Word: starring
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...fork). Suddenly, keyboard cat started popping up all over YouTube. People attached the cat to the end of already popular videos - like this and this. Someone even started a website that would attach the keyboard cat to a video of one's choosing. The musical feline had become a star, and Johnson decided to aggregate its videos on a blog. People made requests and submitted their own mash-ups. Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat is barely a month old, but it already has has over 30 videos and gets about 20,000 hits...
...political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews of the original Star Trek TV series, season by season...
Orci and Kurtzman managed this by making Star Trek a standard revenge epic, as punk rebel James Kirk becomes a man by chasing down Nero, the renegade Romulan who killed his father at the very moment James was born. (In the inevitable sequel, will Kirk find out that Nero is his real father?) For the first third of the movie, James is a budding sociopath; as a kid he steals a car and, when pursued by a cop, nearly drives it over a cliff; later he picks bar brawls with packs of space studs. Anger management was not a major...
...that's the fun of spinning an origins story; the writers can improvise the itinerary as long as they reach a plausible destination - one that folds into the beginning of the first show of the first season of the original Star Trek. From the rapt response of Trekkies, critics and this weekend's customers, that journey could be long and prosperous...
...official estimation of the top 10 finishers, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Star Trek, $72.5 million, first weekend; $76.5 million, four days 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $27 million; $129.6 million in two weeks 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $10.5 million; $30.2 million in two weeks 4. Obsessed, $6.6 million; $56.2 million in three weeks 5. 17 Again, $4.4 million; $54.2 million in four weeks 6. Next Day Air, $4 million, first weekend 7. The Soloist, $3.6 million; $23.5 million in three weeks 8. Monsters vs. Aliens, $3.4 million; $186.9 million in seven weeks 9. Earth, $2.5 million...