Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next year the city sponsored its first stock-car race. It was a financial flop. But one of the drivers was Bill France; after finishing fifth, he decided to concentrate on promoting races. By last week, France had made Daytona the capital of stock-car racing, his Daytona International Speedway was the sport's No. 1 emporium and he himself was indisputably king of the stocks...
...wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (Capitol). As a TV extravaganza, the Beatles' Tour was a flop in Britain, but the album's songs from the show are agreeably Beatley. They include a softly' sudsy ditty called The Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane...
...wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...sleazy theatrical producer (Zero Mostel) enlists the aid of his wide-eyed accountant (Gene Wilder) in a convoluted cabal. Given the improper circumstances, a Broadway entrepreneur can make more from a flop than he can from a hit-by pocketing the backers' money after the show folds. Accordingly, the two men begin a search for the world's worst script. Mostel finally zeroes in on Springtime for Hitler, written by an unrepentant Nazi who believes that the Führer was infinitely superior to Churchill because he had more hair and besides, he was a better painter...