One of the many odd aspects of Hollywood box-office reporting is that news outlets, eager to announce who's up and who's down, report box office draws based on studio estimates, not final tallies.
For 15 years he was on the list of top ten box office draws.
Why did it take nine months to call in the bloodhounds, or to read Dr. Hatfill's unpublished novel, "Emergence," which has been sitting in the copyright office since 1998 and draws on his experiences in South Africa and Antarctica to recount a biological warfare attack on Congress?
On NBC, hourlong premieres of "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" drew 6.4 million and 9.2 million, respectively.
His roles have been approved by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) as long as he does not personally lobby ministers or officials for two years after leaving office or draw on privileged information.
Figure 1 Measurement trajectories (green dots) on the second floor of the Zuiderpoort office building, drawn on floor plan with indication of access point (circle with dot) and predicted path loss with color code (red: PL < 60 dB, orange: 60 dB < PL < 75 dB, yellow: 75 dB < PL < 90 dB, green: PL > 90 dB). Figure 2 Measurement trajectories on the third floor of the Zuiderpoort office building.
A TV star (on the western series Rawhide) by thirty, and a bona-fide movie star by thirty-five, his name first appeared on the Quigley poll of top box-office draws in 1968, and would appear on the list twenty more times, more than any other actor except John Wayne.
Matt Schaub leads the league in passing yards and touchdowns, though that seems more like a typographical error than a fact, and Terrell Owens is still a post-expiration date box-office draw on par with the "Everything's Ducky -era Mickey Rooney.
Lunchtime on a spring day in 2009, and people in Midtown Manhattan swarmed from their offices, drawing breath on a fine afternoon.
