Word: playful
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...Battling Mickey's kids and the monsters was Russell Crowe, whose sex-politics-and-espionage thriller State of Play, based on the compulsively-watchable BBC series, took in $14.1 million in its opening weekend. The other new wide release, which will end up sixth overall, was Crank: High Voltage, with B-movie Brit Brillo pad Jason Statham reprising his role from the 2006 Crank as a hit man who'll die if he slows down. Sort of like Speed, only instead of a grimy bus, it's a Limey cuss. Crank 2's haul was a demure $6.5 million...
...spend time on his Australian farm with his wife and son, Crowe has had mixed results as a box-office lure. American Gangster, where he was second-billed to Denzel Washington, was a hit; Body of Lies, with Crowe supporting Leonardo Di Caprio, was a flop. State of Play (a flat, unenticing title for what means to be a smart, pounding thriller) may have one of those twisty plots that mass audiences think will make their heads hurt; they'll watch it in a few months at home...
...Again, $24.1 million, first weekend 2. State of Play, $14.1 million, first weekend 3. Monsters vs. Aliens, $12.9 million; $162.7 million in 24 days 4. Hannah Montana: The Movie, $12.7 million; $56.1 million in 10 days 5. Fast & Furious, $12.3 million; $136.7 million in 17 days 6. Crank: High Voltage, $6.5 million, first weekend 7. Observe and Report, $4.1 million; $18.7 million in 10 days 8. Knowing, $3.5 million; $73.7 million in 31 days 9. I Love You, Man, $3.4 million; $64.7 million in 31 days 10. The Haunting in Connecticut, $3.2 million; $51.9 million in 24 days
...Crimson (4-10, 1-5) in Cambridge, and both teams opened the game in a defensive mindset, not wanting to concede anything en route to a 4-4 halftime deadlock. Harvard opened the scoring when Flood found freshman Katie Doherty who sent one through the pipes 3:25 into play. Columbia rebounded less than a minute later to tie the game at 1-1. Freshman Tyler Petropulous and sophomore Jess Halpern both scored unassisted goals over the next three minutes to give the Crimson a 3-1 advantage with just over 23 minutes remaining in the first period. The Lions...
...that digging the country out of its economic sinkhole has become an issue of national security, the feds are straining to play catch-up. FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress last month that his agents are currently working more than 2,000 mortgage fraud investigations, compared to only 295 in 2003. "We still have a substantial way to go" in terms of shifting enough agents to those cases, Mueller said. Of the FBI's 56 field offices, more than 40 now have mortgage-fraud task forces. In Florida's Tampa-based Middle District, as many as 50 agents have been...