The Help AND Free Printable Oscar Games

Tomorrow night are the Academy Awards 2012 - how exciting to watch the fashion on the red carpet. If you are hosting a Oscar-watching party, this awesome Oscar bingo game and ballot (generously made and shared by How About Orange blog) is begging to be printed out and given to your guests before the show. How fun, right?

On a related note, I would like to highly recommend The Help. You can watch it instantly with Amazon 48 hour rental for less than 2 dollars. Yes, the novel is waaaaay better than the film, though the film was pretty great too and had me cry like a baby. But I did not like that they changed A LOT of the original story in the movie. I guess you have to if you are trying to compress a complicated story in about two hours of film.

Did you know that before The Help was a nominated film, it was a best-selling novel by writer Kathryn Stockett. While looking to sell the novel, Stockett approached 60 agents, all of whom rejected her request for representation. When the novel finally did find a home with an agent and eventually a publisher, it became a best-seller soon afterward.