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...discovered skulking into the kind of 24-hour diner that, in movies, betokens a Mafia presence. And sure enough, a disreputable little man is soon slipping her a mysterious packet. Dope? Money for laundering? No, jokes. As it turns out, terrible jokes. Jokes that produce a distillation of pure flop sweat when she tries them out at a comedy club called the Gas Station, where beginning comics mostly improvise their own humiliations. For Lilah is a bored New Jersey housewife who has been told all her life that she is a funny lady and dreams of public confirmation of that...
...Yorkin thinks so. And, as director of this summer's flop Arthur 2 on the Rocks, he should know. Yorkin is steamed at critics who torpedoed his movie for its portrait of an insouciant inebriate. "Arthur is a fantasy , character," he spumes, "just like Roger Rabbit. But that movie is all about drinking, and it's being called one of the great movies of all time...
Oprah's charmed career has not been without a few snags. Her second film, Native Son, based on Richard Wright's novel, was a flop at the box office, and a prospective sitcom for ABC, starring Oprah as a talk-show host, was scuttled after a mediocre pilot. Most of her attention is now focused on bringing to the screen projects that are close to her -- like Beloved and Kaffir Boy, an autobiography set in South Africa. "I want to do movies that are about something, that move people and leave them feeling uplifted." Though most of them involve black...
Take Reagan's Moscow summit, which in all likelihood would have been a flop had it not been for a determined group of writers thumping away in the Old Executive Office Building. They provided the President with speeches that soared around the world, eloquent statements about freedom and democracy and glory of the individual. By the measure of the day, Chief Writer Tony Dolan, 39, along with Josh Gilder, 34, Peter Robinson, 31, Clark Judge, 40, and Mark Klugmann, 28, should have been out riding the bull market or selling their kiss-and-tell memoirs. Instead they were busy burnishing...
...Oscar nominee as a 1976 movie. But onstage it set records of a different sort: losing more than $7 million made it Broadway's biggest failure ever. Said President Rocco Landesman of Jujamcyn Theaters, which invested $500,000 and provided a house for the show: "This is the biggest flop in the world history of the theater, going all the way back to Aristophanes...