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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.

THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Posted 1:05 PM by Gene

According to ShowBizData.com APE III did $10 million its first day, which sounds low to me given the PR. The running time is no excuse as THE POPCORN RESTAURANT CONSPIRACY probably has it up on 10,000 screens. I'd guess it'll probably do as expected, but I wonder.

It also took some viewers out of HUGH and K-LO's favorite, and the rest of the biz hardly registered.

P. S. If APE III fizzles, LUKE SPIELBERG GETS HIS OSCAR®, no matter how overrated or PC He is.

P. P. S. At 5:15 P. M.: BoxOfficeMojo puts the number at $9,755,745, or $2,735 per venue -- or a little over $700 a venue more than The Polar Express in reissue at IMAX houses. Is the ape giving off flop sweat?

Also, THE GAY COWBOYS added two venues and its average went down by 25 percent. I wonder about that too.

It is PREPOSTEROUS to pay such close attention to these DUBIOUS numbers but after the UNCEASING PUBLICITY BARRAGE of recent weeks it's impossible not to.

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