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I read an article that updates us on the war in Iraq. An Indian ship was left in flames along with the hijacking of an African fleet. Also, an explosive device went off injuring five people in central Baghdad. A roadside bomb went off injuring one man in western Monsul and was rushed to a hospital immidiately.

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For this blog, I read an article about movie wrap ups for the weekend. James Bond's Quantum of Solace took the top spot making $71 million. This Bond movie made the most money and took the top charts faster than any other movie Bond made. Madagascar 2 took second place making a whopping $32 million. High School Musical 3: Senior Year made in total of all the weeks in the box office $84 million even though they had a small budget for the movie. HSM 3's turn out may be pretty dissapointing for the Disney channel producers.

Chloe Gamble

Farther in the book, Chloe tries to get her first audition without the help of any talent agent or asssistant by sneaking in to the NBC building and barging in on all the executives of a new show Virgin. Right as she did so, security was called and she was banished from all networks and other studios. When she did that she thought it was the end of her career until she found out everyone was looking for her. She then met a woman named Nika who was soon going to be her new talent agent. Although Nika was just a secretary for a talent agency, it was her who Chloe wanted to represent herself. Nika helped Chloe get interviews and auditions but it was hard at first because of her NBC incident. 

A Chloe Gamble Novel

As Chloe and Nika go to auditions after auditions, they finally landed the perfect one. It was a new show on the SNAP network that had to do with young teenagers at a school who played in a band, while secretly they were secret agents. Chloe wanted the part so bad she could have screamed, but the producers and writers weren't waiting for Chloe to impress them, they were trying to impress her. She was the most wanted actress all throughout Hollywood because of the stunt she pulled way back when dealing with sneaking into NBC and crashing the audition. Chloe wasn't surprised that she was about to get the part because she knew what they wanted, and gave it to them. 

Star talent

In the book, Nika finally found Chloe a job, but it wasn't a for sure gig, just an interview. Chloe was going to act in a horror movie, but Nika felt it wouldn't help the image she was trying to show of being a child actor. Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and other agencies were being looked at by Chloe but she wanted to be in this horror movie. Ignoring her coach, Chloe went ahead and signed the papers. It was only until during the filming that she realized she shouldn't have taken the movie because of how many careers horror movies ruin. People who starred in horror movies only got offered more horror movie parts. Thats not what Chloe wanted to do for a living. She wanted to be a big time actor who got paid thousands of millions of trillions of dollars for doing what she loves. 

The One

So far in the book, Chloe, the main character, drags herself, her twin brother and her mother from her town in Texas to Hollywood so she can make it big and support her family. Her family doesn't have much money, so they depend on her to pay the bills for their apartment they are renting in Oakwood. Oakwood is where many of the up and coming celebrities stay until they make it big and move into mulitmillion dollar mansions. While she is struggling to find the start of her acting career she tries to show off her talent by explaining all the beauty pagents she's won. Although that was impressive in Texas it's nothing in Hollywood. So she has to find a way to get noticed. 

First Choice book

I chose the book The One, which is about a girl who leaves her small hometown in Texas to become a star in Hollywood. This book looks very interesting and I like reading these types of books a lot. It is also a recommended book by Gossip Girl and other books like that. The book takes place in Hollywood in the center of all the television and acting careers of many famous people so it looks like a pretty good book.