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...Cannes' marquee genre item was X-Men The Last Stand, which after its Cannes world premiere opens today on 3,688 North American screens. Gitesh Pandya of Box Office Guru predicts this third installment of the X-Men franchise will rake in $108 million over the four-day Memorial weekend...
...Retirees, especially the snowbirds who winter in South Texas and Arizona, have turned Mexican towns like Nuevo Progreso (pop. 9,125; dentists, 70), in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Los Algodones (pop. 15,000; doctors and dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers, Health Net and Blue Shield, for the past few years have marketed popular health-insurance plans, aimed at Latinos...
Make a little extra dough through the Harvard Business School’s Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Just go to www.hbs.edu/cler, and you can rake in an average of $20-$25 per completed study, which will put a bit more heft in your pocket than the Psych Department’s Study Pool that only offers $5 for a 30-minute study. Plus, no creepy questions about your sex life. Sweet...
...actions in the film. Brody, the quirky yet strangely attractive teenager from “The O.C.,” was infamous for ad-libbing. One of his funniest lines from the movie, “Keep on rakin’... the sand’s not gonna rake itself,” was his own invention. With Reitman’s obvious enthusiasm for A-lister stars, he may stick around Hollywood for a long time. —Staff writer Erin A. May can be reached at emay@fas.harvard.edu...
...despite the obstacles, Hanley trusts he’ll do the impossible: rake in roughly $25,000 from "Chicago," and donate the funds to the Office for the Arts at Harvard, as an endowment for House drama productions...