Word: floppings
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...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...
...insiders. More expensive flu damage may come later, if the lost publicity ends up slowing sales of the new CD in Europe. And frankly, these days Spears could use a little extra sales help from every continent: her last album, 2001's Britney, sold 4 million copies - hardly a flop but still less than half the numbers each of her previous CDs racked...