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Brothers was the weekend's prestige item: a family drama starring Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire), a Star Wars princess (Natalie Portman) and the surviving dude from Brokeback Mountain (Jake Gyllenhaal). Big stars when they're in big movies, the trio will have a tougher time selling this honorable tale of war and woe; Brothers finished third with $9.7 million. Three slots further down, the heist film Armored swiped $6.6 million, or less than a sixth of the amount the guys in the movie are stealing. That's pretty feeble for the week's only new action film, whose low-wattage...
...million. The Jason Reitman comedy-drama, starring George Clooney as a charming, rootless management consultant who flies around the country firing people, was deemed a front runner for the Best Picture Oscar after its premieres at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. The National Board of Review, the first big group to announce its year-end awards, showered Up in the Air with four major laurels: best film, actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay. The picture, which comes to your neighborhood on Christmas Day, nudged two other Clooney movies, Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Men Who Stare...
...those life-changing books," says Erik Knutzen, 44, an eco-blogger in Los Angeles. "You read it, and the lightbulb just goes on." Now he eschews his porcelain potty for a big bucket with a toilet seat. He "flushes" by tossing in a scoop of sawdust, which not only neutralizes smells but also helps speed the breakdown of material for compost. Like many back-to-basics sophisticates, he believes Jenkins' humanure system is more sanitary and more rational than the conventional alternative. "Human waste is a perfectly good source of an important resource, nitrogen," Knutzen observes. "Water is a valuable...
Ruhab Zehra Zaidi, the 13-year-old sister of Sarim Zaidi, says she's very scared at the Islamabad Model College for Girls and finds it hard to study her favorite subject, math. "Anything can happen at any time," she says, her big eyes widening further. "This disturbs my studies very much." "I am upset about all this terrorism," says Hamza Baig with intensity. The teenager from the Overseas boys college wants to make sure his words are clear: "We feel very scared when going to school, thinking today may be our last." Like many students, Baig stayed home...
...Manila's Tondo port area, is placing second. Behind him is ousted former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada. He was convicted on corruption charges in 2007, sentenced to life imprisonment and then pardoned by current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The 72-year-old actor - who is back on the big screen now in a comedy playing a bus driver - still counts the masses as his support base. But it is unlikely that they will vote for him in quite the same numbers as in his win in 1988, and the constitutionality of a former president running again will likely be challenged...