working for Miranda, she receives a letter from a teenager, telling Miranda that she loves her magazine and spends all her money on trying to look like the models, but still hates herself because "my butt is huge" and "I'm too fat". The teenager begs Miranda to send her a dress to wear to her prom, but ends by telling her that, even if she throws the letter in the trash can, she will still love her. Andrea begins to doubt the true value of her job, as it is primarily encouraging the woman who makes teenagers all over America hate themselves as much as this one. However, she keeps going, thinking that it will all be worthwhile when she gets a job at The New Yorker.

The 14-hour days she puts in almost routinely leave her little free time to spend with Alex and Lily. Lily increasingly turns to alcohol and picking up dubious men to relieve the pressures of graduate school. Sachs's relationship with her family also suffers. Her parents complain that she doesn't visit her older sister, who is expecting her first child. Sachs stays absorbed in her own world as Lily's problems spiral out of control. Matters finally come to a head when Emily gets mononucleosis and Andrea must travel to Paris with Miranda. Andrea agrees, although this will mean canceling her trip for Alex's homecoming weekend.

In Paris, she has a surprise encounter with Christian. Later that night, Miranda finally lets down her guard a little bit and asks Andrea what she has learned, and where she would like to work afterwards. She promises to place phone calls to people she knows at The New Yorker on Andrea's behalf once her year is up, and tells her she can actually do some small written pieces for Runway.

But back at the hotel, Andrea gets urgent calls from Alex and her parents asking her to call them. She does so and learns that Lily is comatose in the hospital after driving drunk and wrecking a car.

Though Andrea is receiving pressure from her family and Alex to return home, she tells Miranda she will honor the commitment. Miranda is greatly pleased, and tells her that her future in magazine publishing is looking bright. At the Paris fashion show for Christian Dior, however, a livid Miranda phones her with yet another impossible demand. After she hangs up, Andrea stares at her phone, trying to think how to accommodate Miranda. Then, Andrea finally realizes that her family and friends are more important than her job, and realizes that she is becoming more and more like Miranda. On the spot, Andrea flips out her cell phone and tells her family that she is coming home. Miranda disapproves, but Andrea tells Miranda publicly "Fuck you, Miranda. Fuck you". She is fired on the spot, but returns home to reconnect with her friends and family. Her romantic relationship with Alex is beyond repair, but they remain friends. Lily recovers and fares well in court for her DUI charge, receiving only community service.

In the last chapter the reader learns that the fallout from her standup to Miranda made her a minor celebrity when the incident made 'Page Six'. Afraid she had been blacklisted for good from publishing, she stays in Connecticut for a while and works on short fiction. Seventeen buys one of her stories, and Andrea begins a friendly and professional relationship with Loretta, one of the editors of the teen magazine, who also happened to work for Runway prior to her tenure there. She returns to New York and gives herself a comfortable financial cushion by selling all the designer clothing she took to Paris with her to consignment shops. She saves a pair of Dolce and Gabbana denim jeans for herself, gave a quilted Chanel purse to her mother, and a Diane von Fürstenberg wrap dress to the teenager who wrote to Miranda.

At the novel's end, she is returning to the building to discuss a position at one of the company's magazines. She sees a girl whom she realizes is in fact, Miranda's new junior assistant, who is loaded with Miranda's coffee, shopping bags, newspapers, and her beaded clutch, and she remembers that that used to be her. The doorman tips Andrea a wink.

You and Claire have the same glambition!

You value your friendships and know how to bring out the best in your clique. You don't collect friends like shoes or handbags, but treasure each friendship like it's one-of-a-kind couture. Like Claire, you're an ah-mazing listener, and you ask all the right questions when GLU need to talk. You've got what it takes to be the next Oprah!

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A Year Without Rain

A Year Without Rain is the second studio album by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene. The album was released on September 17, 2010. The band once again worked with writers and producers from their debut, Kiss & Tell such as Rock Mafia duo Tim James, and Antonina Armato, as well as Fefe Dobson, Toby Gad, and Superspy. New contributions came from Kevin Rudolf, Katy Perry, and RedOne among others. Whilst making use of the auto-tune effect, A Year Without Rain mainly draws from the genre of dance-pop while incorporating electropop, and containing dancehall and techno, among other influences. According to Gomez, most of the songs on the album are dedicated to the fans, while she wanted content with more melodies and empowering lyrics. Lyrical themes include topics of love, freedom, and the joy of living in the moment.

The album has been given mostly positive reviews, with critics noting it as an improvement from the band's debut album. A Year Without Rain debuted in the United States at number four selling 66,000 copies in its first week. The album has so far spawned two top forty singles in the United States, lead single, "Round & Round" and follow-up "A Year Without Rain".

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I don't know how to starting it. Obviously. Today we just wanna have fun! Me, my self, and my clique. Without shopping scene. Almost when we hanging out together, it felt itchy anyway if we don't buy something else. But, different with today. After a month of fasting [and hanging out without food]. After bored with the all tasks that we have done [or may not be touched]. Having tired for eating lontong and opor ayam. After everything is back to normal as usual. We can hanging out together again. For many times.

Is is beginning with our times is here. Our gathering again. And it is also known as the New Clique Strikes Back. Anyway, that is what happening. Releasing miss with each others. And it is not just like that. We have a tons of storys for us to sharing. We make an appointment at front off BIP. We are really miss with each orhers and not seen for two weeks [not really]. This all makes an own happiness for own self to releasing miss with your clique.

And we did agree with each others to not shopping today. Tired to spend our money. Tired for times to selected items. Tired to bring a lot of shopping bag. Tired for everything... Well, we deal for really hanging out for today. It is like around bandung for take a pictures, around the boutiques for hunting clothes, going to photo studio, eat at restaurant, had fun with free wi-fi, refreshing yet relaxing our eye for looking for a cute-handsome-guy, explore bandung with public transport or angkoters like us, seduce cute-handsome-guys who happened to pass in our front of...

We take pictures studio at JONAS Photo. Take a pictures for a twice in Dago parks. Taste a new flavor of frozen yoghurt at So Yummy with those new name [I'm forget about those new name]. In the middle, we were hungry and eat at Warung Pasta [two of my clique are first for eat at Warung Pasta]. And the tha last place we were visit is Cihampelas Walk. Just round and round, eat some food, looking for a cute-handsome-guy, surfing with wifi in a restaurant, and the last, I have a silly story when we will leave Cihampelas walk. It is about meisha and a new crush.

Okay! The main topic is we just wanna have fun today. Maybe after going out to sch-ew-l, we can't feel free like this! Girls just wanna have fun! Enjoy!

State of the Union

THE CLIQUE WORD OF THE DAY IS:
AH-POLOGY.

Even alphas make mistakes, and when you know you've messed up, it's always best to issue a sincere ah-pology!

• Ah-pology for every mistake I did. Whether it's to my friends, my family, and all the people I know, every people.

• Ah-pology to my BFFs, and my new friends because I could not be proper to your BFFs. Also for all the mistakes that I make for you without me realizing it.

• Ah-pology to all the people I know. Because I did many mistakes in on purpose or not.

Okay, now it's your turn! Is there anyone you need to ah-pologize to? Post your practice ah-pology in the comments first! Practice makes perfect. Especially today is the day of Eid. Well, Happy Idul Fitri holiday for those of you who celebrate it!

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie

The entire Russo family, except Alex (Selena Gomez), who is to be staying with her best friend Harper Finkle (Jennifer Stone), are preparing for a vacation to the Caribbean. Alex decides to sneak a peek at Justin (David Henrie)'s personal belongings when his enchanted backpack attacks Alex trapping her as Justin had planned. When her father, Jerry (David DeLuise) comes down to help he accidentally speaks of the forbidden book of spells and how he let Justin borrow it, which Alex takes when no one is looking. Alex wants to go to a party with Harper but her mother, Theresa (Maria Canals Barrera) tells her she can not go to the party because she is untrustworthy even with Harper around.

After her parents go out, and her brothers are not in sight, Alex puts a spell on the sub-station train so it will take them to the party (without actually leaving the building since her parents told her she wasn't allowed to), but Alex and Harper miss the party after almost getting killed by a real subway train and running into a dead end tunnel, only to be saved by Justin, using the full-wizard wand to do so. Unfortunately, the side frame of the subway car falls off, just as their parents come back. Because of this, Alex is forced to go on vacation with the rest of the family to the Caribbean, the kids having their wands confiscated. Along the way they meet a street magician and former wizard (Steve Valentine) (who lost the full-wizard contest to his older brother) named Archie who wants to turn his girlfriend, Giselle, from a parrot back into a human by finding the Stone of Dreams, which has the power to grant any wish or reverse any spell. Jerry considers it crazy since many wizards have gone on the quest and never returned.

Later, after Alex was about to use a spell on her mother to convince her to let Alex hang out with a boy, she gets caught, grounded and forbidden to use magic. After a heated argument with Theresa, Alex, in a fit of rage, wishes that her parents had never met; unfortunately, the smuggled full-wizard wand and spell book, which Alex was holding at the time, grants her wish. As a result, Jerry and Theresa do not remember Justin, Alex and Max (Jake T. Austin) or each other.

Alex, Max and Justin attempt to get a spellbook from Jerry by levitating it out of his pocket, but he catches it. Jerry is shown to still have his powers, since he never gave them up to marry Theresa. Jerry has a more carefree attitude with magic due to this change. Justin asks him "hypothetically" what would happen if a wizard wished that her parents never met. Jerry explains how they would gradually forget their past, and then disappear forever. He says it would take a miracle to fix it, whereupon Justin mentions the Stone of Dreams (La Piedra de los Sueños), which Jerry says would work too.

After consulting Jerry, Justin and Alex set off to find the Stone of Dreams, guided by Archie. Meanwhile, Max stays at the resort to keep his parents from meeting other people. Over the course of the day, Max visibly begins losing his memory.

Realizing the possibility of not existing if they don't find the stone, Alex and Justin apologize to one another for all the trouble they caused one another. Along the way, Justin and Alex face many obstacles such as getting across a wide canyon, escaping death from quicksand, and getting across a narrow ledge. Realizing that something is wrong, Max asks Jerry to help him find Alex and Justin, and Jerry agrees after some persuasion. They are joined by Theresa, who believes them to simply be treasure hunting, but nonetheless proves useful, as she is the only one of them who can speak Spanish.

Eventually, Alex and Justin succeed in finding the Stone of Dreams, but Giselle steals the stone. The kids tell Theresa and Jerry their story. Theresa doesn't believe them because she thinks she would never forget her own children. While trying to figure out how to reverse the spell without the stone of dreams, Jerry mentions that if one of the kids was a full wizard, they might be able to cast a spell to reverse it. While preparing to begin the full-wizard contest, Max finally loses all memory of who he is and gets sucked into the vortex of non-existence. Theresa remembers him slightly, and realizes that they were telling the truth. Realizing they must work quickly, Alex and Justin are transported to an ancient battlefield, where the contest will be held. Jerry explains that they will only be allowed to use spells involving the four elements (earth, water, fire, and air). The winner will become a full wizard, and the loser gets nothing while losing their powers forever. Alex and Justin engage in what turns out to be an intense battle, and Alex narrowly wins.

In trying to come up with a spell to fix everything, she turns to Justin for help. However, Justin has lost all his memory (despite the fact that he is older than Alex). In a rare moment of love and compassion, Alex tearfully tells him who she is and that she's his little sister. Alex tells him that even though they pick on each other, she looks up to him and is jealous of him and begs Justin not leave her here alone. Justin tells her that he'd never leave her and that even though he doesn't know her, he believes her, and wants to help, but he cannot and is sucked into the same vortex that Max was. Desperate, Alex tries to cast a reversal spell, but Jerry tells her it may be too late.

Meanwhile Theresa is back at the resort, and seeing that Giselle has returned to human form, with the Stone of Dreams hanging by her neck, tries to get it from her. Archie manages to get the stone from Giselle, who wished to leave him now that she was in human form. He turns her back into a parrot and gives the stone to Theresa. Theresa then wishes to be where Alex, Justin and Jerry are, at which point she is transported to the same battlefield where the others are so she could give Alex the stone. Jerry tells Alex she can wish for her brothers to reappear and still keep her full wizard powers. However, Alex learned that family is everything you can have, and that it's all you wished to have, so she wishes that everything go back to the way it was before, and time rewinds back to the beginning of the argument between Alex and Theresa that started all the trouble, which is quickly stopped when Alex apologizes and accepts her punishments with grace; while Theresa and Jerry remember nothing about the ordeal, Alex, Justin, and Max do. Everyone regardless becomes closer from the events that had occurred, as the kids remember what they went through, and as their parents notice a change in attitude. They happily walk off together as the end credits roll. The credits show the cast dancing and also Jerry wearing a skirt and dress.

Mini Shopaholic - Out Now in the U.K.

Hooray! Mini Shopaholic is out in the UK today!

I’ve published many books now, but I still find the whole process amazing. Only a few months ago, Mini Shopaholic was just a document in my computer that no-one else had seen. Now there it is in the shops, a proper shiny gorgeous book, printed thousands of times over.  I’ll definitely be going out to lurk in a bookshop or two and admire it.

To those of you who have bought it or are reading it, I really hope you enjoy it. To readers in the US and other countries where it isn’t out yet… not long now!

Happy reading and here’s to a fun autumn for us all.

Sophie Kinsella

Shopaholic

Rebecca Bloomwood could become the most famous Shopaholic on this earth. In chick-lit characters, entitled Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella has been giving us a picture of the dangers of addiction to shopping and being a Shopaholic. Starting from scratch with the claws of other Shopaholic fellow at the time of sale, incurred credit card debt with a number that makes eyes widened.

Excessive spending habits spontaneous or impulsive buying habits believed to be the seedling emergence of these Shopaholic. Originally probably just hungry eyes see beautiful things. But in the long run, impulse buying can worsen and turn into a necessity.

Shopaholic is one behavior or its extreme spending habits could have a negative impact on yourself, also for the people around. A Shopaholic could not resist the urge to spend money to buy goods that are not in need. This certainly drain money and time because of the Shopaholic not be satisfied with just window shopping. He also needed time to shop more often than other people in general.

 

Sorry if the English is really bad.