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...most industry expectations for an R-rated provocation whose star was unknown to the mass audience until his Borat became a surprise hit in 2006, earning more than $260 million at theaters worldwide on an $18 million budget. Yet Brüno's box-office decline from Friday to Saturday indicates that the film's brand of outrage was not the sort to please most moviegoers - and that their tut-tutting got around fast. Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect. (See pictures of Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous Brüno promotions...
...that optimism: Brüno amassed a sensational $14.4 million. But the movie plummeted nearly 40% its second day, to $8.8 million. Meanwhile, the next five movies on the chart - Ice Age 3, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, The Proposal and The Hangover - all saw substantial increases from Friday to Saturday. (Ice Age actually did better business than Brüno on Saturday.) Worse yet, Brüno's rating by CinemaScore, which polls moviegoers just after they've seen a film, was a C. That pretty much stands for Calamitous...
...there is no single agency, government or independent, that keeps up-to-date records of how many human bodies are buried or cremated on a cemetery's grounds or the names of the buried. It isn't even clear how many plots have been sold at Burr Oak; on Saturday, officials put the figure at roughly 100,000. Many of the records - including maps to eight of the cemetery's 10 sections - appear to have been intentionally destroyed. There is also no standard process of checking the backgrounds of cemetery workers...
American leaders usually speak of Africa in the abstract, as a problem in need of solution: a place of epidemic, hunger, genocide or coup d'etat. On Saturday, Barack Obama, the first U.S. president of African descent, came to Ghana to speak about the continent in the personal and the particular, as his own ancestral homeland for which he now offered a vision. (See TIME's photos of Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
...Back in Hamburg, the traffic lights are flashing red, green and yellow again, fed by coal and gas plants. The incident on Saturday was strike two for Krümmel, which had reopened only last month following a two-year shutdown after a transformer caught fire in 2007. Officials at operator Vatenfall Europe say Krümmel will stay offline for "several months" until they figure out what caused the latest short circuit. Whether Germany will pull the plug on the nuclear plant for good is up to the voters in September...