MEMORIAL DAY EDITIONAnother holiday weekend in which we should spend a little time to remember, reflect and thank those you served our country home and abroad. Those who took a part of their life to help defend and represent the country we live in through the years ... many years ago, to present day. We do take for granted the sacrifice so few have made for so many. They get one simple day out of the year yet we get to live the rest of the year relatively safer than most countries ... let's remember.
Weekly Update:
It was actually a calm week this past week ... nice! Weather was good, times I had to go to LA, traffic was decent ... ahhh, if it was only like this all the time! The holiday weekend I did get to do one BBQ which was also a music video shoot that I helped out with. Nothing major about it but the funny thing was one of the crew turned out to be someone I went to high school with but they were a year older than me. Also it turns out he is currently on the show "Ghost Hunters" which I thought I recognized but couldn't place my finger on it:
*Britt Griffith - Cool guy, chatted about high school and some common friends.
At the movies:
Slight surprise at the box office ... comedy takes the crown for the holiday weekend but that wasn't the surprise. In at #1 is the R-Rated comedy Hangover Part 2 came in with a 4-day total (Thursday through Sunday) of 118.1 million! Above expectations by a slight margin and still have the Monday holiday to go. In a distant #2 and WAY below expectation is the animated action comedy Kung Fu Panda 2 with only 54 million. Big drop to #3 is "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" with another 39.2 mil, not a bad number however it is almost a 60% drop from the previous week. Holding strong at #4 is "Bridesmaids" with 16.4 mil as it creeps closer to 100 mil cume. Rounding off the top 5 is "Thor" with another 9.4 mil as this will probably be the last week we see this one in the top 5.
Quote the week:
"Never make forecasts, especially about the future." - Samuel Goldwyn
Other News:Another sad week in Hollywood as actor Jeff Conaway passes (pictured on the right from the film "Grease") after almost a two week battle in the hospital of being in a coma. Conaway was probably best known from the film "Grease" as Kenickie, one of the T-Birds and also as struggling actor Bobby from the TV series "Taxi." Conaway was later made popular again being on "Celebrity Rehab" after having many years of drug addiction. He was found unconscious at his home after an apparent combination of meds and having pneumonia and was put into an medically induced coma. After 9 days he was declared brain dead and the family opted to take him off life support while his off again-on again girlfriend fought to keep him on it. Conaway quietly passed away Friday morning, he was 60.
Facts & Tips:
Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
"It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything." - Zack Snyder, Film Director
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