Word: slasher
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...work cutting the figures down to size. On his first Monday in the BA job, he set about reaching a deal with trade unions to rub out the pension deficit over the next decade through one-off cash injections and changes to employee benefits. Two months later, "Slasher" - as Walsh was known at the Irish carrier for culling a third of its staff while rescuing it from the brink - went to work on BA's head count. Hundreds of senior managers got the boot. Soon afterward, he unveiled a blueprint for shrinking BA's costs by close to $1 billion...
Some days, then, when I say I feel like a dip in the pool, I really do feel like a dip in the pool. The first (and only) time my wife and I swam at night, she said, "This is a scene from every slasher movie ever." It seemed so decadent--swimming under the stars in our own wooded backyard--that we half-deserved to be filleted by Freddy Krueger...
...much harder to explain my regard for Bug. I mean, eclectic as I pretend to be, I don't much care for horror movies, especially the currently endemic teen-slasher variety. But I saw William Friedkin's movie many months ago and it has haunted me ever since. For reasons best known to the addled-geniuses of movie marketing, it's being thrown against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost...
...making TV shows like Ugly Betty into surprise hits and keeping Beyonc and Avril Lavigne at the top of the pop charts. Hollywood, oddly, has been ignoring them lately, as romantic comedies have taken a backseat to guy films like 300 and Wild Hogs, superhero sequels and slasher films. But Broadway, long worried about its graying audience, is in hot pursuit. A good deal of the credit for this nascent relationship goes to possibly the least-appreciated breakthrough hit of the past decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz, told from the witches' point of view...
...zombie snoozefest.Tarantino, on the other hand, flips the genre on its head instead of blissfully sending it up, over-reaching with a pretentious brand of meta-cinema that leaves his segment a little less hyperkinetic and a lot more joyless than Rodriguez’s. It mixes a slasher film with car chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta...