BY JOE TYRRELL
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
MOVIE REVIEW
Nothing whitens like Hollywood!
Like most of her neighbors in the coal patch of post-Apocalyptic America, Katniss Everdeen is described in Suzanne Collins "The Hunger Games" as having straight black hair, olive skin and gray eyes, as well as being small-average in stature.
So who better to play the mixed-race heroine then a statuesque 5'-8" blue-eyed blonde?
Fortunately for racial revisionists everywhere, the talented Jennifer Lawrence is the blonde in question, seen in brown hair in the smallest of nods to the literary Katniss. It's a role that Lawrence essentially has played before to great acclaim, as the hardscrabble teen supporting her family while searching the Ozarks for her missing father in "Winter's Bone."
Lawrence is more than up to the task of bringing to life a brave, resourceful — if not entirely likable — heroine in the dystopic setting of teens battling to the death for civic pride, or at least decent rations.
