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...will Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, a potential-breakout romance that won a sheaf of favorable reviews and has an actual movie star, Ben Stiller, in the title role; it took in $1.1 million on 181 screens. The Runaways, starring Dakota Fanning and Twilight's Kristen Stewart, is already DOA after two weeks. About as close as a non-Hollywood film can get to hit status is the $9.2 million cadged so far by Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, which has had great word of mouth from most of those who've seen it - but not nearly enough have seen...
Wunderman had totally convinced me of his plan's merit until he told me the new constitution wasn't really going to get rid of initiatives. "If you tried to eliminate the initiative process, it would be DOA. We suggest you require that initiatives have to identify their funding source." I had never wanted Dick Cheney to take over an organization before...
...century old, and famous for attracting the senior set for 10 a.m. powwows over coffee. Saturday Night Live recently skewered the chain's reputation with this doozy from "Weekend Update" comedian Seth Meyers: "The director of Iowa's Department of Aging said he will not use the abbreviation DOA, since it is also code for 'Dead on Arrival.' Some are suggesting that the Department of Aging go back to its original name, Denny...
...senior economic officials in the new Administration have made it plain that they have little use for SEDs. Some view them as pointless, time-consuming gabfests that accomplished little from the U.S. perspective (which is exactly why the Chinese loved them). For the Obama crowd, the SEDs may be DOA, though one senior official tells TIME that there will no doubt be some other configuration for Cabinet-level talks between Beijing and Washington...
...After the vote, the House adjourned, with aides saying that House members will return next week if the Senate can come to an agreement. But such an accord will not come easy. In fact, the House bill was pronounced DOA in the Senate six hours before the House even voted on it. Senate Republicans are balking at a deal they claim does not go far enough in demanding that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler prove they have viable long-term business plans before qualifying for a second round of loans in March. All told, the Big Three have asked...