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...segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies. The cinematography is so gross and grainy that the film looks like its own illegal dupe. The stars seem to be acting under protest. The picture has the jagged anti-rhythm of some cheap hipster fiasco from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Atti-Toon | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...full withdrawal of the control rods, and Fermi allowed himself a grin. He had proved the science of a chain reaction in uranium; from then on, building a bomb was mere engineering. He shut the pile down after 28 minutes of operation. Wigner had thought to buy a celebratory fiasco of Chianti, which supplied a toast. "For some time we had known that we were about to unlock a giant," Wigner would write. "Still, we could not escape an eerie feeling when we knew we had actually done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Physicist: ENRICO FERMI | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. And why do the three stars look so drawn and pocky? Well, it had to come sometime: this is DreamWorks' first reprehensible fiasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Forces Of Nature | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...very well have done some of the despicable things he is charged with doing. I will be the first to suggest that conservatives and feminists alike would condemn him should this prove to be the case. In the meantime, however, anyone paying the slightest attention to the Jones fiasco cannot help but doubt the credibility of the claims, (even of the most fervent feminist). In light of these facts, I am more than willing to give NOW the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps NOW's actions can be explained as more than simple political maneuvering and do indeed reflect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...fiasco begins as Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is driving home in his beat-up, smoking car after sabotaging his news reporting career by unintentionally flirting with the boss's daughter (Elizabeth Hurley). Suddenly, a flash of light illuminates the sky, and he slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick...

Author: By Dan L. Vazquez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ...and THE WALT DISNEY. COMPANY. | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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