Warm days and cold nights ... I don't know what season this is anymore but we have had very off-beat weather. It drizzled one day of the week, then was way warm, in the high 80's and the nights were really cold. Starting to see those annoying June-bugs all over and other summer time bugs of gnats and such. The June-bugs are pretty harmless but kind of creepy looking because you can almost see their sticky legs and you usually find so many of them at once. I hate when they get on you, again harmless, but flicking them off you can feel the stickiness as you fling it off. What a weird bug.
Weekly Update:
Not too much was going on this week but this coming week looks to be pretty packed. Mostly just did errands and got some minor things done that I have been putting aside but other things come up. It's like a never ending cycle but what can you do. I did spend the first part of the week taking care of the dogs like I did at the end of the previous week. I am just lucky that out of the four dogs, the two that are ours can not be any easier to take care! They can walk themselves if you let them! All I had to do is feed them twice a day and let them go outside to go to the bathroom ... if I had left the doggie-door open, I wouldn't even have to do that! I wish all dogs were this easy.
At the movies:
No surprises at the box office, the updated fairy tale of Snow White and The Huntsman takes top honors with a nice 56.3 million opening. Decent drop to #3 is "Men in Black 3" with another 29.3 mil as it surpasses the 100 mil cume as excepted. Holding ground at #3 is "Marvel's The Avengers" with another 20.3 mil as it gets up to 550 mil cume domestic box office. Sizable drop to #4 is "Battleship" earning another 4.8 mil as it struggles along the box office ocean. Rounding off the top 5 is "The Dictator" with another 4.7 mil as it continues to laugh its way through, doing well for a comedy and with below than normal screen counts since opening.
Quote of the week:
"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." - Jerry Seinfeld
Other News:
A double whammie this week in Hollywood as it loses two of their own. On Saturday morning, Kathryn Joosten passed away from lung cancer at her Westlake Village home. She did not start acting till 42 and didn't come to Hollywood till she was 50. She did have some memorable roles such as the secretary to the President in the TV series "The West Wing" and more recently the cranky neighbor on the hit TV series "Desperate Housewives." She had won two Emmys for her role on that show which recently ended its run on ABC last month. In both the show and in life, she passed away after fighting cancer. In real life, she was a two-time cancer survivor. Joosten was 72.
On Saturday night, actor and game show host, Richard Dawson passed away due to complications with esophageal cancer. Dawson coined the phrase "Survey says ..." from the hit TV game show "Family Feud" in which he was the original host. He hosted other game shows such as "Match Game" but I know him best as the TV actor when he was on the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" as he played the loveable British Officer, Captain Peter Newkirk. Originally from Hampshire, England, he also had some famed movie roles such as the TV host for the life and death games in the film "The Running Man" not to mention other wartime films "The Devil's Brigade." He had disappeared from the spotlight in the late 80's from film and then from TV in the mid 1990's. Dawson was 79.
Facts & Tips:
George Washington took his oath of office in New York City in 1789.
"Oh, boy ... " - Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett in the TV series "Quantum Leap."
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