It seemed like only yesterday we were in the streets celebrating the blessed union of our most important public figure Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries with E!’s televised special “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding” when it aired all the way back on October 9. Of course, this was a tape delayed program, edited after the actual wedding took place back on August 20, 2011 when Kim and the love of her life said, “I do.”
Unfortunately, today, October 31, 2011, we learn the marriage is over. Kim filed for divorce creating a Halloween we will all remember for a long time to come. After enjoying 72 days of wedded bliss the world has lost one of their most beloved couples and on such an occasion I felt it was important to take a look back at just what life was like back when these two crazy kids embarked on that crazy journey we call love.
Most importantly, The Help was number one at the box-office in its second weekend after coming up second the week before to Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Back then also saw the debut of Smell-O-Vision with Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids: All the Time in the World. There’s still no telling how big an effect that feature will be in the coming years as more filmmakers dare accompany their films with engrossing scratch-n-sniff cards.
That same weekend Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian attempted to bring the ’80s back to life to no avail and perhaps the biggest story of the year, The Worst Movie EVER! opened in one theater and took in $11, the worst box-office opening of all-time. However, don’t try to compare that film to the Kardashian and Humphries marriage, The Worst Movie EVER! only lasted half as long as their highly adored union. After 38 days in theaters, The Worst Movie EVER! couldn’t stick around long enough to even see the debut of “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding”.
Of course, movies weren’t the only big news that day. Another major union took shape as an Atlantic tropical wave developed atmospheric convection and a closed cyclonic circulation center to form Hurricane Irene in the Caribbean as Kim and Kris made way for Italy’s Amalfi Coast for a honeymoon I’m sure they still cherish.
Moammar Gadhafi was still alive back then and Herman Cain‘s “9-9-9” tax plan wasn’t even news yet. Back then no one presumed the St. Louis Cardinals would win the World Series. Occupy Wall Street? What’s that? And the debate over whether schools should teach cursive or typing? Yeah, that hadn’t even begun.
Those were simpler times back in August and now we face a weekend of movies featuring the formation of what could potentially be another pleasurable union, Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner. If the man that starred as Norbit and the man that brought us After the Sunset can’t see us through this trying time… who can?
Now, we can only hope to put the pieces back together…
