Other number ones for the week of 10/20-10/26/08
The #1 movie over the past weekend (10/17-10/19) was the video game adaptation Max Payne, which brought in $17,639,849 in its first weekend. Mark Wahlberg plays a great Max Payne, but I couldn’t take Mila Kunis (FOX’s “That ‘70s Show,” Forgetting Sarah Marshall) seriously as an action star. I didn’t think that it even looked like a video game movie until the last third of it. It has the “bullet time” effect near the end, but overall, this summer’s shoot ‘em up comic book adaptation Wanted was much cooler and interesting than this one.
The #1 TV program, according to the Nielsen Ratings for the week of 10/13/08-10/19/08, was still CBS’s “C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation.” This was the episode following the death of Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), but since I stopped watching the show two seasons ago, I will comment on the #2 show…ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars 7.” Okay, let me get this straight… Misty May-Treanor was injured during practice, Brooke Burke was injured during the camera blocking for her Jitterbug with partner Derek Hough, Susan Lucci had fractured two bones in her foot, Julianne Hough has been diagnosed with endometriosis and will undergo surgery to have her appendix removed…yet Cloris Leachman hasn’t had as much as a papercut? I think that, while aging is inevitable, you don’t have to act like you are old. Every time I groan about one thing or another at my advanced age of 33, I should remember that an 82-year-old is doing dances like the Foxtrot, the Mambo, the Paso Doble, the Jive, the Tango, and the Salsa!
The #1 Fiction book according to the New York Times Bestseller Lists is The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks, and the #1 Non-Fiction book is Here’s the Story by former Marcia Brady, Maureen McCormick.