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...This year is special - the big three-oh - so the sales pitch is at fever pitch (and that's saying a lot when one considers the marketing schemes in previous years). In addition to an eight-film collection of his early Paramount features, a six-pack of his later MGM movies, and a month of specials on TV Land, Elvis-mongers are offering a colorized silver dollar, "the Elvis Presley 30th Anniversary Silver Eagle 2007," yours for only $39.95;, and an Elvis edition of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups with "a specially formulated peanut butter and banana...
...first weekend, Titanic made about $28 million. Nothing special. It didn't hit $150 million for 14 days, which, considering what Paramount had spent on it, was agonizingly sluggish. It wasn't until two months into the movie's release, when most movies are sputtering out, that Titanic proved its mettle. My Big Fat Greek Wedding started even smaller. Romantic movies don't open well. The one with the highest opening weekend is Will Smith's Hitch, which, at $43 million, is considered an underperformance...
...same-an emotional moment in a presidential quest that few people are taking seriously. Biden has been a U.S. Senator for 35 years. He has the strongest foreign policy credentials of any of the candidates in the field-in a year when such expertise should be paramount. And yet in the latest New Hampshire poll he is rocking along at 3%, the same level as Dennis Kucinich but ahead of Chris Dodd, an equally estimable Senator. Biden raised "only" $2.3 million in the last quarter...
Even beyond this role arranging what must have been lucrative deals for China's "principal players," there's a deeper reason Kissinger enjoys such support from the leadership: he seems to agree with them on the paramount importance of stability. As the author Robert D. Kaplan has suggested, for Kissinger "the key word is 'revolution,' something that [his] experience as a youth [in Nazi Germany], augmented by scholarship, taught him to fear." Deng Xiaoping cleared Tiananmen Square by force in 1989 in part because of vivid memories of the luan, or chaos, caused by rampaging Red Guards; Nazi Brown Shirts...
...talk about the Dangerfieldianism of animation: this movie opened in no theaters; Paramount financed Queer Duck, then denied it a theatrical release and dumped it in video stores. Search...