| Cleolinda Jones | |
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| Born | December 14, 1978 [1] Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| Pen name | Cleolinda Jones |
| Occupation | Writer, Blogger |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Parody |
| Notable work(s) | Movies in Fifteen Minutes |
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www.cleolinda.com |
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Cleolinda "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]
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]