Hung out with my friends Steve and Agent Smith last night at Frontier Wok where they have the funniest comments written on the chalkboard. Whoever writes that stuff must really be a genius.

My friend from Dreamworks sent this to me and it really put a smile on my face!

If you like moon-monkeys, this is the place! You know, those monkeys that live on the Moon...

Singing Moon-Monkeys!!!

I read that one of my favorite multi-screen cinemas and former employers, AMC Entertainment Inc., the nation's second-largest movie theater chain, by the way, posted a loss for its latest quarter and for the full fiscal year, although revenue climbed on acquisitions.

AMC, Kansas City, and birth place of yours truly, had a net loss of $24.2 million, or 67 cents a share for the fiscal fourth quarter ended April 3. It lost $18.4 million, or 76 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago.

Last year, AMC acquired 66 theaters and a South American joint venture from General Cinemas and Gulf States Theaters, a New Orleans chain of five theaters.

For the full fiscal year, the net loss came to $47.5 million, or $1.31 a share, compared with a net loss of $40.9 million, or $1.73 a share, a year ago.

Are your eyes glazing over yet?

Revenue climbed to $1.79 billion from $1.34 billion.

AMC operates more than 239 theaters with more than 3,500 screens in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

Shares of AMC climbed 62 cents, or 6 percent, to close Tuesday at $10.87 on the American Stock Exchange.

I haven't paid admission to a movie in about 13 years at least. Thanks to free screenings and friends.

Last year admissions were the highest EVER.

More people than ever went to the theaters.

Where's the money going?

The studios are totally screwing theaters.

The studios demand 90% of the box office opening weekend, 80% the next and down.

By the time a film hits its 5th week, or sooner, it's already pulled from theaters due to slowing admissions.

The studio makes the lion's share of the box office profits, and to make up for this, theaters make most of their money from crappy and over-priced concessions.

All theaters are posting losses. Concession revenue doesn't seem to be helping it.

I'm enjoying watching a movie on TV more and more. I can tape it when it comes along and watch at my leisure. Rent it or buy it cheaper than seeing it at the theater.

What ever happen to second-run, third-run, and dollar cinemas? They've disappeared because nobody attended them. We have a theater on Hollywood blvd that only charges $5 for two second run movies. Great for those films you knew kinda sucked, but still wanted to see it on the big screen. I've been in there and noticed I was one of about five other people watching the movie. It won't be around long.

$5 to $10 for a movie ticket! That's Insane. And they want to run twenty minutes of commercials before the movie? And the crying baby behind me? Fuck that!

Aircraft approaching Britain's Luton airport heard the crying of an infant broadcast over their radios headsets instead of landing instructions.

It took12 hours to track the frequency and determined that a baby monitor at the mother's house, located near the airport, was broadcasting her baby's cries to the cockpits of approaching planes.

The company that made the baby monitor supplied the family with a new one. Wait was that, supplied with new baby or new baby monitor? I hear pilots talking to Burbank Airport while listening to Howard Stern every day of the week here. I want a new radio!

Edgar Bronfman Jr., vice chairman of Vivendi Universal SA , is assembling a group of investors to make an offer for Vivendi's U.S. entertainment businesses, likely to fetch at least $15 billion.

Bronfman assembled an entertainment empire, sold off most of it, then watched it crumble -- wiping out a big chunk of his family's remaining investment along the way. Now he wants the whole thing back.

The investors who join Bronfman include Universal Studios, Universal Music Group and the USA and Sci Fi cable channels. His backers are New York cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp.

I remember talking with Bronfman while my x-wife was working on "Dante's Peak", he was a pretty cool guy. I made some jokes, he laughed heartily, patted me on the back, we talked music, we talked his music, and then he realized he shouldn't be talking with me, because I live in a different universe than him. It was fun while it lasted.

I wonder if Mike Ovitz will return my calls now?