HOLY CRAP this daylight savings time frame always screws me up. I don't realize when it is almost 7pm and I am still in the office. Plus I am nearly falling asleep every day. I need to catch up on my sleep and soon ... so so sleepy. I've been trying the choccochino at work which is a combination of coffee and hot chocolate and it doesn't help. Plus I don't care for coffee to begin with even though it is hazelnut blend. I wish we could work 10 hour days and just work 4-days a week ... oh wait, I usually do work 10 hours day ... ok, where is my 4-day work week??Weekly Update:Unlike the past two weeks, this last one was really mellow and I enjoyed it. Except the work part which was very slow and quiet ... but in the next month I have some stuff that are kind of tight together that in the middle of the month it may get a bit crazy but we shall see. You know with all the rush this, hurry that in the world ... it is nice to just relax more often and re-charge and unwind. I think many people lose sight of that and get caught in a cycle of work-work-sleep-work.At the movies:
Animated takes the crown this week as How To Train Your Dragon earns a nice 43.3 mil. A solid number for the beginnings of Spring Break so hopefully it will hold for a bit. Slight drop to #2 is "Alice in Wonderland" with an extra 17.3 mil and now just shy of the 300 mil cume mark! Laughing in at #3 is
Hot Tub Time Machine with 13.7 mil and a decent opening for a comedy of this type ... but the studio behind it needed way more to help its empty pockets. At #4 is "The Bounty Hunter" with another 12.3 mil. Rounding off the top 5 and a big drop to #5 is "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" with an extra 10 mil.Quote of the week:"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Other News:More sad news in Hollywood as veteran actor Robert Culp passed away on Wednesday after he collapsed outside his Hollywood home. Culp was best known for his role in the TV series "I Spy" opposite Bill Cosby and what is also considered a ground breaking TV series. The show was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role. I knew Culp best as agent Bill Maxwell in "The Greatest American Hero" TV series. His credits were numerous and included such films and TV shows like; "Turk 182," "The Rifleman," "PT 109" and "The Pelican Brief." Being a California native, he was born in Oakland, CA and attended schools in Stockton and San Francisco. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Culp and Cosby went out to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing. His death is found to be accidental, Culp was 79.Facts & Tips:Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
"Thou art notified that that thy kind has infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately." - John de Lancie as Q in the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS EDITIONSo now is the time were the clocks jump AHEAD one-hour ... I hate this one. More daylight and I lose that precious hour of sleep that I need, especially this past week where I haven't slept since the following Friday or even longer than that!! So so tired ... and this is also the LAS VEGAS BOUND EDITION since I am here for the annual ShoWest Convention ... but at least this trip will be more relaxing then most previous ones since I am sort of here on my own accord instead of for work. Not sure how this week will play out but we shall see. Hopefully it will be mostly kick-back and relax but you never know when things pop up!
Weekly Update:This past week was pretty dang tiring for me ... I haven't drank coffee in YEARS. I mean I have had frapaccino's awhile back but coffee itself, hardly ever. I did drink some to help me stay awake at the office but I did make the mochachino's which is half hot chocolate and half coffee (hazelnut blend). It was pretty dang good but I am hoping when I return back to the office next week, I won't need it! Actually being in Vegas may be good, at least I can pretty much sleep in for the most part ... ah sleep ... can never get enough of it!! But other than that, the week was so-so, work wasn't anything special. Handling one movie is kind of ... slow. Well, as the opening draws near, let's see if that speed changes any as it gets closer.At the movies:
The strange still owns the box office crown as "Alice in Wonderland" earns a nice 2nd week of 62 million with a 10-day cume of just over 200 mil! New at #2, what looks like a Bourne prequel is The Green Zone with 14.5 mil. Kind of a weak gross when compared to the 2nd week of the #1 movie. Showing up at #3 is the comedy
She's Out of my League with only 9.6 mil but honestly, a bit more than I would have guessed. New at #4 is Remember Me with only 8.3 mil and it just goes to show you that Robert Patterson is only good for one film series. Rounding off the top 5 is "Shutter Island" with another 8.1 mil and now just hitting the 100 mil cume.New movies that did not make the top 5: Just one this week as the poorly made comedy Our Family Wedding chimes in at #6 with 7.6 mil and probably the end of this movie.Quote of the week:"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston ChurchillOther News:
Another sad week in Hollywood as we lose another two of its own. The first is once child actor who had fallen from grace, Corey Haim who is best know for his roles in "The Lost Boys" and "License to Drive" both opposite long time friend Corey Feldman. Haim had fallen out of the public eye shortly afterwards from various drug related reasons and tried to revitalize his career with a reality show called "The Two Coreys" which never caught on. Corey felt ill very early Wednesday morning when he was rushed to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank where he was later pronounced dead at 2:15 AM. Haim was 38.
Suffered from an apparent heart attack outside his LA home, best known as Jim Phelps from "Mission: Impossible" as the leader of a group of special agents ... Peter Graves died Sunday. Graves had just returned from a Sunday breakfast outing with his family when he collapsed making his way back to his home. I remember him from some great works such as the classic "Stalag 17" where he played the German spy amongst POW's in a Nazi prison camp during WWII. His comedy flair as Clarence Oveur in the 1980 disaster movie spoof "Airplane!" and of course his long standing action-drama of the TV series "Mission: Impossible." Graves is survived by his wife and college sweetheart of over 50 years, three daughters and six grandchildren. Graves would have been 84 later this week.Facts & Tips:
The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days."I shop, therefore I am." - Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton in the TV series "Family Ties."
I think I will forgo doing a "Best and Worst" for 2009 because there are way too many worst than best. Plus it does take a lot of time and it also throws my scheduling off on doing this weekly blog. So, I will just not do it anymore and through out the year I will just include cool things along the way as well as really bad things. This blog is a continuous list of the best and worst that I come across that I just have to share it!!
Weekly Update:Last Tuesday we had our 4th Annual Young Variety Pool Tournament and we beat our attendance and how much we raised from the previous year! A lot of new things were added to this year including some movie and local radio talent which was nice. I think everyone had a great time and all for a great cause on top of that. I'm not sure how much we made yet but every year we have done this, it has gone up just a tad more and I think collectively through the past 4 years we should be well over $100,000 raised by this one event. It is nice to see because with so many charities out there and companies scaling back more and more, having the support is hard to find. Amongst all the talent, I did get a quick picture with someone new to add to the collection:*Petros Papadakis- Does a lot of sports for Fox TV and radio plus he was a pretty cool guy. I listen to him all the time when he is a guest on KROQ radio.At the movies:
Not too much of a surprise at the box office as "Shutter Island" maintains the #1 spot with an additional 22.2 million. New at #2 and no surprise it didn't take #1 is the comedy Cop Out with 18.6 mil. Also no surprise is the #3 film this week, The Crazies with 16.5 mil and no doubt will drop like a rock! Holding strong at #4 is "Avatar" with another 14 mil to add to the already huge pot. Rounding off the top 5 is "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" with 9.8 mil and I sure hope this is the last we see of this title because it is WAY too long!!Quote of the week:"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore." - Peter Finch as Howard BealeOther News:Two very sad and tragic events occurred this past week. The bigger one is the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit off the coast of Chile and was felt all the way to Hawaii. The destruction in Chile is pretty substantial as over 500,000 homes and structures were destroyed and the current death toll is up to 708 which is a far cry from Haiti's disaster. It sounds like Chile is more modern in terms of structures than Haiti is but can they recover from this without aide? Stories are coming out of the country with a few about heroic deeds while numerous stories of banditry hit the streets. In the province of Concepcion the military was given the role of police and security as looters hit gas stations, supermarkets and banks. Several other cities are hit with the same situation ... law and order needs to be restored first it sounds like before anything else can begin to happen.
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In other news, Andrew Koening, the son of Star Trek alumni Walter KoeningChekov), was found dead from an apparent suicide at a park in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Andrew is best known for his sidekick role as Richard "Boner" Stabone from the 80's hit show "Growing Pains" starring Kirk Cameron. Andrew had suffered years and years from depression and he first went missing during the opening days of the 2010 Winter Olympics. People began to worry when he did not return as scheduled. His family knew Andrew went to Vancouver many times, it was a place he found some peace but still very troubled. He was only 41.
Facts & Tips:
The longest one syllable word is "screeched.""You are an agent of the Bureau For Paranormal Research And Defense." - Anna Walton as Princess Nuala in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
HOLY CRAP this daylight savings time frame always screws me up. I don't realize when it is almost 7pm and I am still in the office. Plus I am nearly falling asleep every day. I need to catch up on my sleep and soon ... so so sleepy. I've been trying the choccochino at work which is a combination of coffee and hot chocolate and it doesn't help. Plus I don't care for coffee to begin with even though it is hazelnut blend. I wish we could work 10 hour days and just work 4-days a week ... oh wait, I usually do work 10 hours day ... ok, where is my 4-day work week??
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