Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” collected $50.2 million over the weekend and $77.1 million since it debuted Wednesday. Its crowds were 70% families and heavily Latino. “The Squeakquel” also grossed $36.5 million from the 42 foreign markets where it launched. That’s more than twice as much as the first “Alvin” opened to in the same countries in 2007.”Heavily Latino”?
It’s complicated, as they say at the movies.
We came across this archival beauty while adding photos to our profile of Colonel Harlan Sanders. The five men pictured are taking part in a Colonel Sanders lookalike contest held in Beijing, China in 2007.
The death of Simon Raven, at the age of 73 after suffering a stroke, is proof that the devil looks after his own. He ought, by rights, to have died of shame at 30, or of drink at 50.British author Simon Raven was born on this day in 1927 and died in 2001, prompting one of the more colorful obituaries of the decade.
Sean Goldman, the American boy brought home after five years in Brazil, went to Disney World for Christmas Day.
While Americans are playing boring old football and Indians are dabbling in cricket, the Australians have invented a new sport: swimming into baited crocodile traps.It’s possibly not a good idea.The craziness of the stunt is matched only by the wonderful Aussie slang used to describe it:
Sebastian Janikowski of the Oakland Raiders kicked a 61-yard field goal today. In December. In Cleveland. The NFL has the video.
Kim Peek, the savant who helped inspire the Oscar-winning movie Rain Man, has died of a heart attack at age 58.
Bo the dog didn’t make the trip to Hawaii with the rest of the Obama family.Quarantine rules, don’t you know.
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Actress Brooke Mueller is the wife of Charlie Sheen, who was arrested yesterday after an alleged domestic incident at a rental home in Aspen, Colorado. Here are some photos of Brooke Mueller:
Actor Charlie Sheen was arrested on Christmas Day and charged with domestic violence after an incident with his third wife, Brooke Mueller.
Happy holidays and a happy new year to all our readers, from editors Paul Hehn and Hans Holznagel, boiler room geniuses Mike Duffy and Ad
Director James Cameron promotes his new movie Avatar in Beijing yesterday.More photos of James Cameron >>(Photo credit: WENN)
In honor of Peter Lawford’s 25th deathday… the Rat Pack in holiday mode.
A boy taken to a foreign country by his mother, who dies. A father who wants to bring the boy back to their original home.It’s the Elian Gonzalez case, right? The one about the Cuban boy that sparked such bitter outrage in America and lost Florida (and the 2000 elections) for Al Gore?
Happy 65th birthday to General Wesley Clark, the commander who led NATO forces to victory in Kosovo in 1999. He was a Democratic candidate for president in 2004. And he …..
90 days and 20 days behind bars: that’s what’s ahead for Richard and Mayumi Heene, the perpetrators of the Balloon Boy hoax in Colorado.Judge Stephen Schapanski handed down the sentences this morning as Richard Heene “choked back tears” in the courtroom.
Connie Hines, the Mister Ed actress who died on Friday, was 78 when she died, not 79.
[Editor’s note 2016: Most of the text of this post about the death of actress Connie Hines was deleted by accident in a 2015 technical revamp of Who2. Sorry! But we’ve left the photos …..