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...Cambridge mix of a black ice, fresh sleet, and grimy snow. All you want to do is hitch a ride back to the quad on the warm shuttle and crawl under your covers. Well…too bad. Instead you are going to have to make that twelve-minute trek up Garden Street on foot. The Crimson broke the news that the university plans to trim shuttle services next year. Quad open lists EXPLODED with protest...
...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...