Hunger games

• New York has hunger fever — and things will only get hotter.
(New York Daily News)
• Its a best-selling book series, billed as a potential heir to the Twilight throne of young-adult powerhouses, and its upcoming movie release is attracting worldwide attention.
(Seattle Times)
• Amanda Fraass, 18, of South Amboy, N.J.
(New York Times)
• Legions of loyal teen fans lined up outside the Barnes Noble in Union Square on Tuesday, eager for their golden chance to get a peak at the stars of The Hunger Games who are scheduled to make an appearance at the bookstore at 8PM.
(Huffington Post)
• Australian heartthrob Liam Hemsworth has landed his biggest role yet in "The Hunger Games," playing Gale Hawthorne, the best friend and hunting partner of Katniss Everdeen in District 12 in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem.
(ABC News)
• The golden image of a bird that graces the book cover of The Hunger Games - and now is captured in the movie - is as elegant, haunting, and psychologically nuanced as the book itself. The ternlike creature is a mockingjay, in Hunger Games parlance.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• Perfection is a hard thing to achieve as a film. By perfection, I am talking about a movie grading out at 100% on film critic website Rotten Tomatoes.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Making a hit movie on a budget is as hard as Hollywood makes it look.
(Huffington Post)
• The hypocrisy at the heart of The Hunger Games is irresistible. Novelist Suzanne Collins, whose trilogy has been decreed awesome by, among others, my 5th grade son, indicts violence and organized brutality as tools of mass-audience manipulation.
(Chicago Tribune)