Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are several times in the calendar year over which the executives of big Hollywood studios--Sony, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, etc.--just seem to salivate. This past summer, the prime time to release big-budget and sometimes quirky films, box office receipts totaled a touch over $3 billion, the biggest ever in the history of movie making. Summer is one season where the amount of hype and advertising simply inundates various forms of media; but Christmastime and the preceding period is no less intense in film circles when various movies with varying appeal play (to variable degrees...
...direction of Andy Tennant, who is last known for his sweet treatment of the Cinderella tale in Ever After. So, in order to entice people into theaters in the winter months, what do studios do? They advertise when most people will be sitting in theatres to hype the next big film season. So, for those who saw Star Wars: Episode I this past summer -- and judging by the $792 million in box office receipts, many did -- you might have noticed a few of the trailers preceding the film promoted movies scheduled for release late in the bitter winter months...
...towing the party line. She relates, in a typical promotional interview, "Anna really is an epic. You see all the beauty, and the architecture and pageantry and landscapes that Siam was at the time." So, above all, in the broken English of Chow, "it's a tremendous romance, big epic, love story," and don't you ever forget...
...couldn't have chosen a better name, because that is exactly what one likes about this album, everything but the you-know-who. Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt firs came out in 1982 with a jazz-pop sound, and people kind of liked them then. Now, numerous covers, one big Todd Terry remix club hit ("Missing"), one milestone album (Walking Wounded), several style shifts and too many years later, they hit out with a diffused house album that can't reach the mark. Temperamental is a post-trolling album; it whiffs like vapor. It is typically morose and introspective...
...Quakers will stumble into Cambridge bearing the heavy burden of a three-game losing streak. Penn came close to its first conference victory last Sunday at Cornell, but the Big Red prevailed in double-overtime...