Word: scooped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comedy and heartbreak in this trio to keep festivalgoers satisfied until Sunday, when Hollywood gets one last chance to prove that old-fashioned adventure has a place in Cannes - when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has its world premiere. (Check back tomorrow for an early scoop on Indy's latest crusade...
...Well, maybe not in that empyrean, but arguably in the ballpark. It's hard not to feel warmly toward Allen after VCB, his first vital movie since Match Point three years ago (we quickly throw the veil of oblivion over Scoop and Cassandra's Dream), and maybe his most engaging large-scale effort since, let's say, Crimes and Misdemeanors nearly 20 years ago. It doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the films that established his meta-movie credentials, Annie Hall and Manhattan; but, like them, this one is about people whose jobs...
...since this is the movie's very first showing to public or reviewers. More than U.S. publications has sent its movie critic here only because Indy 4 will be screened in Cannes a few hours before it can be seen in the States. In the Internet Age, the instant scoop is all. (And yes, you'll get the definitive review tout de suite on TIME.com...
...political donations for technologically ill-equipped campaigns, ActBlue allows individuals to create their own personal “fundraising pages” to raise funds for a slate of favored candidates. Through these pages, ActBlue users can network and organize events to spread their cause. What the technology system Scoop did for liberal blogs—turning them into online communities by allowing individuals to create personalized pages—ActBlue soon did for the world of online fundraising...
...chairman of the board. During Smith's five-year tenure, Starbucks maintained its mind-blowing growth, but at the same time, it introduced sophisticated testing and R&D and took steps to boost efficiency and sales, like installing automated Verismo espresso machines. By no longer having to scoop and tamp coffee for each shot, baristas could make a drink 40% faster, moving customers through lines more quickly. Drive-throughs became standard, and the company released its first CD. Smith's successor was a Wal-Mart veteran, Jim Donald, who took the company into books, movie promotions and oven-warmed breakfast...