Well, Well, look at this. After.. oh.. roughly 3 weeks, The Passion of the Christ has re-taken the number one spot after dropping to the number 5 spot last weekend. Why didn’t I say anything about that last weekend, you ask? Well, you silly spring weather person, I was in the tropics faring much better than you. Y’know, white sandy beaches, unlimited cocktails, blue oceans, 100 degree weather.. yeah that sort of thing. That was me.
I digress.
First, this past weekend: The Passion punched it’s way into the list of top 10 money-making films ever made, edging “Forrest Gump” out of the all-time number 10 slot by about 1.16 million dollars. – Putting it in the money-pulling ranks of: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Finding Nemo, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Now, this past weekend found the film at the number 5 spot, but it’s not too often a film drops past 3rd place and retakes 1st — usually this only happens when everything else completely sucks. But with Walking Tall and Hellboy still in their first week, it’s a little surprising. Now granted, it didn’t retake the #1 spot over a weekend or anything, which is where the numbers really count, but The Passion has been taking in roughly 1 – 1.7 million dollars every weekday for the past month now and it’s been holding pretty steady. 
And with a mediocre selection of movies opening this weekend: the best choices being “The Alamo” and “The Whole Ten Yards”, and with it being the religiously significant Easter weekend, the Passion has a pretty good chance of actually catching the number #1 spot yet again. (not saying it will, but if it’s ever gonna happen, it’ll be this weekend).
And, on a completely separate note, a travel tip: If you can’t speak Spanish, you can still go a long way in a tropical country if you keep saying “Pina Colada”.
I woke up and saw this out my window every day. Am I gloating? I’m gloating, aren’t I?
The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
# The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, “I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.”
Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece. “Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure. I’m sure you can give it a better
turn.”
After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side. “There is no need to touch the
lines,” he said. “All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event.”
Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before. His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge. “Ay”, he commented, “now they are perfectly right. Nothing can
be better.”
— Stephen Pile, “The Book of Heroic Failures”
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viagra viagra onlineThe Least Perceptive Literary Critic
# The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, “I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.”
Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece. “Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure. I’m sure you can give it a better
turn.”
After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side. “There is no need to touch the
lines,” he said. “All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event.”
Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before. His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge. “Ay”, he commented, “now they are perfectly right. Nothing can
be better.”
— Stephen Pile, “The Book of Heroic Failures”
Judging from the reviews I’ve read The Whole Ten Yards is a long way away from being a ‘best choice’ … Man, everybody just HATES it …