The Cricket's Daily 3: A not-so-'Amazing' $92M opening

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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" won the weekend at the box office, with $92 million — a rather soft opening, compared to past "Spider-Man" movies, or even compared to the $95 million "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" earned its opening weekend a month ago. [Box Office Mojo]

• Joel McHale was hit-and-miss at the White House Correspondents Dinner, while President Barack Obama got the best laugh lines. Meanwhile, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich, who excoriated Washington's out-of-touch social swirl in his book "This Town," called the whole event "an abomination." [Entertainment Weekly, Politico]

• Apparently, there's some dust-up about whether Naya Rivera has been fired from "Glee" or not. This raises the question: Are there still people who care about "Glee"? [AP]