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Casting Call for Casey Anthony

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Are you wondering, as I am, who will play the role of Casey Anthony when the movie is made about the woman who television host and former prosecutor, Nancy Grace, nicknamed Tot Mom? Anthony is the Florida woman who is currently on trial for allegedly murdering her two year old daughter, Caylee. We know there will be a movie. I can’t think of a court case that has garnered so much publicity since the OJ Simpson trial. He got a movie.

And didn’t Lifetime recently air a couple of films about Natalee Holloway, the student who disappeared in Aruba while on a high school graduation trip? There was even a movie made about Joran van der Sloot. He is the alleged killer of Holloway. By the way, he has reportedly impregnated his girlfriend while being held in a Peruvian jail on charges of murdering another young woman, Stephany Flores, five years to the day that Natalee disappeared. Can you believe that guy got conjugal visits? Can you believe that any woman in her right mind would trust getting that close to him?

My guess is that Lindsay Lohan might be a good candidate to play Anthony. And if Lohan happens to be inajailable, er, I mean unavailable, then maybe Katie Holmes would be offered the part. Lifetime probably has scriptwriters working feverously right this moment on the screenplay for “The Casey Anthony Story.” Unfortunately, real life dramas often provide better screen presentations than mock “reality” shows.

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Youth Obsessed Society

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Yet another cute, talking baby was featured in an E*Trade commercial during last February’s Superbowl game. The eerie thing about commercials featuring babies and young children acting as adults is that it is an uncanny reminder of our youth obsessed society. Don’t get me wrong. I really get a kick out of seeing the live and computer-generated babies, especially the Evian roller skating toddlers. They rock!  But whenever I see one of those commercials it reminds me of the 1968 movie Wild in the Streets. If you never saw it, it is a satire about the 1960s youth movement. In the film, not only is age 30 considered over-the-hill, it becomes the mandatory retirement age; and everyone who crosses that threshold is taken to a concentration camp. Now that’s all I’ll tell you about the plot. If you want to see the movie, rent it or you may be able to find it on one of the cable channels. Just be prepared – by today’s movie standard it will probably bore you to tears. And remember — today anything is possible.

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Book Worms and Writing Cramps

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It is no secret that I love books and I love to write. I own bookcases filled with hardbacks, paperbacks, and even a few magazines containing articles worth rereading or storing for research purposes. My library shelves have been expanding for decades with books that I have purchased, found, or received as gifts. People may wonder why I keep collecting books, when I rarely have time to read them. My hope is that one day I will proudly tell myself that I have read and learned something from every book I own, and I have owned a thousand or more in my lifetime. Over the years, due to lack of space, I have given away a few hundred books. An action that is more painful than you might imagine. In the meantime I keep buying them, only not as frequently as I used to.

One thing that I enjoy more than reading is writing. I write at every opportunity. Any time and any place. When an idea comes to mind I scribble it on whatever is handy. If I am not tapping out fantasized best sellers on my desktop keyboard, I write in long-hand on lined pads. When I have a light bulb flash inspiration while I am reading, I record notes in the margin of my book. It doesn’t matter where I am — the doctor’s office, the bus terminal, the grocery store, where ever — if I get a blazing idea, I write it down. When I happen to be someplace where there is no paper available, I jot down key thoughts on my hand, and transfer them at the earliest opportunity to a more permanent place. Writing on the hand is a convenient last – and sometimes desperate — result in these times of laptops and tablet computers. Just ask Sarah Palin about hand notes. (Okay, I said that facetiously. But that’s a subject for another day.) As any dedicated writer will tell you, it is essential to seize the moment and record an inspirational thought before it slips away.  

When Potpourri101 was born, I told you that as she grows, I will be writing about anything and everything. Opinionated rants concerning news events and public figures. Or private reflections like this one.

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