Word: flopped
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What makes one brother a star and another a flop...
...Hollywood kerfuffle goes. They fell in love, got engaged, broke it off. That sort of embarrassment must happen to a million unfamous people a year. It used to happen to Julia Roberts several times a week. In an awful reverse synergy, the breakup was paired with a famous flop they both starred in, Gigli. Part of that stemmed from the magnitude of the flop. Gigli wasn't car-crash bad; that kind of movie gets rubberneckers into the theaters. It was the sort of event people avert their eyes from. It was man-urinating-in-public...
...money," he says. He is banking heavily on success his second time round in New York--hence the long hours spent training his staff for the move over the past 18 months. "The only two ways we are going to fail is if the building is a flop, or if we fail as a team." He pauses and smiles faintly. "So the thing is, will the building fail?" And that, finally, is something even the perfectionist Thomas Keller cannot control...
...cancer; in Stockholm. The cool blond projected a knowing pessimism in Bergman's Wild Strawberries and The Magician, desperate longing in Winter Light and The Silence, and a mutilating self-hatred in Cries and Whispers. Though her one Hollywood film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was a flop, she shone as a soulful socialist in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie and as a Nazi-era matriarch in Luchino Visconti's The Damned...
...pulls off a miraculous turnaround, and the show is a surprise hit. Second (and more frequent) scenario: the troubles really do turn out to be as bad as everybody suspected, no one can fix them in time, and the show is a big, sloppy, they-got-what-they-deserved flop...