Word: flops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...Ornstein and nine other serious people took the stage at the Improv on Connecticut Avenue to vie for the title of Washington's Funniest Celebrity. Obviously the fact that it was all for a good cause, to benefit the Child Welfare League of America, gave the would-be comics flop insurance, but none of these people came to have their efforts patronized. They were in it for the glory...
McKellen has had tiny roles in flop movies (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything), and though he originated the role of Salieri onstage in Amadeus, he didn't get the part in Milos Forman's film; maybe Forman thought F. Murray Abraham was more photogenic. Or perhaps he detected an unease in McKellen's film presence. "I belong on a stage," the actor says. "I feel totally at home. But at a studio, surrounded by other experts who all have their contributions to make, I used to feel a terrible pressure as the person in front of the camera...