WHO’S OUT OF TOUCH?

It has long been said that those folks living “east of the Hudson River” and “west of the San Andreas fault” were out of touch with the rest of the America … which in many circles is called “the big fly over.”

Well, the “big fly over” votes with their pocketbooks and if the following is any indication, those people “west of the San Andreas” really don’t have a clue. I always knew they were talented people whose thoughts I rarely wanted to hear, but this is a look at how their arrogance hurts them the only way they can be hurt: economically. I thank the Patriot Post for doing the legwork on this. The numbers in parentheses in the first paragraph are their ranking on the money-earning chart.

“In Hollywood's estimation, the "Best Picture" nominees were Brokeback Mountain (26th), Crash (49th), Munich (64th), Good Night, and Good Luck (89th) and Capote (100th), in order of each movie's box office gross—in other words, America's opinion of these pictures. In all, Hollywood's Fab Five grossed $235,643,912 and averaged $26.3 million in profits.

“On the other hand, the top five picks according to the rest of America were Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), War of the Worlds and King Kong. These films grossed $1.41 billion and averaged $125.4 million in profits.

“In fact, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a film based on one of Christian writer C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, grossed more than all five of the Academy's nominees combined.”