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[Tie Battalion A GGIELIFE ^^Page^^Monda^Decembei^^^W by stories and dry martinis dominate box office sales Amy GrajJ A Christmas to Km CD Courtesy A&M Records LOS ANGELES (AP) — Everyone’s favorite talking Joys dominated the box office for a second weekend as Toy Story 2 took in $28.3 million, according to esti- lates yesterday. With no major new movies, box office revenues haped up mostly the same as a week ago. The James ond flick The World Is Not Enough came in second ith $10.6 million, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s End of 'lays was third with $9.7 million and Tim Burton’s [horror detective film, Sleepy Hollow, was No. 4 with $9 million. Toy Story 2, produced by Disney and Pixar, has rossed $117.3 million in 12 days of nationwide release. The movie passed the $100 million mark Saturday, hat tied Disney’s personal best for The Lion King, hich reached that mark in 11 days in 1994 and went n to become the studio’s top-grossing film ever with 312 million. “We are just on cloud nine,” Rod Rodriguez, senior ice president and general sales manager for Disney’s 1m group, said. “It did everything we expected and ere hoping for. It’s a nice holiday gift for us.” Toy Story 2 maintained an impressive per-screen verage of $8,740 in 3,238 theaters. The World Is Not hough averaged $3,351 in 3,163 theaters, and End of toys brought in $3,732 on 2,599 screens. The animated sequel, with Tom Hanks and Tim Hen reprising the voices of talking toys Woody the |heriff and space ranger Buzz Lightyear, broke the hanksgiving box-office record with $80.1 million in jjiist five days. I After a barrage of blockbusters the last two weeks, Jtudios took a post-Thanksgiving breather, putting out asn’t Amy Gran: |$iily a handful of new movies in limited release, rded a Christmas al •eally have to make rant has created sc ; goody-goody pop: has always associaie; Christian influences m is horrid, he only credit sliei Id have to comet: writing. The origin;, not Gram my-worth; she wrote them- y of today’s singing cannot boast, nere is a mix of olds a iis album, irprisingly, there iso is heap of crap-: Santa,” sung to the Sandman.” it the record hits roil at the start of “Jingf .” Grant’s vocals®* enough for the til ack-up singers arc y loud. Many oftlit re these male W- rs who only ruinthtj id of accenting it. ant can sing, but sot her road to fame slit! annoying. (Grade: A Christmas rush of big films and Oscar hopefuls begins next weekend with the opening of Hanks’ Death Row drama. The Green Mile. “This is sort of the calm after the storm and before the storm, before the next onslaught of holiday films,” Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc., which tracks ticket sales, said. Two new movies scored big playing in just a few theaters. Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown took in $102,000 on three screens in New York City, averaging $34,000 a theater. The movie stars Sean Penn, Uma Thurman and Samantha Morton in a ’30s story of the world’s second-greatest jazz guitarist. Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, a cerebral tale of adultery and obsession, grossed $203,000 on seven screens in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and San Francisco, averaging $29,000 a theater. Based on the Graham Greene novel, the movie stars Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore and Stephen Rea. Both movies open in a few more cities around Christmas and go into wider release next month. Holy Smoke from director Jane Campion began a one-week Oscar run, taking in $32,000 in two theaters in New York and Los Angeles. The movie, starring Kate Winslet as a Hindu groupie and Harvey Keitel as a cult deprogrammer, opens in wider release early next year. Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace re turned to theaters Friday for a one-week run, with all the proceeds going to local charities. The movie took in just under $1.2 million on 832 screens. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through yesterday at North American theaters, according to Exhibitor Re lations Co. Inc. Final figures are to be released today. Weekend box office 1. Toy Story 2: $28.3 million 2. The World is not Enough: $10.6 million 3. End of Days: $9.7 million 4. Sleepy Hollow: $9 million 3. Bone Collector: $3.1 million PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Carrey loses self n character study LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jim Car ey said he immersed himself so leeply in the role of late comic Andy iaufman for the film Man on the /loon that he forgot the character if Jim Carrey. After the movie wrapped: “I ittle bit of a NasfcMpent three weeks thinking, [What do I like again? What do I Relieve? How do I feel about [hat?”' Carrey said. had completely let that go. You completely lose yourself." Kaufman’s parents, Stanley and iJarole Kaufman, “treated me like ndy,” Carrey told the Los Angeles imesfor a story published yesterday. “Carol Kaufman sent me a letter aying, ‘We knew what Andy was like until 1983, and now we know what he’s like now,”’ Carrey said. “It was gratifying and frightening and weird and wonderful.” Carrey, 37, who starred in The Mask and The Truman Show, said he is well aware that fame can be fleeting. “I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Be cause you can lose it,”’ he said. TV’s Gilligan to donate to auction BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) — Castoffs from West Virginia’s most famous shipwrecked cast away are going on the auction block for charity. average tlon’t IVlistss (1*1 r lOtftfi liOVUM OK-I - HOACt ping delivery iuci *NT Tuesday December 7 th after Taps Its fan sin ft, kills'’ liitii://www.Iast-free-eKii.coiii s c II A A 11 ’y* ° o afIC TOT 1 XM Bob Denver — Gilligan in the ’60s TV series “Gilligan’s Island” — is donating autographed items from the show to benefit the Bluefield Union Mission. Among Denver’s donations: a “Gilligan’s Island” play school set and autographed denim shorts worn by actress Dawn Wells, who portrayed Mary Ann. “I think it’s a good cause,” Denver, a resident of nearby Princeton said. “It goes right to the local people.” The auction is scheduled for Dec. 18. Rodman’s assault suit dropped LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman who sued Dennis Rodman, saying the basketball star sexually as saulted her at the Las Vegas Hilton, is dropping the federal lawsuit. Dixie Johnson, 48, had claimed Rodman grabbed her breast after her former employer, Stripper Elite En tertainment, sent her to the hotel to enter tain him. She was asking for more than $3 million. Rodman attorney Gregory Hafen would not say whether the dis missal meant the parties had reached a settlement. Johnson’s case is one of several lawsuits filed against Rodman during the past 18 months in Las Vegas. RODMAN Student Counseling ^mJHetp£in *l/oCcMte&i& Tieeded INTERVIEWING NOW ALL MAJORS WELCOME ! to begin service in the Spring Semester. Training will take place January 10 - 15, 2000 For more information call Susan Vavra at 845-4427 ext. 133 or visit our web site at www.scs.tamu.edu/volunteer/ STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE en you are eatinj lems with b ia: >w being formed lese problems. 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