My Oscar Tweets:

4:33 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Neal Patrick Harris I LOVE YOU!

 

4:33 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Dear Right Wingers... yes, the Oscars just opened with a gay joke. Suck it.

 

4:34 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : The Beautiful Antonio Banderas has skinned a badger and put it on his face.

 

4:36 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : District 9. If you haven't seen it. Do it.

 

4:40 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Only in America would a guy be called Woody and not be sniggered at all the time

 

4:41 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : I get the impression George doesn't want to be there

 

4:44 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : OK never mind previous tweet. George Clooney is hamming it up

 

4:43 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Watch the star's faces as their names are called

 

4:45 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Damn! Penelope Cruz is so beautiful

 

4:51 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : YAY! Christophe Waltz!

 

4:53 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : What an eloquent and gracious speech from our 1st winner. Metaphor beautifully expressed and not overworked

 

4:55 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Mmmmmmmmmmm iPad. I think it's time Apple kills Microsoft

 

4:58 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Pissing ourseleves laughing at Doug the Dog. Again

 

5:00 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : UP! I love that movie! As dog parents we laughed till we cried

 

5:01 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Wow. Miley and Amanda. Trash dress and elegance

 

5:04 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Colin Farrell has that dirty boy look. He's a one night guilty pleasure.

 

5:06 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Dear Americans. It's pronounced A-part-hate. And I'm not word playing here. I'm serious. I grew up in it.

 

5:13 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : What are those glasses Robert Downey Junior is wearing?

 

5:16 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Hmmmm. Hurt Locker winning for script. Hope this is the start of a clean sweep

 

5:17 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Molly Ringwald and Matthew Broderick .... 80s Flashback!

 

5:18 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Molly Ringwald looks petrified. Xanax, honey.

 

5:24 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : No respect to Jon Hughes, who shaped my teenage years, but the pace needs to pick up

 

5:32 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : So where can we see the short film nominees

 

5:35 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : OK Awkward moment

 

5:35 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Aw. The documentary winners have no idea of Oscar etiquette.

 

5:37 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Ooh! Three piece tux! Finally a man who stands out at the Oscars!

 

5:38 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Ben Stiller dressed as a Navi!!!!! HAHAHA!

 

5:42 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : And Ben Stiller wraps it up beautifully with the tail gag

 

5:57 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : The Gosvernor's awards looks like it's much more fun than the Oscars

 

6:02 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Yeah, way to go to give away the characrter's motivation to those of us who haven't seen Precious yet

 

6:03 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : And why haven't I seen it? Because it's not available on DVD to rent!

 

6:04 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck :   And why didn't I see it in the theatre? Because hell is other people

 

6:10 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Dear Avatar set designer: You forgot that people in pods for hours need catheters

 

6:24 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : FBear at seeing Kristin Stewart: "Mope. Mope. Mope."

 

6:27 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : OK it's time to have Classic Horror DVD night. Starting with Jaws. Then Freddy

6:29 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : I'm starting to worry that Hurt Locker is winning everything less important because the big prize will go to Cameron

 

6:33 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : FBear wants to know what PMDD is

 

6:35 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Sandra Bullock wins Best Dressed for sure

 

6:38 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Bloody hell! How does Demi walk in those shoes?

 

6:42 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Me: I'm glad Carradine went out on the epic Kill Bill. FBear: I think his last movie was Crank 2. Me: That doesn't count.

 

6:43 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Not God, darling. Surgery. RT @Chookooloonks: Dear God, if I'm good, please let me age like Demi Moore.

 

6:46 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : A dance montage? Really? Really?

 

6:47 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Everyone in the Kodak theatre is using this dance bit to go to the loo

 

6:48 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : A poplock dancer for the beautiful, haunting Hurt Locker music? WTF?

 

6:49 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : All the composers of this beautiful music just threw up a little in their mouths

 

6:50 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : This dancing thing is so bad Fluffy Bear has gone to pour himself a second glass of wine

 

7:09 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Did the editing winner just take a dig at Avatar with the focus groups comment. Ooh! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

 

7:06 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : "A Hero to all species" WTF?

 

6:54 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Sooooooo.... which actors have hired models as beard dates?

 

7:12 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : The Sprint CEO does their ads? Like a used car salesman?

 

7:24 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Oh FFS! They just showed everyone the key to Hurt Locker! Hello, people! Not everyone has seen these movies! Quit spoiling!

 

7:27 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : It's suck up time

 

7:28 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Julianne Moore is so so pretty

 

7:29 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Morgan Freeman couldn't get the accent of my country's greatest hero. I will never forgive him.

 

7:31 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Colin Farrell is the most genuine

 

7:32 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Kate Winslet is, as always, elegant, eloquent and accomplished

 

7:42 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : In case you didn't know, Sandra attended the Razzies thus week to collect for All About Steve and took a cart of DVDs to give to audience

 

7:34 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Wrap it up Bridges. We want to see who wins Best Picture

 

7:43 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : The Brits do it best, Baby

 

7:44 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Friend of FBears is at Oscars and he says they all run to the bar in the ad breaks

 

7:45 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : So refreshing to see humility at the Oscars #teamGabby!

 

7:45 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Good gag at the end, Sandra. Humor and tears. Love it

 

7:53 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : More applause for "winner could be an African American" than "a woman"

 

7:59 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : WOOO HOO! I am yelling at the TV. I just gave Cameron the finger

 

8:02 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Bigelow won't let go of those Oscars!

 

8:02 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : Bigelow is tallest person on the stage

 

8:06 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : All nominee's wives should wear no-transfer lipstick

 

8:08 PM Mar 7th via Tweetdeck : AVAfart! Pfffffffffffft!

 

about 14 hours ago via web : Ignoramus that I am, never realized Bigelow directed Point Break - 1 of my favorite movies. If it's been a while since you saw it, rent it

 

about 14 hours ago via web : Behind that AWKWARD moment... Oscar on stage fight explained. http://bit.ly/az7ZVs

 

about 14 hours ago via web : What were your best/worst moments from last night's Oscars? For me Best = Christoph Waltz speech. Worst = dancing bit

 

It's a sunny day out there, but the couch is holding me hostage.

I'm watching a lovely little piece of fluff called Wild Child, about a teenager from Miami who goes to a traditional British Girl's Boarding School.

But there are some great lines:

American girl: "Omigod!  These girls think a mani-pedi is a Latin greeting."

 

British schoolgirl: "Someone call Al Gore!  I think the Ice Queen is melting!"

 

British schoolgirl: "Actually, it was Kate's vomit, Mrs Kingsley, I was just lying in it."

 

British boy: "I thought you said you could drive!"

American girl: "I can!"

British boy: "Ever thought of changing gears?"

American girl: "That's the car's job!"

 

To see more in the Couch Potato series, click here.

Don't let the tacky trailers for this movie fool you... it's very good.

The acting is good.

The filming is good.

The story is excellent.

There is a subtlety to how the supernatural is handled in this movie.  The gore isn't gratuitous at all.

Watch the Extended Version.  I started watching it for the second time on the Theater Version with Fluffy Bear and had to turn it off and switch to the extended - I thought that things were being edited out that were too important.

And yes, this is a movie you can watch more than once.  I appreciated the circular nature of the story better, now recognizing all the hints, the little sub plots.

There are so many themes in this movie apart from the obvious, a major one being the nature of friendship between two teenage girls.  Diablo Cody (she also wrote Juno) really knows the teenage psyche, and the particular bond that exists between teenage girls, and how their friendship is real love, which can easily tip over in into the physical.

Speaking of which, there is one scene in this movie which any straight man will want to rewind again and again and again.  As a woman, I have to admit I enjoyed it too.

And yes, don't worry, it does deliver on the horror movie quivers... parts of it are scary.  Even Fluffy Bear jumped out of his skin once.

Diablo Cody also writes the United States of Tara (about a woman living with her own multiple personalities), so she has an understanding of the multiplicity of things, the co-existence of opposites.  This shows through in the movie.  Like when you watch Dexter, you aren't always sure that you want the villain to get taken down.  Hell, you aren't always sure the villain is even a villain.

I really enjoyed this movie.

Twice.

Rent it.

But not with anyone under 21 around.  Or your mom.  If you have them in the room, you'll have more than one uncomfortable moment.  Kick them out and enjoy the sex scenes for what they are.  Even those bits are intelligently done.

And let me know what you thought of it.

"Measurements do not matter" says Simone.  

"Of course they do!" says Julia.

"Only in cakes," she told me, "do proportions matter.  Everything else, you just add to taste, and substitute.  Just experiment, my dear!"

"Just give me the recipes," I told her.  

"I don't have recipes!" she snapped.  "I just do it!"

Me: "Wow!  Look at that, Honey.  Imagine all the fat from the skin of the duck seeping..."

Fluffy Bear: "... into the meat inside the pastry?  Oooooh....."

Me:  "Oooooh!"

Spoiler alert! You may not want to read this if you haven't seen Twilight New Moon yet, and you are planning to.  If you're not planning to pay $12 to sit though this movie, good for you.  It's not really worth it.  But that's a conversation for another time...

I went to see "Twilight - New Moon" with an open mind.  I hadn't read the book and I was ready for a fun night out in an over 21 cinema where we could get past the teenage sappiness with copious amounts of alcohol.

As expected, we got the sexual tension, the action, the special effects and lots of male six packs.

What I was surprised by, though, was the sexism.

And the gender bias wasn't just aimed at women - young boys got what I consider to be negative messages too.

Male Sexism - you have to be a superhero to get the girl

Young men watching Twilight - assuming they'll bother to go see it in the first place (unless, of course, they're dragged there by a girl) - are basically shown that, to get the girl, you have to be superhero.  

We already know about Edwards' abilities and, even though the moment his shirt comes off is disappointing compared to the various gratuitous shots of Jacob's chest, he's still pretty lean and muscular.

Even the previously sweet boy next door character, Jacob, has morphed into a bepecced, be-sixpacked Adonis who, when he cuts his hair, deserves to grace the cover of Mens Health magazine.

He's also a killer mechanic, able to fix up a junkyard motorcycle shell into a mean machine.

And, as those annoying commercials say on TV, that's not all!

Jacob comes of age, and starts to morph into a super-strong, massive, fur-ruffled-by-the-breeze werewolf.

So poor Mike, the only normal male who might be a potential love interest, really doesn't stand a chance.  Not only does his hair have a reddish tinge - the greatest crime in the looks department that your genes can commit against you - he is simply nice looking.

When Mike takes Bella to an action movie, not only is he immediately overshadowed by Jacob and his neck-of-steel, but his disgust at the violent content, leading him to throw up, is cruelly portrayed as weakness.

A normal, sensitive boy is a total loser in the Twilight world.  The fact that he thinks he might have a chance with Bella is borderline laughable.

Boys - if you can't have a magic power, you better at least have a six pack.

Female sexism - Woman as victim

The character of Bella is the the eternal victim.  She is constantly in need of rescue, sometimes due to her own ridiculous stupidity.

I mean, for God's sake, any girl who can't open a small square package wrapped with a bow in a room full of vampires without cutting her finger open is a fucking moron.

Only when she has to save Edward's life does Bella take any action in this film.  And her action consists of running through a crowd to hug Edward and show she's alive.  Not exactly Xena Warrior Princess or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  Apart from pushing people out of her way and sprinting through a fountain, Bella's passivity is epic.

When Edward tells her his family is leaving, she automatically assumes she is going with him.  She seems to have absolutely nothing in her life that's important to her except this man.  No sport, no hobbies, no thoughts of a a possible career.  She would leave her father, her friends, her home at the drop of a hat for a guy she's know for a year and thinks she is in love with.

And please don't tell me it's true love.  You don't know shit about love at that age.

When Edward actually does leave, Bella is borderline comatose.  She is shown sitting in an armchair, staring out at the rain, for months.  The only time we see her doing any homework in this movie, she is in front of the TV, and not really paying attention to her books.  She seems to have absolutely no ambition at all.

She hangs out with guys she doesn't really love, expecting them to just be there for her, despite her not giving them anything in return.  When I was young, boys called girls like that Prickteasers, and they were hated and teased for it.

When she finally comes out of her funk and buys two motorbike wrecks from the junkyard, she takes them to Jacob to fix up because she wants to put herself into a dangerous situation and, through putting herself in harm's way, see visions of Edward.  

She goes straight from one man to a boy, using him to get to her man.  Her entire life is defined by a male, her support system is the next male.

Throughout the weeks the bikes are rebuilt, she doesn't once help Jacob except to hand him a tool or get the pizza from the delivery man.  Just sit there and look melancholy and pretty, girls, and, if push comes to shove, make sure your man has food.  

When the bikes are done up, she crashes hers immediately.  She just pretty fucking useless at anything apart from pouting and, for no reason at all (the actress isn't done up to look particularly attractive) inexplicably bewitching the males around her.

Her selfishness and self-absorption borders on utter narcissism, to the point where her father wants to send her away to live with her mother - who can blame him?  Pouty teenagers are pain in the ass at the best of times but her lower lip is drooping so far she risks hurting herself tripping on it.

She isn't even a good friend. When she finally reconnects with a girlfriend and goes out with her, she sees some bozo on a motorbike on a side street and, again wanting to place herself in danger, gets on the back of his bike for a joyride.  Even when I was in High School, any friend who did that to me would immediately be an ex-friend.  

As women, I am sure we all know the kind of female friend who is only around after a breakup and then disappears as soon as the next boyfriend comes along.  They're pathetic and a waste of your time and effort.

The character of Bella is passive, pouting, and constantly in need of rescue.

The theme of female victimhood is is reinforced by the character of the fiance of one of the werewolves, half her face disfigured when he "lost control" yet still by his side, kissing him and providing food for the were-boys when they drop in to visit.

As the movie progressed, I sympathized less and less with the central character of Bella, and came to believe that everyone - human or not - would be better of if she just bloody well drowned when she stupidly jumped off that cliff.

The character as portrayed in this film is a terrible role model for young women.

I couldn't help but contrast the main characters in the Twilight movie series with their counterparts in the Harry Potter one.  

In spite of magic powers, Harry and Ron are pretty normal boys, and Hermione is a girl who tries to get ahead in the world and become her own person.  

Also, teenage kids are shown actually kissing and getting it on in the background in the last Harry Potter movie, whereas Twilight is filled with short kisses and Bella's frustrated moans... annoying, and not what real teenagers these days are doing.

So talk to your teenage girls about contraception and let them watch Hermione excel in Harry Potter, because the victimhood of Twilight and the abstinence approach just aren't healthy.

No, I don't mean "Sick" in that ridiculous reverse-negative way the "yoof" ("kidz") use it.  

I am sick, and so I am stuck on the couch watching TV.

In moments like these, the brain can only handle so much, so Trash TV is required.

But sometimes, you just can't believe what you hear.

I am watching Flippin' Out, a reality series about Jeff Lewis, who flips houses.  

He is talking to his new intern, Tracy (a young guy):

Jeff: "Have I told you that you are doing a good job here?"

Tracy: "Am I?"

Jeff: "I was just wondering if I'd told you."

Tracy:  "I mean--- Uh--- Ocassionally."

Jeff:  "Good.  You are.  You're doing a good job here."

Tracy:  "How can I improve?"

Jeff:  "You could be on time for work.  That's how you could improve."

Tracy:  "Well, d'ya wanna know what the real reason---  I mean---"

Jeff:  "You're gonna tell me the truth now."

Tracy:  "On my phone I have - like - the Checkers application, and I need to play a full round and win before I can actually bet outta bed.  And today it took me three times before I won.  And normally it's only one.  I didn't anticipate the two extra games.  And I can't - I can't get outta bed until I win."

Jeff:  "So, every morning when you wake up, you play a game of Checkers---"

Tracy:  "On my phone."

Jeff:  "--- and when you win, you get up.  And today, you didn't win, so you had to play three games---"

Tracy:  "Yeah."

Jeff:  "So you were fifteen minutes late."

Cut to one on one interview with Jeff:

Jeff:  "You know, maybe Tracy does remind me of me a little bit.  And maybe that's why I'm starting to really like him."

Cut back to Jeff and Tracy's conversation.

Jeff:  "That's actually--  No-one's ever told me that before--- Any--- That is---  No-one's ever--- I don't think anyone's ever used that as an excuse---  This is what I want from you.  Good."

So this little asswipe has a job and I don't.

Well fuck this.

Change channel.  Click!

• An African American in a Star Trek uniform with red shirt


• A female Vulcan in a gold sequinned dress


• A very cute girl in a very short red Star Trek dress


• People who had dressed normally but added Spock ears

The male to female ratio in the line was very favorable to my sex, until you looked more closely and saw the calibre of the men in question. Yes it was geeksville.

The entire spectrum was there, from the reasonably OK looking geek who seems like a viable mate he opens his mouth, through the kiddie-faced-socially-inept geek all the way to the long-greasy-haired-pot-bellied-beared-and-slightly-sweaty-smelling geek.

Still, it was fun to see a line for the Men's toilets and none for the women's. Finally!

We got good seats, but weren't prepared for the Fully Loaded Aspergers Experience that awaited us. Behind us sat two young men who started the evening with the geek version of penis comparison - discussing obscure science fiction movies and seeing who can remember particular scenes/facts better. During the main feature, they felt it was very important to give each other the benefit of an instant review of the the Director's choices. Thank God the sound was turned up pretty loud or I think someone would have organized a geek posse to take them down with a Vulcan Nerve Pinch.

The audience was very enthusiastic, whooping at the previews for Transformers and Terminator, booing at Angels and Demons and snorting derisively at G.I. Joe. The start of Star Trek itself was drowned in "woooos" and clapping. The appearance of Leonard Nimo was cheered as was - encouragingly - Simon Pegg. It was all very entertaining.

Loyal fans are hard to please. They know everything about how things were set up and why, and the slightest disloyalty, pandering or evidence of Director Hubris (e.g. "re-imagineering") is considered a crime punishable by Phasers set to Kill.

Everyone seemed very happy, which was a relief, not least of all because it meant I went home with an ecstatic Fluffy Bear, rather than one who would explain to me, for the next three days, all the things that were wrong, and why.

And, Simon Pegg was funny.

He he he.

Our "heroine", Nomi, is at lunch with her nemesis/mentor/potential lesbian lover, Cristal. Nomi is a new chorus dancer in the topless horror of a stage show, Cristal is the "star" who emerges, almost naked, from a fake volcano.

Nomi Malone: [befuddled by the fancy menu and sarcastically referring to the diet prescribed by the manager of the dance troupe] Don't they have brown rice and vegetables?
Cristal Connors: Do you like brown rice and vegetables?
Nomi Malone: Yeah.
Cristal Connors: You do?
Nomi Malone: Sort of.
Cristal Connors: Really?
Nomi Malone: It's worse than dog food. [Cristal laughs]
Nomi Malone: It is!
Cristal Connors: I've had dog food.
Nomi Malone: You have?
Cristal Connors: Mmm-hmmm. Long time ago. Doggy Chow. I used to love Doggy Chow.
Nomi Malone: I used to love Doggy Chow, too!
[Cristal and Nomi toast each other with their potato chips.]

And, trust me, the rest of it is even worse.

The only way to tolerate this piece of crap is to laugh at it, and that's what David Schmader does.  He is a Showgirls officionado, and gives live commentary throughout the movie.

At the moment pictured above, he said:

"There isn't enough Purell (hand santizer) in the world!"

Classic.

1. Marriage is compromise


2. Marriage n'est pas badinage (Marriage is no joke).

Today, I demonstrated my commitment to No. 1.

We went to see Watchmen.

"You're very quiet," said Fluffy Bear, as we were driving to the car park Exit after the film.

And yes, I was. Because I knew he enjoyed it, and those kinds of movies are important to him.

Here are all the things I wanted to say:

• I am quiet, Honey, because my brain is baked from boredom


• Darling, I can never get those three hours of my life back, you know...


• Do you think the film's editor, when his thousandth request for a cut was denied, quit his job?

Of course, every cloud has a silver lining. I can now tell people, without word of a lie, that I was once in a dark room for three hours and the only thing I found vaguely interesting during that time was a big blue schlong.

Movies that take me back to High School:

• The Breakfast Club
• Tex
• St. Elmo's Fire

Movies that give me a portal into Ye Olde Englande:

• Maurice
• Howard's End
• Remains of the Day

Movies that remind me that I am woman and I should roar:

• Thelma and Louise
• The Accused

Movies that challenge me:

• Kids
• La Haine
• Hard Candy

Movies that made me cry and cry:

• In the Bedroom
• Away from her

Movies that gladden my heart:

• Wall E
• ET

Movies that make me want to sing and dance:

• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Sound of Music
• Grease
• Little Shop of Horrors

Movies that make me laugh:

• Les Comperes
• When Harry Met Sally
• The Full Monty

[And, just by the way, BBC America news is not perfect. It's FOXified. But at least you get some more interational perspective.]

Anyway, we don't watch the news but, as we watch our favorite shows on the telly at night, we sometimes catch the teasers. Some are so, so silly that I started to write them down.

You have to understand that everything listed here is a real teaser, about 90% word for word, for the news at 11pm.

As you read these, do them in the Hollywood movie trailer voice in your mind.

• Two local women say they were sexually assaulted by ghosts. What police and a local ghosthunter have to say. At 11!


• KFC is launching a new fish sandwich! Hear why they're asking people to believe in their new venture! At 11!


• Bumpers put to the test in slow collision! You won't believe how much it could cost to repair the damage! At 11!


• How a baseball bat helped put an arson suspect behind bars! At 11!


• [Shot of a car deep in mud] At least it was a soft landing! A local driver careers off a ramp into some deep trouble! At 11!


• [Shot of trash on the street] Clean it up... or else! How the city plans to crack down on local eyesores and the people who cause them! At 11!


• It's the car they want thieves to steal! We'll take you inside a Bait car and see the Police use it to flush out thieves! At 11!


• How your driver's licence could help in the fight against Meth! At 11!


• How the Harry Potter series is helping the environment! At 11!


• The dangerous tunnels under the capital! At 11!


• What stimulates your brain more? Chocolate, or making out [snogging]? The answer may surprise you! At 11!


• Why the city's nightclubs are turning off their music and going silent! At 11!


• Our university's gymnastics team may have multiple stalkers! At 11!


• A BB gun rampage in a local city! Someone takes aim at over one hundred cars and homes! See where the trail of broken glass is leading! At 11!


• A little league player who was kicked out of the game for wearing an oxygen tank is back! Hear about the ruling that made him safe! At 11!


• How valet parking can make you a target for thieves! At 11!


• The disturbing surprise for a local family's Halloween candy! At 11!


• The law that allows teachers to have sex with older students! At 11!


• A cat survives a brutal beating! See how this touched one family so much they just had to take action. At 11!

Sometimes the national news is no better:

• Tomorrow in our series "Officer down!" we'll look at the arms race between the Police... the people trying to kill them!


• When we return... Tales from the Antarctic! What it's like bobbing for hours on the icy water, waiting for rescue!


• Mauled by an escaped tiger! The victim's final conversations with family. At 11!