Jon Stewart got teased by Jennifer Lawrence, and then the usual online sources, for his lack of preparation during his interview with her last week. She was promoting “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” which apparently didn't need much promoting (fourth-best opening weekend ever), but he barely asked any questions about the movie or her character, Katniss Everdeen, or about any future movies she might be in. (Gary Ross is remaking “East of Eden”????) He just showed a picture of a young Helen Mirren and said, “Doesn't that look like you?” Her response? “You are so weird.”

Maybe he didn't think you could ask interesting questions about “The Hunger Games.” But you can. Among them:

• In the movie, Katniss and Peeta are forced to “go on tour” to promote “The Hunger Games.” How much does what you're doing now feel like that?
• The tour in the movie is labeled a distraction by Haymitch, Woody Harrelson's character, so “people forget what the real problems are.” Could you say the same about “The Hunger Games”?
• Who, in “The Hunger Games,” is being targeted for distraction? The people in the Capitol, who don't seem to need distraction? Or the people in the districts, who never seem distracted?
• How did Katniss, such a strong character in the first movie, become a pawn in everyone's game in the second?
• In the movie, Gale says to her, “People are looking to you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.” But doesn't the movie show us that they are brave enough to take it? And that it's your character, Katniss, the supposedly strong one, who is dragging her feet?
• Seriously, don't you look like a young Helen Mirren?

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