Australia Village: Weak Catwoman Results To Hurt Pft -2-
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Village Roadshow Ltd. (VRL.AU) said Friday that results for its movie Catwoman were below expectations and will hurt film profits for the 2005 financial year.
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Bush tucker plan to protect indigenous wildlife An Australian kids' book writer and illustrator has come up with a tasty plan to protect the Lucky Country's indigenous wildlife from the feral cat menace - eat the blighters.â¦
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French Open champion Anastasia  Myskina needed just 58 minutes to book her place in the second  round of the Australian Open Tuesday, easing to a 6-1, 6-4  victory over Czech Kvete Peschke.
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The market didn't react well to Cat's warnings about U.S. markets, but its overseas performance softens the blow.
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b&gt;London: Gwyneth Paltrow has not very flattering things to say about Halle Berry&#39;s performance in Catwoman, hinting that she could have played the role of the feline superwoman in a better and more convincing way.
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Key returnees: G Natasha Brackett (12.7 ppg); F Louise Emeagi (7.3 ppg), G Nicole Louden (7.4 ppg, 4.3 apg). Key losses: F Le&#39;Coe Willingham (1.
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Tycho: The actual writing of this strip was fairly quick, but there's an extended tangent about The Club that lends heft. You can download the podcast for today's comic here, and (as always) get a jump on the official announcements by subscribing to our tender feed. (CW)TB
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Circuit City (CC:NYSE - news - research) posted a weak third-quarter sales preview, signaling that its attempts to revitalize its brand in consumer electronics are still being eclipsed by stronger competitors, such as Best Buy (BBY:NYSE - news - research
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Barbie's got problems. And the lead paint on her cat is the least of her worries.
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Well, at least that one's out of the way. Happened pretty quick, too. Turns out the Americans can't play singles very well, either.
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Australia&#39;s Michelle Ellis is three strokes off the pace after the first round of the LPGA event in Portland, Oregon. Ellis fired a 4-under-par 68 to be two shots behind outright leader, American Brandi Jackson on 6-under.
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Bride & Prejudice's second week fares poorly at the UK box office.
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Tycho:  Here is the final sequence of Armadeaddon, which you may think of as a kind of bonus stage.  The next time poor diet or exhaustion leaves us without rejoinder to infernal continuity, panel two should provide more than enough raw material.
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In response to this previous post, Ben Ramsey has relayed some of this thoughts on the benchmarks that were done by Jonathan Street comparing functions and their aliases:   Mmy first reaction was something like: "Egads! These benchmarks are stupid and misleading! These functions are simply aliases of each other. There should be no discernible difference, and any buffoon should realize this fallacy!" This was before I clicked through from PHPDeveloper.org to read his post.   After reading his data and going on to the Better Benchmarks post that followed it, he found that most of the results of additional testing came out negligible and that there was almost no difference between the two.    Ben illustrates the proof of this with a few lines pasted from the "ext/standard/basic_functions.c" in PHP's source showing that the code is shared via a PHP_FALIAS function call.
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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Pixar's latest looks good but it's undercooked.
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LOS ANGELES  - When this new Pussycat Dolls reality series was announced last year, an executive with the CW used the phrase "female empowerment" to describe its essence. When you see scantily clad young women singing and gyrating together on a stage, the feminist ideal is what first springs to mind. Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan would surely concur.