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...holds his cards close to his vest and knows just when to play them. His timing is impeccable, his negotiating skills unbeatable. A man of few hobbies - hiking, B movies and books - he loves to play hardball buying cars. His bargaining skills are so legion that a car salesman asked him, "Where the hell'd you learn to negotiate?" Gates replied, "I had a lot of practice with the Soviets," allowing an example of Washington bravado to leak from his lips. Negotiating what he wants in the corridors of power - no one does it better, say his friends...
...Avatar, $30 million; $594.5 million, seventh week 2. Edge of Darkness, $17.1 million, first weekend 3. When in Rome, $12.1 million, first weekend 4. Tooth Fairy, $10 million; $26.1 million, second week 5. The Book of Eli, $8.8 million; $74.4 million, third week 6. Legion, $6.8 million; $28.6 million, second week 7. The Lovely Bones, $4.7 million; $38 million, eighth week 8. Sherlock Holmes, $4.5 million; $197.6 million, sixth week 9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $4 million; $209.3 million, sixth week 10. It's Complicated, $3.7 million; $104 million, sixth week...
...Another week, another record-shattering performance by Avatar. According to early studio estimates, the James Cameron enviro-war fantasy won the weekend with $36 million, nearly double the take of its nearest competitor, the sci-fi epic Legion. In its sixth week out of the chute, Avatar made more money, way more, than any picture on the post-Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, and almost all of those films were in their first days of release. (See the top 10 James Cameron moments...
...also-ran sweepstakes, the debut of Legion edged out another battle of angels and devils, The Book of Eli, $18.2 million to $17 million. The Tooth Fairy, a PG comedy starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson as a killer hockey player consigned to putting cash under kids' pillows, finished a close fourth with $14.5 million. The other new release, Extraordinary Measures, with Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, earned less than half that. This true-life story, of a father's quest to find a treatment for his two dying children, was the first theatrical feature from CBS Films. Audiences took...
...Avatar, $36 million; $552.8 million, sixth week 2. Legion, $18.2 million, first weekend 3. The Book of Eli, $17 million; $62 million, second week 4. The Tooth Fairy, $14.5 million, first weekend 5. The Lovely Bones, $8.8 million; $31.6 million, seventh week 6. Sherlock Holmes, $7.1 million; $191.6 million, fifth week 7. Extraordinary Measures, $7 million, first weekend 8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $6.5 million; $204.2 million, fifth week 9. It's Complicated, $6.2 million; $98.7 million, fifth week 10. The Spy Next Door, $4.8 million; $18.7 million, second week...