Andrew Tobias: The Climate Debate Debate
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Although considered a critical success upon release in August 1939, this film failed to make a profit for MGM until the 1949 re-release. A ratings success when it was first shown on CBS in 1956, it became an annual TV tradition. What is the title of this 80-year-old movie?
The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship. Despite the length and size of these covert feathers, peacocks are still capable of flight. Peahens lack the train, and have a greenish lower neck and duller brown plumage. The Indian peafowl lives mainly on the ground in open forest or on land under cultivation where they forage for berries, grains but also prey on snakes, lizards, and small rodents. Their loud calls make them easy to detect, and in forest areas often indicate the presence of a predator such as a tiger. They forage on the ground in small groups and usually try to escape on foot through undergrowth and avoid flying, though they fly into tall trees to roost.
The bird is celebrated in Hindu and Greek mythology and is the national bird of India. The Indian peafowl is listed as of Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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Mac Mac was first, and correct, with:
Peafowl
Mark. said:
Peacock (or maybe peafowl if you want to go gender neutral).
Randall wrote:
the Indian Peacock
Alan J answered:
Indian Peacock.
Dave respondedd:
Indian peafowl, native to the Indian subcontinent. The pea fowl rooster is the peacock. I think of the peacock as the drag queen of the bird world.
The peafowl is a bird in the Phasianidae family (ground dwelling birds with limited abilities of flight although some will roost in trees, they nest on the ground), which includes chickens, turkeys and pheasants. At up to 45" long and 13 pounds, the peafowl is one of the tallest and heaviest Phasianidaes, only the wild turkey weighs more. At our local zoo peafowl wander around the grounds, and they occasionally let out very loud calls. Adult peafowl can survive Michigan's frigid winters if they have access to a barn or other shelter. But chicks need to be kept in a heated space for a few weeks after they hatch. But not many people keep them as pets, they need room to roam and they are very loud birds, the annoying shrieks of the peacock during mating season can be heard for miles.
Cal in Vermont replied:
OK, then. They are peacocks. The naughty kid not so deep within me wants to say peasomethingelse that starts with a "c" but not quite as vulgar as the one you may be thinking of. Hee hee!
Dave in Tucson replied:
I'm guessing India's national bird is the peacock? On the other hand
when the Democrats are in power the Republican national bird is the
deficit peacock.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
The Indian peacock
Deborah wrote:
Is it the peacock?
Around these parts peacocks are used like watchdogs, alerting with their cat-like calls when they perceive intruders or danger. They're so pretty, and so loud.
It's been a good weekend for bike riding and trading our 2012 Outback for a 2017 Ford X150 with bells and whistles and just under 20K miles. Now to research, find and buy a camper trailer to haul, and embrace my husband's semi-retirement.
My preferred breed, the Schipperke, was ranked as #15. That's still low, IMNTBHO, as they're very independent-thinking dogs, and aside from their trainability and enthusiasm, that's why we've had 6 of them. Also, as they aren't as popular as other breeds, they haven't been inbred much, also a plus. And yeah, I'm biased.
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Is this the kind of thing you would expect to hear from a musician? "I got a job working with great tits. [ ] So I was counting great tits, measuring them, weighing them. I've worked with great tits and white-breasted thrashers." In a way, yes. In a way, no. The speaker is Brian Briggs, the frontman for Stornoway, a Britain nu-folk band, and he is talking about birds of the non-human variety. He has a Ph.D. in zoology: "Ducks, actually." One of his jobs in zoology was discovering "what [ducks] like and what they don't like, in lakes and reservoirs in southwest London. And the answer is they like food and they don't like waterskiing."
In 1890, while preparing to make his London debut at St. James' Hall, pianist Ignacy Paderewski suffered from stage fright. Fortunately, when he sat down on the piano bench, the theater cat walked out and jumped on his lap. The audience laughed, and Mr. Paderewski relaxed. He played magnificently, and the cat kept on sitting on his lap. Of course, Mr. Paderewski became a world-famous musician, and he gave credit to the cat that had cured his stage fright.
Audiences
Hardcore group Black Flag sometimes played shows for very few people. In 1982, Black Flag played a show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for two, or at most five people, who sat far away, in the back. Henry Rollins, lead singer, was mad, and he complained about the lack of audience just before Black Flag went on stage to perform. Fortunately, Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski talked to him, and in Mr. Rollins' words, "straightened me out on a few things." Mr. Dukowski taught him "that even though there were only a few people there, it didn't matter. They were there to see us, and that was good enough." Mr. Rollins adds, "He said that you never pull a bullsh*t attitude on stage, and you always play your *ss off or don't play at all." Mr. Rollins remembers the show that Black Flag played that night. He says, "I played my *ss off that night." Mr. Rollins sings, performs spoken-word concerts, and writes. He says, "I am a guy who used to work at an ice cream store in Washington, D.C. I am of average intelligence. There's nothing special about me. If I can get this far, I would be very surprised if you couldn't get at least twice as far. F**k them. Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."
People sometimes cough during a performance of an opera or other music, although that is rude. A friend of conductor William Christie once attended a chamber-music recital at Carnegie, and in front of him was a cougher. At an appropriate moment, he asked her, "Couldn't you be a bit quieter?" She replied, "Young man, I've been coughing here for 40 years." Mr. Christie has himself told a person behind him, "Have you noticed that my orchestra - and often there are 60 of them - don't cough? Why do you cough?" Of course, some coughs are OK. Mr. Christie says, "When I stop playing music and hear this chorus of coughing, you realize that people have been making an effort" not to cough during the music. And a singer once told interviewer Joshua Jampol "that during lieder concerts, the audience coughed when he finished a song because they had been so concentrated that they'd forgotten to breathe or swallow." By the way, Mr. Christie's friend Simon Rattle once became so annoyed by the ringing of cell phones during a concert that he stopped the concert and walked off the stage. Then he returned to the stage and told the audience, "If that happens again, I'll do it again."
Jim Peterik wrote "Vehicle," the biggest hit of the rock group Ides of March. Mr. Peterik still performs the song, sometimes in unlikely places. In San Francisco, he saw a musician busking for spare change on the street. He listened to a song, gave the busker some spare change, and then said that he played guitar. The busker handed over his guitar, and Mr. Peterik played and sang "Vehicle." Apparently, the busker enjoyed the song, because he gave back to Mr. Peterik the spare change that Mr. Peterik had given to him. Of course, Mr. Peterik has been around for many years, and he has known legends. When he was 20 years old, he opened for the Allman Brothers. While the Allmans were on stage, Duane Allman asked the audience for some coke, so Mr. Peterik ran on stage with a can of Coca-Cola. He did not understand why the audience laughed.
Audience members will often applaud vigorously if they know that a big-name vocalist is singing, but if they do not know that a big-name vocalist is singing, they will often remain quiet. Albert Reiss was a competent tenor, but he lacked a big name although one evening he did not lack laryngitis. Enrico Caruso, who had perhaps the biggest name among tenors, offered to sing Arlecchino's arietta for him while he mouthed the words, and Mr. Caruso also bet Mr. Reiss that no one in the audience would know that he was doing so. Mr. Caruso sang for Mr. Reiss and no one went wild, but the next time Mr. Caruso sang and the audience knew that he was singing, the audience went wild.
During the 1992 Reading Festival, rain poured down and formed mud - lots of mud. A feisty audience began throwing gobs of mud at the performers on stage. Members of the grunge band Mudhoney put down their instruments and began throwing gobs of mud back at the audience. Mark Arm, vocalist for Mudhoney, taunted the British mud-throwers: "You guys can't throw. You're used to playing soccer and kicking balls with your feet." At that moment, a big gob of mud splattered his face. Later, Mr. Arm joked, "That'll learn me. Never taunt an armed audience."
Pair of urban coyotes strolling down 27th Street after dark.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then another RERUN'Big Bang Theory', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then a RERUN'Bull'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 7/17/19) are Sofํa Vergara, David Cross, and Tove Lo.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 7/30/19) are John Legend, Mandy Moore, and Hollywood Vampires.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 8/6/19) are Dakota Johnson, Post Malone, Jon Lovitz, and Tyler Childers.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 7/30/19) are Wanda Sykes, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Jeff Quay.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 9/10/18) are Jane Levy, American Aquarium, and Carly Craig.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise', followed by a FRESH'Grand Hotel'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 7/31/19) are Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Martorano, and BJ the Chicago Kid.
The CW offers a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a FRESH'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH'I Ship It'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by a FRESH'The Terror', then a FRESH'Lodge 49'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-A Matter of Honor
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-The Measure of a Man
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Cold Fire
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Maneuvers
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-Resistance
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Prototype
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-Alliances
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-Threshold
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Meld
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-Dreadnought
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 18-Death Wish
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Lifesigns
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 20-Investigations
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 21-Deadlock
[8:00PM] GOLDFINGER (1964)
[10:30PM] FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)
[1:00AM] GOLDFINGER (1964)
[3:30AM] FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', and another 'Below Deck Mediterranean'.
FX has the movie 'Minions', followed by the movie 'Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] DeepStar Six
[8:30A] Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof
[11:00A] Cheech & Chong Still Smokin'
[1:00P] Up in Smoke
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Sheer Heart Attack
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Leaving Home Ain't Easy
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Love of My Life
[4:30P] That '70s Show - That '70s Finale
[5:00P] That '70s Show - The Pilot
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Eric's Birthday
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - I Called Him Magoo
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Gumby With a Pokey
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - This Is Not Gonna End Well
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Three Girls and a Guy Named Bud
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - A Bottle of Wine and a Jackhammer
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Pudding-Filled Cactus
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Hookers, Hookers, Hookers
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Immortal Mr. Billy Joel
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Twanging Your Magic Clanger
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Crazy Bitch Gazette
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Springtime on a Stick
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Good Time in Central Africa
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men-Thank You for the Intercourse
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men-Frodo's Headshots
[1:00A] That '70s Show-Sheer Heart Attack
[1:30A] That '70s Show-Leaving Home Ain't Easy
[2:00A] That '70s Show-Love of My Life
[2:30A] That '70s Show-That '70s Finale
[3:00A] That '70s Show-The Pilot
[3:30A] Sherman's Showcase-The Ladies of The Showcase
[4:00A] South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] M*A*S*H
[8:30am] M*A*S*H
[9:00am] M*A*S*H
[9:30am] M*A*S*H
[10:00am] M*A*S*H
[10:30am] M*A*S*H
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
[12:30pm] M*A*S*H
[1:00pm] M*A*S*H
[1:30pm] M*A*S*H
[2:00pm] M*A*S*H
[2:30pm] M*A*S*H
[3:00pm] Batman & Robin
[6:00pm] Batman Returns
[9:00pm] Batman
[12:00am] Batman Forever
[2:30am] King Kong
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier', followed by the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow', then hours & hours of old 'Futurama'.
Comedian Dave Chappelle is hosting a free benefit concert for Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday to honor people killed in this month's mass shooting and to benefit families and survivors.
The event is called Gem City Shine in a nod to the city's nickname and comes three weeks after nine people were killed in the downtown Oregon District.
Chappelle - a resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio, about 20 miles outside of Dayton - took the stage Sunday evening to cheers and applause, telling the crowd, "Today we're going to show the world that nothing will get us down."
"Dayton, Ohio, no matter what's going on, no matter how tough these times get, we hold our heads up high, because we know what we're about," he said.
"And we're not just doing this for our city," he added. "We're doing this for every victim of every mass shooting in our country."
Although it's fallen on some very hard times in more recent years (more about that in a second), Death Row Records was once one of the seminal labels in the world of West Coast hip-hop, introducing millions to the work of Dr. Dre, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and many more. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the label-founded in 1991 by Dre, The D.O.C., and Suge Knight, out of the soon-to-be-wreckage of Eazy-E's Ruthless-played a major role in shaping the sound of late-20th century music. And now, it's owned by the same people who own Furby.
This is per Consequence Of Sound, which reports that, as of this week, Hasbro has finalized negotiations to acquire the content library of Canadian conglomerate Entertainment One. eOne, as it's sometimes known, is one of those huge mass media companies that owns a whole heaping bunch of shit-including international distribution rights for The Walking Dead, production and distribution on Peppa Pig, and, courtesy of a series of bankruptcy hearings and auctions over the last 15 or so years, Death Row Records. (One suspects Hasbro was more excited about bringing Peppa under its roof.)
And look, we know: There's not a chance in any kind of hell that Hasbro is ever going to do anything with these rights, outside of maybe-maybe-including a few Tupac bars in one of those new G.I. Joe movies they keep trying to make. This is, like so many stories of big business content acquisitions, really just a story about the ongoing and endless commodification of art into the hands of the moneyed and artless.
On the other hand, though, we would absolutely play a Dr. Dre-branded version of Operation, or mess around with Snoop Dogg's Weed-ja board, or play the Who Killed Tupac? edition of Clue. (Okay, maybe not that last one.) Let us have our dreams, please; at this point, companies like Hasbro own pretty much everything else.
The widow of famed actor/dancer Gene Kelly has leaped into the fray regarding Lara Spencer's comments on ballet.
Patricia Ward Kelly responded in an open letter after Spencer, the Good Morning America host, mocked young Prince George over his ballet lessons, holding back laughter at the prospect of the six-year-old dancing.
"In 1958, my late husband, the dancer, director, choreographer Gene Kelly, decided to take on the stigma facing male dancers in an Omnibus television program for NBC that he created and starred in called Dancing, A Man's Game," wrote Ward Kelly. "Gene would be devastated to know that 61 years after his ground-breaking work, the issue of boys and men dancing is still the subject of ridicule-and on a national network,." She concluded: "ABC must do better."
Spencer has apologized for her remarks made during a Thursday morning segment. She said during the segment that George, the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, would be studying math, science, history, religious studies, computer programming, poetry and ballet.
The "ballet" listing drew audience laughter and also a reaction from co-host George "Judas" Stephanopoulos.
Tucker Max tried to drown his childhood sadness in booze and sex. That didn't work, although it netted him a best-selling book and a movie based on his story. As he got older, he tried working out, and got fit but still felt lousy. He also tried business, co-founding publishing house Scribe Media, but his mind still struggled.
It wasn't until he turned to MDMA and psilocybin - "magic mushrooms" - that he finally found something he believes altered his brain chemistry for the better. After taking a large dose of mushrooms at a spiritual retreat in South America, Max had what he describes as a life-changing mental journey akin to a near-death experience. Like many other mushroom users, Max, 43, claims the substance opened his mind to a new way of seeing the world, allowing him to make permanent changes to his brain.
"Dude, I went to the other side, man. I went to another universe. I had a whole re-evolution. It was crazy. It was a true ego death," said Max, the Austin-based author of the infamous sex-and-booze romp book "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell." "You realize you are a speck of energy in this massive system. You realize you're completely inconsequential and that means you can look at yourself objectively."
Psychedelics first gained widespread popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, but went underground after being classified a Schedule 1 controlled substance by the federal government in 1970. Today, their potential for use as a mental-health treatment for PTSD, anxiety and depression is gaining new attention after Denver and Oakland, California, decriminalized their possession and voters in Oregon and California in 2020 may be asked to approve statewide measures. Mushroom advocates see many parallels between their efforts and medical marijuana legalization that has passed in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Residents in Boca Chica Village, Texas, near a SpaceX facility in Brownsville received a warning from the Cameron County Office of Emergency Management that tests of the company's Starhopper prototype on Aug. 26 could break windows in their homes, according to the Brownsville Herald.
The alert stated that flight testing activities from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET carry "a risk that a malfunction of the SpaceX vehicle during flight will create an overpressure event that can break windows." Officials wrote in the warning that residents must evacuate their residences at that time to avoid being sprayed with shattered glass: "At a minimum, you must exit your home or structure and be outside of any building on your property... to avoid or minimize the risk of injury." A police siren will alert locals that the test is about to commence, the Herald wrote.
It's reasonable to assume that the overpressure referred to would be the result of the prototype exploding, generating enough force to damage nearby buildings.
The test on Monday is expected to be the last test of the Starhopper, which is a launch system prototype for SpaceX's ambitious Starship project. Starhopper successfully cleared a prior test in which it rose 65 feet (20 meters) and then landed safely without having to be tethered to the ground in July. On Monday, SpaceX hopes to have Starhopper launch to a full 650 feet (198 meters) before returning to the launchpad; if it's successful, CEO Elon Musk says he will follow up with a public presentation "hopefully mid-September" giving more details on the project.
As Business Insider noted, establishing safety zones around commercial launch sites is not an unusual practice, but that the safety zone contains a residents ("nearly all of them not by choice") is much odder. Locals told Business Insider they were less than thrilled with the possibility of SpaceX-which has already had roads in the region closed during test dates-shattering every window in their homes.
Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favourite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland. It was a routine purchase for him until he landed at the airport in Baltimore.
US customs officers detained Mr Haughton and police arrested him, accusing him of smuggling in not honey, but liquid methamphetamine.
Mr Haughton spent nearly three months in jail before all charges were dropped and two rounds of law enforcement lab tests showed no controlled substances in the bottles.
By then, Mr Haughton, who according to his lawyer had no criminal record, had lost both of his jobs as a cleaner and a construction worker.
It's old, doesn't look like much and is located well out the way in an arid part of western South Africa.
But the Steenkampskraal Mine may be about to become piping hot mining property thanks to some of the world's highest-grade deposits of rare earth metals.
The mine, located about 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Cape Town, used to produce thorium, a component of nuclear fuel, in the 1950s and 60s.
But now it's been found to also have monazite ore which contains extremely high grade rare earth minerals including neodymium and praseodymium -- elements vital to cutting-edge industries.
No mines for rare earth elements currently operate in South Africa, but the government confirms the presence of yet-to-be tapped tech minerals.
A huge raft of pumice created by an underwater volcano is floating toward Australia, and it could help the Great Barrier Reef recover from bleaching.
The pumice raft is about 60 square miles - almost as big as Washington D.C. Scientists say it was formed earlier this month by an underwater volcano near Tonga, some 2,000 miles east of Brisbane, Australia, in the South Pacific Ocean.
As lava spewed from the volcano, it cooled into pumice stone, which is full of holes and can easily float, according to NASA.
Sailors first encountered the giant stone raft on Aug. 9, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program. The purser on a small ship reported being surrounded by pumice as far as she could see. She said the surface was about a foot deep and contained pieces larger than 30 inches in diameter.
As this island of stone drifts toward Australia, it becomes home to countless marine creatures, Queensland University of Technology geologist Scott Bryan told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Angel Has Fallen" easily topped the box office with a $21.3 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday, as the action sequel became the latest mid-budget release to find modest success in the often quiet late summer.
The Lionsgate film beat expectations going into the weekend, opening similarly to the previous 2016 installment "London Has Fallen." The film series stars Gerard Butler as a Secret Service agent protecting the U.S. president played by Morgan Freeman. In "Angel Has Fallen," Butler's agent is wrongly accused of trying to assassinate the president.
However, the acclaimed Fox Searchlight horror release "Ready or Not," about a bride forced into a deadly game of hide-and-seek with her new in-laws, got off to a lackluster start. It took in $7.6 million in ticket sales and $10.6 million since opening Wednesday.
Among specialty releases, Amazon's "Brittany Runs a Marathon," about a young woman (Jillian Bell) who devotes herself to running to lose weight, scored the weekend's most packed theaters. It debuted with a per-theater average of $35,194 in five locations.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
1. "Angel Has Fallen," $21.3 million ($8.4 million international).
2. "Good Boys," $11.8 million ($3.5 million international).
3. "Overcomer," $8 million.
4. "The Lion King," $8.2 million ($30 million international).
5. "Hobbs & Shaw," $8.1 million ($120 million international).
6. "Ready or Not," $7.6 million.
7. "The Angry Birds 2 Movie," $6.4 million ($10.2 million international).
8. "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," $6 million ($3.5 million international).
9. "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," $5.2 million ($3.2 million international).
10. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," $5 million ($28 million international).
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