Archive for May, 2009
‘Up’ Tops Box Office with $68 Million
Pixar Studios, the last film house in Hollywood that draws an audience on its name alone, scored its 10th straight No. 1 film as “Up” soared above the weekend competition.
The animated comedy about a widower and young boy who travel in a flying house raked in $68.2 million, according to studio estimates from Nielsen EDI.
The [...]
Late-Term Abortion Provider Gunned Down
George Tiller knew the dangers of being one of few physicians in the USA who provided late-term abortions.
His Wichita clinic was bombed in 1985 and has been repeatedly vandalized. He survived a shooting by an activist more than a decade ago. Opponents protested daily in front of his clinic, his home, homes of his staff [...]
Leno Faces Weird Showdown with O’Brien
It’s odd, and probably wrong, to call this the end of the Jay Leno era.
For one thing, Leno, ever the affable company man, seems too bland, too vanilla to sit atop something so grand as an era, even if he’s been at the helm of “The Tonight Show” the past 17 years.
For another, while Leno’s [...]
Cheney an Unlikely Beacon for Conservatives
It’s a lovely thing when the conventional wisdom proves to be so spectacularly wrong. The entire Democratic Party, not to mention the media establishment, simply took as a given that suave, charming, effulgent, numinous President Barack Obama would mop the floor with grumpy, truculent, sardonic former Vice President Dick Cheney. And yet, on almost every [...]
New 370Z Flashes Japanese Muscle
Chevy has the Camaro; Ford, the Mustang; Dodge, the Challenger.
Muscle cars that bring to mind memories of a world in which m.p.h. ruled.
Now it’s time to pay homage to the original Japanese sports car, a remade version of the Nissan Z, which bowed in 240 form in 1970 under its maiden name of Datsun.
With a [...]
Grilling Steak and Salsa Together
If you look up the history of Father’s Day, you’ll learn that it is observed on the third Sunday of June — this year, June 21 — because the beloved father of Sonora Smart Dodd, the woman who first proposed the holiday in 1910, was born in this month.
Here’s to Sonora’s father, and to fathers [...]
Teen Afraid to Reach Out for Help She Needs
DEAR ABBY: Lately when I’m upset about something, I have been snapping my wrists with rubber bands. It seemed harmless at first, better than cutting, right? But I have noticed that now I have red lines that never go away and the welts take longer to disappear, and I’m constantly having to cover them up. [...]
Water Over The Edge
I was sad to read about the end of “Waters’ Edge”, the upscale magazine published by The Florida Times-Union describing life near the water. Not so much because I was a subscriber, because I’m not, though my wife had picked up the magazine somewhat regularly at the news stand. But more because it’s another harbinger [...]
Review: ‘Up’ Rises Above Its Flaws
“Up,” the animated adventure of a lonely old man and a fatherless little boy on a treacherous, airborne trip, yanks at the heartstrings a bit too much. At times, it’s treacly when it should be touching. Instead of allowing the audience to react naturally, it smacks upside the head with poignancy.
That’s not to say this [...]
Little Green Cars
Get ready, folks: America is about to buy a car company. As of Monday, we the taxpayers will own more than 70 percent of GM. Whether the company will be formally renamed Government Motors remains to be seen. But that’s what it will be.
Instead of putting the failed car enterprise into bankruptcy six months ago [...]
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