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...Similarly, the list includes only one solid, medium-budget hit: The Departed, which has taken in more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Among the more specialized fare, Babel, with its complicated structure and polylingual perversity, has totaled only about $24 million in North America but nearly $40 million abroad. Little Miss Sunshine, made for just $8 million, has grossed nearly $60 million at home and $30 million abroad; that's the kind of arithmetic that gets cheers from the Academy (and from Hollywood). The Queen couldn't have cost much more than Sunshine, and it has earned $72 million...
...grosses don't explain why United 93, Paul Greengrass' meticulous, creepy and critically acclaimed 9/11 docudrama, failed to nab a slot. It pulled in a respectful $31.5 million here, $44.1 million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger...
...YANKEES What economists are struggling to predict is how pervasive the impact of this housing slowdown will be on the rest of the U.S. economy, and abroad. Perhaps most surprising, American consumers are continuing to spend, regardless: automobile purchases are sluggish, but retail sales rose by a higher-than-forecast 0.9% in December. "I'm not prepared to bet against the American consumer. That's a highly dangerous proposition," says Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist for Merrill Lynch...
...socialize (phone, Facebook), remember events (photos, video), and work (papers, e-mails) into one dashing unit, the iPhone is set to become the digital incarnation of ourselves. And with it we sacrifice yet another great measure of self-reliance for the convenience of being able to Skype our roommate abroad and watch Scrubs on the same handheld device. The iPhone will become more than the latest accessory of the de facto Ivy League uniform; It will become a requisite for our existence in our world, just as WiFi Internet is now. It will dramatically reshape and speed up society?...
...mails I get that make false/racist views of the war in Iraq and the Muslim community here and abroad aggravate me to no end,” Smith says. “This makes me want to request that they stop sending me e-mails of that nature, but I don’t want to lose my connection with them any more than I already have by coming out to them as a—gasp—liberal...