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Precious Rules the Box Office
After weeks of buzz and a coveted Oprah endorsement, Precious lived up to the hype and shattered box-office records, bringing in $1.8 million at just 100 screens across the U.S. Fellow buzz-generator This Is It beat out new releases to take the No. 3 slot, just behind Jim Carrey’s latest update on holiday classic A Christmas Carol, which brought in a lower-than-expected $31 million. George Clooney’s The Men Who Stare at Goats brought in a solid $13.3 million. A Hollywood mainstay that didn’t fare so well? Cameron Diaz, whose thriller The Box made just $7.9 million.
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wfleet
If you're into droll, see Goats. If you're really into droll crossed with amazement, read the underlying non-fiction Jon Ronson's Men Who Stare at Goats. Wonderful.
As I wrote to a friend when I read it: Forget the chilling (and thrilling) labyrinths of how the supposedly orderly spiral-helix of History's DNA mutates its now almost perfectly insane Self, Jon Ronson writes with such delicious ease that you'd be happy to read him writing about people who collect used dishwater or who read the metropolitan phonebook for fun. Ronson has the Welsh gift of writing as if words were his hemoglobin.
But then there's the rabbit-blackhole: Alice's dream transmogrified into nightmare. Welcome to World Weird. People at the echelons who cocktail and pretzel with the President 'drop' de-bleated goats as a serious, if delirious, part of America's arsenal for Global Domination.
nortonclybourn
Thanks for that incomprehensible and irrelevant drivel. I bet I know why nobody cocktails or pretzels with you.
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