Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shame. Such brilliant advertising wasted on so ponderous a movie...
...Messner, Sunday night's performance was straight-faced, emotional and talented. Almost the entire set was taken from the new album, as Ben Folds impressively rocked out on the piano for "Narcolepsy," "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Army". But Folds was not going to leave without showing the brilliant irreverent side he has been known for, and finished the set with "Song for the Dumped," featuring the eternal lyric "Give me my money back, you bitch...
...Anya was brilliant today," Caples said. "It was messy, it was hectic, and everyone was in there in front of the goal. On those corners, we were caught standing around, I would even say spectating, and for us the challenge is to stay mentally focused and cut down the length of those kind of lapses...
Another flag is the aforementioned heavy redemptions. Take Oakmark Fund (which I own). After a brilliant run early this decade it has lagged badly the past two years. This year shareholders have withdrawn $2 billion more than they've put in, a drop equal to a third of the fund's assets, reports AMG Data. Manager Bob Sanborn has been forced to sell long-held stocks and realize the gain. "I'd be shocked if our distribution is not aberrationally high," he says. So don't buy now; it might even make sense to sell (I'm not) if your...
...When a movie is neither funny, entertaining, deep, sexy nor meaningful, it has to work awfully hard to keep your attention. Kubrick's final film was an exercise in mediocrity. It was supposed to be his thunderous masterpiece, a rousing conclusion to a brilliant career. But alas, it was hyped to no end and the expectations clouded reality. Tom and Nicole took their clothes off over and over for every major magazine and everyone cheered the possibilities. A real-life married couple having sex! Orgies! An intellectual movie for the masses! But it was DOA. The problem, of course...