What a Wally !!

Advantages: Characters are written so well that you can almost predict what they do next
Disadvantages: N/A

... SHE'S COME UNDONE 1992 WALLY LAMB What I found most shocking and unusual about this incredible book is that it was written by a man through the eyes of an overweight female. Wally Lamb portrayed the thoughts of a woman so very distinctly - I will always remember the character - Dolores Price. This book published in 1992 was Wally Lamb's first novel and was an Oprah. Book Club read. I suspect that this is a book and an author you may not be aware of, I certainly recommend that you introduce yourself to both. THE STORY Dolores Price is a young girl growing up in the 1960s. She is growing up in a time when women are expected to know their place. They have set roles in life and a good smack to correct them is accepted practice. Dolores started out with a normal enough life. She...

oldchem 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Hal Play The Hits!

Advantages: Great songs, some of the best you will have heard in a long time.
Disadvantages: Could be a little bit too different and too soft for some people.

...Hal released this debut album in Spring 2005, rather quietly, there was none of the major promotion of other rock/pop bands out at the moment. But the critics loved it and now are proclaiming it to be one of the best albums of 2005.... Hal started off when Dave Allen and Stephen O'Brien both from Dublin met through a friend. Both had been bands since they were teenagers but those bands were going no where. So they decided to start writing songs together, so for the next two years they worked constantly compiling a stack of songs. All the work was done at night with both having to hold down their day jobs. David's younger brother Paul would hang about during these song writing sessions offering his input and so it was a natural progression for him to join the band. They settled on the name Hal because of their admiration of Hal David...

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Wallis online - better offline

Advantages: Good quality, Occasional sales
Disadvantages: Online shop is not good

...Wallis Store: Wallis is a High Street chain store for women's fashions. Wallis stores could be a stand alone shop in High Street or could be a part of large Department stores like Debenhams. They are a part of Arcadia Group limited. There are a number of Wallis stores across England, Scotland Wales and in North and South Ireland. Whatever is the location, they will be stocking very similar items and hold sale at roughly same time. The items stocked by this store include- Women's Dresses Tops & Tunics Trousers & Shorts Tailoring Coats & Jackets Skirts Accessories as Bags, scarves, shoes and various costume jewellery items They also have an exclusive Petites range of dresses, tailoring, coats & jackets, knitwear, tops, trousers and skirts. Recently Wallis have introduced a new W. A Limited Edition range and items in...

greatmum1 01.04.2007 · Read review
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Hal of a Laugh

Advantages: some laughs
Disadvantages: lots

...I heard on the TV that Shallow Hal was being denoted as an insult against fat people! Apparently a lot of people (fat and otherwise) in the USA had claimed it was insulting! Having an extra stone or two myself, I felt the need to investigate (ok-so I wanted to watch the film too). Gweneth Paltrow plays the leading lady 'Rosemary'. Rosemary’s father (Joe Viterilli) is the owner of a big co-operation in the USA and is Irish. Rosemary’s mother (Jill Fitzgerald) is a typical American mum – albeit an overweight one. Hal the lead character (Jack Black) has the perfect woman in his mind, and will settle for nothing less. But far from being an oil painting himself, he’s dream woman is something of exactly that – a dream! A chance meeting with a man in a lift (Anthony Robbins playing himself) changes Hal...

dabmim 04.02.2002 · Read review
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Shallow Hal - surprisingly deep

Advantages: Nice film, not too demanding, seeing Gwynnie in a fat suit ;o)
Disadvantages: Slightly too long, unmemorable soundtrack

...I watched this rom-com film recently on Channel 4, having seen it once before too. While watching it for the second time it struck me how, well, NICE the whole thing is. And funny - the tag lines of "The Biggest Love Story Ever Told" and "True Love Is Worth The Weight" might make you smirk, but the film will make you smile with a fuzzy warm glow. Almost as much as the thought of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit will ;o) ~~~ Plot ~~~ Hal basically only dates beautiful women, he's very shallow (as you might expect from the film's title), and judges entirely by appearances. But, in a slight twist, this is entirely because he is following his dying father's last wish, that he should only date beautiful women. I'm not sure what the knowledge of this twist is meant to bring to the film, unless it's to raise the question in...

xalala 11.02.2005 (22.03.2005) · Read review
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Shallow, Thy Name is Hal

Advantages: funny, good idea for a story
Disadvantages: at times slightly offensive

...I'm sure most people have seen this film by now, as it has been out for quite a while. But I thought I would review it anyway! Shallow Hall is a Farrelly Brothers film. For Farrelly Brothers, you tend to read "Comedy in a Gross or Politically Incorrect Sort of Way". This film is no exception as it makes fun of fat people. But it also makes fun of the superficiality of the world, so its not all incorrect. Hal (Jack Black) was only a kid when his dad died, but the last thing his father said to him was that he had to set his standards high when it comes to woman and look for someone beautiful. As a result, the Hal of the present has unrealistic expectations of what his future woman will look like. It's obvious it is going to be fairly hard for him to ensnare one of his dream women because HE is not the cutest of blokes himself. Also...

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Shallow Hal

Advantages: light entertainment
Disadvantages: nothing too substantial

...When we first sat down for the evening to watch a film, we chose something fairly serious. Then after about twenty minutes, decided to watch something a bit light. Shallow Hal is what we chose. Shallow Hal is the tale of a man who, as a boy, was told by his morphine-delirious father to never settle for average-looking women. He forgot most things about his father due to trauma, but this advice was forever engraved about his subconscious. This means for his whole life, he has been judging women solely on their appearance, never seeing beyond it. However, one day he gets trapped in a lift with a life trainer, who teaches him to see the beauty inside people. For cinematic effect, this means that all the beautiful actresses are meant to be ugly characters with beautiful minds. Hal falls in love with one such girl, seen through his...

Pyrokeet 21.01.2006 · Read review
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Samsung B3310 - but its pink!!

Advantages: Cheap, performs core functions well
Disadvantages: No data cable, location of memory card slot

...Introduction Whilst out shopping my wife suddenly decided that she needed a new phone as she wasn?t happy with her LG Cookie that she had only had for six months. As she is on a sim only contract, it meant that we would have to pay for a new phone for her. Previously she has always liked Samsung phones so when she saw the newly released B3310, she decided it was the one for her. Purchasing the phone We bought the phone in-store from the Carphone Warehouse for £49.95 but we also had to buy £10 airtime on top of this. If we had chosen not to buy the airtime then the phone would have cost £99.95 instead which seemed a bit strange but evidently all phone manufacturers do this. We had the choice of 2 colours, light blue or pink. Unsurprisingly my wife went for the pink phone which will pretty much ensure that I...

craggybuk 29.09.2009 · Read review
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Shallow Hal - The Movie

Advantages: Really Funny romantic comedy
Disadvantages: Bit long

...What the film is about? The film is about a man who pursues young ladies of physical perfection - any girls he goes after must have stunning looks and fit bodies - he is taking his fathers advice. His father told him on this deathbed, when he was only a child and since then Hal has been like this. However one day Hal meets a hypnotist who hypnotizes him to make him see the inner beauty of women. And from then on - his luck with the ladies change dramatically - beautiful women surround him, and then he meets a woman (Rosemary) in a department store and falls for her there and then!! He believes she is the most beautiful woman he ever met - he has met his dream girl - Or Has he???? His friends think he is mad, as the women he is with are far from beautiful but cant really say to him, as it would hurt his feelings. But his...

lesleyanne18 26.02.2006 · Read review
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Samsung PS50B451

Advantages: Brillaint TV
Disadvantages: Hard to get used to

...One of the TVs in my house has just been replaced, we was lucky enough to get a deal on the Samsung PS50b451 instead of it costing around the £700 asking price a friend of ours used her staff discount and along with some vouchers, the TV cost us around £350 which is brilliant for what it is. bit of a bargain actually. I thought I would review it to see if it is actually worth the £700 asking price to those who aren?t as lucky as us to have a friend who works in a shop that sells them. Why choose this one? The reason that we choose this particular TV is that we wanted one in the 50 inch size range to replace the old one, and when we had a look at the range available we found that this one was not only the cheapest for what it is, but also we found that this one was the better looking of the three we narrowed our choice down to...

amyloop 14.07.2009 · Read review
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