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Scribbles About News: End of September-October

Alrighty! So I'm picking up with the news from the end of the last time of my news post to now... the end of October... so this should be fun! 1) Is There Life on Mars?- David Bowie was right! There is life on Mars! Well... its possible for there to be life on Mars at least. They found signs of salty, liquid water in the summer months. I'm guessing theres some sort of fish type creature living there... not sure. I'm sure there's life on other planets somewhere. I mean why would we be the only planet? There are Galaxies far,far away... they probably have some form of something right? This is the closest we've found to actual proof that there could be I guess... which is cool. I kind of hope we don't find anything. I don't know if people would be nice to a martian...lol. 2) Gotham City Baby?- Star of Gotham, Ben McKenzie and his on screen and apparently off screen girlfriend Morena Baccarin are expecting a baby together... well okay actually I haven't ...

Review Time! Saving Mr. Banks

Sooo I saw Saving Mr. Banks today with my mom and my Nana, and I thought I would share it with everyone. From what I got from the trailers of this movie was that it was about how the movie Mary Poppins got made and that the author of the books, Emma Thompson's character Pamela Travers, was not the easiest person to work with. That was true, but it was more than that story all together... To me, it was like 3 different stories telling what Mary Poppins meant to them I guess. We get to see the story of a young girl who loved her father very much, Pamela's struggle to keep this movie the way that she wants, and Walt Disney's struggle to Disney-fy the film and Pamela herself. Pamela Travers was a very distant woman who was sort of grumpy and incredibly hard to work with. She changed every plan that the writers and the lyricists made up, she thought that Dick Van Dyke was completely wrong for Burt, she didn't want the movie to be a musical and didn't want to go to ...