Word: lukewarmness
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Generally, when a Hollywood studio feels excited or even lukewarm about an upcoming release, they give the film a screening that allows reviewers and critics the time to, well, review and critique. Given Drew Barrymore’s ever-increasing popularity and James Woods’ strong reputation among fans and critics alike, it seems a bit parsimonious of Columbia Pictures to screen these two stars’ latest flick, Riding In Cars With Boys, only two days before its general public release. Such a penurious allowance of time indicates that the public relations people at Columbia...
...Almost every day I find several such messages in my email inbox. Since I live in Indonesia, which has been in a lukewarm but fairly consistent state of conflict for the past five years, I don?t find their presence particularly jarring. First the Asian financial crisis hit us in the mid-90s, and the rupiah went from 2,500 per dollar to 11,000 per dollar in about 90 days. Then came the anti-Suharto revolution, and the beginnings of Indonesian democracy. Then the presidential election, where a plurality of popular votes went to Megawati but the politicians...
...responses to Wilco’s most recent Boston show, on Oct. 2 at the Avalon. A Diesel-clad, late-20-something crowd (college radio, six years ago) was, on the whole, more interested in cheap beer and idle conversation than they were in the newly [mis]conceived band. Lukewarm applause and half-hearted song requests abounded for the duration of a painfully short...
...oddities as a springboard for their own wild imaginings. In response, Jackson withdrew further from the world, retreating to his private Neverland ranch/park near Los Angeles. The release of 1991’s Dangerous proved to be the harbinger of Jackson’s impending career downturn. Sales were lukewarm by his standards, and his desire for attention evoked negative reactions. A nightmare-like sequence at the end of his video for the first single, “Black or White,” in which he repeatedly grabbed his crotch and smashed the windows of parked cars, provoked...
...Condit may have little to worry about - other than what he's done to his marriage and his political career, which is certainly bad enough. FBI sources say they don't even have lukewarm leads, let alone anything hot. They've interviewed other women who allegedly had affairs with Condit, including the daughter of a Pentecostal minister who, her father told the Washington Post, was involved with Condit when she was 18, but those stories have taken investigators nowhere vis-a-vis Levy...