Word: hates
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...mail in which he complains that the installation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer sabotaged his existing Netscape bookmarks and likened the whole experience to having "sold his soul." Return correspondence -- from someone at Netscape, no less -- mentions Microsoft's "blatant anti-competition strategy" and adds, "I really do hate that company...
...those who have seen them, are a mixture of showmanship and brainpower, as if Albert Einstein were guest host of the Tonight Show. "Andy thinks faster than most people, certainly than me," says Rock, who has made billions betting on firms such as Intel and Apple. "I would hate to compete with Intel...
...Face/Off In this schizoid actioner, John Woo harnesses his explosive visual finesse to a mad fable of two men (Nicolas Cage and John Travolta) who become what they most hate: each other. Hollywood high concept meets Hong Kong turbo technique for double the pleasure, double the art. Woo's best since Bullet in the Head...
...RAGTIME The musical version of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel could have been a high-minded bore, a musical for people who hate musicals. Or, given all the promotional hype (the show has been trumpeted seemingly since the Ice Age), another mega-disappointment. In fact, it turns out to be a landmark American musical. Doctorow's turn-of-the-century tapestry, mixing fact and fiction, has been expertly refashioned for the stage by playwright Terrence McNally; director Frank Galati has showcased it in a crisp and beautiful production; the score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty gets better with...
Except possibly those mornings the reviews for his shows come out. With the apparent end of Andrew Lloyd Webber's string of hits, Wildhorn has taken over as the middlebrow melodist critics love to hate. His soaring ballads are dismissed as bland pop geared for easy-listening radio; his shows are scorned as cut-rate imitations of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says...