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...Saturday, Aug. 1, and is expected to finish the weekend at $23.4 million. The good news for Apatow and his long-ago roomie Adam Sandler is that their film topped the weekend box office at domestic theaters. The bad news ... Where to begin? Funny People cadged the lowest take for any No. 1 film this year. Not just in the prime-time summer months - we're talking January too. It was also Sandler's poorest opener in five years, since Spanglish. And it earned a B-, or barely passing, from the Cinemascore poll of people who'd seen the movie...
...This year's total theatrical revenue is still about 10% higher than last year's at the same time, and attendance is up nearly 8%, but the box office is slumping fast. This weekend's take is expected to be down 25% from the same frame last year, when the top four movies (The Dark Knight, The Mummy 3, Step Brothers and Mamma Mia!) grossed more than the top 10 this weekend. The studios front-loaded their prime merchandise, and now the shelves are getting bare. Note to moguls: Summer usually lasts three months, whenever you decide it begins...
...practicality. "I have a hard time picturing doing this on the magnitude required, but it's an interesting idea," says University of Florida Professor of Geological Sciences Ellen Martin. "It may be easier to just dump a bunch of ice cubes out of an airplane, but it will take a lot of those too." (See pictures of the destruction of Hurricane Gustav...
Hugh Willoughby, acknowledged as the "guru of hurricane modification" and now a professor at Florida International University, dismisses the plan as "junk science." The cost and logistics don't add up, he says, estimating that it would take tens of thousands of the giant tubs put in the water within 24 hours of the storm's arrival. Others think the whole idea of trying to dissipate hurricanes before they start is misguided. Bob Atlas, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, points out that hurricanes, as devastating as they can be, do serve some good, by helping...
...Arroyo and her husband. Whenever the country appeared to be in a crisis, Cory Aquino rose above the bureaucratic procrastination that had always bogged it down, reminding her people that they once astonished the world with their bravery - and that they could do it again. But Filipinos must now take stock. Whom will they march with now that their saint has gone to meet...