Marc Dion: Junkie the Rodeo Clown (Creators Syndicate)
It's a big world, and everyone is going somewhere, melting their lives like ice cubes, being someone's baby, being poor, being addicted, annoying the $8 an hour clerk in a coffee shop just across from a used clothing store run by an evangelical church.
Froma Harrop: "Lawsuits and Defensive Medicine: The Reality" (Creators Syndicate)
Next thing you know, the physician is ordering an X-ray. That takes five minutes, whereas arguing with the patient would have consumed 15. Besides, if there's a one-in-a-zillion chance that some exotic disease is causing the ankle pain, the doctor may be at risk of a medical malpractice suit. So the physician does the defensive thing and orders more tests than deemed medically warranted.
Froma Harrop: If You Drink, Don't Enjoy It (Creators Syndicate)
An unapologetic drinker, writer H.L. Mencken blamed Prohibition on American moralists' distaste for happiness. "A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull," he wrote, "but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators."
Oliver Burkeman: Don't die without an action plan (Guardian)
The next time you're struck by some insight into life's true meaning, don't worry about preserving the feeling. Reach for a pen and list two or three things you could do about it. The way to avoid regretting losing touch with friends is to select some of them, dig out their numbers, then call them.
Certain Doctor Who Phrases and how Olive Garden Customers React: An Experiment Done by a Server
As a server, I did an experiment tonight, I was saying basically only Doctor Who quotes to my tables, some understood, others did not. These are a few of the phrases and people's reactions: [When greeting tables] "Oh hello! I'm The Doctor! I am here to help! Look, they gave me a badge with my name on it in case I forget who I am! Very thoughtful as that does happen." Lots of confused faces. Many people laughed. The few who got the reference clapped, laughed, or smiled all big like. One girl who got the reference gave me the biggest smile I've ever seen, later I would receive her number.
"L'amour est bleu" (English title: "Love Is Blue") is a song whose music was composed by André Popp, and whose lyrics were written by Pierre Cour, in 1967. Brian Blackburn later wrote English-language lyrics for it. First performed in French by Greek singer Vicky Leandros (appearing as Vicky) as the Luxembourgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, it has since been recorded by many other musicians, most notably French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat, whose familiar instrumental version became the only number-one hit by a French artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in America.
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Alan J was first, and exactly correct, with:
Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat
Charlie wrote:
"Love is Blue" by Paul Mauriat
("L'amour est bleu'')
I knew it was a French #1, but I didn't realize it was the only one.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Love is Blue
Adam answered:
I find these chart questions hardest to track down, so maybe:
"DOMINIQUE" -- as sung in French by a Belgian nun, Sister Luc Gabriel
Sally said:
Well, the answer for today's quiz is something by Celine Dion but, not being a fan, I don't know which song it is. I don't dislike her, but it is just not my kind of music, you know?
Ha!
PS: @B2BB - I forgot all about THE BOOTS (Nancy Sinatra)!
Everyone had them, even me... Okay, I'll give her that one...
PPS: This WE marks 50 years since the infamous "March on Washington," culminating with the unforgettable, "I Have A Dream" speech my Dr Martin Luther King.
Black people mostly see this event as theirs, but let me tell you, the, "Civil Rights" movement AWA the anti war protesting flavored my whole college years.
When I reflect on those years, I realize how shocking was the whole protesting event for the White people in this country. You see, we just didn't know each other. White people saw Blacks in a mostly inferior roles, and of course living in his/her own neighborhoods. Blacks saw Whites as condescending and rude, but mostly as ignoring them.
My involvement with Civil Rights was easy for me - not so for many, many others... People needed to hang together, have lunch, dinner, party, and share! Much of this has come to employment, and schools - but not as much as I would like it to be... I often think to myself: "We may have won legally, but we have a way to go in winning hearts."
Marian is off on an adventure.
Dale of Stiflingly Sticky Diamond Springs, Norcali, took the day off.
BttbBob replied:
The Singing Nun - "Dominique" (1963) - YouTube by "Sister Smile" ???...
No, she was Belgian (but, sang in French). I remember, well, how popular that ditty was and I thought it was nifty. Her life, thereafter, poor thing, was not so nifty - and she took her own life '85 after years of conflict with the church - she was forced out of her 'Order' in '66 (although, she still considered herself a nun), disputes with the recording company over using her stage name afterwards and financial difficulties related to back taxes to the Belgian government. She never received any funds from the song - it went to the congregation, but they threw her under the bus and denied responsibility for her and, besides, they didn't have the money to pay. Her life story is really very tragic...
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Well, it's...Paul Mauriat - Love is Blue (HQ) - YouTube in '68, so it seems...
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Happy Birthday this day to:
"The Big Dog" is (66)... I like this shot. I caption it, "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
Any guesses what that means?
(43) That is a 'Stan Laurel' mug if'n ya ever saw one, eh? Remarkable...
(47) Yow! Kevin is one lucky dude, IMO... That she cracks me up is part of it...
The other part, well - you know...
(47) The way "Bunny" bought the farm in "Platoon" was gruesome...
(60) Last I heard, "Number 1" was living and doing theater in Belfast, Maine...
I know the town (and its harbor) well, it being just up US-1 from Rockland about 30 miles and near the head of Penobscot Bay...
(72) Extreme 'Hotness'... then and now... 'Nuf said... (No... Hubba Hubba!)
(65) The "Simon" in the foreground... I enjoyed that program.
MAM wrote:
"Dominique" 1963 ~ Jeanine Deckers was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a member of the Dominican Order in Belgium. She acquired world fame in 1963 as Sœur Sourire when she scored a hit with the her French-language song "Dominique". She was also known as The Singing Nun.
Soeur Sourire plays and sings / Dominique (1963)
And, Joe S said:
February 10, 1968, "Love Is Blue" by Paul Mauriat, 5 weeks as number 1. Never heard of it.
Okay, I checked it out on YouTube. Meh. It sounds like elevator music.
How about a good number one song from 1968? How about "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye?
How about "The Dock Of The Bay" by Otis Redding?
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Mike & Molly', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Olivia Wilde, Dean Norris, and John Mayer.
On a RERUNCraig (from 6/5/13) are Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Gretchen Wilson.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by a FRESH'Get Out Alive With Bear Grylls', then a FRESH'Siberia'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 7/25/13) are Cate Blanchett, Michael B. Jordan, and Court Yard Hounds.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/24/13) are Hugh Jackman, Natasha Lyonne, Frank Pellegrino Jr., and Buddy Guy.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/3/13) are Lawrence Wright, "No Place on Earth", and Delta Rae.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a RERUN'Casle', then a FRESH'Mistresses'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/14/13) are Oprah Winfrey, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and the Wanted.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Pointe'.
Faux has a RERUN'Raising Hope', followed by another RERUN'Raising Hope', then a RERUN'New Girl', followed by a RERUN'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Duck Dynasty', another 'Duck Dynasty', still another 'Duck Dynasty', yet another 'Duck Dynasty', followed by a FRESH'The Glades', then a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'S.W.A.T.', followed by the movie 'The Last House On The Left'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 21
[8:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 22
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 25 - Transfigurations
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 26 - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 4 - Ep 1 - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 7 - Jack's Waterfront
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Santa La Brea, Giuseppi's
[4:00PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 21
[4:40PM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 22
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR: 50 YEARS OF BOND CARS
[7:30PM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 6
[8:30PM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL - Season 19 - Part 2
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
[12:30AM] TOP GEAR AFRICA SPECIAL- Season 19 - Part 2
[1:30AM] TOP GEAR - Season 20 - Episode 6
[2:30AM] TOP GEAR: THE WORST CAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old ' Jon Stewart John Oliver', 'Key & Peele', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', followed by a FRESH hour of 'South Park'.
On a RERUN Jon Stewart John Oliver (from 8/13/13) is Joshua Oppenheimer.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 8/1/13) is Bryan Cranston.
FX has the movie 'Death Race', followed by the movie 'The A-Team'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'God, Guns & Automobiles', and another 'God, Guns Automobiles'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Gillian Jacobs Wears a Red Dress with Sail Boats
[6:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:45AM] Five Minutes of Heaven
[8:45AM] The Escapist
[11:00AM] Storage
[1:00PM] Five Minutes of Heaven
[3:00PM] The Escapist
[5:15PM] Bad Boys
[8:00PM] The Shawshank Redemption
[11:00PM] The Shawshank Redemption
[2:00AM] Valhalla Rising
[4:00AM] Valhalla Rising (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Haunting in Connecticut
[7:45AM] Dangerous Liaisons
[9:45AM] Orlando
[11:45AM] Gosford Park
[2:00PM] Dangerous Liaisons
[4:00PM] The Virgin Suicides
[5:45PM] Dog Day Afternoon
[8:00PM] King of New York
[10:00PM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[10:30PM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-...and the Bag's in the River
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Cancer Man
[1:00AM] The Writers' Room-New Girl
[1:30AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter
[2:00AM] A Clockwork Orange
[5:00AM] Man Shops Globe-South Africa
[5:30AM] Man Shops Globe-Australia (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Freddy vs. Jason', followed by the movie 'Quantuum Of Solace'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/9/13) are Don Cheadle, Pete Holmes, and RNDM.
Singer Victoria Justice reacts after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the MLB American League baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays in St. Petersburg, Florida August 18, 2013.
Photo by Scott Audette
On a day where free Doritos and pot aficionados join forces, it's only obvious that people who might be suffering from the munchies would want to get their hands a little dirty with some orange-y goodness.
But when the salty, cheesy snacks are free? Forget about it.
The Seattle Police Department descended on the city's annual Hempfest, which celebrates marijuana culture, to put into action a plan dubbed "Operation Orange Fingers."
In a move to draw attention to marijuana usage rules and restrictions in the state, officers handed out free Doritos with stickers about pot laws stuck on the bags. Not only delicious, but educational, each bag displayed a sticker of do's and don'ts of I-502, Washington's ballot measure that legalized the possession of marijuana in November.
But Seattle police found themselves at a serious deficit soon after they started sharing their chip stash with the Hempfest crowd. They managed to dole out the entire stash of free Doritos in about 10 minutes, according to the department's Twitter account.
Usain Bolt of Jamaica performs a dance as he celebrates winning the men's 4x100 metres relay final during the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow August 18, 2013.
Photo by Denis Balibouse
If you've enjoyed the works of Stephen King, seen the films "Alien" or "Prometheus," or heard about the fictional Arkham Asylum in Batman, thank H.P. Lovecraft, the early 20th century horror writer whose work has been an inspiration to others for nearly a century.
The mythos Lovecraft created in stories such as "The Call of Cthulhu," ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "At the Mountains of Madness," has reached its tentacles deep into popular culture, so much that his creations and the works they inspired may be better known than the Providence writer himself.
Lovecraft's fans want to give the writer his due, and this month are holding what they say is the largest celebration ever of his work and influence. It's billed the "NecronomiCon," named after a Lovecraft creation: a book that was so dark and terrible that a person could barely read a few pages before going insane. The Aug. 22-25 convention is being held in Providence, where he lived and died - poor and obscure - at age 46 in 1937.
Besides a brief and unhappy marriage that took him to New York from 1924 to 1926, Lovecraft lived his whole life on Providence's East Side, close to Brown University. He wrote his most significant work after returning to Providence, publishing many of his stories in the magazine Weird Tales. He barely scraped together a living, but developed a wide network with fellow writers through letters, and wrote an estimated 80,000 of them in his lifetime.
Lovecraft said several times he could not live anywhere but Providence, a sentiment reflected in the gravestone his fans put up decades after his death: "I AM PROVIDENCE," a line they took from letters he wrote. The grave in a city cemetery is often visited today by fans, who leave trinkets or notes behind.
The latest experiment in American journalism is a throwback: a new daily newspaper to compete against an established one in a big city.
With Monday's debut of the Long Beach Register, the ambitious owners of the Orange County Register (R-Bird-Cage-Liner) are expanding their bet that consumers will reward an investment in news inked on paper and delivered to their doorsteps.
The competition is the Long Beach Press-Telegram (R-Fish Wrap), which was founded more than a century ago and maintains an average weekday circulation of about 55,000.
As a result of the budding newspaper battle, this city of 468,000 is joining the likes of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston as what has become a rarity in 21st century America - the two newspaper town. Never mind shrinking circulations and online news migration.
Hindu devotees covered in red powder carry another devotee on a sword after he performed a traditional Deodhani dance in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati August 18, 2013. The three-day festival in which Hindus worship the snake Goddess Manasha is currently being staged in the city.
Photo by Utpal Baruah
If you're sick of watching stellar videos on YouTube, your prayers have been answered: someone has collected together the worst-rated videos for your viewing pleasure.
BoooTube has lovingly curated the most down-voted video clips from YouTube to feature on the website. It isn't just low-rated videos, though. They're looking for the clips that have captured the attention of thousands, downvoted many, many times, proving that these unwatchable videos were nevertheless watched, and judged to be sub-par.
So if you've exhausted all the quality videos online, head over to BoooTube and remember what awful videos have been uploaded too. The site features Staff Picks for worst videos, including classics like the 'Controversial Baby Dynamics Yoga' (and judging by some of the YouTube comments, BoooTube has renewed interest in this and many other poorly-rated videos):
The site is extremely basic, and doesn't explain the methodology of the project beyond "the worst on YouTube," as determined by THEY, a brand development company based in Amsterdam and Dehli.
The musician famous for the Twist dance style can sue Hewlett Packard Co over allegations that the tech company used his trademarked name "Chubby Checker" on a software app that purports to measure a man's genitals.
In a ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled that Ernest Evans - known professionally as Chubby Checker - can move forward with trademark infringement claims against HP and its Palm unit.
HP began offering "The Chubby Checker" app for sale in 2006, which purports to estimate the size of a man's genitals based on his shoe size, according to the ruling. "The name 'Chubby Checker' is thus used as a vulgar pun," Alsup wrote.
In an effort to dismiss the lawsuit, HP claimed that Evans failed to allege HP knew of the infringement. Alsup rejected that argument, saying Evans properly alleged that HP had a detailed application and approval process for the app, and thus knew it violated the trademark.
A car built in the likeness of a Radio Flyer Wagon is displayed during the Concours d'Lemons in Seaside, California, August 17, 2013. The event, which highlights the "oddballs" of the automotive world, is held in conjunction with the Pebble Beach Automotive Week which includes the Concours d'Elegance.
Photo by Michael Fiala
There's a common belief that people in Los Angeles don't exactly live the way the rest of the world does. After all, this is the city that spawned the celebrity culture that later spawned the tabloid magazine feature: Stars Are Just Like Us!, a photo series featuring celebrities engaged in a host of activities that generally disprove that very thesis.
In many cases, the good people of L.A. are just regular humans getting on with their day like everyone else (albeit in much better weather and with shinier cars).
In a few isolated cases, however, the original belief gets revisited. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, a handful of private schools in the L.A. area have started bringing in celebrity photographers to shoot their pupils' class portraits.
According to the publication, Vince Bucci, a talented lensman who has snapped portraits of Avril Lavigne and Kim Kardashian, has been hired to immortalize the bright smiles of wealthy offspring at L.A.'s Wildwood and Westside Neighborhood schools.
Dennis Kleiman, a New York-based photographer who has shot The White Stripes, Denis Leary and Ozzy Osbourne, will be flying down to "bring an editorial edge" to the photo packages at The Willows, Hollywood Schoolhouse and Temple Israel of Hollywood this fall.
Bolivian indigenous farmer Carmelo Flores, who could be the oldest person to have ever lived, attributes his longevity to quinoa grains, riverside mushrooms and around-the-clock chewing of coca leaves.
Speaking in the 4,000-metre (13,123-feet) high hamlet where he lives in a straw-roofed hut, Flores says the traditional Andean diet has kept him alive for 123 years.
"Potatoes with quinoa are delicious," said Flores in Aymara, the only language the nearly deaf man speaks.
While Flores is still strong enough to take daily walks in shoes made of recycled tires, he spends most of his time laying on a blanket watching village life go by.
But his life was not always as sedentary. Flores said he fought in the brutal 1932-35 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, and had to hunt skunks to nourish himself.
Sam Pilgrim of Britain competes during the Crankworx Red Bull Joyride in Whistler, British Columbia August 17, 2013. The joyride is part of the 10 day multi-discipline mountain bike festival held each year in the ski resort north of Vancouver.
Photo by Andy Clark
Coca-Cola has unleashed a series of new print ads in the U.S. aimed at debunking what they claim are the unfounded negative health effects of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners used in their diet products, including Diet Coke.
Diet Coke plans to reassure consumers about the safety of its products amid sagging sales. Entitled, "Quality Products You Can Always Feel Good About," the ad -- which will run in USA Today, Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Chicago Tribune -- highlights the supposed benefits of low-calorie and artificial sweeteners, reports the Associated Press.
However, aspartame's safety has been disputed by other studies, which have been backed by reputable public health organizations, such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest. CSPI, whose advisory board consists of numerous medical doctors, considers aspartame to be a carcinogen and does not recommend its use as a food additive.
"Three independent studies have found that aspartame causes cancer. These studies, in our view, are superior to earlier, industry-sponsored studies that found it did not cause cancer because they used a larger pool of subjects and a more sensitive protocol," says Lisa Lefferts, senior scientist for CSPI, about studies that were conducted on mice and rats.
The CSPI website states that these studies "should be reason enough for the FDA (and other governments) to eliminate aspartame from the food supply."
On a calm winter's day in Norway two years ago, the sea suddenly started to boil and rise, sending freak waves rolling onto nearby shores and mystifying residents. Turns out, the massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake that shook Japan in 2011 also triggered these surprise seiche waves, a new study shows.
Seiche (pronounced saysh) waves are standing waves that form in closed or semi-enclosed water basins, such as Norway's narrow, steep-walled fjords. Smaller examples of standing waves include water sloshing in a bathtub from a wriggly child, or in a swimming pool after an earthquake.
The roiling seas surprised and shocked Norwegians when the waves rolled in after 7 a.m. local time on March 11, said lead study author Stein Bondevik, a geologist at Sogn og Fjordane University College in Sogndal, Norway. The waves measured nearly 5 feet (1.5 meters) from trough to crest (their lowest to highest point). No damage was reported, however. "Luckily, they happened at low tide," Bondevik said.
A tsunami expert, Bondevik was called on by local media to explain the source of the surge. Bondevik said he first thought an underwater landslide generated the waves. "They looked like tsunamis," he said. But as the day wore on, more reports of coastal flooding came in from faraway fjords, blowing a hole in his landslide theory.
"Later in the evening I realized there must be a connection with the big earthquake in Japan," Bondevik told LiveScience. "I was so excited I couldn't sleep that night thinking about it."
A devotee adjusts the axe of an idol of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, as it is transported from a workshop to a place of worship in Mumbai August 18, 2013. The idols will be paraded through the streets in a procession during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, accompanied by dancing and singing. They will then be immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual send-off of Ganesh's journey towards his abode in "Kailash", while taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind. The festival will be celebrated on September 9.
Photo by Danish Siddiqui
In the technology world, bold predictions abound, and they should. Placing big bets in one direction or another is how this industry works. Some pundits try to make educated guesses about where tech is headed, while others prognosticate in reaction to disruptive technologies that could boost (or threaten) their business.
As we all know, foretelling what's going to happen in 5, 10 or 30 years is pretty much impossible, but some predictions are so spectacularly wrong that they should be immortalized. That's why I've selected these gems from some of the biggest names, publications and research firms to present the 10 worst tech predictions of all time. A couple of these timelines haven't yet passed, but I feel comfortable predicting them as total fails now.
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" is serving up success at the box office.
Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend's three other major new releases, including the action romp "Kick-Ass 2," failed to find traction with fans.
Even with a full slate of newcomers, last week's top movies claimed the second and third spots in the box-office race. The Jason Sudeikis-Jennifer Aniston Warner Bros. comedy, "We're the Millers," held onto second place in its second week of release with $17.78 million, while last week's No. 1, Sony's "Elysium," dropped to third with $13.6 million.
"Kick-Ass 2," Universal's tale of everyday teenagers who dress up as superhero crime-fighters, opened in fourth place with $13.56 million. Open Road's Steve Jobs biopic, "Jobs," debuted in seventh place with $6.7 million. And Relativity's "Paranoia," which stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth, didn't crack the top 12.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Lee Daniels' The Butler," $25 million.
2. "We're the Millers," $17.78 million ($10.6 million international).
3. "Elysium," $13.6 million ($22 million international).
4. "Kick-Ass 2," $13.56 million ($6.3 million international).
5. "Planes," $13.14 million ($7.3 million international).
6. "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters," $8.37 million ($21.8 million international).
7. "Jobs," $6.7 million.
8. "2 Guns," $5.57 million ($2.1 million international).
9. "The Smurfs 2," $4.6 million ($20 million international).
10. "The Wolverine," $4.42 million ($10.8 million international).
The hood ornament of a 1937 Delage D8-120 Deltasport Three-Position Cabriolet is displayed at the Gooding & Company auction pavilion in Pebble Beach, California, August 17, 2013. Luxury car auctions are conducted during the Pebble Beach Automotive Week which includes the Concours d'Elegance.
Photo by Michael Fiala
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