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...heroine of The Princess and the Frog puts her big dreams to music, singing, "I'm almost there." That's the position of Disney's 2-D animated feature, which opened wide Friday. It won this preholiday weekend, according to early studio estimates, but with a tepid $25 million, a bit less than forecast by industry analysts. Rather than reaching the stratosphere of Pixar 3-D cartoons, Princess replicated the openings of Disney's recent in-house animation efforts like Meet the Robinsons and Bolt. Execs at the Mouse House hope their new film will play well through the Christmas...
...weekend when the top three films boasted African or African-American protagonists, two true-life sports inspirationals took the runner-up slots. The Blind Side, the story of a homeless black teenager who becomes a football star after being adopted by a white woman and her family, continued its run as the season's from-nowhere hit. Made for less than $30 million, the sturdy Sandra Bullock star vehicle took in $15.5 million, and after just 24 days has topped the $150 million mark in domestic receipts. Following a movie about football was one about rugby: Clint Eastwood's South...
...picture is cashing in some coin too. Playing this weekend at 72 theaters, Up in the Air earned $2.5 million, or $34,000 per screen. It achieves full liftoff Christmas Day. That seems an excellent flight plan for two kinds of gold: at the box office and on Oscar night...
...into the top 50 of the U.S. News & World Report national university rankings. Shannon, meanwhile, has proved that you can build a winning Division I football team with more role models than ruffians. When ESPN recently made a documentary about the thugball days, which it will air this weekend, the university declined to take part...
...hard to consider those grisly findings and not wonder whether the Chilean right might still be capable of such reactionary cruelty if it ever came to power again. Chile, in fact, stands at that very crossroads this weekend. On the eve of Sunday's presidential election, conservative billionaire Sebastian Piñera leads the liberal candidate, former President Eduaro Frei Ruiz - Frei Montalva's son - by at least 10 points in most polls. Chile's incumbent left hopes the Jara and Frei Montalva cases give voters pause. But the exhumations underscore how important it is that the right, after almost...