Word: 80s
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...While F&F had plenty in the tank, the week's other wide release, Adventureland, just plain tanked. It finished a sad sixth. Fewer than a million patrons paid to see Superbad director Greg Mottola's reminiscence of an '80s summer he spent working in an amusement park. Apparently most of those who wanted a reverberation of their Superbad vibe stayed home and watched star Seth Rogen, who ubiquitously promoted his next-week's movie, Observe and Report, on Letterman, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the Home Shopping Network...
...videographer and a staffer at an amusement park, managing various carnival games. The last position served as the inspiration for the new coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, which opens April 3. It's about an intellectual, awkward young man named James (Jesse Eisenberg) who spends a summer in the '80s at a family-owned amusement park, falling in love with another employee, Em (Kristen Stewart), who herself is dealing with the stress surrounding the death of her mother and her affair with the park's older, married mechanic (Ryan Reynolds). TIME talked with Mottola about the film's quirky characters...
...there really an Adventureland? Yep. It's on Long Island, and I worked there during college. We didn't shoot the movie there, though, because we went back now to scout it out, and it just didn't look right for the '80s. It didn't have the right sort of lovely seediness, the sense that at any moment you might trip over someone's discarded needles...
...reason to think that GM could gain share, and its sales rate proved that point. Industry-wide, March auto sales were down 40% on a seasonally adjusted basis. GM's factory-utilization rate is less than 60%. That's abysmal - the rate needs to be in the 80s for the company to be successful - and it's one reason GM is hemorrhaging cash. "We don't believe the rest of '09 will be strong. We are going to stay soft through the rest of the year," says Lars Luedeman, director of analytics at Grant Thornton, which follows the industry. Dealer...
...attempt to create the dance music that O has demanded.Although it may seem surprising, “It’s Blitz!” is a brave and thrilling statement from a band that seems determined to push forward. It harks back in many ways to 80s bands like New Order and The Cure, who constantly shifted and developed their sound—something that few bands are brave enough to attempt. Leaving behind their rough garage rock origins, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have created a shiny and well-produced album. The object may have been to produce dance...