The #1 movie over the past weekend (9/6-9/7) was the Pang Brothers’ English remake of their first movie Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicholas Cage. It came in with $7,783,266 in its debut weekend…which is the lowest box office gross for a #1 movie in five years (when the David Spade movie Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star was the #1 movie with $6.7 million.) The movie specialized in the two types of movies that Cage does best: action movies and movies where he is depressed. I’m actually a big fan of the mopey one, but this movie was just so-so to me. I’m getting sick of Asian remakes anyway…so let’s stop while we’re far behind anyway…okay?

The #1 TV program, according to the Nielsen Ratings for the week of 9/1/08-9/7/08, was NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” Not a sports fan…not a “Deal or No Deal” or “60 Minutes” fan…so let’s cut to the chase and go straight to the #6 show…the Tuesday edition of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent 3.” The oddest contestant who was eliminated was Shequida Hall, a female impersonator who sang opera with a high falsetto and a low baritone at the same time.

The #1 Fiction book according to the New York Times Bestseller Lists is the eleventh Temperance “Bones” Brennan mystery Devil Bones, and the #1 Non-Fiction book this week is sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin.

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