Weekly Update:What a busy week ... I'm tired. Did a lot of things but I guess the main highlight was going to the "Take Me Home Tonight" premiere on Wednesday. The movie was fun but not GREAT. Of course the music was totally AWESOME! While there though I did manage some snaps with some folks ... totally:
*Dan Fogler- From the movie and also "Balls of Fury," pretty nice guy.
*Teresa Palmer- From the movie and "Bedtime Stories," also incredibly sweet.
*Chris Pratt- From the movie and the TV series "Everwood," and a very cool guy.
*Michelle Trachtenberg- From the movie and the TV series "Buffy." She was nice.
*Demetri Martin- From the movie and was a writer for Conan O'Brien ... also a very funny guy.
*Angie Everhart- From the movie and very nice.
*Anthony Michael Hall- So many ... from "The Breakfast Club" to "Dead Zone" and other great classic 80's films ... also a really cool guy.
*Mike Erwin- From the TV series "Everwood" and a laid back kind of guy.
*Jody Sweetin- From the TV series "Full House" and very sweet.
*Lance Bass- From the boy band 'N Sync and a pretty nice guy.
At the movies:
No big surprise at the box office this week but what is nice is the rebound in grosses since the award season is now over. New at #1 is the animated comedy Rango with a nice 38 million for its debut. Slight distant 2nd place is the suspense drama The Adjustment Bureau with 21 mil. Surprise showing at #3 is Beastly with a decent 10.1 mil. By all accounts this film looks terrible so this is a bit of a shock. Slight drop down to #4 is "Hall Pass" with another 9 mil. Big drop down to #5 is "Gnomeo & Juliet" with 6.9 mil as it crawls to reach the 100 mil cume but might just end up a tad short when its all said and done.
New movies that did not make the top 5: Only one this week as the losing streak for Relativity Media continues. The throw-back '80's comedy Take Me Home Tonight only earns 3.5 mil. Not a strong number by any means but honestly I thought it could have done 6 mil.
Quote of the week:
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." - Daniel Webster
Comment Response:
Yeah who knows what the deal was with that musical number and Hugh Jackman. It was about 2 to 3 minutes (that felt like 10!) that could have been completely omitted from the show.
Other News:Legendary bombshell and actress Jane Russell passed away in her home surrounded by family at Santa Maria, California from respiratory-related illness on Monday. Russell's first started appearing on the scene during World War II as an iconic pin-up girl for servicemen across the globe. This was the brain-child of billionaire Howard Hughes who used Russell's images to promote her relentlessly, grinding out photos in her many low-cut and provocative outfits (for the time). Naturally that became incredibly popular with the boys fighting the war. Russell had a very limited acting career and starred in quiet a few Westerns like "Paleface," "The Tall Men," and "Foxfire." She also starred in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Marilyn Monroe. I think for me she was best known as the spokeswoman for Playtex bras with her numerous commercials during the '80's. She sort of disappeared from the public eye in the late '80's and devoted a lot of time to her church and community living a quieter life. Bob Hope once introduced Russell as "the two and the only Jane Russell." She was 89.
Facts & Tips:
Frowning burns more calories then smiling."Whatcha got today?" - Irwin Keyes as Joe Rockhead in "The Flintstones."
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