Movies from two of my all time favorite books are coming out in the next month. I read and have re-read “This Is Where I Leave You” by Jonathan Tropper more than a year ago.
It’s one of the funniest books I’ve read.
The book is about four grown children who return home when their father dies and live under the same roof for a week.
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It will star Jason Bateman (from Horrible Bosses), Tina Fey, Jane Fonda as the group’s mother, Corey Stall (most recently in House of Cards), Adam Driver (Adam on HBO’s “Girls”) and Connie Britton from “Nashville” and “Friday Night Lights.” It opens Sept. 19.
“Gone Girl” is the other, which opens in October. The novel by Gillian Flynn was one you could not put down.
The book is the story of a marriage in which the wife goes missing and everything points to the husband as the suspect. The movie stars Ben Affleck as the suspicious husband.
John Grisham will also have his fall legal thriller out in a few weeks– “Gray Mountain.” The book is about a lawyer who loses her job to the recession and goes to work at a free legal clinic. The book is set in Virginia.
“Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal.”
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Lee Parker of Pittsboro was the winner of the first football contest of the year. He had two misses and won by tie-breaker.
Others missing two were Pauline Crofford, Banner; B.J. Crutchfield, Calhoun City; Francis E. Petty, Bruce; Tammy Turner, Bruce; Jimmy Tartt, Calhoun City; Alisa Swanson, Bruce; and Donald Jennings, Derma.
Remember you can now text a photo of your completed ballot to 662-983-5690. Almost half of our ballots this week came via text.
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One of my former Ole Miss students is helping us cover football season around the county.
Ty Allushuski, originally from Michigan, ended up at Ole Miss to go to college and has stayed there since. After graduation he worked at a couple of newspapers as the sports editor and now is assistant director of Admissions for Communications at Ole Miss where he also teaches a class. But he still loves covering sports.
Ty was the sports editor of The Lamar Times and the Petal News in Hattiesburg and also the sports editor of the Oxford Enterprise. He was also the owner and publisher of the former ESPN-affiliate website, InsideTheGrove.com.
He started his newspaper career at The Daily Mississippian at Ole Miss where he was a beat writer and a columnist.
While in college he interned at USA Today and wrote stories on the College World Series, the NFL and many different prep sports, and later worked at The Birmingham News as a post-graduate intern.
Ty is super talented and loves Mississippi, and I had him all to myself Friday night. He rode to the Calhoun City ball game at Houston with me and we got a chance to catch up on mutual friends, eating in Oxford, his family in Michigan and siblings in Florida and his dog Henry. He will be at all schools before the year is over.
It’s really nice to be covering a ball game and just taking pics, instead of taking pics, stat-keeping and posting to twitter. With him there, it was an easy night.
Joel had a lot of trouble at the Bruce game getting tweets to go out. And we run into that a lot at certain fields. Sometimes he can message me where I am, and I can post the tweets to The Journal account.
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