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Hollywoods Newest Superstar is Born-Pro South Film 'Sweet Home Alabama' Shatters B.O. Records
Box Offcie Mojo.com ^
| Sept. 28, 2002
| Staff Writer
Posted on 09/28/2002 3:35:26 PM PDT by tip of the sword
The Pro-South comedy 'Sweet Home Alabama' debuted last night with a take of close to 13 million which is slighly under the single day record of 13.3 million for 'Rush Hour' in Spetember.
Since Saturday Night is 'Date Night' expert expect that number to go up and the film to gross close to 40 million for the weekend making Resse Witherspoon second to Julia Roberts as a leading current female star.
A new affinty for films of the south or new star power of Genration X, or a combination of both..you make the call!
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: boxofficerecord; instantsuperstar; oldsouth; reesewitherspoon
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She will be offered every role in town this year now..
To: tip of the sword
I suspect their definition of 'Pro-South' and mine might differ. I'll wait reviews from trusted friends to see if it was terribly stereotypically offensive.
To: tip of the sword
You lost. Get over it. No amount of Hollywood makeovers will change the fact. The midwestern farmboys were just too tough for ya....
Respectfully,
To: Black Agnes
The previews look pretty funny..Reese is trying to find her dad in the middle of a Civil War Battlefield re-enactment and shouts 'Daddy' and every one of the supposed dead soldiers gets up and responds!
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
And a superstar is born tonight...Actuallly she isnt bad to look at, I guess I won't mind going to date films for like the next 15 year with her in it
To: Black Agnes
To: LaBelleDameSansMerci
You lost.More accurate to say, "Everybody lost." Let's throw off chattel slavery for some of the populace and institute political and economic slavery for everyone! Hurrah! Freedom! For the anointed. For you and me it's, "We will take this % of your income and if you don't like it we will jail you. We will also jail you if you say anything upsetting to one of our poor, politically-protected subgroups who were treated badly 1.5 centuries ago." Thanks, Abe. Remember: Might makes right!
To: All
Biggest Romantic Comedy Opening of all time..
To: Jonathon Spectre
That ought to set the arguements flying..
To: Black Agnes
To: tip of the sword
Ugh. Deliver me from Brittney, Courtney, Ashley, and all of these pretentious soap-opera names...
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09/28/2002 4:18:12 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Jonathon Spectre
To: Jonathon Spectre
What can have possessed me to open this can of wormy history? My ancestors who did, in fact, march in the victorious Grand Army of the Republic, were much more self-controlled, repectful and dignified---as far as I can tell.
It may not have been poor old Honest Abe who brought us to this dismal pass (which you accurrately describe). He was as much a victim of history as anyone. But I certainly agree we are there.
I think "Tip of the Sword" is filled with the milk of human kindness---or something like that. We musn't bloody his Reese's peanut butter cup thread with our earnest anachronisms....
To: tip of the sword
Oh believe me I know. Sadly I won't be around to see it, I'm going to go watch "Sweet Home Alabama".
Oh, wait a minute. "Romantic comedy". Mebbe I'll just watch "Black Hawk Down" again and play some Warcraft 3. Plus it stars Julia Roberts, and I've heard enough empty-headed, ignorant, unattractive, silly, vapid, stupid people talk today.
Damn that C-Span.
To: tip of the sword
Reese Witherspoon is a far better actress than Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts is more of personality than an actress IMO. Reese Witherspoon is the real deal. She can play any type of character in all sorts of movie genres.
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09/28/2002 4:24:31 PM PDT
by
veronica
To: Bush2000
Unfortunately, that was the trend back then when Dallas was big..soap opera names!
To: Jonathon Spectre
Julia Roberts was in Black Hawk Down? Was she the pregnant wife of one of the soldiers..
To: veronica
I think Reese may be bigger than Julia right now after Legally Blonde 2.
Reese plays the 'everygirl' role of Meg Ryan and Julia is on the downside of her career.
To: tip of the sword
Reese was great in "Freeway". This new one looks like it might be worth seeing, too.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Reese can play the stuck up blonde or nice girl even better than Meg Ryan in some instances.
Hollywood has been waiting for a long time for a young actresss with Box Office staying power, there just aren't any out there!
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