I am NOT a critic. I'm merely an observer. (Books, movies, plays, musicals etc.)

When her on-air partner decides to depart America's favorite morning show, "Rise and Shine's" Veronika Daniels announces that she will be choosing her new co-host from a handful of candidates that includes Charlie Fisher, a local NY newscaster who is the son of a broadcasting legend. However, when Emily Morgan, a human interest reporter for the local Connecticut station, makes an impassioned on-air plea to be considered for the job, the game changes for everyone as video of Emily's declaration goes viral and the network brass decide to put her in the running. Veronika delights in the healthy competition she sees brewing, and encourages the candidates to bring their A game in the segments and stories they do between now and the Christmas Day Telethon, when she will announce her choice. As the competition narrows, and it becomes clear that either Charlie or Emily are going to get the job, they begin to rediscover a spark between them that started long ago.   Writ...

I watch them(I watch reruns too) in Melissa & Joey, but this movie is what started a beautiful professional friendship between two child stars now in their 40s.  They were in their 30s then.   They were born two days apart in April and both started showbiz almost at the same time so the real life friendship started way back when, but thanks to this movie, the aforementioned TV series was born.  (paraphrased excerpt from this article:  'Melissa & Joey': Old pals Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence team up ) Source Jennifer and Vince, virtual strangers, find themselves strapped for cash and decide to stage a fake engagement and wedding just for the gifts Written by Howard March Directed by Gil Junger Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence are just  more than half a decade younger than I am, so you could say they are sort of my contemporaries.  I sort of grew up with them and I could relate with their characters or their pee...

SABRINA GOES TO ROME may be a story about a teenage witch introduced to us in ARCHIE COMICS, but to me it's a story about a girl tracing her roots. As the title states, it is set in Rome, the principal city of the region of Lazio, and the capital city of Italy.   The place is really beautiful, but it is also filled with people who just want to take advantage of you.  Sabrina meets a couple of those people, and for the duration of her stay there, she sort of cheated on Harvey with one of them, played by Eddie Mills...well, let's just say that this happened before she and Harvey became official, or maybe they were on a break or something. It's easy to understand why Sabrina would fall for Paul(the name of the guy we are talking about), because deep down, he's actually a nice guy trapped in a hoodlum's body(exage!).   Thankfully, Sabrina also meets Gwen(Tara Charendoff) and Alberto(Eric Alexander), who become true friends of hers.  During he...