Who Is A 'Young Adult'?

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 PHOTOS: Arianna Huffington And AOL Toast Diablo Cody & Jason Reitman's Upcoming Film 'Young Adult' Tuesday night, at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, AOL and The Huffington Post hosted a screening of "Young Adult," a new film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, the same duo that created the Oscar-winning "Juno". HuffPosts's Arianna Huffington calls it a "truly powerful movie." Theron's character Mavis is desperate, dark and at times dingy. She is a recent-divorcee, is oftentimes mean-spirited and for work, is a ghost writer of a popular-but-now-declining young adult book series. In the film, Mavis returns to her small "hickish" hometown to reclaim her high school sweetheart, played by Patrick Wilson. What sparkles most from the film, however, is Cody's razor-sharp script and a standout performance from co-star Patton Oswalt as Theron's cynical friend and sounding board. Natalie Wood Case: Captain Who Claims Robert Wagner Silenced Him Passed Polygraph Test LIVIN' LA VIDA LOCAL: Shop Small Businesses This Saturday SHOCKING: Deadly Bar Shooting Caught On Tape (GRAPHIC VIDEO) REEFER MADNESS: Councilman Fights To Ban All LA Pot Shops No Penn State In The Golden State: New Legislation Inspired By Scandal BLOG POSTS David Freid: Surviving the Thanksgiving Apocalypse This is for those of us who aren't spirited away to some remote 'burb in the U.S. to split turkey wishbones with cousins. This is for that magical time of year when us few find ourselves feeling like survivors of some armageddon on Thanksgiving day. Bill Bush: The Complexities, Realities and Mysteries of Relationships: This Artweek.LA (November 21, 2011) David Bloomfield: Higher Standards, Lower Stakes Teachers need to be freed from short-term accountability and evaluative calculations riddled with error. Principals should be able to make decisions without worrying about their marginal impact on meaningless distinctions between data points. Louis Freedberg: California's Public Colleges and Universities Fertile Ground for Protest What sets this era of protest apart is that those in charge of higher education in California are themselves vehement critics of the budget cuts which students are now protesting. Robert Ross: Giving Thanks for Health Care Reform This Thanksgiving it is worth taking a moment to be grateful for something nearly 50 million Americans live without: health care.

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