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I am not even going to pretend that I know what it is like to get inside a guy’s head, but I do know this, we do approach life very differently at times, especially in the area of relationships. I can’t tell you how many times my female clients, when referring to their partners or boyfriends, will project how they deal and process life on to their significant others. I got news for you, “it won’t work.” Men do not think like the average girl. As an example, a woman may ask me, “do you think he really loves me but because he just lost his job and is in his cave that is why he has not called me for four days?”…“And do you think his silence really means he is looking at why he and I are not talking and do you think he will want to go to therapy and really at look at why he pushes me away like he does?” Some of these questions are back to back and in the same conversation as we women process in a variety of ways. It’s not that men won’t ask themselves questions, but they may not be so quick to delve into all these possibilities in one quick swoop. It’s usually a little more black and white and simplistic in the approach.

Usually men do not even think about these areas we women venture into as the mind of a man. More times than not, if a man says he does not want a relationship, he means it. There is no hidden meaning behind it. Remember the book and movie, “He’s Just Not That into You?” The concept was so popular because we as women are always delving deeper into what it really means…  

In approaching this subject this week, I found it amazing how some men thought they would get in trouble if they thought like a man and others say thinking like a man is more multi-dimensional. So my message for you ladies, is not to stereotype your man, but to try to understand his mind not from yours but from his point of view. Sometimes if we can step out of ourselves and listen instead of talking, understand instead of projecting and open to another’s point of view instead of controlling, we can have a much better communication and relationship. So as we explore this topic from Steve Harvey’s THINK LIKE A MAN, let us all look a little closer at ourselves and have compassion for our differences and look at new ways we can evolve and relate to each other – thinking, feeling… and then some!

Nina Boski, Host of LifeBites LIVE on emPOWERme.tv – TV show LIVE from Hollywood Thursdays 2 11a PST.

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“Roadie” Written by Gerald Cuesta and Michael Cuesta, and Directed by Michael Cuesta

For over 20 years, Jimmy Testagross has lived his childhood dream: being a roadie for his childhood heroes, Blue Oyster Cult. But the band’s Arena-Rock glory days are a distant memory. County fairs and club gigs pay the bills. And Jimmy has become a casualty of these leaner times. With no place to go, no job prospects, and no real skills outside of being a roadie, Jimmy needs to regroup. So he returns to his childhood home in Queens, New York.

There, he revisits old relationships: his ailing, widower mom, a high school crush, a former nemesis and, most importantly, his relationship with himself. Jimmy, the middle-aged man-child, has never grown up. He still carries the resentments and frustrations of his youth, and has allowed them to fester and define who and what he is. Confronted with his mother’s illness, Jimmy has a choice: let go of the past and take responsibility for both himself and the woman who raised and now needs him. Or continue to live a life of lies and frustration.

Summary written by Gerald Cuesta

LifeBites Question

What is your childhood DREAM? Have to let it go or are you creating the energy and passion to bring your dream to fruition?

Check out a clip from “Roadie”

Leap Year

Watch the trailer for the upcoming comedy, Leap Year. Look out MEN – It’s the year for women… to propose!

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Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and yet misunderstood icons of the century. In this exciting portrayal of Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams captures the essence of this beautiful actress.

“My Week with Marilyn” is an upcoming British drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges. It stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper and Emma Watson. Based on two books by Colin Clark, it depicts the making of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl which starred Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. The film focuses on the week in which Monroe spent time being escorted around Britain by Clark, after her husband, Arthur Miller, left the country.

LifeBites Question: What is your favorite Marilyn movie? Let us know in the Comments for this page.

Check out a clip from “My week with Marilyn”

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Oscar® winners Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts reunite for a dramatic comedy about how the hard knocks from today’s recession inspire one everyday guy to undergo a personal reinvention: Larry Crowne.

Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he’s worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he becomes part of a colorful community of outcasts, also-rans and the overlooked all trying to find a better future for themselves…often moving around town in a herd of scooters. In his public-speaking class, Larry develops an unexpected crush on his teacher Mercedes Tainot (Roberts), who has lost as much passion for teaching as she has for her husband.

The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason to live.

www.larrycrowne.com

LifeBites Question: Have you ever learned an important life lesson when everything seemed to be falling a part around you? If so, what did you learn?

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Get Reel Hollywood: “Just Go with it” Opens in Theaters February 11, 2011

Overview:
From one of my all time favorite directors, Dennis Dugan comes “Just Go With It.” This charming two-hours of fun is about a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, who enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

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“How Do You Know” Directed by, James L. Brooks

In Theaters, December 17th

“How Do You Know” is a comedy from Academy Award-winning writer-director James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets, Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment), starring Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson. The story plot is simple, but the story of love is always complex… Feeling a bit past her prime at 27, former athlete Lisa Jorgenson (Witherspoon) finds herself in the middle of a love triangle as a corporate guy in crisis competes with Lisa’s current, baseball-playing beau….

Check out the trailer and make sure you don’t miss the LifeBites Radio show on December 16^th, 9a-10a PST www.healthylife.net) when then cast and filmmakers make an appearance on the LifeBites radio show… Asking the question, “How do you know?”

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“The Social Network” Opens in Theaters, October 1st, 2010 – Directed by Aaron Sorkin

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes “The Social Network,” a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ceán Chaffin and based on the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich.

1. Do you think you can be a nice person and a successful person at the same time?
2. Do you think it is inevitable that you will make enemies if you are going to be a success?
3. If you were Mark Zuckerberg, what would you do with all your money?

Feel free to give us your comments –

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EAT  PRAY  LOVE  Directed by Ryan Murphy – In Theaters August 13th

Liz Gilbert, played by Julia Roberts had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali. Based upon the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Checkout the Trailer of the movie “EAT PRAY LOVE”

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Directed by Michael Patrick King —
Opens in theaters May 27th

The girls are back two years later with a top secret, no talking about the plot of the movie! For those of us waiting to see the fabulous four back in action, I’m sure we will see some twists in this sequel as Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte let us in on their lives once again. With all this hush, hush around the movie, below are some things we do know… or not about “Sex and the City 2!”

• Carrie may or may not be pregnant
• Carrie may or may not be breaking up with Big
• Carrie may have to go back to work
• Samantha may be getting married … or not!
• Not sure what is happening with Miranda
• Carrie and Big may be having financial issues
• Charlotte is in full mommy mode – toddler in tow
• There is a new girl (Charlotte’s nanny) in the mix to shake things up
• Sanford and Antonio may be hooking up permanently
• The girls go to an exotic location with a desert…camels involved
• Aidan returns in what capacity?

If you have heard any more of the details…or plot rumors do tell in the comments below!

Couples Retreat

Universal Pictures presents

Couples Retreat

It may be paradise… but it’s no vacation. Couples Retreat is a comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort’s therapy sessions is not optional.

Produced by: Scott Stuber
Written by: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Dana Fox
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kali Hawk, Tasha Smith, Peter Serafinowicz and Jean Reno
Music by: A.R. Rahman
Studio: Relativity Media
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date: October 9, 2009

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“THE SOLOIST”

LifeBites Host Nina Boski recently sat down with the members of the upcoming movie, “The Soloist,” to talk about the real story and real issue highlighted in powerful film.

Click below to see Nina’s exclusive interviews with Jamie Foxx, Director Joe Wright, Journalist Steve Lopez and Robert Downey Jr.

From the director of the Academy Award-nominated “Atonement,” Joe Wright, and staring Oscar winner Jamie Fox and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., comes this poignant and ultimately soaring tale. It is based on an incredible true story of a disenchanted journalist’s odyssey through the hidden streets of Los Angeles, where he discovers and builds a most unlikely friendship with a man from those same streets, bonding though the redemptive power of music.

In “The Soloist,” journalist Steve Lopez (Downey) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives.