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Warner Bros., which released Edge of Darkness, surely hoped the Gibson movie would do the business of the studio's first 2010 hit, The Book of Eli, the postdoomsday Western starring Denzel Washington, 55. In its third week, Eli has earned nearly $75 million. Instead, Edge looks to approximate the mediocre gross of last year's State of Play, also based on a six-part BBC political thriller, and also starring an Oscar winner (Russell Crowe) in need of a hit. Tip to Hollywood remakers who try synopsizing the madly complex plot of an acclaimed British mini: at least change...
Gibson and Washington weren't the only veteran movie men fighting for tickets at the wickets. Just out of this weekend's top dozen were two movies starring flinty hero types who made their names in the 1970s. Sixty-seven-year-old Harrison Ford, a.k.a. Han Solo, lent his sullen machismo to Extraordinary Measures, the first theatrical release from CBS Films - but this do-gooder drama had a made-for-TV feel, and after a cruddy opening week, it fell into the abyss, with a $2,575,000 weekend take in 2,549 theaters. The disease-of-the-week movie...
...meantime, Berryessa will be interning at the Family and Sexual Violence branch of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (the real NCIS, not the TV show) in Washington, D.C., this summer. She calls it the "FBI for the military," and she says she will actually get to go to crime scenes and collect evidence. (How cool...
...solution from politicians in Washington has been to allow people to be covered by their parents’ insurance until age 26. While this proposal would reduce some the impact of the mandate on the youngest age groups because they tend to be the healthiest and the least prone to high-cost diseases, it is not the cure-all for healthcare that some politicians have claimed it to be. The proposal may actually make sense in the current economic climate—the employment rate for people aged 16-24 has fallen to a low of 51.4 percent. But this...
...NATO mission in Afghanistan, had been under pressure from its allies to boost its troop commitment, but two days before the London summit it announced an increase of only 500 extra soldiers plus a so-called "flexible reserve" force of 350 deployable at short notice - far fewer than Washington had hoped for, and with an emphasis on training Afghan forces rather than engaging in frontline fighting. "This could strain relations with Washington ... [Berlin] is now inviting the Americans to do the dirty work in Afghanistan," says Henning Riecke, an analyst at the Berlin-based German Council on Foreign Relations...