• HOME
  • OBNS
  • Sports
  • Forum
  • For Hire
  • Feeds
  • Tickets
  • Oscar gallery
  • Blog
  • Tim's Tidbits
  • Tim's Theater Ticket
  • ELVIS
  • Casting Calls
  • Box Office Mojo
  • Academy Awards
  • Ronald Reagan
  • O'Brien News Service

Blog

Need a place to store stuff.

  O'Brien News Service

Wrap it up: 3/7/11

3/11/2011

0 Comments

 
MOVED from HOME page:

Welcome back from the weekend. Here are a few items for you to grasp, wonder, or simply ignore as the week progresses. Stay tuned for additions and updates.
- UPDATE: 'Idol" announces songs will be pretaped. And it was bad.
- More unemployment numbers and this time not good, but they found it good. Huh? Well, at least it was under 400,000 is what I was told. Wow.
- Yes, this takes the place of Daily Dose from now on. Oh, by the way, I do a radio show, too.
- The unemployment numbers did not change over the weekend but those gas prices, ouch.
Weekend BO
1. "Rango” - $38 million
2. “The Adjustment Bureau” - $20.9 million
3. “Beastly” - $10.1 million
Source: Box Office Mojo
Notes: "Rango" fuels another weak weekend at the box office. Sure, the top three movies were in double digits but still not strong and attendance was off. People still went and watched Johnny Depp. Well, not really Depp, his voice. Is anybody else getting tired of all the animated films yet? I am and do not get me started on 3D. "The Adjustment Bureau" is a film we have all seen before, just not this weekend, however. As for me, I could not get past the hat. So, you could say the BO is "Beastly." Sorry, had to do that. Was there any Oscar boost for “The King’s Speech”? Truth is, not really. The real loser of the weekend was a movie that was made a couple years back and it showed, “Take Me Home Tonight.” The answer was no as far taking it in tonight, or over the weekend. You know it’s bad when people note the best thing about it is the soundtrack.
Wrap it up:
- World food prices are way up. Unrest, you bet.
- Sooner or later, these gunman really aren't acting alone, right?
- Not all facts are fun.
- Tea Party will go after both parties, so look out.
- When Newt Gingrich appeared in this area for the Reagan Centennial celebrations, he hinted real LOUD that he was most likely going to jump in - - at least for now. From what people have told me, even if they do not want him to win, they want him in for the ideas he will bring to the race.
- You mean the government is not shut down? Darn the luck.
- Support will dwindle in Wisconsin now that Michael Moore has appeared.
- Where was I when my college class had that sex demonstration?
- You could make a drinking game out of the times you hear madness during March.
- Here we go again. How will you spell the leader of Libya's name?
- You do know when we all start riding bikes they will ask for a yearly fee to do so. Think of all that money lost by riding instead of driving. Plus, our electric bills will go up (not at first) when we all pile into those electric cars.
- I'm still trying to figure out why the digital switch was really needed. I still cannot get CBS on one of my TV sets, even with the box.
- By the way, George W. Bush stopped playing golf after the war began.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Not all done by me, of course. Other parties linked and sourced. LINK TO SOURCES RIGHT HERE. I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE THE AUTHOR OF ALL THAT IS CONTAINED HERE.

    Tim O'Brien - -
    Just because you want to be a reviewer doesn't mean it will happen. In the late 1970s, Tim was given an assignment to cover the Rush concert at the old Chicago Stadium. After the review was published, he never stopped. Sure, that was just an assignment for his high school paper, "The Barblet," but it sent him on a path that would take him to the Red Carpet in Hollywood. In college he was the editor of his own magazine called "Fridays," among other duties (at The Daily Vidette, ISU), from 1983-1986. After a stint in Hollywood, he returned to Illinois to work for Sauk Valley Newspapers in Dixon, Illinois and created its magazine "The Big E," an entertainment publication, from 1993-2006. He even started his own called "Have Fun!" After all these years, he still finds himself on the entertainment beat.

     He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Illinois State University.
    Tim used to take notes at home while watching the Oscars. Now, he takes notes there. Once he even held those $1 million shoes.

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    June 2016
    July 2015
    March 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010

    Categories

    All
    9/11
    Ads
    A LIST
    Ampas
    Area
    Awards
    Bo
    Business
    Chamber
    Cmt Special
    Cns
    Comedy
    Compiled
    Concerts
    Crime
    Cw
    Daily Dose
    Dose
    Drump
    Dump
    Dump Bo
    E
    E87c7e31d7a
    Elvis
    Emmy
    Emmys
    Ent
    Entertainment
    Events
    Film
    Fox
    History
    Holiday
    Homeland
    Horoscope
    Horoscopes
    Humor
    Illinois
    Lifestyle
    Local
    Local Dump
    Locals
    Movie
    Movies
    Music
    Nbc
    New
    News
    News Area410666401c
    News Dump
    News Dump7c19d3a9c1
    Obns
    Opinion
    Opinions
    Oscars
    People
    Politics
    Politics Documentary42352a4fc8
    Poll
    Polls
    Ranker
    Ratings
    Sports
    Survey
    Surveys
    Teen Choice
    Teens
    Television
    Theater
    Thought
    Thoughts
    Tonys
    Tourism
    Trivia
    Tv
    Wrap

    RSS Feed

news now!


OBNS

O'Brien News Service

Twitter

@Timobns

Email

timobns@gmail.com
✕