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...Proposal and The Hangover, held their audiences, losing only 18% and 12% respectively from the previous weekend. Sandra Bullock's comeback film is well past the $100 million mark, and The Hangover is well past $200 million. Whatever reservations you might have about these movies as works of popular art, the numbers are good news, in the blockbuster-dominated summer market, for the little movies that could. (A new romantic comedy, I Love You, Beth Cooper, raised barely a titter, or a Twitter, pulling in just $5 million.) (Bruno and the Rest: See TIME's complete Summer Arts Preview...
...When we meet them, the narrator and her sister are living a pampered life in 1930s Shanghai, modeling for the city's famous "beautiful girl" calendars, which were once sold to tout soap or cigarettes and now are popular collectibles. But by the end, they have had to contend with everything from Chinese mobsters and brutal Japanese soldiers to bigoted immigration officials and a rigid father...
...China (while still enjoying the comforts of home) and Chinese could go to get a sense of the mysterious West (without leaving their native land). And go there many did. Some in person but more as armchair travelers, for old Shanghai was then what it is again now: a popular place to set films and novels...
Issuing an alternative currency is perfectly legal, as long as it is treated as taxable income and consists of paper bills rather than coins. In the U.S., where local currencies were popular during the Depression, the biggest alterna-cash system is in Massachusetts' Berkshire County. Go to one of several banks there, hand a teller $95 and get back $100 worth of BerkShares, a nice little discount designed to reel in users. BerkShares are printed on special paper (by a local business, naturally--a subsidiary of Crane Paper Co., which has been printing U.S. greenbacks since 1879). And since...
...know a woman--let's call her "my wife"--who swears by Spanx, special "body shaping" undergarments that magically hide her modest bulges. These New Age girdles are hugely popular with many women, but Spanx for dudes? I'd rather get a stomach staple. (See pictures of the latest mancessories...