September 25, 2010
- 11:30 am
By Meredith - Boston University

[Ladies, meet Meredith, the newest addition to the CollegeCandy team. She's a BU student, a movie buff, and an all around fantastic chicadee. She'll be our resident movie gal, giving us the ins and outs of the new releases and telling us whether or not its worth it to fork over $12 for the latest flicks.]
Easy A is the story of “anonymous” high school student, Olive (Emma Stone). Olive tells her story to her webcam in a monologue-esque tone. Although it is clear that she is addressing an audience, this is very clearly HER story. She explains how her friend Brandon asks her to tell everyone that they had sex so that people would think he was straight. In an effort to move the plot along (and because Olive is a great friend), two minutes later, Olive and Brandon are banging on the walls of a party for their faux-sex sesh.
Soon, every nerdy guy is asking Olive to do the same for them. And before long (and after many fake sex sessions) she ticks off the group of Christians at her school, led by Marianne (the retired Amanda Bynes). After a scuffle in an English class that is reading The Scarlet Letter, Olive decides to go all out and put a red A on all of her clothes. For those who have forgotten the plot from the Sparknotes version that they read in high school, The Scarlet Letter is about the Puritan protagonist, Hester Prynne, being forced to wear a red “A” (for “Adulterer”) after getting pregnant out of wedlock.
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Tags: 10 things i hate about you, Amanda Bynes, easy a, easy a review, emma stone, film review, Lisa Kudrow, mean girls, movie review, now showing, patricia clarkson, Penn Badgley, stanley tucci, the breakfast club, the scarlet letter
March 8, 2010
- 5:00 pm
By Jessica- Delaware

If I can speak for most undergrads, we dread graduation day more than the apocalypse itself. It means leaving college and entering the real world, where it won’t be acceptable to beer bong in broad daylight on the roof of a frat house or blow off all your responsibilities to watch an entire season of the Office in bed.
Although the whole “graduating” thing sucks in theory, there’s always a lot of excitement surrounding the commencement speaker (or controversy, if you remember the whole Obama at Notre Dame debacle…). A good speaker can trick you into thinking this isn’t the worst day of your life inspire you to look ahead to the future and all the possibilities that lay ahead (if they’re a huge success, why can’t you be!?). And a bad speaker will allow you a good 45-minute power nap.
So who will be inspired come graduation day and who will be snoozing in their caps and gowns? Here is a list of some serious commencement speaker heavy hitters and the lucky seniors who get to listen to ‘em: Read More »
December 22, 2008
- 9:00 am
By CC Staff

Happy Hanukkah, people!
In honor of the eight days of Hanukkah, we decided to do a tribute to our 8 favorite Hanukkah celebrators (also known as Jews). But then we decided that 8 just wasn’t enough; there are too many good ones! So, we upped it to eight Jews for each of the eight days.
Yes, it’s a lot of Jewish, but let’s be real – Hanukkah gets totally ignored this time of year, so we thought it would be nice to give a little shout-out to the people not dreaming of a white Christmas. You know, the ones dreaming of a little Mu Shu on Christmas eve. Click on any of our favorite Jews to see why we love em so much (and why anyone – Jew or non Jew – will love them too!). Read More »
Tags: adam brody, adam levine, adam sandler, Adrian Brody, Albert Einstein, Alyson Hannigan, Andy Samburg, barbara walters, Ben Savage, ben stiller, billy joel, calvin klein, Charlotte York Goldenblatt, chelsea handler, chinese food, christmas, David Duchovny, David Schwimmer, debra messing, Don Rickels, Donna Karen, Dustin Diamond, dvf, Gilda Radner, Gwyneth Paltrow, hanukkah, Howard Schulz, Ian Ziering, jack black, Jake Gyllenhall, Jason Segel, Jennifer Wiener, jeremy piven, Jerry Seinfeld, jerry springer, jesse palter, Jesus of Nazareth, jewish, jews, joan rivers, John Stossel, jon stewart, judy blume, julia louis dreyfus, Lauren Herskovic, Lisa Kudrow, marc jacobs, mark zuckerberg, matthew broderick, Mel Brooks, michael kors, mila kunis, Milton Hershey, Neil Diamond, paul rudd, paula abdul, rachel zoe, Rahm Emanuel, samantha ronson, Sarah Silverman, Sascha Baron Cohen, selma blair, seth green, seth rogan, sex and the city, Simon and Garfunkel, starbucks, tori spelling, Whoopi Goldberg, zac efron, zach braff