When reading through today's movie news on Yahoo, I was met with two lead stories in reference to the movie industry. The 2nd story on the list was the news of this weekend's box office champion, Prom Night, taking in 20.8 million dollars. All I really learned from this is that teens aren't really that 
discerning when it comes to seeing movies and occupying their time on the weekends, when they're not sneaking off to someone's house to get their first illegal taste of alcoholic beverage that is. They have this sadistic need to see other teens being murdered by serial killers on the biggest night of their lives, more than they need to see people playing blackjack or movies starring Keanu Reeves.
None of this is at all surprising.
However, the lead news story is what I had a problem with, as it stated "NY Suburb: Gere Fence Too High". Now I'm not sure what part of this story will affect readers the most...the words "NY Suburb", "Gere", or "Fence Too High" but I'm absolutely positive they'll think twice before going to see Richard Gere's next film based on his fence situation.
The fact of the matter is the press needs to stop picking up on every uninteresting tidbit about celebrities and calling it news. The news about Richard Gere's should be 4-foot fence is nobody's business but that of Mr. Gere's and the Town of Bedford, New York. However, if I would've known that Gere was planning on erecting a five foot fence, maybe I would've heeded some sort of warning and never gone to see Red Corner.
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