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Jennifer Lawrence wins 'Hunger Games' on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'
Published: 3/22/2012 8:26 AM
Last Modified: 3/22/2012 8:30 AM


Jennifer Lawrence portrays Katniss Everdeen in a scene from "The Hunger Games," opening in more than 4,000 theaters Friday. AP PHOTO/Lionsgate, Murray Close

Jennifer Lawrence, the 21-year-old star of "The Hunger Games" film visited "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday and was challenged to compete in his version of the games. One a bit different than the to-the-death finish depicted in the wildly popular novels by Suzanne Collins and the uber-anticipated movie premiering at midnight tonight.

Fallon challenged her to a random object three-point shootout with a basketball hoop. A shootout that involved a mannequin head with hair, a plastic slinky "fun for boys and girls", a McDonald's Shamrock shake, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a bow. Each took turns trying to get the items through a basketball hoop at the side of the stage.

Show host Fallon got onto the star when she tried to toss the items out of order.

"Back off," she fired back at him.

Lawrence had the best squat throw technique for the bucket o'chicken toss – which she declared "such a waste." She got her first point with her shammy shake shot but Fallon fought back and tied up the games with his own shammy bucket.

But it was the bow - as in bow and arrow that her character Katniss is famous for using in the books and the film - toss that won her the hunger games. Her bow straddled the hoop long enough to count as a 3-pointer and was declared the winning shot.

“I took that so seriously,” she said, laughing.




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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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