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Issue #206 ~ WOW! Just in time 4 the weekend!
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Jul 18, 2008 12:30 PDT
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Hey Adventureland Friends:
Wow, I am planning to put this issue to bed today. It has been a long time since I have accomplished that. Perhaps I can finally help you plan your weekend -- my goal from the very beginning.
There are so many great sources for entertainment news. So I scale way back in this area in the weeks ahead. I will recommend a daily newsletter soon.
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This is our free members only community hosted by Google. So far only two of you have joined. I hope to welcome more of you aboard.
Our Shining Star is a lost legend -- Hume Cronyn, the devoted husband of another lost legend, Jessica Tandy. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2003.
The Snack Bar has another recipe for kids -- or dogs. But then what kid has not fed their dog? This week we have Human Puppy Chow.
Blog Bytes has been considerably slow this week. I have a review of the new Batman movie -- 'The Dark Knight.' You'll also see my take on America today.
We finally have more Happy Birthday Announcements. Karen turns 42 on July 17. She shares this special day with Phyllis Diller (1917), Donald Sutherland (1934), Lucie Arnaz (1951) & David Hasselhoff (1952).
Happy Birthday to my cousin Libby. She turns 36 on July 19. Amomg those who share this special day are George Hamilton (1937), Beverly Archer (1948), and
Anthony Edwards (1962).
Birthday Wishes go to Doris on July 20. She shares this special day with Natalie Wood (1938), Kim Carnes (1946) and Carlos Santana (1947).
Add yourself to our Birthday Alarm today. Then you could find your name here with various celebrities. Provide only the info you feel comfortable sharing.
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MATCH-UP: 'HELLBOY' VS. 'HANCOCK'
Superheroes battling inner demons often rule the box office. This time, the superhero was a demon as
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" pulled in $35.9 million to debut as the #1 weekend film.
Universal's "Hellboy" sequel, starring Ron Perlman as the red-skinned devil fighting for the good guys, took over the top spot from Will Smith's "Hancock," which slipped to second with $33 million, according to studio
estimates Sunday.
Sony's "Hancock" raised its domestic total to $165 million.
Opening at #3 with $20.6 million was New Line's
"Journey to the Center of the Earth," starring Brendan Fraser in an underground adventure shot in digital 3-D.
Eddie Murphy bombed with his comedy "Meet Dave," a 20th Century Fox release that took in $5.3 million. The movie features Murphy in dual roles as a tiny alien and his spaceship - which is designed to resemble a full-sized human for a visit to Earth.
"It was a tough concept to get across," 20th Century Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston said of
"Meet Dave," which cost $55 million to make. "It's upsetting for all of us and for Eddie. He's very funny in this. Just not enough people came."
Science-fiction comedy has not been a kind genre for Murphy. His biggest bomb ever was the sci-fi tale "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," which cost $90 million and took in just $4.4 million during its entire run.
"Hellboy II" was a rare case of one studio taking on another's hand-me-downs. Sony released the first
"Hellboy" in 2004 but passed on the sequel, which allowed Universal to step in.
The original was a modest box-office performer, hauling
in $23.2 million over opening weekend and $59 million in its entire run. However, it really caught fire on DVD, convincing Universal that a sequel was in order.
"When a film is a franchise that another studio didn't want to continue to pursue, it makes things even better," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution at Universal. "We believed in the filmmakers, the talent packaged together. We saw the potential."
Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth") returned to direct the sequel, which pits Perlman's Hellboy against an elf who aims to unleash a monstrous mechanical army on humanity.
"'Pan's Labyrinth' made a big impression on a lot of people," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers. "If they weren't fans of Guillermo del Toro before, they certainly are now."
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" stars Fraser in a modern twist on Jules Verne's classic tale about a trip
to the planet's core.
Though 3-D screens accounted for fewer than a third of 2,811 theaters where the movie played, those cinemas pulled in $11.7 million, over half of the picture's revenues, according to Warner Bros.
Warner had to book the movie largely in traditional 2-D theaters because not enough cinemas have projectors capable of showing digital 3-D movies.
"We would have liked to have more of these," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner.
Overall revenues fell compared to the same weekend a year ago, when "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" opened with $77.4 million. The top 12 took in $145 million, down 16% from the same weekend in 2007.
Batman arrives Friday to heat up the box office. The Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" is one of the year's most-anticipated films even without the death of Heath Ledger. His death and the buzz over his performance as the Joker has fans in a frenzy to see the movie.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday - Sunday @ U.S. & Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers. Final figures will be released Monday.
01) "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" @ $35.9 million.
02) "Hancock" @ $33 million.
03) "Journey to Center Earth" @ $20.6 million.
04) "WALL-E" @ $18.5 million.
05) "Wanted" @ $11.6 million.
06) "Get Smart" @ $7.1 million.
07) "Meet Dave" @ $5.3 million.
08) "Kung Fu Panda" @ $4.3 million.
09) "Kit Kittredge: American Girl" @ $2.5 million.
10) "Indiana Jones 4" @ $2.3 million.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
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HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, John Hurt, Thomas Kretschmann, Anna Walton
Director: Guillermo del Toro
After an ancient truce between humankind and the invisible realm is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below awakens an army of creatures. Now it’s time to call in Hellboy. Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research & Defense, the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one. Hellboy, a creature of two worlds, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.
Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and some language.
"...once again a strong performance by Ron Perlman as Hellboy." - Chicago Sun-Times,
Roger Ebert
"...a surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination." - Rolling Stone,
Peter Travers
http://www.hellboymovie.com/
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Opening July 23, 2008
BOY A
After spending most of his life in juvenile institutions for the murder of another child, a young man is released and starts a new life.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809924881/
Opening July 25, 2008
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson reprise their TV roles as agents searching for the truth and investigating the unexplained.
Rated PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material.
http://www.xfiles.com/
Opening August 1, 2008
SIXTY SIX
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster when it is scheduled on the same day as the 1966 World Cup Final.
Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual content and brief nudity.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809424343/
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HUME BLAKE CRONYN
DOB: July 18,1911 - London, Ontario, Canada
DOD: June 15,2003 - Fairfield, Connecticut (cancer)
Actor who had a spectacular career on Broadway as a writer, director, producer and actor. Cronyn’s work in theatre lead him to two of the greatest joys in his life – his successful film career, and his marriage to Jessica Tandy (1942-1994). Cronyn and Tandy starred on both stage and screen together in "The Fourposter," "A Delicate Balance," "The Gin Game," "Foxfire," "Cocoon" (1985), "Batteries Not Included" (1987) and the 1993 TV movie "To Dance with the White Dog." Cronyn and Tandy were honored together in 1994, with the first Tony Award for lifetime theatrical achievement. In recent years, Cronyn made memorable appearances in the films "Marvin’s Room" (1996), "12 Angry Men" (1997) and "Seasons of Love" in 1999. Sadly, Cronyn passed away in June of 2003, but earlier in the year had appeared as himself in the documentary "Broadway: The Golden Age, by The Legends Who Were There."
NOTABLES:
His father Hume Blake Cronyn has an observatory dedicated to him @ University of Western Ontario. The refractor telescope was the largest ever built at the time.
Although not widely known, he had a glass eye, having lost the real one to cancer.
Won a Tony in 1964 as Polonius in the Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", recorded live on stage
in a process known as Electronovision, and shown in theaters the same year.
Was once a boxer who was nominated for the Canadian Olympic boxing team.
He and wife Jessica Tandy were both honored with the American National Medal of the Arts from the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington DC (1990).
Became a US citizen late in life.
QUOTABLES:
"If you're doing the devil, look for the angel in him. If you're doing the angel, look for the devil in him."
[his one rule of acting]
"To act you must have a sense of truth and some degree of dedication."
"The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002025/
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800014192/
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"HUMAN" PUPPY CHOW
This is a wonderful, not so low fat snack, but it tastes good!!! My kids love it!! by manda1027
1 Cup butter
3/4 Cup peanut butter
4 Cups confectioners' sugar
1 (12 ounce) Package chocolate chips
1 (12 ounce) Box Rice Chex
Melt together the butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter.
After it is melted, pour over and entire box of Rice Chex.
Stir to coat.
Place powdered sugar in a paper bag; pour coated cereal in and shake.
Lay cereal on wax paper until cool.
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INBEV SNAGS ANHEUSER-BUSCH
The King of Beers is being swallowed by a Belgian brewer. InBev has an ambitious plan behind its $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, hoping to make the Budweiser and Bud brands global products akin to
Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Anheuser-Busch agreed to the $70 per share bid. Swallowing Anheuser-Busch will give InBev half the U.S. beer market and a fifth of those in China and Russia. Busch executives are expected to have a hand in the new company. CEO August Busch IV will be on the new company's board. InBev plans to use St. Louis as its North American headquarters, and will keep open all 12 Anheuser-Busch breweries. They will also sell off "noncore assets" that they would not name to raise part of the financing for the deal.
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REVIEW: 'DARK KNIGHT'
It's difficult to separate the movie from its mystique.
Even under ordinary circumstances, "The Dark Knight" would have been one of the most hotly awaited movies. The loss of Heath Ledger in January has amplified the buzz around the film - and his crazed performance as the Joker - to extraordinary levels. Nothing could possibly satisfy that kind of expectation. "The Dark Knight" comes pretty close. The Warner Bros. release is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and some menace. Three stars out of four.
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SHUTTER
Starring: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Adrienne Pickering, John Hensley, James Kyson Lee, David Denman
Director: Masayuki Ochiai
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate, only to learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved -- and that a past mistake can lead to an eternity of vengeance.
Rated PG-13 for terror, disturbing images, sexual content and language.
"The director, Masayuki Ochiai, conjures textbook J-horror miasma..." - New York Times,
Andy Webster
"This wan J-horror remake won't get overexposed." - Hollywood Reporter,
Frank Scheck
http://www.shutter-movie.com/
WITLESS PROTECTION
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Jenny McCarthy, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna, Ivana Milicevic, Lisa Lampanelli Director: Charles Robert Carner
Larry the Cable Guy returns as a small town sheriff who witnesses a beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine,
being held against her will by 4 black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry
“kidnaps” her, only to learn that Madeleine is a key witness and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious. But Larry, who rightly suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip to Chicago to solve the case himself.
Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor.
"A campy outing for Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy." - Chicago Tribune,
Roger Moore
"This makes 'Delta Farce' seem like a classic by comparison." - Hollywood Reporter,
Frank Scheck
http://www.witlessprotectionmovie.com/
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To be released on video July 22, 2008.
21
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey, Liza Lapira, Aaron Yoo, Spencer Garrett Director: Robert Luketic
Ben Campbell is a brilliant M.I.T. student recruited to join a group of gifted students headed in Vegas. With unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa, they've cracked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor, Ben pushes the limits.
Rated PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity.
"Here's another example of a good story turned into a purely generic one..." - Chicago Sun-Times,
Jim Emerson
"The screen version of the blackjack caper is fun but gambles away intrigue." - Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/21/index.html
To be released on video September 16, 2008.
88 MINUTES
Starring: Al Pacino, Deborah Kara Unger, Leelee Sobieski, Alicia Witt, Benjamin McKenzie, Kristin Cavalleri, Dexter Bell Director: Jon Avnet
Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has 88 minutes to live, he must use his skills and training to narrow down the suspects before his time runs out.
Rated R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language.
"A slop bucket of misconceived tricks, rigor-mortis mood, and laughable intentions..." - filmcritic.com,
Chris Cabin
"Pacino and company mark time in this preposterous copycat killer thriller." - Hollywood Reporter,
Michael Rechtshaffen
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FOOTBALL MOVIES:
RUDY (1993)
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to beat the odds and play for Notre Dame.
AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER (1998)
Now in the 8th Grade, Josh discovers he has a great throwing arm and tries out for the football team. Soon after his athletic dog Buddy joins the team.
ANGELS IN THE ENDZONE (1997)
The football team Jesse is on is terrible, after the death of his dad Jesse quits the team. Then angels come to help them but Jesse's brother can see them.
LITTLE GIANTS (1994)
Football star Kevin now coaches pee-wee football. When Kevin excludes his niece, Becky, she convinces her dad Danny to coach a team, and beat Kevin's team.
VARSITY BLUES (1999)
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified as long as the team is winning.
THE WATER BOY (1998)
The coach discovers the lowly water boy for his college football team has an amazing talent for tackling people much bigger than him.
BASKETBALL MOVIES:
HOOSIERS (1986)
A college basketball coach leaves the Navy in 1951 and becomes coach of an underdog Indiana high-school team.
COACH CARTER (2005)
True story of a high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team because of poor grades.
LUCK OF THE IRISH (2002)
A teenager must battle for a gold charm to keep his family from being controlled by an evil leprechaun.
A SEASON ON THE BRINK (2002)
Chronicles Hoosier's 1985-86 season, when Bob Knight granted author John Feinstein access to the team.
BLUE CHIPS (1994)
A college coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.
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