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...gruff FBI agent who went undercover as a perky contestant in a beauty pageant; this time she's a bitch on heels who has to impersonate a human being at the home of Reynolds' aggressively friendly family. (The Proposal also plays like the flip side of another weekend-with-the-family comedy, the Steve Carell Dan in Real Life. The few romantic comedies, like the zillions of guy-bonding comedies, tend to repeat their tropes...
...Here are Box Office Mojo's official weekend estimates of the top 10 movies...
...Proposal: $34.1 million, first weekend 2. The Hangover: $26.9 million; $152.9 million, third week 3. Up: $21.3 million; $224.1 million, fourth week 4. Year One: $20.2 million, first weekend 5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: $11.3 million; $43.3 million, second week 6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $7.3 million; $156 million, fifth week 7. Star Trek: $4.7 million; $239.4 million, seventh week 8. Land of the Lost: $4 million; $43.7 million, third week 9. Imagine That: $3.1 million; $11.4 million, second week 10. Terminator Salvation: $3.1 million; $119.5 million, second week...
...result, it's been a busy weekend for U.S. intelligence. Spy planes and satellites are monitoring launch preparations at several North Korean launch sites, while other U.S. surveillance platforms are following the progress of the Kang Nam, a North Korean vessel suspected of ferrying banned arms, missiles or nuclear components. The destroyer U.S.S. John S. McCain - named for the father and grandfather of the Arizona Senator, both admirals - is trailing the 2,000-ton vessel. According to South Korean television, the ship is headed to Burma, a nation run by a military dictatorship and a suspected longtime buyer of North...
...mighty U.S. military can do under the resolution is inform the U.N. and stand aside while diplomats try to force any nation resupplying the ship to allow inspectors aboard. Pyongyang has said any interception of its shipping would be an "act of war," and declared over the weekend that it would "respond to sanctions with retaliation" including "unlimited retaliatory strikes" against South Korea if it helps apply U.N. sanctions...