Wednesday, February 11, 2009

I read the profile on Donald Lau named “Cookie Master” by Jeremy Olshan. The story is kind of interesting. The part where it talks about Lau picking the Powerball numbers was cool; it is hard to think that a man can helped all those people get that money. Well, it did say that he didn’t pick the numbers a computer did, but make a good story. Eleven years is a long time to be writing things, ideas, and thoughts. I bet the editor job will do him some good after all of that writing. The story uses a good amount of dialogue, it helps make the story. I like how the fellow in the profile uses some Chinese proverbs and some modern adages. I also liked his thought of using small ten words or fewer sentences; there is no reason to make a sentence to long.

Johnny Depp is a very interesting person. The story about him was very interesting. I liked the part about how he got arrested in New York City for trashing a hotel room, and he blamed it on his “hillbilly rage”. Another thing I liked about this story is that I found out that Johnny is from this part of the country, I guess that just puts a connection between him and the other people in this region. It is like someone to change when their first child is born. It help to understand that he don’t like the idea of being chased by people wanting to take his picture. It also like he is a down to earth person, it showed me that when he was talking about when he is in France with his family. The idea of him jumping on the trampoline, swinging his children, and looking at the tomatoes is what shows that he is down to earth to me.