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Brent's Blog for March 1st, 2010
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HERE IS UP IS UP!!!
Shutter Island remained atop the box-office list for a second straight weekend. The Leonardo DiCaprio thriller earned 22-point-two million dollars between Friday and Sunday, bringing its 10-day total to 75-point-one million.
- The buddy cop comedy Cop Out opened in second with 18-point-six million -- giving director Kevin Smith his biggest opening weekend ever.
- The update of The Crazies debuted in third with 16-point-five.
- Avatar was fourth with 14-million. The blockbuster has now topped 700-million dollars domestically.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was fifth with nine-point-eight million.
CELEB QUICKIES
- Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney were married Saturday in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The wedding will be televised in an A-B-C special next Monday. Jason famously dumped Melissa Rycroft on the air last year in favor of Bachelor runner-up Molly.
- Jim Carrey is a grandpa. The 47-year-old comedian's daughter Jane gave birth to a boy Friday in L-A. Jim tweeted about the new arrival -- "Jackson Riley Santana, my grandson, born today! This is what seven-pounds, 11-ounces of California dynamite looks like!"
- Comedians Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Sacha Baron Cohen have been added as presenters at Sunday's Oscar telecast.
- Actress Catherine Bell says she's expecting her second child, a boy, with husband Adam Beason. The Army Wives' star already has a six-year-old daughter, Gemma.
The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics finished in dramatic fashion with Canada beating Team U-S-A in the gold medal hockey game three-to-two in sudden-death overtime. Canada led most of the game, but the U-S tied the score in regulation with less than a minute remaining. After pulling goalie Ryan Miller
Overall, the U-S won the total medal count with 37, but Canada had the most gold with 14.
The death toll in Chile's killer quake, which hit Saturday and measured eight-point-eight, has risen to more than 700. Hit hardest was the seaside resort Constitucion where approximately 400 died after the quake and a subsequent tsunami. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet called the quake "a catastrophe of such unthinkable magnitude that it will require a giant effort for Chile to recover."
INTERNET SITE OF THE DAY
Here's a great website for intellectual types and students looking to impress their teachers. The Postmodern Essay Generator gives you randomly generated, completely meaningless essays that will make you seem like you're far more intelligent than everyone else. Check it out at Elsewhere.org/pomo.
WEIRD NEWS
A circus chimp in Moscow who had developed bad smoking and drinking habits was sent to rehab.
Zhora the chimp had been a performer in the circus and had picked up the habits as part of his act. He was apparently becoming aggressive at the circus and was sent to a local zoo to sober up.
A local paper was quoted as saying that the "beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze."
BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS
According to a new study, women like guys with the dark personality traits of narcissism, thrill-seeking and deceitfulness.
In other words, women gravitate toward dangerous liars who are in love with themselves.
Researcher Peter Jonason believes that these traits may be genetic, which would explain why some guys seem unable to stop themselves from behaving badly.
The study also found that men with these traits are likely to have a larger number of sexual affairs -- which means the genes keep getting passed on to more and more generations.
That's bad news for nice guys because the jerks seem to be multiplying ...
Source: Independent.co.uk
TAX JUNK FOOD
According to a new study from the University of Buffalo, taxing junk food would cause people to purchase healthy foods -- and supposedly cut the obesity rate.
The researchers found that raising the price of junk food was more effective at getting the test subjects to buy healthy foods than was cutting the price of those healthy foods.
Source: TheMedGuru.com
MUSIC NEWS
Shinedown are among the all-star acts who've contributed songs to Almost Alice, the collection of tracks inspired by director Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland. But bassist Eric Bass says they might never have written "Her Name Is Alice," except for Johnny Depp. They heard a rumor that Depp is a Shinedown fan and had encouraged the soundtrack producers to approach them. Bass jokes, "For my credibility and coolness factor, I'd like to think that's true."
U-2 tops Billboard's annual list of the top Money Makers with more than 108-million dollars earned last year. The list is based on earnings from touring, C-D and digital sales, royalties and more. Bruce Springsteen, who came in third last year, is second with 57-million, followed by last year's top earner, Madonna, with 47-million. The rest of the Top 10:
- 4) A-C/D-C: $43-million
- 5) Britney Spears: $38-million
- 6) Pink: $36-million
- 7) Jonas Brothers: $33-million
- 8) Coldplay: $27-million
- 9) Kenny Chesney: $26-million
- 10) Metallica: $25-million