cinematic roots of: ‘Eat Pray Love’

In *Eat Pray Love,* Julia Roberts’s newly divorced writer travels to Rome, India, and Bali in order to figure out who she is and what she wants from life, and creating her own family of friends along the way. This flick sprang from (among other films)…

gee, and Hollywood is usually so respectful of the spiritual

“Is ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Selling Out?” PopEater wants to know. It answers this question by looking at the film’s “merchandising plan.” I think it’s safe to say that any book-turned-movie that has a “merchandising plan” can be said to have sold out. Especially a nonfiction book about a well-off white lady who leaves her comfortable … more…