Word: flops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defined hip-hop according to Public Enemy and Tribe feel like there are too few true artists with record deals that actually expose them beyond their area code. Hip-hop dinosaurs everywhere agree: what we need is an independent label to push a slammin' act that just wouldn't flop--even in a world where a track by Pras reaches number one in the pop charts. So when rumors about a Black Star album first seeped through the math, everyone saw the skies clear. The buzz actually proliferated some'm ridiculous. Might as well quote the 18th Letter: "Nobody been...
...real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability to create celebrities--and the viewer's need to embrace them--until it goes soft-hearted and -headed by denouncing the very salesmanship that Hollywood and TV are built on. For an hour or so, though...
...Center. The joint venture was supposed to go live on Sept. 23, but then software glitches led officials to disclose that they will delay until Nov. 1 what amounts to the final roll of the dice in its $5 billion gamble to revolutionize telecommunications--or become the best-publicized flop in history. The announcement nudged its stock price on the NASDAQ exchange down to the mid-30s in mid-September, from a stratospheric high of $72 a share in May. The firm also revealed that it has not yet received a license to operate in France. Nonetheless, the advertising campaign...
...FLOP SWEAT (1960) Nixon turns pale and pasty debating J.F.K...
...Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. Previn, who turned 69 in April, knows he's leading with his chin--nearly all the great opera composers of the past got started in their 20s or 30s--so he has taken out a classy piece of flop insurance: superstar soprano Renee Fleming is singing the role of Blanche Dubois. "Of course it's inhibiting to make an opera out of so famous a play," he says, "but even if you don't like what I've written, I think it's safe to say you'll love...