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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that their first feature is headed for $100 million at the domestic box office, Myrick and Sanchez have just one sure thing ahead of them: the sophomore jinx. They describe their next film, a comedy called Heart of Love, as "Mad Mad Mad World meets Monty Python meets Airplane! meets the stupidest movie you've ever seen." Could it tank? Of course--like most indie or studio films. "We know we're gonna bomb," says Sanchez. "We're gonna live with that bomb and nurture it and then watch it explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Riley would now face the nagging, persistent questions of the Miami press. Would he really rebuild his club around Mourning, as he promised? Would that mean the departures of Tim Hardaway, Jamal Mashburn or others? And would he admit to the now-epidemic New York jinx...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Riley would now face the nagging, persistent questions of the Miami press. Would he really rebuild his club around Mourning, as he promised? Would that mean the departures of Tim Hardaway, Jamal Mashburn or others? And would he admit to the now-epidemic New York jinx...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...tale of high jinx in the back-woods, complete with the sense of urgency that can only be created in the minds of people with very little to do. The movie has those elements of leisure class life that people who truly work for a living love to see. How do those people create something out of nothing, and create it not only well, but over and over again? Why are these people upset? Honestly, whose mother-in-law hasn't tried to kill them at least once...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wait for Re-runs of Southern Gothic Soap Opera | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...read-through of the musical, which was written by his longtime friends and TV producers Chris Bearde and Allan Blye and musical director Earl Brown. The writers said the show (which juxtaposes the gravity of the Vietnam era with Sonny and Cher's on-stage hi-jinx) was Bono's idea and that they were going to run it past Cher next. Bono had planned to confer with his team again after the skiing trip. His death on Monday -- the funeral is today -- has reportedly put the project on hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonny: The Musical | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

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