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...million in three days of wide release. Analysts credited the decent showing for this odd, no-star drama to a marketing campaign aimed at teen girls. (Think of New Moon but, instead of a dishy vampire, a girl finds Norman Bates.) The other new movie, The Spy Next Door, had Jackie Chan playing a secret agent babysitting three little brats. The PG action comedy was kid-friendly but audience-repellent: it earned a puny $9.7 million in its first three days. (See the top 10 movies...
...Chan's character in The Spy Next Door, has a double life too. He's both Clark Kent - a bespectacled, mild-mannered pen importer in a Western suburb - and Superspy, working for the Chinese and American governments. Now he's received his hardest mission: babysitting the three children of his next-door neighbor and girlfriend (Amber Valletta) when she leaves town to care for her father. "I brought down dictators," Bob says to one of his fellow spies. "How tough can three kids be?" He soon finds out; but what Bob undergoes is a day on the couch compared with...
...guys, expand his audience and give him a dose of humiliation, it pairs him with a kid. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and John Travolta have all endured this mid-career ordeal. Now it's Jackie Chan's turn, in the PG-rated The Spy Next Door. At 55, he is well past his prime as the Hong Kong martial-arts sensation who wowed the world by doing all his own stunts in the Project A, Police Story, Armour of God and Drunken Master franchises, which he parlayed into success in the West with the Rush Hour...
...have naturally rusted with age; now he must rely on his ingratiating good nature and comedic gifts, which he can still display in abundance. That imperishable affability, that eagerness to please his Hollywood bosses, allows Chan to elude many of the indignities thrown his way in The Spy Next Door. It may also be the reason he says yes to a junky movie like this...
China, contending with a huge trade surplus with the U.S., bought more and more Treasury bonds, pushing down yields and making Treasuries less attractive to other foreign investors. As a result, the rising demand for higher yielding U.S. debt opened the door for Wall Street investment bankers to spin out new classes of fixed-income securities, most notably collateralized debt obligations or CDOs. Much of the money raised by those investments was funneled in the mortgage market. That gave lenders the ability to make more loans, allowing more people to buy houses and push up real estate prices. Many...