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Posted on: Tuesday, January 4, 2005

ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Wine, tasty bites and now, jazz ... can it get any better?

Advertiser Staff and News Services

At $20 for wine tasting and light pupu, Indigo Eurasian Cuisine's weekly Wrath Of Grapes wine club has been a favorite vino connoisseur's hang for more than three years.

Joining it tonight as a sort-of after party is Wrath Of Jazz, a weekly live jazz and wine-themed three hours. Jazz trio DeShannon Higa and Groove Improv Artists play the Green Room; selected wines will be offered at half price. Wrath Of Grapes starts at 6 p.m. (bringing the wine tonight is Joanne Chisholm of Wine Lady Hawaii); reservations are required.

Wrath of Jazz launches at 8:30 p.m., entry is free. Call 521-2900 for more information.



'Fockers' continues to outsell all other movies

"Meet the Fockers" broke more records over the weekend, earning the most money on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and taking in a total of $42.8 million. The sequel to "Meet the Parents" starring Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro — along with new cast members Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman — continued its holiday record-breaking trend: It did the best Christmas Day box office ever, too.

The movie has made an astounding $163.4 million since it opened two weeks ago, despite mediocre reviews. The holiday weekend was up 4 percent over last year's closing week. Second-place winner "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" rose 17 percent at the box office, and earned an estimated $14.7 million. Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Aviator" landed in third place, at $11.2 million, while "Fat Albert" plopped from second to fourth place at $10.7 million and "Ocean's Twelve" hit $9.2 million.



FINAL WORD

Morgan Spurlock | maker of documentary "Super Size Me," in Entertainment Weekly:

"Now everybody's watching. They're like, 'What's he eatin' over there?' "