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DC Trans Pride 2012 Keynote Address | Trans/plant/portation

Humor and Civil Rights

Keynote Address to 2012 DC Trans Pride

Everett Maroon

Two great tastes that go great together ?Reese?s Peanut Butter Cups marketing staff.

Folks who teach about public speaking often say that you need to relay your main message to the audience three times?you tell them what you?re going to tell them, you tell them, and then you tell them what you told them. This ties in nicely to comedy writing, because threes are often the standard set up for jokes. Creative writing instructors, on the other hand, insist on a minimum of telling and a maximum of showing, usually through dialogue and character interaction. Perhaps a keynote address isn?t exactly creative writing, but old habits die hard, so I?ll try to do my telling via showing, and I?ll do it at least three times so I keep all of the public speaker people I know happy. You don?t want to piss off the Toastmasters, trust me.

So I?m going to talk about humor and civil rights in our movement. I will, after this introduction, explain what every thing in that sentence means. Well, let me define humor, civil rights, and our, right now. ?By ?humor,? I mean something that makes us laugh. By ?our,? I mean the transsexual/transgender/trans-asterisk/genderqueer/gender non-conforming bunch of us. And by ?civil rights,? I mean all the stuff that we deserve and don?t currently have, and yes, after this intro?this is still the introduction?I?ll list out what those things are, but I probably won?t exhaust everything that should be on the list because as we?ll see, I have but one perspective to bring to the movement, and as you?ll see by way of some lovely anecdotes, we need as many voices as we can scrabble together. Along the way I?ll read a few stories to satisfy the minimal showing requirement of this talk, and then I?ll finish with a self-deprecating comment to tell you what I told you. You?ll applaud, possibly because the words I strung together today were helpful and/or amusing, but more likely because I traveled more than 3,000 miles to get here and you feel pity for me that this is all I came up with in the way of a keynote. But let me thank you in advance for your excellent manners.

Delectable Reese?s products aside, humor does and should have a place in our civil rights movement. Humor is a big term, however. Almost an *cough cough TRANSGENDER* umbrella term to describe the quality of literature or speech as jovial in some way. Humor can cut the stress of a moment?something we transfolk know nothing about, I?m sure?or it can be used as sarcasm. See how I did that? I demonstrated my own example right there. Thank you again for your polite laughter. Wow, tough audience. But let us remember that some forms of humor, like satire, were designed to bring about change to dysfunctional institutions. Would anyone like to name a few dysfunctional institutions? Or you can just think about them in your head, either way. I promise there are no trick questions today.

Okay, so if we can use humor to specific ends, then maybe there?s some room for humor in our civil rights movement. Pardon me, I don?t mean to get ahead of myself. This is my first keynote. That?s obvious, isn?t it? That makes you all my test market or guinea pigs. Forget I said guinea pigs. Let?s talk about who the ?our? is.

We?ve got people who identify as transsexual, people who identify only as the gender they transitioned to and most definitely NOT transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, no-gender, fluid gender, assigned gender to unknown gender, third gender, two-spirit, girl/grrl, boy/boi, people who pronounce it ?bwah,? folks who want others to use a neutral pronoun, and identities I haven?t listed. If you don?t see your identity in the list, please don?t take it personally. But we want you here, in the ?our.? We need you for the robustness of our community and because, hey, you?ll want to be here when it gets funny.

I admit I don?t have any patience for exclusions to this ?our.? Too many of us have lived too long feeling alienated and isolated and barely present. Plus it makes it a ton harder to argue that the T is getting left out when we?re leaving out people from the T. That?s called a contradiction in my book. My proverbial book, not my uh, actual book. Anyway I just adore making fun of contradictions. They?re like sitting ducks. They?re just waiting for someone to come along and point out their sittingness.

Now then, civil rights. Jesus, when did this keynote become a long list of crap? Again, my sincere apologies for wasting your time like this. But as I understand them, we?d like the following for ourselves and our community: housing, health, safety, and opportunity. Housing because hello, we?d like to get out of the rain from time to time, health that is appropriate to our needs?if I?m never going to need a prostate exam, could you please cover my PAP smears, oh health insurance overlords? I think that?s fair deal. Any breasts who come into a doctor?s office should get a proper breast exam, if those breasts want an exam, that is. Breasts, as I said in my actual and not proverbial book, have their own opinions, but being free from cancer is a human right, not a privilege or a benefit of some physician who ?gets? us. I wish I didn?t have to say that personal safety is a civil right, but apparently basic concepts have gone the way of the dodo for our leaders in law enforcement and criminal justice. Or they wouldn?t prosecute someone like CeCe McDonald for surviving a hate crime and yet fail to prosecute the vast majority of individuals who assault trans people every year.

You see why we need humor? Let me map it out for all of the doubters in the room.

Number 1: We have our other bases covered. We?ve got busloads of anger over the injustices we?ve faced. We gather across the country yearly and on an ad hoc basis to mourn the people in our community that we?ve lost to violence, and trans women account for the largest group of victims among LGBT people, and are the number one reported identity victimized in ALL hate crimes. We deal with depression, frustration, and betrayal as we come to terms with who we are and as we encounter the specialists we need as transfolk?namely doctors, mental health professionals, employers, lawyers. I see you shuddering at lawyers. You?re in DC, aren?t you used to them yet? But yes, humor needs to make an appearance in all of this. Because while we absolutely need our collective anger to hold hands with our righteousness, we also need tools to help us recover and refuel our spirit when we?re exhausted. Or at least I need those things.

At least I had my hair dye debacle to thank for wearing a hat that day. As the sun beat down on the city, the stench of urine, car exhaust, and Tidal Basin funk wafted up from the sewers and asphalt of Connecticut Avenue. It gets a little hard to chant about the advantages of gayness when one is suffocating. Tourists saw us and appeared to wonder openly what the fuss was about?300 young to middle-aged, angry-looking, masculine, man-eating lesbians were walking down the street coughing, sweating and chanting. What wasn?t to admire?

We rounded the corner, the stream of lesbians chanting ahead of me to the beat of my call. I began to wonder just how long this parade route was, because we were looping around much more than the year before. I couldn?t put down my bullhorn and pony up at one of DuPont Circle?s taverns to grab a beer. Suddenly a new sensation distracted me?in addition to the heat, the stench, and my fatigued feet?my head was on fire. The vat of chemicals in my hair was activated by my now sweaty scalp. I put my hand to my temple and pulled it back. Yes, the dye was dripping down my face. So now I looked like an angry, masculine, man-eating lesbian who sweat blood. Perfect.

I held the bullhorn in one hand and attempted to wipe my brow with the other before the toxin could reach my eyes. Better the day should be awful than unbearable.

In the midst of shouting, marching, and wiping, I heard someone call out to me. We were toward the end of the parade, which I knew only because marchers had started dropping to the ground like lemmings that couldn?t quite reach the sea. I walked up to the DuPont Circle fountain, turning to the voice. It was a young transgender guy?a woman who had transitioned to a man.

?Hey, you,? he said, jogging up to me looking perfect, every short hair in place. His clothes didn?t look limp or greasy like mine did.

?Aric, how are you?? I greeted him.

?Great. I just wanted to say nice bullhorning. Is that a verb?? He laughed at himself. He was so attractive, with sturdy cheekbones and a chiseled jawline. He looked not only like he was always meant to be male, but that he?d moved the heavens to make it happen.

?It is now.?

?So I didn?t recognize you for like, half the march. I was wondering, are you GQ??

GQ. Short form of genderqueer, describing people who didn?t identify as male or female but as something that messed with gender itself. There were 2,381 permutations of what that could look like, or so I?d heard.

I worried if I said yes, Aric and a Greek chorus would suddenly spring out of the concrete and start laughing at my ineptitude. My hand wandered to my forehead to make sure I didn?t look like a boiled beet. I said the first thing that came to mind.

?Yes, I am Gentlemen?s Quarterly.? I gave him a big, winning smile.

He shook his head and smiled. ?You?re so cool. Great to see you! You coming out later tonight?? He leaned in and hugged me as he said this. He must have had our representative amounts of appeal mixed up, because I should have been the one falling over him.

?Coming out, yes, I think so!? But not the no more closeted kind of coming out, Aric, I thought. I just don?t know if I?ll ever have your confidence.

Number 2: Humor is disarming. There?s power in a well timed moment of comedy. Since I?ve covered public speaking trainers and creative writing teachers, let me also share what comedy writers say about humor: to laugh, the audience needs to feel superior to the target of the joke. That?s right, superior. Sure, there are many strategies around identifying that target, and for me, I use two over and over again. Myself, and gender. Not that I never put anyone else into focus. Before I transitioned, I caught the ire of a stranger on the Metro.

I sat down on a lightly-populated Metro train and fumbled with my iPod, though all of my friends told me, after a spate of robberies, not to listen to it on the train. I kept the sound level down so I could hear ambient noise and perhaps give my ears a break. I stopped paying attention to which stop I was at, since I knew I was in for a twenty-five-minute ride or so.

The doors opened and closed, the familiar sing-song alert sounding each time. At one stop, a man in a dirty trench coat got on. He had on what had once been nice khaki pants, now discolored and shredded at the bottom, revealing scarred ankles above worn out high-top sneakers. He looked grizzled, had stringy hair and a gray, unkempt beard. After staring at me for many minutes, he suddenly shouted: ?Are you a man or a woman? Are you a man or a woman?? There was a brief pause. ?Are you a MAN or a WOMAN??

I watched as everyone on the train looked at him and then me, to see if they themselves could determine my gender. Nobody else seemed to be as angry about it as this guy. I pretended my music was much louder than it was and ignored him. Seeing my stop coming up, I stood up and stood four inches in front of the car doors, as I did usually anyway, screaming crazy man or no screaming crazy man.

The doors opened. I stepped onto the platform. I turned around and looked back toward the car.

?Are you an ASSHOLE or an IDIOT?? I shouted, and the doors closed to people applauding me and laughing at him.

Number 3: Humor is memorable. We are fighting for some very high stakes here, namely our lives. On another level we?re fighting for the soul of this country, which seems to be mired in mean-spiritedness during a time of intense need for millions of people. Right-wing pundits lambast every advance transfolk make for our civil rights, as if they have the cornerstone on morality and even as they wrestle with an Oxy habit, get caught manufacturing scandals about their enemies, or are photographed locking lips with their boyfriend in a random gay bar. One way to rise above this noise from the extremists on the right is humor. Let?s take the frequently cited male predator in a dress. This concept gets trotted out nearly every time a jurisdiction looks at changing public accommodations law?you know, to allow us to urinate in a public facility. In all states across the country, there is not a single, solitary instance of a man or trans woman, wearing a dress to sneak into a women?s rest room in order to assault her. Not one. This utter fiction comes only from the bigot?s mind, but because I love humor, let?s break it down.

?Hey uh, Jeff.?

?What Frank??

?I have an idea.?

?Yeah? What??

?Let?s go scare some dames.?

?Ha ha. Okay.?

?Wait, Jeff. Let?s scare ?em while they?re peeing.?

?Uh, okay. You mean in like a ladies room??

?Yeah. Let?s go into the ladies room and scare some dames while they?re peeing.?

?But how will we get in there??

(Pause) ?Let?s put on some dresses and go in disguise.?

?Ohhhhh. Smart, Frank.?

Fifteen minutes later.

?Gee Frank, these pantyhose are hard to walk in!?

?And these bra straps are killing my shoulders!?

?Maybe we should scare some dames the old-fashioned way, on the street corner.?

?Yeah, I guess so.?

Number 4: Humor is good for us. Laughing reduces the cortisone hormone that we make when we?re stressed when we laugh and releases endorphins instead that help us feel more generally happy. We also give ourselves good memories to draw upon later, form deeper emotional connections with our loved ones who laugh with us, and some scientists say that we reduce our and our friends? social anxiety when we laugh in public. Okay, I made that last one up, but I wish it were true. It?s not impossible. You heard it here first. Look, we need to laugh. I?ve been trying to teach my 8-month-old son to laugh, and laugh a lot. I put random small objects on my head and look shocked to find them there, one second later. To an 8-month-old infant this is truly hilarious. He gets so caught up in my comic act that he?ll laugh once all I?ve done is pick up a new block or rattle, in anticipation of seeing another instance of dad being a total idiot. For adults finding the laughter can sometimes be a more challenging prospect, it?s true. But like the plastic toy on our heads, we need to find our tricks for laughing, because humor can keep us sane in a crisis and give us just what we require to make it to the next more optimistic moment.

After I?d seen the therapist Robyn a few times, she asked me outright, ?Would you rather be liked, or respected??

What kind of a question is that? I wanted to know. My brain started firing frenetically. How could anyone not want to be liked? What the hell are you talking about? Why would anyone make that choice? How could you pick respected over liked? What a crazy question! Who thinks up shitty questions like this? What are you really asking me? How could I ever answer such a ridiculous question?

I realized suddenly that I?d asked all of those things out loud. I looked down at my shoes, always my default instead of making eye contact. If I couldn?t be grounded, at least I could look at the floor.

?Liked, Robyn, liked,? I said, trying to breathe. ?Why would anyone say anything else? Of course I would pick liked.? Perhaps speaking more slowly would make me sound more certain.

?Well,? she said, looking at me, ?I hope that someday you answer by saying ?respected.??

Number 5: Humor humanizes. Whatever message we?re looking to communicate?be it borne on posterboard at an Occupy rally or into a microphone at a legislative hearing?one of the powerful effects of humor is its ability to remind the listener that we are people. We needn?t add the ?just like them? line; I for one am nothing at all like Glen Beck, Ann Romney, Gary Bauer, Bill O?Reilly, or Barney Frank, for that matter. The debate about assimilationist versus outsider agendas aside, it becomes harder for people not in the trans community to rail against us when they see us as people. Like it has done for LGB people to some degree, knowing someone who is out and proud has changed the attitudes of millions of Americans on issues from anti-discrimination to parenting to marriage equality. There is no reason whatsoever that reminding others about our presence with the diversity of our faces and lives could have similar effects for our community. Humor is a key into that process of realization.

Susanne met me at the bar, taking off her winter hat and unwrapping a scarf the length of an adult boa constrictor. It took her thirty seconds to remove all of her outerwear. She?d emailed me from her parents? house in Michigan, saying she was stuck with dialup and had just gotten my message. A quick cheery email exchange, and we?d set up this date.

?Hi, there,? she said, smiling.

?Hi, thanks for meeting me,? I said, trying to keep my smile out of the goofy nerdy range.

We got a table and were checked on often by the waitress, who didn?t have much else to do but who also seemed to find us amusing. Our pizzas arrived, hers a sausage and extra cheese, and mine a mushroom lover?s that Michael would have hissed at, given his abhorrence of fungi.

She looked at me and my pizza. ?So are you a vegetarian??

?Oh, no. I just like the mushroom pizza here.?

?Thank God,? was her response, and I laughed.

We talked about our love of Kitchen Aid mixers, and that we?d each named ours: hers was Bette, and mine, Grapey, after the official Kitchen Aid color of grape. We?d also both previously bought mixers for other people?s weddings and then wondered why we hadn?t purchased one for ourselves.

?I love baking,? I said. ?I enjoy it so much I want to retire early and start my own bakery someday.?

?Shut up,? said Susanne, laughing. ?That?s what I want to do!? Somehow this made sense to me, because she was currently a Ph.D. student in public policy. Who wouldn?t want to retire from that and bake cake all day?

?No kidding. That?s great.?

Things were going so well I decided to take a risk and let her know everything about my gender goings on. As soon as I started talking, I wanted to erase the decision and start over with any other topic of conversation. Hummingbirds. The state of the economy in Guam. Bloomsday parties. Monkey rectums.

?So I?ve been transitioning, taking it really slowly,? I said, feeling exposed. ?Many of my friends still only know me as Jenifer, but for more and more people I?m Everett now. So you could call me either, really.? Stop talking!

The voice in my head was powerless to stop me.

?Well, that sounds like it can be hard at times,? she said.

I fought to stay on my seat and not fall onto the floor. ?Yes, it can be. I?m taking things at my own pace. It?s been interesting, I guess.?

?You?re not the first person I?ve met with complicated gender,? Susanne said, looking at me. She wasn?t backing away. I didn?t know what to make of this. Maybe she was a psychopath, collecting people with gender issues in her basement and putting them in little cages so she could have her own private transsexual zoo.

Or maybe it was just okay.

The fight for our civil rights is serious, complicated. It needs to occur on the part of all of us, to whatever degree we are capable and along a multiplicity of lines of attack. We need to petition our employers when we are privileged enough to do so without losing our jobs. We need to lobby our elected leaders. We need to take issues straight to the press. We need to talk to each other, advocate for our best interests with our physicians, and stay on top of a changing, tempestuous legal system. We need to be watchdogs for each other because few outside our community have our backs. We need to make a fuss, protest, perfect our skills at insider politicking, and be ready to soothe our war-weary. To get all of this done, we need to remember that humor, comedy, laughter?our collective laughter?is a tool in our arsenal. It?s an effective means of pushing our goals forward, but it?s also an affordable means of staying alive, and better yet, of staying happily alive. Each and every one of you deserves your own ?pursuit of happiness.? We have worked too hard to get where we are today to let anyone take our giggles, snark, and glee away from us.

There, I?ve told you what I?ve told you, I?ve done it by showing you, and I hope I met all of the rules for public speaking. Thank you so much for the honor and privilege of speaking today; I recognize that you?ll never get these 45 minutes back, so I hope you have no regrets in coming by and listening.

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Well: Diabetes on the Rise Among Teenagers

Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the disease?s prevalence among children ages 12 to 19 since a decade ago, when it was estimated that fewer than one in 10 were at risk for or had diabetes, according to a new study.

This worsening of the problem is worrying in light of recently published findings that the disease progresses more rapidly in children than in adults and is harder to treat, experts said.

The study, published online on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, analyzes data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which has a nationally representative sample. While it confirmed that teenage obesity and overweight rates had leveled off in recent years and that teenage rates of high blood pressure and high cholesterol had not changed greatly, it found that the percentage of teenagers testing positive for diabetes and prediabetes had nearly tripled to 23 percent in 2007-8 from 9 percent in 1999-2000.

Researchers said the data should be interpreted with caution because the prediabetes and diabetes status of the adolescents was based on a single test of each participant?s fasting blood glucose level, which could be unreliable in children if they had not fasted for at least 8 hours before taking the test. In addition, children this age are going through puberty, a process that induces insulin resistance.

?Nationwide, this is the best sampling of youth to inform us about cardiovascular risk factors,? said Dr. Lori Laffel of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, who was not involved in the study. But she said that the figure of nearly one in four teens having diabetes or prediabetes was high and that the findings needed to be replicated by other researchers in order to support them.

Still, experts and doctors who treat young diabetics said the trend over the past decade was troubling. They were not entirely able to explain why diabetes and prediabetes rates had continued to rise while obesity held steady, but they said it may have taken time for the disease to ?catch up? with teenagers who were overweight or sedentary as children.

Other factors may also play a role, including the increasing use of computer and mobile devices that has made youngsters more inactive and the growth of minority ethnic and racial groups who have higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than whites.

The study did not differentiate between adolescents who had diabetes and those with prediabetes, but most are likely to be prediabetic, experts said. That means blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to diagnose diabetes.

Many people with prediabetes go on to develop Type 2 diabetes, but they can prevent that from happening with modest weight loss and exercise. The disease, once called adult-onset diabetes because it was so rare in children, if not managed properly causes complications including vision problems, heart disease, nerve damage and kidney failure.

The new study, which included 3,383 participants in different studies over the decade, found that even teenagers of normal weight had risk factors for heart disease, including prediabetes.

Two-thirds of American adolescents ages 12 to 19 are of normal weight, 16 percent are overweight, and another 18 percent are obese; the percentages stayed fairly constant between 1999 and 2008. Sixty percent of those who were found to be obese during the 1999-2008 study, half of the overweight adolescents and 37 percent of the normal weight adolescents had at least one risk factor for heart disease, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

?You see a substantial burden of cardiovascular risk factors even among normal weight kids, and that is certainly something to be concerned about,? said Dr. Ashleigh L. May, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the paper?s lead author.

The health survey, which is administered every couple of years, found that the rate of diabetes and prediabetes among adolescents ages 12 to 19 rose from 9 percent in 1999-2000 to 15 percent in 2001-2, with a dip to 13 percent in 2003-4, back up to 16 percent in 2005-6 and then to 23 percent in 2007-8, the most recent years for which data was analyzed.

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Kristin Cavallari's Baby Shower Becomes 'Hills' Reunion | Radar ...

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Kristin Cavallari's baby shower on Saturday was a mini Hills reunion.

Spencer Pratt, his wife Heidi Montag and sister Stephanie Pratt hosted the event at a private home in West Hollywood.

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Cavallari wore a black maxi dress to the party, and later tweeted it to her fans.

But Heidi, in a revealing tight pink top designed to show off her more than ample assets almost stole the show!

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Guests enjoyed cupcakes and cocktails -- non-alcoholic for the mom-to-be -- and shared gifts including baby clothes and toys.

Kristin is engaged to Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.

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'Avengers' sinks 'Battleship" to remain No. 1

FILE - This file photo of a film image released by Disney shows Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, in a scene from "The Avengers." Disney/Marvel's "The Avengers" should top domestic box office for a third straight weekend, fending off wide-release newcomers with another $50 million in receipts. (AP Photo/Disney, File)

FILE - This file photo of a film image released by Disney shows Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, in a scene from "The Avengers." Disney/Marvel's "The Avengers" should top domestic box office for a third straight weekend, fending off wide-release newcomers with another $50 million in receipts. (AP Photo/Disney, File)

(AP) ? "The Avengers" continues to muscle out everything else Hollywood throws at it, easily sinking naval rival "Battleship" and other new releases.

With $55.1 million domestically, Disney's superhero sensation remained No. 1 for a third-straight weekend and took in more than the three big newcomers combined. Overseas, "The Avengers" added an additional $56 million.

The film is approaching the $1.2 billion mark worldwide, totaling $457.1 million domestically and $723.3 million internationally.

"'The Avengers' is dominating the marketplace so profoundly that the newcomers are having a tough time breaking in now," said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Universal's "Battleship" opened a distant No. 2 with $25.4 million domestically, well below industry expectations.

But the board-game adaptation starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna already has grossed $226.8 million overseas since launching in April, giving it a worldwide total of $252.1 million.

"I would be glad to be No. 2 if we opened to a better number. But given the presence of an absolute juggernaut in the marketplace, there's nothing you can do," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal. "Not to have a shot at being No. 1 this weekend is disappointing. But it's a challenge with 'Avengers' out there."

Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy "The Dictator," in which he plays a tyrannical third-world leader, debuted in third-place with $17.4 million for the weekend. Since opening Wednesday, the Paramount release has taken in $24.5 million.

"The Dictator" opened with $30.3 million in 29 overseas markets, giving it a worldwide haul of $54.8 million.

Paramount executives said they were happy with that start, but even a movie aiming for laughs had some trouble making in-roads against "The Avengers."

"This is a full-out comedy, very different than 'Avengers.' But when you've got a movie that big, it just absolutely sucks up the marketplace," said Anthony Marcoly, head of international distribution for Paramount. "But it's also good for the entire business. Hopefully, those that see 'Avengers' will go, 'Hey, I want to see another movie,' and hopefully, they'll think of our movie as a next choice."

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's vampire romp "Dark Shadows," which opened in second-place a week earlier, slipped to No. 4 with $12.8 million. The Warner Bros. release lifted its domestic total to $50.9 million, a weak result compared to the previous Depp-Burton blockbusters "Alice in Wonderland" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

Lionsgate's pregnancy comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting," featuring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, premiered at No. 5 with $10.5 million.

"The Avengers" and the newcomers were unable to maintain Hollywood's sizzling start to the summer season. Overall domestic revenues totaled $144 million, down 14 percent from the same weekend last year, when "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" opened with $90.2 million, according to Hollywood.com.

At $1.18 billion worldwide, "The Avengers" climbed to the No. 4 spot on the all-time charts, trailing only "Avatar" ($2.8 billion), "Titanic" ($2.2 billion) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" ($1.3 billion).

Domestically, "The Avengers" at $457.1 million is No. 6 all-time but will quickly pass "Star Wars: Episode I ? The Phantom Menace" ($474.5 million) and the original "Star Wars" ($460.9 million) to take the No. 4 spot.

"Avatar" is No. 1 domestically at $760.5 million, followed by "Titanic" at $658.5 million and "The Dark Knight" at $533.3 million.

Factoring in today's higher admission prices, many older movies sold more tickets than "The Avengers," which also has a price advantage because of the extra few dollars it costs to see the 3-D version.

But the Marvel Comics superhero ensemble has proved an overwhelming lure, drawing in all audience segments and packing in some fans who are seeing it over and over.

"It's a contagious thing that gets not just them back, but their friends back to see it again," said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney. "I'm always happy to see a friendly competition among friends to see who can see the movie the most times."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. "The Avengers," $55.1 million ($56 million international).

2. "Battleship," $25.4 million ($6.5 million international).

3. "The Dictator," $17.4 million ($30.3 million international).

4. "Dark Shadows," $12.8 million ($30.4 million international).

5. "What to Expect When You're Expecting," $10.5 million.

6. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," $3.3 million ($1.8 million international).

7. "The Hunger Games," $3 million ($1.5 million international).

8. "Think Like a Man," $2.7 million.

9. "The Lucky One," $1.8 million ($2.7 million international).

10. "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," $1.5 million.

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Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:

1. "The Avengers," $56 million.

2. "Dark Shadows," $30.4 million.

3. "The Dictator," $30.3 million.

4. "American Reunion," $10.2 million.

5. "Battleship," $6.5 million.

6. "All About My Wife," $3.7 million.

7. "Do-nui Mat," $3.5 million.

8. "The Lucky One," $2.7 million.

9. "Rust and Bone," $2.2 million.

10. "The Vow," $2 million.

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Online:

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http://www.rentrak.com

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

Associated Press

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Google gets China OK for Motorola deal

NEW YORK (AP) ? Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.

But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: That Google's Android operating system for mobile devices remain available to all at no cost for the next five years.

The approval brings the Internet search giant closer to sealing its biggest acquisition ever. Buying Motorola allows Google to expand into manufacturing phones, tablet computers and other consumer devices for the first time. The deal also gives Google access to more than 17,000 Motorola patents.

The Chinese government approved the deal on Saturday, Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said. "We look forward to closing the deal," she said.

The deal was announced last August and had received all necessary regulatory approvals except in China, where Google's government relations have been strained since it moved its search engine out of the country two years ago in a dispute over censorship and computer security.

Google's Android software powers more than 250 million mobile devices made by a variety of manufacturers, including Motorola Mobility. The latest versions must be made available free of charge for the next five years, apparently in response to concerns that competition could be hurt if Google gives updated versions to Motorola Mobility and withholds them from others. Google doesn't currently charge for Android.

Google earlier had pledged to make Android available to all its mobile partners. Even if Google were to discriminate, cellphone makers still could rely on mobile software from Microsoft Corp., Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard Co., among others.

Google prizes Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.'s patents as a crucial weapon in the intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals maneuvering to gain more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Earlier, the U.S. Justice Department found no evidence that Google's ownership of Motorola Mobility would lessen competition in a mobile device market that is becoming increasingly important as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers instead of desktop and laptop computers.

The union with Motorola Mobility will open new opportunities and pose potentially troublesome challenges for a management team that so far has concentrated on Internet search, ad sales and other software-driven online services.

Motorola Mobility's expertise in mobile devices and set-top boxes for cable TV will allow Google to play an even more influential role in shaping the future of hand-held computing and home entertainment.

The $12.5 billion price paid by Google is more than the combined amount that Google has paid for the 185 other acquisitions that it has completed since going public in 2004.

Google is based in Mountain View, California, while Motorola Mobility has its headquarters in Libertyville, Illinois.

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