Night at the Theater

The Bachelor Mother

Baby’s daddy? Better yet Baby’s Mommy?

“The Bachelor Mother” is a romantic mystery that goes through numerous obstacles that lead Ginger Rogers (Polly Parish) in a life changing experience. She becomes very close with David Niven (David Merlin) after a very humerus mistake that Polly is a mother of an unknown child. It takes place back in the 1930’s in a small little downtown area.

The movie opens with the very poor Polly Parish having just been cut from her job at the toy store after the holiday season. On her walk home one day she discovers a baby left on the doorstep of an orphanage. As she goes to make sure the baby does not roll down the stairs, the orphanage opens the door and assumes the baby is hers. After a long chain of messengers, the owner of the toy store offers Polly her job back. The only catch is everybody thinks the baby is hers and she can only have her job back if she takes the baby. The toy store manager checks in on her and the baby numerous times and after a while he starts going there not just to check in. Everyone is wondering who the baby’s daddy is and when multiple men confess to being the dad, Polly’s only concern is making sure the baby she did not want in the first place, now does not get taken away from her. Does Polly fall in love in the mix? Well you are just going to have to watch the movie to find out.

Ginger Rogers performance in this movie is outstanding. She is a beautiful young actress with a lot of talent and she uses all of it in this film. Although her role may be very different from her previous movie “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle” she pulled it together and did a magnificent job. She worked with Fred Astaire her last ten movies and people wondered whether she could shine without him. Well she proved it to all her fans that Ginger Rogers can shine on her own. She plays her part as the poor “mother” well and makes it seem as if she really was the mother of the baby left on the stairs. With her looks, humor, and strong personality, anybody would believe just about anything she says.

The picture in the Bachelor Mother is unlike any movie I have ever seen before, simply because I have never seen another movie in black and white. The black and white look gave it a very traditional effect. It made me think of in the beginning of the Wizard of Oz, when the picture was not in color. It suits the movie very well because it was made in 1939 and back in the day they did not have color on their televisions. I actually enjoyed seeing the movie in black and white because you pay more attention to the film then the surroundings and picture of the movie.

The costume design is hilarious to me because it is from back in the day. When you see all the ladies coming in with ankle length skirts, button down collared shirts, hair all big and curled you know you are not in present day. The men all wear slacks, their hair is very gelled and mustaches seem to be in back then. Their costumes match the time and setting of the movie , which is in the 1930’s. My favorite part in the movie is when David Merlin takes Polly to the New Years Eve Party and dresses her up because she has nothing to wear. She comes out in a beautiful long gown and looks absolutely stunning. The gown is not like long gowns from now a days. It is very elegant and does not fit to her body well.

I am not going to lie when I first started watching the film I thought I was going to be bored out of my mind, but as the film went on I found it quite enjoyable. Since the film is in black and white and was made in 1939 the quality of the film was not very good. The screen would buzz in and out a couple of times, and at one point the movie even shut off for a minute. Nothing was too drastic though and we did get to finish the movie all in one sitting. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys the “oldies” or anyone over the age of 55. (Mainly because everyone in the theatre was over the age of 55) The film attracts to older people and to those who enjoy oldies because they have seen black and white movies when they were younger so they do not mind them. Once you see a movie in color, you do not usually ever want to go back.

If the movie ends with somewhat of a surprise do not be shocked. With a missing mom, a missing dad, a pretend mom, 3 pretend dads, a psycho powerful “grandpa”, Charles Coburn (J.B. Merlin), and a lot of action in between there are bound to be some twists. Here is a movie that deserves two thumbs up.

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reflection!

As our time here in this English class is coming to end, I will for sure say that this class was not nearly as bad as i thought it would be. We did not write as many papers as i thought and we did way more fun activities than i would have thought. I seemed to always have procrastinated in this class so it did lead to a lot of stress, but i know that is just my fault. My favorite project we did in this class was for sure the last project. It let you cut loose and write kind of in your own style. It did have some genre constraints, but since it was personal you got a feel of who you were. This college english course was a lot harder and different than any other english class i have ever taken! I have always gotten A's on my paper and when i got to college the same work i woukd turn in to my teachers in high school, did not quite cut it in college. There was a lot more to writing than i never knew about and you have to pay attention to styles or writing way more. As much as i will miss this class i am so very excited for this semester to be over. I cannot wait to be done with all finals and go home to see my friends and family. I still have some last touch ups to do with my final project for this class, but overall i am happy with the outcome of this class. I think we had a very entertaining and fun class and i enjoyed spending my teusdays and thursdays with all of you guys! I hope to see you guys around campus or in my future classes! Best of luck to you all!

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audience

For my Project 4, I decided to write to my parents and then to my boyfriend. I could not decide wether I wanted to write to my sister or my boyfriend because they both have big impacts on my life and my decisions, but i decided that writing to my boyfriend would be easier, and make more sense. I decided to write to my parents because they mean the world to me. They have always been there for me and have helped me make a lot of major decisions in my life time. I know they would definitely want to hear about my major and why it is the right choice for me. they were concerned at first that I would not get into the major I wanted and they were also iffy about me picking buisness in the first place because it is so broad. I know i will be able to convince them why it is so important to me and why i enjoy it so much. I decided to write ot my boyriend because we have been together for a very long time and he has supported me through a lot fo different ups and downs in my life. Before we went to college we talked about our futures and where we wanted to be and he was veyr supportive of me taking the Business career path. He knew it could potentially lead to some very successful jobs and he was happy for me. It is hard for us to be apart since he goes to Ohio State, but he knew i could not just follow him there because he is playing soccer. Convincing him that ISU in general is right for me would be hard but not pursuing the business major. Writing both of these letters will take a lot of thought process because i need to narrow done my persuasions to both of them because they are too completely different audiences.

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STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! :(

I have never ever been so stressed out in my entire life. I am warning you now that you do not want to read this if you do not want to head how horrible my life is or hear me complain. This past week and the next 2 upcoming weeks have been the most stressful days of my entire life and my brain is honestly about to explode. I am literally so busy from the second i wake up until the second i go to bed which ends up being around 3 in the morning every day. I literally have never ending homework and tests every other day lately and i have sorirty meetings for around 2 hours every night. Now dont get me wrong, I know it was my decision to join a soroirty but who knew how much work you actually have to do to become a member. To top it off, this last paper i think took a knife and stabbed me in the stomach about three times. My computer has been acting up lately so it takes hours to load, print or do anything. I printed off too many things that added a good hour to my project and made me skip a class because i needed to finish printing out sheets that i did not even need to print out. God is trying to murder me. Now i have to study for a criminal justice test that is on thursday, but dont worry besides that I also have to sleep at my soroirty house wednesday thursday and friday with 30 other girls so god forbid i am not gonig to get any work or studying done because we have pledge class talks at midnight every night and we cannot start them any earlier apparently than midnight. I seriously just need to take a week long nap and get away from school. Who ever knew college would actually be 300000 times harder and mroe work than highschool. SORRY FOR MY RAMPAGE BUT I AM FEELING A LITTLE BETTER NOW! i am just praying for 10 more days until Thanksgiving break. HELP.

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something learned in class

I am so overwhelmed with classes nad i feel like i have so much going on. Taking 16 credit hours was a lot to handle but it did give me alot to choose from on this topic. My favorite class right now is criminal justice, but since i already wrote about jury nullification i will write about something i learned in psyhcology. Psychology is a class filled with new information and it all has to do about your body and mind. We are learning a lot about female and male characteristics and how you can tell them apart. It is actually very interesting to learn what certain skills female would be good at and what certain skills males would be good at. A lot of it is self explanatory because it is based off "stereotypical" ideas. For an example, males would oviously be better at throwing a dart, aka hand/eye coordination, and females would obviously be better at fine finger skills, aka sewing or tieing tiny knots. A lot of it is self exlpanatory, but some of the new stuff i learned was primary and secondary female sex charactertics. Primary have anything to dow ith female organs and and seconadary have to dow ith getting your first period. Males secondary would be getting facial hair or getting a lower voice. Psychology is very interesting and i ahve learned a lot of things in it.

fall activity! AGAIN didnt come up last time i guess?

Well i know for a fact i already did this blog but since it is not here i will write it again! My favorite fall activity in general is halloween! halloween is the best time of the year and i just love it so much! it has been a huge family celebration for years in the Binette family and we aways have th best time. Decorating pumpkins ahve always been one of my favorite things! we have always gotten really into it and made the msot ridculous pumpkins! now that my sister and I have gone to college it sucks that we cannot carve pumpkins anymore! besides carving pumpkins we also get really into our cosutmes and deocrations! I am trying to convince my roomate to go and buy pumpkins with me so we can decorate them next week together!! we love to decorate our house all crazy and spooky! my favorite haloween decoration is my dads scary man he amde. He stuffed a man with newspaper and made him very scary looking! he sits on our front porch and then he jumps out at kids when they come back because my dad is controlling him through the window! All the kids get so scared and it is so funny to see al their faces! My mom amkes so much good halloween food that all are incorporated with halloween colors or broken toes or finger shaped foods! its very creative and i love it. Well i hope you enjoyed hearing about my favorite fall activity! Halloween really is the best time of year and i hope everybody enjoys it as much as i do!

major!

When i first came to ISU i was undecided for my major all summer. I had a lot of interests but i was not sure what i wanted to do! my mom immediatly forced me to join the business school because she wanted me to atleast have a backup. Even though i am very interested in business i was not sure thats what i wanted to major in. It was basically a life decision and i felt forced into choosing something i was not sure about. I am very interested in nutrition and nursing so i have decided to apply to the nutrition program in the spring. It is a very competitive program am i need to succeed very well this semester to even be considered for an apllicant. I have been working my butt off this whole semester so i hope my hard work pays off. If i do not get into the nutrition program then i will stick with the business major. I hope to get into the marketing aspect of business because i enjoy sellnig things and advertising things also. I think i would succeed in the the business world, but i also feel like everybody in the world who does not know what they want to do with their lives go into business because it is such a broad topic. There are so many branches in the business world and all jobs have to do with some sort of business. If i do get into the nutrition program i am considering also minoring in business. Having both would look great on my reseme later in life and will get me well prepared for the real world! wish me luck in the spring when i apply for the nutrition program because i will defintly need it!!

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researched paper!

The overall topic of my paper is discussing obesity and the effects fast food has on it. My planned major is nutrition because I am so fascinated by everything about it and I think it would be such an interesting profesesion. One of the most common, but interesting topic is obesity. Who wouldn't want to learn about obesity? Everyone wants to know how people get fat and how they can prevent it too. I have found a lot of different sources and information about obesity and than others about fast food and obesity. There is no shortage of information for my research paper. A few problems I am having is find a lot of similiar information though. A lot of my sources are saying the same things so I do not know what source to choose from. I am not very good at deciding if a source is credibile either. I think they are all credible because if they are good enough to be found in a book or online shouldn't they have been edited and reviewed thoroughly? I also do not know if I am citing my sources correctly. I do not want to have points taken off for something so little. It is a very confusing process and I always have to recheck if I cited it right over and over again. Once I have all my information and I do not have to search for so many things I think this paper will blow by and it will not be hard to actually write the paper. I do not mind writing papers it is just the process of getting to the actual writing part that bothers me. To get through this I just need to keep a positive mind and relax. It takes a lot of time so I just have to sit down when i have nothing else to do and get started and don’t stop for anything. It is all about time management and procrastination to get papers done.

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Jury Nullification

So as i completely forgot to blog this whole week, right before this class i have criminal justice. In criminal justice we have been talking about jury nullification. I do not pay very much attention to the news or anything like that so when i hear stories in this class i am amazed. Jury Nullification is a process where juries vote people not guilty even though they highly suspect or know for a fact they are guilty. I was amazed to even hear this. I do not hear much about court cases except for the very big ones, but I did not know this was a reoccurring event. We watched a video on how a lot of races vote people of their own race not guilty just to keep their race out of jail. The movie showed how an African American man highly believes that other blacks should vote for black criminals to be not guilty because there are too many blacks being sent or prison. Another black man highly disagreed with this because that is not just. It is like telling Irish people to keep Irish people out of court or whites to vote for whites to be not guilty just because of their color. I think this is ridiculous for any race. If people are guilty they should go to jail, that is how our legal system is supposed to work and I wasn't aware of all this illegal action being taken place. I find criminal justive very interesting because I always learn new things in there. Even though it is a very difficult class, you learn good information that keeps you interested. We have watched numerous videos like the jury nullification one, or mental illnesses in prisons, or campaigns against numerous of things. The class never fails to surprise me and I learn something new every day.

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writing process

Well I am not too happy about this blog article because writing is not one of my favorite things. It takes me forever to come up with what I want to say and I always end up re changing it after i started. I always brain storm my ideas before I start writing so that I have something to start off of. After brainstorming i try to place info into each paragrpah and then come up with my thesis statement. My thesis statement is always one of the hardest things for me because I never know how to make them interesting. After i finish my thesis i move in to all my body paragraphs. I take them one paragraph at a time so that I do not miss anything or forget to put something in a paragraph. After i finish all body paragraphs i move to the conclusion paragraph. Summing things up is actually something I am semi good at so I don't mind the last paragraph. While I am writing a paper or just thinking in general I like it to be completely silent. That is why I have found Milner to be my new home away from home. It is my favorite place to get all my work done and you know no body is going to bother you. I have been there pretty much everyday for the last two weeks. The fourth floor is where its at. I like to be completly alone when I write so I have no distractions or else I will never get work done. I am a big procrastinator and that is something I really need to work on so that I get my papers done sooner so I have more time to edit them. Overall, my writing process needs a lot of help because I would really like to get better grades on my papers starting off in college.

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family!

I hate when we have free days to blog because I can never think of anything to blog about! Since I don't know what to blog about I will just blog about my family! I love my family very much and we are just like any ordinary family, crazy obviously! My dad is one of the coolest people you will ever meet, he is so laidback and easy going and he doesn't care about anything I do. I aways go to him when I have problems because I know he will understand and won't get mad at me for doing dumb things. I always have so much fun with my dad and he is a very outdoorsy man. How he married my insane mother i have no idea. I love my mom to death, but she actually could be locked up in a mental institution. She is so funny and loud, but she thinks she is right about absolutely everything and doesn't let you live it down. She is so uptight about everything and is super anal. She is obsessed with managing money and looks at every dime i spend. Even if it is my own money she acts if i took the money out of her own account and used it to by drugs or something even when i just go buy a shirt. I miss her but am so happy to get away from the psycho. My sister, Lauren, is one of my best friends and she goes to Indiana University. She is my role model because she is literally good at everything and it is not fair. She is so smart, pretty, and independant and I wish i could be more like her. We always have a blast together because are personalitys are kind of opposite, but thats what we love about eachother. The last member in my family is my stuffed animal bear, ROSIE!! I am honestly obsessed with her and do not care if people think i am too old to have a stuffed animal. I treat her as if she was another person and bring her around everywhere. We have conversations alll the time, obviously! She is sooo cute and i love her. :) Well i know this was a stupid thing to write about, but it was easy and i could go on for hours about my family! hope you enjoyed reading this.. probably not haha

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Commercial!

In all seriousness I have not watched T.V. once since I have been at school. I have watched shows on my computer and movies, but my roommate and I have not even turned our television on. Our room is weirdly set up where there is not one good place to put our T.V. so we can both see it, so we just do not really watch it. It just sits on our floor untouched. I don't even have time to watch t.v. at school, well I guess I do have time, but I just choose to do other things. I can't even remember the last commercial i saw but I used to watch television a lot so i will tell you about one of my favorite commercials that I can remember seeing from a while ago. The Allstate Mayhem commercials have always been my favorite. i am sure they still play every now and then and I think they are so funny. My whole family loves them and we always laugh every time they come on. They come on a lot during football games, probably because they are so popular. One of my favorite ones is the Mayhem jogger commercial where "mayhem" is jogging down the street with pink weights in his hand. He says, "I'm a hot babe out jogging, and i have to make sure, THIS, stays a ten." A guy drives buy and is staring at mayhem jogging slowly down the street in his pink headband and weights and then runs into a pole. Obviously since it is an Allstate commercial it goes about saying you should get rid of your other insurance and get Allstate so you are insured against "Mayhem" I always get a good laugh out of this and many of the other Mayhem videos and i hope you do too.

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TERRIBLE CONSTRUCTION!

Since we don't have an assigned blog, and i have nothing to blog about, ill just vent about how much i HATE the construction that is being done at watterson! I have never heard more annoying or disturbing sounds at 8 a.m. monday through friday in my life. It wakes me up EVERYDAY and i can never get anything done until noon. Not only can you not sleep, but you can't even think. I have to go to the library or bone center just to get away from the horrific sounds. Now if I had an early class maybe i wouldn't mind so much because it could be some sort of wake up call, but i do not have a class until atleast 11 everyday and trust me i do not want to be up at 8 in the morning if i do not have to be. I have started to go to the library and sleep in the chairs because i am still so tired and i know it is quiet in there! I think they should have finished in the summer because it is so annoying to deal with now. I wouldn't say this if i knew they were using their time efficiently, but i see them take more than enough breaks so if they actually used all their time they could have been done with the outside renovations in the summer! They only seem to take breaks after the early hours too when everyones already up for the day. Well i hope you enjoyed my vent session because i am so bored and currently thinking about how angry i am going to be tommorow when i will be awoken again by the drilling and pounding.

Book Review Blog!

My favorite book as a child was Harry Potter, not just one Harry Potter, but the whole series! Harry Potter books were always so interesting and never let you down. All of them were filled with outrageous events that no one could ever think up on their own. The reason I loved these books so much was because they kept your imagination alive as you grew up. Some people’s fantasy worlds leave them when they grow older, but reading the Harry Potter series keeps it alive no matter what your age is. The cover portrays the fantasy theme also which makes all their covers match there themes perfectly. All the covers are a picture of a scene from the book and the colors are dull but they pop out at you somehow anyway. The colors aren’t very bright either, they’re quite mellow, but they use a lot of different colors so it looks like there is a lot going on. The author chose to make the covers like this because she wanted to give you a preview of the story without actually telling you what happened. They are colorful so they attract all ages, but mainly teenagers. The author portrayed the characters well on the covers to how they were described in the book too. I always loved looking at the covers because it is like one big maze. The front and back cover connect to form one large picture, which I think is much more interesting then having two separate pictures. I think J. K. Rowling has a very creative mind so she wanted to make a very unique and interesting kind of book. Her books have sold millions of copies and one of the main reasons is because the cover grabs your attention. It makes you want to read the book just to see what it is going to be about.

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Introduction to me

Hi everyone! My name is Brooke Binette and I was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. I grew up most of my life in Geneva Illinois though. I attended Geneva Middle School and High School and loved them both very much! Since fifth grade I have played both volleyball and basketball for both club teams and school teams. My sophomore year we went down to state for basketball and it was such a fun and great learning experience for our whole team. I spend a lot of time with my friends and family and they are all so fun to be around. I am super close with my cousins too and they have lived down the street from me for most my life. I have a sister who is a senior at Indiana University and we are very close. I hope to get to visit her a lot and especially for the little 500 this year. As you all know I attend Illinois State University and so far I like it a lot! I am usually really busy throughout the day and I like all the different things we can chose to do on campus. I enjoy reading a lot and watching movies. I’m pretty lazy so anything I can do while lying in my bed I enjoy. I plan on rushing this upcoming week and I also would like to study abroad my junior year because I hear it is an amazing experience. My favorite place to vacation to is Wisconsin because that’s where my grandparents live and I have been going up there since I was little. It is so relaxing and fun and our whole family gets together. Later in life I plan to travel a lot and there are a lot of different states and countries I would love to see. This is just a little bit about myself but I hope you all enjoyed getting to know me a little!

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