First, literature:
Make Him Look Good by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
I’ve read two other books by this author–The Dirty Girls Social Club and Playing With Boys. All three are basic chic-lit with a Latino twist, but MHLG was by far the best. Set in Miami and featuring, among other things, a bikini-wearing dog, vivid descriptions of couture, a romantically and professionally aggressive (and hairy-moled) lesbian journalist, a less-than-well-endowed male whore of a pop icon, a cat who sees dead people, and corruption and redemption of innocent characters, it all wraps up nicely with a tidy feel-good conclusion.
And for cinema:
Stick It as featured on the ABC Family network
This looks like a made-for-TV movie, and I only saw a little snippet of it near the end. That small segment was enough to sell me on it. In short, a bunch of sassy gymnasts protest the judges’ harsh scoring of one of the competitors due to an errant bra strap flash. Highly entertaining. The movie begins with one of the girls’ hard knock life issues being solved by a court order to return gymnastics school as punishment for some sort of criminal act. I know because, as I write this, it happens to be coming on again and I will now be watching from the beginning. I can already tell I’ll probably want to own this one. Bonus: lots of sassy music too.
