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Cash,
I'm stuck in a downtown Mexico City hotel until Friday.

Fortunately, Christmas is in full swing with its lights, poor people and pollution.

The man I bought your present from (it should arrive Thursday) wore a cattle skull bolo tie with a Metallica Master of Puppets t-shirt, and couldn't stop talking about his cousin that lives in Hacienda Heights. Once he realized I couldn't possibly know his cousin (not sure he realized how big L.A is), all he wanted to talk about was King Kong. Here's what I learned from my limited Spanish...

Pre-Kong, the most expensive movies ever made were:

1. "Cleopatra," with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz in 1963, for 286.4 million dollars (in 2005 money).
2. "Titanic," by James Cameron (1997) for 247 million dollars.
3. Two years later, "Waterworld," directed by Kevin Costner, cost 229 million dollars.
4. Terminator 3," the latest film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger before he become California governor, cost 216 million dollars in 2003.
5. "Spider-Man 2" was made in 2004 for 210 million dollars.
6. Wild Wild West" with Will Smith for 203.8 million dollars in 1999

Kong now takes the #6 Slot at $207 million.

Love,

Mildred