"I have found this an incredibly moving trip in a lot of ways," she said aboard Air Force One en route from South Africa to Uganda on Friday.
It's funny, true and spot-on and climaxes with a moving trip to London where they all go to a museum and see masterpieces for the first time.
But Mrs. Obama has managed to make her "eat your peas" message painless and even occasionally joyful, hamming it up through a three-day, four-state tour to mark the second anniversary of her childhood anti-obesity campaign, "Let's Move!" The trip is a timely reminder of why the Obama campaign views her as such a potent weapon.
As I walked up the steps to the podium, I kept my eyes focused on the stairs, hoping I wouldn't pull a Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar's Night move and trip on the way up.
Canned or fresh corn is a much relished treat, and can be used to great advantage to get your chickens to go where you want them to (such as into a travel kennel where they can be contained for whatever purpose, be it a move, a trip to the vet, or something as simple as reaching through the bars to put Vaseline on their combs and wattles).
They are always on the move: endless trips in cars, in vans and on bikes.
And then you move on, tripping from the shiny android future of "Innocence" to the sumptuous ninth-century pageantry of "House of Flying Daggers," from high-rise loneliness to rural poverty, all without leaving either Southern France or East Asia.
To make a good estimate with the inauguration, one would have to know how many people were planning to come to Washington anyway but moved their trip to January instead of April.
The film is not about Kingsley's character, but rather a funny and surprisingly moving road trip movie about a teenage boy who longs to hold onto the memory of his deceased mother through their shared hobby: birding.
