The Reporter • October 201112 (entertainment)

hall talkWhich is better:

Coke or Pepsi?““Coke. Pepsi is sweet and Coke is carbonated awe-someness and it’s like yeah!”-Bradford Deyoung,

sophomore

“I like Coke because it’s logo is just so much better, and I just like it better.”

-Mollie Hart, junior

“Coke, it’s sweeter.”

-Lindsey Shirk, senior

“Coke, I don’t know why.”

-Phillip Shackleford, freshman

Past trends at Paola High School have consisted of silly bands, and D.C. shoes. This year, its feathers in the hair.

Sunrayz Tannery stylist, Jenny Chadwick said she was one of the first in Paola to wear feathers in her hair. She had visited relatives who wore the feathers, liked them, and bought some for herself. When working at the salon, her clients began to ask for feathers as well.

Chadwick says that Sunrayz Tannery has sold over five hundred feathers to more than two hundred and seventy five people. Feathers cost ten dollars and can come in a variety of colors including pink, yellow, or-ange, green, and blue.

Madison Auten, sophomore, said “(I wanted feath-ers) because they were in style.”

This is an accurate statement for most people who get feathers. Not everyone gets feathers for the same reasons though.

“I wanted feathers because they’re trendy and I wanted individuality,” said Jessi Phillips, sophomore. Phillips has had hers for three months. “You wash your hair like you normally would, and I usually straighten it. But don’t catch the clamp when brushing your hair, it’ll hurt and the feathers may come out.”

Christian Peuser, sophomore, has a different point of view on the subject; he thinks the feathers are a waste of money.

“I don’t really see how it makes them look any bet-ter,” said Peuser.

C elebrities, such as Stephen Tyler, a judge on the TV show American Idol started this trend.

Getting feathers put into your hair can be a great way to express yourself, not only does it help show in-

dividuality, but they can easily be taken out when you get tired of them.

“Mine lasted two months before falling out,” said Auten. “They were not worth the $9.00 because they didn’t last very long, and I can’t wear them for sports.”

There are many different ways to express your individuality, and creativity. But you will be the one deciding how to do that.

for feathers

katey colwell reporter

Hair accessory becomes fashion trend

Falling

Nikki Harrison, senior

Moneyball is an entertaining movie for everyone, even those who know nothing about baseball. The movie thrives on the witty banter between Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), a former major leaguer and frustrated GM of the Oakland Athletics, and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an Ivy League graduate with a degree in economics. At times the conversations be-come strictly baseball and will lose some people, it even lost me once, but the intrigue to the story is still there. Moneyball is about the 2002 Oakland A’s, which has the tough

task of replacing its three super-stars, Johnny Damon, Jason Gi-ambi and Jason Isringhausen, to teams willing to pay them more. As Beane sets out to rebuild the team he faces the challenge of making a competitive team with one of the smallest budgets in baseball. “There are rich teams, there are poor teams, there’s 50 feet of crap and then there’s us,” Beane said in reference to his team’s budget. Beane goes to Cleveland in an attempt to make a trade to rebuild the team. During the trade negotia-tions, Beane notices a quiet man in the corner, Peter Brand, who makes sugges-tions that shut down every trade Beane attempts. After the negotia-tions fail, Beane finds Brand and asks him what he said that stopped

the trades. Brand says he just saw players who played above what they were valued at. After the talk with Brand, Beane hires Brand because of his new technique fo-cusing on buying wins instead of superstars to lead the team. Moneyball refers to Brand and Beane’s system of replacing su-perstars with undervalued players they can find to stay competitive with teams that have much higher budgets. Unfortunately the movie skipped over the players (Barry Zito, Miguel Tejada and Billy Koch) who had a breakout out year and went on to be All-Stars after the 2002 season. The movie did hold my attention with the occasional real-life foot-age of the A’s run in 2002 and the

dramatized baseball games. Pitt does a good job of portray-ing a failed baseball player and GM struggling to compete. Pitt was really convincing when he goes through multiple phone calls manipulating teams so he can gain the player he wants near the trade deadline. Hill played the same role he is usually cast for, the person who is present and only adds a line or two here or there with one major mo-ment of dialogue. This is a good part for him because he is really good at adding one-liners and just being a friendly face in the harsh realm of the inner workings of a major league ball club. The rest of the cast was pretty mundane with very few other parts that contributed heavily to the

movie. The only other part worth mentioning was that of A’s man-ager Art Howe played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman which in and of itself really doesn’t add a ton to the story Movies are not often made about a team that doesn’t win the cham-pionship, but Moneyball is one of them. Even though Beane doesn’t lead the team to a championship, he ends up a winner because he made a winning team from players that no one wants. The process of Moneyball is still used today and has taken teams with small bud-gets like the Tampa Bay Rays and the Florida Marlins to World Se-ries appearances. This movie has something for everyone, hence the reason Brad Pitt was hired for the part of Billy Beane.

Moneyball doesn’t quite cash in review

caleb hecker sports editor

Compiled by Jenna Ratzlaff