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Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 got in, got $500,000, and got a film deal. Her debut novel, called “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” will be available in bookstores this spring. The book, which tracks an academically-driven girl of Indian descent as she learns to loosen up, has already been picked up by DreamWorks Studios, who is in talks with Viswanathan about a film adaptation. Contrafilm and Alloy Entertainment will produce, according to Variety. The joint English and American Literature and Language and Economics...
Indeed, because of Ross's affinity for unusual materials like black jet and pink opal (with a smattering of diamonds) and stones she finds in flea markets, the run on any of her designs is frequently just one or two pieces...
This example of sharing faith, when it is easy to do so, defines a town composed of people that have forgotten how to share their sadness and joy. Opal and Preacher, like the other townsfolk, live in their own bubbles of life, brushing against each other’s quirks and eccentricities as carelessly as one browses the aisles of a grocery store...
Everything changes one day as Opal discovers an orphaned dog while running errands for her father. And so as banjos and guitars wail away in the country-twanged soundtrack, Winn-Dixie (named for the supermarket where she found him) enters the life of Naomi, Florida...
...sadness of motherless Opal is dull, the changes of heart haphazard, and the pivotal realization – that townsfolk seemingly so different nevertheless share in common a love for Winn-Dixie – falls flat. And no matter how many times director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) bridges his scenes with beautiful images of towering oak trees draped with Spanish moss and childhood picnics set against a sun-drenched palette, the film never inspires any more than a dry chuckle or a single sniffle...