Monday, March 21, 2011
NEWSMAKERS
Musician Wyclef Jean shot in hand in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
Musician Wyclef Jean said Sunday that a bullet grazed his hand as he stepped out of a car to make a telephone call, but said he was only slightly injured.
Jean, who has been in Haiti helping the presidential campaign of his friend and fellow musician Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly, said the bullet grazed him late Saturday as he stepped out of his car in the Delmas section of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to make a call on his cell phone.
“The way I can explain it is that the bullet grazed me in my right hand,” Jean told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “I heard blow, blow, blow, and I just looked at my hand.”
Jean, who was with a driver and the Haitian hip-hop singer FanFan at the time, said he didn’t know who fired the shots, or whether they were directed at him.
He said he got out of the car to have a private conversation that FanFan would not overhear.
He heard the shots and looked down to see blood on his shirt and sneakers.
The Haitian-American performer said he was treated at a local hospital and released.
‘Limitless’ tops box office with $19M
CHICAGO
There was no stopping “Limitless” at the box office.
The sci-fi thriller opened at No. 1 this weekend with $19 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The film from Relativity Media stars Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who takes a magical pill that allows him to tap into his maximum brain potential. Suddenly he’s cleaned up, making millions and wowing everyone he meets.
Last week’s No. 1, the alien invasion movie “Battle: Los Angeles,” fell to third place with $14.6 million. Coming in second was the animated Western “Rango,” featuring the voice of Johnny Depp as a chameleon who’s stuck in the desert. The Paramount film made $15.3 million.
At No. 4 was the Lionsgate thriller “The Lincoln Lawyer,” starring Matthew McConaughey. It made an estimated $13.4 million. In fifth place was “Paul,” with Seth Rogen providing the voice of a pot-smoking, wise-cracking alien who befriends a couple of British sci-fi geeks, played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (who also wrote the script). The Universal Pictures comedy made about $13.2 million.
Associated Press