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2003:12:23:14:58:37 E22 CALENDAR LOSANGELESTIMES TELEVISION THE HEBREW HAMMER (R) 2:50 7:30 9:50 THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE 2:50 7:30 9:50 On 2 Screens THE FOG OF WAR 12:30 2:05 3:10 4:40 7:20 8:30 9:55 THE STATION AGENT (R) 2:35 7:15 9:45 GLOOMY SUNDAY 7:30 10:00 WHALE RIDER 4:20 7:00 9:35 IN AMERICA 5:30 7:45 THE LAST SAMURAI (R) 5:05 8:05 21 GRAMS (R) 5:20 8:15 21 GRAMS (R) 7:00 THE STATION AGENT (R) 3:15 8:00 10:15 THE COOLER (R) 2:30 7:30 10:00 GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 2:25 7:20 9:50 IN AMERICA 2:45 7:45 10:15 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING 8:15 STUCK ON YOU 7:00 9:45 MONA LISA SMILE 7:00 9:40 THE LAST SAMURAI (R) 8:15 IN AMERICA 5:15 7:30 21 GRAMS (R) 7:00 MYSTIC RIVER (R) 5:15 LOVE ACTUALLY (R) 8:00 MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD 7:15 GLOOMY SUNDAY 5:15 7:40 THE LAST SAMURAI (R) 6:45 STUCK ON YOU 7:15 THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE 2:50 7:30 9:50 SCHOOL OF ROCK 10:10 NORTHFORK THE SINGING DETECTIVE (R) 7:45 AMERICAN SPLENDOR (R) 7:00 ELEPHANT (R) 9:35 LOST IN TRANSLATION (R) 7:10 9:50 HEDWIG THE ANGRY INCH Friday at midnight 21 GRAMS (R) 7:00 9:50 THE HEBREW HAMMER (R) 2:35 7:15 9:35 GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 2:00 7:00 9:30 THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE 2:45 7:15 9:30 IN AMERICA 2:30 7:30 10:00 MYSTIC RIVER (R) 6:30 9:30 THE STATION AGENT (R) 7:15 9:30 IN AMERICA 2:25 7:15 9:40 THE JOB (R) 1:10 3:20 5:30 7:40 9:50 21 GRAMS (R) 7:00 9:50 THE LAST SAMURAI (R) 7:45 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING 7:45 On 2 Screens SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE 1:00 2:50 3:50 6:45 8:30 9:35 LOVE ACTUALLY (R) 6:45 9:45 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING 7:45 MYSTIC RIVER (R) 6:30 9:30 KILL BILL VOLUME I (R) 2:30 7:30 10:00 THE LAST SAMURAI (R) 7:15 STUCK ON YOU 7:00 9:45 THE STATION AGENT (R) 3:15 7:45 10:00 On 2 Screens GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 12:30 2:05 3:05 4:40 7:15 8:15 9:50 LOST IN TRANSLATION (R) 2:30 7:30 10:00 THE COOLER (R) 2:15 7:15 9:45 THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (R) 2:30 7:30 10:00 THE HEBREW HAMMER (R) 3:15 7:45 9:55 SOMETIMES THE BEST HITMAN IS A WOMAN. JOB THE DARYL HANNAH EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT WEST HILLS FALLBROOK 7 TODAY 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 DAILY 11:00 entertainment NOW PLAYING www.foxsearchlight.com WINNER NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE BEST SCREENPLAY WINNER CINEMA ST. LOUIS MODERN MASTER AWARD WINNER HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL BEST PICTURE WINNER 30th FLANDERS FILM FESTIVAL GENT GRAND PRIX-BEST PICTURE WINNER MARCO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD WINNER MARCO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL RISING STAR AWARD WINNER MARCO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR AWARD WINNER PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE BEST PICTURE Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE Leah Rozen, PEOPLE Megan Lehmann, NEW YORK POST Claudia Puig, USA TODAY BEST PICTURE OF THE Richard Roeper, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES The Best Picture Of The Year By Far David Sheehan, CBS-TV Dear Amy: Iam having trouble with my family. His mother is rude and makes comments about personal matters, his father questions our love lifeand his brother and sister are rude, loud and obnoxious. They ruined our wedding my sister left the wedding in tears after my father-in- law, squeezed her leg and put his hand in her lap.

The brother and the father then were anxious to see cake smashed in my face. The mother, was telling loud jokes and bending down to show her breasts in front of my father. The sister spent the entire time making out with her boyfriend. We have pooled out countless amounts of money on them and have even given our house to his sister for three weeks. My husband, is nothing like them.

He is nice and sweet. The only thing he never does for me is talk to his family about their behavior. Iam at my end. I am about to start a humongous family feud. Help! Family Feuder Dear Feuder: You make it clear who you would be feuding with your husband or his family.

Ithink you should decline both opportunities. If your husband stand up for you, it is time for you to stand up for yourself. This means that you refuse opportunities to be with his family, give them money or playhost to them in your home. You have to fight with to force him to deal with his family; you just hand him the phone when they call, find something else to do if he invites them overand politely decline offers to be with them. You can hope he grows a backbone, but even if he you have to witness your husband being an invertebrate.

Send questions to Amy Dickinson by e-mail to or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Chicago, IL 60611. Ask Amy Obnoxious in-laws deserve cold shoulder Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Dec. 15-21) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish.

Nielsen estimates there are 272.04 million potential viewers in the U.S. age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 CSICBS24.70 2 Without a TraceCBS19.35 3 CSI: MiamiCBS19.21 4 Monday Night FootballABC18.76 5 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS18.05 --------------------------------------------6 Two and a Half MenCBS14.77 7 Law OrderNBC14.50 8 NFL Monday Night Showcase ABC14.28 9 Cold CaseCBS13.95 10 Primetime Special Edition ABC13.89 --------------------------------------------11 60 MinutesCBS13.74 12 Still StandingCBS13.55 13 Christmas FriendsNBC13.47 15 Walters ABC13.07 --------------------------------------------16 Fear FactorNBC12.85 17 Fox NFL Sunday Post-Game FOX12.76 18 Judging AmyCBS 12.46 19 Law OrderNBC12.36 Is Right --------------------------------------------21 60 Minutes IICBS12.31 22 Navy NCISCBS12.02 23 The Simple Life 24 Yes, DearCBS11.56 25 Las VegasNBC11.38 --------------------------------------------26 King of QueensCBS11.24 27 ERNBC11.23 28 29 Law Order: SVUNBC11.13 30 Special ABC11.01 --------------------------------------------31 The SimpsonsFOX10.65 32 Will GraceNBC10.41 33 The GuardianCBS10.33 34 The Simple Life 35 Good Morning MiamiNBC10.03 --------------------------------------------According to JimABC10.03 37 JAGCBS9.76 38 39 The DistrictCBS9.31 40 BeckerCBS9.23 --------------------------------------------41 My Wife and KidsABC9.19 42 FrasierNBC9.08 43 24FOX8.97 44 Dateline NBC 45 Less Than PerfectABC8.89 --------------------------------------------46 ScrubsNBC8.78 47 That ShowFOX8.75 48 Christmas NBC8.56 49 King of the HillFOX8.33 50 All RelativeABC8.20 --------------------------------------------51 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX8.18 52 O.C.FOX7.99 53 EdNBC7.93 54 The Tracy Morgan ShowNBC7.89 55 Santa --------------------------------------------56 Happy FamilyNBC7.85 57 That Show 58 Joan of ArcadiaCBS7.72 59 Bernie Mac ShowFOX7.66 60 Primetime ThursdayABC7.53 --------------------------------------------61 HackCBS7.51 62 Christmas Vacation NBC7.48 63 Hope FaithABC7.46 64 Line of FireABC7.44 65 WhoopiNBC7.34 --------------------------------------------66 48 Hours InvestigatesCBS7.10 67 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX6.91 68 Funniest Home Videos ABC6.87 Life With BonnieABC6.87 70 The HandlerCBS6.80 --------------------------------------------71 George LopezABC6.58 72 73 Threat MatrixABC6.47 74 Arrested DevelopmentFOX6.42 75 Most WantedFOX6.28 --------------------------------------------76 Miss MatchNBC6.05 77 The PracticeABC6.03 78 Extreme MakeoverABC6.00 79 Married to the KellysABC5.86 80 CopsFOX5.85 --------------------------------------------81 Grinch Who Stole WB5.79 82 Naughtiest Blunders FOX5.70 83 Threat Matrix (Mon.) ABC5.48 84 WWE 85 the --------------------------------------------86 87 Ball Rock 88 The Simple Life 9:30 p.m.) FOX5.03 89 The Simple Life 9 p.m.) FOX4.82 90 Fear Factor --------------------------------------------91 AliasABC4.69 92 Mickey ABC4.32 93 Tru CallingFOX4.31 94 Boston PublicFOX4.29 95 All of UsUPN3.98 --------------------------------------------96 GirlfriendsUPN3.94 97 Half and HalfUPN3.92 98 7th HeavenWB3.89 99 EveUPN3.85 100 With Children FOX3.74 --------------------------------------------101 Secret Fashion UPN3.61 102 One on OneUPN3.55 103 SmallvilleWB3.42 104 RebaWB3.40 105 The ParkersUPN3.34 --------------------------------------------106 Grounded for LifeWB2.93 107 CharmedWB2.79 108 EverwoodWB2.77 109 Smallville: BeginningsWB2.74 Jamie KennedyWB2.74 --------------------------------------------111 Jake 2.0UPN2.67 112 Like FamilyWB2.59 113 Gilmore GirlsWB2.50 114 EnterpriseUPN2.44 115 What I Like About YouWB2.30 --------------------------------------------116 117 AngelWB2.19 118 One Tree HillWB2.07 119 Run of the HouseWB1.76 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS12.3813.38 NBC9.7810.92 ABC8.849.68 FOX7.359.69 UPN3.443.54 WB2.963.95 NEW YORK Three different shows produced by the same man Jerry Bruckheimer were the three most-watched programs on prime-time television last week.

All three shows, Crime Scene a and were on CBS, which easily won the rankings race in a week dominated by reruns. Afourth Bruckheimer show, was ranked ninth. is most popular showand the other two chart leaders are usually in or around the top 10. a moved up last week because it aired an original episode against arepeat of on NBC. Simple with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie has quickly become most popular show.

It was seen by just under 12 million people last week, meaning it had more viewers than an interview with President Bush that aired at the same time on ABC, according to Nielsen Media Research. Aspecial prime-time showing of game show Price Is drew more than 12 million viewers. CBS averaged 12.4 million viewers for the week. But since nearly two-thirds of audience was outside of the 18-to-49- year-old demographic, that key measurement was won by NBC. NBC averaged 9.8 million people overall, ABC had 8.8 million, Fox 7.4 million, UPN 3.4 million and the WB 3 million.

with Tom Brokaw won the evening news race, averaging 11.8 million viewers. News with Peter Jennings had 10.5 million and the Evening with Dan Rather had 8.5 million. Associated Press National Prime-Time TV Rankings top three shows help CBS to win The Early Show Steve Martin; Michael Bolton performs. 7 a.m. KCBS Today Michael Feinstein.

7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Ben Affleck; the Knick City Kids perform. 7 a.m. KABC Living It Up! Lynn Redgrave. 9 a.m.

KCBS Live With Regis and Kelly The Beach Boys; Michelle Williams. 9 a.m. KABC The View Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman; Sarah McLachlan. 10 a.m. KABC Wayne Brady Ruben Studdard; Blind Boys of Alabama.

10 a.m. KCAL Sharon Osbourne Tracy Morgan; Kelly Rowland; Ruben Studdard. 11 a.m. KTLA Ellen DeGeneres Queen Latifah; Sheryl Crow. 3 p.m.

KNBC Oprah Winfrey Salma Hayek; 3 p.m. KABC Dr. Phil Role models. 4 p.m. KNBC Charlie Rose Author Toni Morrison; author Jhumpa Lahiri.

11:30 p.m. KCET Jimmy Kimmel Live David Alan Grier. 12:05 a.m. KABC Talk Shows SERIES Fan favorites: marathon of the top 50 episodes of Night (11 a.m. Comedy Central).

Music in profile: Minutes (8 p.m. CBS) presents segments on the Juilliard School, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Highly illogical: The crew confronts Vulcan zombies on a repeat episode of the sci-fi adventure series Trek: (8 p.m. UPN). In the Nick of time: (8 p.m.

probes the various sources contributing to the Santa Claus legend in this encore installment. SPECIALS Festivities: 44th Annual Los Angeles Holiday (3 p.m. KCET), features music and dance groups from across the Southland. Hoof prints in the snow: The Discovery Channel travels back in time to the last Ice Age as it surveys the of the (7 p.m. Discovery).

Observances: Cathedral Christmas Eve (10 p.m. KPXN); Eve (11:35 p.m. CBS) from the First Presbyterian Church in Salem, and Eve at St. Ba- (11:35 p.m. NBC).

MOVIES Gift keeps giving: 24-hour marathon of Christmas (6 p.m.), starring Peter Billingsley and Darren McGavin. SPORTS Football: New Mexico meets Oregon State in the Las Vegas Bowl (4:30 p.m. ESPN). Highlights Turner Program Services BOY: Peter Billingsley, right, Jeff Gillen in Help kids. Give to the Holiday Campaign.

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