This week's weather report is good. The days were not so hot and the evenings were very cool which is about right for this time of year. One day I had a feeling of winter (for Southern California) and it was semi-nice ... now we just need to get some rain because I drove by the river bed the other day and it was bone dry which isn't good. Even when we have water, it is brown as anything but at least we have some water moving so it getting into the ground, watering everything and flowing to the ocean. Also cleaning out the streets and such which is good and bad. Good for clean streets, bad that it all goes to the ocean and probably unfiltered.Weekly Update:
So on Monday finally got the water heater fixed and that was nice to get a hot shower again. It cost me about $500 out-of-pocket but supposedly with the Home Shield it would have cost me over $1200 ... I kind of think the plumbing company they work with over charges for everything because I had two optional fees which I opted out of. One was a permit which they charged $200 and I learned online I can do it for $50.58. Ok, the 2nd charge was disposal for $50 which the city I live in does it for free. Just makes me think that more plumbers and companies like that are very shady which I know they are not all like that but with my limited exposure with them, so far not that great in general.
Another bad week in Hollywood as a great character actor passed away from a short fight with cancer. Actor Ed Lauter who has played many characters from the 1930's and up as an Army Officer, G-Man and others of the like. I remember him well from "The Rocketeer," "The Tuskegee Airmen," and the original "A-Team" TV show. Lauter was diagnosed back in May with a form or terminal cancer commonly caused by asbestos. Lauter was 74.At the movies:
Staying up at the top is "Gravity" winning it's third week in a row with another 31 million (only a 28% drop) and now reaching 170 mil cume, should get to 200 in the next week. This film continues to amazing both audiences and box office. Really good hold at #2 is "Captain Phillips" with another 17.3 mil which equates to only a 33% drop. Two movies with very below average drops is pretty amazing especially during this time of year. New at #3 is the remake of the horror classic Carrie earning 17 mil. Not a terrible number but expectations were higher. Continuing to hold it's ground as well is "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" with another 10 mil as it closes in on 100 mil cume. Rounding off the top 5 is the action film Escape Plan earning 9.8 mil for veteran actors Stallone and Schwarzenegger.New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week as the suspense-drama of The Fifth Estate comes in flat with only 1.7 million and also enough to take 8th place this week. Another movie to keep an eye out on is 12 Years A Slave which comes in at 16th place with $960,000. This may sound low or why is this worth watching ... it opened on 19 screens for a per screen average of a solid $50,526! Now we have seen higher per screen averages but with the performances and Oscar buzz around this film, it will climb up the rankings as the weeks go. A good average for a film like this is around $30k per screen so this hit the above average mark.
Quote of the week:
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." - Thomas A. Edison
Facts & Tips:Less than 2% of the water on the Earth is Fresh.
"This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy." - Nichelle Nicholas as Uhuru in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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