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By Rich Heldenfels
Published on Monday, Oct 15, 2007
Things to talk about today:
The Weekend Box Office King. Why Did I Get Married, the latest film by Tyler Perry, did not merely top North American movie sales over the weekend. Its estimated $21.5 million take was about $10 million more than the revenues for second-place film The Game Plan with Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson. Trailing both, though not far behind The Game Plan, was Michael Clayton, the latest venture by George Clooney.
And what have we learned from this? Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke says it demonstrates another step forward by Perry. Long a favorite of African-American audiences, his appeal ''went from solid to spectacular'' with the new movie, Finke said. After all, he outdid two projects whose ads seemed inescapable: Clooney's new movie and We Own the Night with Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg, which finished fourth in weekend estimates.
Clooney, meanwhile, made the unfortunate argument that for all his looks and charm, he cannot guarantee that people will see his movies. His only recent hits have been in franchise projects such as the Ocean's films, Finke says.
Drew's Debut. Today brings the first telecast of The Price Is Right with Cleveland's own Drew Carey as host. It's at 11 a.m. on CBS.
Regardless of how he does, Carey has already made a major change in his public image. He used to be known as a comedian. Then he was a sitcom star. But with Power of 10 and Price, he is now automatically referred to as a game show host.
Now we just have to see if he's a great game-show host. Come on down to find out.
More Juggling at The View. Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, ex- pecting her second child, will go on maternity leave in early November. The Associated Press says celebrity guests will fill in for her. But will those guests share Hasselbeck's conservative politics? And will they be able to stand up to the rest of The View crew as securely as Hasselbeck has?
TV Tonight. ABC will sandwich the new sitcom Samantha Who? between Dancing With the Stars and The Bachelor, beginning at 9:30 tonight. That will give viewers a half-hour to visit other networks.
The series stars Christina Applegate as a woman who has lost her memory in an accident. And she gradually discovers that her pre-accident self was not too nice, leaving plenty of amends for Applegate to make. Too bad they're not funny.
The show has some able supporting players, among them the great Jean Smart and Gilmore Girls' Melissa McCarthy. But they've been better in many other projects. Applegate, meanwhile, is frantic and over-the-top.
Kate Solo Again. The New York Daily News says actress Kate Hudson and beau Dax Shepard have called it quits. Actually, it says that another media outlet reported on their split a couple of weeks ago, but that was premature and now they're really, really done.
The News' source says Hudson got bored with the relationship, which began not long after her breakup with Owen Wilson.
Stone Crazy? While the U.S. has its share of divas, Great Britain can still offer up the likes of singer Joss Stone, who at the age of 20 has had four managers in five years and reportedly said she hates them all.
The soulful singer-songwriter is headed for trouble, two of her former associates told England's Daily Mail.
''Joss wants to manage herself but you have to consider her lack of understanding of the challenges in front of her,'' one former member of her team told the Daily Mail. ''There's no way she can make the sophisticated choices demanded because her life experience is so very limited. She's a lovely girl, as sweet as can be, attractive and enormously talented, but when it comes to her career she's convinced she's right and everyone else over 30 is wrong.''
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in the HeldenFiles Online blog for http://www.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 or rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
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