To See Eat Pray Love, You’ll Have To Starve, Dream, And Hate
Everyone loves a good Julia Roberts movie… well, except the Communists, but they’re not invited to this one. PRETTY WOMEN, MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING, and ERIN BROCKOVICH easily rank at the top of any list compiling the best of Julia, and Columbia Pictures hopes they have another one of her greats with EAT PRAY LOVE, the adaptation of the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir that sat on the New York Times Best Seller list for something like 158 weeks (that’s a long time). EAT PRAY LOVE follows Gilbert as she travels around the world post-divorce and rediscovers who she is, what she believes in, etc. In addition, you get James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup, and Javier Bardem coming along for the ride, and… oh, did I mention Julia Roberts? Plus, EAT PRAY LOVE is directed by Ryan Murphy, the creator of GLEE, so all things seem to line up for a worthwhile trip to the movies to check the film out.
Well, it’s a good thing The Kidd has got your trip taken care of, as I’m prepared to send you along to see EAT PRAY LOVE at an advance screening in Miami on Tuesday night, August 10, at the AMC Aventura 24. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures, I’ve got a number of tickets to give away to those of you who want to find your inner self all over again, this time with the help of Julia Roberts.
Now it would have been easy for me to follow along with the title of the movie, asking you to tell me something that you like to eat, something you pray for, and someone you love… but that’s too easy. And since EAT PRAY LOVE is intended to be a cleansing experience, I figured it’d be more productive to get some of the bad out of the way, so you can move on and let the healing begin. Therefore, this contest is going to consist of 3 parts, consisting of what I consider to be the opposite of each of the elements in EAT PRAY LOVE.
- Rather than tell me something you love to eat, I want something you absolutely hate eating. Give me a food item that you would rather starve than ever have to ingest into your body.
- Since there’s really no opposite to pray, I don’t want to know what you pray for, but something you wish for that is never going to come true. The Kidd wants you to open up your and reveal the broken dream that you wished for that never happened and isn’t going to in the future.
- Don’t tell me someone that you love, but someone that you hate. I don’t even want you to hold back with someone you only strongly dislike. Give me someone that, if they were standing in front of you as you read this, you’d just reach back and punch them dead in the face.
E-mail your entries to Contests@InfamousKidd.com with the following subject line exactly:
STARVE DREAM HATE
If you don’t have that subject line exactly, then you don’t have an entry. So cut and paste it, if you must, and be sure you have it perfectly, in all CAPS, or your entry will never even reach us. There’s a specific reason for the subject line needing to be exact, so, if you can’t even follow our first simple instruction than you are done before you ever really got going.
Next, be sure to include your name. This is a MUST. If your entry has no name, it doesn’t exist. I can’t give prizes to people with no name. I also don’t search for names or hunt for names, so, if your name isn’t clearly visible on your entry, then you’re out. Your name must be in the body of your e-mail. If it’s anywhere else, that’s too bad for you.
The deadline for this contest is Friday, August 6, at 8:00 p.m. Winners will be posted on the site over the weekend. One entry per person per e-mail per name. Therefore, multiple or duplicate entries from duplicate or similar names will be disqualified, as we are able to see the names attached to the accounts you are sending your entries from. And, if you forget a piece of information and try to send it in later, that counts as a multiple, so get it right the first time. After all, I’m not writing these instructions up for my health.
Also, if you cannot attend this screening, do not enter. If you can’t get a babysitter, don’t enter. If you can’t get out of work early enough, don’t enter. If you have class, homework, chores, prior engagements, or previous commitments that would prevent you from attending this screening, do not enter… unless, of course, you’re comfortable being ineligible to enter and win any further screening passes. Therefore, enter at your own risk.
All decisions and rulings are those of The Kidd’s, and my word is final.
All you have to do is give me those 3 items – nothing more, nothing less – and the ones that resonate the best with me will be the ones scoring passes (good for you and a guest) to see EAT PRAY LOVE. So dig deep, and pull out something good, because, if The Kidd likes it, you’re in good shape.
Good luck to you all.
