- Cleolinda Jones
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Cleolinda Jones Born December 14, 1978 [1]
Birmingham, Alabama, USAPen name Cleolinda Jones Occupation Writer,
BloggerNationality American Genres Parody Notable work(s) Movies in Fifteen Minutes
cleolinda.comCleolinda "Cleo" Jones is an American writer and blogger. She is the author of the Movies in Fifteen Minutes series of film parodies, which have a large cult following on the internet.[2]
Jones currently lives in Birmingham, where she is a post-graduate student.[3]
Published works
In 2005, Orion Books published Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Hollywood Blockbusters for People Who Can't Be Bothered, a collection of more parodies by Jones.[4] The book has also been published abroad as Cut: Movies in Fifteen Minutes, but has yet to be published in Jones' native United States.
Movies in Fifteen Minutes was praised for being "hilarious - but [also intelligent;] it's the pretensions of James Cameron and Mel Gibson [that Jones] is mocking, not Dickens and Shakespeare."[5]
Jones's recaps of Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight series, were heavily referenced in a blog posting in New York Magazine.[6]
Jones's blog was quoted in the MSNBC article "A beginner's guide to 'Twilight' - How to pretend like you know what your teenage daughter is talking about," a commentary written by Dave White.[7]
External links
- Cleolinda.com, Jones' official website
References
- ^ Jones, Cleolinda - Profile
- ^ Urban Dictionary, Cleolinda Jones
- ^ Orion Books - Authors: Cleolinda Jones
- ^ Davies, Sue - Movies In Fifteen Minutes by Cleolinda Jones (1 June 2006)
- ^ Conrad, Peter - Tiny things, tiny minds, The Guardian (13 November 2005)
- ^ http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/08/did_breaking_dawn_ruin_the_twi.html, 8/5/08
- ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27788655/, 11/18/08
Categories:- American bloggers
- People from Birmingham, Alabama
- 1978 births
- American humorists
- American satirists
- Living people
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