It may be curtains for the Will Ferrell formula of sending up middle-of-the-road sports. His third stab at the genre, “Semi-Pro,” led the box office this weekend, but disappointed expectations with a relatively minor $15.3 million opening. “Vantage Point,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” and “The Other Boleyn Girl,” followed suit.

Jack Johnson’s “Sleep Through the Static” continues its domination of the the Billboard 200. Kidz Bop Kids “Kidz Bop 13” enters the charts at No. 4, and the “Step Up 2: The Streets” Soundtrack moves into the top 5. This week’s Janet Jackson release threatens to shake up the charts on Thursday.

The lowest-rated Academy Awards of all time were barely good enough to beat out “American Idol” in the Nielsen ratings for the week of February 18 . More than 21 million somehow managed to watch the Oscar’s Red Carpet show on ABC. Over on E!, Gary Busey was putting on a show of his own.

Jonah Goldberg has to be pleased. Not only is his book “Liberal Fascism” the No. 1 book on the NYT bestseller list this week, but he unseated an author who (if he’s anything like the rest of his colleagues at Berkeley) is not only a liberal fascist but also a pinko commie bastard. J.D. Robb, not to be confused with JT LeRoy, hits the fiction list at No. 2 with “Strangers in Death.”