Summer blockbusters look to help struggling movie industry: "We were down more than 90%"
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For Matt Singer, editor, and critic for the website screencrush.com, it's been possible to work remotely — just not the same.
"When I watch a movie at home, even if it's great when it's over, that's it, the movie is over... And the movies that we've been missing over the last 18 months are the kind of movies that are really enhanced by a crowd, everyone cheering together, laughing together, these huge spectacles," Singer told CBS News' Dana Jacobson. It's blockbusters like "F9" and "Black Widow'' next week that theater owners hope will pack the seats again.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.