Sideshow: 'The Help' retains top spot

The Help, a tale of race relations in 1962 Mississippi, took charge of U.S. movie screens for the third straight weekend, racking up a gate of $14.2 million, according to studio estimates. Claiming second place in the box office sweeps with $9.7 million on its debut weekend was The Debt, a story of Nazi hunters, starring Helen Mirren. The "fakeumentary horror" flick Apollo 18, also making its debut, was third with $8.7 million. The poorly reviewed Shark Night 3D nevertheless managed $8.6 million on its debut weekend for fourth place. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes came in fifth, at $7.8 million.

Eye surgeon Richard S. Kaiser of the Wills Eye Institute will discuss all things ocular Wednesday at 3 p.m. on the syndicated daytime talker, The Doctors, which airs locally on CBS3.

The Doctors features a "dream team" of four doctor-hosts: pediatrician Jim Sears, plastic surgeon Drew Ordon, emergency-medicine guru Travis Stork, and obstetrician and gynecologist Lisa Masterson. Kaiser will discuss the dangerous effects diabetes has on the eyes, the importance of regular eye exams, and the latest treatment options at Wills.

Serenaded by Kanye West in the vastness of an airplane hangar, gamers gathered in L.A. for the first ever "Call of Duty XP" convention wrapped up two days of video mayhem on Saturday.

West's performance, including such hits as "Gold Digger" and "Love Lock Down," matched the game for spectacle, with West ascending more than five stories above the crowd on a platform. Earlier, the hangar, located on the old airfield where Howard Hughes built his massive wooden plane the "Spruce Goose" decades ago, was the final battleground for a "Call of Duty" tournament that awarded $1 million in prize money.

The two-day confab celebrated the popular Activision Blizzard Inc. shoot-'em-up video-game franchise. The four-man U.S. group called OpTic Gaming bested 31 other teams from around the world to win the "Modern Warfare 3" tournament. William "BigTymer" Johnson, Blake "Vengeance2T" Campbell, Joseph "Merc SD" DeLuca, and Matthew "NaDeSHoT" Haag beat the British team Til Infinity to take the $400,000 grand prize. "This is definitely the most that we've ever won," said Johnson, 20, of Marked Tree, Ark.

Six days into training for Dancing With The Stars, the way-less-than-svelte Chaz Bono has melted a little of the old avoirdupois, reports People magazine. Five pounds, to be specific. And the 42-year-old is really getting into the regimen, according to his pro dancing partner, Lacey Schwimmer. "It's so great," Schwimmer gushed to People. "He says he's not eating any differently, he's just dancing." Schwimmer, 23, acknowledges that she and Bono are underdogs in the quest for the disco ball. Bono, of course, is the offspring of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, and that could lead to a little friction with the producers of DWTS. "Chaz has already told me he doesn't want to dance to any of his parents' songs," Schwimmer confided. "But the show really wants it to happen, so we'll see."