PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, July 1, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, July 1, 2005

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Audiences March to 'War': Steven Spielberg -- Tom Cruise Film Opens to $34.6 Million Worldwide in Its First Day

"War of the Worlds," a Steven Spielberg film starring Tom Cruise, has opened to an estimated 34-point-six million dollars, worldwide, in its first day. The film took in 21-point-two million dollars domestic in 39-hundred theaters, representing the largest opening day in the history of Paramount Pictures. It was also the largest opening day for a Tom Cruise movie. The film has also made an estimated 13- point-three million dollars internationally from 46 territories; the film has yet to open in ten markets, including the U-K, France, Belgium, and Korea.

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Teen People Releases Results of its First Body Image Survey in the August 2005 Issue, on Stands July 1

Teen People has released the results of its first-ever Body Image Survey in the August 2005 issue, on newsstands today, July first. The survey is an in-depth look at how teens girls see themselves and what influences their physical self-image. Among the key findings of the survey of girls ages 13-18:

- 55 percent often feel confident about their bodies. - While 17 percent claim body confidence all the time, 27 percent say they "hardly ever" feel confident about their bodies. - The appearance of models in magazines and women on T-V and in films tied as the factors that cause the greatest body insecurity.

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Bo Bice Makes Chart History With First Single; 'Inside Your Heaven' / 'Vehicle' Debuts at No. 1

Bo Bice, the popular runner-up of the fourth season of "American Idol," from Birmingham, Alabama, makes chart history this week. His first single, the double-A sided "Inside Your Heaven" / "Vehicle," debuts at number one on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales chart dated July 9, 2005. Bice's triumph comes 50 years to the day after the very first rock and roll single went to number one in Billboard. "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets went to number one on July 9, 1955, on the Best Sellers in Stores chart, kicking off what music historians have called "the rock era."

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Wealthiest Americans Have Reduced Charitable Contributions 70% Since 1998-2000 Period

The wealthiest aren't giving nearly as much these days. Charitable contributions from U-S households with a net worth of five million dollars or more, excluding primary residence, fell 70 percent from an average of 600-thousand dollars for the three-year period 1998-2000 to 180-thousand dollars for the period 2002-2004, according to a new report from Spectrem Group. The average contribution for the most recent single year represented six percent of annual income.

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