'Scary Movie 3' tops U.S. box office
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Dimension's "Scary Movie 3" held on to its first place ranking for the U.S. box office, according to the Web site boxofficemojo.com.
"Scary Movie 3" added $21 million to its $78 million box office in its second week.
Disney's "Brother Bear" jumped from 22nd place to second, adding $18.5 million to its $18.9 million box office.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," distributed by New Line added $11 million to $66 million box office.
Sony's "Radio" added $10 million to its $26.8 million box office, while Fox's "Runaway Jury" added $6.8 million to its $33.6 million box office.
"Mystic River," distributed by Warner Brothers, added $6.6 million to its $33.6 million box office.
Miramax's "Kill Bill Volume 1" remained in seventh place and added $4.7 million to its $60 million box office.
Paramount's "School of Rock" added $4.4 million to its $69 million box office, Universal's "Intolerable Cruelty" added $2.7 million to its $32 million box office and MGM's "Good Boy!" added $2.5 million to its $35 million box office.
Baby boomers buying more music
NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- While the 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" is expected to be the year's best-selling album, new releases by aging Baby Boomers are making an impact.
In Billboard's latest chart, Rod Stewart finished second with "As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook Vol. II," to Clay Aiken's "Measure of a Man," while Bette Midler, Van Morrison, Michael McDonald and Simon and Garfunkel, held 11 of the top 50 spots.
"Adults like music, too, and they're underserved," Will Botwin, the president of Sony Music Entertainment's Columbia Records, told the New York Times. "And they're starting to get served."
The music industry has blamed online music sharing for the major losses they've suffered in the past three years, but the aging market is giving the music industry something to cheer about, the Times said.
Because those with wrinkles instead of tattoos are accustomed to paying for their music, according to Forrester Research.
Last year, shoppers over the age of 40 bought more than 35 percent of all units sold, said the Recording Industry Association of America.
Jennifer Aniston has the best hair
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Jennifer Aniston has been voted to have best celebrity haircut, nearly a decade after the "the Rachel cut" became the world's most requested hairstyle.
Nearly half of the 5,000 women polled by the Web site handbag.com voted for the NBC "Friends" star's long hair as "the most desirable hair," Britain's Sky News reported.
"Jennifer Aniston proves once again that she has the perfect haircut to accompany her perfect Hollywood marriage and career," a handbag.com spokeswoman said.
"Her appeal lies in her ability to transform her hair from surfer chic by day to sleek and sexy by night and she's replaced the 'Rachel cut' and still seized the haircut crown."
British star Dido's blonde bob came second with 25 percent of the vote followed by HBO's "Sex And The City" star Sarah Jessica Parker's natural curls in third place.
Two in Hollywood want to support N.J. boy
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Both a Hollywood director and a screenwriter have offered to buy a controversial drawing that landed a 14-year-old New Jersey boy in detention.
Scott Switzer, whose father is a U.S. Navy engineer on active duty and whose stepfather is being deployed by the U.S. Army in a month, drew a computer-generated picture of a U.S. Marine blowing up a Taliban fighter.
The principal at Switer's middle school saw the picture, called it "disturbing" and suspended the boy for five days, the New York Post reported.
"To me, it's a patriotic picture," Scott told the Post.
Jonathan Demme, director of "Silence of the Lambs" and Julia Dahl, who wrote "Uptown Girl" and has written for NBC's "The West Wing" heard of the incident and separately asked to buy the picture in support of the Switzer.
"In support of Scott, I'd like to buy the drawing," Dahl told the Post.
"It's absolutely criminal, what they did to this kid," Demme said. "They overreacted like crazy."
