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...have their fascinations, but they'd be of only minor interest if they didn't bookend the movie. I remember loving it as a kid; to me it was a taut, 96min. primer in the ways bright people talked, dressed and hurt each other. Yet the film was a flop at the box office (Winchell announced, with apparent pleasure, that it lost $2 million) and invisible at awards time (it was the only one of Lehman's 50s scripts that did not win a Writers Guild nomination). Since then, "Sweet Smell" has become a retro-classic. Its wonderfully ornate cynicism...
Heading into this past weekend, the romantics among us were dreaming of how much better position Harvard would be in had it avoided last month’s second-half meltdown versus Yale. If not for that loss and the subsequent flop against the Big Red, then Harvard would have had a bona fide title shot...
...things start to look familiar as you turn onto Lebuh Armenian, it's not d?j? vu. Scenes from the recent Hollywood flop Anna and the King were filmed among the shophouses of this quiet street. The humble blue shophouse at No. 120 is where Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China, planned much of the Chinese Revolution from...
What he lacks in talent or effort--the dialogue can flop back and forth between smart talk and soap-opera drivel--Williamson makes up in casting. You often fail to notice cloying or clunky speeches when there are really good-looking young actors delivering them. Cahill, who played Rachel's boyfriend on Friends and a murderous junkie on Felicity, is charming as Mike, who comes home to try to figure out his father's suspicious death. Once there, he also has to deal with the angry townsfolk, all of whom he skewered in his best seller. Cahill is especially impressive...
Later that evening when Holmgren returned and was informed of the visitor, he jokingly commented that it would be funny if the bat were in one of his shoes. Holmgren then proceeded to pick up his shoes one by one to prove his point. When the bat actually did flop out of the fourth shoe he’d grabbed, one of the roomies let out with a “girly scream.” “I’m not going to say it was me,” Holmgren attests...