Henry Rollins: No Time to Waste (LA Weekly)
With only two more shooting days to go, I am almost wrapped on He Never Died. Soon, I will be staggering onto a jet and returning to Los Angeles.
Mark Shields: An Idea to Unite America (Creators Syndicate)
Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., […], spoke for legions: "When you stop and think about what we hear now in airport lobbies - babbling about last night's love life, next week's schedule, arguments with spouses - it's not hard to see why the FCC shouldn't allow cellphone conversations on planes."
Adam Clark Estes: The Fascinating Story of Why U.S. Parks Are Full of Squirrels (Gismodo)
In most American cities, it's hard to walk through a park without spotting a gray squirrel. Those bushy-tailed little buggers are everywhere, chomping on nuts and climbing up trees-but not thanks to nature. No sir. They're there because we put them there to entertain us-among other things.
Festivus, a well-celebrated parody, has become a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 which serves as an alternative to participating in commercialism associated with Christmas. Originally a family tradition of scriptwriter Dan O'Keefe working on the American sitcom Seinfeld, the holiday entered popular culture after it was made the focus of a 1997 episode of the program. The holiday's celebration, as it was shown on Seinfeld, 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 celebration of Festivus begins with the "Airing of Grievances", which takes place immediately after the Festivus dinner has been served. It consists of each person lashing out at others and the world about how they have been disappointed in the past year.
The Feats of Strength is the final tradition observed in the celebration of Festivus, celebrated immediately following (or in the case of "The Strike", during) the Festivus dinner. The head of the household selects one person at the Festivus celebration and challenges that person to a wrestling match.
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John I from Hawai'i was first, and correct, with:
"Festivus."
Alan J wrote:
Festivus
Charlie responded:
Which could thus also be called "Christmas Eve Eve" or maybe "Christmas Eve Squared."
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Festivus
Adam answered:
Festivus- A festival for the rest of us.
Marian wrote:
Festivus, for the rest of us.
Tiny Lois Of Oregon answered:
Happy Festivus, and may the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless
us, everyone!
@Sally; wish I did live closer, would love to visit you for
laughs and stew.
@Dale; spat my coffee at the Nutcracker
Sally said:
Well, of course, The celebration of Festivus," begins with the, "Airing of Grievances," and ends with, "The Feats of Strength." Thank you, Jerry Seinfeld.
This was the tradition for holiday dinners at my grandmother's house when I was growing up. No holiday was complete without someone jumping up from the table and fleeing, followed by the slamming of doors, and then desert...
PS: Okay, Lois of Oregon, I will never listen to, "White Christmas" again WO thinking: "Oh lord, here we go again...some privileged white swine, sitting in his mansion in BEVERLY HILLS on a sunny beautiful 80 degree December day with the Santa Ana Winds blowing warm delicious breezes...bitching about how he's dreaming of a WHITE FUCKING CHRISTMAS..."
Still ROTF after reading that rant!!
PPS: B2BB, feel better, and hurry back, we miss you!!
Dale Deeeep in the Mines of Diamond Sprungs, Norwintercali replied:
From remote cubby hole in the depths of the mines of the not so springy Diamondville: Festivus - My feat of strength will be with my 17 year old Grandson! And he doesn't even know it yet!! Ah Ha!
Randall said:
FESTIVUS!
...for the rest of us.
MAM wrote:
Festivus ~ A made-up holiday from 'Seinfeld', created by Frank Costanza in a 1997 episode,, celebrated on December 23 which serves as an alternative to participating in the pressures and
commercialism of the Christmas holiday season.
Kevin K
Washington, DC replied:
It's Festivus for the rest of us!
And, Joe S answered:
That seems to be "Festivus for the Rest of Us." I could be wrong, but I don't think so. No, I'm not wrong. Go out and celebrate Festivus.
Maybe one of the main reasons I watch Fox News is it allows me to enter into a 9th dimension where anything and everything is possible. Reality may be standing over in the corner nearby but the moment I enter into this unique universe time stops and takes me to places I could never imagine in the real world. Now I know the media have had quite a fun time taking on Megyn Kelly following her now famous words re Santa and Jesus's skin color. The quick re-cap is that she mentioned in passing that just because someone, like a non-white person does not feel comfortable constantly seeing a white Santa does not mean that Santa needs to be anything other than what he was/is White. And for good measure she tossed in a bonus cut that Jesus was of Aryan ancestry too. Like all of us didn't already have enough evidence at home to end this argument? Pictures don't lie ok?
So now here comes every non Fox News person on the face of the earth taking shots at her for just stating the obvious. When was the last time anyone saw a black department store Santa? Right? Let's now segue to the Jesus situation. I get it that a few million Christians in the middle east region of the world (yes there are a bunch of them residing in that sandy part of the world) may have not taken her stated physical description real well. I guess it's a bit of home town bias as they see Jesus a little differently. From what I have read they have all sorts of pictures and statues of him and his face is way darker than what Jesus looks like to the rest of the non-sandy parts of the world. If they want to believe Jesus looks like them well it's ok with me but I hope they know once they leave their neighborhood and fly to say Cleveland or Dallas and go to a church service they are going to be seeing a much lighter skinned savior staring at them from above the altar. I'm just saying they should at least be given a heads up before they step on the plane.
So that brings me to the question that Megyn was trying to ask, why do non-white people think the world has to cater to what they think is reality? In a democracy majority rules and that should not be open to challenge. The votes are in and duh, Santa and Jesus are white. Enough said. It seems like a no brainer. I mean I used to color on my pee chees in school and made the characters on them green all the time. It is my favorite color but do I expect the TV networks to make the actors in their prime time series all green? I mean it would be really cool but I would not ask them to go to all that trouble just for me. So maybe it's a good time for everyone to just agree to disagree on what Santa, Jesus and maybe Michael Jordan really look like.
So in closing I would like to ask if Megyn continues to get ripped for stating the obvious what's next? Is the liberal media going to question if President John F. Kennedy was really all man and not possibly an hermaphrodite? Yeah we've all read the womanizing stories but I heard this from a guy one night in the bar at a Red Lobster and yeah maybe he did have a few too many of the drink specials but the waitress who was serving him seemed to buy it. It affected her a bit as she said she was disappointed because John F. Kennedy was her grandpa's favorite president and if he were still alive today he would be pretty upset to learn this decorated war hero was maybe not who he thought he was. The guy in the bar didn't really say there was any proof as if it matters but you get where this is going right? I think it is clear it is time we left our icons alone and stop messing with people's minds. We are born, we decide what people look like and we die. The circle of life I think they call it so as Megyn said so succinctly, just because someone is uncomfortable in seeing something they don't think represents reality it doesn't mean the world owes them the truth. You're welcome. Later.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'How I Met Your Mother', followed by a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', then a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'Mom', then a RERUN'Elementary'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jonah Hill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, J. Roddy Walston and the Business.
On a RERUNCraig (from 12/6/13) are Zoe Saldana and Mitch Albom.
NBC begins the night with the SEASON FINALE'The Sing-Off', followed by a FRESH'Hollywood Game Night'.
On a RERUNLeno (from 12/12/13) are Kevin Hart, Brooklyn Decker, and Chris Young.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 12/9/13) are Amy Adams, Oscar Isaac, and Jack Johnson.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/21/13) are Francis Lawrence, the Blank Tapes, and Letlive.
ABC starts the night with 'Shrek The Halls', followed by 'A Chipmunk Christmas', then a FRESH'The Great Christmas Light Fight'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 12/2/13) are Orlando Bloom, Ronda Rousey, and Wild Feathers.
The CW fills the night with a RERUN'iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2013'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 11/14/13) are Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Melanie Comarcho, Finesse Mitchell, and Michael Yo.
Faux has a RERUN'Almost Human', followed by a RERUN'Sleepy Hollow'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jack Frost', followed by the movie 'Home Alone', then the movie 'Home Alone 2: Lost In New York'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 13 - Journey's End
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Love & Monsters
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[1:00PM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES - Season 1 - Ep 5 - Train
[2:00PM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES: THE GREAT TOY TRAIN RACE-Season 2
[3:00PM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES: FLIGHT CLUB - Season 3
[4:00PM] JAMES MAY'S TOY STORIES - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Lego
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 1
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR WINTER OLYMPICS SPECIAL-Season 7
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 9 NEW
[10:00PM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 4 NEW
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR WINTER OLYMPICS SPECIAL-Season 7
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41 - Episode 9
[1:00AM] JAMES MAY'S MAN LAB - Season 3 - Episode 4
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 10
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41 - Episode 9
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 1 - The Impossible Astronaut
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Day of the Moon (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of BH', then a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', and 'Real Housewives Of BH'.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', still another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', yet another 'South Park', and still one more 'South Park'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
Colbert Report is pre-empted.
FX has the movie 'Alvin & The Chipmunks', followed by the movie 'Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Sqeakquel', then the movie 'Alvin & The Chipmunks'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Pee-wee Herman Wears a Halloween Costume
[6:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rainn Wilson Wears a Short Sleeved Plaid Shirt & Colorful Sneakers
[7:15AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jason Schwartzman Wears a Striped Shirt & High Top Sneakers
[7:45AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Bowling
[8:15AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm vs. Reese
[8:45AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Mini-Bike
[9:15AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Carnival
[9:45AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Evacuation
[10:15AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Flashback
[10:45AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Houseboat
[11:15AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Emancipation
[11:45AM] Blazing Saddles
[1:45PM] From Within
[3:45PM] Frailty
[6:00PM] Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
[8:00PM] Snakes on a Plane
[10:15PM] Snakes on a Plane
[12:30AM] Splice
[2:45AM] Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
[4:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Santa Suit
[5:15AM] The Birthday Boys-Dumb Public
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Tree of Life
[9:00AM] Foul Play
[11:30AM] Cry Baby
[1:15PM] Peggy Sue Got Married
[3:30PM] Changing Lanes
[5:45PM] The Hurt Locker
[8:45PM] Brothers
[11:00PM] Breaking Bad-Cornered
[12:00AM] Breaking Bad-Problem Dog
[1:00AM] To Die For
[3:15AM] Brothers
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-American Horror Story (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Matrix', followed by the movie 'Batman Begins'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 9/23/13) are Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, R.J. Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Anna Gunn, Vince Gilligan, and Los Cautes De Sinaloa.
Singer John Boutte, left, and Allen Toussaint shake hands after performing the national anthem during pregame ceremonies before the New Orleans Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, in New Orleans.
Photo by Bill Haber
Comic book publisher DC Entertainment says it has acquired the art drawn by artist Al Plastino for a 1964 comic featuring President John F. Kennedy and Superman and will donate it to the JFK library in Boston.
Last month, Heritage Auctions withdrew original artwork for the 1964 comic book from an auction. Plastino had found it on display at New York Comic Con in October.
Plastino drew the comic and had thought "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy" in "Superman" No. 170 was donated to Boston's Kennedy library decades ago. Heritage says the initial seller of the art had bought it in 1993.
Plastino died late last month at age 91. His wife says she welcomes Monday's move by DC, noting the art was very special to him and their family.
Horses break from the starting gate at the 75 year old Betfair Hollywood Park, which is closing down after tomorrow's race card, in Inglewood, California December 21, 2013.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
The music of rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame performer Fats Domino will "float" through the streets of New Orleans this Carnival season.
Domino has been named honorary grand marshal of the Krewe of Orpheus, the star-studded Carnival club that traditionally parades the night before Mardi Gras.
Although he won't be riding in the March 3 parade, his eldest son, Antoine Domino III, is expected to ride on a float equipped with a piano and speakers to perform his father's greatest hits, such as "Blue Monday," ''The Fat Man," ''Blueberry Hill" and "Walking to New Orleans."
Other family members are expected to ride and throw coaster-size, gold-record doubloons and other Fats Domino-themed trinkets from the float.
Domino, 85, moving a little slow and his speech low, smiled for friends, family and a handful of news media who gathered Friday in his suburban New Orleans living room as he was honoured by the Krewe of Orpheus with a medallion proclaiming him honorary grand marshal.
Guitarist Carolos Santana has been reunited with a former bandmate he hasn't seen in decades and who now lives on the streets of Oakland.
Television station KRON in San Francisco reports that one of its reporters ran into percussionist Marcus "The Magnificent" Malone while working on a story about illegal dumping last week.
Reporter Stanley Roberts initially was skeptical of the homeless man's claim that the Santana Blues Band got its start in his mother's garage in the late 1960s.
But Roberts checked out the story and found it was true. And on Friday, he took Santana to see Malone for the first time in decades.
Malone played congas on Santana's eponymous first album, but left the band shortly before its seminal performance at Woodstock when he was imprisoned at San Quentin.
Protesters rally against racism during a demonstration in the Stockholm suburb of Karrtorp December 22, 2013. Thousands of Swedes took to the streets of Stockholm on Sunday in a protest against racism following a neo-Nazi attack on a similar but much smaller rally last weekend, police said. The protest followed events last weekend when around 30 neo-Nazis attacked another anti-racism rally in the same suburb, Karrtorp, throwing bottles and firecrackers at protesters. The sign reads, "United against racism".
Photo by Anders Wiklund
An antique Stradivarius violin that was stolen from its owner at a London railway station in 2010 has fetched almost 1.4 million pounds ($2.3 million) at auction.
The instrument was snatched outside Euston Station in November 2010 while South Korean musician Min-Jin Kym was getting a snack.
In July, almost three years later, police announced they had recovered the instrument intact with minor damage at a property in central England. Three people have been convicted over the theft.
The instrument, made in 1696, is one of only around 400 surviving Stradivarius violins in the world. It was sold Wednesday by fine-instrument auction house Tarisio in an online sale for 1,385,000 pounds.
They invite camera crews into their homes in the hopes of high ratings, endorsement deals and a taste of fame. Yet for some reality television stars, their notoriety brings some unexpected grief from tax collectors or pricey court cases.
That's the predicament Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal found himself in, spending several weeks in a Los Angeles courtroom as he defended himself against allegations that he didn't own one of his most cherished possessions: an Andy Warhol portrait of longtime lover Farrah Fawcett.
Some of the evidence used against him was footage shot by a reality TV crew for her series "Chasing Farrah," and other projects where O'Neal and Fawcett allowed cameras into their private lives.
With families such as the Kardashians and those on the "Real Housewives" shows opening up their homes in cities across the country, lawyers to the stars see reality television crews as a weapon that can be used against their clients.
O'Neal's troubles began when a disgruntled producer of Fawcett's show convinced her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, that the Warhol portrait didn't belong to the actor. But TV footage - even just a few fleeting frames - can also be used by tax collectors, bankruptcy trustees and others to wreak havoc, said Bradford Cohen, an attorney who specializes in celebrity tax and estate issues at Venable LLP.
Pro-European integration protesters wearing masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich joke during a rally in Independence square in Kiev December 22, 2013. European Union leaders said on Friday the door to a closer partnership with Ukraine remained open but not necessarily for the current Ukrainian leadership, which chose a bailout from Russia in preference to a trade deal with Brussels.
Photo by Marko Djurica
The owner of a St. John's store that sells items made from seal fur says business was great - but has been seriously booming since philanthropist Sam Simon and actor Pamela Anderson visited the province to protest the seal hunt.
Anderson and Simon, with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), were in St. John's last week to present a cheque for $1 million in cash to Canadian sealers so they would retire and stop the seal hunt.
Bernie Halloran, owner of Always In Vogue, said since the controversial visit, people supporting the sealing industry have been flooding into his shop to purchase seal skin items.
"I've said this before, and I'll say it again, when celebrities come in, especially with the seal issue, and it's so close to Newfoundland and Labrador, it just angers them [people from the province]."
Halloran said customers said they were on the fence about when to make their purchases, but Anderson's visit settled the matter for them and they flooded his doorway.
Louisiana's lieutenant governor says the "Duck Dynasty" reality TV show is important to state tourism - and he could help connect the Robertson family with new producers if they cannot reach agreement with the A&E network.
The network suspended patriarch Phil Robertson last week for telling GQ magazine that gays are sinners akin to adulterers and swindlers.
"Regardless of one's views on Phil Robertson's statements, Duck Dynasty has been an important representation of the state of Louisiana, inspiring prospective visitors and investors since its debut," Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne said in a statement emailed Saturday.
Dardenne, who authored the state's film and TV tax credit program, said he would use his influence in the state's industry to help the Robertsons.
Israeli-Arab Issa Kassissieh wears a Santa Claus costume as he poses for the media in Jerusalem's Old City, after the annual distribution of Christmas trees by the Jerusalem municipality December 22, 2013.
Photo by Baz Ratner
A recent visit to a remote Antarctic emperor penguin colony found thousands of fuzzy penguin chicks, meaning the colony is even bigger than previously thought.
A team from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station estimates there are 15,000 penguins living in four groups at the colony, on East Antarctica's Princess Ragnhild Coast. The team counted the number of chicks demanding regurgitated meals from their parents to gauge the total colony size, because the adults were off fishing for food.
"The [good] weather this season gave us the opportunity this season to spend a bit more of time counting individual emperor penguins," said Alain Hubert, the expedition leader and founder of the International Polar Foundation, which designed and built the research station. "What surprised me is that each group was 5 to 7 percent chicks. It means that it is a healthy rookery; this opinion can be reinforced by the fact that I didn't find more than five dead little chicks at the overwintering place," Hubert told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet in an email interview from Antarctica. [Charming Chicks: Antarctica's Baby Penguins ]
A December 2012 expedition from Princess Elisabeth station marked the first time humans saw this colony of flightless birds. The colony was suspected to exist because their poop was spotted by satellites in 2009, leaving light brown trails on the ice.
This year's penguin count confirms the accuracy of the satellite monitoring, Hubert said. "We found a real rookery of about 15,000 individuals, and in a very good health, at a latitude of only south 70 degrees, a position which is critical for most of the colonies in West Antarctica," Hubert said. "This a good sign for the survival of the species."
Archaeologists have discovered a panel containing the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the entire Old World.
The rock panel, now in two pieces, was found on the west wall of a shallow sandstone wadi, or valley, in the Kharga Oasis, located in Egypt's western desert about 108 miles (175 kilometers) west of Luxor. Facing east, and illuminated by the morning sun, the panel is a "very unusual" find, said Egyptologist Salima Ikram, a professor at the American University in Cairo who co-directs the North Kharga Oasis Survey Project.
The identification of the creatures as spiders is tentative and the date of it uncertain, Ikram told LiveScience in an email. Even so, based on other activity in the area, the rock art may date to about 4000 B.C. or earlier, which would put it well into prehistoric times, before Egypt was unified, noted Ikram, who detailed the finding in the most recent edition of the journal Sahara.
The main panel shows what appear to be a few spiders, with a "star" that's possibly meant to depict a web next to the spider on the far left. There are also comblike drawings that are more enigmatic; Ikram said they could be insects being trapped by the spiders, plants or even silken tubes spun by the spiders.
The discovery leaves archaeologists with a mystery - why did people in the Kharga Oasis create rock art showing spiders, especially when no other examples are known to exist elsewhere in Egypt or, it appears, the entire Old World?
In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the "hidden folk" - thousands of elves, making their homes in Iceland's wilderness.
So perhaps it was only a matter of time before 21st-century elves got political representation.
Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to abandon a highway project building a direct route from the Alftanes peninsula, where the president has a home, to the Reykjavik suburb of Gardabaer. They fear disturbing elf habitat and claim the area is particularly important because it contains an elf church.
The project has been halted until the Supreme Court of Iceland rules on a case brought by a group known as Friends of Lava, who cite both the environmental and the cultural impact - including the impact on elves - of the road project. The group has regularly brought hundreds of people out to block the bulldozers.
And it's not the first time issues about "Huldufolk," Icelandic for "hidden folk," have affected planning decisions.
On a busy pre-Christmas weekend at the box office, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" held off a very different sequel, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."
Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" sequel took in $31.5 million in its second weekend of release for Warner Bros., according to studio estimates Sunday. Though the film isn't matching the pace of the first "Hobbit" movie, "An Unexpected Journey," ''The Desolation of Smaug" is doing well abroad. It's now made more than $400 million worldwide, including $96 million internationally over the weekend.
The "Hobbit" topped Will Ferrell's "Anchorman" sequel, which nevertheless opened strongly in second place. The Paramount Pictures comedy made $26.8 million over the three-day weekend and $40 million since opening Tuesday night.
Spike Jonze's acclaimed futuristic romance "Her," starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson, opened in limited release. It took in $361,000 over five days in three cities, good for a $60,000 screen average.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday:
1. "Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," $31.5 million ($96 million international).
2. "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," $26.8 million ($13.4 million international).
3. "Frozen," $19.2 million ($35.1 million international).
4. "American Hustle," $19.1 million.
5. "Saving Mr. Banks," $9.3 million ($5.5 million international).
6. "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," $8.8 million ($11 million international).
7. "Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas," $8.5 million.
8. "Walking With Dinosaurs," $7.3 million ($13.8 million international).
9. "Dhoom 3," $3.3 million ($2.1 million international).
10. "Thor: The Dark World," $1.3 million.
Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., the Canadian-born billionaire and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, which lobbied the Soviets to allow Jews to emigrate and helped spearhead the search for hidden Nazi loot, died Saturday. He was 84.
Bronfman died at his New York home surrounded by family, according to the family charity he led, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation.
Bronfman was born in Montreal on June 20, 1929 and made his fortune with his family's Seagram's liquor empire. He joined the family business in 1957 and took over as chairman and CEO in 1971, continuing the work of his father, Samuel. Under Bronfman's leadership, Seagram expanded its offerings and was eventually acquired by French media and telecom group Vivendi Universal in 2000.
Bronfman became a U.S. citizen in 1959 and in 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour. In the citation, Bronfman was heralded for working "to ensure basic rights for Jews around the world."
During the 1980s and 1990s, the congress also helped lead the effort to gain $11 billion in restitution for heirs of Holocaust victims.
Stable ponies touch noses at Betfair Hollywood Park, which is closing down at the conclusion of tomorrow's race card after operating for 75 years, in Inglewood, California December 21, 2013.
Photo by Jonathan Alcorn
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