Posted on: Friday, June 24, 2005
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Lonely at the multiplex
Advertiser Staff
ENTERTAINMENT
Heading to the theater this weekend? The movie industry hopes so. Movie attendance has been on a downward spiral for three years, dipping 8.1 percent from 2000 to 2004, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
But DVD sales and rentals are doing just fine. Last year, Americans spent an average of 78 hours watching videos and DVDs, up 53 percent since 2000, says the MPAA. DVD sales and rentals soared 676.5 percent in that time, raking in $21 billion, says the Digital Entertainment Group.
SINGLES SCENE
Love doesn't work out at the gym
Looking for love at the gym? If you're looking for an engagement ring, don't bother.
Only 1 percent of engaged couples meet their fiances there, a survey by WeddingChannel.
com found.
FiNAL WORD
Thirteen-year-old juvenile diabetes survivor Dayna Akiu | of Honolulu, talking about going to Washington this week to talk to Congress about finding a cure for juvenile diabetes. She's pic-tured with Olympian Gary Hall Jr., who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 25.
"I'm going to do the best I can to show them what's in my heart."
