Word: flopped
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...seemed hard to envision a solution. In an eerie replay of the events that led to the initial Wall Street bailout flop, congressional Democrats got the White House's blessing on a bill only to discover (yet again) that the outgoing President doesn't carry much weight on Capitol Hill. "The White House does not vote in the Senate," said one Senate GOP aide. "It's offensive to many congressional Republicans that they'd choose working with a lame duck than with their colleagues." (Many Democrats counter that the door was always open to the Republican Senators - but that they...
...hands. Obviously there was the hand with Tiffany Michelle. [With 18 players remaining, Eastgate won a pot of nearly 10 million chips holding a pair of aces against Michelle's ace and jack.] There was the hand with Dennis Phillips at the final table on the K-2-2 flop. [With six players remaining, Phillips bet 7 million and Eastgate, holding pocket aces, moved all-in for 22 million. Phillips folded, giving Eastgate the chip lead.] You have also some of the folds that you don't see on the ESPN tapes, and situations where I made the right folds...
...stage are just as likely to fizzle as they are to thrive when they immigrate to the U.S. On the one hand, the low-key Brits seem far more wowed than Americans by a certain brand of over-the-top, kitschy production - from Saturday Night Fever (hit in London, flop on Broadway) to We Will Rock You, the daft Queen musical from London that couldn't get any farther than Las Vegas in the States. At the same time, the specific social milieu and topical political references of so many current British plays frequently make them bad bets...
...theory. The mixture of these pop icons, each of whom has proven masterful on a singular level (yes, even the porn stars), is not only toxic, but pitiful. While isolated moments prove funny—mostly because they’re outrageous—the film is a total flop, a rare tapestry of hilarious individuals who flounder in the wake of inexcusably bad writing, a terrible plot, and unbearable clichés. The setting is Monroeville, Pa., a typically gritty Smith-style suburb in which vulgarity seeps out of the gutters. Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks...
...once translated to the screen. “What Just Happened?” chronicles two weeks in the life of Hollywood producer Ben (Robert De Niro) as he deals with his two ex-wives, three children, the post-production of what is sure to be an audience-offending flop, and an obstinate Bruce Willis (as a parody of himself) who refuses to shave his revolting, overgrown beard for an upcoming movie. As if having De Niro and Willis wasn’t enough star power, Sean Penn appears as the star of the movie within the movie. He?...