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...nearly-impotent Mafia, and the idea has been predictably overused in such recent films as Analyze This and Mafia. Grant will probably bumble and stutter his way through yet another film, while Caan gets another turn at his Oscar-nominated Godfather role. Director Kelly Makin has only the flop Brain Candy: Kids in the Hall among her credits, and test screenings have been decidedly negative, citing a script devoid of laughs and a tired premise among its shortcomings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...Yale, what's it like to win in the '90s?"CrimsonDebbie J. Lee000--LICENSE TO KILL: Freshman OsahonO. Omoregie does the flop...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Teams Torch Yale in Dual Meet | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...momentarily, as you quickly become mired in the intrinsic flaws associated with staggered storytelling. Playing by Heart has a great cast and some potential, but the sappy melodrama and scarcity of truly humorous moments leave much to be desired. This is one Valentine's Day dud that deserved to flop...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heartburn: 'Play by Heart' and Lose | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...same techniques to accurately forecast the economic crisis in Asia as well as the social and political troubles in Indonesia, the 1998 India-Pakistan nuclear standoff, and the 1998 rapprochement between Iran and the U.S. Stratfor has missed a few calls--most notably predicting that the euro would flop--but its gritty analysis has already won 15,000 subscribers to its free website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spies Like Us | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...century's biggest flop in business journalism is broadcast television. TV with a business story is like a whore with a baby: it's a cute little thing, but what the hell to do with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words To Profit By | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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