Andrew Tobias: What We Shouldn't Do - But It's Fun To Imagine
… I kept thinking that, in some alternative universe, every time someone said something to the effect that Trump had not obstructed Congress . . . or any of so many other misleading or disingenuous things so many of them said … every time they did that, 233 Democratic House members should have shouted: "Scumbag! Bullshit!" Two seconds, tops. But every time.
Andrew Tobias: The Political Landscape
John E. "Re yesterday's 'Listen To Lindsey … You're right. Republicans have now set the precedent that it's okay to lie, cheat and steal in order to get what you want in politics. There's no going back. So when will the Dems start getting with the program? The high road leads to a cliff that they all jump off. The low road leads to victory. I refuse to participate any longer in this thoroughly corrupt system."
Andrew Tobias responds: No. Please participate. We won in 2018 without cheating. If all of us vote, volunteer, and give what we can, we'll win in 2020.
Suzanne Moore: Harvey Weinstein wants to be remembered. He will be - as a self-pitying predator (The Guardian)
Weinstein, lately seen hobbling on a walking frame into court, had, a few days later, strangely recovered enough to be photographed strolling unaided near his New York home. He still gets out to comedy clubs and still gives interviews where he boasts that he made more movies about women and directed by women than anyone else. "It all got eviscerated because of what happened," he says. "My work has been forgotten." Yes. There is that "what happened thing": the allegations of rape.
VOLUNTEERS SAVE DAY DURING WAFFLE DELAY (obama.org)
When a scheduling glitch led to a lone employee working the after-midnight rush at a Waffle House in Birmingham, Alabama, the outlook looked grim for hungry customers. Yet, just as the challenge became unmanageable, a stranger stepped up, grabbed an apron, and stepped behind the counter. He began bussing tables, stacking plates, and doing dishes, and even inspired other customers to help. In one unexpected act of kindness, he proved that not all heroes wear capes-some wear aprons.
Festivus is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season. Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike", which O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote.
The non-commercial holiday's celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23 and includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "Airing of Grievances" and "Feats of Strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles". The episode refers to it as "a Festivus for the rest of us".
It has been described both as a parody holiday festival and as a form of playful consumer resistance.[4] Journalist Allen Salkin describes it as "the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering".
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
December 23.
Randall wrote:
December 23rd
Jon L said:
Everyone knows today is Festivus.
Alan J answered:
December 23rd.
Dave responded:
December 23. My brother and my brother in law were just discussing this yesterday at our annual pre-Christmas family gathering at Aunt Nancy's house. The fake holiday Festivus was introduced to the "Seinfeld" TV audience in 1997 when George's father, Frank (played by Jerry Stiller) decided to make war on Commercial/Materialistic Xmas and replace it with a better holiday not devoted to buying stuff and giving it away.
Festivus was actually the brainchild of a "Seinfeld" writer's father who dreamed it up decades earlier, but until 1997 it was just celebrated in the O'Keefe family.
There used to be another fake end of the year holiday called Kwanza or something, whatever happened to that?
Photos: Cosmo Kramer, played by Michael Richards before he ruined his career | fictional originator of Festivus, Frank Costanza, played by national treasure Jerry Stiller | An aluminum tree, but not a Festivus tree which is just a pole.
Cal in Vermont replied:
December 23. Sounds like fun. Maybe I will try it someday.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Monday, December 23
zorch wrote:
Festivus is December 23rd. Do you have your pole yet.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
December 23rd according to Seinfeld and friends.
George M. responded:
Marty, my friend, I've learned the truth from the august teacher, Frank Costanza, and that truth is - we all celebrate Festivus on December 23.
Just as the Master, Frank Costanza, has taught us - a Festivus for the rest of us!
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• Johnny Brewton is the creator behind the zine X-Ray, each issue of which consists of 226 copies, each one at least slightly different. It was definitely an artistic project, and lifetime subscribers included the J. Paul Getty Museum, the rare book department of S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, and the University of Wisconsin. One contributor was Hunter S. Thompson, who helped create the cover of X-Ray #4 by putting on lipstick and kissing a few copies and by shooting a bullet through every copy. (The cover was a photograph of Marilyn Chambers holding a box of Ivory Snow.) Another contributor to X-Ray was Charles Bukowski, who impressed Mr. Brewton with his work ethic: Mr. Brewton wrote Mr. Bukowski on a Monday requesting some poems, and by that Saturday-not even a week later-he received an envelope containing some poems. Mr. Brewton says about Mr. Bukowski, "I was amazed at how generous he was-he really gave back a lot and supported small presses; he taught me a lot about professionalism and deadlines. He was always on time." Yet another contributor was Timothy Leary. Mr. Leary's publicist, however, in a phone conversation told Mr. Brewton, "Mr. Leary has to charge one dollar per word for articles and stories. Are you sure you want to do this?" Because the zine made basically zero money, Mr. Brewton sarcastically replied, "That fits my budget perfectly! I'll buy one word." The publicist asked, "Which word do you want?" Mr. Brewton replied, "I don't know. Have Mr. Leary decide." The publicist spoke to Mr. Leary, and Mr. Brewton overheard Mr. Leary say, "That's great! Yes! I pick the word 'Chaos'-that's my piece!" Mr. Brewton titled the work "A One Word Dosage from Dr. Timothy Leary" and put a card saying "Chaos" inside a pill envelope-each of the 226 copies of the issue contained the one-word contribution.
• Pablo Picasso was a true artist. Another artist, photographer Yousuf Karsh, once took Picasso's portrait. At first, Karsh was going to take the portrait at Picasso's home, but Picasso's children were boisterous and did such things as ride bicycles throughout the rooms; therefore, Picasso suggested that they meet at his ceramics gallery in Valluris and have the photo shoot there. When Karsh showed up at the gallery with 200 pounds of photography equipment, the gallery owner told him, "He will never be here. He says the same thing to every photographer." Fortunately, Picasso did show up for the photo shoot. Karsh remembers, "He could partially view himself in my large format lens and intuitively moved to complete the composition."
• When Andy Warhola was a senior at Carnegie Institute of Technology (its name now is Carnegie Mellon University), he submitted a self-portrait to the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Exhibition-the painting was titled The Broad Gave Me My Face, but I Can Pick My Own Nose. Perhaps this particular title was a mistake, but Mr. Warhola liked mistakes. The very first time an illustration of his appeared in Glamour magazine, his name was misspelled "Warhol." From that time on, he decided to be Andy Warhol instead of Andy Warhola
• When Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti was painting his Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, a man named Biagio da Cesena criticized it because of its nude figures. Michelangelo got his revenge by putting Biagio da Cesena into the painting. In the lowest level of hell, he appears as a horned beast.
• Impressionist painter Claude Monet often painted outside. If you look closely at his 1870 painting titled The Beach at Trouville, you can see grains of sand that the wind blew onto the wet paint.
Steady rain and an unwelcome return to cold (for these parts).
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right At Night', followed by a RERUN'All Rise', then a RERUN'Bull'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 12/5/19) are Scarlett Johansson and the Weeknd.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 12/5/19) are Rebel Wilson and Kacey Musgraves.
NBC begins the night with the RERUN'Holidays With The Houghs', followed by a RERUN'SNL: A SNL Christmas Special'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/5/19) are Adam Sandler, Jenny Slate, and Megan Gailey.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 10/22/19) are James Spader, Tim Meadows, Alison Roman, and Terrence Higgins.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/6/19) is Ashley Graham.
ABC starts the night with the made-for-tv movie 'Same Time Next Christmas', followed by a RERUN'The Good Doctor'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/14/19) are Jeff Goldblum, Camila Morrone, and Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra featuring Sharon Van Etten.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Christmas Caroler Challenge', followed by another FRESH'The Christmas Caroler Challenge'.
Faux has a RERUN'9-1-1', followed by a RERUN'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue', hours of old 'Live PD: Police Patrol'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fred Claus', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', then the movie 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-The Measure of a Man
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-The Dauphin
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Contagion
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Royale
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Time Squared
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-The Icarus Factor
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-Pen Pals
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Q Who
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-Samaritan Snare
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 18-Up the Long Ladder
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Manhunt
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 20-The Emissary
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 21-Peak Performance
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 22-Shades of Gray
[8:00PM] PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (2012)
[10:00PM] PLANET OF THE APES (2001) (2001) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck', then another FRESH'Below Deck', and 'Real Housewives Of OC'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Mummy's Dummies
[6:15A] Java Heat
[8:30A] Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
[10:30A] AVP: Alien vs. Predator -
[12:30P] Predators -
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Eric's Stash
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Hunting
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Red's New Job
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Kitty and Eric's Night Out
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Parents Find Out
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Cat Fight Club
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - A Lungful of Alan
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Zejdz Zmoich Wlosow (Get Off My Hair)
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - Those Big Pink Things With Coconuts
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Smell the Umbrella Stand
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Can You Eat Human Flesh With Wooden Teeth?
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Woo-Hoo, A Hernia-Exam!
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - It Was Mame, Mom
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Low, Guttural Tongue-Flapping Noise
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - I Always Wanted a Shaved Monkey
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - A Sympathetic Crotch to Cry On
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - That Old Hose Bag Is My Mother
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Sex With an Animated Ed Asner
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Family, Bublé, Deep-Fried Turkey
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Eric's Stash
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Hunting
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Red's New Job
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Kitty and Eric's Night Out
[3:00A] That '70s Show - Parents Find Out
[3:30A] That '70s Show - Cat Fight Club
[4:00A] Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (ALL TIMES EST)
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] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[3:00pm] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[4:00pm] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[5:00pm] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[6:00pm] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[7:00pm] The Great Christmas Light Fight
[8:00pm] Miracle on 34th Street
[10:30pm] Miracle on 34th Street
[1:00am] The Nutty Professor
[3:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:50am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 9/23/19) is Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
A return 35 years in the making gave Saturday Night Live its biggest ratings in two and a half years. Former SNL star Eddie Murphy's first hosting stint on the venerable NBC program since 1984, delivered a 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 9.921 million viewers overall in Live+Same Day, according to "fast official" Nielsen numbers ordered by NBC.
The episode, which featured one of the top music artists of the year, Lizzo, and appearances by Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Tracy Morgan, Alec Baldwin, Larry David, Maya Rudolph, Jason Sudeikis, Fred Armisen and Rachel Dratch, was the highest-rated and most watched edition of Saturday Night Live since the May 13, 2017 telecast, hosted by Melissa McCarthy with musical guest HAIM (2.7 in 18-49, 10.382 million viewers).
What's more, SNL's 2.5 rating in 18-49 ties the September Season 2 premiere of Fox's Masked Singer as the #1 highest-rated entertainment series telecast this season in 18-49 L+SD on any network across all dayparts, including primetime. It's also the highest-rated comedy telecast on any network since the series finale of CBS' Big Bang Theory on May 16 (3.2).
Viewership for last night's show will continue to grow - about 29% of SNL's total viewed minutes during the 2018-19 season came on digital platforms through short-form videos and full-episode views.
The zero-star Cats will attempt to repair at least one of its many flaws after its studio informed movie theaters a new print of the film would soon arrive with "some improved visual effects."
Universal sent a memo to theater owners that, despite Cats' release and poor reviews, an updated version of the musical adaptation will arrive via satellite server Sunday, the Hollywood Reporter writes, adding the move to update a film of this magnitude mid-theatrical run is unprecedented.
Director Tom Hooper previously stated that visual effects work on the film was rushed in order to make Cats' December 16th red carpet premiere date in New York City. "I finished it at 8 a.m. yesterday after 36 hours in a row. I just put the finishing touches on. So, I'm very happy to be here with it fully finished," Hooper told Variety at the time. "The premiere should be the first time people get to see it, and this is genuinely a premiere."
However, in the weeks before its theatrical arrival and now through its release, Hooper continued to tweak the visual effects, resulting in the updated film. Unfortunately, the movie's runtime remains the same.
"Field of Dreams" actor Kevin Costner returned to Iowa on Sunday to go to bat for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, pitching the small-town mayor as someone worth listening to in the crowded lineup of White House hopefuls.
"Whether your road leads you to Pete, like mine has, that's for you to judge," Costner, a self-described independent, told more than 1,000 people in the high school gymnasium of Indianola, a town of about 16,000 people located south of Des Moines. "When Pete speaks of unity, it's the kind of unity I've been waiting and hoping to hear about."
Costner, whose 1989 film offered a mixture of baseball and fantasy amid Iowa cornfields, also noted the status of the state's caucuses as the first voting in the selection of a Democratic nominee.
It was Buttigieg, not Costner, who brought up "Field of Dreams." In a nod to his audience, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, didn't quote the movie's most famous line - "Ďf you build it, he will come"- but a more crowd-pleasing bit of dialogue: "Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa." The candidate thanked the star for making "Iowa as heavenly as it can be on a December day."
Terry Gilliam doesn't like "Black Panther." He really, really doesn't like "Black Panther."
In an interview with IndieWire about his long-awaited film "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote," Gilliam criticized the dominance of Marvel Studios in Hollywood, echoing comments made by fellow filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola about fears that they are creating a monoculture of blockbusters. But specifically, he targeted Ryan Coogler's Oscar-winning, Best Picture nominated film "Black Panther" for extra ire.
"I hated 'Black Panther.' It makes me crazy. It gives young black kids the idea that this is something to believe in. Bulls-. It's utter bulls-," he said. "I think the people who made it have never been to Africa. They went and got some stylist for some African pattern fabrics and things. But I just I hated that movie, partly because the media were going on about the importance of bulls-."
Gilliam, however, is incorrect about the "never been to Africa" part. Coogler traveled with several key members of his team to Africa to do research and aerial shots for the film. Production designer Hannah Beachler and costume designer Ruth Carter recounted in an interviews with TheWrap how Afrofuturist architecture from the continent and from the attire of tribes like the Masai were core influences when building the world of Wakanda. Both women won Oscars for their efforts.
Like Scorsese and Coppola - the latter of whom called Marvel films "despicable" - Gilliam feels like the series is accelerating an arms race in Hollywood that prioritizes tentpole blockbusters and low-risk/high-reward microbudget horror films to the detriment of everything else.
An American Indian tribe whose members were scattered after being denied a homeland more than a century ago has been formally recognized by the U.S. government.
Recognition of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians was included in a defense spending bill signed into law Friday night by President Donald Trump. That ends a campaign for recognition as a sovereign nation that tribal leaders trace back to the 1860s. That's when Chief Little Shell and his band in North Dakota refused to sign what they considered an unfair treaty. They ended up landless, and most eventually settled in Montana, often living on other tribes' reservations or in poor areas of the state's urban centers.
Members of Montana's congressional delegation had sought the provision that was inserted into the defense bill. The Department of Interior had repeatedly delayed or denied the tribe's petitions for recognition over the course of decades, putting a spotlight on what many lawmakers and tribal officials said were flaws in the recognition process.
The recognition provision requires the Department of Interior to grant the Little Shell 200 acres in central Montana as a tribal land base, with more land acquisitions possible in the future.
A judge on Friday revoked the grazing permit of two ranchers who were pardoned last year by President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) on an arson conviction for setting fire to federal lands.
U.S. District Judge Michael Simon ruled in the long-running case after hearing arguments from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which granted a 10-year grazing permit to Dwight and Steven Hammond after Trump's July 2018 pardon. The renewal prompted a coalition of environmental groups to sue.
Simon in July limited where the Hammonds could graze their cattle, but let them continue to use other portions of the public allotments for their ranching operation in remote southeastern Oregon while the environmental groups continued with their legal challenge.
In his ruling Simon said then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's decision to restore the Hammonds' permits was "'arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, not rationally connected to the facts.''
Peering over the side of his skiff anchored in the middle of New Hampshire's Great Bay, Fred Short liked what he saw.
Just below the surface, the 69-year-old marine ecologist noticed beds of bright green seagrass swaying in the waist-deep water. It was the latest sign that these plants with ribbon-like strands, which had declined up to 80% since the 1990s, were starting to bounce back with improved water quality. Seven rivers carry pollution from 52 communities in New Hampshire and Maine into the 1,020-square-mile (2,650-square-kilometer) bay.
The more than 70 species of seagrasses are among the most poorly protected but widespread coastal habitats - more than 116,000 square miles (300,000 square kilometers) have been mapped, though there could be 10 times that. They are found along coastlines around the world except Antarctica's.
Seagrasses, which cover less than 0.2% of the world's oceans, store twice as much carbon in a given area as temperate and tropical forests, a study by the United Nations-affiliated Blue Carbon Initiative found. But seagrass meadows in many places are imperiled by coastal development, overfishing, runoff from farm waste, and the growing threat from climate change. They have declined roughly 7% annually since the 1990s, a peer-reviewed study found. That is on par with the declines of tropical rain forests and coral reefs.
Some seagrass declines have occurred with stunning speed. Central California's scenic Morro Bay has lost more than 90% of its eelgrass since 2007.
Thirty-eight years after he revived his family's small vineyard in northern Greece, Vangelis Gerovassiliou proudly gazes on his property that grows one of the country's most popular wines.
And after 45 years in the business, Gerovassiliou says that with a little local savvy, there are answers even to global warming.
Growers in northern Greece, one of the country's top wine-producing areas, have been among the first nationally to be interested in the consequences of rising temperatures.
Consequently, it has been a good year -- possibly the best this decade, according to a recent statement from their local association.
With the rise in temperatures, grape maturity "has accelerated by two to three weeks," says Gerovassiliou, whose vineyard is located 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Thessaloniki, on the northern shores of the Aegean Sea.
The Force was a little less strong with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker." J.J. Abrams' Skywalker finale couldn't match its recent predecessors on opening weekend, but it still amassed a $175.5 million debut that ranked as the third largest weekend of the year.
"The Rise of Skywalker" pulled in $374 million worldwide, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film was especially lackluster in China, where all "Star Wars" films have struggled. It grossed $12.1 million in the world's second largest movie marketplace.
Such expectations did not await Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats." The much ridiculed big-screen musical, featuring infamous "digital fur technology," scratched out just $6.5 million in ticket sales, sending Mr. Mistoffelees (and Universal Pictures) home licking their wounds.
The $100 million production, featuring an ensemble including Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, James Corden, Idris Elba, Ian McKellen and Taylor Swift, came in behind projections and opened in a distant fourth place. The movie drew an 18% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and a C-plus CinemaScore from audiences.
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. "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," $175.5 million ($198 million international).
2. "Jumanji: The Next Level," $26.1 million ($32.6 million international).
3. "Frozen 2," $12.3 million ($31.6 million international).
4. "Cats," $6.5 million ($4.4 million international).
5. "Knives Out," $6.1 million.
6. "Bombshell," $5.1 million.
7. "Richard Jewell," $2.6 million.
8. "Queen & Slim," $1.9 million.
9. "Black Christmas," $1.8 million.
10. "Ford v Ferrari," $1.8 million.
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