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...Leap Year, the widely reviled rom-com that sends Amy Adams to Ireland to find true love and get very wet and muddy. Leap Year took in $9.2 million. The direct competition for Adams, who played Julie in Julie & Julia, was in another romantic comedy about a woman who must choose between her old beau and a newcomer: It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep (Julia in Julie & Julia). That one grossed $11 million in its third weekend. (See what we learned from a decade at the movies...
...Hollywood, winners and losers are relative: the money earned at the box office must be matched against money spent on production. It's Complicated had a hefty $85 million budget; Leap Year cost just $19 million to make; Youth in Revolt, $18 million. All three will have to scramble to break even. In the bang-for-a-buck category, the phenomenon remains The Blind Side, the sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time...
Although firmly atop the chess rankings, thanks in part to his victory in London, Carlsen must now fight his way through a series of qualifying competitions in order to earn a chance to play for the world-championship title - the game's highest prize, which is contested every two or three years. His father says he is more concerned about "whether chess will make him a happy person." It seems to be doing just that. "I love the game. I love to compete," Carlsen says. Asked how long he will continue to enjoy chess and where the game will take...
...first Latin American metropolis to vote to legalize same-sex marriage, two Argentines led the charge to the altar. On Dec. 28, Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre became the first gay couple in Latin America to wed. Because Argentina's constitution does not declare that marriage must be between a man and a woman, the men asked for and were granted special permission from the governor of the southern province of Tierra del Fuego, to which they traveled to be pronounced husband and husband...
...that singularly mysterious visage everything from a cross-dressing self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci to the knowing glance of an unfaithful wife to the satisfied pride of a pregnant woman. Bob Dylan once even offered up a very 20th century American conclusion on the matter: "Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues." (See pictures of the Louvre in Paris...