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...hours to a week and a half on each creation. There's no blog-to-book deal in progress just yet, but Begay is selling prints of her works and plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an illustrator. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...like a lion. On a weekend when all movie eyes are peeled for tonight's Oscar ceremony, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, demolished early-year records with a $116.3 million opening for three days at North American theaters, according to studio estimates...
...bigger than Avatar, which took in $77 million its first weekend last December. Alice made its big bucks the same way: it took the pill that makes you larger and went wide in 3-D. Of its 3,728 North American venues, 2,063 were on 3D screens, plus another 180 in Imax 3-D. So Alice topped Avatar as the all-time biggest opener in the stereoptic format. "It also shattered Avatar's recently set IMAX record," the industry web site The Wrap reported, "selling out each of the 188 digital 3-D outlets...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com...
...central government. Allawi's coalition is billing itself as a more secular alternative to the current government, and draws more support from Sunni groups, who are going to play a more significant role in this election than in 2005, when they boycotted the political process in protest of the American occupation. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...