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 sports-politics-entertainment-culture EARLY SAT & 3-DAY ESTIMATES: ‘21’ wins again w/$6.3M Sat & $15.5M 3-day; 'Nim's Island' adds $5.7M Sat & headed for $13.5M; 'Leatherheads' likely #3 w/$13.4M; 'Ruins' bombs w/$7.8M; 'Red Balloon' & 'Blueberry Nights' lead PTA race!
Fox's Nim's Island received a 49% Friday-to-Saturday increase for $5.73M, but the Jodie Foster vehicle will limp to an underwhelming $13.48M 3-day. That should be just enough to top George Clooney's Leatherheads (Universal), which could only muster $5.44M on Saturday. The world's greatest modern day movie star will likely manage only $13.42M and a 3rd place finish. UCLA - Memphis Preview! Everybody's gearing up for the Final Four in San Antonio. For some reason, I've got a bad feeling about UCLA. Fred Roggin and I caught up with UCLA assistant Scott Garson before the team jetted off to Texas, and we talked about some of the ins and outs of playing John Calipari's Memphia Tigers. Of the 4 teams, Kansas has the longest odds against winning the championship, according to Vegas, and UCLA is #3. North Carolina is the favorite with Memphis 2nd. Rick Reilly: Sportswriter and now Screenwriter! Rick Reilly, who has won the National Sportswriter of the Year Award more times than I can count, wrote a screenplay about the early days of football 17 years ago. Somehow, George Clooney got hold of it a few years ago, and now LEATHERHEADS is a big time movie coming out on Friday. I had a great conversation with Rick yesterday - a full hour - and you can hear it commercial-free at this link. One of the subjects we cover is the apparent demise of the newspaper business. This week, it was announced that the newspaper business's ad revenue was down 30% in 2007. That's a staggering drop. Rick says that he has heard that it's possible that there won't be a Los Angeles Times as we know it within a few years. Pedro Gomez is predicting an Angels-Dodgers World Series! It would be great if ESPN's Pedro Gomes was right. An All SoCal World Series would be great for me and the sports radio biz in LA, but Pedro backed off of this pick when he joined me on Th Steve Mason Show on Monday. The World's Youngest Sportscaster That's my brother Brian, his wife Susie, my niece Morgan and my genius nephew Hunter. They are the Macionskys (yes, that's my real last name) from Delta, Ohio. Hunter is a great athlete, playing basketball and baseball and any other kind of ball. He's also whip smart. The kid seems to know every player on every team, college and pro, football, baseball and basketball. He's 13yo now, but even when he was 5 or 6, I could give him any NFL team, and he would tell me their record. A regular Rainman. I'm calling a foul on Jillian Barberie & Nutrisystem. I'm calling a foul on Jillian Barberie from the Good Day LA and Nutrisystem. She had a baby recently. To the right, you can see what she looked like pregnant. Now she's doing Nutrisystem commercials, saying that their diet food helped her lose 40 pounds. Sir Charles and I agree! Senator Barack Obama should be the next President. Thanks to JA Adande, Sir Charles came on the show this week, and he was his usual brilliant self. Barkley has obsessively tells the truth, which is a rare quality in this world. We started out talking about NBA hoops, and he thinks the West will be won by either the Lakers, the Spurs or the Jazz. I asked him if Kobe's interview tirade was a good thing or a bad thing. He says that on the whole, you've got to give Kobe credit for shaking up the organization. This time, I say, "No way Jose." Jose Canseco has written another book. It's called VINDICATED, and it's the follow-up to his prophetic bestseller JUICED. He is an angry, vindictive, bitter and cash-hungry guy. Much of what he wrote in his first book was later recounted in The Mitchell Report, but this time around, I think Canseco is lying...or at least exaggerating. The guy who actually brought down the house! I'm a huge fan of the book BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, which has become a major movie opening everywhere this weekend. The film is called 21, and the guy whose life is the basis for this card-counting saga, is Kevin Ma. HEAR MY KOBE BRYANT ON THE STEVE MASON SHOW: He says, "I'm happy in LA." I always get a little worked up when I get a really big guest on the show. Since I started the solo show back in November, we've had some great "gets," including Bill Cosby, Senator John Kerry and some of the big names at the Super Bowl like Falcons owner Arthur Blan and Hall of Famers like Gayle Sayers, Mean Joe Greene and Ed "Too Tall" Jones. Anytime the guest is big, there is pressure. I never want to be so aggressive that I tick them off, but I do want to get something good. SUPERHERO MOVIE - Tom Cruise Spoof. SUPERHERO MOVIE opens this weekend, and they've got a killer, funny spoof of the recent Tom Cruise nuttiness. From refugee to NBA star. Vladimir Radmanovic is an important part of the Lakers depth that is keeping them afloat despite injuries to Andrew Bynum, Pau Gasol, Chris Mihm and Trevor Ariza. He had some explaining to do when he joined me on The Steve Mason Show today. What happened last night against a bad Charlotte team? What's with Kobe and the technicals? When will Pau Gasol be back? "Cal St. Who" - No more. Cal St. Fullerton basketball coach Bob Burton joined me at Dave & Buster's in Irvine today, and he's a helluva guy. In fact, he might be one of the nicest people I've ever met. Coach Burton led the Titans to the Big West Championship and their first berth in the NCAA Tournament in 30 years. He clearly had a great time and so did his kids, despite being ousted by Wisconsin in the first round. Steve Lavin is running low on hair product. The night of the NCAA Tournament play-in game, I saw a shocking image on the studio big screen. There was a face that was familiar, but the hair didn't match. It was a "gel-less," "mousse-less," "pomade-less" Steve Lavin. I'll never forget where I was.... ...when I saw Villanova upset heavily-favored Georgetown in 1985. I was a sophomore at Bowling Green State University. At the Sigma Phi Epsilon house, we had a TV lounge with a big screen. As I remember it, the TV had a great big picture, but it was as thick as it was tall. Remember how clunky those things used to be? |
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