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...hour Celebration Store fulfilled merchandising needs that could crop up at any hour of the day - like a Darth Vader zip-up hoodie for $40, a Star Wars Forever baseball cap for $15 or a limited edition (!) C-3P0 and R2-D2 action figure two-pack...
...Packing boxes is always a tedious task, but only a few times in my life has it ever felt heart-wrenchingly sad—the times when moving heralded future uncertainty: moving from a home or helping a friend pack up to move away. While packing this week for the summer, those feelings came back. They came not from an inability to visualize the future, but from an inability to recollect the past. I used to look at a box and see a toy: It was the jumping-off point for inventing, coloring, and story-telling. As an adult...
...Frank Sinatra was the star behind the original 1960 Ocean's Eleven (original in that it came first) and three ensuing, numerical Rat Pack capers: Sergeants 3, 4 Guns for Texas, Robin and the 7 Hoods. Frank and his pals - Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop - weren't trying to commit art, or even make vital entertainment. Really, they had expectations no higher than the Soderbergh-Clooney mob. Both groups were underachievers and proud...
...Pack's idea, such as it was, was to do a movie in a friendly town (Vegas, Chicago) or familiar genre (caper, Western, gangster movie) and apply to it a bit of the ad-lib roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script, performances and production was meant to reflect the informal, what-the-hell, let's-pretend-we're-having-a-ball impulse that led to their making. These were movies that loosened the tuxedo tie and the tongue to provide an intoxicated if not intoxicating diversion. They were loosy-goosy for the time...
...revival or exhumation of the Rat Pack series has reason to exist (big if), it's to prove that Hollywood still knows how to parade the old careless glamour. That's the only reason an audience has to see the Ocean movies. So the biggest surprise and disappointment about the new one is not that it's kind of a corpse, but that the stars aren't made to look beautiful, sexy, starrish...