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...other new releases fell below even Surrogates' wan totals. Dennis Quaid flopped with Pandorum ($4.4 million), yet another sci-fi movie starring an actor in his mid-50s. Nor is the remake of Fame gonna live forever: its third-place finish of $10 million was one more underperformer. Among the holdovers, only Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself showed any staying power. The Jennifer Aniston romance ($4.3 million) was a box-office wallflower. And how lifeless is the femme horror comedy Jennifer's Body ($3.5 million)? In her host monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend...
...point about which you feel passionately is to make people smile while they are absorbing it. If you disagreed with a Safire column, fine (I usually did); but at least it got the juices flowing. And this meant, I suspect, that many of those with political views a million miles from those of Safire - to adopt W.H. Auden on William Butler Yeats - pardoned him for writing well. They missed him when he'd gone...
...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $24.6 million; $60 million, second week 2. Surrogates, $15 million, first weekend 3. Fame, $10 million, first weekend 4. The Informant!, $6.9 million; $21 million, second week 5. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself, $4.8 million; $44.5 million, third week 6. Pandorum, $4.4 million, first weekend 7. Love Happens, $4.3 million; $14.7 million, second week 8. Jennifer's Body, $3.5 million; $12.3 million, second week 9. 9, $2.8 million; $27.1 million, third week 10. Inglourious Basterds, $2.7 million; $114.5 million, sixth week...
...this tax break probably isn't good policy, especially now that we seem to have left the darkest part of the housing-market woods. Here are the numbers. The IRS says 1.4 million first-time buyers have benefited from the credit so far; the National Association of Realtors thinks that figure will hit 1.8 million before the end of November. Meanwhile, a number of groups have estimated how many of those people wouldn't have bought houses had it not been for the tax break - about 350,000 or 400,000. In other words, some 80% of buyers would have...
...staff still assigned to the Hummer continue to work at turning the cast-off brand into an independent company that could continue to sell vehicles around the world. They have lined up a $20.4 million grant from the state of Michigan to put its headquarters in or around Detroit. The grant, however, is contingent on the completion of the deal with Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, according to Michigan state officials...