Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then, do we have to suffer through movies like What Happens in Vegas, which is the worst-in-breed not only for this year, but very likely in living memory. The tormented pair, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, are not at all dislikable and their situation is not comedically hopeless. They meet in the eponymous city, he having lost his job, she having lost her fiance. Both are trying to forget these blows. But they get drunk, get married on a whim - and accidentally win three million dollars on a single turn at a slot machine. This inconveniences settlement...
Though he has played many roles since his first campaign, in 1968, Ickes is known best as a closer, the master of the bitter end who can wring important victories from defeat. He fought pitched, sometimes noble, usually hopeless battles on behalf of Eugene McCarthy, Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. And in most cases, he took the fight for his underdog candidate all the way to the party's convention, where he tried every trick the rules allowed--and some they didn't--in the hope a miracle would happen. It never did. But in the process, Ickes...
...return, however. Lu Fanglin's investment last August brought him more pain than profit. Over six months, his investment in the stock market shrank from $28,500 to $17,100. He pulled out completely in January. "Anyone who has gone through the last few months could feel nothing but hopeless," Lu says. "I won't get near to the stock market for the rest of my life...
...opens with one of her songs, “The Story.” Jones plays Lizzie, a young woman who, after a bad break-up, takes off on a road trip to find herself and in the process meets a series of people whose stories are even more hopeless than her own. As the lyrics of the opening song suggest, “the stories have all been told before.” However, it’s not the unoriginal plot or the fairly commonplace characters that keep the audience engaged. Rather, director Wong Kar Wai?...
...cross-country trip, which begins with him seeking official redress of his grievance and eventually puts him in touch with other victims of the war. In the end, it is fair to say that there is no stopping his losses. Every choice he is presented with is a hopeless...