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...other new releases fell below even Surrogates' wan totals. Dennis Quaid flopped with Pandorum ($4.4 million), yet another sci-fi movie starring an actor in his mid-50s. Nor is the remake of Fame gonna live forever: its third-place finish of $10 million was one more underperformer. Among the holdovers, only Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself showed any staying power. The Jennifer Aniston romance ($4.3 million) was a box-office wallflower. And how lifeless is the femme horror comedy Jennifer's Body ($3.5 million)? In her host monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend...
...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $24.6 million; $60 million, second week 2. Surrogates, $15 million, first weekend 3. Fame, $10 million, first weekend 4. The Informant!, $6.9 million; $21 million, second week 5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, $4.8 million; $44.5 million, third week 6. Pandorum, $4.4 million, first weekend 7. Love Happens, $4.3 million; $14.7 million, second week 8. Jennifer's Body, $3.5 million; $12.3 million, second week 9. 9, $2.8 million; $27.1 million, third week 10. Inglourious Basterds, $2.7 million; $114.5 million, sixth week...
...fall of Kwame Kilpatrick, whose promising political career was dashed in a sex-text-messaging scandal that led to a conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now Bing, 65, is facing a Nov. 3 election for a full term. To most Detroiters, Bing - despite his basketball fame - often seems a remote, unknowable figure, and the feeling is mutual. He only recently bought a home in the city and still maintains one in an affluent Detroit suburb. To date, he has declined to use Detroit's mayoral mansion. (See pictures of the decline of Detroit...
...Thassa suffers from this genetic predisposition to happiness, she becomes an overnight Internet celebrity. The book charts Thassa’s rise through the blogosphere all the way up to “The Oona Show” (a fictional analog for Oprah), until she reaches a level of fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical—standpoint...
...obsession extends beyond the realm of football; he’s created a lifestyle of blithe immobility and self-neglect on which he refuses to loosen his grip. Even his most immature moments—yelling at his mother for interrupting his 15 seconds of radio fame, scarfing down Chinese food and Mountain Dew until his head aches—act as part of a system Paul has developed for himself to resist his increasingly evident lack of a career or family. On a boring night out with friend and fellow Giants fanatic Sal (Kevin Corrigan), Paul happens...