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...people's entertainment; Hollywood exists to give its vast audience instant gratification, to have enough screens for all the masses to attend the big new movie on its opening weekend, in its optimum format. You want to see the new hit film? No problem. Theater exhibitors will increase the number of screens showing it. Buy a ticket and walk...
...Paramount did manage to extract a promise from exhibitors that the number of 3-D screens would hold for two weeks. This put a serious crimp in the release of Clash of the Titans, whose opening was delayed a week, both to complete the film's reformatting in 3-D and to secure more venues that could show it in that format. Clash opens Friday on about 1,500 3-D screens and 2,000 2-Ds. Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend...
...plan goes ahead, students will be required to update a non-binding course planning tool before the start of each semester. This information will then be used by teaching fellows, professors, and administrators to more accurately predict important numbers such as class size and number of teaching staff to hire, according to Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris...
...name. They ended up using the gender-neutral “Zane” to refer to me to avoid giving the secret away, and it stuck for the duration. “Zane” was also a family name, belonging to a female relative from a disputed number of generations before...
...course, there’s gender confusion. While Zane may never crack the top 1,000 baby names for girls, it was number 235 for boys in 2008. Naturally, my frequent e-mail communication with non-acquaintances has led to numerous misunderstandings and the incorrect assumption that my cells are sporting a Y chromosome. Last spring, frustrated, I wrote to “Dear Abby” asking if there was a polite way to correct this mistake, but I ended up foregoing her advice to sign all my e-mails with...