'Saw III' cuts right to box office No. 1
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Saw III cut and hacked its way to the No.1 spot in its first weekend of release with $34.3 million in gross U.S.
box office receipts.
The Departed was a distant No. 2 in its fourth weekend with $9.
8 4 million.
All estimated figures are from Box Office Mojo.
The Prestige was third with more than $9.
62 million; Flags of Our Fathers fourth with $6.35 million; Open Season fifth with $6.1 million.
Flicka trotted into sixth place in its second week of release with more than $4.97 million; Man of the Year seventh with more than $4.71 million; The Grudge eighth with $3.
3 million; and Marie Antoinette was ninth with $2.85 million.
Running with Scissors, like Marie Antoinette in limited release, rounded out the top 10 with $2.
55 million
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Former U.S.
President Bill Clinton's months-long birthday celebration raked in more well wishes and cash for his foundation in New York City.
Clinton, who turned 60 in August, used a gala at New York's American Museum of Natural History Saturday to raise money for his Clinton Foundation, which spotlights diverse worldwide crises such as AIDS, childhood obesity and global warming, the New York Daily News said.
Clinton's birthday celebrations in Toronto raised about $21 million.
Among the attendees at the Saturday New York bash were R.E.M.
singer Michael Stipe and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.
Guests were entertained by singers Sheryl Crow and Sarah McLachlan while Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards offered a signed guitar for auction.
The celebration moved to a golf tournament Sunday in New Jersey and a scheduled performance by the Rolling Stones.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Black Sabbath fans are still be in the dark about whether Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio will front the British band's reported tour next year.
Original Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward reunited with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who replaced Osbourne in 1979, under the name Heaven and Hell, which is expected to tour in early 2007, Billboard.
com said.
But Osbourne also told Billboard.com that he and Black Sabbath band mates Iommi, Butler and Ward would tour in 2007 and record their first studio album since 1978.
Osbourne's publicist in a statement said Iommi and Dio were working on a project that has nothing to do with Black Sabbath. There is only one Black Sabbath, Billboard.com said.
Osbourne previously said he had no interest in making a new Black Sabbath album.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Thieves attacked and robbed 82-year-old Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer in her Johannesburg,South Africa, home.
Authorities said thieves broke into the South African literary icon's home and took cash and jewelry during the daytime robbery, The Sunday Times of London said. Gordimer and a maid, who activated a silent security alarm, were locked in a storage room.
Gordimer received the Nobel prize for literature in 1991.
She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for her novel, The Conservationist.
The robbery at Gordimer's Parktown home Thursday followed reports that homes of two African National Congress cabinet ministers also were robbed, the Times said.
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