Word: flopping
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First, scratch off James Woods: his is the only film in all the categories I haven't seen, but his latex-heavy scenery chewing in the flop movie's preview is way too over-the-top, even for Oscar. Mueller-Stahl, a prickly character actor who deserves more recognition, has too little to do as the terrorizing father in Shine, especially considering that he played the same character in Music Box and The House of the Spirits. That means a head-to-head between Gooding, whose bebop-ebonic hijinks were a riot in Maguire, and Norton, whose hat trick...
Makeup calls got earlier and earlier. One box-office flop and--boom!--I'd enter the never-to-return ghetto of geriatric buddy comedies. Yikes...
...Jeeves. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn collaborated 20 years ago on this musical about P.G. Wodehouse's unflappable butler, which was a London flop. Now, with a new book and a freshened-up score, it's back at Connecticut's Goodspeed-at-Chester theater in a charming production directed by Ayckbourn. The teacup wit and inventive, less-is-much-more staging would never survive a trip to Broadway, but resident theaters across the country should have a ball with...
...specter of economic retaliation--and the fact that Texaco executives were caught red-handed using racially insulting language as they discussed the destruction of evidence--that motivated Texaco chairman Peter I. Bijur to perform the most spectacular flip-flop since Kerri Strug's Olympic showstopper. In a textbook feat of corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion...
...this treasured journalistic flip-flop may be harder to perform in November 1996, for two reasons. First, it has been weeks if not months since the media have been able to persuade either themselves or their audience that there was any real uncertainty about the election result--at least on the presidential level. And second, President Clinton's brilliantly successful re-election strategy of good times, bite-size issues (school uniforms) and soaring but empty imagery (bridges hither and yon) does not lend itself to grand historical theorizing or to bold claims about what the voters were trying...