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...Then again, just because the Vatican has laid hands on Angels & Demons doesn't mean some people don't detect an unholy conspiracy. In the Christian Film and Television Commission's biweekly Movieguide, Ted Baehr wonders, "How much of the box office of Angels & Demons will end up in the Democrat campaigns? If it makes money, it could...
...That's right, Mr. Baehr: Howard and Hanks are tithing to the Democratic Party, which as everyone knows is the political arm of the satanic conspiracy. He might also have mentioned a suspicious bit of numerology: the worldwide box-office gross of The Da Vinci Code, if you subtract what the movie earned in the heathen countries of Japan and China, came to almost exactly... $666 million...
...Because of Versus' limited carriage and penalty-box position on many channel lineups, what should be a transcendent series for hockey in America is barely cracking mainstream consciousness. Versus has carried all of the Penguins-Caps series except for Game 1, which NBC broadcast on May 2, and has averaged 1.04 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Co. The series is drawing a smaller audience than last year's College Baseball World Series, which ESPN broadcast for an average of 1.4 million viewers. On May 8, only 647,000 viewers tuned in to Game 4 of the series, making...
...seeming solution would be to make clear to consumers exactly how much their credit cards are costing them. In fact, over the past few decades, there has been a massive push in that direction, from the Truth in Lending Act to the "Schumer Box," which gives a one-page summary of credit-card terms in a font size dictated by the Federal Government (it needs to be large enough to catch your attention). Credit-card statements that were a page long in the early 1980s now easily run to 30. That's a lot of information. And yet America...
...official estimation of the top 10 finishers, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Star Trek, $72.5 million, first weekend; $76.5 million, four days 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $27 million; $129.6 million in two weeks 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $10.5 million; $30.2 million in two weeks 4. Obsessed, $6.6 million; $56.2 million in three weeks 5. 17 Again, $4.4 million; $54.2 million in four weeks 6. Next Day Air, $4 million, first weekend 7. The Soloist, $3.6 million; $23.5 million in three weeks 8. Monsters vs. Aliens, $3.4 million; $186.9 million in seven weeks 9. Earth, $2.5 million...