Post Christmas EditionSaturday was Christmas Day and it was very cold and wet for me. I don't think I have ever had a white Christmas or at least one that I could remember. But where I live it doesn't snow and where I am visiting (San Francisco) it doesn't snow either ... to close to sea level? I don't know but then I hear the East Coast is getting hammered with snow and blizzards. I guess you can't win either way!
Weekly Update:
Very wet and tiring week but that is what happens during the holidays ... well, maybe not the wet part but the tiring for sure. Drove up to San Francisco on Thursday night and just did the whole holiday thing. Had fun playing a bunch of Rock Band ... the library for that game gets bigger and bigger which is a good thing. They should come out with genre and decade editions though or maybe just updated packages. Ate a ton of food and now for the rest of the year I just want to veg out and do nothing ... isn't that what the holidays are about too?? I did tackle some malls before X-Mas hit, that was a mistake but what can you do. Sometimes you can't do everything online plus it is good to get out a little bit. Someone needs to sell shirts every year though with "I survived Christmas at the Mall - 2010!" I think they would make good gag or novelty gifts.
At the movies:
Not a big surprise for the holiday openers as a remake, or reboot some may say, takes the crown. Coming in at #1 is True Grit: Retribution with a 5-day total of 36.8 million as it opened last Wednesday. Word is decent on the film but not great. New at #2 is Little Fockers which clearly this franchise has "jump the shark" for movies. This earns a 5-day total of 34 mil. Average drop down to #3 is "Tron Legacy" with another 20.1 mil as it comes closer to the 100 mil cume mark. Slight drop to #4 is "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader" with another 10.8 mil as it struggles to reach 100 mil. Rounding off the top 5 is "Yogi Bear" with another 8.8 mil and someone put this bear down so it can rest in peace.
New movies that did not make the top 5: Just one this week which comes in at #7, Gulliver's Travels earning 7.2 mil. This film did open on Saturday so it is only a 2-day gross but honestly it probably wouldn't have done much more than that if it did open earlier.
Quote of the week:
"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." - George Carlin
Other News:Yet another sad week in Hollywood as veteran character actor Steve Landesberg passed away Monday afternoon to unreleased cause. Landesberg is best known as the curly hair intellectual and sometimes annoying Detective Sergent Arthur Dietrich on the 1970's cop comedy "Barney Miller." His career also spanned many other TV appearances such as "The Rockford Files," "Law and Order," "That 70's Show," and "Everybody Hates Chris." He has some some film projects but most recently was "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" as the doctor later discovered to be a pediatrician. But despite all these roles, he will always be the agnostic and cynical Sgt. Dietrich, a New York City cop in a station full of oddballs and eccentrics. Steve was only 65.
Facts & Tips:
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.
"King of the lab!" - T.J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins in the TV series "Bones."
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