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...marked man at the table of nine the way his raises were consistently met with big reraises that prompted him to fold. But Begleiter says he has no issues with Moon: "He's a gentlemen and very good poker player. I shook his hand before the flop on the last hand and again after he knocked me out." You never know: they may meet again next year...
Christakis added that he did not want to reveal the details of his hypothesis for fear of potentially corrupting the results of the study. But he said that if there is no H1N1 epidemic, his “experiment will be a flop...
...Favreau has become a respected director (Elf, Iron Man) and Vaughn, pretty much, a movie star. Three of the films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office; and even his 2007 Yuletide flop, the egregious Fred Claus, did $72 million. An actor who gets people to pay to see the bad movies he's in: that's a good definition of a star. The odder thing is that the large, shambling Vaughn is a babe magnet; the early audience for Couples...
...this summer suffered disaster after comedy disaster (Land of the Lost, Brüno, Funny People) and recently replaced its top two executives. "Movies always do business after the studio heads get fired," an insider told Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, echoing film-biz folk wisdom and ignoring the flop opening of Disney's Surrogates the week after the company canned Dick Cook, its longtime production chief. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository for our retirement reserves. In the past two years, that has become all too clear. From the end of 2007 to the end of March 2009, the average 401(k) balance fell 31%, according to Fidelity. The accounts have rebounded, along with the rest of the market, but that's little help for those who retired - or were forced to - during the recession. In a system in which one year's gains build on the next, the disaster of 2008 will dent...