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Monday, November 22, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE DECEMBERISTS brought Gillian Welch along for "Down by the Water" on Conan.

THE FELICE BROTHERS played a short set on the Mountain Stage.

CLOUD CULT performed for a live audience of Current listeners and friends in the UBS Forum.

PETE YORN stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

SONNY & THE SANDWICHES: Sonny Smith (Sonny & the Sunsets) joins The Sanwiches for an EP, leading with "Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die."

U2: "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of one such Sunday.

CARIBOU: Dan Snaith talks to The Guardian about changes both musical and lyrical.

GIRLS: Christopher Owens talks to The Fader about the new EP, old songs, the Internet buzz rollercoaster and more... (Thx, LHB.)

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid talks to The Arts Desk about the band, his earliest memories and more... (Thx again, LHB.)

THE WORST BEATLES COMPILATION, according to Neil McCormick at the Telegraph.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Harry Potter dominated the receipts with 125.1 million -- a figure suprisingly large, even for the Potter franchise.  It is the 6th biggest opening ever (and the others were summer flicks, except Twilight: New Moon).  It easily beat Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire's 102 million opening, the prior record for the franchise.  The young wizards will likely make 2 billion before Christmas.  When Part 2 opens in 3-D, with the premium ticket price, it will have a shot at beating The Dark Knight for the all-time record.  Megamind dropped an expected 44 percent versus Potter, taking in 16.2 million and crossing the 100 million mark, which ensures a decent profit for DreamWorks (though not How to Train Yor Dragon-size success).  Unstoppable dropped a decent 42 percent to the third slot with 13.1 million, and will likely finish at the high end of the 60-70 million range for Denzel Washington-Tony Scott pics.  Overseas receipts will likely put it at 150 million on its 100 million budget.  The debut of The Next three Days rounds out the Top Five with 6.7 million, perhaps the biggest victim of He Who Must Not Be Named.

HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS (Part 1), despite its massive opening, got some of the lowest Tomatometer ratings of the franchise (though still quite solid).  It's fairly easy to see why, as its strengths and weaknesses both flow from the decision (which likely involved both art and commerce) to split the supposed finale of the series into two movies.  As such, the tone of Part 1 is perhaps overly dark, and its ending a bit of an anti-climax.  On the other hand, the plot and character development needn't be overly condensed for time, which even I, a non-reader of the books, can appreciate -- and may appreciate more by the end of Part 2.  Having re-watched some of the earlier films in the weeks leading up to this one, I note that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint can all take pride in how they have honed their craft from childhood to adulthood.  They have gotten a working education at the feet of some of Britain's finest actors, and it now shows in their work.  Well done, kids.

EVA LONGORIA & TONY PARKER: The NBA star has filed his own divorce petition against Longoria in Texas, setting up a legal battle.

LINDSAY LOHAN got the boot from that Linda Lovelace biopic, replaced by Malin Ackerman.  But you can't fire Lohan, she quit.

WESLEY SNIPES was ordered to start serving a three-year jail sentence on tax-related offences after a Florida Judge rejected the actor's appeal for a new trial.

TERI HATCHER quitting Desperate Housewives?

CHARLIE SHEEN's hotel companion headed to Good Morning America this morning?

THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS went to these folks.

TERROR in GERMANY: According to information obtained by German security authorities, al-Qaeda and associated groups are believed to be planning an attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin, the headquarters of Germany's parliament and also an attraction visited by thousands of tourists every day. As part of the attack, terrorists would seek to take hostages and perpetrate a bloodbath using firearms.

ISLAMISM in the USA: A federal judge's long-secret ruling that federal prosecutors violated the rights of three major American Islamic organizations and others named as unindicted co-conspirators in a Texas terrorism support case finally became public on Friday.  However, US District Court Judge Jorge Solis found that the government presented "ample evidence to establish the association" of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust with Hamas, a Palestinian group that the US has labeled as a terrorist organization and with a defunct charity convicted in the terrorism support case, the Holy Land Foundation.

NORTH KOREA showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama admin. with the prospect that the country is preparing to expand its nuclear arsenal or build a far more powerful type of atomic bomb.

IRAN has been experiencing years of problems with equipment used in its uranium enrichment program and the Stuxnet computer virus may be one of the factors, a former top UN nuclear inspections official said.

PARROT vs CAT: Let's go to the video.

FROG bites off more than it can chew.

RADIOACTIVE MOUSE hunted near the Hanford nuclear reservation site.

HOMER the BLIND KITTEN finds a home.

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