Heath Ledger’s final movie and Christian Bale’s second installment of the Batman series is still going strong in the box office. For the third week in a row The “Dark Knight” is in the driver seat and looking pretty good behind the wheel grossing 43.8 million dollars this weekend. The brings the total to 394.8 million dollars total since the much anticipated release three weeks ago. There were speculations that Brandon Fraser’s “The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor” could make a run to knock off the dark one, but it fell short grossing 42.5 million dollars in it’s opening weekend.

It is expected that “The Dark Knight” will pass Shrek 2 for the fastest movie to gross 400 million dollars. That is not where it ends though. Batman and Joker are making a pretty good run at Jack and Rose from Titanic for the spot of highest grossing film of all time. We saw part one and were very impressed with the spin they put on the series, but we have not seen the second one. Lazy yes we know. We hear it is good, and well, the numbers don’t lie. So go check the movie out and keep checking back here to stay up to date on everything gossipy out there in the world. Where there’s gossip, we’re not far behind!

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The world lost one hell of a gal yesterday. Estelle Gettleman, better known as Estelle Getty, left this life but will forever be remembered. Throughout childhood we watched as Sophia, Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy taught us what it truly meant to be a friend. Most of the world knows the theme song to The Golden Girls, and if you stood up in a restaurant and belted the tune, you’d surely be joined by most of the people around you. Even if you only sang the first line, someone would pick up where you left off, that’s just the kind of impact The Golden Girls had. The show was a part of growing up for our generation. Whether you loved it or not, you knew who they were.

You can go to any news outlet online and find an obituary, but we’d rather give her a tribute. In the spirit of all things Sophia, here’s what you don’t know about Estelle Getty:

Born Estelle Scher, she started acting at the age of 20, and struggled for 40 years until she finally landed the role of Sophia on The Golden Girls. Estelle was 60 years old when she auditioned for the part of Sophia, but was turned down twice because she “didn’t look old enough.” They said she walked too fast, talked too fast, and just didn’t look like she was 80 years old. Estelle came back the third time to audition for the role, dressed in what she thought looked more “80″ and told the makeup artist, “To you this is just a job. To me it’s my entire career down the toilet unless you make me look 80.” The makeup artist did just that, and Estelle landed the role of a lifetime. Estelle’s character, Sophia, was the oldest of the group… but Estelle was not the oldest of the actresses. Sophia’s daughter, Dorothy, was played by Bea Arthur, who is a year older than Estelle.

Estelle was nominated for award after award for the role she played from 1985-1992. Sophia stole the show in almost every episode. Estelle was truly a star and was recognized for being such, repeatedly. She was nominated for 7 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992) and 3 Golden Globe Awards (1985, 1986, 1991).

Estelle suffered from the little-known disease Lew Body Dimentia, which in laymen’s terms is a cross between Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She was incorrectly diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2000, then Alzheimer’s in 2002. In 2003 she was finally correctly diagnosed with Lew Body Dimentia.

Estelle left this world Tuesday, July 22, 2008, just 3 days before her 85th birthday.

Lifetime will run a tribute to Estelle on Friday, July 25, from noon to 5pm EST. They will be airing the best of Sophia and you can vote in their poll for your favorite episode, which will air last.

We love you Estelle. Rest in peace, dear.

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After selling over a million units his first week, and dropping to second behind Coldplay the following 2 weeks, Lil Wayne has gained the number 1 spot again. After suffering a 25% loss in sales in his fourth week, “The Carter 3″ still managed to push out 156,000 units raising his total sales to 1.68 million. Coldplay dropped to second with 149,000 units sold. With Disney’s soundtrack to the “Camp Rock” movie, the Jonas Brothers came in third with 116,000 units sold.

G-Units released their second album “Terminate On Sight” thinking it would give the top spot a run. Their first album “Beg For Mercy” broke 377,000 units back in 2003. That wasn’t the case as the group came in 4th with 102,000 units sold. Couldn’t even beat out the Disney band. With 50 Cent being in the media a lot lately you would have thought sales would have been a bit higher.

We are anxious to see if Wayne can be knocked off the top of the mountain anytime soon. With albums from Killer Mike, Nas, Randy Travis, Lloyd, and The Vines releasing on the 15th of July we will see.

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