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...desire to be a weatherman. I wanted to be a TV writer or producer. In my sophomore year of college, my department chairman put me up for a weekend weather job in Syracuse, N.Y., which was odd because he told me in my first performance class that I had the perfect face for radio...
...second weekend, Disney's animated feature The Princess and the Frog earned a gigantic gross - $744,000 - with four shows per day at just two sites: the Ziegfeld in Manhattan and a theater on the Disney lot in Burbank. Why did it do so well? Because the ticket price is a whopping $50, with the perk of a trip to a nearby venue (Roseland in New York), where the wee ones can have their pictures taken with all nine Disney cartoon princesses and get a lesson in drawing one of the film's characters from a Disney animator. Many...
...Next weekend The Princess and the Frog opens wide, in the august company of Clint Eastwood's Invictus, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones and the pre-acclaimed indie drama A Single Man. If there's not a new No. 1 title then - if The Blind Side and New Moon don't finally make way for the new kids at the box office - it will be time for Hollywood to unsheathe its harakiri swords...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo...
...Blind Side, $20.4 million; $129.3 million, third week ? ?2. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $15.7 million; $255.6 million, third week ? ?3. Brothers, $9.7 million, first weekend ? ?4. A Christmas Carol, $7.5 million; $115 million, fifth week ? ?5. Old Dogs, $6.9 million; $33.9 million, second week ? ?6. & 7. (tie) Armored, $6.6 million, first weekend. 2012, $6.6 million; $148 million, fourth week ? ?8. Ninja Assassin, $5 million; $28 million, second week ? ?9. Planet 51, $4.3 million; $34 million, third week ? ?10. Everybody's Fine, $4 million...