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...road-movie comedy about the old man and a kid battles the road-movie comedy with three men and a baby for weekend supremacy, the road-movie comedy about a scientist dousing himself in dinosaur urine is news for what it didn't achieve. Ferrell, the one familiar star name among the leads in the week's big movies, promoted his film on nearly every media outlet. (Helms told his tooth story on the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.) Yet Land of the Lost was creamed by movies whose top-billed actors are Ed Asner...
...mentioned this to the makers of his new movie, The Hangover, and they built a subplot around it, making Helms's character a dentist who, in a gesture of drunken machismo, pulls out his own tooth. That's just one element of serendipity that helped The Hangover - a no-star farce about three guys who lose their best friend on a Vegas toot - break the bank at this weekend's box office. Two other lucky breaks: the recent absence of R-rated guys-only comedies, and the odd inability of Will Ferrell to hold onto the mass audience...
...Since establishing his star status in 2003 with the Christmas comedy Elf, Ferrell has had an up-and-down relationship with audiences: they go, then they don't go. Hits like Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory and Step Brothers, all of which earned more than $100 million at the North American box office, are sandwiched by underachievers like Kicking and Screaming, Stranger Than Fiction and Semi-Pro, all of which took in less than $60 million...
...million; $137.6 million, second week 2. The Hangover, $43.3 million, first weekend 3. Land of the Lost, $19.5 million, first weekend 4. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $14.6 million; $127.3 million, third weekend 5. Star Trek, $8.4 million: $222.8 million, fifth week 6. Terminator Salvation, $8.2 million; $105.5 million, third weekend 7. Drag Me to Hell, $7.3 million; $28.5 million, second weekend 8. Angels & Demons, $6.5 million; $116.1 million, fourth week 9. My Life in Ruins, $3.2 million, first weekend 10. Dance Flick, $2 million; $22.7 million, third week...
...five flagpoles that stand in front of the Star Ferry terminal at the tip of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong have long been a popular meeting place. It was at this familiar spot 20 years ago that democracy advocates sold commemorative items to raise money for the victims of the June 4 crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. I bought one: a four-inch plastic replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that had been erected at the square. For a 9-year-old trying to make sense of the world, that keepsake was a concrete link...