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...while Buffalo was fighting its way to the Super Bowl, Dallas was losing and stockpiling blue-chip draft choices like running back Emmitt Smith, quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin. All of which proves the axiom that losing in the Super Bowl is actually worse than going 1-15. If you finish last, you at least get to pick first in the draft. Defeat in the Super Bowl, on the other hand, is a bitter bone to chew with nothing but snowbanks and February staring you in the face...
...First of all, this film is not going to be a failure. This film is going to be a big hit, and it's really going to crumble that old, tired Hollywood axiom that the white moviegoing masses are not going to see a black film that's a drama, or a film that's not a comedy and musical, or that doesn't have Eddie Murphy in it. Because no matter what lip service those executives say, that is still their belief. Just look at TV. Every single show that is about black folks, they're all situation comedies...
...Clarence Thomas have proved, every scandal is a career move. Indiscretions that movie stars once paid to suppress they now discuss on Oprah and Arsenio; those modern-day analysts' couches have become celebrities' thrones. Allen the filmmaker can use this publicity; his recent movies have been flops. (An industry axiom: everybody knows Woody Allen, but nobody goes to his movies.) It is even likely that the brouhaha will boost Husbands and Wives at the box office, at least until people decide whether they like it or not. For Farrow the actress, the spin is not so profitable. For years...
...AXIOM OF POLITICS THAT running for the White House involves a zig and then a zag: during the primaries, candidates of both parties normally concentrate on wooing the liberal or conservative wings of their parties; once nominated, they pivot toward the broad middle of the American electorate, where the White House is lost...
...Hall, an old axiom is laid to rest...